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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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Mercedes and Bentley bring some tire smoking prestige to Real Racing 3
The choice of cars in Real Racing 3 isn't exactly poor, but we'll always take more, especially when more comes in the form of prestige vehicles from Mercedes Benz and Bentley. The Bentley Continental GT and Mercedes SLS joins an already impressive list of cars that includes the Bugatti Veyron. And, Real Racing 3 also now has a brand new Time Trial mode for you to give them both a run out in.
Updates to Real Racing 3 never take the form of a few bug fixes, and the continued development and addition of new cars and races is one of many things that keeps me coming back for more. On top of new cars and race modes, not to mention another 180 events, there's now extra opportunities to earn more in-game currency. The first race of the day gives you some, consecutive days play gives you more, and driving a clean race also lines your pockets.
As always, Real Racing 3 is a free download, financed by in-app purchases. If you're lucky enough to have a "high-end" device to play it on, this latest update also has some improved graphics with improvements to per-pixel shadowing. No word on which devices they may be, but it's safe enough to assume the iPad 4 and iPhone 5 would fit that category. With the addition of yet more to Real Racing 3, is it still delivering the goods for you?
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Croc supersense: Multi-sensory organs in crocodylian skin sensitive to touch, heat, cold, environment
July 2, 2013 ? Previously misunderstood multi-sensory organs in the skin of crocodylians are sensitive to touch, heat, cold, and the chemicals in their environment, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal EvoDevo. These sensors have no equivalent in any other vertebrate.
Crocodylians, the group that includes crocodiles, gharials, alligators and caimans, have particularly tough epidermal scales consisting of keratin and bony plates for added protection. On the head, these scales are unusual because they result from cracking of the hardened skin, rather than their shape being genetically determined.
The scales have sensors known as dome pressure receptors (DPR) or Integumentary Sensory organs (ISOs) with fingertip sensitivity. Researchers from the University of Geneva investigated ISOs in Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) and the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) to find out exactly what these micro-organs can 'see and how they are formed.'.
ISOs appear on the head of the developing caiman and crocodile embryos before the skin starts to crack and form scales. Nile crocodiles additionally develop ISOs all over their body. In both animals the ISOs contain mechano-, thermo-, and chemo-sensory receptor-channels giving them the combined ability to detect touch, heat/cold and chemical stimuli, but not salinity. Nile crocodiles have separate salt glands on their tongues which help regulate osmolarity in hyper-saline environments.
This means that they can detect surface pressure waves allowing them to quickly find prey even in the dark. The thermal sensitivity help them to maintain body temperature by moving between basking in the sun and cooling in the water, and the chemical sensors may help them to detect suitable habitats.
Prof Michel Milinkovitch, who led this study explained, "ISO sensors are remarkable because not only are they able to detect many different types of physical and chemical stimuli, but because there is no equivalent in any other vertebrates. It is this transformation of a diffuse sensory system, such as we have in our own skin, into ISO which has allowed crocodilians to evolve a highly armored yet very sensitive skin."
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/OW6L9ya7Odg/130702101506.htm
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Left 4 Dead 2 mutates past Linux beta, adds more mod tools
Left 4 Dead 2 is the latest game in Valve's catalog to clamber out of the Steam for Linux beta. Unlike last week's Half-Life 2 news however, the extra something coming along for the ride isn't VR headset support -- it's a powerful suite of customization tools. The Extended Mutation System (EMS) gives the already robust modding community additional options for crafting one-off episodes and game type variants. For a glimpse of what EMS enables, play a round of "Holdout." This new multi-map mode introduces buildable items and the concept of resources to the co-op zombie-slaying calamity. What's more, Valve said it will add the most popular EMS creations to the official servers. Maybe with this, the world can finally witness our vision of the zombie apocalypse. Yeah, it involves marmosets.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: Left 4 Dead Blog
Source: Steam
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