Wednesday, July 10, 2013

What is Facebook Graph Search, and will it help stalkers find me?

The highly anticipated and extremely confusing Facebook Graph Search feature is now in effect for U.S. Facebook users who post in English. If you don't have the Graph Search feature on your Facebook page, you will within the next three weeks. You've heard about Graph Search for months, but it's kind of a difficult concept to explain, and you didn't have it anyway so who cares. Now you do have Facebook Graph Search -- and it has you, to submit you as a search result to people you do not know.

If you're among the thousands who got Facebook Graph Search capabilities yesterday, go ahead and fool around with it to see how it works. More importantly, fool around with your privacy settings so the damned thing doesn't get creepier than OKCupid the day before Valentine's Day.

Let's take a look at what Facebook Graph Search does, and what you can do to minimize unwanted romantic solicitations or lingerie picture embarrassment.

Facebook is launching Facebook Graph Search to all English-speaking U.S. users, beginning this week. It's a little different from the standard Facebook text search you're used to. The search bar even looks different -- it's now white with a blue background, instead of grey on blue.

Graph Search doesn't just search for text words. It combines numerous text searches for you into a single broad thematic search, and gives you more search results than you could ever have had displayed before. Graph Search will show you results for your friends, friends of friends, or anything marked "Public".

So if you showed people your boobs at Burning Man that one time, you'll want to take that picture down or else mark it as "Private".

Just for kicks, I tried a Graph Search on "Single Christians who like Neil Diamond". I got dozens of results -- not one of whom was a friend of mine, nor a friend of a friend. So your privacy settings on Facebook matter more than ever, because stalkers can now find you based on interests instead of just your name or location.

How to change these privacy settings? If you've always ignored your Facebook privacy settings, no may be the time to pay attention to them.

On your Facebook profile page, click on Activity Log. This will display everything you've done on Facebook, and it scrolls down far enough that it does show literally everything. If there's anything you don't want to be public, click the little icons to the right of that statement, comment or picture to make it private.

You'll want to go through your photos as well, and mark anything you're not comfortable with as "Private". If you want to know what I mean, try performing a Graph Search on "Pictures of Single Women". Consider the results you see. And then consider that ten thousand creepers are currently performing the exact same search, and getting very similar results.

Facebook Graph Search does not intend to violate your privacy -- it intends to simply sell more advertising on Facebook. Just be careful with your settings, because Facebook will always remember that time you showed people your boobs at Burning Man.

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Choral Singers Sync Heartbeats

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Because phrasing requires synchronous respiration, choral singers also sync up their heartbeats, which may add to the group feeling of unison. Sophie Bushwick reports.

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Music. It can tug at our hearts. Perhaps even literally. Because when people sing together, their hearts begin to beat in sync with each other. [Bj?rn Vickhoff et al, Music structure determines heart rate variability of singers]

Researchers monitored the heart rates of 15 teenagers as they produced sounds solo. The participants either hummed one note or sang a hymn while breathing whenever they wanted. They also performed a mantra that required them to breath only at the end of each phrase. Then the exercises were repeated by groups of five subjects all singing at once. And when the subjects performed regular song structures in unison, their heart rates slowed down and sped up at the same time.

Vocal performances impose set breathing patterns, which regulate and synchronize heartbeats. According to the researchers, choral participation can thus improve well-being. It not only tones the cardiovascular system, but also produces the same relaxing effect as breathing exercises practiced in yoga. So music truly soothes the savage breast?or at least, the heart beating inside it.

?Sophie Bushwick

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House GOP plan would slash IRS budget by 24 percent

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House Republicans have put forward a bill that would cut the Internal Revenue Service's budget by nearly one-quarter for fiscal 2014. The measure would give the IRS $9 billion for fiscal 2014, representing a 24-percent reduction compared to the previous budget cycle and the lowest amount of funding for the agency since 2001. Read full article >> ? ? ? ? ...

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Raw: Washington Monument Lit Up During Repairs

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Starting Monday, the National Park Service will light up the Washington Monument during a major repair project that has left it closed since an earthquake. (July 8)

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jQuery Google Search Videobar 1.1.0

It displays a set of video links based on provided search terms. The default search term is 'jquery'.

Hovering the mouse over a video thumbnail will display the name and duration of the movie.

Google places some restrictions on your use of this service, including obtaining a key specific to a target URL providing the service, making the Web site freely accessible, and showing included Google branding.

Here are some key features of "jQuery Google Search Videobar":

? Customize the search terms, including on the fly.
? Special YouTube searches.
? Horizontal or vertical presentation.
? Automatic cycling of search results.
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Support Coming for Chinese Plane Crash Survivors

The Chinese students involved in Saturday?s harrowing crash landing in San Francisco will soon get some additional support.

A group of 17 family members, school administrators and local government officials from their area left on Monday morning with plans to fly to San Francisco later in the day, according to officials at the school the students attended. The group includes family members of the two dead girls and those of two badly injured ones.

South Korea?s Asiana Airlines has identified the dead girls as Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, both 16 years old.

The family and officials were leaving from Jiangshan, the county in China?s eastern Zhejiang province where the school is based. Once in the U.S., the administrators plan to assess the next step for the students, many of whom lost luggage and personal effects like glasses and mobile phones.

Nicknamed Jiangzhong, the school is a multi-building complex of gray brick with a sports track in the center. The well-regarded school is relatively large with enrollment of up to 800 students each year, but on Monday was quiet for the summer holidays. Aside from a contingent of reporters, there was little sign on campus of the tragedy that involved its students.

?James T. Areddy and Fanfan Wang. Follow James on Twitter @jamestareddy

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Friday, July 5, 2013

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Report: Lovefilm will cease UK game rentals by August 8th

Lovefilm chops game rentals for new UK customers, will cut it altogether August 8th

Lovefilm has told Eurogamer that it will no longer offer game rentals by mail in the UK after August 8th. Additionally, the Amazon division confirmed via its blog that the option is no longer available to new subscribers. In addition, existing customers will no longer be able to add the service, a fact that only came to light when someone spotted it on a company FAQ (see the More Coverage link). Lovefilm apologized profusely for the non-communication, and explained that the change was made so it could focus on streaming content instead. It promised to contact subscribers "in the very near future" to confirm the policy, and "strive to communicate directly with our customers" rather than letting them find out through the media. The firm's yet to actually confirm that the service will be cut off completely next month, however -- perhaps that would be a good place to start.

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Singapore to Indonesia: Stop sending us your smog.

Air pollution in Singapore?rose to unhealthy levels this week because of illegal forest clearing in Indonesia,?prompting?Singapore?to urge Indonesia to do something to end the haze.

By Sara Schonhardt,?Correspondent / June 20, 2013

A masked man walks as the sun sets among buildings covered with haze at the Singapore Central Business District Thursday, June 20, 2013. Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically.

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Cloudy skies in Jakarta were no match for the breathtaking haze that hit Singapore?on Thursday?as air-pollution levels rose to record highs and sparked a war of words between diplomats in both countries over who should shoulder the blame.

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Companies have asked employees to work from home, the military has stopped training outdoors, and pictures of Singapore's iconic Marine Bay Sands towers barely visible through the haze have been splashed across social media platforms?and newspapers.

Despite the international blame game, the immediate cause was clear enough: fires used to clear land in Sumatra for farming and palm oil plantations. A local meteorological agency reported nearly 150 hotspots alone in Riau Province, itself a hotspot for mining, logging, and palm oil production.

Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace released a statement saying that the fires illustrated how Indonesia?s government policies aimed at reducing deforestation had failed?since half of them were in areas off-limits to land clearing.

Each year slash and burn practices in Indonesia shroud neighboring Singapore and Malaysia in thick haze. As deforestation has accelerated in recent years, it has worsened.

On Thursday,?Singapore sent a delegation from its environmental agency to Jakarta to call for immediate action.?Singapore?s environment minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, issued an angry statement?on his Facebook page saying no country or corporation ?has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans? health and well-being.??

But Indonesia shot back its own statement: Singapore should stop ?behaving like a child,? said Indonesia?s?Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Agung Laksono, who oversees fire response.

Mr. Balakrishnan had asked the Indonesian government to name and shame the companies involved in the illegal burning. But Indonesia?s forestry ministry launched back, saying?Singapore and Malaysia shared the responsibility for putting pressure on the resource extraction industry since many of companies were based in their countries.

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

HTC confirms One S will no longer receive Android updates

HTC confirms One S will no longer receive Android updates

It's not a Nexus, so suspend your disbelief: HTC's One S will not be getting any further Android updates. That's right, One S owners, your device is now officially a relic. In a statement released to the press, HTC today confirmed that the mid-ranger, which bowed last year in tandem with the One X, will remain frozen on 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. That means current owners will have to look elsewhere (read: developer forums) for unofficial access to Sense 5 ROMs and the latest tweaks Google's packed into Android 4.2 updates. We can't really lament the loss of BlinkFeed, but it sure would've been nice to see HTC port Zoe over to the device. At the very least, this makes a strong case for that Google Play edition One and its promise of consistent updates.

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Gene therapy cures a severe paediatric neurodegenerative disease in animal models

Gene therapy cures a severe paediatric neurodegenerative disease in animal models [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 2-Jul-2013
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Sanfilippo Syndrome type A, or Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPSIIIA), is a neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the gene that encodes the enzyme sulfamidase. Mutations in this gene lead to deficiencies in the production of the enzyme, which is essential for the breakdown of substances known as glycosaminoglicans. If these substances are not broken down, they accumulate in the cells and cause neuroinflammation and organ dysfunction, mainly in the brain, but also in other parts of the body. Children born with this mutation are diagnosed from the age of 4 or 5. They suffer neurodegeneration, causing mental retardation, aggressiveness, hyperactivity, sleep alterations, loss of speech and motor coordination, and they die in adolescence.

A team of researchers headed by the director of the UAB's Centre for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG), Ftima Bosch, has developed a gene therapy treatment that cures this disease in animal models, with pre-clinical studies in mice and dogs. The treatment consists of a single surgical intervention in which an adenoassociated viral vector is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid, the liquid that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord. The virus, which is completely harmless, genetically modifies the cells of the brain and the spinal cord so that they produce sulfamidase, and then spreads to other parts of the body, like the liver, where it continues to induce production of the enzyme.

Once the enzyme's activity is restored, glycosaminoglican levels return to normal for life, their accumulation in cells disappears, along with the neuroinflammation and dysfunctions of the brain and other affected organs, and the animal's behaviour and its life expectancy return to normal. While mice with the disease lived only up to 14 months, those given the treatment survived as long as healthy ones.

This is a joint project between the UAB and the pharmaceutical company Esteve. The study has been published in the online edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Gene therapy cures a severe paediatric neurodegenerative disease in animal models [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 2-Jul-2013
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Contact: F?tima Bosch
Fatima.bosch@uab.cat
34-935-814-182
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Sanfilippo Syndrome type A, or Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPSIIIA), is a neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the gene that encodes the enzyme sulfamidase. Mutations in this gene lead to deficiencies in the production of the enzyme, which is essential for the breakdown of substances known as glycosaminoglicans. If these substances are not broken down, they accumulate in the cells and cause neuroinflammation and organ dysfunction, mainly in the brain, but also in other parts of the body. Children born with this mutation are diagnosed from the age of 4 or 5. They suffer neurodegeneration, causing mental retardation, aggressiveness, hyperactivity, sleep alterations, loss of speech and motor coordination, and they die in adolescence.

A team of researchers headed by the director of the UAB's Centre for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG), Ftima Bosch, has developed a gene therapy treatment that cures this disease in animal models, with pre-clinical studies in mice and dogs. The treatment consists of a single surgical intervention in which an adenoassociated viral vector is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid, the liquid that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord. The virus, which is completely harmless, genetically modifies the cells of the brain and the spinal cord so that they produce sulfamidase, and then spreads to other parts of the body, like the liver, where it continues to induce production of the enzyme.

Once the enzyme's activity is restored, glycosaminoglican levels return to normal for life, their accumulation in cells disappears, along with the neuroinflammation and dysfunctions of the brain and other affected organs, and the animal's behaviour and its life expectancy return to normal. While mice with the disease lived only up to 14 months, those given the treatment survived as long as healthy ones.

This is a joint project between the UAB and the pharmaceutical company Esteve. The study has been published in the online edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Snowden asks Russia for asylum

MOSCOW (AP) ? The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.

Interfax cited Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian Foreign Ministry's consular office in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, as saying that Snowden's representative, Sarah Harrison, handed over his request Sunday.

Snowden has been caught in legal limbo in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23. The U.S. has annulled his passport, and Ecuador, where he has hoped to get asylum, has been coy about offering him shelter.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says Snowden will have to stop leaking U.S. secrets if he wants to get asylum in Russia, but adds that Snowden has no plan to quit doing so.

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