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Searching your mobile phone in silent mode is really irritating. It annoys you when you are unable to find one, but this is now not the case with the Android devices. In case of any emergency you can send an SMS from any other mobile phone which will change it from ...

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Glow-in-the-dark dog created by Scientist

Glow-in-the-dark dog created by Scientist

The news agency have reported that the Scientist from Korean have created a glowing dog with the help of cloning which can be useful to cure  disease like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The report suggested that the team from Seoul National University used the modified beagle (Female) ...

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Form of memory can be affected by Lack of Sleep

Form of memory can be affected by Lack of Sleep

Are you getting a fragmented Sleep? If the answer is yes than its better you consult a doctor. The study suggests that improper sleep causes lack of memory and can also cause dementia. The study lead by Luis de Lecea said that “Sleep continuity is one of the ...

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What women wants

What women wants

A new study reveals that the 3 most important things women look out for is Sleep, Internet and showers. Though men can agree with the first 2 things i.e. sleep and internet, but sex is the thing which most women can’t live without. The result conducted ...

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System that can react: Coming Soon

We often get angry at the system when it shows some problem and then react back to it. But we might soon have to pay for the shout we made at system. There are few scientist who are developing a device which will be voice activated and can ...

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1 Minute To Kill Him is a great way to relieve stress. It lets you build a voodoo doll of the person you are frustrated with and then kill it with various weapons while earning points. You can personalise the doll with clothes and accessories to make them look like the person you hate.

The app is only for devices running iOS and is available for free from iTunes. If your phone has a barcode scanner use the QR code to download the app directly to your phone or tablet device

Global Pop sensation Pitbull has lent his voice in the thrid edition of Men In Black series. The film starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back with their alien adventures in the third edition of the MIB franchise. After the success of the first two films, the team of MIB has decided to return with a bang and hence they roped in the pop sensation Pitbull.
Pitbull has composed the theme song for MIB3. Titled as “Back in time,” commenting on the same, he said, “It’s an incredible honor to be a part of such an amazing franchise as Men in Black and I have so much respect for Will Smith, especially with our similar musical backgrounds.”
Apart from composing the track, Pitbull, has also given words to the song. Along with Pitbull, the song “Back In Time” has also been written by Marc Kinchen, Adrian Trejo and Urales Vargas.
As far as the flavour of the song is concerned, the song features a sample of the 1950s hit “Love is Strange,” (written by Sylvia Robinson, Ellas McDaniel and Mickey Baker), which went to #1 for the R&B duo Mickey & Sylvia. “I always wanted to keep the music fun yet modern; we used the slogan of the movie and flipped it back into the song that ‘in order to understand the future, you have to go back in time’,” Pitbull explained.
Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the film, sounded very excited and added, “My 19-year-old daughter turned me on to Pitbull. I’m thrilled that he wrote such a great song for our movie that totally gets it.”
The song will be available as a digital single and released on March 26. Men in Black 3 will be released in 3D in US theaters on May 25, 2012.

Teachers who practice meditation in a short yet intensive program are more calm and compassionate, a new study has found.

According to the study, conducted by UCSF Scientists, schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed – and more compassionate and aware of others’ feelings.
A core feature of many religions, meditation is practiced by tens of millions around the world as part of their spiritual beliefs as well as to alleviate psychological problems, improve self-awareness and to clear the mind.
Previous research has linked meditation to positive changes in blood pressure, metabolism and pain, but less is known about the specific emotional changes that result from the practice.
The new study was designed to create new techniques to reduce destructive emotions while improving social and emotional behaviour.
“The findings suggest that increased awareness of mental processes can influence emotional behaviour,” Margaret Kemeny, lead author of the study, said.
“The study is particularly important because opportunities for reflection and contemplation seem to be fading in our fast-paced, technology-driven culture,” she said. Altogether, 82 female schoolteachers between the ages of 25 and 60 participated in the project.
Teachers were chosen because their work is stressful and because the meditation skills they learned could be immediately useful to their daily lives, possibly trickling down to benefit their students.
The study arose from a meeting in 2000 between Buddhist scholars, behavioural scientists and emotion experts at the home of the Dalai Lama.
There, the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, PhD, a UCSF emeritus professor and world expert in emotions, pondered the topic of emotions, leading the Dalai Lama to pose a question “In the modern world, would a secular version of Buddhist contemplation reduce harmful emotions?”
From that, Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace developed a 42-hour, eight-week training program, integrating secular meditation practices with techniques learned from the scientific study of emotion.
It incorporated three categories of meditative practice – concentration practices involving sustained, focused attention on a specific mental or sensory experience, mindfulness practices involving the close examination of one’s body and feelings and directive practices designed to promote empathy and compassion toward others.
In the randomised, controlled trial, the schoolteachers learned to better understand the relationship between emotion and cognition, and to better recognize emotions in others and their own emotional patterns so they could better resolve difficult problems in their relationships.
All the teachers were new to meditation and all were involved in an intimate relationship. “We wanted to test whether the intervention affected both personal well-being as well as behaviour that would affect the well-being of their intimate partners,” Kemeny said.
As a test, the teachers and their partners underwent a “marital interaction” task measuring minute changes in facial expression while they attempted to resolve a problem in their relationship.
In this type of encounter, those who express certain negative facial expressions are more likely to divorce, research has shown.
Some of the teachers’ key facial movements during the marital interaction task changed, particularly hostile looks, which diminished. In addition, depressed mood levels dropped by more than half. In a follow-up assessment five months later, many of the positive changes remained, the authors said.
“We know much less about longer-term changes that occur as a result of meditation, particularly once the ‘glow’ of the experience wears off.
“It’s important to know what they are because these changes probably play an important role in the longer-term effects of meditation on mental and physical health symptoms and conditions,” she added.
With the recently-released Harry Potter e-books being regarded as probable game-changers in the online world, we find out that Odisha’s young book lovers are happily getting addicted to digital page-turners.
When Harry Potter e-books became available very recently to fans worldwide, many felt that they would turn into game-changers in the digital universe. Unlike most e-books, Potter e-books from the Pottermore website can be downloaded in a variety of formats and read on a variety of devices and apps – unprotected by digital rights management (DRM). Pottermore will insert a watermark identifying the buyer – an effort to stop piracy – but the books can be shared with friends and family.
For those who are hooked on to digital page-turners, this is big news. But how many in Odisha are aware of online reading, leave alone the new trends there? Does young Odisha know that if you search with the keywords like “e-books free download” close to 1,08,000,000 links appear in less than 15 seconds? Well, yes it does and what’s pleasantly surprising is that the iPad and tab-friendly youngsters of Odisha are only too happy to embrace this emerging reading trend.
Says Swatantra Mohapatra, a 22-year-old audio engineer and music producer, “I come from a family of book lovers. My mother has a huge library. So, I’m a habitual reader since my early childhood. But recently when I became the owner of a Netbook and then, an iPad, I entered the world of e-books. From then onwards, I was completely hooked. I have a penchant for authors like RK Narayanan and Mario Puzo but most of the times, I don’t get the opportunity to actually go to bookstores to buy books. The solution to this problem is easy. I have an Internet connection and their books are easily available online.
That precisely sums it up. The e-books are getting more and more popular because they are easily available and most of the times, they come for free. And what more, storage isn’t an issue because it all depends on the memory capacity of the machine. It’s like having a mobile library with you all the time without the problems of dog-eared pages, stained covers and broken spines. Says an enthusiastic e-book reader Priyanka Patra, “My friends and I have just started to explore the world of e-books and I completely feel like Alice in Wonderland. I am very fond of romances and there’s a huge collection of it on the Net.”
Priyanka is just 15 and she has completed her board exams this year. She doesn’t have a Kindle e-book reader or an iPad. But that doesn’t deter her from reading e-books. “I just download them on my desktop and literally devour them. For students who don’t have enough pocket money to buy books regularly, e-books are a blessing,” she insists. Apart from fictions, technical, academic or non-fiction publications are also just a click of a mouse away. Their easy availability on the PDF formats is good enough for third year engineering student Tirthakar Parija. “My friends and I usually read non-fiction or technical books online. Most of the foreign publications are not available in our libraries. E-books are helping in our knowledge accumulation,” Tirthankar says.
Those like Tirthankar or Swatantra also multi-task while reading. According to them, the mind can get fatigued and leave little time to search for favourite paperbacks in book stores after working for hours on end on a computer. Reading online by just clicking open a new window is a simple way to relax after a hard day’s work.
However, this growing trend also comes with its share of disadvantages. Apart from technical problems like continuous development and change in the reading media or the longevity of batteries of e-books readers, this fascination can’t always be an alternative to the pleasure of physically reading a book though there are apprehensions over whether this trend might destroy the charm of flipping through the pages of a new book or even neatly gift-wrapping one on a special occasion. According to Asok Kumar Das from Dhauli Publications, “It’s true that the culture of reading e-books is growing in Odisha. But up until now, e-books can’t replace the market of physical sale of books. There is so much of emotional attachment that a reader has with a book. Nothing can take away the charm in the small note written on the first page of a book when it’s gifted to someone.” Besides, e-books can’t provide the thrill of inheriting a good collection of books or some rare editions as part of a legacy.
But can this habit of downloading free books eventually damage the business of the publishing houses? Bijay Mohapatra from BK Publications thinks otherwise. “In Odisha, there are a large number of students who don’t have easy access to computers or Internet connections. They have to depend on the traditional text or reference books published by houses like ours. Their parents are usually not very tech-savvy. Their influence also matters. As of now, this emerging trend is not a threat to the business of the publishing houses.”
Guess, there is always space for all kinds of books – be it the digital page-turners or the hardcover and paper back ones.Perhaps, the winner in this debate is the fact that youngsters haven’t given up on their reading habit.

 

Struggling cellphone maker Nokia on Wednesday disclosed a software bug in its new flagship Lumia 900 model, dealing a setback to its ambitions to re-enter the US smartphone market.
Nokia lost smartphone market dominance to Apple and Google in part due to its weak performance in the United States and the Lumia 900, which uses Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, is a key component in its comeback bid.
“It’s like they stalled their engine when everybody is looking at them at the start of their race,” said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.
The model went on sale in the United States through AT&T on April 8 and is due to launch globally this quarter.
“A memory management issue was discovered that could, in some cases, lead to loss of data connectivity,” Nokia smartphone unit chief Jo Harlow and Nokia US chief Chris Weber said in a joint statement.
“This issue is purely in the phone software, and is not related to either phone hardware or the network itself,” they said. A solution would be available around April 16.
Nokia said it will offer anyone who has bought Lumia 900, or will buy by April 21, a $100 credit to their AT&T bill. The operator sells the phone for $99.99 with a two year contract.

“They really did not need it particularly in this market, but I like the way they are dealing with it,” Gartner’s Milanesi said.

Experiencing breathing problems while sleeping? Beware, it may raise your risk of depression, a new study has suggested.
The risk of depression in women with sleep apnea — in which breathing becomes shallow or pauses briefly during sleep — is more than in men with such conditions, according to the study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“Snorting, gasping or stopping breathing while asleep was associated with nearly all depression symptoms, including feeling hopeless and like a failure,” says researcher Anne Wheaton, an epidemiologist with CDC. “We expected people with sleep-disordered breathing to report trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, or feeling tired and having little energy, but not the other symptoms.”

Both depression and breathing problems during sleep are common, and both are underdiagnosed. Screening people who have one disorder for the other could lead to better diagnosis and treatments. For their study, published in the journal Sleep, the team used data of 9,714 adults who participated in the survey.

Participants were considered to have depression based on their answers to a questionnaire asking about how often they experienced symptoms of depression. Six per cent of men and three per cent of women in the study had sleep apnea. It was found that women with this condition were 5.2 times as likely to have depression, while men were 2.4 times as likely. However, researchers found no increased likelihood of depression among people who snore.

Draw Something is a Pictionary-esq word game that relies on pictures to identify a word. More difficult the word more coins you can earn, which can be then exchanged for more colours.

The game lets you invite friends to play via email or supported social networks. You, however, do need to have a data service to use this app.If your phone has a barcode scanner use the QR code to download the app directly to your device

Sometimes it often becomes difficult to get loans. A bad credit personal loans is one of the ways to get the money instantly when you are really in need of it. If you have some friends and relatives who can lend some money to you then its fine otherwise you need to find some outside source which can lend you loan as quickly as possible.

The main question here is if you have a bad credit background then finding a Lender becomes much difficult. When this is the scenario the best way to get the loan is to go for a secured loan. Here the Lender is aware that even if you are not able to pay the loan the compensation will be done using the property you secured against the loan.

Loans with no credit check are useful when one is suffering from financial crises like arrears, defaults, bankruptcy etc. Why are these loans good? Well, they offer any needy individual a loan when they require it urgently. It doesn’t ask for any credit report. This type of loan is the best option for a person who requires money urgently and has a bad credit history.

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