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Google Chrome 21 stable release adds Retina MacBook Pro support, webcam use without plugins

Some Retina MacBook Pro owners have been waiting for this day for six weeks: that promised Retina support in Google Chrome is now part of a finished, stable release. Chrome 21 is now crisp and clear for those who took the plunge on Apple's new laptop but would rather not cling to Safari for the web. No matter what hardware you're using, Google has rolled in its promised WebRTC support to let webcams and microphones have their way without Flash or other plugins. Other notable tweaks like wider support for Cloud Print and gamepads tag along in the update as well. If you're at all intrigued by the expanded hardware support in Chrome, Google has an abundance of details (and downloads) at the links below.

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Google Chrome 21 stable release adds Retina MacBook Pro support, webcam use without plugins originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lexus Introduces New LS460 and LS600hL Hybrid Sedans for 2013, Adds F Sport Model

Lexus?s LS, long successful on the sales charts, has never been known to excite?whether visually or from behind the wheel. The 2013 model looks to change that rep, however, as it mixes in some aesthetic and mechanical spice to the brand?s traditional porridge of cosseting luxury and soporific refinement. (more…)

News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine For July 31, 2012 Online Issue

1. Task Force Recommends Against Screening ECG for Asymptomatic Adults at Low Risk for Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women. Certain physical and lifestyle characteristics increase risk for CHD, yet some low-risk patients may suffer a CHD event without warning. Electrocardiogram (ECG) can detect abnormalities that may predict a future CHD event...

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Lack Of Sleep Can Influence The Way You Perform Certain Tasks

Anyone that has ever had trouble sleeping can attest to the difficulties at work the following day. Experts recommend eight hours of sleep per night for ideal health and productivity, but what if five to six hours of sleep is your norm? Is your work still negatively affected? A team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered that regardless of how tired you perceive yourself to be, that lack of sleep can influence the way you perform certain tasks. This finding is published in the online edition of The Journal of Vision...

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Continue reading X-RHex Lite robot grows a tail, always lands on its feet (video)

X-RHex Lite robot grows a tail, always lands on its feet (video)

By far the greatest challenge for robots with legs is staying upright when the going gets rough. A team at the University of Pennsylvania's Kod*lab has a hunch that we don't need extra smarts to make that happen -- just an extra appendage. The upgraded X-RHex Lite (XRL) carries a tail that will swing in the right direction to keep the robot upright if it's caught out by a fall, much like a cat. That's impressive for a nearly 18-pound robot (the previous Tailbot was 0.4 pounds), but we're pretty sure no feline has six springy legs; the XRL can crash to the ground and still get back up like it ain't no thing, which gives it a fudge factor others don't have. We don't know if the hexapod critter will lead to more than further experiments. If there are fewer stuck rovers on future exploration missions, though, we'll know who to thank.

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X-RHex Lite robot grows a tail, always lands on its feet (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aurora Movie Theater Shooting Suspect Formally Charged

Colorado prosecutors have formally charged a former doctorate student with 24 counts of murder in the shooting at an Aurora movie theater.

First GHz Edition Radeon HD 7970 hits shelves, throws $699 wrench into AMD's pricing strategy

The GHz Edition was supposed to deliver a significant mid-cycle performance bump to AMD's flagship 7970, without any attendant rise in cost. Instead, according to AnandTech, it looks like third-party vendors are looking to exploit the GE has a chance to max out every other spec in addition to the updated silicon and then charge a premium. Sapphire's new Toxic card is a case in point -- a 6GB double-helping of VRAM and a "Lethal" BIOS mode that takes base clock up to 1150MHz and memory clock to 6.4GHz (compared to 6GHz on the stock card). Those who can splutter up $699 will surely love it, but it's no substitute for the $499 upgrade that AMD originally intended.

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First GHz Edition Radeon HD 7970 hits shelves, throws $699 wrench into AMD's pricing strategy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MRSA - Rapid Whole-Genone Sequencing Impacts On Infection Control

Researchers have discovered that whole genome sequencing can impact infection control and patient management because of the clinical relevant data that it provides on bacterial transmission. In collaboration with Illumina researchers, scientists from Cambridge University's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have used whole genome sequencing to establish which isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were part of a hospital outbreak, since current lab techniques are often unable to distinguish between MRSA isolates...

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Brewfest updated for Mists of Pandaria, requires quick leveling

Brewfest will be updated for Mists of Pandaria

It's official: Brewfest this year will be updated for Mists of Pandaria. This means you'll have 10 days from launch to get to level 89 so that you can queue for it, according to CM Nakatoir on the EU forums. You won't be able to access Coren Direbrew until after Mists ships, and you won't be able to fight him until you level to 89. This means that over the entire 15-day run of Brewfest, Coren will only be accessible for 10 days, and you'll only have as many tries at him as you can squeeze in once you hit 89, whenever that is.

You'll still be able to do the other Brewfest quests, because they don't have a level requirement. Man, I'm not going to get a lot of sleep this September and October, it seems. I need me my kodo. Someone stole the kodo from me back when it dropped directly from the boss, and I've never forgiven that person. She knows who she is.

Hope to see at least a few of you alongside me in the land of those desperately leveling to 89. At least the fight won't be undertuned, for once. Coren should be pretty hard for all of us undergeared level 89s smashing our faces against him. I won't pretend I'm not extremely disappointed by this decision. Cutting back on my available chances for that kodo in this manner is not cool by me.

It's open warfare between Alliance and Horde in Mists of Pandaria, World of Warcraft's next expansion. Jump into five new levels with new talents and class mechanics, try the new monk class, and create a pandaren character to ally with either Horde or Alliance. Look for expansion basics in our Mists FAQ, or dig into our spring press event coverage for more details!

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Brewfest updated for Mists of Pandaria, requires quick leveling originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Brave 10-Year-Old Georgia Boy Calls 911 During Home Invasion!

Christopher King (pictured), a brave 10-year-old from Lawrenceville, Georgia called 911 while his home was being invaded by two robbers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. SEE…

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Flight+ travel app now has free ad supported versions for iOS

I raved last April about Flight+, a travel app from International Airport Flight Track Technologies. Flight+ diligently tracks every flight in the world, alerting you to delays and gate changes while relaying the current position of your chosen flight on a detailed map. It sends messages on changes to flight status, take off and arrival confirmations, as well as weather forecasts.

The app also contains flight displays for all major airports, gets seating charts for flights, and provides a world clock for keeping track of what's where and when. Flight+ comes in an iPhone or iPad version.

I've used it while traveling and waiting to meet a flight, and I can say it's the best travel app I've seen. Really, I've just touched on the extensive features in this post. If you travel at all, or have friends, family or business associates who do, this is a must-have app.

The paid, ad-free versions also have a fixed price cut: The iPhone version is now US$1.99 (previously $2.99) and the iPad app is now $3.99 (previously $4.99), starting today. Ad-supported editions are available as well. Either free or paid, I think you will like Flight+.

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Flight+ travel app now has free ad supported versions for iOS originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Hello, Dolly! Meet iStabilizer's new iPhone moviemaking accessory

Monday, 30 July 2012

Hello, Dolly! Meet iStabilizer's new iPhone moviemaking accessory

The iPhone 4S brought true HD video recording (1080p, up to 30 fps) to the masses, and fortunately for iPhone owners, the accessories industry has wasted no time in developing products to make your videos even more professional-looking. iStabilizer's Dolly (US$59.95) has arrived in time for you to shoot your summer vacation videos like a pro. Be sure to enter into our giveaway of an iStabilizer Dolly later in this post.

Design

First, let's talk a bit about dolly or tracking shots. These are a staple of cinematography, using a wheeled cart (usually on tracks) holding a movie or video camera to smoothly move the camera towards, away from, or perpendicular to the subject. For iPhone videography, you certainly don't want to have to carry tracks along with you, and that's where the Dolly comes in.

At first glance you might think that the Dolly is a child's toy. It features two sets of skateboard wheels mounted to a short metal body, with an ingenious flexible arm that bends into a variety of positions. At the end of the arm is a mount that can hold an iPhone, an iPod touch, a GoPro camera (with an optional GoPro tripod mount), or even a lightweight video camera. You don't want to overload the Dolly, however, so don't plan on mounting your DSLR on the end of the arm.

At 1.25 pounds, the Dolly is light enough to fit into your backpack or a larger camera bag so that it's available at any time. The wheeled base is about 8" wide x 3" high x 5" deep, and you can remove the arm (which can stretch as far as 11") for compact storage.

My favorite feature of the Dolly is how you can adjust the angle of the wheels fore and aft for making arcing pans. The bolt that holds the front and rear axles to the frame has thumb screws at either end, and there are angled marks painted on the body so that you can precisely adjust how tight a turn the Dolly makes.

I'm also impressed with the adjustable arm, which is made of seven interlocking pieces that flex under pressure, but stay put when you don't want them to move. The spring-loaded mount on the end of the arm can grab onto an iPhone in just about any case out there. That means if you want to toss your phone into a LifeProof or driSuit case, you could theoretically use it with the Dolly in the rain or do a rolling shot into the waves at a beach. Of course, if your video camera or iPhone case has a built-in threaded tripod mount, you can remove the spring-loaded mount and just screw the camera onto the end of the arm.

Functionality

The Dolly really works quite well, both to shoot straight track shots or interesting curved dolly shots of a subject. The adjustability of the arm makes it very easy to frame your subject in the iPhone's fixed-focus video image, and the mount holds onto just about any iPhone case or "naked" iPhone equally well.

The choice of material for the wheels was a good one -- even on hard surfaces, you cannot hear any wheel noise, and they seem to dampen vibration on some surfaces as well. About the only thing I'd like to see added to the Dolly is a motor drive that would move the mount at a pre-defined speed so that you don't have to nudge it along with a hand. Of course, that would add significantly to the price of the product.

Conclusion

For taking panning or track shots with your iPhone or iPod touch, the iStabilizer Dolly is the perfect product. Results don't lie -- using this accessory can take a boring video shot of a subject and give it life and movement. The Dolly should be in the equipment bag of anyone who loves to shoot video with their iPhone.

Pros

Extremely well-constructed and designed
Adjustable to a variety of positions for different types of panning or tracking video shots
Reasonable priced for a videography product
Compact and lightweight for easy portability

Cons

No assembly or user manual in box, although it's fairly easy to figure out how to put the Dolly together

Who is it for?

Pro or amateur videographers who want to add a touch of class to their iPhone videography, creative professionals looking for a new way to shoot product videos.

Giveaway

We love to give away review items here at TUAW, and one lucky TUAW reader is going to walk away with an iStabilizer Dolly. Here are the rules for the giveaway:

Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
To enter, fill out the form below completely and click or tap the Submit button.
The entry must be made before August 2, 2012 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time.
You may enter only once.
One winner will be selected and will receive an iStabilizer Dolly valued at US$59.95
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Hello, Dolly! Meet iStabilizer's new iPhone moviemaking accessory originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Deadly 2011 E. coli Strain Decoded

The secret to the deadly 2011 E. coli outbreak in Germany has been decoded, thanks to research conducted at Michigan State University. The deadliest E. coli outbreak ever, which caused 54 deaths and sickened more than 3,800 people, was traced to a particularly virulent strain that researchers had never seen in an outbreak before. In the current issue of the academic journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers led by Shannon Manning, MSU molecular biologist and epidemiologist, suggests a way to potentially tame the killer bacteria. The strain, E...

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Just in time for the Olympics, Time Out releases Time Out London for iPad

Time Out has just released Time Out London for iPad. The app offers users a curated mix of suggestions for things to see and do in the host city of the 2012 Olympics. Time Out London for iPad has a Flipboard-esque look and feel to it. On the app's home screen you're presented with multiple tiles, each one representing a venue, restaurant, museum or other attraction. Tap the tile to get the local's detailed information, like opening times, rating, address, and transport routes.

This isn't Time Out's first London app. They've offered two others for quite a while now: Things to Do: London and London: Travel Guide. This is, however, Time Out's first London iPad app. Besides being native to the iPad, the app is also built for the Retina display. Another nice feature is that the more you use it, the "smarter" the app gets by showing you venues more suited to your preferences. My only issue with the app is that, for now, it only works in landscape orientation. Hopefully Time Out will add portrait orientation in a future update.

Note that Time Out London for iPad isn't only for the Olympics. The app will continue to be useful and supported long after the Games have ended, so it'll always be a good choice for those coming to London.

Time Out London for iPad is a free download.

Just in time for the Olympics, Time Out releases Time Out London for iPad originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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James Eagan Holmes Charged With Murder, Attempted Murder From Colo. Rampage

Colorado prosecutors filed 24 counts of murder charges Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others at an Aurora movie theater.

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Network-related crashes in Mountain Lion pinned on proxy settings

Mountain Lion may have a bug that's affecting users who have the Auto Proxy Discovery and Automatic Proxy Configuration networking features turned on, says Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater.

According to Jalkut, apps, like his own MarsEdit, throw an error involving the CoreSchedulingSet or EmptyCoreSchedulingSet C++ objects when trying to connect to some network resources.

Working with the folks from Agile Bits, Jalkut traced the problem to the Auto Proxy Discovery and Automatic Proxy Configuration settings in the Network preference pane. Under most circumstances, these options would not be turned on; the exception is in large institutional or corporate networks where specifically required by the network configuration.

If these options are selected in the Network settings, then you may experience this crashing problem with apps that rely on Apple's networking libraries. These apps include, but are not limited to, MarsEdit, Tweetbot and Safari.

Jalkut recommends that Mountain Lion users turn off the Auto Proxy Discovery and Automatic Proxy Configuration features until Apple issues a fix. You can read more about the networking issue and instructions on how to fix the problem on Jalkut's Red Sweater blog.

Network-related crashes in Mountain Lion pinned on proxy settings originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Treatment Strategies For Brain Tumors Likely Following Genome Analysis

Brain tumors are the primary cause of cancer mortality in children. Even if a cure is possible, young patients often suffer from the stressful treatment which can be harmful to the developing brain. The most common childhood brain tumors are medulloblastoma and pylocytic astrocytoma. In order to find new target structures for more gentle treatment methods, cancer researchers are systematically analyzing all changes in the genetic material of such tumors...

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Anakinra Offers Hope For Stroke Patients

Scientists led by the President of The University of Manchester have demonstrated a drug which can dramatically limit the amount of brain damage in stroke patients. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Professor Stuart Allan and their team have spent the last 20 years investigating how to reduce damage to the brain following a stroke. They have been testing the effectiveness of the drug Anakinra (IL-1Ra), which is already used for rheumatoid arthritis in experimental studies of stroke...

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If He Weren?t A Soccer Player, Mario Balotelli Would Be A UFC Fighter (Video)

If Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli weren’t a world class footballer, what would he be? Many probably believe he would make a great underwear model, while others would be inclined to believe that he would be perfectly suitable for a job as an ambassador for fireworks safety. As for Balotelli himself, he seems to believe [...]

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USA vs. Korea Women's Olympic Soccer: 6 Key Battles to Watch

The United States Women's National Team has already earned enough points to advance, but getting a point against North Korea is still very important.

A draw or win will clinch the group for the Americans and allow them to avoid the winner of Group F, likely Japan.

North Korea started the Olympics off on the right foot with a 2-0 victory over Colombia. However, the wheels fell off against France.

North Korea played well for the first 45 minutes. Only relenting once right before half. The second half was a different story, as France put in four goals to win the match 5-0.

Head coach Pia Sundhage was in attendance scouting the Koreans. There was plenty to take away from it. Here are six matchups to watch.

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Non-Invasive MEG-MRI Device Offers Unprecedented Accuracy In Locating Brain Electrical Activity

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed the world's first device designed for mapping the human brain that combines whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. MEG measures the electrical function and MRI visualizes the structure of the brain. The merging of these two technologies will produce unprecedented accuracy in locating brain electrical activity non-invasively. We expect that the new technology will improve the accuracy of brain mapping of patients with epilepsy...

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Continue reading You're the Pundit: Identify the Icons

You're the Pundit: Identify the Icons

When it comes to evaluating the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is the iPhone prototype icons.

We were having a look through the prototype gallery over on our sister site Engadget, and a shot of some early icons caught our eye. Some icons seem to have persisted almost unchanged to modern iOS (Safari, Weather, Stocks), others underwent major redesign (Phone and Mail).

Looking back at these prototypes, do you think Apple was really going to give us a 4-by-4 puzzle game (shades of OS 9!) and what was up with some of those icons like the lightning bolt, the yellow bar, and the airplane? The blue icon on the bottom bar was the contacts app, right?

If anything, it's surprising how close, at least in terms of general functionality, this icon set was to the final version: from SMS to Mail, Photos to iTunes. And that doesn't even mention the dock at the bottom.

What do you think of these early icon designs, and what are your thoughts about how their design has evolved in the last 5 years? You tell us. Join in the comments with all your analysis.

You're the Pundit: Identify the Icons originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Judge Increases Bond For Terry Rawls

Bond was increased Friday morning for Terry Rawls, the man accused of beating Matthew Owens on Delmar Drive in Mobile.

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Samsung ChatON for Android gets Olympic Buddy feature, also sports a new logo

Ever since its debut late last year, Samsung's ChatON application has been a moderate hit amongst folks using iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android devices. Now, along with outing a slightly redesigned logo (pictured above), the Korean outfit's also updated its app in Google's sweet OS to version 1.9.5 on handsets, or 1.7.3 if you're handling one of those larger slabs. Most notably, the ChatON refresh brings the London 2012 spirit with a timely "Olympic Buddy" feature, which keeps you in the loop by pushing out breaking news, daily schedules and, of course, medal tables. Additionally, there's now a walkie-talkie service within the phone application, while the tablet variant gained the ability to send documents to your friends -- not to mention it finally lets you use fancy emoticons. Feeling pretty antsy to give it a try? That Google Play link below will take you there.

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Samsung ChatON for Android gets Olympic Buddy feature, also sports a new logo originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We Visit with Jaguar, Get More Details on C-X75 Supercar

When it was revealed at the 2010 Paris auto show, the Jaguar C-X75 concept was heralded by the company as a revolutionary jet-powered supercar because of its two micro gas-turbine engines that were supposed to generate the electricity for its four electric motors. The Paris car was no more than a mock-up, though, a concept [...]

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Toyota Dropping Base 4.6-Liter V8 from 2013 Sequoia Lineup; 5.7-Liter V8 Remains

Toyota revealed to us that it is paring the 2013 Sequoia?s engine options from two to one by eliminating the SUV?s base 310-hp, 4.6-liter V-8. The move leaves the previously optional 381-hp, 5.7-liter V-8 as the 2013 Sequoia?s sole engine choice, which is fine by us. In our most recent test of a 5.7-liter-equipped, four-wheel-drive [...]

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Continue reading The Queue: Ubers and lowbers

The Queue: Ubers and lowbers

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Important question: If you played back in vanilla WoW, how did you pronounce "UBRS" and "LBRS" when you had to say them out loud?

joshjones1087 asked:

Im on the east coast. I want to have the game as soon as possible.. Do i have to wait until Midnight Pacific time to start the digital download? That puts me 3 hours behind if so, and would put me in Gamestop at Midnight instead of my comfy computer chair screaming at my mom for more hotpockets.

If MoP is like every other expansion and Blizzard game, you'll have the game downloaded long before it launches. Most of the content will already be on your computer with 5.0.4, the pre-expansion patch -- a small patch on launch day, and you'll be good to go.

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The Queue: Ubers and lowbers originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Continue reading Path gets new sharing features, better camera

Source: http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/27/the-queue-ubers-and-lowbers/

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Path gets new sharing features, better camera

Users of social networking app Path have a few new features this morning that should make them very happy. The free app, which allows sharing only to a few (150) good friends, is quite popular as it serves as a gateway to posting on other services such as Twitter and Foursquare.

To start with, users are now able to share movies they're watching and books they're reading. A tap on the "music" button now shows movies and books as well, with popular current films listed and shareable with a tap. It's the same with books -- bestsellers and popular titles are listed so you can tell your friends that you're finally catching up and reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".

Taking photos with Path has gotten better. The camera is now changed and takes square images and videos in portrait orientation. Four new tools are available for photo editing: Glo, Depth, Zoom, and Crop. Glo is used to "fix and enhance details in dark or bright photos." Photos and videos are displayed larger, photos can be snapped with a tap of the volume button, and video now has its own red button for one-tap recording.

It's now easier to invite your real friends to Path with a personal note or recorded audio message, and it's possible to "nudge" your friends to send photos and make check-ins. The update just makes a great social networking app better.

Path gets new sharing features, better camera originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sylvia Woods Lived A Full Life, Lloyd Morgan Never Had The Chance

Sometimes, I just don’t know what to say. After helping to organize the funeral for entrepreneur and pioneer Sylvia Woods ? the founder of Harlem’s…

Nerve Damage And Locally Produced Proteins

Several years ago, Prof. Michael Fainzilber and his group in the Biological Chemistry Department made a surprising discovery: Proteins thought to exist only near the cell nucleus could also be found in the far-off regions of the body's longest cells - peripheral nerve cells that extend processes called axons, reaching up to a meter in length in adult humans. These proteins, known as importins, have a well-studied role in the vicinity of the nucleus: They shuttle various molecules through the protective nuclear membrane...

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Report: NHTSA head Strickland defends Toyota unintended acceleration probe

Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Toyota

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator David Strickland has released a letter defending the agency's handling of investigations into claims of unintended acceleration by Toyota owners. Republican Senator Charles Grassley has said questions remain about what caused unintended acceleration instances in the Japanese manufacturer's vehicles, specifically whether or not the trouble was caused by electronic glitches. Grassley specifically questioned whether NHTSA had the experience necessary to diagnose the defect. The senator also wondered why NHTSA investigators called in NASA scientists for assistance during the investigation.

Strickland, meanwhile, has responded by saying NHTSA did, in fact, have the requisite experience and that NASA was called upon for a second opinion. The administrator underscored the fact that neither NHTSA nor NASA could find an electronic reason for the claims of unintended acceleration. As you may recall, the government agency concluded in early 2011 that faulty gas pedals and floor mats were to blame for the runaway syndrome.

According to The Washington Post, Grassley's letter stemmed from tips from whistleblowers who claim the runaway vehicles were actually caused by errant strands of solder within the pedal assembly itself. Those strands could reportedly cause shorts within the system.

Strickland responded by saying NHTSA investigated the solder issue, otherwise known as "tin whiskers," and found the issue to cause no more than a jumpy throttle, a stance Toyota agrees with.

NHTSA head Strickland defends Toyota unintended acceleration probe originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remote camera mounts replace AFP photographers at Olympic Games

Remember those robotic camera rigs Reuters cooked up for the Olympic games? They won't be alone -- the AFP have lined the games with their own remote mounts. Traditionally, aerial shots are captured by brave, well harnessed photographers -- but the AFP's acrobatic photojournalists have been grounded by the powers that be. "The Olympics Committee has warned us that, for security reasons, no photographer will be allowed on the stadium roof," stated the AFP's chief editor of technical issues, Francois-Xavier Marit. "We had to come up with a system of remote-controlled photography." Marit worked with Nikon and Mark Roberts Motion Control to build a dozen rigs to pepper throughout Olympic facilities. It's not Marit's first time kitting out the games either -- he's been using remote camera rigs to snap underwater Olympians since 2004. Each mount is equipped with a Nikon D4 and 16 to 400mm zooms, ten will be mounted in the main Olympic stadium with an additional two covering the swimming complex. Worried you won't be able to see the hardware from the bleachers? Mosey on past the break for a quick preview.

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Remote camera mounts replace AFP photographers at Olympic Games originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Earth for iOS updated with tour guides and 3D flights

Check your iPhone or iPad for an update to the Google Earth app today. Version 7.0 of the free, universal app features tour guides of historic landmarks, as well as 3D flyovers of selected cities.

The flyovers beat Apple to the punch because a similar feature is going to appear in Apple's Maps app this fall as a part of iOS6.

Cities included in this update include Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Geneva and Rome. More cities will be added in the near future. The 3D flyover feature requires an iPhone 4S or an iPad 2 or later.

While testing the rendering, I found the calculations required for 3D quite fast on my iPhone 4S and my new iPad. Rotations and changes in angle and elevation were smooth.

In contrast, rotating around buildings in the beta version of Apple Maps on iOS 6 was not quite as smooth, as the app would render some buildings as a wire mesh and then quickly fill in the detail when the movement stopped. Of course we're comparing the Apple beta to the Google release, and I would expect performance enhancements when the Apple app is released later this year.

There's absolutely no reason to not download the Google Maps upgrade and enjoy the sophisticated eye candy and depth the app provides to an increasing list of cities.

The app requires iOS4.3 or later, and is a 22.3 MB download.

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Google Earth for iOS updated with tour guides and 3D flights originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot

Infographics. The stuff of high turnover websites and news channels, right? Well, yes, but now you can bring the same white space and pastel shades to your own internet footprint, courtesy of free infographic web app Vizify. It's still in its trial period for now, which means you'll have to wait for an entry code to tap into the breezy visualization generator, but we managed to plug in as many social networks as we could to see how it all works. The service is definitely centered around those that are very connected to the internet. Vizify will draw information from Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn and also connect through work-based websites you add yourself. It will then populate a clickable front page with circles including images, quotes and links to your profile elsewhere. The service, which is geared at recruitment, crafts a convenient short link to offer up on resumes or job emails. Edit options include a choice of color palettes, and the ability to tweak the layout of the information circles [seen above] and the larger pages that follow it, bringing either more career-centric (or interesting) content to the forefront. Sign up for an access code at the source to give it a try for yourself, or take a stalker-esque trip down an Engadget editor's social network tracks at the second link below.

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Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/27/vizify-offers-free-infographics-web-app/

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Mountain Lion 101: Mail VIPs

This Mountain Lion 101 feature is a quickie -- Apple's Mail app now has a new feature called VIPs that gives you one-click access to emails from those very important people in your life.

Emails from VIPs have a star next to the sender's name, and a mailbox for each VIP is added to the Favorites bar. With a click on the VIPs tag in the toolbar, a popup showing "All VIPs" and the names of individual VIPs is displayed.

You can have up to 100 VIPs identified, but in my opinion, if everybody's a VIP, then nobody's a VIP. I'm using the feature to highlight emails from my boss (Mrs. Sande) and my business partner (Erica Sadun).

To make that special someone in your life a VIP, you just move your pointer to the left of the sender's name in a message header. A star appears, and clicking the star makes the person a VIP. You can also click the person's name in a message, then select "Add to VIPs" from the pop-up menu that appears (below).

Mountain Lion 101 Mail VIPs

If that person becomes persona non grata in your life, removing them from the VIP list is quite simple. Just click the star again, or you can use the "Remove from VIPs" item that will appear in the pop-up menu seen above.

For VIPs that have several email addresses in your Contacts list, messages from any of those email addresses appear in their VIP mailbox. If you're using iCloud Contacts, your VIPs appear on any other Mountain Lion-equipped Mac that is signed into the same iCloud account.

To get a special notification in Notification Center when email arrives from my VIPs, I set up a rule in Mail Preferences:

Mountain Lion 101 Mail VIPs

You could also theoretically add a special sound to the notification with a rule, or kick off an AppleScript to Tweet you. I leave this as an exercise for the reader.

As I mentioned, this isn't an earthshaking addition to Mountain Lion, but it is a surprisingly useful feature that can help you pay more attention to email from special people. If it can help me take notice of one more "honey-do" from my wife and keep me out of the doghouse for at least one day, then the Mail VIP feature is worth the $19.99 Mountain Lion upgrade cost.

Mountain Lion 101: Mail VIPs originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gene ontology analysis of pairwise genetic associations in two genome-wide studies of sporadic ALS

Background:
It is increasingly clear that common human diseases have a complex genetic architecture characterized by both additive and nonadditive genetic effects. The goal of the present study was to determine whether patterns of both additive and nonadditive genetic associations aggregate in specific functional groups as defined by the Gene Ontology (GO).
Results:
We first estimated all pairwise additive and nonadditive genetic effects using the multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) method that makes few assumptions about the underlying genetic model. Statistical significance was evaluated using permutation testing in two genome-wide association studies of ALS. The detection data consisted of 276 subjects with ALS and 271 healthy controls while the replication data consisted of 221 subjects with ALS and 211 healthy controls. Both studies included genotypes from approximately 550,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each SNP was mapped to a gene if it was within 500kb of the start or end. Each SNP was assigned a p-value based on its strongest joint effect with the other SNPs. We then used the Exploratory Visual Analysis (EVA) method and software to assign a p-value to each gene based on the overabundance of significant SNPs at the alpha=0.05 level in the gene. We also used EVA to assign p-values to each GO group based on the overabundance of significant genes at the alpha=0.05 level. A GO category was determined to replicate if that category was significant at the alpha=0.05 level in both studies. We found two GO categories that replicated in both studies. The first, 'Regulation of Cellular Component Organization and Biogenesis', a GO Biological Process, had p-values of 0.010 and 0.014 in the detection and replication studies, respectively. The second, 'Actin Cytoskeleton', a GO Cellular Component, had p-values of 0.040 and 0.046 in the detection and replication studies, respectively.
Conclusions:
Pathway analysis of pairwise genetic associations in two GWAS of sporadic ALS revealed a set of genes involved in cellular component organization and actin cytoskeleton, more specifically, that were not reported by prior GWAS. However, prior biological studies have implicated actin cytoskeleton in ALS and other motor neuron diseases. This study supports the idea that pathway-level analysis of GWAS data may discover important associations not revealed using conventional one-SNP-at-a-time approaches.

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Audi Freshens Beautiful R8 Coupe and Spyder for 2013

Audi has revealed the refreshed 2013 R8 and the changes, though minor, nicely update what is one of our favorite sports cars. It may not be readily apparent, but the R8 recently celebrated its fifth birthday?its aggressive-yet-spare styling has aged well. To that end, Audi didn?t mess much with the mid-engine, all-wheel-drive R8?s basic cosmetic [...]

Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot

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Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Exodar and the fate of the draenei

Know Your Lore: The Exodar and the fate of the draenei

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

It spans the universe.

No city in Azeroth can do what the Exodar can. Repaired at last, the Exodar is no mere fortress but rather a satellite of the great Tempest Keep brought to Outland by the naaru. As a result, the Exodar possesses the power to bridge the gulf between worlds, traveling through the Twisting Nether. And after years spent crashed into Azuremyst Isle, the Exodar is fully operational.

But in her turn, the Exodar is more than a vessel. The means of escape for Velen and the draenei who survived the assault of the blood-maddened orc butchery that reduced them to hiding in Zangarmarsh, the Exodar carried them forth after it had been liberated from the blood elves who had invaded Tempest Keep proper. Sabotaged by those same blood elves, servants of Kael'thas Sunstrider, the Exodar's crash landing was yet another travail for the draenei to overcome. But on Azeroth, they found a refuge from the Burning Legion and the will to move forward as members of the Alliance.

It was to the Exodar that Prince Anduin Wrynn of Stormwind came to study the way of the Light under Velen, and in so doing, in time introduce the draenei way of viewing the Light to the Eastern Kingdoms. It was at the Exodar that Velen pledged that the draenei would not leave Azeroth to fend for itself but would stay and defend their new home.

The Exodar spans the universe, right from where it sits today.

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Know Your Lore: The Exodar and the fate of the draenei originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Source: http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/know-your-lore-the-exodar-and-the-fate-of-the-draenei/