Five years ago today, people were getting their hands on the iPhone for the first time. Know what that means? We all had something that wasn’t an iPhone. Or an Android Phone. Or a Windows Phone. So what did you have? Are there any BlackBerry users out there who are using the same phone now that you had back then? More »
Childbirth is a painful process for a mom, even with epidural pain
killers that effectively reduce that pain. Fear of that pain, called tocophobia,
is why some women choose not to have children at all. But for women
who do become pregnant and carry their children to term, the fear of
childbirth may actually cause greater difficulty to the mother in the
delivery room, according to a new study from Norway.
Google unveiled its slick 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet this week at its Google I/O conference. This little tablet will sell for $199 when it launches in the middle of July and will be running the Android Jelly Bean 4.1 OS. If you have your heart set on one of the little tablets and you’re like me with a drawer full of old gadgets you don’t use, you might want to swing by GameStop.
GameStop is offering a special deal to people who bring in old gadgets to trade on a pre-order of the Nexus 7 tablet. The retailer will give you 30% more for any item you trade in towards the pre-order of the little Google tablet. That 30% extra trade is good on video game hardware, software, accessories, and other smartphones and tablets.
Trade values for old Android tablets can go up to $250 depending on the condition and the tablet, so you might even be able to trade in an older tablet and walk out with a shiny new one. If you have a bunch of stuff you don’t use anymore, this may be the perfect way to get yourself a new tablet.
If we truly wanted to prevent the sex trafficking of children, we would legalize adult consensual prostitution and take the millions spent arresting women who sell sex by choice and rescue minors who are truly being coerced into sex against their will.
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Remember how it seemed too good to be true that Sony’s back to school promo would let you buy a VAIO T and get a free PlayStation 3 or Vita worth a third of the value of the Ultrabook you just bought? Well, it was. Sony has quietly dropped the $750 laptop from the PCs that qualify for the deal, raising the real qualifying price to $970 for a 15.5-inch VAIO S. Some will cry foul at being denied such a killer bargain without warning, but it’s easy to see why Sony backed out: that’s a lot of gear to give away for little in return. Dreams of heading to class with an ultraportable in hand and a PS3 at the dorm will have to be postponed, then, even if it’s still an ample discount.
[Thanks, Gabriel]
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In Evansville, Indiana, a Police SWAT team has executed a search warrant on a home in full tactical gears. The reason: threats perpetrated against local Police forces over the internet, threatening the officers lives, their family, including the mention of home-made bombs. The Police needed no more to quickly find what Internet address was used to send the threats, and what physical address it was linked to.
But when they executed the search warrant -with flash bangs (sounds/light grenades designed to disorient) and all- they found an innocent family that had no idea of why this was happening. Shortly after, the Police realized that they were misled by the IP address from the threat message, and that they got the wrong folks. (more…)
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Every human being has psychological blindspots, and to expect spiritual teachers not to have them, even if they are claiming enlightenment, is a set up for deep disillusionment down the road
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Google has improved the security of its Face Unlock feature for the upcoming Android 4.1 Jelly Bean release. The feature was first introduced with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as a way to unlock your phone through face recognition. However, it was quickly discovered that it could be tricked by a using a photo of the person.
With Jelly Bean, Google is adding a new option called Liveness Check for the Face Unlock feature that will require you to blink in order to unlock your device. The face recognition portion of it is faster than before and a message is then displayed asking you to “Blink now.” Your device then unlocks once you blink.
To add this feature, you will need to check the box in the security section of the settings on your device. Although the Liveness Check does improve the security issue with Face Unlock, there’s still the possibility that those determined to get into your device could doctor a video or animated GIF of your face, played back using another smartphone screen.
[via TechCrunch]
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After five years of marriage, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, People reported Friday.
“This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” said Holmes’s attorney Jonathan Wolfe. “Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.”
Cruise and Holmes wed in November 2006 in a star-studded ceremony held at Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracciano, Italy. The couple are parents to daughter Suri, 6.
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The best way to ensure that professionals are using your software is to get users hooked when they’re young. That’s why most software packages have an educational discount, and why Adobe has just introduced a plugin that turns learning Photoshop into a game. More »
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