Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Sign Up For Hardware Alley In Disrupt, Become A True Tech Ninja

Ninja_Gaiden_big1Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we're bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a crowd favorite and I'd love to feature your gear. What is Hardware Alley? It's a celebration of hardware startups (and other cool gear makers) that features everything from robotic drones to 3D printers. We try to bring in an eclectic mix of amazing exhibitors and I think you'll agree that our previous Alleys have been roaring successes.

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Microsoft: Surface 2, Pro 2 tablets 'close to selling out'


In a recent tweet, Microsoft asserted that both models of the most recent generation of its flagship tablet series ? the Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2 ? are nearly completely sold out, although the company opted not to divulge into any detail around the exact numbers of device sales.

Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are close to selling out. All those buyers are gonna need apps.
Your move: http://developer.microsoft.com/*
- Microsoft Developer (@msdev)*October 04, 2013
After the truly impressive failure of the original Surface tablet and write-off of nearly $1 billion in unshifted stock, you?d be forgiven for taking this comment with a pinch of salt. However, the devices in the latest refresh do offer much beefier set-ups, so it?s quite possible that Microsoft has successfully marketed its new products to a more savvy, professional customer, which could explain a higher demand.
Not to worry, though, as so far it seems that only pre-orders of the more expensive models have been affected by any inflated demand. Most configurations are still available to pre-order on the Surface website*at the time of writing, but if Microsoft?s claim is at all true, they might not be available for long.
Sources: Microsoft, DigitalSpy

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Africa Ireland Economic Forum

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Source: appablog.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Africa Ireland Economic Forum DUBLIN, Ireland, October 2, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ ? Event: More than 300 businesspeople will attend the 3rd Africa Ireland Economic Forum at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School on the 3rd October. The Forum is designed to increase trade and investment opportunities between Ireland and Africa. CEOs and Directors from over 180 Irish companies will attend, while 100 businesspeople from 16 African countries will participate. The Forum will be opened by Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello and the T?naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, will deliver the keynote address. Other speakers from Africa and Ireland include: ? Niall Quinn Chairman of QSAT ? Professor Tito Mboweni, former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank ? Dick Spring, Chairperson of Altobridge ? Dr Oluwakemi Bashorun, Trinity College Dublin ? Francis Grogan, CEO of Zambeef, Zambia ? Andrew Rugasira, founder of Good African Coffee, Uganda More information on the event is available at: http://www.dfa.ie/uploads/documents/DCD/aief4/aief%202013_website_flyer_final%20(2) .pdf When: Thursday 3 October Time: 09:10 Opening Address by Minister Costello 12:15 Photo Call with the T?naiste and Minister Costello 12:30 Keynote Address by the T?naiste Where: Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD, Carysfort Avenue, Dublin. SOURCE Ireland ? Ministry of Foreign Affairs Filed un ...

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Matt Schaub deletes Twitter account

by KHOU.com staff

khou.com

Posted on October 1, 2013 at 7:09 PM

Updated yesterday at 10:24 PM

HOUSTON -- Texans players are still feeling the heat after this weekend's overtime loss to the Seahawks, especially quarterback Matt Schaub.

It was Schaub's third consecutive game with a pick six.

Schaub received so much backlash that he deleted his Twitter account.

He wasn't very active. His last post was in January.

Source: http://www.khou.com/news/local/Schaub-deletes-Twitter-account-after-backlash-226060431.html

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Local Church Cleans Up After Vandals Strike

KHQ.COM - Members at the Mountain View Assembly of God church in north Spokane spent Monday cleaning up what the outside of their building.

Overnight, the building was spray-painted with dozens of profanities, crude drawings, and anti-Christian sayings. Many of the words and messages had racist, sexist and religious connotations.

The pastor was among the church members trying to find out a way to clean the building. The church's outside is made of uneven rock, which will be very difficult to clean.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53147707/ns/local_news-spokane_wa/

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Real-life love potion identified

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Researchers found that experimental subjects preferred scents with synthetic compounds that enhanced their own natural odor. They disliked compounds that were associated with another person's scent.

By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

Natural body odor plays a more important role in human mate selection than we realize, and now a new study paves the way for manufactured love-potion scents that can help singles improve their chances of finding ideal mates.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that people like their own body odor, and gravitate to perfumes that match and enhance that unique smell for themselves and possible mates. This odor is recognized subconsciously, so it's not necessarily the more pungent sweat smells that emerge every so often due to bacteria, consumption of certain foods, and other contributing factors.

When purchasing perfume, "you must be very selective to find a mixture that mimics your (scent) signal, which is determined by a few genes," lead author Manfred Milinski of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, told Discovery News. "People take a long time to find 'their perfume.'"

For the study, Milinski and his team created perfumes with synthetic molecules associated with female student volunteers. The volunteers were asked to shower using a provided soap, apply a different type of perfume to each of their armpits, and wear an untreated cotton T-shirt at night.

When later asked to evaluate each armpit's scent, the participants preferred the one with synthetic compounds that enhanced their own natural odor. They disliked the one treated with molecules associated with another person?s scent.

This is your brain on odors
Brain imaging found that "self" odors activated the right middle front of the brain, a region associated with emotional balance, self-insight and more.

Humans appear to prefer their own smell and amplify that scent for others, particularly potential mates. It's somewhat comparable to lipstick, where women enhance the size, shape and color of their own features.

When selecting mates, we tend to prefer individuals with odors that complement our particular immune-related molecules, according to the researchers.

"The present wisdom of evolutionary biology is that we and other animals reproduce sexually because only in this way can we survive the race with infectious diseases," Milinski said. "This means choosing a partner with complementary immunogenes is the purpose of sexual selection. Probably, in all vertebrates, information about one?s immunogenes is transmitted by smell. Thus odor is extremely important."

Lucking into love potions
For ages, people have selected perfumes, colognes and other scents to enhance their own natural odor. In many cases, individuals probably successfully created "love potions" in this trial-by-error way by subconsciously making the right natural compound matches.

Many of today?s perfumes and colognes, however, are made with manufactured chemical ingredients.

The researchers believe they have overcome that fake perfume problem by synthesizing chemicals that "are identical to the original" chemical structures of natural human body odors. These make possible future love potion fragrances, tailor-designed for individuals.

Men might want to take note: Other research found that female mammals follow their noses to the right mates. Cambridge zoologist Tim Clutton-Brock and Harvard researcher Katherine McAuliffe found that olfactory cues are critical for females seeking mates.

Although humans preen, strut and sometimes sing, birds have evolved more elaborate visual and sound systems for mating, such as complex peacock tails and singing ability among all individuals of some species.

Clutton-Brock and McAuliffe therefore think that many mammals seeking mates rely more upon their ability to sniff out good genetic matches.

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Source: http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/23/16667339-real-life-love-potion-identified?lite

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