A couple of months ago, the Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things, it was reported today.
That sounded science fiction? Today I came [...]
A couple of weeks ago, the news headlines mentioned lightly the new “Israel, Arabs agreement to save Dead Sea:”
Jordan , Israel and the Palestinian Authority said they had agreed terms for a feasibility study on transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, to save the world’s lowest sea from vanishing.
The two-year study, [...]
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd admitted to Riyadh hospital; condition (un)known.
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The Christian scenario dictates that the “final battle in the history of the future will be fought on ancient battlefield in northern Israel called Armageddon. And the Jews? Well, two thirds of them will have been wiped out by now. But the survivors will accept Jesus at last.” Gershom Gorenberg is a Jew who has [...]
First, let me wish all my Christian friends and bro’s a Merry Christmas. (Special wishes to Natsha)
Also, let me wish everyone a Happy New Year. Hope it brings a fresh hope and new resolutions to us all.
2005 holds a few challenges and everyone will be directly touched by his history and looking forward for [...]
Christians have been making images of Jesus since the early centuries of the church.
The Holy Shroud of Turin is probably the most famous (and most controversial) image of Christ.
Many have argued that it is a direct-contact image of Christ, dating from the 1st century AD, while others rely on carbon dating tests carried out in [...]
Driver monitoring through head and eye tracking (which Volvo is already implementing), Adaptive Cruise Control systems, maybe even pedestrian recognition systems. With cars becoming more like semi-intelligent robots every year.
Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home.
The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.”
It turns out that you drove within a mile of the house [...]
The super-fast future of computing.
One of the scientists who helped pioneer Star Trek-style teleporting in a ground-breaking experiment says he hopes we will see a ultra-fast quantum computer in action by 2035.
Sorry Scotty
Wilder dreams of using quantum physics in order to beam yourself from A to B, the possibility is rather less [...]
What if hackers were motivated not by loneliness or greed, but by malice? Some experts now think a global cybercrisis is inevitable.
If you wanted to write a science-fiction thriller about the day the Internet crashed, you?d start with a computer geek. Armed with nothing but a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection, he releases a [...]
EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank
Source: Reuters By Adam Entous The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations. As Condoleezza Rice flew in on Monday for another round of peace talks, ... Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ...
