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Friday, June 28, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Inductees to 2013 Internet Hall of Fame revealed, class includes 32 new members
Over the course of the past 12 months, the internet has witnessed negotiations between big-name sites, taken us inside the minds of social media innovators, and even given us a front row seat to what could be the biggest privacy-related story of the decade. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the Internet Society decided to debut its Internet Hall of Fame in April of last year, bringing on influential people like Vint Cerf and Al Gore as part of the first set of inductees. Now, it's time for the Class of 2013 to shine, one which ushers in 32 new members who will join the Father of the Internet and former US Vice President in the list of illustrious names "instrumental in the early design and development" of the web.
This year's individuals include the late Aaron Swartz under the Innovators category and more than 30 others spread across the Pioneer Circles and Global Connectors sections. President and CEO of Internet Society, Lynn St. Amour, tells us this is a way to celebrate the accomplishments of these visionaries, adding that she and her organization are always working with the utopian belief of everyone wanting to "participate fully in making the internet a platform that will continue to encourage innovation, communication, commerce, and social interaction for the benefit of people all around the world." The 2013 Hall of Fame ceremony's due to take place August 3rd in Berlin, Germany, but since we have the inductee list in the PR after the break, that means you won't have to wait until then to find out who made it in.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Real Estate Market 'Fundamentally Different,' Top Investor Says ...
By Paul ToscanoMarc Nemer, the CEO of Cole Real Estate Investments, one of the largest publicly traded REITs, said that a recovery is under way with fundamentals noticeably improving in the market.
"It's fundamentally different out there," Nemer told "Squawk on the Street" Friday, when asked how the market today compares with the period six months prior.
Nemer said that his company focuses on "necessity-based" properties, which are less subject to discretionary spending at the consumer level. "The kind of properties we're focused on are doing very well right now."
According to the company, Cole invests primarily in single-tenant commercial real estate, leasing the properties under long-term leases. Cole's portfolio of tenants includes such companies as Walgreen, Dr. Pepper Snapple, PetSmart, Microsoft, Apollo Group's University of Phoenix and more. In 2012, Cole's portfolio topped $10 billion.
"Development is coming back a little bit, which is an indication that things are improving, but that is slow," he said. "Being one of the most active investors, we are able to take advantage of opportunities in the market right now."
With a dividend yield of nearly 6.5 percent, Nemer said that the payouts are backed up by a strong portfolio of income-generating collateral. "It's very compelling right now," he said.
With markets that are sensitive to a looming rise in interest rates, Nemer said that his company is "relatively isolated from a fundamental standpoint" for the eventuality of higher rates. "We've been taking advantage of historically low interest rates for some time, locking in long-term fixed-rate debt."
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Source: Snapchat Snaps Up $80M From IVP At An $800M Valuation
It's the second day of summer, and Snapchat has raised an $80 million Series B round at an $800 million pre-money valuation, according to a source. The phat Series B round was led by Institutional Venture Partners,?according to multiple sources, after being sought after by many other top-tier Valley VCs.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Bu5jBlKBuVY/
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Older males make better fathers says new research on beetles
June 19, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Exeter found that older male burying beetles make better fathers than their younger counterparts.
The study found that mature males, who had little chance of reproducing again, invested more effort in both mating and in parental care than younger males.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London -- B, considered how the likelihood of paternity influenced the way that males cared for young. Older males were good fathers and looked after the young even when they were unsure whether the offspring were theirs. Younger males, who had a higher chance of reproducing again, tended to care less for offspring, particularly when they were uncertain of their paternity.
The survival and performance of the offspring remained the same regardless of the level of care provided by the males. This is because when the father stopped pulling his weight, the mother took up the slack and provided the additional care necessary to produce successful offspring.
Dr Megan Head from Biosciences at the University of Exeter said: "Our research shows that age has a direct impact on the level of parental care given by male burying beetles. If their chances of reproducing again were high, we found that males had to make a trade-off between the likelihood of paternity and the level of paternal care they would give. We found that younger males who were uncertain of their paternity were likely to make the worst fathers."
Male perception of paternity was manipulated in the study by allowing the odours of competitor males to linger in the mating chamber. Males mating in an environment filled with the odours of other males had lower assurance of paternity than males that mated with females in an environment that did not smell of other males.
Parental care was measured by the amount of time males spent with offspring. Burying beetles have surprisingly complex parental care, which is similar in form to that provided by birds, such as robins or blackbirds; offspring beg to be fed by touching parents, who respond by regurgitating partially digested food.
The results of the study support the hypothesis that in species with paternal care, fathers are expected to balance investment in future reproduction with care for current offspring to maximise their lifetime reproductive success. The results suggest females should prefer to mate with older males as they work harder and care less about infidelity.
This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
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Monday, June 17, 2013
DeepSquare Prints by Static Pixels review: Beautiful prints of your Instagram photos on eco-friendly recycled cardboard
In today's digitally driven world, it's easy to take hundreds, even thousands of photos a month to store on our devices and share through social networks, but many of us rarely get physical prints any more. Now you can bring custom prints back into your home and workspaces with DeepSquare Prints by Static Pixels. These eco-friendly photos are printed directly onto recycled cardboard and look amazing considering they don't use high-quality photo paper (that are also ridden with toxic chemicals). Being cardboard, DeepSquare prints are also eye-catching and resemble canvas standouts.
Static Pixels allows you to turn any photo into a DeepSquare print, but if you want to print a photo you have shared to Instagram, it's as simple as logging in and choosing your photo. This can be done on your computer or directly with your iPhone.
Each DeepSquare print comes with its own sticker wall mount and a kickstand, making it easy to use them to decorate any space.
As a photographer who values high-quality prints, I am always skeptical of the color-accuracy on photos printed anywhere other than a professional printer. I'm happy to report that the colors look quite good on DeepSquare prints. They are not perfect, but considering they are printed on cardboard, the photos look rather amazing. In fact, they look a lot better than what you'd get printing on photo paper at your local department store. There's a little bit of grain in each photo and I find this really ads to the recycled, earthy feel of the cardboard.
DeepSquare prints are available in three sizes: 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20 inches. 5"x5" prints come in a bundle of four for $25, a 10"x10" print is $20, and a large 20"x20" print is $89. At those prices, DeepSquare prints are a steal.
To order, head over to staticpixels.com on any device. If you do, let us know what you think!
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Major Nelson takes Xbox One questions, says banned users will 'absolutely not' lose games
E3 is over, but Microsoft still has a long way to go to answer questions from gamers about its new Xbox One console, particularly when it comes to the effects of DRM. Director of Programming of Xbox Live Larry Hryb aka Major Nelson takes on the most upvoted ones from posters in Reddit's games section in this video interview with Chloe Dykstra. One question that seems to have a clear answer is whether banned users will lose access to any games they've activated, as he stated "Absolutely not, you will always have access to the games you purchased." That goes against a previous response from the Xbox Support twitter account, although that may have been the result of confusion between the Xbox One and Xbox 360 policies. A question with no satisfying response yet however, is what gamers can expect years down the road if Xbox One's authentication servers are shut down. Major Nelson followed up with a response in the comment thread that "I'll get the real answer, I just don't know it yet."
Interestingly, the question he wished more people would have asked is about the "family package" and, we assume game sharing with a single account, after previously bringing up its cloud library as one upside to the new DRM setup. Tracking back to the original debut's focus on the console's HDMI input and TV overlays he mentioned using snap mode to watch TV while gaming, or getting Xbox Live notifications and jumping "instantly" to a game while watching TV. A similar crowdsourced interview was planned with the PlayStation team, but cancelled. Major Nelson says he will address more questions leading up to launch and is planning an ask me anything session later, so keep your (many) inquiries at the ready.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
One Protein Shows Elephants and Moles Had Aquatic Ancestors
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One Protein Shows Elephants and Moles Had Aquatic AncestorsWhales, seals and manatees are so at home in the water that it?s easy to believe their recent ancestors were also aquatic. That conclusion is harder to sell for lumbering elephants, burrowing moles or bumbling spiny echidnas. And yet, new evidence from Scott Mirceta at the University of Liverpool suggests that all of these groups recently descended from ancestors that spent a lot of time in the water.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Lenovo rebranding storage products, demotes Iomega to entry-level gear
Remember when Cingular became AT&T, Federal Express became FedEx and RIM became BlackBerry? The next company that'll need to reprint its business cards is Iomega, which is seeing the bulk of its products rebranded as Lenovo EMC. The Iomega name will still exist, but only as the face for entry-level storage gear, while the StorCenter and EZ Media and Backup Center lines will now carry the livery of their corporate parent. Curious about the company's history before it became a marque? There's detailed PR after the break.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Music service, mobile software expected from Apple
NEW YORK (AP) ? Apple is expected to reveal a digital radio service and changes to the software behind iPhones and iPads on Monday as the company opens its annual conference for software developers.
Apple hasn't said what it will unveil at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. But the major announcements are expected during Monday's keynote presentation. Last year, Apple used the conference to announce its own mapping service, better integration with social networks and improvements to virtual assistant Siri. It also announced thinner MacBooks with high-resolution screens. The conference runs through Friday.
This year, Apple is expected to show off a simplified look on iPhones and iPads. If the speculation is correct, it would be the most radical design change since the iPhone made its debut in 2007, showing consumers that phones could do much more than make calls and exchange messages.
This week's event comes at an important time for Apple. The company's stock price has fallen amid concerns that another breakthrough product isn't imminent. Although CEO Tim Cook has said people shouldn't expect new products until the fall, Apple is likely to preview how future products will function in its unveiling of new services and features.
Monday's highlight is expected to be an updated version of iOS, the software that runs iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. It will be called iOS 7 and will come with new devices expected to go on sale this fall. Owners of recent models such as last fall's iPhone 5 will likely be eligible for free upgrades.
Icons in iOS now have a three-dimensional look that tries to mimic the real-world counterparts of certain apps. For instance, the icon for the Notes app looks like a yellow notepad and the Contacts app is represented by a leather-bound address book. The speculation is that Apple will do away with that theme in iOS 7. Instead, icons will look plain and simple, offering more consistency from app to app. The new design is likely to favor black and white elements rather than splashes of color.
While design modifications could help Apple distinguish its devices from rival phones and tablets, they risk alienating longtime users.
Microsoft's radical makeover of the Windows operating system in October was meant to give the company a stronger presence on tablet computers, but it ended up confusing many people who had become accustomed to using the old operating system on traditional desktops and laptops. IDC blamed Windows 8 for accelerating a decline in PC sales.
Apple riled users of its gadgets last fall when it kicked out a beloved app using Google's mapping service and replaced it with its own Maps app. Travelers complained of misplaced landmarks, overlooked towns and other problems. What was supposed to be a triumph for Apple served to underscore Google's strength in maps. Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a rare public apology and promised improvements.
Apple may use iOS 7 as an opportunity to update its Maps app. Other features in iOS 7 may include new ways to do things through gesture commands.
Apple is also expected to debut a streaming music service dubbed iRadio.
Apple is a pioneer in digital music sales. The debut of its iTunes music store in 2003 gave people an easy, legal way to obtain music for their iPods. Apple persuaded the major recording companies to join its efforts as a way to thwart online piracy. What started with a catalog of about 200,000 songs has grown to tens of millions today. The iTunes store is now the leading U.S. retailer of music.
With iTunes, people buy songs or albums to download to computers, phones and tablets. But streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify have emerged as popular alternatives for listening to music. Pandora relies on its users being connected to the Internet at all times and plays songs at random within certain genres for free. The service is supported by advertising. It is the most similar service to the one Apple is expected to announce Monday The difference is that Apple is expected to feature a seamless way for listeners to purchase songs through iTunes.
The announcement could further cement Apple as a leader in digital music and cut into Pandora's status as the most-listened-to Internet radio service.
But Apple faces a new type of competition that it didn't have when it debuted iTunes. Rival Google Inc. started an on-demand subscription music service called All Access last month. The service joins Spotify, Rhapsody and others that give subscribers the ability to pick and choose specific songs and albums from a catalog of millions for playback on computers, tablets and smartphones. Such services allow songs to be saved on mobile devices for playback outside of Internet connectivity as long as the user keeps paying a monthly fee ? usually $10 a month in the U.S.
Apple Inc. faces more competition on phones, too. Phones running Google Inc.'s Android system have surpassed iPhones in sales. In addition, new phones running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 8 system and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry 10 have started going on sale in recent months.
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AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
This Trash-Sorting Robot Could Revolutionize Recycling
We?ve seen a lot of frivolous applications for robotic arms: Artisanal cocktail making. Slow pit stops
You see, a big problem with recycling?and in particular, recycling at construction sites, which generate a whole third of the world?s waste?is that it needs to be sorted by material type. Right now, it?s the domain of human sorters. And at construction sites, that gets dangerous fast?either because of the weight, material, or toxicity of the stuff being handled.
ZenRobotics, which is based in Helsinki and raised $16 million in funding last year, has developed a robotic arm called the Recycler, which uses a process called sensor fusion to determine between materials like stone, wood, and metal. Sensor fusion is exactly what it sounds like: a carefully calibrated recipe of sensors, including scales, visible spectrum cameras, near-infrared spectrometers and haptic sensors, that determine whether a chunk of material belongs where. It seems like a simple task, but at massive demolition or construction sites, it could change everything. CNN explains:
Worldwide, the construction and demolition sector is thought to contribute over one third of all waste. The U.S. alone contributes a staggering 325 million tons of waste every year, and the UK produces another 120 million tons... ZenRobotics founder Jufo Peltomaa notes that the problem is equally severe across the EU: "In the EU alone there's 900 million tons of construction and demolition waste. If you were to convert that to the average sized car, the queue would go 45 times around the globe."
This spring, ZenRobotics is installing Recyclers at several recycling sites in Finland, and any interested parties can buy the machines online. It's unclear whether sites outside of Europe have shown interest in the system, though. And anyways, if Broad Sustainable Chairman Zhang Yue has his way, eventually constructing a building won't generate any waste at all. In the meantime, check out ZenRobotics' ridiculous company trailer below?you won't be disappointed. [CNN]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-trash-sorting-robot-could-revolutionize-recycling-511989613
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Obama: Spying a ?modest? invasion
President Barack Obama on Friday defiantly defended the government's newly revealed telephone and Internet spying programs on grounds that Americans must tolerate what he dismissed as "modest encroachments on privacy" in the name of security.
With evident impatience, Obama suggested at one point that he set limits on what the National Security Agency (NSA) can grab without a judge's OK because he himself might one day be the target of such snooping.
"I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs," Obama said at an event in San Jose, CA, initially designed to trumpet Obamacare but subverted by the dramatic disclosures. "My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards."
But, the president said, "My assessment, and my team?s assessment, was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. And the modest encorachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers, or duration [of calls] without a name attached, and without looking at content, that on net it was worth us doing."
His remarks came amid an uproar over a series of news media reports contending the NSA has been scooping up -- with the blessing of a secret court order -- the telephone records of millions of Americans. Other news outlets have reported that the agency, arguably the world's largest electronic spying operation, has also been sucking up personal data from major Internet companies. (Yahoo, parent company of Yahoo News, is listed among those firms).
Obama underlined that "nobody is listening to your phone calls" in the broad NSA phone sweep, and that doing so would require a federal judge to sign off. As for the Internet surveillance, he said, it "does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States."
But "there are some trade-offs," Obama said. "You can?t have 100% security, and also then have 100% privacy, and zero inconvenience. We?re going to have to make some choices as a society."
The surveillance programs have helped the government "anticipate and prevent possible terrorist activity," he said. "On balance, we have established a process and a procedure that the American people should feel comfortable about."
Obama said Congress had been fully briefed on the various secret programs, and suggested that lawmakers who objected to those initiatives or to "abuses" could have done so. But lawmakers critical of such programs have repeatedly made clear that they are hamstrung by the Administration's decision to classify information -- making a full, public debate involving the American public impossible.
The president dismissed the "hype" that portrays such programs as s stepping stone towards a tyrannical "Big Brother"-like government. He also denounced the leaks that fed the news reports, saying the nation's secrets cannot be "dumped out willy-nilly" without damaging national security.
The Obama Administration, while portraying government whistleblowers and an independent media as pivotal to a healthy democracy, has prosecuted more leakers than all other administrations combined. And the past few weeks have brought disclosures of Justice Department surveillance of reporters and even one instance of a journalist accused in a government document of acting like a spy for doing his job.
"That?s not to suggest that you just say ?trust me, we?re doing the right thing, we know who the bad guys are,'" Obama insisted.
"With respect to my concerns about privacy issues: I will leave this office at some point -- sometime in the next three and a half years -- and after that I'll be a private citizen," he said. "And I suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted so that somebody could read their emails or listen to their phone calls, I?d probably be pretty high on that list. So it's not as though I don't have a a personal interest in making sure my privacy is protected."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-spying-programs-only-modest-invasion-privacy-170140961.html
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Institutional racism takes hold in New York City
>>> new york city council members , former police officer , and michael eric dyson . michael, you were just telling a story, which is a story i think almost every black man has, everyone that i've ever talked to.
>> i'm 54 years old, detroit, michigan, police in an unmarked car, stopped me and my brother and friend, said we have stolen our car. i was going to pull out my registration. the policeman called me the "n fts word, knocked me on the ground, hit my friend on the ground, ran the registration, saw it was my car, got in their car, drove off, no apology. this was the problem --
>> what year was that?
>> this was 1978 . progress has been made, but malcolm x said you don't put a knife in my back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress. black people want the cops to come, but want them to make suitable distinctions between criminals and those not the criminals. we don't make those decisions.
>> when you say progress --
>> the word progress -- i like the way chris rock said it, and he said, people just stop acting as crazy. when you say progress, sometimes you're acknowledging the crazy behavior that happened.
>> here's my question, if there is progress made institutionally, if this is a question of how do we get policing not to do profiling, that's the question. there's a whole lot of big questions about race and the criminal justice system , but if we have made some progress on that, what has made that progress happen and how do we keep it going?
>> progress was what judge wilkens did, until the mid '90s, profiling was openly and officially practiced. that has changed.
>> wait, explain that change.
>> particularly in maryland and new jersey is where the lawsuits came out, but the cops had a bad profile based on dea agents who asked cops who they found drugs on and the cops said we found drugs on young black men.
>> let me say this, you have kelly saying this, he's saying we're underprofiling, if you looked at more white people , you'd find more white crime.
>> that's my point.
>> they are not looking at white people . you said on your show last night the drugs were being done by white people .
>> gun violence . and i want to make sure -- that's a very big thing in my community, it is gun violence . the problem is, what do we do to get to that, and to this date, and throughout our history, overreliance on enforcement and locking up as many black and latino men has been what we tried to do. it's weakened. nypd, which is the law enforcement , came out and responded. that should be one community partner. where are the other agencies, where is the partner of mental health , youth development , employment agencies , where are all the other agencies? we have to have change in the discussion about what public safety is.
>> we want all of that, plus at the same time people are being stopped. if there were white kids being stopped, we wouldn't have it. we know already it's not about logic or reason. it's about investment and identification.
>> we also know --
>> white stops than the black stops.
>> we don't know that whites and blacks use drugs at the same amount.
>> self reporting of white people is they do a lot more drugs.
>> more income, you got more drugs.
>> the point is, when you only search one group, that's where you find it.
>> this is an important point. this is a really important point about the root of this, right, if you search one group, that's the group that we should profile, then, of course --
>> once it comes out of washington, suddenly cops feel justified. look, it came out of the dea.
>> in new york city , they kept changing the goal of increasing the stops, right? first to get more guns off the streets, less guns, then up until last year, shootings have stayed relatively the same. then they said it was to get murders down, which has decreased, and we're happy about that. but if the same people are getting shot --
>> then the argument becomes, this is working. i've heard this argument from mayor bloomberg .
>> look at the precincts, there's no correlation.
>> not only that, you're monotizing the pathology. what you're doing is saying we're going to give more money by stopping this stuff, then you monotize pathological behavior as opposed to fixing it structurally.
>> new york city council member, former baltimore police officer , and eric dyson, msnbc political analyst. that's "a in ". "the rachel maddow show" starts now.
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Three-billion-year-old microfossils include plankton
June 6, 2013 ? Spindle-shaped inclusions in three-billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, according to an international team of researchers.
"It is surprising to have large, potentially complex fossils that far back," said Christopher H. House, professor of geosciences, Penn State, and lead author.
However, the researchers not only showed that these inclusions in the rocks were biological in origin, but also that they were likely planktonic autotrophs -- free-floating, tiny ocean organisms that produce energy from their environment.
The researchers looked at marine sediment rocks from the Farrel Quartzite in Western Australia. Isotopic analysis using secondary ion mass spectrometry was carried out at UCLA. "Ken (Kenichiro Sugitani, professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan, and a co-author) discovered these unusually shaped microfossils embedded in really old rock," said House.
To determine if these inclusions were actually biological in origin, the researchers looked at 15 different samples of Farrel Quartzite and determined their stable carbon isotope ratios. The percentage of carbon 13 in the microfossils was indicative of material produced by biological processes. They found that the carbon 13 percentage in the background organic matter in the surrounding rock was different from that of the microstructures.
"When considered along with published morphological and chemical studies, these results indicate that the Farrel Quartzite microstructures are bona fide microfossils, and support the interpretation that the spindles were planktonic," the researchers report in the current issue of Geology. The morphological and chemical studies were done by Sugitani and Dorothy Oehler, who is also a co-author and research scientist, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate, NASA -- Johnson Space Center.
The spindle-shaped microfossils are from 20 to 60 microns in length, about the size of fine sand and within the size range of today's microplankton.
Stable carbon isotope analysis can determine the biological origin of these microfossils because they used carbon dioxide to create energy and incorporated the carbon into themselves. During this process, the organisms selectively incorporate more carbon 12 than carbon 13 from the available carbon, producing a signature of biological origin.
Oehler notes that the spindles appear to be the same as those found in rocks from the Strelly Pool Formation in Western Australia and the Onverwacht Group in South Africa and Swaziland that are both 3.4 billion years old.
"The existence of these microfossils in diverse locations as far back as 3.4 billion years ago suggests that the oceans probably had life in them for a very extended period of time," said Oehler. "Moreover, this has implications beyond what we have done here, suggesting the evolution of diverse life proceeded quickly."
Also working on this project was Koichi Mimura, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan.
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Dell trimmed CEO's pay by 14 percent amid PC slump
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) ? Dell Inc. trimmed CEO Michael Dell's pay by 14 percent to $13.9 million last year amid a slump that culminated in a proposed $24.4 billion deal that could end the personal computer maker's 25-year history as a publicly traded company.
Most of Michael Dell's compensation last year consisted of stock awards designed to give him a greater incentive to boost the Round Rock, Texas, company's market value.
Michael Dell's stock awards were valued at $11.6 million last year while his salary remained unchanged at $950,000, according to a company filing with securities regulators Monday. He also received perks and other benefits worth $19,122.
The company paid an aircraft leasing agency $2 million for Michael Dell's travel last year, but the amount wasn't included in his total compensation package. The bill was lower than the $2.3 million that the company paid an aircraft leasing agency for Michael Dell's travel in the previous year.
The Associated Press calculates an executive's total compensation by adding salary, bonuses, perks, above-market interest that the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year. The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits.
Dell's stock price has dropped sharply since Michael Dell returned for a second stint as CEO six years ago. That downturn enabled Michael Dell and a group of investors to negotiate an agreement to buy the company for $13.65 per share ? more than 40 percent below where the stock stood upon Michael Dell's return as CEO.
Two of Dell's largest shareholders, billionaire Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, are trying to scuttle the sale to Michael Dell and his backers because they believe the price undervalues the company. Dell's board is recommending company shareholders approve the sale to the Michael Dell-led group in a meeting scheduled for July 18.
If the deal goes through, Dell will become a privately held company that no longer has to reveal how much it pays Michael Dell or other top executives.
The compensation disclosed Monday covers Dell's fiscal year ending Feb. 1 ? four days before the company announced its deal with Michael Dell.
Dell's earnings dropped by 32 percent last year to $2.4 billion while revenue fell by 8 percent to $56.9 billion. Those declines are a primary reason that the company trimmed Michael Dell's performance-based cash bonus to $1.3 million last year from $3.3 million in the previous year.
The company's financial performance deteriorated largely because more technology spending is going toward smartphones and tablet computers instead of the laptop and desktop machines that Dell makes.
Michael Dell believes he can engineer a turnaround by expanding into more profitable segments in business software, data storage, and security ? a transformation that he thinks will be easier to pull off if he doesn't have to cater to Wall Street's short-term demands for higher profits from one quarter to the next.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
EBay to open 'shoppable windows' in New York
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc is launching virtual stores called "shoppable windows" this month that the e-commerce company hopes will help retailers generate more sales from their existing physical store networks.
The first four of these screens will open from June 8 through July 7 in busy parts of New York City, such as the lower east side and Soho. They will sell 30 items from Kate Spade Saturday, a new fashion brand launched this year by apparel retailer Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc.
EBay set up a window display in New York City in late 2011, but those storefronts did not let shoppers order products on the screen.
The new screens measure about 9 feet across and 2 feet (0.6 meter) high and will appear on the front windows of closed stores. Shoppers will be able to touch the screens to order and have products delivered to them within an hour via courier. Payment will be accepted by the couriers through PayPal Here, a mobile payment service developed by eBay.
This is the latest effort by eBay to work more closely with large retailers that are looking to reach more online and mobile shoppers. The company has attracted some large retailers, such as Target Corp, to its online marketplace, while developing mobile shopping technology for other retailers such as Macy's Inc.
EBay's "shoppable windows" are an extension of the shift to mobile shopping, according to Steve Yankovich, head of the company's Innovation and New Ventures group, which developed the technology.
"This extends the boundary of the store. Suddenly the physical store, by virtue of online technology, extends to any space that's interesting to use," Yankovich said.
For Fifth & Pacific, the windows will help launch its new Kate Spade Saturday brand without opening new physical stores, at least initially, according to Chief Executive William McComb.
However, the company also plans to use the technology in existing stores of its other brands, such as Juicy Couture and Kate Spade New York, he added.
"This gives us the ability to produce more from our retail space," McComb said. "My nickname for it is the Wall as a Mall."
McComb said he is considering putting shoppable windows in small Juicy Couture stores that will offer about 200 different shoes to buy.
The company may also use the windows in Kate Spade New York stores to sell home furnishings, bedding, linens and towels.
"We would never be able to fit all those products in a store in the traditional way," McComb said. "These things would typically require an extra 10,000 square feet of store space. But through partnerships like this eBay one we could do this through stores that are 2,000 square feet."
(Reporting by Alistair Barr; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ebay-open-shoppable-windows-york-101127500.html
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11 Spectacular 3D Printer Failures
Just because you have a 3D printer doesn't mean you're going to make anything remarkable. It doesn't even mean you're going to wind up with what you set out to produce. Believe it or not, 3D printing requires some skill. And when you don't have it, things go delightfully askew.
While there are plenty of possibilities with a 3D printer, there's also just about as much room for human error. You can't let the printer get too hot. But it must be hot enough! And you don't want it to work too quickly. But it has to work quickly enough! You're going to mess up. But you're not alone. Here are some of great examples of some pretty egregious 3D printing failures:
Whistles that can't even whistle should be called something else.
Image credit: Flickr
Apparently, this was supposed to be some type of animal.
Image credit: Pinterest
A failed attempt at a Celtic skull, via an entire Flickr group dedicated to 3D printer failures.
Image credit: Flickr
This ruined car comes from Beautiful Failures, a book that presents 3D printer screw-ups as art.
Image credit: Cunicode
This botched bust is supposed to be Walt Disney. Squint hard, and maybe you can kind of see it. (You can't).
Image credit: Flickr
What's this supposed to be? Trojan Horse. The answer we were looking for is Trojan Horse.
Image credit: FailThing
Definitely don't try to use this 3D-printed glass as a glass if you have any desire to use it for drinking.
Image credit: FailThing
This would-be owl is missing his head. And most of his body.
Image credit: FailThing
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and 3D-printed Windsor Chairs.
Image credit: CNET
Here you see the makings of a starfish. Unfortunately, the machine ran out of material.
Image credit: RichRap
Bonus round: This iPhone shoe abomination isn't technically a failure, we're going to include it as a reminder of what NOT to do with a 3D printer. Because seriously, what the hell?
Image credit: BetaBeat
Have any favorite 3D-printing fails of your own? Share 'em below!
Source: http://gizmodo.com/11-spectacular-3d-printer-failures-511092085
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Turkish PM, president clash over reply to protests
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? As riot police used tear gas against protesters for a fourth straight day in Istanbul, Turkey's president and prime minister displayed wide differences Monday in their responses to those taking to the streets.
Turkey has seen violent demonstrations since Friday, when police launched a dawn raid against a peaceful sit-in protesting plans to cut down trees in Istanbul's main Taksim Square. Since then, the demonstrations by mostly secular-minded Turks have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government disturbances in years, challenging Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's power.
A Turkish doctors' group said Monday that one protester died of injuries after a vehicle slammed into crowd.
The protests are seen as a display of frustration against Erdogan, who has appeared to be increasingly authoritarian and is accused of forcing his conservative, religious Islamic outlook on the lives of secular Turks.
Erdogan, who has been in power since 2003 after winning three landslide elections, inflamed tensions by calling protesters "a bunch of looters" and by branding them a "minority" who are trying to force demands on his majority.
In contrast, President Abdullah Gul took a more conciliatory line, celebrating peaceful protest as a democratic right.
The two men are expected to compete against each other next year in Turkey's presidential election.
On Monday, Erdogan again dismissed the street protests as being organized by extremists and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings.
"We already have a spring in Turkey," he said, alluding to the nation's free elections. "But there are those who want to turn this spring into winter.
"Be calm, these will all pass," he said.
Turkey's main stock exchange dropped 6.4 percent upon opening Monday, as investors worried about the destabilizing effect of the demonstrations on the economy.
Erdogan played down its significance, saying: "It's the stock market, it goes down and it goes up. It can't always be stable."
Appearing defensive and angry, he lashed out at reporters who asked whether the government had understood the message by protesters.
"What is the message? I want to hear it from you," Erdogan retorted. "What can a softened tone be like? Can you tell me?"
He spoke to reporters before leaving on a four-day trip to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Gul said democracy is not just going to the ballot box.
"When we speak of democracy, of course the will of the people is above all," Gul said. "But democracy does not mean elections alone. There can be nothing more natural for the expression of various views, various situations and objections through a variety of ways, besides elections."
He added: "The views that are well intentioned have been read, seen and noted and the messages have been received."
Some of the protesters clashed with police, but most demonstrated peacefully, chanting calls for Erdogan to resign. Those who did not take to the streets banged on pots and pans from windows.
There was scattered violence in areas close to Erdogan's offices in Istanbul and in Ankara. The Dogan news agency said police fired tear gas at one close to Erdogan's Istanbul office. The protesters responded by hurling stones.
The agency said as many as 500 people were detained overnight Monday after police clashed with more militant protesters and then moved in to break up several thousand people demonstrating peacefully. Turkey's Fox television reported 300 others were detained in a similar crackdown in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city.
Social media were awash with reports and videos of police abuse. Authorities have said police excesses would be investigated, but they appeared to continue unabated.
Fox showed footage of police telling one group sheltering by the side of a building to come out, reassuring them that nothing would happen, then shooting a gas canister at one of them.
Another group of protesters took control of a large bulldozer in Istanbul and drove it toward police water cannon, Dogan news agency footage showed. Medics were seen tending to people injured in the skirmishes or affected by gas at a mosque close to the palace.
Erdogan described some of the protesters as "naive, decent and participating (in demonstrations) by following information on social media" but claimed the protests were being organized by Turkey's opposition party and extremist groups.
He also blamed the protest on "internal and external" groups bent on harming Turkey, said the country's intelligence service was working on identifying them and threatened to hit back at them.
"We shall be discussing these with them and will be following up, in fact we will also settle accounts with them," he said.
In neighboring Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on his official website that his government was worried about the security implications of the situation in Turkey, saying the country was "an essential part of the stability of the region."
"We believe that resorting to violence will widen the circle (of violence) ... in the region, and we call for restraint," he said.
Iraq and Turkey share a long, mountainous border. Iraq is home to an ethnic Turkomen minority, centered around the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
The two countries' relationship has been increasingly strained over growing Turkish ties to Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, and over Turkey's support for the Sunni rebels fighting to topple the Syrian regime.
The two-year Syrian civil war, which has already killed 70,000 people, is exacerbating sectarian divisions within Iraq. Baghdad has warned that the fall of the Iranian-backed Syrian government could ignite a wider conflict in the region.
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Associated Press writer Adam Schreck in Baghdad contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-pm-president-clash-over-reply-protests-142005889.html
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Cybersecurity tops Obama's agenda for China talks
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama will be looking for signs from China's leader at their upcoming meeting that Beijing is ready to address its reported high-tech spying, which the White House sees as a top threat to the U.S. economy and national security.
The talks between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be followed by a July meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials focusing on cyberespionage, along with other strategic and economic issues. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the U.S.-China meetings when he visited Beijing in April.
The summit Friday and Saturday at a California estate also is aimed at establishing personal ties between Obama and Xi as relations between the two global powers grow increasingly complex.
Obama needs Xi's help in stemming nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, combating the violence in Syria, and continuing the U.S. economic recovery.
The meeting at the 200-acre Sunnylands estate once owned by late publishing tycoon Walter Annenberg is their first since Xi took power in March. The talks also are coming months before the leaders originally had planned to meet, underscoring growing concern in both countries about potential fractures in the relationship.
Cybersecurity is likely to be the prickliest issue, given new reports on the extent and regularity of China's cyberhacking and increasing interest in Congress about how the U.S. can punish Beijing for its actions.
The Chinese government denies it engages in such spying against the U.S. But analysts say Beijing has started to indicate some willingness to address the problem during private talks with Kerry, national security adviser Tom Donilon and others.
The Chinese have been "much more positive in private meetings," James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert and former State Department official. The goal during Obama's meeting, Lewis said, will be to "test whether the Chinese have really moved to a better position where they want to engage."
A senior Obama administration official said that in recent talks, the Chinese seem to be less dismissive of U.S. concerns about cyberattacks, but that the matter would be not settled in one meeting.
Despite subtle signs of progress in private talks, security analysts say there is little evidence that Chinese-based hacking has eased.
"If the Chinese government wanted to signal to the United States that it wanted to curb its activity, the U.S. government would see it and we would see it," said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at the U.S.-based firm Mandiant. "But it's the same as it's always been."
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday at a security conference in Singapore that the U.S. has expressed its concerns about "the growing threat of cyberintrusions, some of which appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military."
Obama and Xi were not expected to meet until September, on the sidelines of an international economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. But the U.S saw signs that Xi was able to organize his government more quickly than previous Chinese leaders, according to the administration official, and that led the U.S. to conclude that it was best for Obama to meet Xi as early as possible.
The official insisted on anonymity in order to discuss internal administration discussions.
The White House hopes the relaxed setting at Sunnylands will lend itself to a more direct and free-flowing discussion. The presidents' wives will join them at the estate.
"The meeting represents a huge investment by both sides in the relationship and the health of the relationship," said Nina Hachigian, a China expert at the Center for American Progress. "This is viewed as extremely special by the Chinese side."
The logistics of Xi's visit have been negotiated intensely, as is the case with all meetings between the U.S. and China. The Chinese government often pushes for limited media access, though the White House said Friday that U.S. officials were working to arrange an opportunity for reporters to ask questions of the two leaders at the end of the summit.
President George W. Bush held a somewhat similar meeting in 2002 when he hosted then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
There's little expectation the summit will result in any concrete policy decisions. But Kurt Campbell, who until recently served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said the discussions on both cybersecurity and North Korea have a "real potential for progress, not because of some enormous good will, but because China is badly positioned on both."
In a shift from his predecessor, Xi has taken a stern tone with North Korea. He has told the North to return to nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers, and has warned its young leader that no country "should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain."
The U.S. long has pushed China to take more aggressive action against North Korea and welcomed Xi's comments. China is the North's strongest ally and biggest trading partner.
Financial issues also are expected to be a prominent topic in the talks between the leaders of the world's largest economies. Xi probably will press China's claims of business discrimination in the U.S. market.
Xi is likely to express deep discomfort over Washington's shifting of military assets to Asia and renewed emphasis on alliances with other countries within the region. China sees the strategy, referred to by Obama as his Asia "pivot," as an effort to contain Beijing's rising power.
At the Singapore conference, a Chinese military leader questioned the expanded U.S. role in the Pacific after Hagel said he hoped for better military ties between the two countries.
Xi and Obama first met last year when Xi, then vice president, visited the White House. Xi has a warm relationship with Vice President Joe Biden after their travels together throughout China during Biden's 2011 visit.
Xi has deeper ties to the U.S. than his predecessors. He's visited the country frequently, and stays in contact with families he stayed with in Muscatine, Iowa, while a visiting provincial official in 1985. His daughter attended Harvard.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cybersecurity-tops-obamas-agenda-china-talks-113627361.html
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Can Oral Sex Cause Oral Cancer?
Actor Michael Douglas attends a Behind the Candelabra event at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2013, in Cannes, France.
Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Actor Michael Douglas has received praise in recent weeks for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra, in part due to his somewhat graphic performances of gay sex with co-star Matt Damon. But an extremely candid interview with the Guardian over the weekend is drawing attention to Douglas? real, heterosexual bedroom practices. Candelabra is the first film the actor has completed since receiving treatment for throat cancer two years ago, and though many assumed the disease was caused by Douglas?s well-known penchant for tobacco and alcohol, he told the Guardian it was the result of giving oral sex to female partners. Can you get cancer from cunnilingus?
Yes. You can get it from any kind of oral sex, for that matter. As Douglas suggests in the interview, a direct link has been shown between the human papillomavirus, which can be transmitted through oral sex, and oropharyngeal cancers. HPV comes in more than 100 different strains, but only a few, such as HPV-16, are among the high-risk set responsible for causing cancer. Most strains cause no symptoms, and most sexually active adults have been exposed to one or more of them. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States HPV causes an estimated 6,700 cases of oropharyngeal cancers in men and 1,700 in women.
So how does HPV infection, which is often symptomless, cause cancer? As the virus infects the layers of epithelial cells that coat the throat and surrounding areas, it can interrupt the cells? normal function and cause genetic mutations. If the body?s immune system fails to identify and destroy these abnormal cells, they may continue to grow and ultimately form a cancerous tumor. The CDC notes that factors such as alcohol and tobacco use may aggravate this transformation. According the National Cancer Institute, the development from viral infection to cancer could take ?between 10 and 20 years,? but ?even high-grade lesions [a pre-tumor state] do not always lead to cancer.?
There is no cure for oral HPV infections, and most sexually active people will be exposed to some strain of the virus by the time they reach 26, the somewhat arbitrary age by which public health officials recommend people get vaccinated against the disease. The vaccine that has been highly recommended for the prevention of cervical cancers in women is now recommended for boys and young men as well. The CDC advised in 2011 that boys ages 11 and 12 should be vaccinated with the drug Gardasil, which is effective against HPV-16 and other strains.
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