The accessory attaches to the base of your laptop screen or monitor, and tracks the movement of your eyes.(Credit:Tobii)Whatever you may feel aboutWindows 8, it's sparked a number of interesting hybrid designs. Now you can count the Tobii Rex, an eye-controlled interface for Windows 8, as another innovation that works with Microsoft's latest operating system. First seen at last year'sCES, the Rex...
Sandy Hook survivors welcomed at new school
Labels: Health A man waves to a child on a bus on the first day of classes after the holiday break, in Newtown, Conn.,Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. / AP Photo/Jessica Hill MONROE, Conn. The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown were welcomed Wednesday to a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them. Play VideoOrientation day for Sandy Hook...
Obama Hails 'Cliff' Deal, Warns of Next Fiscal Fight
Labels: Business Minutes after the House of Representatives approved a bipartisan Senate deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and preserve Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans making less than $400,000 per year, President Obama praised party leaders and wasted little time turning to the next fiscal fight."This is one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy for everybody," Obama said.Obama...
Air raid on petrol station in Damascus suburb kills 30: activists
Labels: WorldAMMAN (Reuters) - At least 30 civilians were killed on Wednesday when Syrian warplanes bombed a petrol station in a rebellious suburb on the eastern edge of Damascus, two opposition campaigners on the scene said. "I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered," said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived at the area in the Muleiha suburb of Damascus an hour after the...
Afghan warlord Hekmatyar vows fresh attacks on NATO troops
Labels: Technology LONDON: Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar vowed in an interview published on Wednesday to kill as many Western soldiers as possible before NATO combat forces withdraw from the country in 2014.Hekmatyar, a former prime minister who leads Afghanistan's second largest militant group Hezb-i-Islami, told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that fresh attacks would send a warning to "others...
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Paris Apple Store robbed of more than $1 million in goods
Labels: LifestyleApple's Paris store near the Paris Opera House, in a photo taken during the iPhone 5 launch this past September.(Credit:Stephen Shankland/CNET)Armed robbers broke into the Apple Store in Paris on New Year's Eve and made off with more than a million dollars' worth of merchandise, according to reports.Masked suspects wielding handguns forced their way into the store through an employee entrance as a...
The art of the "fiscal cliff" deal
Labels: Health Nobody said it would be easy. Senators voted in the pre-dawn hours of New Year's Day to pass the long-sought agreement on the "fiscal cliff" and the House readies for its turn as soon as today, which, if the House passes it, would officially avert the tax hikes and spending cuts that technically took effect at midnight (the deal, when signed by the president, will make the new tax rates and spending...
Senate Approves 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal, Sends to House
Labels: Business Two hours after a midnight deadline for action, the Senate passed legislation early New Year's Day to avert the so-called fiscal cliff with an overwhelming vote of 89-8.Senate passage set the stage for a final showdown in the House, where a vote could come as early as today."While neither Democrats nor Republicans got everything they wanted, this agreement is the right thing...
Syria starts 2013 with aerial strikes and clashes
Labels: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital. Residents of Damascus entered the new year to the sound of artillery hitting southern and eastern districts that form a rebel-held crescent on the outskirts of the capital, the center of...
40 couples start new year by renewing marriage vows
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Forty couples chose to ring in the New Year with a difference.They renewed their marriage vows in the presence of family and friends.For the oldest couple of the night - it has been 60 years of marriage.The event, "PAssionate Love by the Lake", aims to celebrate marriage and to bring families closer together.It is organised by the Family Life Champions of Boon Lay, Clementi,...
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