Technology

The man who changed the face of technology as we know it has died. Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who was battling pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009, has passed away at the age of 56.

The American Red Cross has made it easier to keep track of family in disaster situations...through its "Safe & Well" website.

12 years after losing her fingers as a result of sepsis brought on by chicken pox, 15-year-old Chloe Holmes has become the youngest person in Europe (and the first outside of America) to be fitted with bionic fingers.

United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., released the following statement regarding today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) that the federal government in December will hold the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.

Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center will be closed on Mondays from September through February.  The Center will be open on the following Mondays that are regularly scheduled 2011-12 Caddo and/or Bossier school holidays: September 5, October 17, November 21, December 19, December 26, January 2, January 16 and February 20.

The Louisiana Municipal Association has presented its most prestigious award to the City of Bossier City for its outstanding work in developing and contructing the city's two alternative fueling stations. Mayor Lorenz Walker was presented with the LMA's Community Achievement Award at the association's annual convention banquet this past weekend at the Shreveport Convention Center ...

Checking in at New York University’s Langone Medical Center now has a high-tech twist. Instead of paperwork, the hospital is using a palm-scanner to trace the unique vein patterns in patients’ hands. Made by Fujitsu, the scanners use near-infrared waves to take an image of the veins in a person’s palm. As long as the imaging has been done on a patient before, software can then match these pictures

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If you weren’t vegetarian before, perhaps it’s time to make the switch. Scientists in Japan have now created a way to synthesize “beef steaks” from human feces. The discovery was made after a Tokyo sewage plant approached scientists, asking them if they could figure out a way to utilize all the sewage sludge lying around.