FDA approves pill with digital tracking device you swallow
A psychiatric medication system in the form of a pill with a built-in digital tracking device gained approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Monday. Abilify MyCite, a form of aripiprazole and a first-of-its-kind product, has an embedded ingestible sensor that records when the medication…
The $100,000 Louis Vuitton Toilet
Would you sit on a toilet made of Louis Vuitton bags? If the thought has ever crossed your mind, then artist Illma Gore is about to make all your dreams come true. (To give you some idea of Gore’s oeuvre, she is the person responsible…
Apple releases iOS 11.1.1 to fix annoying I autocorrect bug
iOS 11.1.1 is here, and it comes with a small but important update: a fix for the strange autocorrect bug in iOS 11.1 that has been automatically changing the letter “I” to “A [?]” for some users. Apple had previously recommended using Text Replacement as a manual…
NYC Bike Path Terror Attack Kills 8 | BREAKING NEWS
Eight people were killed in New York City and several people injured Tuesday afternoon when a pickup drove down a bike path next to the Hudson River in lower Manhattan, striking multiple people, according to officials. It is a confirmed terror attack. Officials said it…
Facebook, Google and Twitter will tell Congress that Russia’s election meddling was wider than they first reported
Facebook, Google and Twitter plan to tell congressional investigators this week that the scope of Russia’s campaign to spread disinformation on their sites — and to potentially disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential race — is much broader than the companies initially reported. At Facebook, roughly…
Catalonia Declares Full Independence From Spain
For the first time in Spain’s democratic history, the government will take direct control over one of the country’s autonomous regions, after lawmakers in Catalonia ended weeks of agonized fence-sitting on Friday and voted to secede. The dueling declarations — by the national parliament in…
9.7-million-year-old teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history
The great ape teeth found in Eppelsheim last year could topple the understanding of our earliest history. Herbert Lutz, head of the excavation team, tells Deutsche Welle what the find means to him — and how it almost didn’t happen. A little over a year ago, a team…
Oral sex can cause mouth and throat cancer study says
Lotharios who smoke and go down on their girlfriends are more likely to get a rare mouth and throat cancer. Smokers who have had more than five sexual partners are at greater risk of getting the cancer triggered by the human papilloma virus. But scientists…
Catalonia Voted to Breakup With Spain.
The hours before the president of Catalonia took the podium, the rumors were coming thick and fast. No one seemed sure if Carles Puigdemont would declare independence unilaterally for the region of Spain he leads, or if he would sue for negotiations with the Madrid…
Mexico City Earth Quake is Massive 7.1 Magnitude
Rescuers combed through rubble Tuesday after a powerful earthquake killed scores and collapsed buildings in Mexico City and surrounding states on the anniversary of a devastating earthquake decades ago. At least 149 people died in the magnitude-7.1 earthquake, officials said. Most deaths were reported in…