Back in June, Google announced that it would be ‘retiring’ Health effective January 1, 2012. Now, everything appears to be on-track for the shutdown, with Google sending out a final reminder to Health customers earlier today. You have until the stroke of midnight to access the service or port your data to a competitor — after which point you’ll no longer be able to view information saved to your account, though it’ll remain available to download in .zip format for another year. Want to know more? Hit up the source link for the Google Health FAQ.

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Visitors to daily deal sites like Groupon are finding a growing number of markdowns on health care services such as teeth cleanings, eye exams, chiropractic care and even medical checkups.

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Microsoft
might’ve missed
the boat when it comes to Tablets, but it might just have an ace up
its sleeves. Check out Joshua Topolsky
of The Verge touring Microsoft’s Edison Lab, where a team of really smart
people are building a magic wall:

Stevie Bathiche, director of research at Microsoft’s applied sciences
lab, says to “imagine a day where in your home, one wall is dedicated
to being your magic wall. A wall where it can teleport you to another
world without really going anywhere.” Bathiche shows off a number
of systems that aim to accomplish this vision, including a system that
projects LED light to detect a human being’s movements in space, and
a glasses-free stereoscopic display that can be “steered”
by the viewer as they move.

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| More from the Microsoft
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Are you a fan of embiggened bugs? Alex Wild — master of ceremonies over at Myrmecos — has just posted over 600 of his best photographs from 2011, and it is one of the most jaw-dropping collections of insect macrophotography we’ve ever seen. Click through to check it out — you won’t be disappointed. More »

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Residents of Venezuela have been treated to a light show that has been going on for thousands of years. One spot on the Catatumbo River gets, regularly, forty thousand bolts every night. The lightning has helped sailors navigate, foiled attacks on the nearby countryside, and is actually responsible for Venezuelan independence. Find out about the most zapped spot on earth. More »

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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from geek.com (based on a report at Droid Life) that makes me consider quitting or at least suspending the very expensive service 3G data service I get from Verizon: “With 2012 about to start, it seems Verizon has decided paying your bill online or over the phone is
now worthy of an extra charge. So, from January 15, anyone choosing to pay their monthly bill using either method will incur a $2 charge. Verizon is classing the charge as a ‘convenience fee’ which translates into them deciding allowing you to pay either online or over the phone is a convenience. They also explain in the FAQ above that the fee allows them, ‘to continue to support these bill payment options.’ Really, Verizon? When did offering online payments or accepting phone calls from customers get so much more expensive?”

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One sign of a good judge is being able to set aside his or her personal feelings to uphold the law when it conflicts. We got one of those rulings in this case. The judge condemns Ripoff Report using some of the harshest language I’ve seen in a judicial opinion in a while:

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