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Have you got a lot of passwords? Are you sick of remember all of them?

For that problem, the company Facephi has spent seven years developing a new technology, using 16 engineers in order to "simplify" our lives. Javier Barranchinas, head of research Facephi tells us that  this  technology is for have a facial recognition in cheap webcams for acces in your accounts.

This operation is very simple: somebody stands in front of a camera, the program FacePhi makes you different photos in microseconds and converts that information into numbers. The program can detect changes that one suffers when you grow up,your hairstyle change ... Of course, you have to use often so you can recognize change.

This program has an error rate of one per million abd it's also able to distinguish whether it is a photo or the real person, and distinguish twins.

Although FacePhi wants to use thid technology to access on your account on social networks or to see if you are able to driving, detecting if you are tired or drunk.

This experiment is a good idea, because normally you have to remember a lot of passwords but, if we are in the habit of don't use the passwords and only use this technology, the day which this technology fall down, anybody could acces to his/her accounts. Somehow, if we use with care, it's very usefull

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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131016-smart-organs-for-everyone

Robert Langer, professor in biomedical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had the idea of regenerate the tissues, taking plastics and adding cells to it. If you use the right kind of plastics and the right structure, you have the hability to make skin, bone or any organ in the body.

Langer says that there has been a lot of progress. But, the rejection is the most inconvenient. He says that one day, you could have sensors that they could inform if you will have a heart attack or a stroke and go to the hospital before or inform to the hospital for an ambulance

This matter is very controversy, because some people says: Until what we must manipulate the human? I think this experiment it's not as bad as some people  because this can advise you to go to the hospital before you have a heart attack. It's a good research.

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In the USA, there's a trial that is made with 18 patients with vision problems in the retina. This patients have been treated with stem cells to regenerate tissue of the retina, which is the part of the eye where images are projected. The test was a success: 10 of the 18 patients significantly improved their vision, 7 of the 18 improved slightly or remained stable and only one of them lost vision.

One of these patients is a man of 75 who was blind in one eye and is dedicated to breeding horses. After a month of treatment, improved both the vision returned to ride a horse and was able to detect objects that were in the way. His eye went from having no vision to be between 20-40% vision.

This healing technique was being investigated during a lot of time, but had not done ever until  now because it can be rejected or create tumors. Steven Schwartz, the author of the Work says that if all goes well, in 2020 this technique will be marketed worldwide and it could cure other diseases that now are incurable like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes.

In my opinion, I don't understand why people are against the stem cells. I think it can be the research of the decade. If they could research more, they maybe could cure cancer

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Milwaukee Bucks and Toronto Raptors

These are the two revelations of the East Conference in the NBA

Milwaukee Bucks is a team of the NBA and it's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They play in the Bradley Center since 1988. The lasts 10 years they were the worst NBA team, but this year, they have change the coach and they're more competitive. They also hired the nº 2 of the last draft, Jabari Parker.

This year they trust to play the playoff. At the moment, they have won 10 games and they have lost 9 games.


Toronto Raptors is a team of the NBA and it's in Toronto, Canada. They play in the Air Canada since 1999. This is the only Canadian team in the NBA. They only have played 6 times the playoffs since 1995.

This year, at the moment, are the best team in the East Conference, winning 14 games and losing 4 games