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Online game asks players to design hospital of the future
When officials at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto laid the groundwork for their first health care crowdsourcing game for the general public, they expected to get 200 or 300 players.
More than twice that many logged in to play Future of the Hospital last week.
For a 24-hour period starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday in California, 637 people from around the world convened online to compete and share ideas about what hospitals might look like in the future.
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’Argo,’ ’Les Miserables’ win best-pic Globes
“Argo” is in big with the Golden Globes, but not so much with the Academy Awards. “Lincoln” is sitting pretty with the Oscars but was mostly left out in the cold at the Globes.
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Ex-Gitmo inmates: Bin Laden movie excuses torture
Two former Guantanamo detainees on Thursday condemned "Zero Dark Thirty," a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden whose brutal interrogation scenes have sparked a discussion over the use of extreme methods in the U.S. campaign against terror.
Speaking at an event in London on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison camp in eastern Cuba, the pair said the film was an attempt to rehabilitate those guilty of human rights abuses.
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And the Oscar nominees are ...
The complete list of 85th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday:
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'Smart' potty or dumb idea? Wacky gadgets at CES
From the iPotty for toddlers to the 1,600-pound mechanical spider and the host of glitch-ridden "smart" TVs, the International CES show is a forum for gadget makers to take big — and bizarre — chances.
A search for this year's strangest (and perhaps least useful) electronic devices yielded an extra-loud pair of headphones from a metal band, an eye-sensing TV that didn't work as intended and more. Take a look. -
Review: Aereo makes it tempting to cut cable TV
Broadcast networks make many of their shows available on the Internet, but you usually have to wait at least a day after an episode airs on television. A subscription service called Aereo breaks those shackles and makes network programs available right away.
That sounds too good to be true, and in a sense it is. First, it works only in New York City for now, though Aereo said Tuesday that it will expand to 22 more U.S. regions this spring. Its channel selection is limited to 29 over-the-air channels and Bloomberg TV. It doesn't include the other cable networks I frequently watch.
The biggest caveat is the fact that broadcast networks are suing to shut it down.
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Historical Torah undergoes restoration
The patient rested on the table, ready to undergo an operation to fix the problems that have arisen through years of work.
But instead of scalpels and surgical caps, this doctor came armed with a quill and an inkpot.
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Thousands head to 97th Pa. Farm Show
Each year, Pennsylvania produces a half billion dollars' worth of mushrooms, three million pounds of tart cherries, more than seven billion chicken eggs and what's billed as the country's largest indoor agricultural event.
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Family of soldier killed in 1946 glad about ID
A nephew of an eastern Pennsylvania soldier who died in a plane crash in Europe more than six decades ago says the family is grateful that his remains have been identified and can be laid to rest.
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Pa. pot proponents buoyed by legalization votes
Some advocates of repealing or relaxing Pennsylvania's anti-marijuana laws say they are encouraged by referendum votes to legalize recreational use of the drug in Colorado and Washington state, but Gov. Tom Corbett vows to veto any such bill.
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