Microsoft reportedly reverses Xbox One DRM policy, kills required online check-in and used game complications

Microsoft's next game console, the Xbox One, is perhaps best known for its complex used game system and once-per-24-hour online check-in requirement. Today, it looks like Microsoft is rolling back those policies according to a report at Giant Bomb, and the company took to its Xbox blog to explain. "As a result of feedback from the Xbox community, we have changed certain policies for Xbox One reflected in this blog," the page reads. The "in this blog" portion of that text links out to a new, still not live page on the Xbox news site with a URL reading, "update."

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active hands-on

A first look at Samsung's ruggedized, water-resistant Galaxy S4 Active

Traditionally, if you wanted a toughened, water-resistant, life-proof smartphone, there were compromises you just had to live with. Usually you'd pay over the odds, and be left with a bulky, ugly-looking device running old software, with sub-par internals. But that's starting to change, and we've already seen devices like the Sony Xperia Z that promise top-end hardware alongside the ability to survive a dunk in the bath.

Now Samsung's entering the rugged smartphone market in a big way with the Galaxy S4 Active -- a device that stays true to its Galaxy S4 branding with high-end internals matched against a rugged chassis. It's IP67-rated for water and dust resistance, meaning its internals are protected from harmful particulate matter, and it'll survive in up to 1 meter of water for at least 30 minutes.

On the inside you're dealing with much the same high-end parts you'll find in the regular S4 -- a 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, expandable via micro SD and a 1080p display. A few changes have been made though -- the Active's screen is an LCD, not SuperAMOLED, which may lead to improved daylight visibility (it's difficult to tell inside the darkened demo area). The camera's also taken a slight hit, going from 13 megapixels on the S4 to 8 on the active. Again, it was difficult to judge the camera's performance in the demo area at Earls Court today, but it seemed to work well enough. What's more, the camera app now boasts a dedicated underwater shooting mode.

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Op-Ed: We Must Do More to Prepare Our New Teachers for the Classroom

Americans regularly tell pollsters that the medical profession is the one they admire most. But just a century ago, the medical profession wasn?t held in such high regard. One of the main reasons was the uneven quality of medical training.

While there were some world-class medical schools, far too many had low or non-existent admissions standards, didn?t ensure their students understood the science behind medicine, or didn?t provide opportunities for hands-on clinical practice. A doctor could get a license without ever having worked on a body or learned anything about anatomy.

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All that changed in 1910 with the publication of the Flexner Report, named after its author, Abraham Flexner, a former school principal. He traveled to all 155 medical schools then in operation and reported on what was working and what wasn?t.

The report was a bombshell, finding only one high-performing medical school in the country (Johns Hopkins), but spurring successful efforts across the country to make sure that all medical schools met high standards. The result: a training system that produces doctors second to none in the world.

The Flexner Report is the inspiration for the National Council on Teacher Quality?s Teacher Prep Review, published in partnership with U.S. News & World Report on June 18. The Review spotlights what?s working well in the more than 1,100 colleges and universities approved to prepare teachers and encourage more programs to follow their lead.

But like Flexner before us, we also call out programs that need to seriously up their game for the good of their graduates and the students they will teach.

There?s another parallel between the Flexner Report and the Teacher Prep Review. Flexner issued his report on the heels of a veritable revolution in medicine, the development of the germ theory of disease, which made it imperative that doctors be well-versed in scientific research.

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Our Review is coming out just as 45 states and the District of Columbia are implementing the?Common Core State Standards. These standards?which describe what pre-K through high school students need to know to be college and career-ready in our increasingly globalized world?are much more rigorous than the educational standards most states had on the books before.

We?re going to be expecting more of our students, which means that new teachers will need even better training.

Teaching is a tough job. Far too many new teachers suffer burnout and leave after a few years in the classroom. But if teacher preparation programs routinely give new teachers the tools they need to be classroom ready from the start, we can turn this situation around. And if programs are choosier about who they let in and insist that candidates go through a rigorous course of study, they will confer even greater prestige in a profession in which our nation?s children and future depend.

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Etheridge: Jolie mastectomy 'fearful,' not 'brave'

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Angelina Jolie's decision to get a double mastectomy after learning she had the breast cancer gene mutation has been lauded by many as courageous, empowering, and even heroic. But singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge -- a breast cancer survivor herself -- thinks it's actually the opposite of those things.

Asked about Jolie's recent New York Times op-ed, in which she revealed the news of her mastectomy and breast reconstruction, Etheridge told the Washington Blade that she wouldn't make the same decision for herself. Nor would she encourage others to do so without properly researching their options.

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"I have to say I feel a little differently," the Grammy-winning chanteuse (who, incidentally, performed at Brad Pitt's wedding to Jennifer Aniston) said of the choice to get a preventive mastectomy. "I have that gene mutation too, and it's not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn't call it the brave choice. I actually think it's the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer."

"My belief is that cancer comes from inside you, and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not. Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything, but it never comes to cancer," she continued, noting that surgical removal of one's breasts is "way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do" to lessen your risk of the disease.

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"I've been cancer-free for nine years now, and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer," she added. "There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion (of a mastectomy)."

To be fair, Jolie said in her May 14 editorial that the decision to have a mastectomy was a personal one. Her main point was that women should be informed about the various options available to them.

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"I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices," she wrote.

"Life comes with many challenges," she explained. "The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of."

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Herbal extract boosts fruit fly lifespan by nearly 25 percent

June 18, 2013 ? The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant long used for stress relief was found to increase the lifespan of fruit fly populations by an average of 24 percent, according to UC Irvine researchers.

But it's how Rhodiola rosea, also known as golden root, did this that grabbed the attention of study leaders Mahtab Jafari and Sam Schriner. They discovered that Rhodiola works in a manner completely unrelated to dietary restriction and affects different molecular pathways.

This is significant, said Jafari, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, because dietary restriction is considered the most robust method of improving lifespan in laboratory animals, and scientists have been scrambling to identify compounds that can mimic its effects.

"We found that Rhodiola actually increases lifespan on top of that of dietary restriction," Jafari said. "It demonstrates that Rhodiola can act even in individuals who are already long-lived and healthy. This is quite unlike resveratrol, which appears to only act in overfed or unhealthy individuals."

The researchers proved this by putting flies on a calorie-restricted diet. It has been shown that flies live longer when the amount of yeast they consume is decreased. Jafari and Schriner expected that if Rhodiola functioned in the same manner as dietary restriction, it would not work in these flies. But it did. They also tested Rhodiola in flies in which the molecular pathways of dietary restriction had been genetically inactivated. It still worked.

Not only did Rhodiola improve lifespan an average of 24 percent in both sexes and multiple strains of flies, but it also delayed the loss of physical performance in flies as they aged and even extended the lives of old flies. Jafari's group previously had shown that the extract decreased the natural production of reactive oxygen species molecules in the fly mitochondria and protected both flies and cultured human cells against oxidative stress.

Jafari and Schriner, an assistant project scientist in Jafari's laboratory, are not claiming that Rhodiola supplements will enable humans to live longer, but their discovery is enhancing scientific understanding of how supplements believed to promote longevity actually work in the body.

Rhodiola has already shown possible health benefits in humans, such as decreasing fatigue, anxiety and depression; boosting mood, memory and stamina; and preventing altitude sickness. Grown in cold climates at high elevations, the herb has been used for centuries by Scandinavians and Russians to reduce stress. It's also thought to have antioxidant properties.

Jafari's research group is currently exploring the plant's potential to kill cancer cells, improve Alzheimer's disease and help stem cells grow.

Rhodiola is readily available online and in health food stores. Jafari, though, has analyzed several commercial products and found them to not contain sufficient amounts of the reputed active compounds -- such as rosavin and salidroside -- that characterize high-quality products.

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Netflix Just Staked Out New Ground in Fight for Your Kids' Eyeballs

Starting next year, Netflix will begin showing exclusive shows starring characters your children are already intimately familiar with. The collection will include nearly 300 hours of programming, and it could end up being a more important chip than a dozen Arrested Developments.

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Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new "social" way to give somebody a present on Facebook.

Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new "social" way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend's date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either this is a genius repurposing of what people already do, or it's a way to add peer pressure to the laziest form of gift giving.

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Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?

June 17, 2013 ? Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, zoologically patchy creature of Greek mythology, a chimera state arises among identical, rhythmically moving components -- known as oscillators -- when a few of those parts spontaneously fall out of sync while the rest remain synchronized.

Whether chimera states exist in the real world has remained an imminent question since their discovery in theoretical studies 10 years ago. Now, researchers from Princeton University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) report the first purely physical experimental evidence that chimera states can occur naturally and under a broad range of circumstances.

They report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a surprisingly simple experiment demonstrated that chimera states naturally lay at the crossroads of two types of synchronized motion -- in-phase and antiphase. Imagine two groups of pendulums that swing in the same direction at the same time -- that's in-phase. Under antiphase, the pendulums move at the same pace, but one group goes left as the other goes right.

Furthermore, the researchers found through mathematical models that the phenomenon can strike any process that relies on self-emergent synchronization, or the natural tendency of components to fall into the same rhythm. A range of things that swing, blink or pulsate share this quality, including clock pendulums, lightning bugs and heart cells.

Researchers from Princeton University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization report the first purely physical experimental evidence that chimera states can occur naturally within any process that relies on spontaneous synchronization, including clock pendulums, lightning bugs and heart valves. A chimera state arises among identical, rhythmically moving components when a few of those parts spontaneously fall out of sync while the rest remain synchronized. The researchers developed a simple apparatus made of two swings, each fitted with 15 metronomes (above). A spring connected the swings so that they moved together. When the swings were set in motion, the metronomes would eventually move together. Yet if the connecting spring was at a certain tensity, the symmetry spontaneously broke so that the metronomes on one swing stayed in lockstep (left) while the metronomes on the other swing moved erratically (right) despite the metronomes all being set to move at the same pace. (Video courtesy of Shashi Thutupalli)

Shashi Thutupalli, co-corresponding author on the paper and a postdoctoral research fellow in Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, explained that chimera states have recently been the topic of a lot of study and numerous computer models explore them. Nonetheless, there was a lack of experimental investigations into how they occur, and whether chimera states need specific conditions in order to crop up, Thutupalli said.

"We hope this will prompt scientists to look for chimeras where they haven't before," Thutupalli said. "Our experiment captures elements such as friction and inertia, the direct analogs of which occur in a wide range of natural systems. There may be many processes that are chimera-like. We just don't recognize them and so don't know how to control them."

Daniel Abrams, a Northwestern University assistant professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics, said that these findings are significant for researchers exploring the applications and natural occurrences of chimera states. Abrams, who is one of the first researchers to identify chimera states in theory, is familiar with the Princeton-MPIDS research but had no role in it.

Possible systems susceptible to a chimera state include electric-power grids, which rely on synchronized generators to avoid breaks in power transmission, Abrams said. Also, certain patterns of intense heart-tissue contraction -- known as "spiral waves" -- in certain types of heart attacks have been observed in simulations of chimera states. Forms of chimera state may also be connected to large-scale synchronization patterns of neurons that have been observed during seizures, Abrams said.

"A better understanding of the behavior of coupled oscillators could be useful for understanding a variety of biological activity," Abrams said.

Yet, two obstacles have long hindered the physical observation of a chimera state, Abrams said. On one hand, before the state's theoretical discovery, scientists didn't think that a hybrid of synchrony and asynchrony could exist -- chimera states were dismissed as an anomaly, Abrams said. Secondly, it was not clear until this latest work that they could exist in a simple system.

"The big point of the paper -- that chimera states can occur in simple systems that have not been explicitly designed to find them -- is an important one," Abrams said. "Before this work, the only experimental examples of chimera states were in fairly complicated systems with computers in the loop. Here the authors have constructed an extremely simple mechanical system that shows a chimera state."

The Princeton-MPIDS researchers developed an apparatus made of two swings, each fitted with 15 metronomes. A spring connected the swings so that they moved together. The research was largely conducted at MPIDS, and included first and co-corresponding author Erik Martens, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark; Antoine Fourri?re, a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck; and Oskar Hallatschek, now an assistant professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley.

The device was inspired by the work of Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, who in 1665 observed that the pendulums of two clocks suspended on a beam would automatically synchronize their motion, Martens said. "We drew inspiration from this classic experiment, but we took it quite a few steps further," he said. "This allowed us to find a system based merely on swings, springs and gears that displayed these mysterious chimera states."

Similarly, as the swings on the researchers' apparatus were set in motion, the metronomes would start moving willy-nilly then eventually move together. If the spring connecting the swings was taut the metronomes on both swings moved with in-phase synchrony, i.e., left and right in unison. If the spring was loose, antiphase movement developed so that metronomes on one swing moved left as the others moved right, yet always in time.

A chimera state arose when the spring's tensity was in between. The symmetry spontaneously broke so that the metronomes on one swing stayed in lockstep with one another while the metronomes on the other swing moved erratically. The researchers used mechanics equations to develop a mathematical model and simulate various scenarios under which a chimera state arose.

The work was partially supported by a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program.

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Japan's Nikkei rises, spurred by defensive buying,

By Dominic Lau

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Nikkei share average edged higher on Monday as buying in defensive stocks reversed early losses.

The Nikkei <.n225> added 0.4 percent to 12,7329.85 after trading as low as 12,549.82 on the back of weak U.S. stocks on Friday. Monday's gain took the index above its 100-day moving average at 12,734.37

"It's a mixed flow so far. It doesn't seem to be the type of guys that work on the cash side. It could be something else - high-frequency trading driven or it could retail driven," a senior trader at a foreign bank said. "There is nothing on the cash side here."

"Defensives are outperforming but we are starting to see some tech names are popping up to positive territory."

Amid market gyration and uncertainty over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will start to scale back its massive stimulus, investors are likely to be cautious ahead of a two-day U.S. central bank meeting starting on Tuesday.

Within defensive plays, the food sector <.ifood.t> was up 2.8 percent and Japan Tobacco gained 4.4 percent, while Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd rose 2.3 percent and peer Eisai Co Ltd advanced 2.7 percent.

The broader Topix <.topx> index climbed 1.1 percent to 1,068.22 on Monday morning, with volume at 18 percent of its full daily average for the past 90 trading days.

The real estate sector <.irlty.t>, which had rallied 70 percent this year to May 22 as it is seen to benefit most from Japan's push to reflate the economy, remained under pressure.

It was the worst sectoral performer on Monday, down 2.5 percent. The sector has lost nearly 28 percent from a 5-1/2 year high touched on April 12.

Goldman Sachs, however, remained upbeat on the market, maintaining its 12-month Nikkei target of 17,000, and said the pullback offered another opportunity to invest in reflation and consumption-related stocks.

"The yen is not the sole driver of Japan's profit recovery. Evidence is growing that consumption, production and housing investment are improving, so even if the dollar/yen averages 95 in FY2013-FY2014, EPS growth would still reach nearly 70 percent," the brokerage wrote in a note.

Investors, mainly hedge funds, have been cutting their long Japanese equities and short yen positions on the Fed's stimulus concerns and after the Nikkei had rallied more than 80 percent from mid-November to its 5-1/2 year peak hit on May 23.

The extreme volatility and big falls in the past few weeks have been accompanied by disappointment over the government's recently unveiled growth strategy, which has led some investors to trim back their high expectations for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth-spurring policies.

The Nikkei has fallen 20 percent since hitting the multiyear peak on May 23, staying in bear market territory, but is still up 3 percent since April 4, when the Bank of Japan unveiled sweeping stimulus measures and has risen 22 percent this year.

(Editing by Eric Meijer)

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Predators affect the carbon cycle, study shows

June 17, 2013 ? A new study shows that the predator-prey relationship can affect the flow of carbon through an ecosystem. This previously unmeasured influence on the environment may offer a new way of looking at biodiversity management and carbon storage for climate change.

The study, conducted by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, comes out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It looks at the relationship between grasshoppers and spiders -- herbivores and predators in the study's food chain -- and how it affects the movement of carbon through a grassland ecosystem. Carbon, the basic building block of all organic tissue, moves through the food chain at varying speeds depending on whether it's being consumed or being stored in the bodies of plants. However, this pathway is seldom looked at in terms of specific animal responses like fear from predation.

"We're discovering that predators are having important effects on shaping the make-up of ecosystems," says Dr. Oswald Schmitz, professor of ecology and one of the co-authors of the study. "But we've not really spent a lot of time measuring how that translates into other functions like nutrient cycling and recycling."

The researchers manipulated the food chains of grassland ecosystem to see how the levels of carbon would change over time. Dr. Schmitz and his team created several controlled ecosystems: some that contained only native grasses and herbs, others that had plants and an herbivore grasshopper, and some others that had plants and herbivores along with a carnivore spider species -- all three tiers of the food chain. In addition, a form of traceable carbon dioxide was injected into sample cages covered with Plexiglas, which allowed the team to track the carbon levels by periodically taking leaf, root, and dead animal samples.

The study found that the presence of spiders drove up the rate of carbon uptake by the plants by about 1.4 times more than when just grasshoppers were present and by 1.2 more times than when no animals were present. It was also revealed that the pattern of carbon storage in the plants changed when both herbivores and carnivores were present. The grasshoppers apparently were afraid of being eaten by the spiders and consumed less plant matter when the predators were around. The grasshoppers also shifted towards eating more herbs instead of grass under fearful scenarios.

At the same time, the grasses stored more carbon in their roots in a response to being disturbed at low levels when both herbivores and carnivores were present. In cases where only herbivores were present, the plants stored less carbon overall, likely due to the more intense eating habits of the herbivores that put pressure on plants to reduce their storage and breathe out carbon more. These stress impacts, then, caused both the plants and the herbivores to change their behaviors and change the composition of their local environment.

This has significance for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Although the study was carried out on a small scale, it could inform practices done in much larger areas. Places such as the Alaskan wilderness, for example, are home to animals that have the same predator-and-prey dynamics that drive the carbon cycle, and so protecting lands and storing carbon could be linked at the same time. Appreciating the role of predators is also important currently, given that top predators are declining at rates faster than that of many other species in global trends of biodiversity loss.

"It's going to force some thinking about the vital roles of animals in regulating carbon," concludes Dr. Schmitz, pointing to the fact that the UN's body of scientific experts who study climate change don't consider these multiplier effects in their models. "People are arguing for a paradigm change."

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Spurs' Parker: Sore hamstring can 'tear any time'

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker uses a foam roller to workout with during NBA basketball practice, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in San Antonio. The Spurs host the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, with the best-of-seven games series even at 2-2. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker uses a foam roller to workout with during NBA basketball practice, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in San Antonio. The Spurs host the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, with the best-of-seven games series even at 2-2. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Spurs guard Tony Parker says his sore right hamstring can tear "any time now" heading into Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.

Parker said Saturday he would take about 10 days to rest if this were the regular season. But with the series tied 2-all heading into San Antonio's final home game Sunday, the All-Star says, "If it gets a tear, that's life."

Parker strained the hamstring in a Game 3 blowout victory for the Spurs. He returned with a dazzling start in Game 4 on Thursday night, only to not score in the second half. Parker says he grew tired as the Heat pulled away to reclaim home-court advantage.

Despite the blunt assessment of his hamstring, Parker says he feels he's getting stronger.

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Turkish police crack down on revival of protests

ISTANBUL (AP) ? Turkish riot police on Sunday sprayed tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country.

Bulldozers cleared all that was left of a two-week sit-in and police sealed off the area to keep demonstrators away from the spot that has become the focus of the strongest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his 10 years in office.

Protesters set up barricades and plumes of tear gas rose in Istanbul's streets on Sunday after Turkish riot police rousted the group who had vowed to stay in Gezi Park despite Erdogan's warnings to leave.

In Istanbul, police battled protesters in side streets off the park and beyond. In Ankara, the capital, police dispersed hundreds who tried to hold a memorial service for an activist who died of injuries sustained in a nearby police crackdown nearby on June 1.

In Saturday's raid at dusk, hundreds of white-helmeted riot police swept through the park and adjacent Taksim Square, firing canisters of the acrid, stinging gas. Thousands of peaceful protesters, choking on the fumes and stumbling among the tents, put up little physical resistance.

The protests began as an environmental sit-in to prevent a development project at Gezi Park, but have quickly spread to dozens of cities and spiraled into a broader expression of discontent about what many say is Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian decision-making. He vehemently denies the charge, pointing to the strong support base that helped him win third consecutive term with 50 percent of the vote in 2011.

As police cleared the square, many ran into nearby hotels for shelter. A stand-off developed at a luxury hotel on the edge of the park, where police opened up with water cannons against protesters and journalists outside before throwing tear gas at the entrance, filling the lobby with white smoke. At other hotels, plain-clothes policemen turned up outside, demanding the protesters come out.

Some protesters ran off into nearby streets, setting up makeshift barricades and running from water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets.

As news of the raid broke, thousands of people from other parts of Istanbul gathered and were attempting to reach Taksim. Television showed footage of riot police firing tear gas on a highway and bridge across the Bosphorus to prevent protesters from heading to the area.

As the tear gas settled, bulldozers moved into the park, scooping up debris and loading it into trucks. Crews of workmen in fluorescent yellow vests and plain-clothes police went through the abandoned belongings, opening bags and searching their contents before tearing down the tents, food centers and library the protesters had set up in what had become a bustling tent city.

In Ankara, at least 3,000 people swarmed into John F. Kennedy street Saturday night, where opposition party legislators sat down at the front of the crowd facing the riot police ? not far from Parliament. In Izmir, thousands converged at a seafront square.

Near Gezi, ambulances ferried the injured to hospitals as police set up cordons and roadblocks around the park, preventing anyone from getting close.

Tayfun Kahraman, a member of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group of protest movements, said an untold number of people in the park had been injured ? some from rubber bullets.

"Let them keep the park, we don't care anymore. Let it all be theirs. This crackdown has to stop. The people are in a terrible state," he told The Associated Press by phone.

Taksim Solidarity, on its Web site, called the incursion "atrocious" and counted hundreds of injured ? which it called a provisional estimate ? as well as an undetermined number of arrests. Istanbul governor's office said at least 44 people were taken to hospitals for treatment. None of them were in serious condition, it said in a statement.

Huseyin Celik, the spokesman for Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, told NTV that the sit-in had to end.

"They had made their voice heard ... Our government could not have allowed such an occupation to go on until the end," he said.

It was a violent police raid on May 31 against a small sit-in in Gezi Park that sparked the initial outrage and spiraled into a much broader protest. While those in the park have now fled, it was unclear whether they would take their movement to other places, or try to return to the park at a later time.

The protests, which left at least four people dead and more than 5,000 injured, have dented Erdogan's international reputation and infuriated him with a previously unseen defiance to his rule.

Saturday's raid came less than two hours after Erdogan threatened protesters in a boisterous speech in Sincan, an Ankara suburb that is a stronghold of his party.

"I say this very clearly: either Taksim Square is cleared, or if it isn't cleared then the security forces of this country will know how to clear it," he told tens of thousands of supporters at a political rally.

A second pro-government rally is planned in Istanbul on Sunday.

According to the government's redevelopment plan for Taksim Square that caused the sit-in, the park would be replaced with a replica Ottoman-era barracks. Under initial plans, the construction would have housed a shopping mall, though that has since been amended to the possibility of an opera house, a theater and a museum with cafes.

On Friday, Erdogan offered to defer to a court ruling on the legality of the government's contested park redevelopment plan, and floated the possibility of a referendum on it.

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Fraser reported from Ankara. Jamey Keaten in Ankara contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-police-crack-down-revival-protests-104830598.html

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Obama: Being a good father isn't easy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says there's no substitute for the love and support that fathers provide.

In his weekly Internet and radio address, Obama is wishing Americans a happy Father's Day. He's laments that his own father wasn't around and says he's still working to be a better father.

Obama says being a dad isn't easy for anyone ? gay, straight, grandparent or foster parent. He says he wants to encourage marriage and strong families by reforming child support laws to get more fathers engaged. He says businesses, faith groups and communities have a role to play.

In the Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says the Education Department has become like a national school board. He says Republicans have a plan to give state and local authorities more control.

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Online:

Obama address: www.whitehouse.gov

GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-being-good-father-isnt-easy-100256015.html

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New findings regarding DNA damage checkpoint mechanism in oxidative stress

June 14, 2013 ? In current health lore, antioxidants are all the rage, as "everybody knows" that reducing the amount of "reactive oxygen species" -- cell-damaging molecules that are byproducts of cellular metabolism -- is critical to staying healthy. What everyone doesn't know is that our bodies already have a complex set of processes built into our cells that handle these harmful byproducts of living and repair the damage they cause.

For example, few of us realize that, while our cells' DNA is constantly being damaged by reactive oxygen species (as well as by other forces), there are also complex mechanisms that constantly assess that damage and make repairs to our fragile genetic material at least 10,000 times a day in every cell in our bodies. The vital biochemical processes by which this constant DNA repair takes place are still only partially understood because of their complexity, speed, and the difficulty of studying complex interactions within living cells. Moreover, it remains unknown how cells sense the oxidatively damaged DNA in the first place.

In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a research team from University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced that they had uncovered a previously unknown surveillance mechanism, known as a DNA damage checkpoint, used by cells to monitor oxidatively damaged DNA. The finding, first-authored by UNC Charlotte biology graduate student Jeremy Willis and undergraduate honors student Yogin Patel, was also co-authored by undergraduate honors student Barry L. Lentz and assistant professor of biology Shan Yan.

"DNA damage is the underlying pathology in many major human diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, so arriving at a full understanding of the sophisticated mechanisms that cells usually employ to avoid such disastrous outcomes is important," Yan noted.

Two biochemical pathways, known as ATM-Chk2 and ATR-Chk1, govern the cell's response and repair of double-strand DNA breaks and other types of DNA damage or replication stress respectively. The molecular mechanisms underlying the ATR-Chk1 checkpoint activation include the uncoupling of DNA helicase and polymerase activities and DNA end resection of double-strand breaks.

"The significance of what we have found is that there is a third, previously unknown trigger for ATR-Chk1 checkpoint pathway, and this novel mechanism is discovered in the context of oxidative stress," Yan said.

In particular, Yan's team discovered that under conditions of oxidative stress (in the presence of hydrogen peroxide) a base excision repair protein known as APE2 plays unexpected roles in the checkpoint response: single-strand DNA generation and Chk1 association. The protein was previously known to be involved in the DNA repair of oxidative damage, but not to extent revealed in the study's findings. The distinct role of APE2 in the single-stand DNA generation in 3' to 5' direction is referred to as single-strand break end resection ("SSB end resection") by the authors.

The study involved experiments performed with Xenopus laves (the African clawed frog, a species commonly used as a lab animal) egg extracts -- an experimental system that Yan's lab has developed for studying DNA repair and checkpoint mechanisms in a cell-free conditions. Xenopus is useful because it is a vertebrate (and thus quite similar to humans in cell biology), and its egg cells can be easily produced and manipulated.

Yan is hopeful that this research will open new avenues to pharmacological strategies in drug development for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/genes/~3/iPfAUPGwXpc/130614125640.htm

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Professional Organizers Around the World Show and Tell - Mexico

Professional Organizer Ignacio Eguiarte Shares ?

Summer is a season full of wonderful things, including my love of travel. To celebrate the sunshine, I?ve invited several guest bloggers from around the world to share their international perspective and passion for the organizing industry. Please join me in thanking them for generously sharing their informational posts and photos.

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I?ve been instructing and mentoring professional organizers for a few years and I am always fascinated by the differences based on geography. I?m equally fascinated by our similarities. So, ?I?ve decided to present a series of interviews with professional organizers from around the globe, showing not only where they live but also what it takes to?become a professional organizer?in other countries.

I continue this series with , owner and lead professional organizer of . ?With no further ado, let me present my featured Mexican organizer.

If you?re a professional organizer in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe or South America, I?d like to hear from you!

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GT: Ignacio, please share a little information about your business and you.

IE: More than a business, I write a blog about providing people with some organization insights; this could be not just home and office organization but life itself. I think the first step you need to do is organize your life, getting advice, information and inspiration from other people, so that way you can make your own opinion and work the inner self. Then when you figured a system that works on you, you can be able to organize everything around you, your house, your office, your schedule and put together a general plan for life. Those are the thoughts that led me to write a blog, especially because in Mexico, this kind of information is scarce, there is plenty of info written in English but just few sources in Spanish, most of them are from Spain. In my blog I try to give my audience some words about how we relate to things and thoughts that in some cases anchor us to negative feelings and stop us from getting a rewarding life. Up to now I?ve been writing posts for more than a year.

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Ignacio Eguiarte ? Mexico

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GT: Please describe your office or where you typically return client phone calls and work on your business.

IE: For my organization blog, I do all the work from two spaces one in my home the other one on my iPhone. You know I use the iPhone because I need to check mails, posts, pins, etc. for all the platforms in which I share contents. The main platform is Tumblr, but I have Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Oh yes, yes, yes, you?re most interested in my actual workplace; well in our home, we have this narrow space beside the kitchenette where the washer/dryer machine is located, that place is layout in a way to work like a home office. There is the computer and cabinets for stationary and stuff. Pretty much my office works with the computer and the Internet connection. As I don?t have clients in the actual sense of the word, I barely use the phone, which is on one shelf in hand reach. I do most of my investigation and writing on the computer, sometimes I use iPhone or iPad to take notes and organize my calendar.

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GT: What is on your business card?

IE: I don?t have a business card properly, because I don?t have clients yet. I could say that my banner is my business card; its design is simple, so simple because I wanted to squeeze a characteristic name to my blog. NACHOrganiza is a juxtaposition o my short name ?Nacho? (is short for Ignacio) and the word ?organiza? (in Spanish means organize). The caps letters to my name is a way to play with the idea that me is the one who organizes you. There?s playfulness to the letter O, every month I change it with something allusive to the month or a celebration; this year I started to put a ribbon inside with a different color making people aware to some diseases or social issues we?re facing. In a second stage I?ll start to work with real clients, for now I just help several friends organizing their not so organized belongings.

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GT: How did you discover Metropolitan Organizing?

IE: Since a while A&E Latin America was airing Hoarders TV show, I?ve seen it for several seasons, that way I got familiarized with Geralin?s name among others Professional Organizers, specialists in Hoarding and Psychiatrists. The moment I decided to write a blog I started to browsing the web to get information about her, about the show and about NAPO, from there I?ve been following several organization blogs from around the world.

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GT: Describe your typical workday, please.

IE: As my tasks are delivered in my home office, I just have to go downstairs from my bedroom. Usually all week I read articles, browse the web, visit blogs and so on to get enough information to get me an idea what topics I am going to use for the posts. With the entire information gathered I proceed to write the posts; normally I don?t make notes prior to the actual writing because I always have wanted to expose my ideas or feelings about a topic the way I talk to people in a regular environment, is like having a pep talk instead of reading some elevated self-help written book. I do not have a schedule, I do my writing on Saturdays sometimes morning sometimes afternoon, but when I sit down in front of my computer is for 2 to 3 hours until the posts are finished and programed on my site, then I took pictures to illustrate and do some photo editing, with that complement the publications and I?m done for the week, speaking on the proper making of content, as I told you rest of the time, visit stores, read blogs, etc. for gather info. Recently I past from publish five days a week to just three; the reason behind is I realized that I?ve been overexposing the blog with to much information, so I took the decision to post less articles so the audience can really take in the content.

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GT: How did you get started in the organizing business?

IE: One important aspect of the blog and myself is that I do the blog not as a hobby per se but is not remunerated; I?m an Architect with 15 years of design experience, I love it and that?s my job. The curiosity about organization grew so strong in me because I used to watch organization and home improvement TV shows, so becoming aware that I have potential and passion for organize spaces I realize that I could bring something new to the table especially in my language because of the scarcity of information in Spanish.

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GT: Which blogs do you read to learn more about organizing?

IE:

• Managing Modern Life particularly helpful for organizing tips and for business advises.
• Unclutterer is other blog that I like, have so many articles about life coaching and general organization.
• I?m an Organization Junkie, is so visual and rich in ideas for organize everything.
• We Organize U I used to watch Neat a TV show hosted by Hellen Buttigieg, actually have one of her books.
• Sostenibilidad y Minimalismo is a Spanish blog with posts about minimalism and sustainability, really good life coaching advices.

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GT: Name 3 things you?re terrible at:

IE:

1. Artistic painting that is odd because Architects in general are pretty good on it and I?m not
2. Sports, I?ve never been a jock and I?ll never be, even I?m not into watching sports live or on TV.
3. Keeping my mouth shut, I?m very opinionated and even when I manage to stay in silence my eyes can tell you how I feel about something I dislike. Always try to express myself with respect.

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GT: What do you see yourself doing in five years?

IE: The first is elevating NACHOrganiza from an organization blog to a business in the field, I mean having touch with clients in need of my advice. Getting my CPO degree from NAPO; writing my first organization book focused in my very own Mexican market. The whole idea behind this is take advantage that there is practically a virgin organization market down here and I would like to be leader in this field in my country.

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GT: Could you describe how you plan on growing your business?

IE: Because of the peculiarity of my blog (just a blog not a business yet) I?ll like to take it to the next level, having clients who pay for my services, then have some education attending NAPO webinars or teleconferences and attending to the events. From that point making flourish the business and getting the skills and professionalism to educate people in my country that are interested in the organization world like myself. It?s pretty obvious that I need to resign eventually to my ?day job? and pursuing this new adventure.

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GT: What do you do for fun when you aren?t working?

IE: I like to spend quality time with my partner and my two dogs. Because of his job as Pediatrician, he works on weekends and holidays so we don?t have that much time together, but when we have the opportunity like in vacations we travel, watch movies and time to time attend dinner parties with friends.

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GT: ?If we were taking a road trip, what type of music would you want to play in the car?

IE: Sarah Brigthman, Adele and Pandora (not the American metal rock band; this one is a Mexican pop ballad trio of ladies)

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GT: Describe your ideal client and how many hours a week you?d ideally work?

IE: My ideal client would be an open-minded person who really wants to make the leap to an organized life with natural fears to make changes, but enough courage to go ahead. I?d work with that person at first 4 hours a day and eventually have 4 hours follow-through appointments once a week. Why just 4 hours? Because being and 8 hours shift would be a huge imposition to someone trying to make changes. I prefer having two clients rather than one.

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GT: Name one place you?d like to vacation.

IE: I like to go to Europe and to be more [specific] London in a rainy, foggy, gloomy day. Yes I?m weird.

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GT: Are you a morning person or night person?

IE: More night than morning person but I don?t have problems with either one.

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GT: Have you ever been to the USA?? Where did you visit?? If you have not been to the USA, if you came, where would you like to visit?

IE: I?ve been with my partner several occasions. The most visited place is Las Vegas; we have very good friends up there. We also have been in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles Area, San Francisco, Grand Canyon Park, Paso Robles and San Diego Area.

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GT: Calendar Style:?Paper or Electronic?

IE: Electronic, I am kind of gadget fella.

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GT: Your very favorite smart phone app(s)?

IE: Mmm that?s a tough one, first of all, the apps from the platforms I work on like Pages for Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter, then Snapseed (photo editing), Cloudword (iPad app for typing my posts), Dropbox (have [access to my] info anywhere).

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GT: If you kept a candy dish on your desk, what would it be filled with?

IE:

1. First act, have little dark chocolates in it.
2. Second act, have nothing but wrappers.
3. Third act, having huge remorse reminding myself to take the candy dish out of the room.

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? Ignacio Eguiarte ??With a background in Architecture, years ago I felt the calling of the organization universe. My first hint, watching tv shows about home improvement, extreme cleaning and declutering. Since January 2012 I made the resolution of running a life style and home organization blog. Without prior training on the subject other than reading a dozen of related books, I started my blog. From that moment on I started a path along with readings, research, and good energy to fill a void, being at the time the first organization blog in Mexico and, spreading the knowledge in Spanish to others, who like me were craving to learn more about organization.?http://nachorganiza.tumblr.com/

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As an organizing business consultant, I work with professional organizers to create sustainable, profitable, and sensible organizing businesses. Through Metropolitan Organizing?Metrozing for short?I offer coaching internationally to organizers via phone and Skype. Additionally, I offer products like the New Organizers? Essentials kit to help get your organizing business started. Click the SHOP button in the upper right corner to purchase products and consulting sessions. Additionally, Metropolitan Organizing helps chronically disorganized clients in Raleigh, NC to organize their office, home, time, or life. For organizing help, leave a message at (919) 380-7718 or fill out the contact form on my website. Connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin

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Turkey protests test Obama's ties with Erdogan

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Government crackdowns against protesters in Turkey could test the close ties between President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strategically important U.S. ally in a tumultuous region.

The demonstrations in Turkey, now in their second week, cropped up after Erdogan's visit to the White House last month, which highlighted a variety of issues on which the U.S. needs Turkey's help. They include quelling the violence in Syria, stabilizing Iraq and stemming Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Erdogan, known for his brash and stubborn leadership style, has responded to the public outcry by questioning the legitimacy of the protesters. On Tuesday, Erdogan told demonstrators his patience was running out, saying of the protests, "we have no tolerance for them."

He spoke as hundreds of police in riot gear briefly fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at protestors in Istanbul's central Taksim Square, forcing many protestors who had occupied the square into a nearby park. Some groups also clashed with police at one edge of the square, setting off fireworks, firebombs and throwing stones at a police water cannon.

The clash mirrored previous confrontations between Turkish police and protestors, which have also involved the use of tear gas and water cannons. Turkish authorities are trying halt demonstrations, which have spread to nearly 80 cities across the country.

James Jeffrey, who served as Obama's ambassador to Turkey until 2010, said that in private discussions among U.S. officials "there's some wincing at the statements by Erdogan."

But in public, the White House has carefully avoided criticizing the prime minister directly, though the U.S. has urged Turkish authorities to exercise restraint. There also have been no known conversations between Obama and his Turkish counterpart since the protests began.

"We continue to have serious concerns about the reports of excessive use of force by police and large numbers of injuries and damage to property, and welcome calls for these events to be investigated," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. "We also continue to urge all parties to refrain from provoking violence." He did not mention Erdogan.

"This is always the quandary for the U.S. government," said Bulent Aliriza, a Turkey analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "When you get that close to an ally, you become very careful about criticizing them."

That's the pattern the U.S. fell into with former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, an autocrat who found favor with the U.S. by protecting American interests in the Middle East. The U.S. only turned on Mubarak after the Egyptian people launched mass protests against his government in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring push for democracy that swept through the region.

Despite the unrest in Turkey, Erdogan doesn't appear in danger of losing power. But the protests have exposed pent-up hostility among many Turks who fear Erdogan is backsliding on his early record of democratic reform and seeking to impose his religious views on the secular nation.

The anti-government rallies started after police launched a pre-dawn raid against a peaceful sit-in protesting plans to uproot trees in Istanbul's Taksim Square. Since then, tens of thousands of mostly secular Turks have joined the demonstrations, turning them into Turkey's biggest anti-government disturbances in years.

For the White House, Erdogan's handling of the challenge to his leadership could complicate Turkey's close but complex relationship with the U.S.

Since taking office, Obama has taken significant steps to point to Turkey as a model for other majority-Islamic nations pursuing democracy and ties with the West. Three months after winning the White House, Obama put Turkey on the itinerary for his first foreign tour as president, a 2009 trip that was aimed in part at resetting the U.S. relationship with the Muslim world. While touring Turkey alongside Erdogan, Obama cast the ties between their two countries as a "model partnership."

Since then, the two leaders have spoken frequently by phone and conferred on the sidelines of international summits and at the White House, most recently in May.

Despite the robust relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, Erdogan has created headaches for Obama before. In 2010, Turkey broke with the U.S. and voted against United Nations sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Erdogan also ratcheted up tensions with Israel earlier this year when he called Zionism "a crime against humanity."

The lengthy civil war in Syria has exposed perhaps the deepest rift between Erdogan and Obama. While both want Syrian President Bashar Assad out of power, the prime minister has become frustrated with Obama's reluctance to use military force to end the violence.

Erdogan pushed Obama during their recent talks to deepen U.S. involvement in Syria, but the Turkish leader received none of the assurances he sought.

Obama, however, has proven to have some measure of influence over his Turkish counterpart.

Earlier this year, Obama brokered a truce between Israel and Turkey, which had cut diplomatic ties following an Israeli attack on a Turkish aid flotilla bound for Gaza. Analysts say Erdogan would have been far less willing to accept an apology from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had Obama not also been on the line during the phone call.

Aliriza, the Turkey expert at CSIS, said Obama's success in restarting diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel underscores the influence Obama could have now in shaping the prime minister's response to the protests.

"There is only one man in this world that Erdogan listens to, and that's Barack Obama," he said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-protests-test-obamas-ties-erdogan-075345785.html

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Filedrop: Your Semi-Universal Airdrop Alternative

We finally have AirDrop for iOS?which is great news! But that still doesn't change the fact that you can only share between Apple devices, leaving your Windows brethren high and dry. Fortunately, a similar service called Filedrop just hit iOS, meaning you're free to share and share alike.

What does it do?

Lets you share files between Macs, PCs, and iOS devices in any combination over Wi-Fi. You can watch the final transfers as they happen, and you're free to accept or dismiss any incoming files as you see fit. Slide up to view the downloads you've already received, and from there swipe to the left or right to dismiss and share, respectively. You can even preview common the most common file types.

Why do we like it?

AirDrop's great, but the usefulness of a non-universal file-sharing system is always going to be severely limited. Filedrop performs the exact same function between virtually any desktop as well as iOS mobile devices. Particularly useful is its ability to alert you when a new Filedrop-running device has hopped onto your Wi-Fi network. Still, the real pull will come when they release their Android and Windows Phone versions, which should supposedly be dropping sometime soon.

Slooh, Download this app for: iOS, Free

The Best: Sharing between Windows and Apple devices

The Worst: Can't create folders or rename files

Source: http://gizmodo.com/filedrop-your-semi-universal-airdrop-alternative-512725092

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Sony will launch PlayStation 4 at $399. (Take that, Microsoft.)

The Xbox One will sell for half a grand. The Sony PlayStation 4 for a hundred bucks less than that.?

By Matthew Shaer / June 11, 2013

Sony Computer Entertainment President Andrew House presents the Sony Playstation 4 at a news conference show on the eve of the opening of E3 in Los Angeles, Calif., June 10, 2013.

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This is big news for a very simple reason: Microsoft recently revealed that its forthcoming Xbox One console will debut at $499, meaning that PS4 will undercut the One by hundred bucks at launch. And a hundred bucks isn't nothing, especially when you consider that many consumers will want to purchase games (likely at least $60 a pop) and additional controllers for their new systems.?

Interestingly, in the past, it was Sony that attempted to position itself as the luxury console-maker. Its PlayStation 3, for instance, originally sold for $499, a hundred bucks more than the roughly contemporaneous Xbox 360. Now the tables have turned.?

Of course, the PS4 and Xbox One will vary drastically, and not just in terms of price ? there's also the question of DRM, or Digital Rights Management. As NBC News has noted, with the Xbox One, Microsoft has suggested that it will leave?"the decision of whether or not to charge players an additional fee when installing pre-owned games up to individual publishers."?

Sony, on the other hand, has said that no such restrictions will apply to the PS4.?

Over at CNET, Eric Franklin calls the whole thing a "decidedly different philosophy when it comes to software and what true ownership means in a continually complex digital age." He calls Sony's approach "much more pro-consumer" ? we totally agree ? although he also hints that game publishers, who have complained in the past about the constant re-selling of titles at outlets such as GameStop, can't be too pleased.?

"Still," Mr. Franklin writes, "the proof will be in the pudding, and how all of this stuff actually plays out after each console's release, we just can't say yet."?

We'd like to hear from you: Will the hundred dollar price difference make a difference to you? Drop us a line in the comments section.?

And for more tech news, follow us on?Twitter @venturenaut.

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This Is What iOS 7 Looks Like in Motion

iOS 7 is here. It's beautiful. You can check out all the details in our main post, but here is some video (top video without audio, we'll fix when we can) to see how it looks in action. You really want to see this.

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