Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/07/eli-manning-wife-welcome-baby-girl-number-2/
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Jennifer Lopez Sings for Evil Dictator, Apologizes
Jennifer Lopez should have done some Googling before she took a gig in Turkmenistan. On Saturday, Lopez became one of the first major stars to perform in the Central Asian nation, which has legalized discrimination against minorities, forbidden its citizens from using YouTube or Twitter, and condones many grievous human rights violations. Unfortunately, J-Lo didn't take that into consideration when she accepted a $1.4 million paycheck to play for dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Watch the video below.
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Microsoft ties Bing Ads into Windows 8.1 Smart Search
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft made a significant change to the way users search: it unified the experience to include web, cloud, app and system results. Now, the company's putting something else into Smart Search: Bing Ads. It's okay if this strikes you as a bit troubling -- most users are accustomed to seeing ads display within browser-based search, not OS-driven queries. But that's the new face of Win 8.1, like it or not. So the next time you use that convenient all-in-one search sidebar, expect to see sponsored results like the one above appropriately highlighted and packed with site previews, links, addresses and phone numbers. Basically, it's no different than what you're getting from a regular Bing search, only now it's baked into your live-tiled OS. You can thank Microsoft in the comments below.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Bing Ads Blog
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
How free-to-play manipulates you into having-to-pay... and pay... and pay...
A lot has been written about the true cost of free-to-play games - we even devoted a day of Talk Mobile to it a few weeks ago - but how does it actually work? We know the less-than-scrupulous developers target our impatience and our ego, but what are the exact mechanics involved? Ramin Shokrizade takes a look at the most common coercive monetization techniques in a guest post for Gamasutra:
A coercive monetization model depends on the ability to ?trick? a person into making a purchase with incomplete information, or by hiding that information such that while it is technically available, the brain of the consumer does not access that information. Hiding a purchase can be as simple as disguising the relationship between the action and the cost
Shokrizade covers the use of premium currencies, like gems or points, the transformation of skill games to money games, the threat of reward removal, progress gates, soft and hard boosts, ante games, and more.
The level of manipulation is chilling, and anger-inducing, but this is what we get when a) we're too cheap to pay fair up-front prices for high quality games, b) alternate monetization methods are abused, and c) platform owners abdicate responsibility for a or b.
More: Gamasutra
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Stars Love Kiwi Crate Activity Kits ? And Now We Know Why
Celeb moms including Halle Berry, Michelle Williams and Julie Bowen are fans of this company's cool craft kits, including their new Summer Discovery Pack.
Source: http://feeds.celebritybabies.com/~r/celebrity-babies/~3/lHXnXPyVaxg/
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Protocells may have formed in a salty soup
July 2, 2013 ? The first cell may have originated in a salty soup in which large biomolecules cluster spontaneously to form a protocell, chemists at Radboud University Nijmegen discovered.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
How did the first cell originate in evolution? It is a chicken or the egg causality dilemma: a cell doesn't function without a cell wall, but how does the cell wall form if there is no cell? Research by chemist Wilhelm Huck, professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, suggests that the cell came first.
In a solution containing the biomolecules that are normally locked in a cell (like DNA, RNA, enzymes, proteins) these large biomolecules clustered together spontaneously when the salt concentration was increased. This indicates that a cell wall is not a prerequisite for a cell-like structure .
Huck thinks the macro molecules in our cells evolved to do their work while packed closely together. By using tiny droplets, he explores how this works exactly. "When biomolecules are packed together, we expect reactions to proceed much faster. They perform their chemistry much more efficiently. In this study, we measure a fifty-fold increase in the DNA transcription rate."
A working cell is more than the sum of its parts. "A functioning cell must be entirely correct at once, in all its complexity," said Huck. "We are now closer to building a synthetic cell than anyone ever before us."
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~3/JUxFnWDnbnU/130702100115.htm
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