Non-Binary; Shoeputer; Child's Exoskeleton; Super-Bacteria in Rio; Spy High; and Meteorites Overhead

Society

Oregon court allows person to change sex from 'female' to 'non-binary' oregonlive

...in what legal experts believe is a first in the United States....Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe's sex from "female" to non-binary.

Unneeded Tech

Lenovo made a smart running shoe you can use as a mobile game controller theverge v

It wouldn't be a tech conference without a ridiculous wearable prototype. At Lenovo's Tech World in San Francisco today, the company brought out a smart running shoe made in collaboration with outsole maker Vibram. It runs on an Intel Curie wearable chip and performs most of your standard fitness tracker functions. (No heart rate monitor.)

Medical Tech

World's first child-sized exoskeleton gets kids on their feet engadget v

The Spanish National Research Council, a.k.a. CSIC, has created a kid-sized exoskeleton designed specifically for children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. Because SMA causes a loss of motor neurons, the patient's body starts to wither away to the point where many child patients end up bedridden and unable to walk. Built from aluminum and titanium, the 26-pound machine uses five assistive motors in each leg to actually help the child keep active and avoid further complications from immobility.

Pestilence

Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches in.reuters

The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.

Space

Rocket with secret cargo blasts off from Florida cbsnews

A towering United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket believed to be carrying a National Reconnaissance Office electronic eavesdropping satellite climbed away from Cape Canaveral Saturday, putting on a spectacular weekend show as it streaked toward space on a blacked-out mission.

Interesting

NASA confirms bright midday meteor over Missouri on Monday stltoday v

Nearly 300 people reported having seen it, according to the meteor watchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration office in Huntsville, Ala. NASA says the meteor burned up along a 25-mile track roughly over Hannibal, Mo., and at a height of about 30 miles above earth.

These are always interesting, but why I'm including is there's been a few of these over the US over the last couple weeks: Arizona, June 02 v, Northeastern US, May 17 v, etc. Don't read more into it than "interesting" :)