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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

A $10 Gaming Mouse Is Your Deal Of The Day

Gigabyte has launched a new line of peripherals, and at first blush, we really really like the pricing- you can't really argue with $10 for a gaming mouse. The Gigabyte GM-M6800 has dual lenses, and allows for smooth switching between 800 and 1600dpi. It also looks comfortable in the hand, with a design reminiscent of Logitech's offerings. Grab it for a paltry $10 from Newegg today using code EMCXNXV83. Free shipping. [Newegg]

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? Gigabyte Wired Dual Lens Gaming Mouse With Switchable DPI ($10) | Newegg via eDealinfo | Normally $15 | Use code EMCXNXV83

? 20-Inch Acer LED Monitor ($90) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Matches lowest price ever

? 50-Inch LG 120Hz LG LED Smart HDTV ($748) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever

? The Canon 70D is up for pre-order, so you can get the 60D body for $600, its lowest price ever. | Amazon

? Western Digital 2TB External Hard Drive Formatted for Mac ($70) | B&H via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever, PC users can easily reformat

? Kindle Fire HD 7" 16GB ($169) | Amazon | Normally $199

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? Western Digital 2TB External Hard Drive Formatted for Mac ($70) | B&H via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever, PC users can easily reformat

? 32GB MicroSDHC Card ($22) | BuyDig via Deals Kinja

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? Turtle Beach Ear Force XLa Gaming Headset ($25) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever

? Corsair Vengeance 2000 7.1 Gaming Headset ($80) | Newegg via eDealinfo | $120+ elsewhere

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? Gigabyte Wired Dual Lens Gaming Mouse With Switchable DPI ($10) | Newegg via eDealinfo | Normally $15 | Use code EMCXNXV83

? Logitech Easy-Switch Bluetooth Keyboard ($77) | Amazon via TechDealDigger | Normally $100

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? 11.6 Inch 3 Pound Core i7 Ultrabook from Acer ($669) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Lowest price ever

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? Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Solid State 7200rpm Hybrid Drive ($100) | Amazon via 9to5Toys | $113+ elsewhere

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? Kindle Fire HD 7" 16GB ($169) | Amazon | Normally $199

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? Skyrim Legendary [Steam] ($32) | Gamefly | Use code GFDJUL20

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? Amazon "Half Yearly" Sale on select digital Movies and TV Shows

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? Doctor Who eBooks (FREE) | BBC.co.uk

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? FREE Slumberlands Record Sampler | Amazon

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? The Canon 70D is up for pre-order, so you can get the 60D body for $600, its lowest price ever. | Amazon

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Eenen

Because, really, who hasn't dreamed that their favorite bowl of noodles and broth had the power to genesis a brand new civilization?

Nobuyoshi Sakashita animated this awesome fable revolving around a trio of brothers with an unhealthy attachment to Udon.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-thing-on-the-internet-tonight-eenen-587098311

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Curious mix of precision and brawn in a pouched super-predator

Public release date: 1-Jul-2013
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SYDNEY: A bizarre, pouched super-predator that terrorized South America millions of years ago had huge sabre-like teeth but its bite was weaker than that of a domestic cat, new research shows.
Australian and American marsupials are among the closest living relatives of the extinct Thylacosmilus atrox, which had tooth roots extending rearwards almost into its small braincase. "Thylacosmilus looked and behaved like nothing alive today," says University of New South Wales palaeontologist, Dr Stephen Wroe, leader of the research team.
"To achieve a kill the animal must have secured and immobilised large prey using its extremely powerful forearms, before inserting the sabre-teeth into the windpipe or major arteries of the neck a mix of brute force and delicate precision." The iconic North American sabre-toothed 'tiger', Smilodon fatalis, is often regarded as the archetypal mammalian super-predator.
However, Smilodon - a true cat - was just the end point in one of at least five independent 'experiments' in sabre-tooth evolution through the Age of Mammals, which spanned some 65 million years.
Thylacosmilus atrox is the best preserved species of one of these evolutionary lines - pouched sabre-tooths that terrorised South America until around 3.5 million years ago.
For its size, its huge canine teeth were larger than those of any other known sabre-tooth.
Smilodon's killing behaviour has long attracted controversy, but scientists now mostly agree that powerful neck muscles, as well as jaw muscles, played an important role in driving the sabre-teeth into the necks of large prey.
Little was known about the predatory behaviour in the pouched Thylacosmilus.
To shed light on this super-predator mystery, Dr Wroe's team of Australian and US scientists constructed and compared sophisticated computer models of Smilodon and Thylacosmilus, as well as a living conical-toothed cat, the leopard. These models were digitally 'crash-tested' in simulations of biting and killing behaviour. The results are published in the journal PLoS ONE.
"We found that both sabre-tooth species were similar in possessing weak jaw-muscle-driven bites compared to the leopard, but the mechanical performance of the sabre-tooths skulls showed that they were both well-adapted to resist forces generated by very powerful neck muscles," says Dr Wroe.
"But compared to the placental Smilodon, Thylacosmilus was even more extreme."
"Frankly, the jaw muscles of Thylacosmilus were embarrassing. With its jaws wide open this 80-100 kg 'super-predator' had a bite less powerful than a domestic cat. On the other hand - its skull easily outperformed that of the placental Smilodon in response to strong forces from hypothetical neck muscles."
"Bottom line is that the huge sabres of Thylacosmilus were driven home by the neck muscles alone and - because the sabre-teeth were actually quite fragile - this must have been achieved with surprising precision."
"For Thylacosmilus - and other sabre-tooths - it was all about a quick kill."
"Big prey are dangerous even to super-predators and the faster the kill the less likely it is that the predator will get hurt or for that matter attract unwanted attention from other predators."
"It may not have been the smartest of mammalian super-predators but in terms of specialisation Thylacosmilus took the already extreme sabre-tooth lifestyle to a whole new level," says Dr Wroe.
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UNSW Science media: Deborah Smith: +61 (2) 9385 7307, +61 (0) 478 492, deborah.smith@unsw.edu.au

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Curious mix of precision and brawn in a pouched super-predator Public release date: 1-Jul-2013
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Contact: Deborah Smith
deborah.smith@unsw.edu.au
61-293-857-307
University of New South Wales

SYDNEY: A bizarre, pouched super-predator that terrorized South America millions of years ago had huge sabre-like teeth but its bite was weaker than that of a domestic cat, new research shows.
Australian and American marsupials are among the closest living relatives of the extinct Thylacosmilus atrox, which had tooth roots extending rearwards almost into its small braincase. "Thylacosmilus looked and behaved like nothing alive today," says University of New South Wales palaeontologist, Dr Stephen Wroe, leader of the research team.
"To achieve a kill the animal must have secured and immobilised large prey using its extremely powerful forearms, before inserting the sabre-teeth into the windpipe or major arteries of the neck a mix of brute force and delicate precision." The iconic North American sabre-toothed 'tiger', Smilodon fatalis, is often regarded as the archetypal mammalian super-predator.
However, Smilodon - a true cat - was just the end point in one of at least five independent 'experiments' in sabre-tooth evolution through the Age of Mammals, which spanned some 65 million years.
Thylacosmilus atrox is the best preserved species of one of these evolutionary lines - pouched sabre-tooths that terrorised South America until around 3.5 million years ago.
For its size, its huge canine teeth were larger than those of any other known sabre-tooth.
Smilodon's killing behaviour has long attracted controversy, but scientists now mostly agree that powerful neck muscles, as well as jaw muscles, played an important role in driving the sabre-teeth into the necks of large prey.
Little was known about the predatory behaviour in the pouched Thylacosmilus.
To shed light on this super-predator mystery, Dr Wroe's team of Australian and US scientists constructed and compared sophisticated computer models of Smilodon and Thylacosmilus, as well as a living conical-toothed cat, the leopard. These models were digitally 'crash-tested' in simulations of biting and killing behaviour. The results are published in the journal PLoS ONE.
"We found that both sabre-tooth species were similar in possessing weak jaw-muscle-driven bites compared to the leopard, but the mechanical performance of the sabre-tooths skulls showed that they were both well-adapted to resist forces generated by very powerful neck muscles," says Dr Wroe.
"But compared to the placental Smilodon, Thylacosmilus was even more extreme."
"Frankly, the jaw muscles of Thylacosmilus were embarrassing. With its jaws wide open this 80-100 kg 'super-predator' had a bite less powerful than a domestic cat. On the other hand - its skull easily outperformed that of the placental Smilodon in response to strong forces from hypothetical neck muscles."
"Bottom line is that the huge sabres of Thylacosmilus were driven home by the neck muscles alone and - because the sabre-teeth were actually quite fragile - this must have been achieved with surprising precision."
"For Thylacosmilus - and other sabre-tooths - it was all about a quick kill."
"Big prey are dangerous even to super-predators and the faster the kill the less likely it is that the predator will get hurt or for that matter attract unwanted attention from other predators."
"It may not have been the smartest of mammalian super-predators but in terms of specialisation Thylacosmilus took the already extreme sabre-tooth lifestyle to a whole new level," says Dr Wroe.
###

Media Contacts:
Dr Stephen Wroe: +61 (2) 4969 3006, s.wroe@unsw.edu.au
UNSW Science media: Deborah Smith: +61 (2) 9385 7307, +61 (0) 478 492, deborah.smith@unsw.edu.au

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uons-cmo070113.php
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'The Bible' TV miniseries will get NBC sequel

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Bible" is getting a sequel.

U.S. television network NBC said on Monday that it will produce a follow-up to the History Channel's popular miniseries "The Bible," which topped ratings when it premiered in March.

The sequel, which does not have an expected air or production date, has the working title "A.D.: Beyond the Bible," picks up in the time following Jesus Christ's death.

It is the first announced project of Comcast Corp-owned NBC's long-from programming initiative.

The History Channel's miniseries drew strong ratings for a cable program. It averaged 11.4 million viewers over its 10 episodes and its March 3 premiere episode was watched by 13.1 million, which beat all broadcast TV programs on that day.

The series averaged about 11 million viewers per episode.

"The Bible" miniseries was created by husband-and-wife team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.

The History Channel is owned by Walt Disney Co and privately held Hearst Corp.

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bible-tv-miniseries-nbc-sequel-000339289.html

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Releases Hokey Rock Album To Soundtrack Your Pivot (Review)

If you're a tech exec who finds Nickelback a bit too edgy, Groupon's former CEO Andrew Mason has just released an album for you. Now available on iTunes and Spotify, "Hardly Workin'" is 80's alternative rock about how to run your startup. I can't tell if it's a joke or not but regardless it will make you laugh, either with or at Mason.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QkhxBOBY0FA/

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Astronomer uncovers the hidden identity of an exoplanet

July 1, 2013 ? Hovering about 70 light-years from Earth -- that's "next door" by astronomical standards -- is a star astronomers call HD 97658, which is almost bright enough to see with the naked eye. But the real "star" is the planet HD 97658b, not much more than twice Earth's diameter and a little less than eight times its mass. HD 97658b is a super-Earth, a class of planet for which there is no example in our home solar system.

While the discovery of this particular exoplanet is not new, determining its true size and mass is, thanks to Diana Dragomir, a postdoctoral astronomer with UC Santa Barbara's Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT). As part of her research, Dragomir looked for transits of this exoplanet with Canada's Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope. The telescope was launched in 2003 to a pole-over-pole orbit about 510 miles high. Dragomir analyzed the data using code written by LCOGT postdoctoral fellow Jason Eastman. The results were published online today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A super-Earth is an exoplanet with a mass and radius between those of Earth and Neptune. Don't be fooled by the moniker though. Super-Earth refers to the planet's mass and does not imply similar temperature, composition, or environment to Earth. The brightness of HD 97658 means astronomers can study this star and planet in ways not possible for most of the exoplanet systems that have been discovered around fainter stars.

HD 97658b was discovered in 2011 by a team of astronomers using the Keck Observatory and a technique sometimes called Doppler wobble. But only a lower limit could be set on the planet's mass, and nothing was known about its size.

Transits, such as those observed by Dragomir, occur when a planet's orbit carries it in front of its parent star and reduces the amount of light we see from the star ever so slightly. Dips in brightness happen every orbit, if the orbit happens to be almost exactly aligned with our line of sight from Earth. For a planet not much bigger than our Earth around a star almost as big as our Sun, the dip in light is tiny but detectable by the ultraprecise MOST space telescope.

The first report of transits in the HD 97658 system in 2011 turned out to be a false alarm. That might have been the end of the story, but Dragomir knew that the ephemeris of the planet's orbit (a timetable to predict when the planet might pass in front of the star) was not exact. She convinced the MOST team to widen the search parameters, and during the last possible observing window for this star last year, the data showed tantalizing signs of a transit -- tantalizing, but not certain beyond doubt. A year later, MOST revisited HD 97658 and found clear evidence of the planet's transits, allowing Dragomir and the MOST team to estimate the planet's true size and mass for the first time.

"Measuring an exoplanet's size and mass leads to a determination of its density, which in turn allows astronomers to say something about its composition," Dragomir said. "Measuring the properties of super-Earths in particular tells us whether they are mainly rocky, water-rich, mini gas giants, or something entirely different."

The average density of HD 97658b is about four grams per cubic centimeter, a third of the density of lead but denser than most rocks. Astronomers see great significance in that value -- about 70 percent of the average density of Earth -- since the surface gravity of HD 97658b could hold onto a thick atmosphere. But there's unlikely to be alien life breathing those gases. The planet orbits its sun every 9.5 days, at a distance a dozen times closer than we are from our Sun, which is too close to be in the Habitable Zone, nicknamed The Goldilocks Zone. The Goldilocks nickname is apropos: If a planet is too close to its star, it's too hot; if it's too far away, it's too cold, but if it's in the zone, it's "just right" for liquid water oceans, one condition that was necessary for life here on Earth.

Over the past few years, systems with massive planets at very small orbital radii have proved to be quite common despite being generally unexpected. The current number of confirmed exoplanets exceeds 600, with the vast majority having been discovered by radial velocity surveys. These are severely biased toward the detection of systems with massive planets (roughly the mass of Jupiter) in small orbits. Bucking that trend is HD 97658b, which orbits its star at a distance farther than many of the currently known exoplanets. HD 97658b is only the second super-Earth known to transit a very bright star.

"This discovery adds to the still small sample of transiting super-Earths around bright stars," said Dragomir. "In addition, it has a longer period than many known transiting exoplanets around bright stars, including 55 Cnc e, the only other super-Earth in this category. The longer period means it is cooler than many closer-in exoplanets, so studying HD 97658b's properties is part of the progression toward understanding what exoplanets in the habitable zone might be like."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/7ljS5qLwOI0/130701163941.htm

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How To Send a Photo Around the World (in 1926)

Today, we take for granted the ability to send photos halfway around the world in an instant. (Which is probably why that popular smartphone photograph service is called Instant-Gram?.) But a century ago, getting a photograph across an ocean was a much more involved process than simply snapping a mirror selfie and publishing it to 3,000 of your closest friends.