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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Tamera Mowry-Housley Expecting First Child
"Adam and I are excited about having a baby and the blessing that he or she will bring to our lives and to our family and friends," Mowry-Housley tells PEOPLE.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Matchmaker, matchmaker: ?Big Nog?s? next bout, moving around title bouts, and Hector Lombard?s new home
-- Somehow, not every heavyweight bout isn't on UFC 146. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will fight Cheick Kongo at UFC 149 in Calgary. This is Big Nog's first fight back since Frank Mir snapped his arm.
-- The moving around of title fights isn't over with Chael Sonnen's bout with Anderson Silva. Jose Aldo's title fight may move to UFC 147 in Brazil, which doesn't have a venue, and Dan Henderson may face Jon Jones for the UFC light heavyweight belt at UFC 149 in Calgary. With summer looming, few pay-per-view cards outside of UFC 148 in Las Vegas are set.
-- Though there isn't a fight yet scheduled for him, former Bellator champion Hector Lombard will make the move to the UFC. MMA Fighting found out from Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, and then Lombard confirmed the news on Twitter. His last loss was in 2006, and Rebney said he is confident Lombard will be the UFC middleweight champ.
-- Marcus LeVesseur will make his UFC debut against Cody McKenzie at UFC on Fuel 3 on May 15 in Virginia, taking the place of Aaron Riley. Wrestling fans will recognize LeVesseur as four-time D-III national champion. He's been fighting since 2003 and has a record of 21-5. TUF alum McKenzie is on a three-fight losing streak.
UPDATE: One more bout for your enjoyment. Mark Munoz will take on Chris Weidman at UFC on Fuel 4 on July 11. The just-announced event does not yet have a location, but is important in deciding who will fight for the middleweight belt next.
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Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight shipping this week, B&N warns of limited supply
So much for waiting until May to get your hands on some glowing, Nooky goodness. Barnes & Noble let us know today that the admittedly somewhat clunkily named Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight is slipping out ahead of schedule. The light up e-reader starts shipping this week for those who've already pre-ordered a unit and will continue to ship throughout the month. Apparently in-store units will be a bit fewer and further between, however -- the company announced that the device will be available in "limited quantities" when it hits stores early next month. So, if you don't want to make your mom cry this Mother's Day, the company's recommending that you jump on the pre-order bandwagon soonish. Of course, it couldn't hurt to give our review a peek first, just to make sure.
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NewsFlash uses high-frequency light to transmit data from iPad to smartphone, we go hands-on (video)
MIT's Media Lab is chock-full of cutting-edge tech projects that researchers create, then often license to manufacturers and developers. One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G. The concept is certainly familiar, and functions in much the same way as a QR code, generating flashing light that's invisible to the human eye instead of a cumbersome 2D square. In the Media Lab's implementation, an iPad is used to display a static news page with flashing colored bands at the top, representing just a few vertical pixels on the LCD.
As the device presents the standard touch experience you're already familiar with, it also broadcasts data that can be read by any camera, but flashes too quickly to be distracting or even noticeable to the naked eye. A NewsFlash app then interprets those flashes and displays a webpage as instructed -- either a mobile version with the same content, or a translation of foreign websites. As with most MediaLab projects, NewsFlash is simply a concept at this point, but it could one day make its way to your devices. Jump past the break to see it in action.
NewsFlash uses high-frequency light to transmit data from iPad to smartphone, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
365 million iOS devices 'in play,' iPad taking off in education and government markets
After the most recent quarter Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer was proud to let us all know that there are now 365 million iOS devices "in play," with over 50 million sold just in Q2. With the iPhone now available in 100 countries on 230 carriers and the new iPad shipping in over 40 countries, the continued growth isn't much of a surprise. Obviously, as the number of devices in the hands of users increases, so does the number of apps, and in this quarter the iTunes app store topped 600,000 apps -- including over 200,000 specifically designed for the iPad. The iPad in particular was singled out as being a driver for growth. Tim Cook said that 67 million iPads have been sold since the first model debuted. By contrast, he claims it took 24 years to sell that many Macs. Oppenheimer said that the education market was increasingly turning to the tablet, purchasing them by a margin of almost two-to-one over Macs. The San Diego school district in particular ordered 10,000 this quarter and has plans to purchase 15,000 more. Even the government is getting in on the action, with the air force using them as flight guides. For more details from Cupertino's earnings call check out our live blog.
365 million iOS devices 'in play,' iPad taking off in education and government markets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Today on New Scientist: 23 April 2012
Photo exhibition brings new light to ocean depths
Just about any task has been turned into an app, and now there's the exciting prospect of obtaining chemicals on demand from 3D printers
Luminous life on show
A new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York celebrates luminescent wildlife - and may introduce the first known biofluorescent eel
Leeches help track down endangered species
The bloodsucking worms store blood from a meal for months, betraying the identity of their prey - which could help find and count endangered species
Male bowerbirds grow a garden to attract a mate
Male spotted bowerbirds affect the distribution of plants around their display structures - is it evidence of cultivation?
Flap around London with the Pigeon Simulator
A combination of Kinect and Google Earth lets users live the life of a pigeon, soaring over London
Human nature: Six things we all do
From law to gossip, find out what universal characteristics make us human. Kate Douglas and Bob Holmes report
Wearable muscle suit makes heavy lifting a cinch
A lightweight exoskeleton will allow the elderly to move around more easily. New Scientist heads to a Japanese laboratory to try it on for size
The Arab Spring puts a strain on Jordan's ecology
An influx of refugees from war-torn Syria is draining Jordan's main oasis and depleting wildlife and water supplies, says Debora MacKenzie
Arctic methane leaks threaten climate
Patches of methane over cracks in Arctic sea ice suggest that the greenhouse gas is escaping as ice retreats
Dino-bird had oldest known case of osteoarthritis
Fossilised ankle bones of Caudipteryx, a dino-bird that lived 130 million years ago, show signs of the painful bone condition
Invent a balloon shape, print it, then just blow
Want a party-balloon bunny or sausage dog but don't have the twisting skills? 3D printing may soon provide balloons of any shape
Sound waves help quantum computers scale up
The multiverse-delving potential of quantum computing could become possible with a device that welds two existing technologies using the power of sound
In tornado season, words save lives
New, more visual warnings may have limited the death toll from last weekend's 100 tornadoes in the US Midwest
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