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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
NASA is aiming to produce oxygen on Mars with its 2020 rover experiment. Researchers will look at whether the air on the planet can be converted, bringing us one step closer to having life on Mars…
We’re all guilty of Googling symptoms we’re having and trying to diagnose ourselves but are consequently well aware of how terrifying the results can be. This app gives you some of the immediacy of searching it on the internet but, in this instance, you get a response from a real doctor. If you fall down the stairs and break your leg though, we’d still advise you to go straight to the hospital…
For many people, parking is the worst part of driving. This system would see your car park itself and then come and pick you up at the door of the hotel or office you’ve parked at. Very Bond-esque.
Buzzfeed found this great (and very addictive) little browser game that’s basically like playing foosball on your computer. Enjoy…
Scammers are now using sexts to extort thousands of dollar from users of an online dating site in the US, Business Insider reports. They first pose as daters, coax users into sending sexually explicit pictures of themselves and then identify themselves as a sheriff’s deputy looking for child predators. To avoid prosecution, they are told they can can pay a fine.
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Best wishes to him. Clinical depression is a tough battle.
@Carm(Orange Vampire): he’s lucky to have the best help available, the rest of us are literally on the edge of ????????
Should never have put himself forward for election, clearly unfit to do the job.
@John Fahy: fitter than that g0bshite Dr. Oz.
@Jen Mc: Oz was a terrible candidate but it was known long before the election that Fetterman was have serious cognitive isues. The man has trouble deciphering what people say in a normal one on one conversation, he never had any hope of winging it as a Senator.
This is just another example of the degradation of American politics where people don’t vote for ideas or character, they simply vote for their chosen team. Put a ‘D’ on a turnip and the average Democrat will vote fo it. (same for the other side)
@Will: all that tells me is that people understandably despised Dr. Oz enough to vote for Fetterman and that the Dems didn’t have anyone more fit for purpose to put forward. Or were they looking for the sympathy vote? Either way, I’d rather Fetterman than Oz.
Get Well Soon, John, unfortunately the Repubs will be gloating over this.
Oz was a respected cardiologist. Fetterman can’t string two sentences together. Should’ve been a no brainer.
@Samantha Samantha: Oz was endorsed by Trump, that was the end of his hopes.
@Samantha Samantha: You must have missed the bit where Oz defrauded his TV audience by selling and making millions out of meds that didn’t work or Oprah’s criticism of him. Did you read the bit on Fetterman’s success in fighting crime and the fact that he has his own opinions. As for the cardiology bit, he certainly didn’t show John Fetterman much sympathy after his stroke, which doesn’t reflect well on him.
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