Microsoft demoed Xbox One gameplay during E3 2013 this past week, and we even got to see some live gameplay for ourselves with Crytek’s Ryse. However, it seems Microsoft didn’t actually use the Xbox One to play these new games. Instead, it was discovered that Windows 7 gaming rigs equipped with NVIDIA GeForce 700-series GTX
Based on the dynabook V713, the V713/H is nothing more than an “Bluid To Order” convertible PC oriented for businesses and comes with the same basic features. However, unlike the V713, the V713/H comes with Windows 8 Pro 64Bit and the ability to downgrade to Windows 7, a selection of Core i5-3439Y, i5-3339Y and Celeron 847 CPU, 2 or 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, a Full HD 11.6 IPS LCD, WiFi ABGN, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI Out, USB 3.0…
Announced for the end of June, the V713/H will be sold at a starting price of 230,790 Yen in Japan
By Steve Scherer
VATICAN CITY, June 15 (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged a delegation of French lawmakers on Saturday to avoid following only “fashions and ideas of the moment”, when legislating, in an apparent reference to the country’s legalisation of gay marriage last month.
The law granting gay men and lesbians equality in marriage and adoption has been among the most divisive of President Francois Hollande’s first year in office, pitting a predominantly liberal public in mostly Roman Catholic France against traditionalists, the far-right and many churchgoers.
Without making any specific mention of the law, Francis said the church should have a voice in political issues even in staunchly secular France.
“The church would like to offer specific contributions on profound issues … not only in an anthropological and social circles, but also in political, economic and cultural ones,” Francis said, according to a Vatican statement.
Parliamentarians should legislate according to “a spirit, a soul, that does not reflect only the fashions and ideas of the moment”, he said.
The passage of the law prompted a massive protest march in Paris and has come to embody wider discontent with Hollande.
The pope met the French delegation of parliamentarians, who are members of a “Friendship Group” with the Vatican, on the same day that thousands took part in Rome’s annual “Gay Pride” parade.
One of the men marching in the parade – wearing a pink wig and heart-shaped sunglasses – said gay marriage would never be legal in Rome as it is in Paris.
“The Catholic Church is too powerful in Italy,” Massimo Marra told Reuters. (Additional reporting by Roberto Mignucci; editing by Andrew Roche)
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It’s not often that a single photograph can trigger a wave of cultural resistance, let alone a straight-forward portrait. And yet in the upcoming exhibition “Boy! Oh, Boy!” contemporary photographic male portraits are at once rebellious and vulnerable, playful and sensual. A selection of influential artists working in this specialized genre join forces for an exhibition that will make an already sweltering summer a little bit hotter.
Artists including Kevin Amato, Doug Ischar, Paul Jasmin, and Richard Renaldi present sharp and luscious depictions of boyhood and all the confused energy that swirls around it. Aggression, compassion, masculinity and sensitivity intermingle in many of the transcendent portraits, capturing not just an individual but the concept of a boy today.
“Black and white are the colors of photography,” Robert Frank once famously said. “To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” Frank, along with 20th century icons like Bill Brandt, Man Ray, Tina Modotti and Weegee all had this in common — a common reverence for the monochromatic medium of early photography.
A new exhibit at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum is reconsidering the careers of nearly 100 photographers of the black-and-white realm, but with an eye toward another shared characteristic. “Displaced Visions: Émigré Photographers of the 20th Century” will focus on the roles of these historic figures as immigrant artists, documenting their new homes in personal, captivating ways.
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Good lord I am happy to be a Geek today and thank you JVC for making something the we all dreaded for : a compact 4K Camcorder supporting DSLR lenses! Featuring Nikon’s famous F-Mount the JY-HMQ30 is not your average camcorder and will shot 60fps AVC/H.264 4K Video on four separate SDHX/SDXC (each SD will shoot a 1920×1080 portion of the 4K video) at 144Mbps or if HD is still your thing, 1080/60p Videos at 28Mbps.
Of course the JY-HMQ30 comes with Apple’s ProRes422 Codec via JVC’s 4K Clip manager as well as featuring 4K Time Lapse recording, Focus assist XLR and even nice 3.5″ touchscreen!
Available this month in Japan, the JY-HMQ30 is far from being the most affordable 4K Camcorder on the market and it will cost you at least 1.7Million Yen without lenses
If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week, the Lumia 925 touched down in Germany, a popular RSS client for Android broke free of its Google Reader shackles and BBM Channels received some sorely needed features. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that’s happening in the mobile world for this week of June 10th, 2013.
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The NSA’s high-tech, new school surveillance system has been getting a whole lot of attention lately, but their old-school digs are worth a look as well. The agency has been around since the 1950s, originally tasked with cracking wartime codes, the NSA’s gear has always been cutting edge, and the old stuff is amazing and funny to look at now.
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The Bhagavad Gita states, “The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.” We think we are free, but actually we are being forced to act.
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As fishes are at one with the waves of the river, So was the Guru, immersed in the River of the Lord: As the moth submits itself to the flame, So was the Guru’s light merged with the Divine.
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