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Toshiba Qosmio X875-Q7390
Although tablets and ultrabooks garner most of the attention in the PC world, few classes of systems have as much flair as gaming rigs, where hulking, ostentatious designs typically outweigh concerns for portability and affordability. Even mainstream vendors are getting in on the action, and the Windows 8-equipped Toshiba Qosmio X875-Q7390 ($1,949.99 list) is no exception. Its beefy chassis packs a slew of cool features, like a Blu-ray burner and an exceptional 1080p display that supports 3D technology. Unfortunately, its woefully short battery life holds it back from midrange gaming laptop glory. It's an option worth exploring, but better choices are out there.
Design and Features
The Qosmio X875-Q7390's hulking plastic chassis weighs 7.60 pounds and measures 1.7 by 16.5 by 10.7 inches (HWD), so carrying it around?even without the two-pound power brick?nearly constitutes a legitimate form of exercise. Hernia-related fears aside, the Qosmio X875-Q7390's lid and palm rest are appealingly decked out in "black widow styling," which is Toshiba-speak for textured aluminum that's almost entirely black save for red accents around the keyboard, touchpad, and speaker grilles.
The Qosmio X875-Q7390's generously-sized tiled keyboard features an integrated alphanumeric keypad and, despite its slightly shallow key travel, offers a comfortable typing experience. Its red backlighting makes for a cool visual effect that gives the Qosmio X875-Q7390 the edginess that goes hand in hand with gaming laptops. The touchpad, meanwhile, provides excellent tactile feedback while fluidly supporting Windows 8 gesture controls.
The Qosmio X875-Q7390 biggest draw is arguably its 17.3-inch 1,920 by 1,080 display, which brims with rich color reproduction and deep, inky blacks. Naturally, video playback looks fantastic, especially when you toss a Blu-ray disc into the Qosmio X875-Q7390's Blu-ray burner. What truly sets the Qosmio X875-Q7390's display apart from other systems in its class, however, is its 3D display. To enable this feature, simply use the Nvidia control panel to establish an IR connection between the display and the included pair of Nvidia 3D glasses.The end result will impress even the most jaded of gamers. I myself had a healthy amount of skepticism about this feature until I tested it out with a Jurassic Park 3D on Blu-ray. Within moments, dinosaurs and humans alike jumped off the screen with such eye-popping detail that calling it "dazzling" is an understatement.
Audio is pumped out at fairly loud volumes through the Qosmio X875-Q7390's dual Harmon Kardon speakers beneath the display. Although "Idioteque" by Radiohead didn't quite rattle the windows, Thom Yorke's ominous warbling was nonetheless loud enough to fill up a medium-sized room.
Port selection on the Qosmio X875-Q7390 is also quite good. Alongside the Blu-ray burner, the right side houses dual USB 3.0 ports and an Ethernet port. On the left side you'll find audio jacks, another pair of USB 3.0 ports, a memory card reader, and VGA and HDMI-out ports.
Although the Qosmio X875-Q7390's four USB 3.0 ports offer plenty of space for external hard drives, that may be entirely unnecessary thanks to the system's generous offering of dual 5,400rpm 1TB hard drives. As was the case with the Samsung Series 7 Gamer, though, gamers must first confront a formidable pile of preloaded software upon initial setup. These programs range from useful (Microsoft Office Trial) to needless bloatware (WildTangent Games; scattered desktop links), with a mountain of proprietary software (Toshiba BookPlace, Disc Creator, and the like) and trial versions (30-day trials of Norton software, including Internet Security, Online Backup, and Anti-Theft Online Banking). Toshiba covers the Qosmio X875-Q7390 with a one-year warranty. That's fairly stingy for a gaming rig, especially when compared against the competition. By contrast, the current Editors' Choice for midrange gaming laptops, the Asus G75VW-DH72, is covered with a two-year warranty.
Performance
The Qosmio X875-Q7390's combined 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-3630QM processor and 3GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M GPU, along with 16GB RAM, made for an admirable?though not class-leading?performer in our benchmark tests. Although its PCMark 7 score of 4,547 points fell slightly short of the class-leading Alienware M17x R4 (4,598 points), it nonetheless topped the rest of its class, including the Asus G75VW-DS71 (2,893 points). Its Cinebench R11.5 score of 6.34 points, meanwhile, was outflanked by both the Asus G75VW-DS71 (6.44 points) as well as the Alienware M17x R4 (6.86 points). The Qosmio X875-Q7390's admirable performance extended to its multimedia tests, where it displayed an exceptional capacity for content creation. It completed our Handbrake video encoding test in 37 seconds, only one second short of the Asus G75VW-DS71 (36 seconds). Moreover, the 3 minutes 40 seconds it took for the Qosmio X875-Q7390 to cycle through the dozen or so filters in our Photoshop CS6 test was on par with the Asus G75VW-DS71 (3:32).
As far as high-end gaming goes, the Qosmio X875-Q7390 was able to cross the 30 frames per second (fps) playability barrier in medium-quality settings but its frame rates lagged when the settings were maxed out. In Aliens Vs. Predator (54fps in medium quality;18fps in high quality settings) was eclipsed by the Asus G75VW-DS71 (55fps and 18fps, respectively). Likewise, the Qosmio X875-Q7390's performance in Heaven (42ps in medium quality; 16fps in high quality settings) once again fell short of the Asus G75VW-DS71 (70fps and 28fps, respectively). The Qosmio X875-Q7390's performance in 3DMark11 (4,905 points in Entry-level mode; 921 points in Extreme mode) couldn't quite match that of the Samsung Series 7 Gamer (5,572 points and 1,134 points, respectively) or the Alienware M17x R4 (9,023 points and 2,086 points, respectively).
It's no secret that gaming laptops aren't renowned for stellar battery life. Even with these lowered expectations, the Qosmio X875-Q7390's removable 47Whr battery yielded dismal results, lasting a meager 51 minutes in our battery rundown test. At this point, it doesn't even matter that the Asus G75VW-DH72 (3:02) lasted much longer than the Qosmio X875-Q7390. What does matter, however, is that the Qosmio X875-Q7390 couldn't even last for a single hour without being plugged in. Just to be sure, I re-tested the Qosmio X875-Q7390. Once again, it clocked in at under an hour. The fact that I was able to run a battery test on the Qosmio X875-Q7390 twice before my lunch break confirmed the worst: Unless users stay near a power outlet or spring for a bunch of extra batteries, they won't be going anywhere with the Qosmio X875-Q7390 any time soon.
There's plenty to like about the Toshiba Qosmio X875-Q7390, like its cool design, abundant storage capacity, and, of course, its superlative 3D display. At the end of the day, however, performance is the paramount consideration when it comes to gaming laptops. That, along with battery life, ultimately conspire against the Qosmio X875-Q7390 and prevent it from snagging the Asus G75VW-DH72's title as Editors' Choice for midrange gaming laptops. Still, its content creation abilities and incredible display alone make it worth checking out, and we nonetheless recommend doing so.
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Rick Steves: West Bank Necropolis
Across the Nile from Luxor is a valley with more ancient treasures than any place I've seen. I spent a long day visiting tombs and temples to find the best places for my upcoming TV episodes on Egypt. With the help of an excellent guide, I enjoyed Egyptian art and history more than I ever have. Here's a bit of what I learned:
Everything I saw was art for dead people and gods. Ancient Egyptians lived on the east bank (where the sun rose) and buried each other on the west bank (where the sun died each evening). In about 1600 B.C. there was a big change in the style of tombs. Until then, kings were buried in pyramids. A string of about 70 of them are scattered along the Nile between the border of the Sudan and the Mediterranean--all on the west bank. But these pyramids were consistently being robbed, which meant kings were waking up in heaven with none of their favorite stuff. So, rather than mark their tombs with big pyramids, they started hiding their tombs in the folds of these valleys.
The Valley of Kings: Where pharaohs hide out while awaiting eternity.
This coincided with a new age when Egypt became an expansionist power. The money and labor saved by not building pyramids could literally populate and fund armies. The pharaohs (that's the Egyptian word for king) buried near Luxor were aggressive leaders who conquered and ruled an empire stretching from the Sudan to Syria. Of 63 tombs found so far in the Valley of the Kings, only two were found intact. Most were plundered in ancient Egyptian times and then buried and forgotten for centuries until our age. Archeologists expect there are about a hundred tombs still awaiting discovery--and likely just a handful will be found intact.
Sights generally mobbed by tour buses are empty in 2013. Ever since a horrible massacre of tourists by terrorists at Luxor back in the 1990s, police have been stationed at every ancient sight.
It's all about gaining eternal life. Eternity required an intact body and food for the soul's journey. The body was mummified and hidden in the Valley of the Kings. While commoners' tombs were simply gravel pits--traces of which you can see today--the fabulously rich and powerful kings had elaborate tombs. They were dug with long underground ramps elaborately painted, leading down to big tomb chambers deep in the mountain. The biggest fears were that a jackal would dig up and eat your body or that grave robbers would loot your stash before you made it to heaven. My guide explained, "When you fear something, you worship it. So the god Anubis is portrayed as a jackal. He's the god of embalmers, guardian of tombs."
Tombs with their colorful paintings, hidden in the dark and dry desert of Egypt for over 3,000 years, are remarkably well-preserved.
The soul needed nourishment to make it to the goal line of salvation. Because the body was effectively hidden in the valley--and therefore couldn't be fed, each major tomb would have a correlating mortuary temple nearby, in full view between the hidden tombs and the Nile. This is where offerings of food were brought to the dead. While the most famous mortuary temple was that of Queen Hatshepsut, I found the much less famous mortuary temple of Ramses III, called Medinet Habu, far more visual and better for TV.
With a guide to explain the symbolism--in this case, how great Ramses III was--you learn how meaningful every inch of this carved surface is. Photo by Trish Feaster (for her Egypt blog, see http://thetravelphile.com/).
There's a separate valley for kings, queens, and nobles. We toured tombs in each. One of my favorites was the Tomb of Ramses IV for its original colors and cosmic ceiling over the burial chamber. A portrait of the dead king greets the sun-god at the top of the ramp. There's a great shot looking down the ramp to the tomb chamber with its huge granite sarcophagus (the stone was quarried in distant Aswan). Another favorite was the Tomb of Ramses III. Judging by the glamorous attire on the figures painted on the walls of his tomb, Ramses III was more of a fashionista. But the walls are all covered with glass, which will be tough to film. The very best paintings I saw were in the Tomb of Amenherkhepshef, a son of Ramses III.
The foreman of the workers who decorated the pharaoh's tomb got a cool perk--a very colorful tomb of his own. Photo by Trish Feaster (for her Egypt blog, see http://thetravelphile.com/).
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Refurbished 'Star Trek' Bridge Aims To Beam To San Diego
Calling all wannabe space captains: The starship Enterprise bridge from television's "Star Trek" may open to the public in the next year. After lying in a studio backyard for years, a display version of the bridge from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is slowly being refurbished by a group called New Starship.
Nothing's confirmed yet, but organizer Huston Huddleston said he is in talks with the San Diego Air & Space Museum to bring the bridge there in the middle of 2014. It will remain there for a year, the plan goes, before possibly hitting the road for other locations.
This exhibit, Huddleston said, would not only include the bridge, but recreations of other iconic "Star Trek"ship locations such as the transporter room and Captain Jean-Luc Picard's personal quarters. (The museum confirmed the talks to SPACE.com, but said plans are yet to be finalized.) [Video: Star Trek's Bridge Restored] ?
"We thought, to quote 'The Six Million Dollar Man,' we have the technology to make this into something that was seen on the TV show, but the technology wasn't there back then ? touch-screen computers and interactivity," Huddleston said.
"We want to make it an educational piece to bring an entire classroom of kids on the bridge of the Enterprise and have them fly the ship."
Even if the exhibit doesn't end up in San Diego, Huddleston aims to have it in other museums ? including a proposed science-fiction focused museum in Hollywood he's involved with that he'd love to see open in 2016. However, considering the design is still not finished, he acknowledges the latter could be an ambitious aim.
From the scrap heap, back to Hollywood attention
According to Huddleston, the display bridge was completed after the film "Star Trek: Generations" went into theaters in 1994. The bridge that was used in the "Next Generation"show was "blown up" as a part of the storyline of the movie.
New Starship's acquired bridge is one of three that was made for "Star Trek: The Experience," a Las Vegas theme park that closed in 2008, according to media reports. This particular bridge was used for a tour, then returned to Paramount Studios in 2006.
Subsequently the bridge sat outside ? unused ? for about five years, Huddleston said. "It was when Paramount sold their rights to CBS," he said, referring to when CBS acquired Paramount Television around 2006. "It kind of fell between the cracks."
Huddleston, a writer, producer and director, found out about the abandoned bridge from a friend who was leaving Paramount in 2011.
With the set scheduled for the scrap heap, Huddleston said he negotiated to have the pieces temporarily shipped to his backyard, paying $7,000 in shipping costs to get it moved an hour south, from Anaheim to Sherman Oaks, Calif. [Original 'Star Trek' Galileo Shuttlecraft Restored (Photos)]
He next spent months contacting people he knew in show business, working to get support. His big breakthrough came after attending the Creation Entertainment Official Star Trek Convention in August 2012, where he got the attention of "Battlestar: Galactica" writer Ronald D. Moore and Rod Roddenberry, the son of "Star Trek"creator Gene Roddenberry.
Next, cautiously, the group spoke with CBS officials with this idea, and gradually gained their support for the interactive exhibit, Huddleston said.
"It wasn?t a fan film, and it wasn?t just some geeky, nerdy, 'I?m going to turn my living room into the bridge of the Enterprise thing.' It was bigger than that," Huddleston said. "They understood it, and they understand the huge PR boost, the positive thing this is doing for the 'Star Trek' franchise."
Crowdsourced support
From there, plans have been flying at warp speed. New Starship started a Kickstarter campaign in late 2012 aiming to raise $20,000 to assist with restoration. It received more than three times that goal ? $68,611 ? all going toward restoring various pieces and starting the museum.
Another $14,505 came from a separate IndieGoGo crowdsourced campaign that fell far short of its original $240,000 fundraising goal.
Everyone on the project is working as a volunteer, Huddleston said. New Starship's Kickstarter page also acknowledges sponsorship from collectibles site Entertainment Earth, and Abrams Books.
Fragile bridge pieces these days are scattered across the United States ? the captain's chair is in South Dakota, for example ? as volunteers work to restore it. The frame is safely in storage and will be worked on last; its fiberglass frame received less damage after being stored outside.
Huddleston, meanwhile, has a packed schedule of convention tours for the summer to make aspiring Starfleet cadets aware of the project. One of his planned stops is a NASA-affiliated event in Houston in August that could include astronauts and some Hollywood stars.
The bridge should be ready sometime next winter, at which point Huddleston and his backers plan a gala event at a Paramount sound stage in California that will even feature the wedding of two "Star Trek" fans on the bridge.
Updates on the project are available on its Kickstarter page.
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Google Now for iOS hands-on
Google Now is, perhaps, one of the more compelling reasons to opt for an Android device over iOS. But, Mountain View is smart enough to realize that its big push to deliver information pre-emptively would be severely hampered if it was isolated to one platform. So, here we are, almost a year after Now debuted with the launch of Jelly Bean, and the (mis)labeled Siri competitor has finally landed on Apple's mobile OS. Obviously, to truly come to grips with a product like this, you'd need days or weeks to truly judge it, but we're familiar enough with the Android version to feel comfortable passing along our initial impressions. So head on after the break to see whether or not Google was able to replicate its virtual assistant magic on iOS.
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Paul McCartney and Wings: Hi Hi Hi
This is a good song. No one is saying that you should listen to it while in any type of altered mental state whatsoever. It's just a good song. The Wings recorded it in 1972 and it got pretty popular, though the BBC was turned off by some of its lyrics. Paul apparently had this to say about their concerns:
The BBC got some of the words wrong. But I suppose it is a bit of a dirty song if sex is dirty and naughty. I was in a sensuous mood in Spain when I wrote it.
Okay people, you heard the man, time for a sensuous trip to Spain.
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Doctor Who, Season 7, Part 2
In?Slate?s?Doctor Who?TV Club, Mac Rogers discusses the Doctor?s travels via IM every week with the show?s bloggers and fans. This week he?s chatting about ?Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS? with?Andrew Blair, who writes for Den of Geek.
Mac Rogers: So in a rare vulnerable moment in which the Doctor has disabled all the TARDIS's defense systems, the time-ship is captured by a "magno-grab" ray from a nearby salvage ship run by the Van Baalens, a family of scrap merchants. Clara is trapped inside the badly damaged?possibly dying?TARDIS, so the Doctor tricks Gregor and Bram Van Baalen, and their supposedly "android" helper Tricky, into helping him find her. For me, ?Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS? has so much going for it on the conceptual and production levels that it was extra-aggravating to me that the script by Stephen Thompson kept falling down on the job.
Andrew Blair: It had a strong middle act, but a weaker beginning and ending. Scriptwise I felt like it needed to be less fan-servicing. Looked great though, can't deny that.
Mac: It did look great! I've read that Moffat wanted to redeem the poorly realized TARDIS interior of 1978?s "The Invasion of Time" (with its legendary Sontaran pool-chair debacle). In that sense, I think "Journey" is a success. I love the notion (echoed in "The Edge of Destruction" and "The Doctor's Wife") that when it's injured, the TARDIS turns into something of a haunted house.
Andrew: That was one of my favorite aspects. This series has essentially cast the TARDIS as a mute, truculent third wheel.
Mac: The Van Baalen brothers are where my annoyances started. Why does the Doctor think they can help him? And why, when they think they're in a race against death, do Gregor and Bram waste time junking the TARDIS and openly defying the man who controls their fate?
Andrew: The Doctor needs more people to cover more ground, and no one else is available. And someone else needs to be there to get killed.
Mac: I liked the?idea of the Van Baalen brothers?I feel like the Doctor doesn't cross paths with blue-collar folks that often in the new series?and I liked the three actors as well, but I kept feeling like their presence was cluttering up what should have been an amazing two-hander?well actually, as you note,?a three-hander between the Doctor, Clara, and the TARDIS. Especially in a season built around the idea that the Doctor and his companion trust each other less than usual, I feel like it's a missed opportunity not to have a claustrophobic story studying their relationship. Thompson tried to make the brothers interesting, particularly with the Tricky reveal, but for me it felt like crammed-in backstory.
Andrew: The brothers lacked nuance.
Mac:?It was a little ludicrous that Tricky would believe Gregor's lie about being an android, but Jahvel Hall played it well, as a guy who takes comfort in believing the lie until it's no longer possible.
Andrew: He felt like a little brother, and the scene where he attacked Gregor was probably the best Van Baalen brothers scene. Especially Clara's little glance downwards to avoid making eye contact with either of them.
Mac: Jenna-Louise Coleman played that scene well, gently disengaging herself from the raw filial conflict playing out inches from her. I find her to be a wonderfully watchable actor (beyond just being super-attractive). Like Matt Smith, she's always playing a moment slightly differently than you expect, and she goes through all these hairpin emotional turns.
Andrew: She's doing a lot with a strange role. What I find odd about Clara is that she isn't asking more questions. She lets things go quite easily that feel, perhaps, more emotionally bothersome than something resolved by a hug.
Mac: Yes! That moment bugged the crap out of me. She has to go from "I think I'm more scared of you than anything else on this TARDIS" to "I don't understand what the hell this is about but the hug is really nice" way too fast. Coleman found a way to play it, but it's really icky as written. It should've taken much longer for the Doctor to win her back after that.
Of course we quickly learn that the Doctor, Clara, and the Van Baalen brothers aren't alone on the TARDIS. I have to say, I thought the ?burn-zombies? were the scariest monsters on Doctor Who in quite some time?scary in how they look and sound, how they were shot, in what they seemed to imply about the Doctor, and even still scary after we learn what they are. There was an extra level of being on your toes, not just from, "Uh-oh, scary monsters" but also: "Why are these monsters on the TARDIS? What is their presence teaching us about the Doctor?" As Clara says, "Good guys don't have zombie creatures, basic storytelling!") That Thompson kept that second question in the air as long as he did was my favorite element of the script.
Andrew: They were visually brilliant. However: Why are they so angry??If they're really Clara and the Van Baalen brothers from the future, burned by the Eye of Harmony, why are they now sizzling folk to death and generally acting all creepy and monstery?
Mac: That sort of worked for me on a nightmare-logic level (not unlike the Primords from ?Inferno?). Did you have a moment, when you found out that one of the burn-zombies was Clara but before they finished the explanation, of thinking the Doctor was somehow attempting to reanimate the Clara duplicates and failing? For a second I thought that's what he was about to reveal and it gave me the shudders.
Andrew: I didn't, but I do like how the Doctor is very morally dubious in this series. Smith's Doctor is now a lot more like a deranged child?like Joffrey crossed with Willy Wonka. He's very driven, and it makes him unpredictable and very alien. I'm loving it.
Mac: I loved the Architectural Reconfiguration System, a tree of living metal that builds the machines the TARDIS needs. And there was a fun bit of making running through the same corridors over and over again a creepy feature rather than a money-saving bug. And we got a look at the swimming pool!
Andrew: We also got a few tantalizing sound clips from the show?s past, a bit of Pertwee and Jo Grant, some Eccleston in there, and Time Lord voices from the liquid encyclopedia that I may have tried listening to about four times.
Mac: Oh?we haven't talked about the Eye of Harmony. So they've fully embraced the TV movie idea that the Eye is now in the TARDIS?or maybe that a portion or mini-version of it always was? Apparently there's a number of fan explanations for how the Eye could be both on Gallifrey and in the TARDIS. Wikipedia refers to these as "fanon," a word I'm both delighted and appalled to know exists.
Andrew: But why does The Doctor go into so much detail explaining what it is? It's purely for fanwank. If you were trapped in a room that makes you turn into aggressive magma zombies, I would probably just shout something like ?Yes, it's a black hole being born, hurry up!?
Mac: One bit of praise for Thompson's script: I felt like he had some fun with the magic-button-that-will-solve-everything while also playing fair with the story-mechanics of it, with the magno-grab being introduced in the first ten minutes. But I hope next year they try to brainstorm a few more endings that involve the Doctor doing clever things, not taking advantage of time paradoxes or inspiring people to be their best selves all the time. Although in ?Journey? the TARDIS wasn?t exactly being her best self. Why is she so unhelpful to the Doctor? Doesn't that contradict the Doctor-friendly persona we met just last year in ?The Doctor's Wife??
Andrew: Because it's had bits of it removed, the TARDIS is in a huff and doesn't want anyone to get at her engine room. It does, presumably, allow the Doctor and Clara access to the console room from the engine room without going anywhere near the Eye of Harmony chamber where the Clara-Rock-Zombie thing is, so you could say it cheers up a bit once it knows the Doctor?s all right.
Mac: Let?s talk the huge geek-out moment: in the TARDIS library we see a "History of the Time War," which appears to contain the Doctor's real name! What do you make of that?
Andrew: Who wrote that book? How do they know all the stuff that happened in the Time War? How is the Time War translatable to prose? How do they know the Doctor's name? It's either the Doctor or River Song. Really it has to be River, because I can't see the Doctor writing a massive book about the most traumatic experience of his life and putting his real name in it. But then I don't know if River's that good an archaeologist, and you think she'd know better than to give her husband a massive book about the most traumatic experience of his life. And write his name in it. To summarize, that makes precisely zero sense.
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Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream - NYTimes.com
Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off. A single wink might tell the glasses to take a picture.
But don?t expect these gestures to be necessary for long. Soon, we might interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds. In the next couple of years, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket. Further into the future, our robot assistant will appear by our side with a glass of fresh lemonade simply because it knows we?re thirsty.
Researchers in Samsung?s Emerging Technology Lab are testing tablets that can be controlled by your brain, using a cap that resembles a ski hat studded with monitoring electrodes, the MIT Technology Review, the science and technology journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported this month.
The technology, often called brain computer interfaces, was conceived to enable people with paralysis and other disabilities to interact with computers or control robotic arms, all by simply thinking about such actions. Before long, these technologies could well be in consumer electronics, too.
Some crude brain-reading products already exist, letting people play easy games or move a mouse around a screen.
NeuroSky, a company based in San Jose, Calif., recently released a Bluetooth-enabled headset that can monitor slight brain movements and allow people to play concentration-based games on computers and smartphones. These include a zombie-chasing game, archery and a game where you dodge bullets ? all these apps use your mind as the joystick. Another company, Emotiv, sells a headset that looks like a large alien hand and can read brain waves associated with thoughts, feelings and expressions. The device can be used to play Tetris-like games or search through Flickr photos by thinking about an emotion the person is feeling ? like happy, or excited ? rather than searching by keywords. Muse, a lightweight, wireless headband, can engage with an app that ?exercises the brain? by forcing people to concentrate on aspects of a screen, almost like taking your mind to the gym.
Car manufacturers are exploring technologies packed into the back of the seat that detect when people fall asleep while driving and rattle the steering wheel to awaken them.
But the products commercially available today will soon look archaic. ?The current brain technologies are like trying to listen to a conversation in a football stadium from a blimp,? said John Donoghue, a neuroscientist and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. ?To really be able to understand what is going on with the brain today you need to surgically implant an array of sensors into the brain.? In other words, to gain access to the brain, for now you still need a chip in your head.
Last year, a project called BrainGate pioneered by Dr. Donoghue, enabled two people with full paralysis to use a robotic arm with a computer responding to their brain activity. One woman, who had not used her arms in 15 years, could grasp a bottle of coffee, serve herself a drink and then return the bottle to a table. All done by imagining the robotic arm?s movements.
But that chip inside the head could soon vanish as scientists say we are poised to gain a much greater understanding of the brain, and, in turn, technologies that empower brain computer interfaces. An initiative by the Obama administration this year called the Brain Activity Map project, a decade-long research project, aims to build a comprehensive map of the brain.
Miyoung Chun, a molecular biologist and vice president for science programs at the Kavli Foundation, is working on the project and although she said it would take a decade to completely map the brain, companies would be able to build new kinds of brain computer interface products within two years.
?The Brain Activity Map will give hardware companies a lot of new tools that will change how we use smartphones and tablets,? Dr. Chun said. ?It will revolutionize everything from robotic implants and neural prosthetics, to remote controls, which could be history in the foreseeable future when you can change your television channel by thinking about it.?
There are some fears to be addressed. On the Muse Web site, an F.A.Q. is devoted to convincing customers that the device cannot siphon thoughts from people?s minds.
These brain-reading technologies have been the stuff of science fiction for decades.
In the 1982 movie ?Firefox,? Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot on a mission to the Soviet Union to steal a prototype fighter jet that can be controlled by a brain neurolink. But Mr. Eastwood has to think in Russian for the plane to work, and he almost dies when he cannot get the missiles to fire during a dogfight. (Don?t worry, he survives.)
Although we won?t be flying planes with our minds anytime soon, surfing the Web on our smartphones might be closer.
Dr. Donoghue of Brown said one of the current techniques used to read people?s brains is called P300, in which a computer can determine which letter of the alphabet someone is thinking about based on the area of the brain that is activated when she sees a screen full of letters. But even when advances in brain-reading technologies speed up, there will be new challenges, as scientists will have to determine if the person wants to search the Web for something in particular, or if he is just thinking about a random topic.
?Just because I?m thinking about a steak medium-rare at a restaurant doesn?t mean I actually want that for dinner,? Dr. Donoghue said. ?Just like Google glasses, which will have to know if you?re blinking because there is something in your eye or if you actually want to take a picture,? brain computer interfaces will need to know if you?re just thinking about that steak or really want to order it.
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Chrysler investing $20M in Toledo plant to support 9-speed auto ...
Chrysler Group Plans to Invest Nearly $20 Million in Toledo Machining Plant
- Investment to increase capacity for production of torque converters for new generation, fuel-efficient nine-speed transmission
- Company's total investment in U.S. facilities over $5.2 billion since June 2009
April 26, 2013 , Auburn Hills, Mich. - Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it will invest $19.6 million in its Toledo Machining Plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, to increase capacity of the torque converter it's machining for the nine-speed transmission. With this announcement, the Company's total investments in its U.S. operations since June 2009 increase to over $5.2 billion.
The new torque converters will be paired with the next generation, fuel efficient nine-speed front-wheel drive transmission being assembled at Chrysler Group's Indiana (Kokomo, Ind.) Transmission Plant I. The new transmission will debut in the 2014 Jeep? Cherokee.
"The new nine-speed transmission is a critical part of our strategy to meet fuel economy requirements over the next several years and Toledo Machining will play an integral role in bringing this transmission to market," said Scott Garberding, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, Chrysler Group LLC. "Securing this additional investment is a testament to the dedication and commitment of the plant's workforce and helps secure its future long-term."
The investment will fund the installation of new equipment and tooling for additional machining and assembly capacity. Installation is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2014 and will be completed by the end of 2014.
In August 2011, a $72 million investment in Toledo Machining was announced to modernize the plant to produce the eight- and nine-speed torque converters on two new production lines and a new steering column for the Dodge Dart and Jeep Cherokee. These installations will be complete in the third quarter this year.
"We're very pleased that Chrysler is once again investing in the Toledo Machining Plant and the skilled workforce there," said General Holiefield, Vice President and Director, UAW Chrysler Department. "This will help preserve and enhance jobs in the area and give a greater measure of security to our members and their families well into the future."
In February, the Company announced that it was investing $374 million in several of its Kokomo, Ind., facilities, including establishing a new manufacturing site in Tipton, Ind., to increase production capacity of the nine-speed transmission.
Toledo Machining currently produces torque converters for Kokomo Transmission (Ind.), Indiana Transmission I and II (Kokomo, Ind.), Sterling Heights Assembly (Mich.), and Toluca (Mex.).
The plant also produces steering columns for the following assembly plants: Warren Truck (Mich.), Belvidere (Ill.), Sterling Heights (Mich.), Toledo Assembly Complex (Ohio); Windsor (Ont.), Toluca (Mex.), Saltillo (Mex.), Arab American Vehicles (Egypt) and Carabobo (Venezuela).
Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/04/28/chrysler-investing-20m-in-toledo-plant-to-support-9-speed-auto/
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Stalemate over, Italy's Letta names new government
By James Mackenzie and Gavin Jones
ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-left politician Enrico Letta named a coalition government on Saturday, making one of Silvio Berlusconi's closest allies deputy prime minister and ending two months of damaging political stalemate.
Letta has said his priorities would be the economy, unemployment and restoring faith in Italy's discredited political institutions as well as trying to turn Europe away from austerity to focus more on growth and investment.
An inconclusive general election in February left Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, without effective government, threatening investor confidence and holding up efforts to end a recession set to become the longest since World War Two.
Letta, the 46-year-old deputy head of the Democratic Party (PD), said he felt "sober satisfaction" after three days of talks with rival parties produced a government that included a record number of women ministers but few political big hitters.
"I hope that this government can get to work quickly in the spirit of fervent cooperation and without any prejudice or conflict," President Giorgio Napolitano said.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement has refused to join a government which party leader Beppe Grillo said "bordered on incestuous" given the relationship between Letta and his uncle Gianni Letta, Berlusconi's long-time chief of staff.
Angelino Alfano, secretary of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party, will be deputy prime minister and interior minister, giving the center-right a strong voice.
But otherwise the big ministries were dominated by lower profile politicians or technocrats, which could limit their power to pass unpopular measures and leave a powerful backstage role for Berlusconi, who will not be joining the government.
The cabinet, which Letta said would contain a record number of women, will be sworn in at 05.30 EST on Sunday before a parliamentary vote of confidence, expected on Monday.
Napolitano asked Letta, a career politician on the right of the PD, to try to form a government after a dramatic week in which party leader Pier Luigi Bersani was forced out by a factional mutiny.
The PD's centre-left alliance won control of the lower house in the February election but fell short of the Senate majority needed to govern, exacerbating tensions in its ranks.
The still-unhealed divisions could affect the stability of the new government given the resistance felt by many in the PD to any alliance with Berlusconi, their foe for almost 20 years.
ENCOURAGEMENT
Letta received some encouragement late on Friday when the ratings agency Moody's kept its rating on Italian government debt unchanged at Baa2 because low interest rates were making it possible to buy time to implement much-needed reforms.
Bond yields have fallen to their lowest in more than two years as investors hope for enough stability to help Italy revive its economy and gradually tackle its large public debt.
However, Moody's also said medium-term growth prospects were weak and forecast the economy would shrink by 1.8 percent this year, compounding more than two decades of stagnation.
Berlusconi, in the middle of legal battles over a tax fraud conviction and charges of paying for sex with a minor, had pressed for the cabinet to include close political allies and opposed the inclusion of technocrats.
In the event, however, several of the big ministries were led by non-political figures, with Bank of Italy Director General Fabrizio Saccomanni becoming economy minister.
Anna Maria Cancellieri, a former police official who served as interior minister under Monti, took the justice portfolio and the labor ministry went to Enrico Giovannini, head of statistics agency ISTAT.
Former European Commissioner Emma Bonino will be Italy's first woman foreign minister and Congo-born Cecile Kyenge, named minister for integration, will be its first black minister, according to the Corriere della Sera daily.
(Additional reporting by Roberto Landucci, Steve Scherer; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italian-government-could-settled-saturday-sources-035335771.html
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A Playbook for Undoing the Sequester
Who would have guessed that the air-traffic controllers and meat inspectors would be the first ones lucky enough to avoid the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration?
So it went on Friday, when Congress passed legislation to give the Federal Aviation Administration special flexibility in implementing its sequester cuts. The bill exempted air-traffic controllers from furloughs, which had caused flight delays at major airport hubs throughout the Northeast for the past five days. Meat inspectors also received a carve-out in late March following a powerful lobbying push and under the guise of ensuring food safety.
Now, with two sequester tweaks on the books, other special-interest groups, unions, and lobbyists are planning to rev up their efforts to undo the cuts bit by bit or, in this case, by a few billion dollars here or there. The actions of the FAA over the past week, alongside airline groups and unions, offer a playbook for others to use as they too seek exemptions.
?What you?re seeing now is an unraveling of the sequester. This is predictable as the sun rising in the east, and it will happen piece by piece over the next 60 to 90 days,? says Steve Bell, senior director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former staff director for the Senate Budget Committee.
Already, interest groups are plotting new ways to cast their particular sequester cuts as dire or unfair or safety hazards since they see an opening to escape the full force of the legislation. Remember the hollering a few weeks ago about cancer patients being turned away from treatment or clinical trials? Well, the American Cancer Society Action Network plans to ramp up its pressure on lawmakers following the FAA legislation. The group has an energized grassroots organization; a lobbying team in Washington; and lots of face time with lawmakers. After all, if air-traffic controllers can get a pass, then the cancer advocacy group thinks patients should too.
?We?re no longer just talking about why we need this additional funding. We?re talking about people who are dying because of what politicians are unable to do,? says Christopher Hansen, president of the American Cancer Society Action Network, the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society. The message, he adds, ?is going to get more edgy.?
It took a mere six days for the FAA to push Congress to change its language on the agency?s sequester cuts. The furloughs of air-traffic controllers began April 21. Each ensuing day, the agency released a press release and tweeted about the number of flights delayed due to sequestration and the resulting reduced staffing at airports.
On Wednesday alone, 863 flights were delayed at major hubs in New York, Washington, Cleveland, Dallas, and Jacksonville, Fla. On average, New Yorkers? flights were delayed by one hour, while delays at the Los Angeles airport spanned into two hours, says Mark Duell, vice president of operations at FlightAware.com, an industry tracking group. The airlines also threatened to undo their rule to not keep passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than three hours.
Forget that an additional 2,132 flights were delayed on Wednesday, due to weather or other typical airline mishaps. This week, for instance, New York suffered from high winds, and Florida experienced thunderstorms, Duell says.
When the flights were delayed, the message from the airlines was clear: This is all the fault of the sequester. Pilots and flight attendants in their announcements attributed problems to the government cuts, says airline industry analysts. This riled up consumers and made them aware of the sequester cuts in a way they may not have experienced them before. (In mid-March, a majority of Americans had yet to see evidence of the sequester in their lives, says Gallup pollsters).
Then came the lobbying muscle to fight the FAA cuts. That?s the thing about the airline industry?it has lots of manpower. The airline pilots have a union, as do the air-traffic controllers. Major airlines have an industry group alongside the regional airlines. Even companies involved in shipping, transportation, air express, and postal delivery got involved.
It was all-out blitz, from the cable-news shots of angry passengers delayed at major airports and missing connecting flights to websites set up by the industry to decry the issue. ?Don?t Ground America? was the slogan of one industry advocacy site. ?The FAA?s unnecessary and reckless action will disrupt air travel for millions of Americans, cost jobs, and threatens to ground the U.S. economy to halt,? says the site.
This combination of angry consumers and a powerful industry?combined with a lack of opposition?forced Congress to vote to give the FAA more room to maneuver with its sequester cuts. In the weeks to come, the question is: Will this prove as a successful template for other industries or a one-off lucky break for the FAA on the sequester?
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced its plans to furlough its employees. The group representing them, the National Treasury Employees Union, wants those furloughs scaled back. ?Congress just voted to make it more likely that their flights home for another vacation today will not be delayed, but they should be staying here to find a way to stop the sequester and prevent the loss of services the American people rely on,? said NTEU President Colleen Kelley in a statement.?
In the coming weeks, the cuts least likely to receive much attention are those that affect the poor or the unemployed. Already, workers who?ve been out of job for six months or more have seen ?federal unemployment checks cut by about 11 percent cuts due to the sequester.
?It pains and saddens me that there is no outcry to undo the sequester cuts for them,? says Judy Conti, a federal advocacy coordinator with the National Employment Law Project. ?The political reality is that members of the House are not willing to do that.?
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/playbook-undoing-sequester-165349214.html
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Florida approves online-only public university education
By Bill Cotterell
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Public university students in Florida next year will be able to start working toward college degrees without actually going to college, under a law Governor Rick Scott signed on Monday in front of educators and business lobbyists.
The state-run University of Florida plans to start a series of online bachelor's degree programs next year, with $15 million start-up funds for 2014.
Until now full-time online education has just been available to elementary and high schools in the state.
"This bill transforms education in Florida," said House Speaker Will Weatherford, a Republican who has long been a proponent of "virtual learning" in public schools.
"Now, we will be home to the first fully accredited, online public research university institute in the nation," said Weatherford. "These bold higher-education reforms will help increase Florida's global competitiveness and ensure our students have meaningful opportunities after high school."
Colorado State University began offering online university courses in 2007, according to Kyle Henley, a university spokesman, though students must first have 13 credits from another university to be eligible.
California and Texas are also developing totally online university programs, while Illinois considered the idea and discarded it, according to a spokesman for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)in Washington.
State Senator Bill Montford, a Democrat from Tallahassee who is executive director of the Florida Association of School Superintendents, said, "I haven't heard of any state that's moving as aggressively as Florida can" in online education.
The online courses will cost no more than 75 percent of in-state tuition for regular classes at the University of Florida.
The online university degree programs are part of an education package pushed by Scott and the state's Republican party leadership that they say will more closely link curriculums with the needs of employers.
The state's new education law also retreats in some areas from the toughened curriculum required in 2010, the year before Scott became governor. Students can select "scholar" courses, but others can focus more on job skills and will be able to graduate without passing tougher courses in math and science.
The governor, who campaigned in 2010 on a platform of creating 700,000 jobs in seven years through a series of business-friendly tax cuts and regulatory changes, has made job-oriented education and low tuition a big part of his economic development package.
Scott last year caused a stir by saying he did not want Florida's higher education system producing anthropologists or other specialized graduates whose main job prospect is teaching others to do what they do.
Before the session, he persuaded all 28 state colleges to come up with four-year bachelor's programs costing $10,000 or less in tuition, emphasizing skills sought by employers.
(This story is corrected with name of APLU in paragraph 7 to Association from American. Inserts paragraph 6 to clarify that Colorado also offers online courses)
(Editing by David Adams and Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/florida-approves-online-only-public-university-education-144118267.html
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Grizzlies dominate inside to beat Clippers 94-82
Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph (50) charges past Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin (32) during the second half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers 94-82. Randolph scored 27 points in the game(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph (50) charges past Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin (32) during the second half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers 94-82. Randolph scored 27 points in the game(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph (50) works against Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) during the second half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers 94-82. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins watches the second half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers 94-82. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Los Angeles Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro watches the second second half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers 94-82. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph (50) and Los Angeles Clippers' Lamar Odom (7) work for a rebound during the first half of Game 3 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? The Memphis bench has been missing in action through the first two games against the Los Angeles Clippers. Those reserves are starting to show they can hold their own on the floor and help keep the Grizzlies in this series.
Quincy Pondexter scored 10 of his 13 points in the second half, including eight in the final stanza, and the Grizzlies beat the Clippers 94-82 on Thursday night to pull within 2-1 in this Western Conference first-round series.
"I heard a lot of rumblings about our bench not playing well, myself not playing well, and I just wanted to come out and give the best effort possible and prove those people wrong," Pondexter said.
Game 4 is Saturday.
The Clippers go very deep with their bench and have outscored Memphis through the first two games, including a 30-11 edge in Game 2. But Memphis coach Lionel Hollins protected an early lead with five reserves on the court, and Pondexter was among those who helped hold off the Clippers as they twice tried to make runs in the fourth quarter.
"This is what we need every night," Hollins said. "We need somebody from the bench to step up and do something. It doesn't have to be the same guy. We like to have consistency, but if JB (Jerryd Bayless) is struggling a little bit, then Quincy can rise a little bit. ... It was just a good team win."
Zach Randolph scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds after being limited both on the boards and by foul trouble in Los Angeles to start this series. Marc Gasol accepted his trophy as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year before tipoff, then scored 16 points. Tony Allen also had 13. Mike Conley was 1 of 9, but had 10 assists and no turnovers on a night he was sick.
Randolph hadn't scored more than 13 in each of the first two games and had only 12 rebounds combined in Los Angeles. He looked much more like the All Star who had 45 double-doubles this season, and he also had six offensive rebounds after leading the NBA with 310 in the regular season.
"I definitely wanted to come out and be aggressive," Randolph said. "They've been double-teaming, triple-teaming me. So just go fast, you know hit a couple jump shots and open it up. Most definitely, I wanted to come out and be aggressive."
The Grizzlies snapped the Clippers' nine-game winning streak by outrebounding and dominating on second-chance points, the same things Los Angeles did so well on its home court to start the series in beating Memphis at its own style.
Blake Griffin scored 16 points for the Clippers. Matt Barnes had 12, Chauncey Billups 11, and Jamal Crawford and Caron Butler 10. Chris Paul had eight points on 4-of-11 shooting and added six assists. Paul wasn't happy with himself after he had five of the Clippers' 18 turnovers. He also didn't get to the free throw line either.
"It's uncharacteristic of us. You know I mean especially me," Paul said. "I had five turnovers tonight, and our turnovers led to 17 of their points. They got offensive rebounds, things we hadn't let them do in Game 1 and Game 2. We just got to be better."
The rough play that began in Los Angeles continued in this game featuring a flagrant foul, three technicals and a lot of whoofing, along with a bear hug by Randolph after Barnes' flagrant foul.
The Clippers had beaten the Grizzlies three straight in Memphis, including a Game 7 win in the first round a year ago. They also had won six of the last seven in the series overall.
Memphis outrebounded the Clippers 45-33, including 17-5 on the offensive boards. That gave the Grizzlies a 22-4 edge in second-chance points, which was similar to what the Clippers did to Memphis in Game 1 when they held a 25-5 advantage. The Grizzlies also outscored Los Angeles 40-26 in the paint and led by as much as 16.
"That's what they do," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "We have been able to contain it pretty well for the first couple of games, but we just didn't do a good enough job. We've got to find a way to get everybody in there."
The Clippers last led 10-8 in the first quarter before the Grizzlies took control with Randolph hitting four of his first five shots and all five free throws for 13 points in the quarter. They got as close as 74-69 with 8:39 left on a pair of free throws by Barnes.
Memphis answered with a 7-2 spurt to push the lead back to double digits on a reverse layup by Pondexter off an assist from Randolph.
The Grizzlies outscored the Clippers 23-20 in the first quarter and 24-19 in the second, taking a 47-39 lead into halftime. They hadn't led by more than six in Los Angeles and were up by seven in the first quarter back on their own court. They pushed that to 12 in the second quarter.
Memphis' lead grew to 14 a couple times in the third, the last at 68-54 on a pair of free throws by Pondexter with 1:22 left.
That's when the Clippers went on a 10-2 run featuring back-to-back 3s by Crawford and Lamar Odom. Ronny Turiaf dunked to pull the Clippers to 70-64 with 11:04 to go.
Pondexter then scored five points for Memphis as he got the rebound after he missed his second free throw attempt and put it back while being fouled by Barnes. Pondexter added the free throw, pushing Memphis' lead back up to double digits with 10:16 remaining.
NOTES: Randolph wound up part of a double foul situation for a third straight game in this series with Griffin late in the game. ... The Clippers hadn't lost in Memphis since Game 5 last year in the playoffs and won 24 road games during the regular season. ... The Grizzlies went 28 of 38 at the free throw line compared to 21 of 23 for the Clippers. ... The Clippers' 82 points were two shy of a franchise low in the postseason. ... Pondexter had only five total points in the first two games of the series. ... Paul had averaged 23.5 points in the first two games of the series.
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Wunderlist Pro goes live for iOS, Mac and web, priced at $50 per year (video)
6Wunderkinder let us know last week that it was entering the big leagues of task management with Wunderlist Pro, and today it's possible for us to follow along. The company's first premium service is now available for those running the iOS, Mac and web apps, albeit with a slightly higher than anticipated $50 yearly subscription price alongside the $5 monthly option. As a reminder, Pro users get the ability to assign tasks to others, add an unlimited number of subtasks and choose from eight more backgrounds. Both file attachments and sharing are coming soon, 6Wunderkinder adds, while Android and Windows iterations of the Pro version are also on the company's very own to-do list.
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New York Times to refine subscription model in wake of sliding ad revenue
If you're an avid reader of The New York Times, you're probably already familiar with its complex subscription model that ranges in price between $15 and $35 per month. Yes, it's sometimes costly to stay in the loop, but on the upside of the paywall, company CEO Mark Thompson says that readers will soon find a wider array of content packages, including less expensive options. The move may be necessary, and according to Bloomberg, the CEO painted it as "the single most important thing we're doing in the company." Today, The New York Times released its earnings for the quarter, which came in slightly below expectations and revealed a decrease in advertising revenue. Recognizing the shift, Thompson will work to make the organization less reliant on ad revenue and more focused on digital subscriptions.
As for its growth strategy, it's said that we can expect lower pricing tiers that offer access to specific content such as politics, technology and the arts, along with premium tiers that provide feature content and access to events. Curiously, videos and even games will be in the mix, but it's currently unclear where that'll fit into the tiered strategy. The New York Times currently serves 708,000 subscribers, which represents a 45 percent increase from the first quarter of 2012. It's said that we can expect the refined subscription model to arrive sometime in late 2013 or early 2014, and it'll be very interesting to see just how complex the outlet can go with its pricing.
[Image credit: Adam Kinney / Flickr]
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Circles for iPhone and iPad review: A beautiful memory game
Circles for iPhone and iPad is a gorgeous memory game, similar to Simon, that tests your ability to repeat a sequence of lighted circles. You can play alone or challenge your friends to a battle to see who out-memorizes who.
The premise is simple: you are presented with up to six circles, each a different color and with a different sound. For your first turn, a sequence of two lights will light up and it's your job to repeat that sequence. For each turn, an additional light is added to the sequence. You simply continue playing until you make a mistake.
That's the basic idea, and fun even as is, but Circles takes it a step further with multiplier gameplay and weapons! There are three different weapons you can use against your opponents: Lightning, which speeds up the playback, Twirl, which will rotate the circles after playback, and Blackout, which removes sound and color from the circles.
As you play the game, whether it's alone or against an opponent (except Practice mode), you earn coins that can be used to purchase weapons and chances. You can also buy coins with real money as in-app purchases.
The good
- Beautiful design
- Soothing sounds
- Adds a new twist to the classic Simon memory game with Lightning, Twirl, and Blackout
- Gives encouraging words when you pass a level
- Multiplayer through Game Center
- Earn coins to buy weapons and chances
- iCloud support
The bad
- No complaints
The bottom line
Circles is a fantastic little game. It's challenging and good for your brain. I love that you can play against your friends and attack them with weapons to make it more challenging to win. I have a terrible memory and tend to be fairly horrible at these types of games, yet I still enjoy Circles? I'll just keep it to myself what my max number of taps is? what's yours?!
- $1.99 - Download now
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