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Two men in the United Kingdom who had lost their vision after birth due to a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa, wherein light-sensitive cells in the eye stop working, just received the gift of sight due to an innovative new microchip implant. Surgeons partially restored vision to both men by implanting tiny electronic chips (0.12 by 0.12 inches) in a thin sheet of tissue at the back of the men’s eyes. When switched on, the chips perform the duties of the malfunctioning photoreceptors, converting light into electrical impulses that travel to the brain. A thin cable threaded beneath the skin connects the chip to a battery back, which sits under the skin near the ear.

Maven add jar/ dependency without install it to maven repository.

As many as 79 percent of surveyed mobile app developers are planning to integrate HTML5 in the apps they will launch in 2012, while more than 1 billion HTML5 mobile browsers will be in the market in 2013; and over 80 percent of all mobile apps will be wholly or in part based upon HTML5 by 2015.

The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the community and very well read)

using .htaccess file, you can easily remove the index.php from the url, its just two line code you need to set in the .htaccess file which is as below RewriteCond $1 !^(images|system|themes|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|index\.php) [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] when you use above code make sure that Rewrite Engine is On

On the Importance of Naming in Software Systems, part III. Exploring the semantic nature of Software using linguistic concepts.