Samsung Galaxy S 4 expected to launch on T-Mobile on May 1st

Samsung Galaxy S 4 expected to launch on T-Mobile on May 1st

Here at T-Mobile’s “UnCarrier” press conference, we’ve heard loads of pricing and availability details for the company’s new LTE-enabled handsets. Well, here’s one more tidbit: the Galaxy S4 is expected to hit T-Mo on May 1st. If that sounds like soft, tentative language on our part, it’s because the carrier said the phone will arrive “about May 1st,” so it’s possible it could arrive, you know, on May 3rd instead. That said, it’s coming, and soon. As for pricing, nothing’s been confirmed, but we already know T-Mobile’s other LTE phones (the iPhone 5, HTC One, etc.) will go for $100 plus monthly payments of $20 for two years, so we wouldn’t be surprised if the same were true here.

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Maybe Isolation, Not Loneliness, Shortens Life

Loneliness hurts, but social isolation can kill you. That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 6,500 people in the U.K.

The study, by a team at University College London, comes after decades of research showing that both loneliness and infrequent contact with friends and family can, independently, shorten a person’s life. The scientists expected to find that the combination of these two risk factors would be especially dangerous.

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Yes Yes Yes. 3D Print Your Own Real-life N64 GoldenEye Remote Mines

Ask anyone who was an avid gamer in the 1990s what the greatest console game of all time is, and a vast majority will say GoldenEye on the N64. Many of us lost a good chunk of our childhood to the game’s fantastic multiplayer mode and its wonderful weaponry, including the dastardly remote mines which you can now enjoy in real life. More »

‘The Voice’ Ratings: NBC Wins Night, Rebounds In Key Demos

“The Voice” returned with strong ratings, boosting NBC to a win.

Preliminary “Voice” ratings have the series pulling in a 4.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic from 8-10:01 p.m. ET and 13.4 million viewers overall. The rating is up from the Season 3 premiere which had a 4.2 rating in September. However, the ratings were down compared to the Season 3 finale which had 14 million viewers and a 4.9 rating in December.

In the premiere, new coaches Shakira and Usher joined Adam Levine and Blake Shelton in the spinning red chairs for the blind auditions. “The Voice” was the No.1 show of the night across the networks.

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Prostate Cancer Risk Linked To Early-Onset Baldness In New Study

French researchers said it, and now a team from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have released new evidence to support their claim: Men who lose their hair early in life have a greater risk of developing prostate cancer.

In a study of 537 African-American men — 318 with prostate cancer and 219 controls — investigators discovered that baldness of any kind was associated with a 69 percent increased risk of prostate cancer, particularly among African-American men.

According to the study, which was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, black men with frontal baldness, and not vertex baldness, were more than twice as likely to have been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. The association was even stronger among those who were diagnosed when younger than 60, with a sixfold increase in high-stage prostate cancer and a fourfold increase in high-grade prostate cancer.

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Miami Dolphins Offer To Repay Portion Of Public Costs To Renovate Stadium

The Miami Dolphins have offered to repay Miami-Dade County for a portion of the public costs of renovating Sun Life Stadium, and to pay millions of dollars in penalties should the team fail to bring major events to South Florida, including four Super Bowls over the next three decades, The Miami Herald has learned.

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Steven Cohen’s Picasso: After Insider Trading Payout, Hedge Fund Billionaire Spends $155 Million On Masterpiece

It did not take long for Steven Cohen, the billionaire behind SAC Capital, to get over his $600 million payout to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Not even two weeks after the hedge-fund manager settled over insider trading allegations, the 117th richest man in the world purchased a famous Picasso painting. The price tag on the masterpiece? A whopping $155 million.

According to The New York Post’s anonymous source:

“Steve bought ‘Le Rêve’ as a gift to himself. This was supposed to be a top- secret sale because of the government investigation and settlement.”

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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Into Pacific Ocean

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The SpaceX Dragon capsule is back on Earth.

The privately owned cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific on Tuesday, five hours after leaving the International Space Station. The California-based SpaceX confirmed the Dragon’s return to Earth via Twitter.

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T-Mobile says its iPhone 5 has HSPA+ on AWS bands, HD Voice

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We all know the iPhone is at last reaching T-Mobile — but what you might not know is that it won’t just be a one-for-one port of the existing hardware. Carrier CEO John Legere just stated that the T-Mobile iPhone 5 will support HSPA+ on AWS bands (1,700MHz and 2,100MHz) in addition to ready-made LTE support. If you wander outside of an LTE coverage area, you’ll still have up to 42Mbps data on Magenta’s network. There’s more: it’ll also support the same HD Voice calling that went nationwide in January.

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JVS Los Angeles Helps Job Seekers Who Face Barriers To Employment

Since the Great Depression and through the Great Recession, one California nonprofit has been working non-stop to help Americans thrive in the workplace.

Jewish Vocational Service Los Angeles provides Southern Californians with a full host of employment services, from education and training to counseling and psychological assistance. A non-sectarian organization, JVS focuses on at-risk youth, the physically disabled, veterans and anyone else struggling to establish independence and self-sufficiency.

“The people that come to us with deep wounds typically need intensive work to increase their level of self-esteem, motivation and to deal with psychological issues, whatever they might be,” Claudia Finkel, the COO of JVS, told The Huffington Post. JVS mentors are trained volunteers who integrate intensive case management with focused training programs to not only assist with job acquisition, but also with job performance and retention.

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