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USA Today - Florida's weather. Intermezzo.
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USA Today - Explosive on Bangkok march protesters
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Jan 18, 14
Explosion hits Bangkok protesters, killing 1
BYLINE: THANYARAT DOKSONE, Associated Press; TODD PITMAN, Associated Press
SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
LENGTH: 924 words
DATELINE: BANGKOK
BANGKOK (AP) - A grenade thrown into a crowd of marching anti-government demonstrators in Thailand's capital killed one man and wounded dozens of people, an ominous development that raises tensions in the country's political crisis and the specter of more bloodshed to come.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban was in the procession Friday but was not wounded when the explosive device was thrown toward a truck driven by demonstrators that was several dozen meters (yards) ahead of him, spokesman Akanat Promphan said.
Bangkok's emergency services center said 36 people were injured in the blast, most not seriously. One of the wounded, who had been hit in the chest by shrapnel and suffered massive blood loss, died early Saturday, the center said.
Protesters vowed to continue their marches in the city over the weekend despite the violence. Most of the vast capital is calm, though many countries have warned visiting nationals to exercise caution.
Thailand has been wracked by repeated bouts of unrest since the military ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 amid charges of corruption and alleged disrespect for the monarchy. The crisis boiled over again late last year after the ruling party attempted to push through an amnesty bill that would have allowed Thaksin to return from self-imposed exile.
Anti-government demonstrators seeking to oust Thaksin's sister, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, occupied parts of several major streets and overpasses in Bangkok this week, blocking them off with walls of sandbags, tires and steel barricades.
The protests, which are also aimed at derailing Feb. 2 elections that Yingluck called in a bid to defuse the crisis, have been peaceful. But assaults have been reported nightly, including shooting attacks at protest venues and small explosives hurled at the homes of top protest supporters. It is unclear who is behind them.
Yingluck urged the police to quickly make arrests in the attack, saying she opposed any use of force and was concerned the situation in the capital was becoming more chaotic.
Prolonged violence, even on a small scale, increases the risk of a military coup, which would benefit the protest movement. Thailand's army has staged about a dozen successful coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932. Since the latest wave of protests started in November, at least nine people have been killed and more than 480 have been injured.
Suthep, speaking Friday at one of the protest sites, accused the government of being behind the grenade attack.
"Let me tell you, brothers and sisters: There's no need to suspect anyone else. It is solely the government that is doing this," he said. "No one else would do this. They thought it up, they planned it, and they acted on it."
Associated Press writers Jinda Wedel, Grant Peck and Papitchaya Boonngok contributed to this report.
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Associated Press writers Jinda Wedel, Grant Peck and Papitchaya Boonngok contributed to this report.
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Bomb thrown into crowd of Bangkok anti-government protesters injures 39 people
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An explosive device tossed at anti-government protesters wounded 36 people in central Bangkok this morning.
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At least 36 anti-government protesters marching in Bangkok were wounded when a grenade was hurled in their direction on Friday.
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USA Today - Google contact lens
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Jan 18, 14
The Daily Telegraph (London)
January 18, 2014 Saturday
Edition 2;
National Edition
Google develops 'smart' contact lens for diabetics
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. 35
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GOOGLE is testing a contact lens that would allow diabetics to check their glucose levels without having to take a blood sample.
The lens uses a wireless transmitter and a minuscule sensor that can monitor glucose in tears. It could make life easier for the world's 382m diabetics, who have to keep a close watch on their blood sugar and adjust how much insulin they take accordingly.
The prototype, which Google says will take five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring easier and less invasive than the traditional blood-drawing finger pricks.
The device, which looks like a typical contact lens, contains two twinkling glitter-specks that are loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturised transistors, and is ringed with a hair-thin antenna. The embedded electronics in the lens do not obscure vision because they lie outside the pupil and iris.
It took years of soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturise the electronics, essentially building tiny chips from scratch, to make what Google said is the smallest wireless glucose sensor yet made.
Brian Otis, who led the project, said: "We've had to work really hard to develop tiny, low-powered electronics that operate on low levels of energy and really small glucose sensors."
The lenses, for which Google is now seeking a development partner, were made during the past 18 months in the Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car, Google Glass and Project Loon, a network of balloons designed to bring the internet to unwired places.
SUBJECT: DIABETES (91%); OPHTHALMIC GOODS (90%); WEARABLE COMPUTERS (78%); DIABETES TESTING (78%); EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (70%); MEDICAL DEVICES (70%)
COMPANY: GOOGLE INC (93%)
TICKER: GOOG (NASDAQ) (93%)
INDUSTRY: NAICS519130 INTERNET PUBLISHING & BROADCASTING & WEB SEARCH PORTALS (93%)
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At Google[x], we wondered if miniaturized electronics—think: chips and sensors so small they look like bits of glitter, and an antenna thinner than a human hair—might be a way to crack the mystery of tear glucose and measure it with greater accuracy.
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Google has said it is testing a "smart contact lens" that can help measure glucose levels in tears.
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Smart Contact Lenses? Leave It To Google
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