Young patients fight cancer, one video game at a time
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Jose Guevara was 16 when his doctor first told him that he had leukemia.
“They gave me a breakdown,” Guevara told NBC News. “‘You have leukemia, you’re staying in the hospital,’ and they brought a wheelchair.”
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Seeing the future: My first hours with Google Glass
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Right now my Google Glass is sitting next to my laptop. It’s resting … er, charging. From the moment I picked it up this morning, my first hours with it have been a whirlwind.
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Executive decision: White House Tumblr endorses hard ‘G’ for GIFs
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The White House is headed to microblogging service Tumblr, and it promised in its announcement on Twitter that “there will be GIFs.” Not only that, but an administration-posted image offers an executive decision on one of the most bitterly debated issues in the history of the Internet: the pronunciation of GIF.
Tell us, Tumblr: How do you say ‘GIF’?
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New, high-tech $100 bill coming in October
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The new $100 bill: Same old face, with some high-tech tweaks meant to thwart counterfeiters.
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Microsoft to unveil ‘new generation’ Xbox on May 21
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Turns out, that “special event” that Microsoft has been rumored to have in store next month is real. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant sent out invitations this morning asking reporters to “join us as we reveal a new generation of Xbox.”
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Gamers can order Pizza Hut straight from the Xbox — with hand gestures!
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Long slave to the physical demands of picking up a phone, computer, smartphone, or tablet to place an order for food delivery, gamers can now create their own custom Pizza Hut pizzas — and order them — from their Xbox 360 console thanks to a unique partnership between Microsoft and the international chain.
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Girl Scouts chapter to add video game patch
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As recent campaigns across social media have shown, the game industry has slowly begun to own up to its troublesome legacy of sexism — expanding roles for women in the business while updating representations of them in the games.
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YouTube rewinds on ‘57th birthday of the VCR’
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It’s been 57 years since the first video tape recorder was sold. Ever the history buff, today Google is reminding us of the event via a small addition to YouTube.
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In the virtual cockpit: What it takes to fly a drone
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Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There’s no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to wear and no panic because the aircraft they are sitting in is spiraling out of control.
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Steve Jobs’ wife speaks out on immigration, Apple founder’s ‘private legacy’
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Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs’ death to advocate for immigration reform.
“I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed – geared towards improving our entire society,” said Powell Jobs in an exclusive interview with Rock Center Anchor Brian Williams airing Friday, April 12 at 10pm/9CDT on NBC.
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Passwords? What about passthoughts? New login relies on brain signals
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Just mental humming of your favorite tune, a mental reconstruction of your favorite yoga move, or focusing on your favorite color could soon unlock your computer.
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This day on TODAY: A trip through the archives
From historical milestones to pop culture touchstones, from iconic moments to everyday scenes, something memorable happens every morning on TODAY. The show’s archives are chock full of fascinating stories from the past 61 years, and we want to share them with you!
So take a trip back in time with TODAY, starting with a story from exactly 20 years ago on April 8, 1993, as the White House upgraded its phone system to move out of the “horse and buggy” age. An administration “in love with technology” was slowly, but surely attempting to bring the White House into the digital age, with additional phone lines and e-mail.
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America’s texting-and-driving problem isn’t getting better, study reveals
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At any moment on a regular weekday in 2011, about 660,000 people across the U.S. were sitting in the drivers seat and talking on their cell phones. Twice that number were engaging with their mobile device in some way, checking calendar appointments perhaps, replying to email or planning a route on their maps app.
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Facebook reveals Home launcher for Android
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“Today we’re finally gonna talk about that Facebook phone,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, as he took the stage at his headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., to reveal Facebook Home, a new launcher that the social network will offer for Android phones.
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Can you hear me now? Cellphone turns 40
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Forty years ago, Martin Cooper, a VP at Motorola, made history by placing the very first cellphone call. Appropriately enough, he called his rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs.
Read the complete story.
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Step one: Talib Kweli comes in for rehearsal and sees Al Roker on a bike.
Step two: Someone else spots Talib, then Al on his bike, and has the...
Wait for it…this actually happened.
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