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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Could magnets replace aspirin as blood thinners]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Applying a magnetic field to blood causes red blood cells to form links that help blood flow better.(Credit:R. Tao and K. Huang, Physics Review E)Temple University physics department chair Rongjia Tao made headlines in 2008 when he developed a simple device that creates an electric field to thin fuel, thereby reducing the size of the droplets injected into the engine and improving fuel efficiency.Now, Tao and former graduate student Ke Huang are unveiling their latest research that this same principle, when applied to the human body, can help thin blood and reduce one's risk of heart attack--without the side effects of blood thinners such as aspirin.After testing numerous blood samples at Temple, the physicists were able to use a magnetic field of 1.3 Telsa (roughly equivalent to what is used in an MRI) for just one minute to polarize the red blood cells, which contain iron, thereby causing those cells to link together in short, streamlined chains flowing down the center of blood vessels and reducing friction along the walls.The result: smoother blood flow. In fact, after just 1 to 12 minutes of exposure to the magnetic field via a 1,000-pound magnet, blood viscosity decreased by 20 to 30 percent for several hours. Eventually, blood viscosity returned to previous levels.While more research is imperative before the technique is deemed safe and effective, Tao says in a news release that his method is not only safer than drugs but also highly specific in its control of viscosity: &quot;By selecting a suitable magnetic field strength and pulse duration, we will be able to control the size of the aggregated red-cell chains, hence to control the blood's viscosity.&quot;The magnet Tao and Huang used does not have the ionizing radiation found in CT scans, which many studies have shown can be harmful. It instead works like the magnetic coil found in MRI, which uses magnetic fields to capture images inside the body' electrical current through the coil turns it into an electromagnet that can produce a very high magnetic field, which has been found to have no harmful biological effects.Tao adds that the technique is not dependent on blood type and does not interfere with the normal oxygen delivery and waste removal function of the red blood cells.The study will be published in the journal Physical Review E.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is a Windows 8 PC]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gazrlz</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Lenovo hybrid sold in China. (Credit:Lenovo)A future Windows 8 device like the Motorola Atrix (Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)Though theiPad got the ball rolling, Windows 8 may be the catalyst that finally brings about the &quot;post-PC&quot; era, as Apple likes to call it (and others prefer not to). While many digirati were attending a conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., I was further down the coast in San Diego attending a less glamorous but hardly less important Qualcomm conference. Qualcomm is, after all, the enormously profitable company (with a market cap just shy of $100 billion, rivaling Intel, which is at about $115 billion) that supplies the guts of many of the world's feature phones, smartphones, and, increasingly,tablets. Chips it designs essentially define the hardware and performance of the phones many people use. Qualcomm's role in the phone industry is analogous to Intel's in the PC industry. (Qualcomm said at the conference that 250 future devices are being designed around its &quot;Snapdragon&quot; processor.) Which brings us to the future Windows 8 PC. Qualcomm chimed in this week, saying it will build quad-core Snapdragon processors for Windows 8 devices, in addition to the dual-core chips it is beginning to supply now for tablets like HP's upcoming TouchPad. &quot;This will require high-performing, low-power processors...with features like 3G and 4G wireless wide area network (WWAN) connectivity,&quot; Qualcomm said in its Windows 8 statement Wednesday. When Qualcomm speaks about Windows, people should listen. As Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs is always quick to point out, Qualcomm is the exclusive supplier of processor silicon for all Windows Phone 7 devices. So, with Qualcomm and others set to supply high-performance ARM processors for Windows 8, what will these Qualcomm-powered Windows 8 devices be exactly Jacobs gave us a hint this week. &quot;You will see some clamshell looking devices. Some of them will be convertible. Some of them will be just tablets. We're going to see a wide range of stuff going on,&quot; he said at press conference on Wednesday. Though Jacobs was referring to products coming out later this year and early next year, similar design themes will apply to Windows 8 devices.  What will a Windows 8 PC be A few rough ideas:  A 2.5GHz quad-core ARM chip-based Windows 8 tablet  Newfangled Windows 8 tablet-centric hybrid with slider keyboard  Motorola Atrix smartphone-with-laptop-dock kind of device  Tried-and-true clamshell laptop sporting a high-performance ARM chipI say all of the above will be a PC, if that's the primary device you do most of your personal computing on, including lots of business productivity apps like Microsoft's Office suite. Along these lines, a comment at one of the technical sessions at the Qualcomm conference stuck with me: many young people in the future may skip the traditional PC all together. They may grow up using a device that bears little resemblance to today's laptop. Intel will contribute to this, too. Intel's next-generation Haswell chip design--due roughly in the same time frame that Windows 8 appears--will be the company's first system-on-a-chip, or SoC, for mainstream laptops. An SoC is the same kind of all-in-one chip design Qualcomm uses today for feature phones, smartphones, and tablets. And, by the way, it's what Apple uses in itsiPhone and iPad.  That means Intel also subscribes to a very different kind of future PC design. And with Qualcomm, Microsoft, Google, and others like Nvidia behind this, Post-PC or not, the PC will look very different for a lot of people.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[B&N fires back at Amazon over Kindle battery life]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gazrlz</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Barnes &amp; Noble maintains that the new Nook offers superior battery performance to the Kindle.(Credit:Sarah Tew/CNET)This morning, CNET posted a story about how Amazon--after Barnes &amp; Noble had claimed that its new Nook e-reader offered two months of battery life--had changed the battery life figures on its Web site for the Kindle WiFi and Kindle 3G to match the new Nook's.Apparently, Amazon felt that Barnes &amp; Noble had come up with its numbers using an equation based on having the wireless completely turned off and reading for just 30 minutes a day. Amazon's original one-month battery life for the Kindle was based a user reading for one hour a day with the wireless turned off. So it went ahead and updated the Kindle's battery life numbers to reflect Barnes &amp; Noble's equation and clarified the new numbers with the following promotional copy on the Kindle's product page:A single charge lasts up to two months with wireless off based upon a half-hour of daily reading time. If you read for one hour a day, you will get battery life of up to one month. Keep wireless always on and it lasts for up to 10 days. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store, Web browsing, and downloading content. In low-coverage areas or in EDGE/GPRS-only coverage, wireless usage will consume battery power more quickly.Fair enough. Makes sense, right Well, now Barnes &amp; Noble has fired back.CNET received the following statement from Jamie Iannone, president of Barnes &amp; Noble Digital Products:With up to two months on a single charge, the all-new Nook has the longest battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3. In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle's battery life. While reading at one page a minute, the all-new Nook battery lasts for 150 hours, where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). We've also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the all-new Nook offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.We're not quite sure what to make of all this, and to be clear, we haven't tested the new Nook's battery life against the Kindle's (we won't get a new Nook review unit for a few weeks), so we don't have any way to confirm these numbers. But obviously, both companies take very seriously the notion of laying claim to the title of having the longest battery life in the industry.We await word from Amazon on this little battery brouhaha and will add any statement that a spokesperson offers as soon as we get it. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony PS3 data breach highlights what a loser I am]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gazrlz</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry. No PixelJunk Monsters for now. (Credit:Screenshot by GameSpot)Every night it's the same forlorn ritual. I watch my TV, read my books, chase the cat into the bathroom and back--all in a vain effort to fill the gaping emptiness inside. Invariably at some point my hands reach for the beloved black controller, where I try--even though I know it won't work, but still you never know--to log on to the online network of mySony PS3 game console. It's been 7 days now (or is it 7,000) since the Sony PlayStation Network went down. We've since learned the company is taking the extreme step of rebuilding its network after a massive hacking attack. E-mail addresses, passwords, purchase history--and almost certainly credit card numbers--all sucked up by persons unknown. I wish I could get riled up over this latest security breach, but honestly it's the third time in three years I've received notification that my credit information may have been compromised. At this point in the Digital Age, I've become reconciled to the fact that lots of strangers are rummaging through the underwear drawer of my credit history. What's truly disheartening about Sony's security fumble is how much I miss posting my best scores on the Sony network. And more insidiously, the addictive nature of video games. My name is SunnyD11 and I am a PixelJunk Monsters addict. For those of you who don't know, PixelJunk Monsters is probably the best game ever created in the history of the universe. It incorporates all the great themes of mankind's history--players build fortresses with their gold and kill monsters before they kill our babies. Of course, like everything else in life, the devil is in the details. You only start out with a limited amount of gold. And there are different kinds of monsters that require different kinds of fortresses. A typical game goes like this: Buy two archer towers @100 gold each to kill the first wave of spiders' collect the gold that appears when the spiders die and buy one more cannon tower @120 gold to kill the giants' collect the gold (and blue gems to upgrade your fortresses) to buy beehive tower @450 gold to ward off mosquitoes, birds and bees' buy an electrical tower to electrocute the shielded monsters' etc.Related links&amp;149' Five questions for Sony about PSN breach&amp;149' Sony: We're 'rebuilding' PlayStation Network&amp;149' Sony: Personal info compromised on PSN&amp;149' Sony sued for PlayStation Network data breach If through error on your part, you fail to block the advancing waves of monsters, then one or more slip past your final defenses and start stomping around on the heads of your babies (or maybe they're villagers, but I think of them as my babies) until all 20 are dead. You lose. Or you win but with casualties.Like most video games, if you're truly invested, then your heart is pounding, your neck muscles and shoulders are clenched, and the flow of blood is constricted to your hand. You come out of your trance when the pins and needles start pricking in your hand, or your muscles cramp or bladder swells.It has occurred to me that my physical/mental experience on PixelJunk Monsters is quite similar to my job as home page editor at CBSNews.com. When breaking news happens, I tweet this, ticker that, send a breaking news e-mail, rank a story on the front door, receive instant messages from producers and graphic artists, etc. nlrText { float: right' width: 170px' padding: 5px' margin: 10px 10px 10px 0' font-family: verdana' font-size: 10px' border: 1px solid 999' background: FFFFEF' } nlrText h4{display: block' font-size: 1.4em' padding: 0' margin: 0' color: 900' }    Broader impact Additional services users can't access from a PS3 due to Sony taking PSN offline: Netflix Hulu Plus MLB.TV  PSN Plus  True confession: I think years of working in the news business have hardwired my brain to require this energy rush/adrenaline surge of multitasking. And when I get home my poor junkie brain turns to video games for another adrenaline fix. It's not good.After you've beaten all the levels, the next phase for those who are truly addicted is to start comparing your numbers to the gaming world at large. Which is where the Sony PlayStation Network comes in. We who are truly consumed eke out new satisfaction after we've beaten all the levels. We compare ourselves to Jonahbar, Blueskysarah, Fatima100, mandingo, and the others who labor alone.You're probably wondering why I can't continue playing the game, even if I can't log on to the network.SunnyD11 refuses to play PixelJunk Monsters while the network is down because he knows that he will achieve a stellar, once-in-a-lifetime result and there will be no way to record it for posterity.Helpful tipsOne of my co-workers notes that if you're wondering which credit card you might have registered on the Sony network, you can look through your old purchase e-mails from this sender: DoNotReply@ac.playstation.net, which will reference the credit card you used with Sony network. If like me, you're suffering a double whammy because you stream Netflix through your PS3, it's possible to connect a laptop to the TV and stream from your computer. I recently bought a laptop that had an HDMI port, and I simply disconnected the accursed PS3 and connected my laptop and streamed with quite good results to my TV.This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPad 2 gets the teardown treatment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Part of the tradition of an Apple product release is the teardown. Usually within hours of the first sales, pictures begin to emerge from the odd people who delight in taking the new gadgets apart to see what's going on inside. The days following Friday's release of the iPad 2 have been no different. I've seen two different teardowns already.But the teardown that Wall Street and the investment community is waiting on is the one from the market research firm IHS iSuppli, whose team spent all day Saturday in a furious effort to dissemble a 32-gigabyteiPad 2 and estimate the cost that Apple paid for every component. They gave me an exclusive early look at their findings. The point is to form a partial picture of the gross profit margin on every unit, a figure that Apple generally keeps to itself. This information is useful to investors and analysts who then factor the findings in with other assumptions they use to predict how much of a profit Apple is going to report over the next few quarters. The headline of iSuppli's teardown researcher is always the estimated bill-of-materials cost, which is the sum cost that it thinks Apple has paid for all the hardware inside the iPad 2. It doesn't take into account the cost to develop software, or other things like packaging, shipping and distribution, or manufacturing.In this case the estimates are for the 32-gigabyte, 3G version of the iPad which sells for $729, and there are two estimates, one for the AT&amp;T version--$326.60, and one for the Verizon Wireless version--$323.35. Some of the wireless chips used in the AT&amp;T version are a little more expensive or require an extra part. For example, on the Verizon version, GPS is integrated with the Qualcomm-made wireless baseband chip. On the AT&amp;T version, an extra GPS chip had to be added along with the Broadcom-made Bluteooth and Wi-Fi chips, adding an extra cost of $1.50 per unit.The baseband wireless chips were naturally different because AT&amp;T and Verizon use different wireless technologies. Intel, the new owner of the former wireless chip division of Infineon, supplied the main wireless chip in the AT&amp;T version, with supporting chips coming from TriQuint Semiconductor and Skyworks for a combined cost of $18.70.Qualcomm supplied the main wireless chip Verizon version, with supporting chips coming from Skyworks, Avago Technologies, and Murata for a combined cost of $16.35. While there had been some speculation that Apple had used a Qualcomm chip in both versions, it turned out not to be the case.Aside from the wireless chips, the components are otherwise identical across both versions. Both sport Apple's A5 chip, and iSuppli says that Samsung is still manufacturing it for Apple at a cost of $14. While there had been some talk in recent weeks that Apple was moving its chip manufacturing contract to Tawain Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., there's no evidence that it has made such a move, at least not yet.The most expensive component by far is the touch-sensitive display, coming at $127. iSuppli says that the LCD portion the unit they tore apart was built by LG Display, but Apple is known to use other sources for displays, including Samsung, and possibly ChiMei Innolux. The glass assembly covering the display is thought to come from TPK or WinTek. iSuppli says costs on the display are going up because manufacturing yields on LCDs have been lower. Apple is also thought to be using a more expensive glue to improve the efficiency to the process of bonding a new thinner type of Gorilla glass to the display.Samsung supplied Apple with the NAND flash memory used in the iSuppli sample, holding on to a relationship that goes back several years to the days of the firstiPod nano, though Toshiba is also known to supply Apple with flash. It is the world biggest consumer of flash memory after all. Elpida supplied the DRAM memory. iSuppli estimates the combined cost of memory, both flash and DRAM plus a Micron-made MCP memory chip at $65.70.Then there's a set of components seen in the iPad 1 remained the same in the iPad 2. STMicroelectronics supplied the gyroscope and the accelerometer, and AKM Semiconductor supplied the electronic compass. Broadcom supplied touch interface chips, while Texas Instruments supplied a touch screen driver chip. Analog Devices supplied a capacitive touch controller.Finally there's the two cameras. iSuppli hasn't yet named the suppliers there, though the usual candidate is Aptina, the former camera unit of Micron, though it's possible that Apple sources them from more than one place.iSuppli's estimates are a lot higher than the findings of another teardown shop, UBM Techinsights. The Wall Street Journal reported that UBM's cost estimate is about $270, but that estimate was made before it conducted its actual teardown, and didn't change once it had.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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