Startup 3D prints solar-powered bionic hands
Unlike traditional devices, the artificial hand can be customised for children and youths, who otherwise require an expensive series of resized models as they grow up
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Video shows workers at a US dairy beating, kicking cows
MIAMI: Workers are shown beating, kicking and stabbing cows with steel bars at a Florida diary, in a video released by an animal rights group that has been viewed thousands of times.
One of the workers seen mistreating the cows in the hard-to-watch video has been fired and the others suspended from their jobs, said Brittny Krause, a spokeswoman for the Florida Dairy Farmers, an association with 130 dairy farms as members.
The sheriff's department has opened a criminal investigation.
Animal Recovery Mission, a…
Afghanistan mulls plan to arm 20,000 civilians to fight insurgents
KABUL: Afghanistan is considering training and arming 20,000 civilians to defend territories where Islamic militants have been driven out, officials say, sparking fears the local forces could become another thuggish militia.
The proposal for a government-backed armed group that would protect its own communities from the Taliban and the Islamic State group comes as Afghanistan's security forces, demoralised by killings and desertions, struggle to beat back a rampant insurgency.
But the proposal has raised concerns that…
Woman taken to hospital with shark on her arm
FLORIDA: A woman bitten on the arm by a shark during a swim in Florida on Sunday was taken to the hospital by some bystanders – the shark still attached to her arm.
Crocodile bites off woman’s arm in Australia
PERTH: A crocodile has bitten off a woman's arm in a "death roll" at a creek in a small northwestern Australian town, sparking a hunt to trap and kill the animal on Thursday.
Google creates virtual reality arm, names key exec to run it
CALIFORNIA: Alphabet Inc's Google has created a virtual reality (VR) computing division and said Clay Bavor, the executive running its product management team, will run the new arm.