Sochi Winter Olympic Threat

Over the weekend two men released a video threatening the Winter Olympics. They say that they have a "present" prepared for the olympics and its tourists that it will attract. These men are known to be the suicide bombers from the back-to-back bombings in the Russian City Volgograd in the past month, making people even more worried about the threat and their safety at the games. The winter olympics are less than three weeks aways and with these threats everyone's may concern is the safety and security. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has pledged that everyone will be safe during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He even said that security should be ensured by nearly  40,000 law enforcements during the games. But U.S lawmakers feel that it won't be safe at the games even with it being just nearly three weeks away. Click here to read more on the situation.

The Future of Glassholes

By now, most of us have heard of Google’s latest endeavor to give us what we…may or may not need: smart glasses. These futuristic ‘Google Glasses’ allow users to access a world of holographic information, making it possible to use the internet (and more) without having to drag out those cumbersome smartphones. Though critics have been quick to poke fun at the unattractive eye gear, deeming it ‘impractical’, the poor acclaim hasn’t discouraged competition from attempting to get a piece of the action.

Meta, a start-up company in Silicon Valley, is just one of many competitors working on improving the Google Glass. Unlike Google’s version, Meta hopes to create not only a holographic world that you can control with your voice, but with your own hands. Almost as if pulled from a science fiction novel, the user would be able to live in an enhanced reality of 3-D images.   

In spite of the hype, the future for Google Glass and others is still in question. Google Glass itself is still unavailable to the general public and priced at $1,500. Though the price will drop once it reaches mass consumption, a number of problems, such as the lack of privacy, has given Google Glass a bad reputation. Many people worry about being filmed unknowingly and a number of establishments have banned so-called ‘Glassholes’ from wearing the technology inside.

The future may be now, but will it be popular? Ask Google.

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In Kingston, Jamaica a mosquito-borne virus appears to be spreading quickly in the Caribbean during the winter tourism season just weeks after epidemiologists first found local transmission occurirng in the French dependency of St. Martin. Scientists said that St. Martin now has as many as 200 cases of chikungunya, a virus found mainly in Africa and Asia that can cause a debilitating but rarely fatal sickness with fever, rash, fatigue intense muscle and joint pain. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said new cases have been confirmed on the French Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Barthelemy. The virus also infected a couple of residents of Dutch St. Marten, which shares an island with St. Martin that was already battling dengue fever, a more serious mosquito-borne illness.