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After 20 years of darkness, there is light for a man in Medford, 사다리 사이트 검증 Massachusetts. A bionic eye implant has helped Anthony Andreotolla gain back some vision. It’s not eyesight in the way most people see, but the technology is making a difference in his daily life. “It’s not actual vision. It’s what they call artificial vision,” Andreotolla told CBS Boston. He suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that affects the retina. Andreotolla began to lose his vision in his teens and by his thirties, he couldn’t see anything. “Once everything is black, for many, many years, that was it,” he said. For 20 years he lived in that darkness until he became one of the first people to receive a bionic eye. Every day, Andreotolla puts on special glasses and commutes on public transportation to his job in Boston about six miles south of his home. A tiny camera in the glasses sends images to a wearable computer and then those images are processed and sent wirelessly to an implant in his eye. The implant surgery took place in Baltimore at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. “I don’t see things the way other people do. I see everything in different flashes, lights, shapes,” Andreotolla explained. It’s more of a cloudy, black and white vision, he explains. “I can tell the difference between a car or...

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up near NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least six people, police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the target was a U.S. intelligence facility nearby. Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the U.S.-led international military alliance, said all coalition compounds in Kabul were currently secure. He said he was not aware of any casualties among members of the coalition. The U.S. and Italian embassies, as well as the Afghan presidential palace, are also located near the site of the blast. More in Afghanistan: The way forward The Afghan Interior Ministry said six people, all civilians, were killed and five others were wounded. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the bombing was carried out by a 28-year-old militant from Logar province, south of Kabul. But Kabul deputy police chief Daud Amin said eyewitnesses reported seeing a teenage boy, who was about 13 or 14 years old, walking in the area carrying a bag. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi blamed the 11:40 a.m. attack on the Haqqani network, one of the most dangerous militant groups fighting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. He did not say what he was basing that conclusion on, but the Haqqani group, which is linked to both the Taliban and al Qaeda, has been responsible for...

(AP) BAGHDAD – Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a wave of attacks from before dawn until late at night Thursday, killing 48 people and wounding dozens in a deadly show of force aimed at undermining the government’s authority. The bomb and shooting attacks made for the country’s deadliest day in more than three weeks, rattling nerves as families prepared to gather for a holiday weekend. More than 140 people have been killed in violence across the country since the start of August, showing that insurgents led by al-Qaida’s Iraqi franchise remain a lethal force eight months after the last U.S. troops left the country. Four of the attacks accounted for more than half of the casualties. A morning car bomb in Baghdad’s northeastern and mostly Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah killed seven people and wounded 31. Around midday, another car bomb struck near the headquarters of local security forces in the northern city of Daqouq. As police rushed to the scene, a roadside bomb exploded, killing seven policemen. Another 35 people were hurt, police said. Shortly before sunset, gunmen in cars opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint near the town of Mishada, killing seven soldiers and wounding eight. Mishada is 20 miles north of Baghdad. Then, around 10 p.m., a suicide bomber walked into a teashop and blew himself up in Tal Afar, some 260 miles northwest of the capital....