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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tumblr's Mobile App Finally Comes to Windows Phone
Monday, April 22, 2013
Yahoo iPhone app gets customized story summaries, improved search
That pricey Summly acquisition is beginning to bear fruit. Yahoo today announced the latest version of its eponymous mobile app, sporting language algorithms and machine learning picked up when it bought the program a little under a month ago. The company's utilizing the technology to help news stories fit better on that little screen or yours, allowing you to further customize the flow of articles to mold to your own reading habits. Signing into your account lets you carrying those changes across devices. Also new in the latest edition of the app is improved search, with a focus on the video and image side of things. The new app is currently available for the iPhone and iPod touch, downloadable through the source link below.
Via: Yahoo
Source: iTunes
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NBC's Michaels arrested for alleged DUI in Calif.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) ? Police in Southern California say that NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
Santa Monica police Sgt. Thomas McLaughlin says Michaels was taken into custody Friday night. McLaughlin could provide no additional details.
Greg Hughes, a spokesman for NBC Sports, says the company "is aware of the situation" and has been in contact with Michaels. Hughes had no further comment.
A call Sunday by The Associated Press to Michaels' agent was not immediately returned.
An Emmy Award winner and broadcaster on "Sunday Night Football," the 68-year-old Michaels spent nearly three decades at ABC Sports before moving to NBC in the 2007.
Michaels worked NFL games and other sports for ABC, and called "Monday Night Football" for nearly 20 years. He also is known for his call of the U.S.-Soviet Union "Miracle on Ice" game at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nbcs-michaels-arrested-alleged-dui-calif-173341270--spt.html
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Must See HDTV (April 22nd - 28th)
Welcome to your spring sporting season -- the NBA playoffs are underway, the NHL's postseason close to beginning and the NFL draft is this weekend. Jurassic Park is back in 3D, and Dead Island has returned to consoles with the Riptide edition. Don't like sports, or games? There's always Stonados (yes, that's tornadoes, with stones in them -- Stonados) on Syfy. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
NFL Draft
With most of the first round NBA playoff series manifesting blowouts and probably sweeps, this weekend's NFL draft is the most exciting thing on the schedule for sports fans (unless you think Chael Sonnen really has a shot against Jon Jones, of course). No matter how well your team performed (or disappointed) last year, there's always room for hope in the form of this year's draft pick. The first three rounds are again spread over two days in prime time, so you can watch large men in suits walk across the stage to shake hands with (or bear hug) the commissioner.
(Round 1 - April 25th, 7PM, ESPN & NFL Network)
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/CmbdpO9zPFI/
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Cyprus must approve ?400mn gold sale ? Finance Minister - RT News
Cypriot Finance Minister Haris Georgiades forecasts a sale of ?excess? Cypriot gold reserves ?during the next months?, but the Central Bank remains opposed.
The Finance Minister says he believes the government?s gold sale of ?400 million? ($525-million), of ?excess? gold reserves in order to secure 10 billion euro aid from Cyprus?s Troika of lenders, will materialize.
He told Bloomberg,?The exact details of it will be formulated in due course primarily by the board of the Central Bank,? adding, ?obviously it?s a big decision.?
Cypriot officials confirmed the plan last week, but the Central Bank has rejected the notion, and the Central Bank chief Panico Demetriades said? last week that the Cypriot government didn?t have the right to sell gold without his direct consent, and said he hadn?t been consulted on the sale.
?There is an issue and it?s actually a major issue,? Georgiades said about the sale.
?The government will do whatever is needed to ensure ?smooth and effective cooperation between all decision- making authorities,? he continued.
Georgiades did not elaborate on how much gold Cyprus might sell nor at what price, but it?s rumored they will sell 75% of their reserves. According to the World Gold Council, the Central Bank holds 13.9 metric tons.
A wrinkle in the Cypriot bail-out plan arose last week when a leaked document indicated the total cost of the bailout had risen to ?23bn, up from the original ?17bn estimate, leaving the beleaguered Cypriot government in a scramble to raise an additional ?6 billion ($7.85 billion). Most of the funds are expected to come from depositors in banks, but Cyprus also hatched a plan to sell about ?400 million ($525-million) worth of gold reserves.
The gold market took a catastrophic fall after the announcement, and in the past week has plunged more than $200 an ounce, breaking both the $1,500 and $1,400 thresholds, reaching a 30-year record low in just 2 days.
Morgan Stanley has cut its 2013 gold forecast by 16%, down to $1,487, as investors continue their selling frenzy.
The sell-off ?has all the hallmarks of panic-driven, stale long liquidation, stop-loss and capitulation selling in the face of a concerted short sale? Peter Richardson, a Morgan Stanley analyst, wrote in a report.
"In the case of the [Cypriot] gold, it's down to the board of the central bank. It's perfectly understandable.. They have the final say," said Georgiades.
Source: http://rt.com/business/sale-central-cypriot-gold-approve-must-finance-minister-002/
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War medicine now is helping Boston bomb victims
An injured person is helped on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT
An injured person is helped on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT
FILE - In this Monday, May 28, 2012 file photo, U.S. Army Capt. Dan Berschinski, foreground, uses prosthetic legs to stand on the field before a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves in Atlanta. Berschinski lost both legs to an IED blast while serving in Afghanistan in 2009. Nearly 2,000 American troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often chose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, U.S. Marine Cpl. Daniel Riley, 21, navigates the steps outside his apartment on his prosthetic legs in San Diego, Calif. Riley lost both legs to an IED in Afhganistan. Learning to walk on his prosthetic legs was "like kicking a soccer ball in a swimming pool." Nearly 2,000 American troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often chose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack.
"The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.
Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well as in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often choose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg.
Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a comeback in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved that they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefield, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.
Military doctors passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds.
At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again.
"This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.
The military partnered with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to train doctors throughout the United States on advances learned from the wars, said Dr. Kevin Kirk, an Army lieutenant colonel who is chief orthopedic surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Help, too, has come from Israel, which for decades has dealt with the aftermath of Palestinian bombs, like the ones in Boston, often laden with nails, ball bearings and other metals.
"Unfortunately, we have great expertise," said Dr. Pinchas Halpern, director of emergency medicine at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center.
Halpern, who gave lectures in 2005 at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General about responding to attacks, has been in email contact with doctors in Boston this week.
Among the topics he covered in his lectures were how to coordinate ambulances to distribute the wounded to area hospitals according to their type of injury, performing more CT scans than usual to locate deep shrapnel wounds and ways to identify and classify wounds.
Dr. Paul Biddinger of Mass General's emergency department said the hospital took much of Halpern's advice.
"We improved our plans for triage, site security, reassessment and inter-specialty coordination" following Halpern's visit, Biddinger said.
Blast victims can be challenging to treat because they typically have multiple complex physical injuries that may include loss of limbs, fractures, brain damage, and vision and hearing impairment, said Dr. Paul Pasquina, chairman of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Uniformed Services University and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
"It's very important that during their acute medical and surgical care that rehabilitation is applied early on, to get them up as soon as possible" to reduce risks from being immobile, including blood clots, deconditioned muscles and other problems that will make recovery more difficult," he said.
A multidisciplinary approach that involves everyone from plastic and orthopedic surgeons to therapists is important, said Dr. James Ficke, chairman of the department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at San Antonio Military Medical Center. He also advises the U.S. Army Surgeon General on orthopedics.
"As a doctor, one of the lessons I learned most dramatically is, I don't have any preconceptions of what they can or can't do as a patient. There was a patient who lost his leg completely and had no hip joint and recently did a marathon in Austin in 4:33."
John Fergason, chief prosthetist at Center for the Intrepid, an outpatient rehab center that is part of Brooke Army Medical Center, said advances include computerized knees that allow amputees with above-the-knee amputations to walk down steep ramps, to walk up steps and go from a walk to a run.
After every war, "you see a tremendous spike in prosthetic innovation," largely because of increased research money, said Hugh Herr, a prosthetic expert at MIT and a double-amputee himself. Federal funds let his MIT lab do basic research on a bionic foot-ankle-calf system, and he founded a company that has commercialized that device.
If Boston victims are generally healthy and motivated, and their legs are amputated below the knees, or perhaps even above the knees, "it's possible they could run the marathon a year from now," he said. "It would take a lot of effort, but it's indeed possible with today's technology."
One amputee's story is encouraging.
Dan Berschinski, 28, used to run marathons but now works with the Amputee Coalition, an advocacy and support organization based in suburban Washington, D.C. He was an infantry officer in Afghanistan when he stepped on an IED in August 2009. The blast blew off his entire right leg and most of his left leg. After treatment in the field and in Germany, he was sent to Walter Reed.
His biggest initial challenge was intense pain, treated with narcotic painkillers, and phantom leg and foot pain. Doctors used to consider phantom pain a psychological problem but now consider it real, physical pain. Treatment includes nerve blockers.
Recovery and rehab took about three years, including 10 months of daily physical therapy to strengthen his arms and core ? muscle power he'd need to learn to walk on prosthetics.
The bionic legs he uses cost $60,000 apiece, are hydraulically operated and equipped with microchips and a gyroscope that sense when to relax and stiffen to help him walk. Walter Reed was involved in developing the legs, said Zach Harvey, former prosthetics chief at Walter Reed.
Berschinski used to run marathons but now competes in triathlons ? swimming, biking with his arms and racing in a wheelchair.
"I'm very happy with my progress," he said.
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Associated Press writers Malcolm Ritter in New York, Lindsey Tanner and Sharon Cohen in Chicago, and Daniel Estrin in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Last-minute glitch postpones debut of new U.S. rocket
By Irene Klotz
(Reuters) - A U.S. company hired by NASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station canceled plans to launch its new Antares rocket on a demonstration mission on Wednesday after a last-minute technical glitch, officials said.
The 13-story rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corp had been slated to lift off from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) and place a dummy cargo capsule into orbit.
The test flight is expected to clear the way for the company's trial cargo run to the International Space Station later this year.
If successful, Orbital Sciences would then start working on an eight-flight, $1.9 billion contract to fly supplies to the station for NASA.
About 12 minutes before launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, an umbilical line on the rocket's upper-stage fell away prematurely, prompting a cancellation, said NASA launch commentator Kyle Herring.
The next launch attempt is targeted for no earlier than Friday, although weather at the Wallops Island Flight Facility could be a problem. Meteorologists are forecasting high winds and possible thunderstorms.
"You learn a little bit from every launch attempt," John Steinmeyer, a senior project manager with Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences, said during a NASA TV broadcast. "We'll take the lessons learned from today and move into another attempt as soon as it's safe to do so."
The company is one of two hired by NASA after the space shuttles were retired to fly cargo to the station, a $100 billion project of 15 nations that flies about 250 miles above the Earth.
Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, completed its test flights in 2010 and has successfully carried out two of 12 planned cargo runs to the station for NASA under a $1.6 billion contract.
(Reporting by Irene Klotz in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Editing by Kevin Gray and Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/last-minute-glitch-postpones-debut-u-rocket-222557462.html
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