The limitation is quite obvious, given the fact that Xbox One is arriving with an x86 architecture whereas the same can’t be said of Xbox 360. The limitation would essentially stop users from playing original Xbox titles on their game console.

Confirming the curb in Xbox One, Xbox Live’s Vice President, Marc Whitten, stated, “The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn’t really work from that perspective.”

However, before the avid gamer in you gets a bit too disappointed, the good news is that you will be able to continue your Gamescore over at Xbox 360, while making the switch from Xbox 360. Moreover, the Xbox 360 titles will continue to be around and Microsoft will continue to expend its resources into developing them further.

According to a Microsoft spokesperson, “We care very much about the investment people have made in Xbox 360 and will continue to support it with a pipeline of new games and new apps well into the future.” Ideally, one may want to quit dreaming of Xbox One, and shift attention to Sony’s PlayStation 4 because of this. But nearly all next-generation consoles, including PS4, lack backward compatibility and won’t support titles from older consoles.

Courtesy: TNW

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Nigel Warren is the person who rented out his apartment in NY through Airbnb. However, New York officials soon brought a case against him, citing that by renting out his apartment, he has violated the illegal hotel law enacted by the city back in 2010.

Warren fought back the charge, with Airbnb also siding with him. The original fine imposed on Warren was $7,000. During the case, Airbnb argued that Warren’s case should be taken as an exception since he didn’t mimic the hotels in any way while renting out his apartment.

However, the judge has now ruled against Warren, citing, “While breech of the condominium rules is not of itself a ground for sustaining this (notice), respondent was in breach (through Warren’s acts) and the existence of the rule against rental for transient, hotel, or motel purposes is evidence that the unit owners were to restrict their use to permanent occupation.”

Thankfully, the sum of fine has been trimmed down from $7,000 to $2,400. Airbnb is naturally unhappy with the verdict and stated, “There is universal agreement that occasional hosts like Nigel Warren were not the target of the 2010 law, but that agreement provides little comfort to the handful of people, like Nigel, who find themselves targeted by overzealous enforcement officials. It is time to fix this law and protect hosts who occasionally rent out their own homes. Eighty-seven percent of Airbnb hosts in New York list just a home they live in — they are average New Yorkers trying to make ends meet, not illegal hotels that should be subject to the 2010 law.”

Courtesy: CNET

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Gaming is one form of entertainment and Microsoft intends to up the ante by offering many other forms of entertainment through Xbox One. Given below is a quick recap of the new features that are included in the console as well as the device’s specifications.

Specifcations:
The new Xbox One packs an 8-core CPU which joins hands with a 64-bit architecture to deliver top performance. The unit includes 8 GB of RAM, a Blu-ray drive, 500 GB of storage space and HDMI in and out ports. There’s a USB 3.0 port as well and option for Wi-Fi connectivity.

Kinect:
Kinect has been around for a while, being used for gaming purposes. However, imagine the same kind of voice and gesture-control functionality available for surfing between different TV channels or shows. The voice-control part of Kinect is remarkably accurate and quick, letting you dictate the Xbox One and surf across multiple profiles and entertainment hubs in the flick of an eye.

As far as motion and gesture-control measures are concerned, Kinect has been packed with additional capabilities to perform these tasks far better. Kinect can now capture 1080p video and it can measure many more motion points on the body to more accurately discern the users’ movements.

Snap Mode:
Snap mode is an excellent option that essentially lets you perform two different kinds of tasks side by side on Xbox One. For instance you can watch a movie and do a Skype call, both at the same time. Microsoft has essentially brought together the best of both TV and gaming on a single console and spiced this content up with options such as Snap mode.

DVR recoding and Cloud storage:
Cloud storage is fast becoming something of a mandatory feature for all devices. Microsoft has been careful to ensure its inclusion in Xbox One. You can upload your regular content, games, game saves and other data straight to the cloud storage that Microsoft offers. You can also recard the games while you are playing through the DVR option.

During the launch event, Microsoft shied away from divulging the exact pricing and availability details of the new console. However, it did reveal that Xbox One will land the shelves later this year.

Source: Xbox

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The changes are essentially meant to add more meaningfulness to the pins that are currently hosted on the website. For instance, imagine a Pinterest food board. Formerly, people would simply attach images as pins to the board and that would be it.

But with the new changes that Pinterest is rolling out, users will be able to add a lot more details to these pins. For instance, if you are viewing a recipe on a food board, the pin for that recipe will include information such as the cooking time, ingredients etc.

The idea behind these changes is to provide users more details and let them decide whether or not the pins are useful and relevant for them. Pinterest is positioning the information-rich pins as ‘rich pins’ and the company claims that they can be especially useful for businesses.

That is precisely why the company hopes that with ‘rich pins’, it will be able to adapt a more profitable model. Users who want to use ‘rich pins’ need to join Pinterest as a business or have their accounts converted. In other words, they will have to split their profits with Pinterest.

The website has also rolled out the option of adding pins to a given board straight from the mobile devices. Given the sheer number of users accessing social media sites from mobile devices, this move can also add a significant audience to Pinterest.

Source: Pinterest

Courtesy: Venture Beat

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The new Flickr essentially allows users to upload their images in high-resolution. The uploading process does not tamper with the size or quality of the images so that you can upload the exact image that you shot straight to your Flickr account. To compliment the availability of such high-res images on the website, Flickr has also undergone an interface change.

On the new Flickr, you can view an image in full-screen, rather than being presented with a photo and a relevant photo stream to the right. Yahoo has cut out nearly all white-spaces from Flickr. If you view a ‘Set’ on Flickr now, it will appear as a stream of very neatly bundled images, much likes tiles stacked against on another.

Users can set a high-resolution picture as the cover photo for their profiles. On profile pages, images start appearing as a tile-stream right below the cover photo.

One of the key announcements made by Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, was that all Flickr users get to have a whopping 1 terabyte of space for free! That’s a huge storage space and allows user to essentially upload an approximate number of 537,000 photos. Flickr Pro is going away with this new update. Marissa Mayer said

There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because (as so many people taking photo) there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore.

There are still a couple of paid options. Users can pay $49.99 a year for an ad-free interface, and can add a second TB of data for $499.99 per year. We cant find any information what will happen to existing paid member.

The task to revamp Flickr was probably Mayer’s brainchild. When she first came to steer Yahoo out of its crisis, campaigns sprang up online, asking her to ‘rescue’ Flickr. And from the looks of the revamp that her company has rolled out, she has succeeded in doing so.

Source: Flickr

Courtesy: CNN

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According to the reports so far, Microsoft has focused more on non-gaming features in the new Xbox. The company can afford to do so since its current-generation Xbox units are already the best-selling gaming gear around the globe.

However, Microsoft will have to consider the competition that may be offered by PlayStation 4. Sony is certainly going for a far better graphics engine and better storage options in its upcoming console – and the corresponding next-generation Xbox will have to compete against it.

While Microsoft hasn’t revealed any detailed specs of the new Xbox, analysts have speculated that it will come with a faster processor and many new entertainment options. In fact, the entertainment and other non-gaming features may be the limelight of the new Xbox.

For instance, the company plans on adding the ability to make Skype calls, stream videos online and accomplish many other similar functions. One bone of contention about the new Xbox, however, is that it will need to be connected to the internet at all times.

That can be quite a hassle for the gamers and at the same time, it would eliminate the option of playing second-hand titles, thus making the entire Xbox ecosystem pricier and more closed for the users. Let’s see how true these reservations and expectations turn out to be this Tuesday.

Courtesy: CNET

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On April 19, 2013, a Russian space capsule named Bion-M No.1 set off towards space carrying 53 mice and lizards. The capsule’s orbit was at 575 kilometers (345 miles) above Earth. According to scientists, sending those animals towards space was an experiment of testing the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure.

On May 19, the animals returned to the Earth at a planned field near Orenburg, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) Southeast of Moscow. Though all 15 of the lizards survived, unfortunately only half of the mice survived the flight.

Source: Washington Post

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Samsung Wallet is more of a depository, where credit cards can be stored along with tickets, membership cards and coupons. Online purchases can be made using the information in the wallet confirmed by a PIN number or a one-time password. From now on, Korean customers using Galaxy S4, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Note 10.1 or Galaxy S II HD LTE, can download Samsung Wallet app from the company’s own app market. Currently it only appears to collect credit card info, which customers can use to pay for goods and services at online merchants using the information in the wallet confirmed by a PIN number or a one-time password.

Source: Samsung Korea, Samsung Wallet Partners

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The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the “world’s largest high school research competition,” and is owned and administered by the Society for Science & the Public. It was founded in 1950 by Science Service (now the Society for Science & the Public) and has been sponsored by the Intel Corporation since 1997. Each May this event is organised and about 1,600 finalists are selected annually from hundreds of affiliated fairs in 70 countries, regions and territories. The participants compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prize of winning one $75,000 or two $50,000 college scholarships.

This year, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair was conducted in Phoenix, Ariz. Eesha Khare, from Saratoga, California was one of the participants in this event. She invented a new black colored, over an inch long rectangular type supercapacitor that fits inside mobile phone batteries, and could allow the batteries to charge within 20 to 30 seconds. According to Khare, the device can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries.

Khare said, “I developed a new supercapacitor, which is basically an energy storage device which can hold a lot of energy in a small amount of volume.” She also said that the technology might also “speed up charging of automobile batteries.”

Khare’s invention was honored as one of two winners of Young Scientist Awards by Intel Foundation. She won $50,000 prize money. Khare said, “I’m in a daze. I can’t believe this happened.”

This major science award will help Khare fund her college education at Harvard University. The $50,000 prize money will be delivered to Khare when she heads to Harvard University in the fall.

Source: CNN

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The hardware, as well as the software, of the Jolla smartphone is fairly impressive. The design is very elegant and lends excellent looks to the handset. It falls somewhere near the looks borne by Nokia Lumia handsets, but is still very distinct and unique.

The handset features a 4.5-inch Estrade display together with a dual-core chip to power it up and 4GB of RAM. The internal memory is 16GB together with the option of having it extended through a microSD card slot. There’s also an 8MP rear camera.

The most notable feature of the handset is that the shell colors are customizable. And while this option is available in other handsets too, the unique thing about the Zolla smartphone is that as soon as you change the color of the shell, the corresponding software running on top of the smartphone also changes! Jolla hasn’t indicated how it makes this happen, but we suspect that NFC is at play here.

As for the pricing and details of the handset, the company reveals, “Expected availability by end of 2013 subject to demand in your local market. Sales will start in European countries with more countries to follow. If you join the Movement and get the pre-order number to buy the phone when available, you’ll pay no more than 399€; including applicable VAT in Europe, but excluding shipping costs, duties and any local taxes.” You can place your pre-order for the handset here.

Source: Jolla

Courtesy: TechCrunch

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The competition comes with a number of strict rules, which must be adhered to by the participating developers. For instance, all such developers who decide to participate in it must make use of Samsung’s Chord SDK, a special software interface which has been specifically developed for Samsung devices.

At the same time, all participating apps must be sold at ‘Samsung Apps.’ The company has stated that it will be judging the entries on the basis of their uniqueness, design and commercial value. For those of you who aim to be a part of this competition, you must send in your entries from June 20 to Aug 31.

The grand prize is $200,000, whereas three runner-ups will get $100,000 each. Finally, six developers who are lucky enough to be in the third position will each receive $50,000. Not only that, Samsung promises that the winning entries will be eligible for investments from the company’s venture department.

It remains to be seen how successfully this App Challenge spices up the interest of the developer community on Galaxy S4. The company’s aim, in bringing together this event, is to essentially crowdsource great apps for the handset as well as divert the attention of the developers, at large, towards it.

Source: Samsung

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Acrobotic’s project is very unique in that it doesn’t aim to politicize the issue of environmental pollution. Rather, it wants to make the issue more personal for citizens around the world. The company is offering a kit which is to be installed inside a user’s home and allows the user to monitor a whole range of environmental indicators.

According to the COO of Acrobotic, Francisco Zabala, “I believe that climate is changing for the worse, but our approach is more personal. By raising awareness we’re working toward a solution without banging on people’s heads.”

For instance, once the users installs the kit inside their home, they are able to monitor temperature, air composition, humidity, air density, sound levels and many other factors. The kit helps in educating users and keeping them aware of the environment they are breathing in.

The kit is made up of an Arduino computer which has been fitted with a range of sensors. Acrobotic hopes that once a huge number of users install the kit in their homes, the company will be able to discern the environmental data from around the globe and keep tabs on it in real-time. Such direct information can be a huge asset for those trying to curb environmental pollution.

If you wish to lay your hands on one of these kits, you can sign up for it at the widget provided below. For now, the kit is going to cost you $155, which isn’t too steep for something that lets you keep tabs on so many environmental indicators. The company aims to raise $500,000 in pledges before going forth with the mass-production of the kit.

Source: KickStarter

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Playing Dots all day long can be a problem, of course. It can have an impact on your eye sight, cause the muscles in your shoulders to stiffen and adversely impact your personal and professional life. So it must be treated as a game that is played only occasionally.

For casual gamers of Dots, a study suggests that they may actually benefit from playing it. There are many other similar games that have been around for a while now, for instance ‘Bejeweled.’ Scientists at East Carolina University discerned in a study that such players who indulged in Bejeweled and other similar games for 30-minute periods were able to register an 87 percent improvement in their cognitive response time.

At the same time, such gamers are also able to display an executive functioning which is 215 percent more than a control group. While these results are very encouraging, other studies suggest that when you play a game, the smartness that you acquire can be applied only to that game.

In other words, the cognitive skills that are developed as a result of playing a specific game are useful only for playing that game again – and to put them to use in other situations doesn’t seem to work out.

Courtesy: Salon

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Acquisition are a tricky thing. They often tend to make successful products wildly popular and yet, at some instances, they turn a very popular product into an entire failure. In the past, Yahoo has failed with several acquisition, which is the reason why many had been highly skeptic of Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr.

The acquisition has cost Yahoo $1.1 billion in cash, which is rather huge for a company not doing very good on profits. Despite the acquisition, David Karp will continue to be the CEO of Tumblr. According to Yahoo, “Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators.”

One of the key reasons why many are critical of the acquisition is that Yahoo has a wide range of web portals. And the company tends to intermingle them, which is the reason why it has failed at many recent choices.

However, under the leadership of Marrisa Mayer, this is Yahoo’s biggest acquisition. And Mayer has promised that her company won’t screw it up. Let’s hope that turns out to be the case.

Courtesy: Forbes

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During his childhood, Philip was unable to speak and suffered terrible fits and seizures. Doctors found that half of the brain (right side) of Philip was damaged. The doctors considered the right side brain “incurable” and mentioned that the condition of Philip’s brain would turn “worse” with age. After hearing this, Philip’s mother Eva didn’t lose her heart, rather she started battling against medical opinion.

In 1989, Eva found a surgeon who said if the right side of Philip’s brain is removed, then Philip might start talking. But there was a negative impact too – Philip could die if the operation is not successful. However, Philip’s mother took the risk with her 9-year old son. The surgeon removed the right side of Philip’s brain. Philip, who had never uttered a word before the surgery, started to speak in sentences after the operation. Undoubtedly, this was a great victory. But right now, Eva is facing a new challenge for his half brained son, which is even bigger than the earlier.

Philip is suffering from a rare illness called Sturge-Weber syndrome. Eva is fearing that her son’s eyesight could be damaged as the port wine stain is spreading. If proper treatment can’t be delivered in due time, Philip could go blind. At this moment, Philip needs special laser treatment to control the growth. Eva has already spent £150,000 on medical care for her son, but now she can’t afford further expenses for her son’s treatment. Though she had sent NHS “photographs; all the evidence; reports about how important the laser treatment” was, the NHS refused to pay for the treatment “as there was insufficient evidence of clinical exceptionality.” Rather, NHS informed EVA “nothing could be done” and advised her “to forget it.”

But Eva has not stopped. She is still trying to provide her miracle half-brain son special laser treatment through alternative funding source. Do you have the heart to stand beside Eva and Philip?

Source: Telegraph

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A team of British and Canadian scientists had been investigating water samples from other mines. Greg Holland, a geochemist at Lancaster University in England, and his colleagues saw some fluid had been coming from a mine in Timmins, Ontario. They became interested to know for just how long that fluid had been trapped in the rock. So, they approached some miners and asked them to drill boreholes. As soon as the gold miners did, water started to come from those holes and scientists collected samples of water. The scientists looked at the decay of radioactive atoms in the collected water sample and calculated that the water was between 1.5 and 2.67 billion-year old.

According to Holland, about 2.7 billion years ago, Timmins looked a bit different. Beneath prehistoric seas, tectonic plates had spread, and magma had welled up to form new rock. As the rock had matured under heat and pressure, water was trapped inside tiny cracks. He said, “the fluids that we see now are actually preservation of ancient oceans. There’s a lot of hydrogen in these samples.” He also mentioned that it was the hydrogen that “could provide the energy for life to survive in isolation for 2 billion years.” He also added that the collected sample water from those rock was the oldest cache of water ever found on Earth and the water was sealed in the rock before humans evolved, before Pterosaurs flew and before multicellular life.

Now the scientists are testing the water samples for evidence of microbes. They hope, within a year they would come up with results. The research has been published in Nature.

Source: NPR
Thanks To: National Geographic

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The Lenovo K900 is packed with Google’s Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, powered by a 2GHz dual-core Atom Z2580 processor with Gorilla Glass 2 full HD 1080p 5.5-inch display. The phone body comes in a stainless steel frame with the unibody chassis providing a slim and sleek look. The K900 is just 6.9 millimeters thick and weighs 162 grams. Lenovo believes its new Intel-based smartphone is the perfect choice for high-end smartphone buyers.

In China, the Lenovo K900 is now retailing for RMB 3,299 (about $530). Currently, we do not have any information on international pricing.

Source: Ubergizmo

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The venture is essentially a collaboration between three entities, namely Google, NASA and Universe Space Research Association, a non-profit organization. The trio aims to explore the possibilities of machine learning with the help of the highly advanced D-Wave two quantum computer.

The only other D-Wave two quantum computer that has been sold by D-Wave was purchased by Lockheed Martin. This tells something about the costs of buying the machine. Nonetheless, the unique computing prowess that such a machine offers may be critically helpful in pushing the limits in fields such as language translation and related fields.

According to a blog post by Google, “We actually think quantum machine learning may provide the most creative problem-solving process under the known laws of physics.” The claim may be bold but is very encouraging.

Being a quantum computer, D-Wave two can speed up the computational speeds very significantly, since it relies on quantum bits for its calculations. Rather than following the gate-based logic model, quantum computer makes use of an adiabatic model, which helps the computer makes far more complicated calculations rapidly.

It remains to be seen how useful this quantum computer turns out to be in the field of machine learning. But if the likes of Google and NASA are able to steer it successfully for the stated ends, this could bring somewhat of a revolution in the arena of artificial intelligence.

Courtesy: Scientific American

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Normally, online retailers do away with the previous stock in anticipation of the arrival of a new model. Although MacBook Air is currently available with Best Buy, it is the only retailer that is still selling the machine.

Given these developments, many analysts have opined that we may finally see a new MacBook Air model, probably by next month. Rumors have it that Apple may decide to include Retina display in the new model for the 13.3-inch machine but so far, nothing credible has been cited to support these rumors.

What is known, nearly for sure, is that the new model will pack the next-generation Intel chip, Haswell, as well as better graphics. Intel had formerly announced that the chip line-up will arrive in June. It is possible that alongside the official debut, the chip also arrives under the hood of the new MacBook Air.

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The incident took place at Las Vegas on Thursday. Marcos Vincente Arenas was on his way when an SUV pulled up near him and a man dashed out of it. The man tried to snatch away Arenas’ iPad but Arenas held on to his tablet and wouldn’t let go.

The thief started pulling the iPad, together with the clinging Arenas, towards the vehicle. However, Arenas was still near the passenger door when the SUV took off, with Arenas stumbling to the ground and being ran over by the car as the thieves fled.

Arenas was rushed to the hospital but he died before soon, having sustained serious injuries. Police is in the process of investigating the crime and in its initial reports, has stated that the SUV was a white Ford Explorer or Expedition.

Apple-picking, as the incidents involving theft of Apple gadgets are known, have become more frequent over the recent years. However, not many of these incidents have involved physical injury or harm. This makes the recent incident in Las Vegas a rather shocking one.

Courtesy: CNET

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Mixed content websites are such sites which usually display HTTPS content but also load some of their content from HTTP sources. So the latter content is not secure and leaves a user vulnerable to a whole range of security risks.

Usually, secure websites run insecure scripts from HTTP sources to offer greater functionality to the users. But this is being done at the cost of security. The new feature that Mozilla is offering in Firefox 23 Aurora will essentially provide the users with a choice to block or unblock mixed content.

Users can block mixed content on per-site basis or set the default settings so that mixed content across all websites is blocked. When need be, the users can then unblock such content on any given website.

The Aurora version is the pre-beta version for the mainstream desktop version of Firefox. So we can expect the changes to be included in the next, actual version of Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Moreover, the next version will also arrive with a number of new developer tools such as network monitor, Variables View etc. These tools will help the developer discern the browser’s functionality as well as the performance of different websites on the browser.

Courtesy: CNET

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Researchers selected 51 students from the University of Oxford and asked them to perform two arithmetic tasks testing their calculation and rote learning abilities over a five-day period. Each day, researchers gave 25 students a brain stimulation called Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (TRNS) on an area of the brain responsible for arithmetic skills while performing the tasks. Researchers discovered that the efficiency of solving maths problem of 25 TRNS given students had increased a lot compared to the 26 non-TRNS given students. The 25 TRNS given students solved maths puzzles 27 per cent faster than the 26 non-TRNS given students.

Roi Cohen Kadosh, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., said in a statement, “With just five days of cognitive training and noninvasive, painless brain stimulation, we were able to bring about long-lasting improvements in cognitive and brain functions. Our aim is to help those with poor numeracy, which is approximately 20 per cent of the population. But we need to extend the results to the general population, and use more ecological settings, such as classrooms. There is of course more work to be done, but it is a promising direction.”

Findings of the study have been published in Current Biology. If this technique is proved effective and safe, then electrical stimulation could be used in clinics, classrooms and even at home to help people who struggle with particular cognitive tasks.

Source: University Of Oxford
Thanks To: Guardian

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The camera comes with Fujifilm’s interchangeable-lens. Its real-image optical zoom viewfinder delivers 85% coverage and a 20° horizontal apparent field of view with amazing optical clarity. It has been designed with the same architecture and features of the high performance sensor found in the acclaimed Fujifilm X-Pro1 flagship model. X20′s OLPF-less architecture and 2/3-inch 12M X-Trans CMOS II sensor processing capture your photos with crystal clarity. The advanced technology and processing helps to transfer the power of the lens into true to life photos. The camera comes with New Intelligent Hybrid AF autofocus that allow users to switch between phase detection and contrast AF as fast as 0.06 sec.

Fujifilm used EXR Processor II inside the X20, which doubles the processing speed of the image processor. The 2.8-inch LCD screen in the back features a bright, high contrast, 460K-dot which lets you comfortably compose and preview your shots. The Fujifilm X20 camera is available online for purchase. You can also directly buy this camera from Amazon’s website for $599.95. For more you can visit Fujifilm’s official website.

Source: reviews.cnet

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a nonprofit research group funded by auto insurance companies which develops crash tests to cut deaths, injuries and property damage from car and truck crashes. Lately, IIHS carried out some crash tests with small SUVs to measure the endurance of the cars during accidents.

All the SUVs were 2012 or 2013 models except the Subaru’s 2014 Forester. “Good” was the top rating in the car crash test, followed by “acceptable,” then “marginal” and “poor.” However, in the car crash test, the Subaru’s 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get a “good” rating from the IIHS. On the other side, the 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport received an “acceptable” rating. The cars that received “marginal” ratings were – the BMW X1, Nissan Rogue, Mazda CX-5, Volkswagen Tiguan, Honda’s CR-V and Jeep Wrangler. The cars that received “poor” ratings were – the new Ford Escape, Jeep Patriot, Buick Encore, Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tuscson.

The Forester and Outlander Sport each received the IIHS’ coveted “Top Safety Pick Plus” award because they performed well in multiple tests including the small offset crash. Only 20 vehicles across all car segments have received the IIHS “Top Safety Pick Plus” award. Besides, many of the other SUVs, including the Escape and CR-V, won “Top Safety Pick” designations, but didn’t get the “plus” due to their performance in the small offset tests. Toyota’s RAV-4 hasn’t done the testing yet because Toyota asked for a delay to improve the vehicle’s structure.

Last Thursday IIHS released the ratings of these cars and mentioned that only 2 of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests. The institute also said that in many vehicles, a crash affecting one-quarter of the front end misses the main structures designed to absorb the impact of a crash.

Source: TwinCities

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Camera sensors are able to discern radioactive particles when they are present. Banking on this feature, McCown and his team decided to develop an app which can measure radioactivity and whenever it is higher than usual, alert the user. The app, McCown believes, can be critically helpful for first responders all over the world.

Imagine the incident at Japan’s Fukushima plant. The first responders were unaware when the radioactivity levels grew beyond usual and while trying to rescue the workers at the plant. The responders were also unaware as to which regions are safe and which aren’t.

However, the new app from INL, called CellRAD, can change this. According to Scott Brown, an engineer at INL who has also worked on this project, “The important thing about this innovation is that they’re passive sensors. (First responders) can go about their regular day and only be interrupted if there is an incident they need to respond to.”

Another excellent feature that the team has added to this app is that once multiple users start using the app, the server at the back-end is able to receive the data and then create a radioactivity grid based on this data. In this way, the grid is able to show the regions which are safe as well as the regions where radioactivity levels are dangerously high. This, in turn, can be of critical significance for members of firefighting squad, law-enforcement agencies and many other government bodies.

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The new note will be made available on October 8 this year and all subsequent $100 bills will arrive with the same range of new features. The most striking change that has been made to the $100 note is that the image of Benjamin Franklin is larger and more pronounced.

It is slightly raised, with the collar of Benjamin Franklin bearing ‘United State of America’ in a microprint. The image is also raised, which lets anyone feel it with the fingers. Moreover, the watermark on the bill has also been changed so that it slightly duplicates when you hold it in front of light.

The Liberty Bell on the note changes color when light is shifted on it. This has been accomplished with color-changing ink and can be a fairly hard feature to counterfeit. On the back side of the note, there’s a huge ’100′ penned down in golden color.

The inside of this ’100′ is filled with a solid gold color while its outline is of a blue hue. Such fine precision in features is what Federal Reserve hopes, will dissuade counterfeiters from copying the bill. The image of the Independence Hall on the back is also different, with the new note showing it from the rear. The timing on the bill shows a clock bearing ’10:30′ while the earlier note features ’4:10.’

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BWF has become wildly popular, especially among the youth on social networks. The app has been around for less than a year and has already attracted a user base of 1 million. The key feature of the app, which has been able to entice such a huge audience, is simply that it provides the cover of anonymity while a person expresses his/her desire to hook up with another.

In simpler terms, it is really a matchmaking website but with a spicier name. So it’s hard to discern as to why Apple has decided to remove it from the App Store.

The link to the iPhone app of BWF currently displays the message, “The items you’ve requested is not currently available in the U.S. store.” The web page of the app, which also featured the iPhone app, currently states, “Be right back. We’re working with Apple to get BWF back into the App Store shortly.”

The team behind the app also seems clueless as to why Apple decided to drop the axe on BWF. According to a spokesperson, “We’re working with Apple to figure out exactly why.” In the past too, Apple has taken out a number of apps which have “explicit” connotations, although a matchmaking website doesn’t seem inappropriate by any stretch of imagination.

Source: BWF

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Nvidia had originally planned on making the console available on May 20th. However, the company revealed that the response to its console was so immense that it has moved up the availability of pre-orders by a few days.

Shield is currently available with three retailers. These include NewEgg, Gamestop and Canada Computer. The console is priced a tad bit steep, compared to other offerings in the market. However, despite that, it has received raving reviews and the gaming world, at large, had been eagerly waiting for it.

The most notable thing about Nvidia Shield is that it is somewhat of a mix between a tablet and a game console. It features a crisp 720p multitouch display attached to a controller unit that is top of the range. Under the hood, the console packs a Tegra 4 chip as well as other top-end hardware.

In all, the package does seem to justify the $349 price tag. You can place your pre-orders on the links provided below. Naturally, the sooner you place your pre-order, the better is your chance of getting Shield at the earlies.t

Pre-Order Nvidia Shield :

1) NewEgg
2) Gamestop
3) Canada Computer

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The key advantage of using an iPad in air is simply that it is able to replace a whole bulkload of manuals and papers. As a result, the fuel consumption significantly decreases and a plane is able to trim down its costs over time.

According to Major Brian Moritz, “We’re saving about 90 pounds of paper per aircraft and limiting the need for each crew member to carry a 30 to 40 pound paper pile [of flight manuals]. It adds up to quite a lot of weight in paper.”

However, that is just one part of the larger picture. The Air Force spends millions of dollars each year in actually publishing all the documents that have to be carried during flights. With iPads, there would no longer be a need to publish these documents and this, too, is a huge saving.

Moritz further reveals, “It comes out to just over $5 million a year. With fuel savings, it comes out to $5.7 million annually in pure cost. When you look at $5.7 million a year, over 10 years, that’s well over $50 million.”

The U.S. Air Force is already making use of iPads at a large scale and this new program will further expand their usage. However, any Air Force personnel that make use of iPad on a flight are required to turn off both the Wi-Fi and the cameras.

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The leak is not confirmed yet and Yahoo Japan is currently looking into it. According to Yahoo Japan Corp, it recently unearthed an unauthorized attempt to access the main administrative system. The system stores the IDs of millions of users who use these IDs to access the online web portal of the company.

For now, the company doesn’t know whether or not the intruder was able to access these IDs and it is in the process of investigating the extent of the damage done.

Thankfully for these users, even if the intruder was able to access the IDs of the users, he wouldn’t be able to do much damage since the passwords and other login data is stored separately. Nonetheless, the IDs can be used by a person with nefarious intents to push out adware and similar other malicious software to the users.

According to the company, the attempt was made at 9 p.m. on Thursday and that as soon as it has any further information on the incident, it will share it with the users. It must be noted here that the Japanese wing of Yahoo is only partially owned by Yahoo itself.

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