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It took four years, but finally Nora Schweihs was on the cusp of getting the closure she needed regarding her father’s death. Did he get a proper burial? In other words, was the body in his casket really him? On the season finale of “Mob Wives: Chicago” (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on VH1), the funeral director agreed to exhume his body to get a positive ID.

Without DNA tests, the funeral director told Nora that he couldn’t make a positive ID on the body, so Nora decided to do it herself. She simply felt she couldn’t wait any longer. Unfortunately, though, Nora had no better luck identifying his remains after four years.

“I’m supposed to have closure today after four years and now I have to wait another two to three weeks?” she said, exasperated. But she’d come this far, so she toughed it out.

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Phablets could very well be the new niche market that smartphone manufacturers might want to look into, thanks to the efforts by Samsung which resulted in the Samsung Galaxy Note, followed by the impending release of its sequel, the Galaxy Note 2. Well, the name Micromax might not register on anyone’s radar, considering the rather oxymoronic nature of the name, but here they are with the Micromax Superfone Canvas A100 that sports a rather generous 5-inch LCD display that places it in phablet territory, in addition to having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running right out of the box. (more…)

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The Motorola Droid RAZR HD which was touted to arrive in the market later this October with a rumored 8-megapixel camera has just gotten a couple of its tutorial videos leaked, letting you get a closer glimpse of the smartphone before it officially makes its way to the masses. In the video above, you are able to get a closer look at the user interface, the display as well as the other stuff that the smartphone is capable of performing. You know what they say about a picture being worth a thousand words – with a video that runs at 24fps at the minimum, we are talking about a lengthy speech here.

The Motorola Droid RAZR HD is tipped to be announced and introduced at the upcoming Motorola/Verizon event which will happen on September 5th in New York City. So all we are asking is for you to hold your peace, stock up on your patience, and watch the leaked tutorial video above in the mean time. What do you think of the Motorola Droid RAZR HD – is it your cup of tea, or do you prefer to settle for the next generation iPhone instead?

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We’re only one episode in and already baby fever seems to be striking hard on “Married to Jonas” (Sun., 10 p.m. ET on E!). While this in and of itself is not a huge surprise when dealing with a newlywed couple, it’s a little different when neither Kevin nor his wife, Danielle, were the ones having the conversation.

Well, they were having it in as much as they were at the table when it was happening, but it wasn’t their conversation. And that was a little weird. In fact, it was brother Nick who seemed to be ready to plan out the entire pregnancy and both Kevin and Danielle’s roles in it, down to how much time Kevin needed to spend at home with her toward the end of her pregnancy.

Finally, though, Danielle took control of the whole situation — it is her womb after all, as WetPaint reminded us — by declaring that maybe they should hold off on expanding the Jonas clan. Maybe until after everyone else in the family is a lot less interested in their baby-making schedule.

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We do know that DNA are veritable biological libraries, holding their fair share of information, but here is a novel way of making use of them. Researchers have managed to encode a full book in DNA, which would make this achievement the largest amount of information stored on the biological medium to date. Just what kind of data has been encoded? Well, the digital version of the book comprises of over 50,000 words, 11 images and a solitary computer program, with the amount of data weighing in at around 0.7MB. This project is led by George Church of Harvard Medical School, relying on off-the-shelf technology.

According to this bunch of scientists, DNA has its fair advantages for data storage since it is three dimensional and extremely durable. Hasn’t DNA survived for a millennia, and unharmed to boot? Hey, the next time you want to know more about my work and portfolio, here is a strand of my hair – process it and you will receive all that you need to know.

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