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(Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday, in an apparent reversal of position for the presumed 2016 Republican presidential hopeful.
Christie's office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement.
Among the bills he vetoed was a Medicaid expansion under the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law known as Obamacare.
Republicans have repeatedly tried to overturn the law since regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 election, making its repeal a centerpiece of their political opposition to the Democratic president.
While that has failed because Democrats still hold a majority in the Senate, many states led by Republicans have attempted to undermine the law by refusing to expand Medicaid, a program created by the federal government and administered by the states to pay for medical services for the poor.
Under Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal government is offering to pay states 100 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid for three years beginning in 2014, declining to 90 percent in subsequent years.
Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obama's healthcare overhaul but allowed states to opt out of a provision expanding the Medicaid program.
Christie, a critic of Obamacare, said in February he would accept federal money to expand Medicaid in New Jersey because if he did not the money would go to other states.
The governor's press office did not immediately respond to requests to explain his apparent change.
Earlier this month, researchers said 14 Republican-led states that oppose expanding Medicaid under would leave 3.6 million of their poorest adult residents uninsured, at a cost of $9.4 billion per year by 2017.
The findings, published in the journal Health Affairs on June 3, did not include New Jersey among those 14 states.
Christie has emerged as a leading voice in the Republican Party and is seen as serious contender for the 2016 Republican nomination, should he decide to run. He is running for re-election as governor this year.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jerseys-christie-vetoes-medicaid-expansion-bill-234624492.html
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Just because a piece of glass might claim to be "bulletproof" doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually, well, bulletproof. But if your bullet-resistant glass is sturdy enough, that speeding bullet will usually just end up lodged in layers of polycarbonate. That's what intrigues photographer Deborah Bay.
She recently found herself struck by the unexpected beauty of a bullet lodged in a slab of plexiglass. Speaking to The Smithsonian, Bay explains:
I thought it was intriguing. You could see all the fragments of metal. You could see the spray of the shattered plastic and then you could see the trajectory lines that were running through the panel of plexiglass.
Eventually, Bay recruited the help of some friendly cops, who gladly obliged her by shooting off a veritable cornucopia of bullets into bulletproof, plexiglass panels. Then, moving the glass to a black backdrop, she used a medium format camera with a macro lens and creatively colored lighting to produce the series entitled "The Big Bang." As The Smithsonian notes:
The patterns that the projectiles leave on the plexiglass on impact look like galaxies, stars and meteors flying through space. The more the photographer combs collections of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the more she sees the resemblance. It?s this intuitive leap from the macro to the cosmic that inspired the series? clever name.
While undeniably beautiful, the photographs are also highly topical?gun control currently being a major point of partisan contention. And Bay is very aware of this, particularly as a resident of Texas, a state with 51 million registered firearms. The irony of the title paired with such a destructive subject matter highlight's Bay's ultimate goal: ?I just want people to think about what these bullets can do.?
You can see the entire photo series over on her website or, if you happen to be in Santa Barbara California between July 16 and August 25, in person at Wall Space Gallery. [Smithsonian Magazine]
Images courtesy of ?Deborah Bay.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/exploding-bullets-frozen-in-plexiglass-are-terrifyingly-610736872
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June 28, 2013 ? Scientists using sophisticated imaging techniques have observed a molecular protein folding process that may help medical researchers understand and treat diseases such as Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and cancer.
The study, reported this month in the journal Cell, verifies a process that scientists knew existed but with a mechanism they had never been able to observe, according to Dr. Hays Rye, Texas A&M AgriLife Research biochemist.
"This is a step in the direction of understanding how to modulate systems to prevent diseases like Alzheimer's. We needed to understand the cell's folding machines and how they interact with each other in a complicated network," said Rye, who also is associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M.
Rye explained that individual amino acids get linked together like beads on a string as a protein is made in the cell.
"But that linear sequence of amino acids is not functional," he explained. "It's like an origami structure that has to fold up into a three-dimensional shape to do what it has to do."
Rye said researchers have been trying to understand this process for more than 50 years, but in a living cell the process is complicated by the presence of many proteins in a concentrated environment.
"The constraints on getting that protein to fold up into a good 'origami' structure are a lot more demanding," he said. "So, there are special protein machines, known as molecular chaperones, in the cell that help proteins fold."
But how the molecular chaperones help protein fold when it isn't folding well by itself has been the nagging question for researchers.
"Molecular chaperones are like little machines, because they have levers and gears and power sources. They go through turning over cycles and just sort of buzz along inside a cell, driving a protein folding reaction every few seconds," Rye said.
The many chemical reactions that are essential to life rely on the exact three-dimensional shape of folded proteins, he said. In the cell, enzymes, for example, are specialized proteins that help speed biological processes along by binding molecules and bringing them together in just the right way.
"They are bound together like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle," Rye explained. "And the proteins -- those little beads on the string that are designed to fold up like origami -- are folded to position all these beads in three-dimensional space to perfectly wrap around those molecules and do those chemical reactions.
"If that doesn't happen -- if the protein doesn't get folded up right -- the chemical reaction can't be done. And if it's essential, the cell dies because it can't convert food into power needed to build the other structures in the cell that are needed. Chemical reactions are the structural underpinning of how cells are put together, and all of that depends on the proteins being folded in the right way."
When a protein doesn't fold or folds incorrectly it turns into an "aggregate," which Rye described as "white goo that looks kind of like a mayonnaise, like crud in the test tube.
"You're dead; the cell dies," he said.
Over the past 20 years, he said, researchers have linked that aggregation process "pretty convincingly" to the development of diseases -- Alzheimer's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, to name a few. There's evidence that diabetes and cancer also are linked to protein folding disorders.
"One of the main roles for the molecular chaperones is preventing those protein misfolding events that lead to aggregation and not letting a cell get poisoned by badly folded or aggregated proteins," he said.
Rye's team focused on a key molecular chaperone -- the HSP60.
"They're called HSP for 'heat shock protein' because when the cell is stressed with heat, the proteins get unstable and start to fall apart and unfold," Rye said. "The cell is built to respond by making more of the chaperones to try and fix the problem.
"This particular chaperone takes unfolded protein and goes through a chemical reaction to bind the unfolded protein and literally puts it inside a little 'box,'" Rye said.
He added that the mystery had long been how the folding worked because, while researchers could see evidence of that happening, no one had ever seen precisely how it happened.
Rye and the team zeroed in on a chemically modified mutant that in other experiments had seemed to stall at an important step in the process that the "machine" goes through to start the folding action. This clued the researchers that this stalling might make it easier to watch.
They then used cryo-electron microscopy to capture hundreds of thousands of images of the process at very high resolutions which allowed them to reconstruct from two-dimensional flat images a three-dimensional model. A highly sophisticated computer algorithm aligns the images and classifies them in subcategories.
"If you have enough of them you can actually reconstruct and view a structure as a three-dimensional model," Rye said.
What the team saw was this: The HSP60 chaperone is designed to recognize proteins that are not folded from the ones that are. It binds them and then has a separate co-chaperone that puts a "lid" on top of the box to keep the folding intermediate in the box. They could see the box move, and parts of the molecule moved to peel the chaperone box away from the bound protein -- or "gift" in the box. But the bound protein was kept inside the package where it could then initiate a folding reaction. They saw tiny tentacles, "like a little octopus in the bottom of the box rising up and grabbing hold of the substrate protein and helping hold it inside the cavity."
"The first thing we saw was a large amount of an unfolded protein inside of this cavity," he said. "Even though we knew from lots and lots of other studies that it had to go in there, nobody had ever seen it like this before. We can also see the non-native protein interacting with parts of the box that no one had ever seen before. It was exciting to see all of this for the first time. I think we got a glimpse of a protein in the process of folding, which we actually can compare to other structures."
"By understanding the mechanism of these machines, the hope is that one of the things we can learn to do is turn them up or turn them off when we need to, like for a patient who has one of the protein folding diseases," he said.
Rye collaborated on the research with Dong-Hua Chen and Wah Chiu at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Damian Madan and Zohn Lin at Princeton University, Jeremy Weaver at Texas A&M and Gunnar Schr?der at the Institute of Complex Systems in Germany.
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Aside from vacations, longer days and spending time in the great outdoors summer brings with it oppressive heat resulting in large segments of the population blasting the AC.
This often translates into long hours of high energy usage which, depending on how much its relied upon, has a tendency to become routine throughout the warmer months.
Since AC spikes power usage more than most other things in the home the combined usage of an entire population creates massive demand for electricity forcing power plants that run on fossil fuels to burn more. This in turn results in additional fumes which pollute the breathable airspace and on hot, hazy, and muggy days when the air is stagnant in urban areas a serious health threat arises to anyone with respiratory problems.
Nevertheless to get hundreds of millions of people in cities like San Diego or New York to suddenly cut back on air-conditioning?when it?s the only thing they feel brings relief from the heat isn?t an easy task. Sometimes state and federal weather agencies issue warnings about air quality and how one day will trump another in terms of temperatures and energy usage but the fact is most of the time the warnings don?t translate into much change in how AC is used.
It seems like when it?s warm outside we?ve learned to turn on the AC like we put milk in coffee (or sugar in tea if that?s what you prefer) and it?s become a routine, one that needs a little adjusting.
That being the case here?s a few points where we can make a difference in our AC usage and hopefully pass some of the tips on to others to do the same.
The AC unit itself
First of all it?s important to focus on the air-conditioning unit itself because whether its a window unit or central air system there are plenty of ways to save energy?while enjoying it. For instance:
If it?s a window unit make sure it?s sealed on all sides so air does not escape the room.
If it's a window unit and more than a few years old chances are it could be replaced for a better energy saving model.
In either a window unit or central air system changing/cleaning filters will provide better efficiency.
Put the AC on a timer so it?s not working when not necessary. A prime example is if you turn it on when going to sleep have it set to go off about an hour later.
Use the AC in the room you are in and not as a means to cool the entire home so if possible close the door to the room it?s in instead of letting it run all night.
Use fans
Cutting down on energy usage and trying to stay cool means using fans, particularly ceiling fans, as they utilize significantly less amounts of electricity. ?While they may not ?cool? the air like an air-conditioner they usually provide a comfortable breeze that for most people would pass the ?I need some relief? test.
Trying out a fan a little bit at a time is a great way for avid users of AC to wean themselves off the air-conditioning system.
Blocking the sun
Finally, it?s worth mentioning that the reason why people use AC is because its too hot in the home but if steps are taken to cut down on some of the outside influences which create that heat it may relax the need for the AC.
A prime example is blocking direct sunlight, especially when it?s at it?s strongest in the late morning and into the early afternoon.
This can be done easily by pulling down the shades or closing the curtains. A future investment could be planting a tree to provide better shade.
Jakob Barry is a green living journalist for Networx.com. Networx.com helps homeowners save time, money and frustration by connecting them with home improvement professionals. From plumbers and roofers to carpenters?and concrete contractors, Networx simplifies the process of locating a reliable professional.
Source: http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/xn/detail/6069565%3AComment%3A122623?xg_source=activity
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday asked for additional information about an Oklahoma law that bans certain abortion-inducing drugs, a move that gave supporters new hope the justices would ultimately determine the state's top court went too far by striking down the law.
The law passed in 2011 required doctors to follow strict guidelines authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and prohibited off-label uses of certain abortion-inducing drugs such as RU-486. Such moves include changing a recommended dosage or prescribing it for different symptoms than the drug was initially approved for. The law also required doctors to examine women before prescribing the drugs, document certain medical conditions and schedule follow-up appointments.
The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights has sued to stop the law, arguing that the restrictions would leave women no choice but to undergo invasive surgeries to end their pregnancies. Judges have halted its enforcement, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in December that the anti-abortion law was "facially unconstitutional" and that judges were right to prevent its enforcement.
But the federal justices ordered the Oklahoma Supreme Court to answer two questions about the law before they consider an appeal form the Oklahoma attorney general.
The Supreme Court wants to know if the Oklahoma law "prohibits the use of misoprostol to induce abortions, including the use of misoprostol in conjunction with mifepristone according to a protocol approved by the Food and Drug Administration." The high court also wants to know if the law stops "the use of methotrexate to treat ectopic pregnancies," which is when an embryo implants somewhere outside of the uterus.
Mifepristone is also known as Mifeprex or RU-486, according to court papers.
"This is an extraordinary decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to review the actions of Oklahoma's Supreme Court, which has consistently misapplied federal law to strike down Oklahoma abortion laws," Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a statement. "This law does not ban the use of abortion-inducing drugs, but seeks to protect women from harmful off-label uses."
Rep. Randy Grau, R-Edmond, the author of the bill, said the high court's inquiry "confirms my concern all along that the Oklahoma Supreme Court sidestepped the specific issues in this case and the purpose of the bill, which is to protect the health and safety of Oklahoma patients."
The two sides arguing over the law disagree in court papers to the answer to those questions, so "further proceedings in this case are reserved pending receipt of a response from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma," the high court said in its statement.
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The case is Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, 12-1094.
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Sean Murphy can be reached at www.twitter.com/apseanmurphy
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-sends-abortion-drug-case-back-okla-court-140317743.html
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A stunner: the man in charge of developing new ad units for Facebook, Gokul Rajaram, is leaving Facebook.
Rajaram is going to Twitter creator Jack Dorsey's payments startup, Square, to lead up product development.
Square broke the news with a blog post.
It's a "big loss" for Facebook, a source close to the company tells us.
That's true.?
Every time one of Facebook's billion users look at an ad of Facebook, that person is ?looking at a product that was developed by a team led by Rajaram. In the past year, those ads generated around $5 billion for Facebook.
Rajaram broke the news to his team at Facebook in a meeting.
Our Facebook source tells us there is "no sense of negativity" about Rajaram's departure.
"Square dropped this great opportunity to run product for an entire company in his lap.?He has also worked on ads for ages, I think he wanted to do something different."
In a statement provided to All Things D, Rajaram said,?"I?ve been fortunate to work for two mission-driven, world-changing companies, and Square?s vision and passion for helping businesses grow is inspiring."
"I?m thrilled to join the team and help build amazing products that drive economic growth and empower local businesses around the world."
Rajaram joined Facebook in 2010 when it acquired the startup he was running with his brother, called Chai Labs.?Facebook bought Chai Labs for one reason: to hire Rajaram.
Before Chai, Rajaram spent 5 years at Google, where?his last job was?Product Management Director,?AdSense.
One ex-Googler we talked to for a story we wrote about Rajaram a year ago told us Rajaram "is a legend" and that he is "beloved times ten" by those who have worked with him.
"[Rajaram] sees the forest?and?the trees," says this source.
Former Googler and Associated Content CEO?Patrick Keane?told us then that "Gokul is a brilliant technologist and a skilled executive. ?He can deftly bridge the most sophisticated technical and business challenges."
"I worked with him closely at Google on the launch of AdSense and he was a key tech and recruiting asset on the board of Associated Content."
Another ex-Googler said Rajaram "is the man."
"He was key figure at Google in days of AdSense.?He served as a translator between tech and business.?Any time a business person at Google had a question about how our ad systems worked, they would go to him.?That group of senior ads people from Google became even more senior at Facebook and wanted him to serve similar role there."
All Things D's Jason Del Rey says Rajaram will be replaced at Facebook by Mike Hudack, best known for founding video startup Blip.TV.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-facebook-product-exec-bolts-2013-6
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BlackBerry has been a source of contention in recent months, as the company struggles back to regain some of its former luster in the ever-changing smartphone industry. With shares up more than 25% year-to-date, it looks like BlackBerry is on its way back, though it still undoubtedly faces an uphill battle.
[More from BGR: AP: Windows 8.1 fails at its mission]
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters are expecting the Waterloo, Ontario-based company to earn 6 cents per share on $3.36 billion in sales for the fiscal first quarter of 2014.
[More from BGR: Samsung launches ?flawless? curved OLED HDTV with a major flaw]
BlackBerry is set to report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Friday before the bell, and though recent news from the company has largely been positive, especially as it pertains to BlackBerry 10 device sales, some on the Street are cautiously bullish going forward.
?We expect BlackBerry to show signs of slowly rebuilding the brand, in a slow but steady two steps forward, one step back fashion,? wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum in a research note. ?We expect bullish strong BB10 shipments to slightly outweigh weaker BB7 units and the lack of proof of BB10 sell-thru tilting the risk / reward positive given the sky-high short interest without yet conclusively determining the LT fate of the company.? Gelblum rates shares Overweight, and recently upped his price target to $22, from $10.
Sales of the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 have been better than most are expecting, despite BlackBerry being late to the game. It?s now firmly behind Apple?s iOS and Google?s Android operating systems in the smartphone battle, and may never be more than a niche player. That?s good enough for now, with Wall Street reacting positively to recent moves.
Morgan Stanley?s Gelblum now expects that 3.5 million BlackBerry 10 devices were sold in the first-quarter, up from an original estimate of 3 million.
Citigroup?s Jim Suva, who has a Sell rating and $10 price target on BlackBerry, expects that the company will ship 7.25 million units, with 3.25 million of them being BlackBerry 10 devices. He?s cautiously optimistic that his results and consensus estimates could be conservative, based on recent data.
?Given the channel drawdown over the past few quarters, we note potential for sell in ahead of global Z10 availability & Q10 launch (in UK, Canada, Germany and Australia during late April/early May and in US, India and Africa in late May to mid June) could result in a positive surprise to units that were sold into the channel,? Suva wrote in a recent note to clients.
With approximately 25% of the shares held short, any upside surprise could send BlackBerry?s stock soaring. We?ll find out Friday morning whether BlackBerry is indeed back from the dead for good, or if the vendor?s struggles may soon begin to worsen yet again.
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-back-dead-145034529.html
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June 28, 2013 ? Ongoing studies suggest that using a mix of omega-3 fatty acid supplements and psychotherapy may be helpful for children with depression and a variation of bipolar disorder.
"These are two very promising treatments for children with mood disorders. Previous research has shown both have positive impacts and few side effects, which is an issue with many medications currently available for kids," said Dr. Mary Fristad, a clinical child psychologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center who is the first to examine the combined effects of psychotherapy and omega-3 in this patient population. "We think the approach will yield a reduction in irritability, improvements in self-esteem and concentration, and better eating and sleeping habits."
Fristad has been working on the approach for nearly twenty years. During that time, she saw great progress made in understanding how medications, psychotherapy and diet impacted biological brain disorders, but relatively little about how these interventions worked in children.
"We were treating kids with effective medications, but their families did not have the coping strategies needed to deal with the child's mood disorder symptoms," recalled Fristad. "Without a supportive environment, you can't expect any pharmacologic or dietary interventions to succeed."
The disconnect prompted Fristad to embark on a series of studies to develop and validate a therapeutic model targeted at families of children with mood disorders. Called psycho-educational psychotherapy, or PEP, the method teaches parents and their children how to manage symptoms and regulate emotions. Families also are taught how to navigate the mental health system for support and learn communication skills to help cope with the disorder. PEP can be done in either a group or individual therapy setting.
Fristad, who is also a professor of psychiatry in Ohio State's College of Medicine, was awarded funding from both the Ohio Department of Mental Health and National Institute of Mental Health to further develop and test PEP.
In 2009, pilot funding from the Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) was given to Fristad to train the PEP method to dozens of therapists around the state. In 2011, Heather MacPherson, MA, a doctoral student supervised by Fristad, also received a T1 Research Training Fellowship from the CCTS, which allowed MacPherson to examine treatment fidelity and outcomes in the community based implementation of PEP.
Armed with evidence that PEP worked, Fristad partnered with child psychiatrists L. Eugene Arnold, MD, MEd (Ohio State) and Barbara Gracious, MD of Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH). The team obtained funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and resource support from the CCTS to conduct studies combining PEP with omega-3 supplementation in kids with depression or bipolar-NOS (not otherwise specified).
"There are several different types of dietary omega polyunsaturated fatty acids including omega-3, 6, and 9, but the importance of their relative ratios has had very limited testing in these patient populations," said Gracious. "While all are essential to human health, there is evidence that omega-3 fatty acids in particular play a role in brain cell function and signaling."
Gracious says that epidemiological studies show that people who have a diet rich in omega-3s -- found in seafood and flaxseed -- appear to have fewer psychiatric disorders, and that over time, US intake of omega-3 has substantially decreased.
"Cultures with diets high in omega-3 versus other fatty acid types appear to have a lower incidence of depression and mood disorders," said Gracious. "At the turn of the century, the population in this country was consuming more equal amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Today, that ratio is completely different, with people consuming ten to twenty times more omega-6 than omega-3."
Gracious notes that in addition to having very few side effects, omega-3 fatty acids may have other health benefits, including helping to prevent cardiovascular, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. During the current studies, the research team will be analyzing participants' blood to examine the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers and mood changes.
Both studies are randomized and placebo-controlled, and researchers also intend to compare results from both studies to help provide additional perspectives on the intervention types. Although improvement is expected with both interventions, researchers predict the group receiving both psychotherapy and supplementation will fare the best.
Gracious and Fristad suggest that starting children in psychotherapy at a young age may give them the coping strategies they need as an adult. According to Fristad, early therapy may also help prevent or delay kids from "converting" over to having more serious forms of mood disorders.
Both studies are still enrolling children ages 7-14. Half of the children receive therapy and all receive capsules, either omega-3 or placebo, free of charge, along with careful monitoring and the support needed to continue their treatment.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/depression/~3/BG51l2F6PFI/130628102931.htm
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. ? Developing a cosmic cash system to meet the needs of future space tourists and interplanetary settlers is a complicated task that will take several years to complete, leaders of the new project say.
On Thursday (June 27), online-payment company PayPal and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute unveiled PayPal Galactic, an initiative that aims to figure out the best way to process financial transactions beyond Earth.
This is much easier said than done, with many big questions demanding attention right off the bat, officials said. [9 Ways to Stay Safe Using PayPal]
"What will be our standard currency up there? How will the banking system need to adapt?" PayPal president David Marcus said here at the SETI Institute during the project's unveiling on Thursday. "How will risk and fraud management evolve? IP address from space? That's not a country for us; how are we going to deal with that?"
It's also unclear at the moment how off-world banking transactions will be regulated, and which bodies here on Earth would do the regulating, Marcus added, stressing that such issues will take a while to work out.
"We will focus on answering those questions and inviting everyone around the table who wants to participate ? scientists and the industry as well," Marcus said. "We're really, really looking forward to having the conversation for the next couple of years."
It's important to start this lengthy and involved process now, Marcus said, because private spaceflight is set to open the final frontier up to the masses soon.
Indeed, Virgin Galactic?and XCOR Aerospace may begin commercial flights to suborbital space within the next year or so. These companies are currently charging $250,000 and $95,000, respectively, for seats aboard their spaceships, but Marcus sees the price coming down dramatically before much longer.
"Futurists expect space travel to follow what happened to air travel," he said, adding that a roundtrip plane ticket from New York to Los Angeles cost $4,500 in 1935 ? the equivalent of $80,000 today.
So it's not hard to imagine that Virgin's $250,000 ticket price could come down to just a few thousand dollars in a decade or so, enabling large numbers of people to fly to space, Marcus said.
While brief suborbital flights can easily be booked and paid for here on Earth, Marcus and others see bigger things following in their wake that call out for a new off-planet monetary system ? orbiting hotels, luxury "space yachts" for the megarich and, eventually, outposts on the moon and Mars.
"The time is right," Marcus said. "Space tourism is taking off."
Follow Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?and?Google+.?Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook?or Google+. Originally story at?SPACE.com.
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The cloud. In the past, the cloud was called ASP (application service provider), and worked as a service (Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service). According to Evolve, the cloud is a supply of computing resources, such as servers, storage, applications, and voice services, which businesses use from a network. This takes away the need for on-site equipment. The cloud technologies allow IT departments to increase resources without buying equipment or training employees or creating a holding place. Users have access to software and servers that are always on, from anywhere. Businesses get to pay as they go, as the cloud uses such features to fund their IT department.
According to How Stuff Works cloud computing, one company would remotely manage things including email, word processing and data analysis programs. In a cloud computing system, there?s a shift in in the workload. The network of computers that make up the cloud gives them the work, rather than local computers. Hardware and software demands on the user?s side decrease. The user?s operates as the cloud system?s interface software. Interface software can include an Internet browser. The cloud?s manages it with the remainder of the computer?s functions. Data is not stuffed into a single computer?s drive, or even into a place as large as a company?s network.
As computer users, we have likely used the cloud already. You have used cloud computing with web-based e-mail, most often by logging onto a remote email account. The account?s storage and programming exist on the cloud, not on your computer. Rudimentarily, all that is needed with the cloud is a terminal, a keyboard and a mouse.
A contact center using the cloud and acting as Software as a Service, such as Echopass, could benefit a larger organization by creating more than one center and allowing for multiple operations. It may be able to transform business and Information Technology. It could also reduce costs and help businesses to act with more flexibility, among other benefits.
The cloud adapts to the current business world, and reduces cots by allowing businesses to use cloud contact centers on a pay as you go basis, allowing for more flexibility. Organizations can grow or shrink as quickly as they need to, and they need not acquire or manage the applications they are using. The programs are all in the cloud. Hosted contact center providers such as Echopass offer an array of contact center applications in a connected cloud.
As far as security, companies have measures in operation but privacy must be protected through authenticiation such as user names and passwords, or user authorization. Authorization involves a system where each user can only see the data specific to his or her job.
The cloud has been a rapidly expanding resent technology, in business and consumer areas. Beginning in the 1990?s, to the Software as a Service push in the early 2000?s, the cloud helps organizations control costs, use resources effectively and gain access to technology necessary to business. It has been developed mostly because of economic factors including the need for computing that is more cost-effective and friendly to the environment.
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Sony's brilliant RX100 and RX1 advanced point-and-shoots will live to see another day. Instead of replacing these two well-received pocket cams, the company has opted to expand the upper end of its Cyber-shot lineup, adding two very compelling new models. First up is the RX1R, a full-frame compact that'll retail for $2,799, the same price last year's model still commands today. In fact, it's nearly identical to 2012's flavor, with the exception of a redesigned sensor, which drops the optical low-pass filter in the interest of sharper captures. Of course, without that component, the camera is susceptible to moire and false color issues, so the RX1R is a better fit for landscape photographers than portrait shooters or photojournalists. It also sports Triluminous Color output through the HDMI port, for enhanced visuals on select HDTVs.
The vast majority of shooters are going to be much more excited about the Cyber-shot RX100M2, though. This "Mark II" variant of the RX100 borrows a few features from Sony's NEX line, which is never a bad thing. Looking at the camera, you'll first notice the 3-inch 1.3M-dot tiltable LCD, which can flip 84 degrees upward and 45 degrees downward. There's also a Multi Interface Shoe for adding on accessories like a microphone, OLED EVF or external flash. Additionally, the USB port is now a Multi Interface Terminal, so it'll work with the RM-VPR1 remote, and Sony added WiFi, NFC, and Triluminous Color output through the HDMI connector. On the imaging front, there's a brand new 1-inch BSI CMOS sensor, boosting sensitivity to the tune of one full stop (we're told ISO 3200 shots are comparable to ISO 1600 on the RX100). The top sensitivity also jumps from ISO 6400 to 12,800, which is pretty fantastic for a point-and-shoot.
As with the RX1, you'll still be able to snag the RX100 for some time to come. And for many photographers, last year's model may be the best pick -- the RX100M2, while a bit more feature-packed, retails for a $100 more than its predecessor, with a $750 MSRP. The RX1R, however, maintains the same pricing as the RX1, at $2,799. Both cameras, which you can check out now in the hands-on gallery below, are expected in stores by the middle of July.
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In an effort to offer better comprehensive security to its customers, U.S. Cellular announced today that it will partner with NQ Mobile to provide security apps to its 5.2 million customers. The partnership expands on a previous program that offered an app called "NQ Family Guardian" to customers, with two new apps called "U.S. Cellular Mobile Data Security powered by NQ Mobile™" and "U.S. Cellular Privacy Protector powered by NQ Mobile™". The apps will be free in the Play Store as branded options limited to the carrier's customers.
Together the apps aim to give customers protection from viruses, malicious URLs and other outside threats along with a security suite that offers secure encryption for photos, videos and other data users want to keep safe. On their own, NQ Mobile's self-branded versions of the apps have done well in the Play Store with high ratings and reviews, so U.S. Cellular certainly seems to have made a good choice here.
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June 19, 2013 ? Diapocynin, a synthetic molecule derived from a naturally occurring compound (apocynin), has been found to protect neurobehavioral function in mice with Parkinson's Disease symptoms by preventing deficits in motor coordination.
The findings are published in the May 28, 2013 edition of Neuroscience Letters.
Brian Dranka, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), is the first author of the paper. Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD, Harry R. & Angeline E. Quadracci Professor in Parkinson's Research, chairman and professor of biophysics, and director of the MCW Free Radical Research Center, is the corresponding author.
In a specific type of transgenic mouse called LRRK2R1441G, the animals lose coordinated movements and develop Parkinson's-type symptoms by ten months of age. In this study, the researchers treated those mice with diapocynin starting at 12 weeks. That treatment prevented the expected deficits in motor coordination.
"These early findings are encouraging, but in this model, we still do not know how this molecule exerts neuroprotective action. Further studies are necessary to discover the exact mode of action of the diaopocynin and other molecules with a similar structure," said Dr. Kalyanaraman.
Clinicians have expressed a need for earlier disease detection in Parkinson's Disease patients; the researchers believe further study of this specific mouse model may allow them to identify new biomarkers that would enable early disease detection, and ultimately allow for better patient care and quality of life.
Other authors of the paper include Joy Joseph, PhD, associate professor of biophysics; Jacek Zielonka, PhD, research scientist; and Allison Gifford, research technologist, all of MCW; Anumantha Kanthasamy, MS, M.Phil, PhD, W.E. Lloyd Endowed Chair in Neurotoxicology and chair of the biomedical sciences department and distinguished professor; and Anamitra Ghosh, research fellow; both of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. This research was funded by NIH grants NS039958 (to B.K.) and NS074443 (to A.K.), and by the Henry R. and Angeline E. Quadracci Chair Endowment (B.K.), and the Eugene and Linda Lloyd Chair Endowment (A.K.).
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/BqZ2W8T2ChE/130619122131.htm
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By Jethro Nededog and Jeff Sneider
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Additionally, "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky left the project earlier this year.
According to an individual with knowledge of the negotiations, FX is eyeing a pickup of the project.
HBO and FX declined to comment for this article.
Formerly, Aronofsky was attached to direct, which would've been his first foray into television.
Co-written by Michael Chabon ("Wonder Boys") and his wife Ayelet Waldman, the pilot follows a group of conmen and magicians who use their skills of deception to help take down Adolf Hitler and the Germans during World War II.
Some in the media have compared the project to "Inglourious Basterds" with magic.
In addition to co-writing the pilot project, Chabon and Waldman will executive produce along with Le Grisbi Productions' John Lesher and Adam Kassan.
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June 20, 2013 ? Duke Medicine researchers have identified a receptor in the nervous system that may be key to preventing epilepsy following a prolonged period of seizures.
Their findings from studies in mice, published online in the journal Neuron on June 20, 2013, provide a molecular target for developing drugs to prevent the onset of epilepsy, not just manage the disease's symptoms.
"Unfortunately, there are no preventive therapies for any common disorder of the human nervous system -- Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, epilepsy -- with the exception of blood pressure-lowering drugs to reduce the likelihood of stroke," said study author James O. McNamara, M.D., professor of neurobiology at Duke Medicine.
Epilepsy is a serious neurological disorder marked by recurring seizures. Temporal lobe epilepsy -- where seizures occur in the region of the brain where memories are stored and language, emotions and senses are processed -- is the most common form, and can be devastating. Because afflicted individuals have seizures that impair their awareness and may have associated behavioral problems, they may have difficulty with everyday activities, including holding a job or obtaining a driver's license.
Conventional therapies to treat epilepsy address the disease's symptoms by trying to reduce the likelihood of having a seizure. However, many people with temporal lobe epilepsy still have seizures despite taking these drugs.
"This study opens a promising new avenue of research into treatments that may prevent the development of epilepsy," said Vicky Whittemore, PhD, a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who oversees the grants that funded this study.
Retrospective studies of people with severe temporal lobe epilepsy reveal that many of them initially have an episode of prolonged seizures, known as status epilepticus. Status epilepticus is often followed by a period of seizure-free recovery before people start to experience recurring temporal lobe seizures.
In animal studies, inducing status epilepticus in an otherwise healthy animal can cause them to become epileptic. The prolonged seizures in status epilepticus are therefore thought to cause or importantly contribute to the development of epilepsy in humans.
"An important goal of this field has been to identify the molecular mechanism by which status epilepticus transforms a brain from normal to epileptic," said McNamara. "Understanding that mechanism in molecular terms would provide a target with which one could intervene pharmacologically, perhaps to prevent an individual from becoming epileptic."
Earlier research in epilepsy flagged a receptor in the nervous system called TrkB as a key player in transforming the brain from normal to epileptic. In the current study, McNamara and his colleagues sought to confirm if TrkB was important for status epilepticus-induced epilepsy.
Using an approach combining chemistry and genetic analyses, the researchers studied normal and genetically altered mice. The genetically altered mice were unique in that a drug, 1NMPP1, inhibited TrkB in their brains. If the drug stopped the genetically altered mice from becoming epileptic, this genetic approach would prove that inhibiting TrkB prevents the onset of epilepsy.
When the researchers caused status epilepticus in the animals, both the normal and genetically modified mice developed epilepsy. However, treatment with 1NMPP1 after the prolonged period of seizures prevented epilepsy in the genetically altered but not the normal mice.
"This demonstrated that it is possible to intervene following status epilepticus and prevent the animal from becoming epileptic," McNamara said.
Importantly, the researchers only administered treatment with 1NMPP1 for two weeks, which was sufficient to prevent epilepsy from developing in the mice when tested many weeks later. The results suggest that a preventive therapy may only need to be given for a limited period of time following the initial bout of prolonged seizures, not an individual's entire life, which could prevent unnecessary side effects that come with long-term use of drugs.
In future studies, the researchers hope to determine the exact time window in which TrkB signaling needs to be repressed to prevent the onset of epilepsy. Long term, this research provides a molecular target for developing the first drugs to prevent epilepsy.
"This study provides a strong rationale for the development of selective inhibitors of TrkB signaling," said McNamara.
In addition to McNamara, study authors include Gumei Liu, Bin Gu, Xiao-Ping He, Rasesh B. Joshi, Harold D. Wackerle, Ramona Marie Rodriguiz and William C. Wetsel. The study was supported by funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS56217 and NS060728).
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A group of tourists on China's Sanya City beach have been accused of contributing to the death of a stranded dolphin by pulling it out of the water and posing with it in photographs.
Shocking pictures show the distressed mammal repeatedly lifted out of the water by a group of young men in Speedos, gleefully taking pictures of the creature with their iPhones.
While the photos show plenty of other tourists in the water, none of them appear to do anything about the men. Instead, they are seen queuing up, hoping for a chance to snap their own photos with the injured creature.
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The animal later died at a local marine park.
China's Hainan news portal reported that the official cause of the dolphin's death was from excessive bleeding from its tail, meaning it was likely struck by a fishing boat before it became stranded.
The photographs sent a ripple of shock waves across the Internet, with many blasting these yet-unidentified men "having no shame" and having complete disregard for wildlife.
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Others said the pictures are a prime example of "Chinese tourists' uncivilized habits."
According to Whale and Dolphin Conservation, stranded marine mammals should be approached with caution, and only after the proper authorities have first been contacted.
The dolphin should be placed on its belly, making sure water and debris do not come in contact with its blowhole, which it uses to breathe.
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Its skin should also be kept wet with sea water until help arrives.
No word yet if the tourists in question have been identified.
While the Asian country has in recent years developed laws to protect endangered species, there are no current laws that protect non-endangered species.
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By Jack Shafer
(Reuters) - One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus.
Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative synonyms abound ? spy, double-agent, rat, snitch, informer, fink, double-crosser, canary, stoolie, squealer, turncoat, betrayer, traitor and so on.
We bristle at the scent of whistle-blowers for atavistic reasons: They've violated the norms that bind the group together and must be scorned and punished, and their only allies are like-minded individuals who've deserted the pack?or joined opposing packs?and portions of the press, which occupies a floating niche somewhere between the individual and the group that allows it to thrive on such principled perfidy.
But even the press in aggregate is not a friend to whistle-blowers, as its recent treatment of Snowden attests, what with the deep dives into his teen years (including photos), his education and employment history, his reputation as a loner and a "brainiac," his pants-down hijinks, his online scribblings, his dancer girlfriend, his predilection for (in his own words) "post-coital Krispy Kremes." Squeezing every possible query at every known commercial database, journalists worldwide have aped the National Security Agency's snooping skills to track down Snowden's friends, associates, neighbors, schoolmates, relatives and colleagues to instapaint his portrait.
No matter how generously you read the team portrait, Snowden comes off as a bit of a cocky know-it-all. And how could he not? He did a bodacious, criminal thing. He threatens to commit additional acts of criminal bodaciousness. He maintains the cool-customer persona in his video and print interviews. And he comes off as a little squirrelly and ego-swollen.
But what mortal wouldn't come off a little squirrelly and ego-swollen after non-stop scrutiny by the press, even if they hadn't leaked NSA secrets? I guarantee you that if the press ever gets around to vacuuming your every posting, scrapbooking your most dishy teen pix, and interviewing all the people in your past, it will depict a creep of some variety. Not because you're a creep but because the language and methodology of journalism are ill-equipped to capture normalcy, even when its subjects project normalcy. Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Whether Snowden is more psychologically integrated than your average 29-year-old makes for stimulating conversation and fun clicks, but it's not really germane to the secrecy "debate" that even President Barack Obama claimed to "welcome" last week. Once we (the press and readers) exhaust ourselves on the Snowden, "Up Close and Personal" angle, the debate will likely be interrupted, just as the debate about the Pentagon Papers was interrupted by the White House back in 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg dumped them to the press.
About two weeks after the New York Times began publishing the papers in June 1971, President Richard Nixon told National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitchell that he didn't want Ellsberg to get a fair trial for leaking. "Let's get the son-of-a-bitch in jail," Nixon said. "Don't worry about his trial. Just get everything out. Try him in the press. Try him in the press. Everything, John, that there is on the investigation, get it out. Leak it out. We want to destroy him in the press. Is that clear?"
As Tom Wells wrote in his 2001 book, "Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg", "The FBI pursued leads on Ellsberg's past, personality, and lifestyle." The White House could easily tag Ellsberg as a sex maniac because he had loads of sex and liked to talk about it; a pervert because he collected pornography; as nuts because he saw a psychiatrist; and a swinger because, as Gay Talese wrote in "Thy Neighbor's Wife", he swung. This, of course, had nothing to do with the substance of the Pentagon Papers, but it was the weapon Nixon, who was bragging to his White House underlings that he had convicted Alger Hiss in the press "before he ever got to the grand jury", liked to stockpile.
Nixon's men planted with conservative columnist Victor Lasky the baseless smear that Ellsberg had given the papers to the Soviet Union, as well. In a memo to Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, White House special counsel Charles Colson wrote of his disappointment with the response to Lasky's column, "which got the predictable reaction because of its author," and of the similar briefings he'd given to Howard K. Smith of ABC News and Jerald terHorst of the Detroit News to "develop the Ellsberg conspiracy." I suspect we won't have to wait long for the "Snowden conspiracy" to manifest itself. Just the other day, Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reported Pentagon "concerns" that Snowden might give intelligence secrets to the Chinese. (He rejects the notion that he's a Chinese spy.)
Compare Ellsberg's treatment to early press coverage of Snowden's personal life, which injured his standing. Not for a moment do I allege that the Obama White House has assigned a "plumbers" unit to spread the hype. I allege something much worse ? the readiness of some in the press to contort into something bizarre the sort of behaviors and personal history they would shrug off as "normal" if exhibited by a family member. Is Snowden paranoid? Well, yes, they're after him, aren't they? Wouldn't you be? Is Snowden a tad grandiose in his interviews? Well, yes, but if you were the leaker and had never taken media training classes, you'd probably sound grandiose in your interviews. Do his statements seem unsatisfying and inconsistent? Well, wouldn't yours if you were attempting to describe the entirety of the national security state in such limited space?
Although Snowden has been exiled for breaking the compact he made with his employers and his government, his rebellion rings too many notes from heroic literature for us to automatically dismiss him. How many times have we read the story (or played the video game) about the brilliant and brave young man who hears the call, defies the established order, goes on a sacrificial quest to a magical place where he defeats evil monsters that menace mankind, battles madness, and after many, many tests (and at some personal loss) finally returns with a boon for all mankind? The rebel in this version even has a pole-dancing princess that he's been separated from! Snowden combines elements of Luke Skywalker, King Arthur, Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Jesus Christ, and Neo from The Matrix into one modern tale. Being an egomaniac and a narcissist are just part of the job description.
As a student of anime and a cultural child of the Star Wars saga, Snowden can't help but notice that by stealing the NSA documents and flying off to Hong Kong to share them, he's living our most enduring myths, following the instructions laid down in church, in books, at the cinema, on television, in comic books and in video games. And unlike earlier whistle-blowers, who ordinarily suffer for decades for their transgressions, Snowden appears to be working from a complete script in which he's the ultimate victor.
(Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/column-snowden-versus-dragons-151210535.html
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Malware is the big bad boogeyman [of Android, but a far more common problem happens to be apps that just ask for a few too many permissions. In the worst case, malicious apps can take advantage of SMS permissions to send premium messages and sign you up for unwanted services. In other scenarios, you might just not want to own a game that wants access to your address book.
Clueful (free, Google Play) from Bitdefender, aims to keep you informed about your app permissions by classifying them by security risk and giving you an overall privacy score. The higher your score, the closer you are to security perfection.
Easy to Use
When you launch Clueful, the app quickly scans the apps on your device and returns your privacy score. Mine was a surprisingly low 56 out of a possible 100, mostly because of the 15 apps Clueful classified as a "moderately risk." A button at the top of the screen lets you filter by specific types of risks (like "are viruses") or sort apps by level of risk from the tabs on the bottom of the screen.
The important stuff is on the pages for individual apps, where Clueful provides what it calls "clues" about what the apps are doing and why it might be dangerous. You can remove an app by tapping the uninstall button. There's also a sharing button that will either read Like! or Dislike! depending on how many issues Clueful has with the app. It's cute, but it's mostly an ad for Clueful pushed out via the sharing service of your choice.
You'll probably be surprised by some of the results. For instance, I had no idea that Polaris Office could make calls or send SMS messages. Frankly, that worries me a little bit. Other apps, like Viber, need SMS or call permissions, but Clueful still lists them as potentially risky.
While not really anti-malware software, Clueful will keep a watchful eye on all your new apps. When I installed a suspicious app, Clueful immediately pushed a message to the notification tray.
Hard to Master
The problem with Clueful is that you might not feel like you have enough information to make a decision about keeping or uninstalling an app. In the case of Vine, it vaguely warns that the app can read my contacts. "Many apps have legitimate reasons to do so," it says. "Others do not." Below, it warns that Vine uploads my device ID to a specific Web address (data.flurr.com), but I'm not sure what that means.
And to be clear, this is a problem isn't unique to Clueful but exists in just about every security advisor app. You'll probably have to do some Google searching to find out more about the risks that advisor apps flag.
The way it's currently designed, Clueful seems to encourage you to seek alternatives to apps that could be leaking your personal information. For instance, now that I know Polaris Office has SMS permissions, maybe I should find an office suite which doesn't.
However, that rules out the possibility that I've weighed my options and have decided to trust a particular app. With Clueful, I can't raise my score if I've decided to stick with Polaris Office. Bitdefender didn't include an ignore button, a tactic used by other security suites like avast!.
This is especially odd since the app calls the app information it provides "clues," implying that we should solve the mystery ourselves. Though security is its own reward, when you do the research and make an informed decision to keep an app, Clueful doesn't reward you.
Admittedly the permissions information is the most important part of the app, and the security score doesn't really matter. However, the score does reinforce the idea that there is some kind of platonic ideal of digital privacy which I suspect can only be attained by forsaking all digital technology and living in a hole.
A Dedicated Tool
Bitdefender offers a number of security apps like Clueful that do specific tasks at different price points. Think of it as security ala care. As a result, Clueful feels a little thin compared to free security apps like TrustGo or paid apps like our Editors' Choice Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus.
While Clueful is useful, I'd like to see it provide a little more context. Individual comments about each app that go further than the automated warnings Clueful currently has would go a long way toward guiding users to an informed decision. An ignore button could make the app more responsive, but may muddy the idea of maintaining digital privacy.
With that in mind, Clueful feels like a tool for those uninitiated in security; a gateway to higher levels of understanding (or paranoia, take your pick). If you're already hip to security, stick with a full-featured Android suite. If you're more interested in getting specific security features, or just an easy way to keep grandma's phone stays safe, take a clue from Clueful.
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Earlier than expected (and a little pricier than we'd hoped), the BlackBerry Q5 will go on sale tomorrow in the UAE. We know that its radios are primed for AT&T 3G and while the build might not rival the flagship BB10 device, it's another option for those who can't relinquish the tactile joys of a physical keyboard. It will launch priced at 1,499 AED (just above $400), which nets you BlackBerry's latest OS spread across a 3.1-inch touchscreen with the aforementioned keyboard nestled below. Interested in hopping on a red-eye flight for the third device since the company's name change? Then we'd recommend reacquainting yourself with our first impressions.
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