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While humbled by our relative size, our brains can none the less comprehend, to some extent, just how large the Universe is.

"In a finite world, a cosmic perspective isn’t a luxury, it is a necessity."

Wrist Worn Gadget Allows Researchers to Capture Real Life Sleep

"There has been practically no possibility of getting detailed sleep structures in a normal life setting over a long period of time," says Till Roenneberg of LMU Munich in Germany. "You can't easily give somebody an EEG to take home and have next to the bed. You can't do this over six weeks or six months. We are going to see things nobody has seen before."

The research is in Current Biology. (full open access)

USA Today is reporting that the Nintendo Switch was the fifth best-selling technology product of 2017. Once again it was Apple’s iPhone which topped the chart by a huge margin, it was followed by the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 smartphones, Amazon Echo…

Samsung is reportedly preparing to launch a new detachable Chromebook codenamed “Nautilus,” which will come with a stowable stylus. #News #Chromebook #Nautilus

Former President Barack Obama used Eagles defender Chris Long as a model of what's best about America as part of a year-end set of posts to social media. http://on.nbc10.com/l1TdeUs

It's Colder Than Mars Out There https://trib.al/JEbNeYg

Has Apple done enough to compensate for its #BatteryGate mistakes? - Apple closes 2017 with a scandal: after failing to disclose that it artificially slows down iPhones with aging batteries, it has left users with older iPhones wondering about the slower performance of their device and pondering whether they should buy a new iPhone. Reddit users started an investigation that uncovered an unexpected link between older batteries and slower iPhone performance, suggesting that rather than buyin...

Lineup of 3 planets is not the reason for Moment uptick; the Moon's 1st quarter has a History of "bringing in the Sheaves"- 5-6.0M.

If you have a Moto Z2 Force on T-Mobile, Android 8.0 Oreo is officially on the way! 🙌

Flyhigh Works have confirmed today that they are bringing Opus: Rocket of Whispers to the Nintendo Switch next year. The previous title Opus: The Day We Found Earth is already available on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game is currently available on both…

Google Image Search Results Tests New Related Searches Box

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Here in Norway the last weeks have been a dismal affair! Snowfall going sleet and then rain, only to freeze over and make everything dangerously slippery is the norm so far, and now the last downpour has melted most of the snow again, but not enough to also melt the black ice on the roads, trails and wherever someone has walked before and compacted what snow was there.

No winter wonderland to ease this dark season. Only bland, grey, black and dark.

Yet we know that this is temporary and one day the sun will have won over darkness, and snow will be a distant memory.

That is when nature explodes with colors, and perhaps nowhere else is it as magical as in the Himalayas when the rhododendrons are in bloom

They stand alone as tall beacons of splendor and abundance, or together as forests of a dreamland of another world.

It is in the midst of this we remember how a long winter is worth it, as the joy of spring also melts away all that is bland, grey, black and dark of winter. Without this darkness the spring would also not have been so intensely wonderful and filling our hearts with gratitude and appreciation of the flow of the universe.

Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 13 April 2017 17:18
Altitude: 3047 meters

#spring #flowers #landscape #bhutan

Samsung and LG join Motorola and HTC in confirming that they do not slow down the processor in phones with older and degraded batteries. #News #Apple #LG

Selenium Protects a Specific Type of Interneurons in the Brain

Exactly 200 years ago, the Swedish scientist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered the trace element selenium, which he named after the goddess of the moon, Selene. Besides its industrial applications (chemical industry, production of semiconductors and toners), selenium is an essential trace element and indispensable for humans, many animals and some bacteria. A team led by Dr. Marcus Conrad, research group leader at the Institute of Developmental Genetics (IDG) at Helmholtz Zentrum München, showed for the first time why selenium is a limiting factor for mammals.

The research is in Cell. (full access paywall)

Computers can now read emotions — here’s how that will help you sell products

'... Affectiva’s software is used by one-third of the global Fortune 500 companies, says El Kaliouby. “A lot of advertisers want to understand how their customers are connecting with their content and their products because emotions drive decisions; our purchase decisions, whether we choose to share content or not, as well as our loyalty and our brand perception.” Using facial emotion detection, Affectiva can tell whether an advertisement is engaging, which segments are boring or offensive – remember the toe fungus commercial featuring Digger the Dermatophyte, also known as Schimpie in Dutch? – and even if the viewer identifies with the featured characters. ...'

https://thenextweb.com/full-stack/2017/12/14/computers-can-now-read-emotions-heres-how-that-willl-help-you-sell-products/

Some mobile games are listening to what children watch http://engt.co/2DxmqRq

Media Caught Hiding Truth About Trump’s ‘Low’ Approval Rating

Novel Complementary Effects of Estrogen Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis

A study by UCLA researchers reveals the cellular basis for how the hormone estrogen protects against damage to the central nervous system in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers found that estrogen treatment exerts positive effects on two types of cells during disease --immune cells in the brain and also cells called oligodendrocytes. Complementary actions on these two types provide protection from disease.

The research is in Brain. (full open access)

Google Tests ‘More Results’ Mobile Search Interface And New Search Refinement Buttons

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From Algo To Aggro: How SEOs Really Feel About Google Algorithm Updates

Amazon Blocks YouTube on the Amazon Fire TV Before Google’s Deadline - In recent months, Google and Amazon have had what can only be described as a petty fight. Amazon prevented Google’s Chromecast from playing Amazon Prime Video and delisted Chromecast devices from its store. Google, for its part, blocked Amazon’s Echo Show speaker from accessing YouTube, and announced it would no longer support the YouTube application on Fire TV devices after January 1st, 2018. If all that wasn’t bad enou...

"Pirate radio" in 2017 takes many forms, but here's one: a north Miami couple hosting a transmitter in their backyard shed while a DJ's signal is piped in over the Internet and promoted on Facebook—even after multiple warnings from the government and a gear seizure by the US Marshals.

Yet another Android 8.0 Oreo beta begins rolling out to Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ #Android8.0 #galaxys8 #Oreo #Samsung

Samsung has polished up some bugs, and features in need of improvement with its latest Oreo beta for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. The two Samsung models will be first among all the company’s smartphones to receive Google’s Android 8.0 software. This is the…

DJ Whoo Kid Joins For 50 Cent's Dominance Outside of Rap, Hov's Run | Everyday Struggle
https://www.mixtapes.tv/?p=39528

As Patently Apple reports, the $999 billion lawsuit was filed by one Violetta Mailyan in California, stating that “each member of the Class had to buy a newer iPhone model because the performance of their older iPhone model had slowed down as a result of [the] Defendant’s purposeful conduct.”

Mailyan’s suit goes on to claim that, had Apple disclosed that it slowed down iPhones, Class members could have obtained new batteries rather than replace their devices. Other plaintiffs reiterate that the “throttle” defect forced them into upgrading their handsets.

Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space. NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than ever before. And two of NASA’s vehicles already in space will finally arrive at their intended targets: one will rendezvous with a nearby asteroid, while another will pass by a distant space rock billions of miles from Earth.

All the Ways Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Might Make Money After the Wedding https://trib.al/2P3sZhl

The cat pillow you've always wanted is now available for pre-order http://engt.co/2DwnZPH