Air Force 2 Strikes Bird Upon Landing, Biden Aboard

Air Force Two, the plane assigned to Vice President Joe Biden, was involved in a bird strike while landing in Santa Barbara on Thursday evening.

According to an Air Force spokesman, the modified Boeing 757 plane hit the bird just as it was approaching the airport and landed without incident.

The plane landed safely as a precautionary measure and is currently being inspected to assess if there is any damage, said Lieutenant Gregg Johnson, a public affairs officer for the Air Force.

 Lt. Johnson said the bird strike was not flagged as an emergency and that all passengers, including the vice president, were safe.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-air-force-two-bird-strike,0,913349.story

Chip lets smartphones see through walls, clothes

Researchers at a Texas university have designed a chip that could give smartphones the long-envied ability of comic book her Superman to see through walls, clothes or other objects.

A team at University of Texas at Dallas tuned a small, inexpensive microchip to discern a "terahertz" band of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The design works with chips made using Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor technology behind processors commonly found in personal computers, smartphones, televisions and videogame consoles.
"CMOS is affordable and can be used to make lots of chips," electrical engineering professor Kenneth O said in a statement Friday.
"The combination of CMOS and terahertz means you could put this chip and a transmitter on the back of a cell phone, turning it into a device carried in your pocket that can see through objects."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/chip-lets-smartphones-see-walls-clothes-203036226.html

Obama booed at Fenway's 100th anniversary

At Red Sox game, President Obama comes on big screen to recognize Fenway's 100th anniversary, followed by loud chorus of boos.

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