Open source Linux tablet showcases KDE Plasma Active technology

[Updated: Feb. 2] -- Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based & Mer& operating system. The seven-inch & Spark& tablet features a 1GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, an SD slot, and a projected price of about 200 Euros ($262)....

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Ellery Homestyles, the Makers of Eclipse? Blackout Curtains, Introduces its Newest Innovation - Absolute Zero? Home Theater Curtains!

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Dog walker says overgrown coast path is a danger

WALKERS say the coast path between Clevedon and Portishead has become unusable because it is so overgrown.

North Somerset Council used to carry out work on the coast path, cutting back brambles and weeds, each May and September. But people who regularly use the path say parts are now becoming impassable and dangerous because the council has not carried out the works.

Floss Morgan, who lives in Walton- in-Gordano and uses the coast path every day to walk her dog, has logged numerous complaints with the council over the past three months.

Floss, who is also a parish councillor, said: "The area officer came down in May and took photos of the path and said how bad it was, but nothing was done. In some areas the vegetation is so thick it pushes you towards the cliff edge."

North Somerset Council spokesman Nick Yates said: "We are aware of this and apologise that it hasn't been cut back before now.

"Our teams have been extremely busy due to the ideal growing conditions recent weather has provided.

"We have instructed an additional contractor to start on this particular area next week."

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T-ara?s Eunjung misses VIP showing of ?I Am a King?

T-ara‘s�Eunjung did not attend the VIP showing of the movie ‘I Am a King‘. On the...

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McInnes pleased with the performance despite defeat

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Bristol City may have tasted defeat in their opening pre-season friendly against St Johnstone, but the players were relieved to be away from the training ground.

Three weeks of relentless fitness work have clearly left City's Championship stars longing for an opportunity to do what they do best.

Against such a demanding backdrop, it was little wonder that the Robins welcomed their first match of any kind since they drew 1-1 with Burnley at Turf Moor on April 28.

Winger Yannick Bolasie spoke for his team-mates following the defeat at McDiarmid Park when he said: "I'm just pleased to get out there and play after all that training. I know fitness is important and the work we have done will stand us in good stead for the new season, but it has not always been enjoyable.

"It felt like we were working ourselves to death under the sun. Pre-season has been really hard on us all.

"After working like that for a few weeks, it was nice just to get out there and play a game. It was what we needed."

Noticeably leg weary, City started slowly and found themselves 2-0 down inside 37 minutes, the victims of a double strike from on-trial forward Rowan Vine.

Jon Stead headed in from Bolasie's cross in time added on at the end of the first half to reduce the arrears and, although they came on strong after the break and created numerous chances, City were unable to engineer the equaliser their display warranted.

But manager Derek McInnes pronounced himself satisfied with what he described as "a very good work-out."

He said: "Ideally we want to win games, but the most important thing about our trip to Scotland is to make sure the fitness levels are up.

"If we can gain confidence from our fitness, confidence from our performance and confidence from our results, then we will have achieved all the things we wanted to.

"For all the work they have done, I felt the players needed the game.

"We have worked them hard and placed great demands on them.

"It was tough, but I think the players and the staff needed this game and will benefit from it."

Strikers Brett Pitman and Ryan Taylor both had chances to equalise late in the contest and McInnes added: "I thought we looked fit and strong.

"I was pleased with the chances we created and the players will take confidence from that."

City continue their tour with a friendly game against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park tonight (7.45pm).

Former Cardiff goalkeeper Tom Heaton is expected to make his debut, while winger Paul Anderson could start for the first time since his move from Nottingham Forest.

However, Albert Adomah and Liam Fontaine will only be risked if they have fully recovered from the respective toe and Achilles injuries that ruled them out of Saturday's opening game of the Scotland tour.

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Se7en shows his support for Korean Olympic athletes

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Kuratas, the 13-foot mech: unleashes your inner Ripley, costs $1.35 million (video)

Suidobashi Heavy Industries has put the finishing touches to its latest project, the 4.4-ton Kuratas. Mobile suit obsessives around the world can thank artist Kogoro Kurata and robotics expert Wataru Yoshizaki for the robot frame, which has space to house a pilot inside. The mech's touchscreen UI even includes a Kinect-based movement interface and the shudder-inducing "smile-activated" twin BB gatling guns. You can customize your own diesel-powered beast in the dystopian gang colors of your choosing, but be advised: the $1.35 million price tag doesn't include further customization options like a faux leather interior, cup holder or phone cubby. The Kuratas does, however, come with the ability to make phone calls direct from the cockpit, so you can tell your enemies that you're coming for them.

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Frank Ocean Blows NYC Fans Away At Sold-Out Show

Not even a tornado could stop Ocean as Odd Future crew cheers on from balcony at Terminal 5.
By Rebecca Thomas

Frank Ocean performs at Terminal 5 in New York on Thursday
Photo: Jason Kempin/ Getty Images

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21-Day 21st Century Bible Tour Begins

Rob Pratte talked to Jim Fitzgerald, who is now embarking on a cross-country tour to help raise $4.5 million for the first-ever Christian product commercial in the Super Bowl.

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Apple security guru lays out iPad, iPhone crypto architecture at Black Hat

A top Apple security guru Thursday presented an in-depth view into the security architecture for iOS, the basis of iPhones and iPad tablets, underscoring the complex certificate-based encryption framework Apple has adopted. Our attitude is security is an architecture, said Apple platform security manager Dallas De Atley, adding, Its not something you sprinkle over your code when its done.

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Pedrosa quickest in first practice

Dani Pedrosa edged out MotoGP title rival Jorge Lorenzo in the opening Friday practice session at Laguna Seca. The championship's top two riders set a searing pace on the American circuit, both dipping into the low 1m21s - which is near outright record pace.

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The Brain Tank Maker and InfoSec Conference, September 15, Providence, RI

Rhode Island’s Hacker mini conference is coming up soon, and their call for papers is still open. On September 15th, 2012, Providence will find itself chock-full-o’ Hackers, Makers, Breakers, and the like. The Brain Tank Conference will be a full day of Maker and InfoSec presentations, with plenty of fun [...]

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Lenovo IdeaPad K1 gets smeared with Ice Cream Sandwich

Lenovo is putting out a vanilla version of Android 4.03 for customers eager to rid their IdeaPad K1 of Honeycomb. Fans of stock iterations of Google's mobile OS will love the fact that the update will rid the slate of all of the PC maker's customizations -- as well as any other data on the tablet. If you're feeling brave enough to make the upgrade, simply head on down to the source link and follow the instructions, but be warned, if something goes wrong, you're on your own.

[Thanks, Parth]

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Defunct email service offers handhelds to hackers

Peek has discontinued its low-cost, email-and-texting service but is challenging hackers to & build something great& with the leftover handhelds, according to The Verge. The Peek devices include a 2.5-inch screen, a QWERTY keyboard, an ARM7-based processor, and a GSM cellular modem, according to the company....

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Hamilton on top in rain-hit FP2

Lewis Hamilton repeated his morning performance to set the fastest time again in second practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix, in a session disrupted by a heavy rain shower. The dry running was compressed into the first half of the afternoon, as although the rain was relatively brief and the temperatures remained hot, the track received too heavy a soaking for slicks to be viable thereafter

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Open source Linux tablet showcases KDE Plasma Active technology

[Updated: Feb. 2] -- Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based & Mer& operating system. The seven-inch & Spark& tablet features a 1GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, an SD slot, and a projected price of about 200 Euros ($262)....

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Jessica Sanchez in spotlight with American Idol winners ? Part 3

As a recipient of American Idol's "Judges Save" option, Jessica Sanchez made sure she remains in competition by giving all her best in her remaining performances as she made an appeal to the viewers for their online votes.

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Release Notes for 2012 Season 3

The release notes for the 2012 Season 3 build are as follows: Hosted Sessions - Gridding – In a multi-class event you can now select a third gridding option “One class per car – grid all cars in a class together”. - Weight Penalty – You can now specify a weight penalty in kg for each car class independently. The value must be positive and currently the highest the penalty can be set is 250kg.� The value can be set in either lbs or kg. If you click on the label “KG Penalty” it will switch to “LBS Penalty” and vice versa.� Please note, it always stores the value as kg in the database, so there will be some loss of precision when switching back and forth between lbs and [...]

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MSI outs new CR41 notebook, hopes you like the color royal bronze

What's rectangular, coated in a royal bronze finish, opens like a clam and lasts for up to seven and a half hours? If you answered MSI's new CR41 notebook, you'd be right (though we would've accepted self-destructing jewelry boxes as an answer). The 14-inch multimedia "mobile companion," announced just today, packs a 1,366 x 768 HD display, dedicated HM76 graphics chipset, choice of Intel's third-generation Core i processors and comes in a variety of storage configurations: 500 GB, 640GB or 720GB. Weighing in at 5.3 pounds (2.4kg) and measuring 13.8 x 9.2 x 1.3 inches (349.7 x 234.8 x 32mm), the laptop also features a six-cell 4,400mAh battery, support for Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi b/g/n, an optical drive, ports for HDMI, USB 3.0 (x2), USB 2.0 (x2), an SD slot and the requisite headphone jack. So far no official pricing or release dates have been made public for the Windows 7 rig, but when it does hit retailers' shelves, rest assured it'll be upgrade-ready for Redmond's next great OS. Follow on past the break for the official PR.

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Dragon Tattoo Sequel Stuck? The Latest on The Girl Who Played With Fire

I hear the sequel to�Girl With the Dragon Tattoo�is not going ahead?why not?! Didn't the first one make megabucks? ?Matthew K., via�Facebook Yes....

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London cabbies protest over Olympics VIP lanes

London taxi drivers are mounting a third protest over their exclusion from road lanes dedicated to Olympic traffic, with just hours to go before the games' opening ceremony.

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Hulkenberg ?unsure? about F1 future

Nico Hulkenberg is not sure whether he has done enough to secure his Formula 1 future with Force India for another season. The 24-year-old German stepped up from his role as the team's test and reserve driver in 2011 to take a race seat alongside Paul di Resta for this season.

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Is personalized medicine a myth?

By Amanda Enayati, Special to CNN

July 26, 2012 -- Updated 1706 GMT (0106 HKT)

Personalized medicine involves tailoring medical treatments to individual characteristics of each patient.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• There are apps to monitor blood pressure, glucose levels and heart rate
• Some experts say personalized medicine is overly optimistic and cost-prohibitive
• DNA testing could help doctors pinpoint better cancer treatments for individuals

Editor's note: CNN contributor Amanda Enayati ponders the theme of seeking serenity: the quest for well-being and life balance in stressful times.

(CNN) -- Your cell phone rings, and your brow furrows as you glance down at the caller ID.

Hello?

"Hello," responds an automated voice. "There is a 97% likelihood that you will have a cardiac event within the next 12 hours. Please proceed to a hospital as soon as possible."

According to experts like Eric Topol, director and chief academic officer at Scripps Translational Science Institute, technology like this -- and a slew of other medical wonders -- isn't so far-fetched. In fact, some of it is already here.

There are now more cell phones in the world than there are toilets and toothbrushes, Topol said. And these phones, which have become our constant companions and virtual extensions of our bodies, are increasingly being used to track our physiology from moment to moment.

The intersection of technology, science, medicine and design has led to an explosion of apps for monitoring blood pressure, glucose levels and heart rate and measuring how well you sleep, whether you're stressed or relaxed and whether you're eating healthy. We have been able to harness the existing digital infrastructure to get personalized health data we did not have access to before.

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Combine wireless sensors with the study of genes, or genomics, imaging and a proliferation of health-focused social networks, and you have a convergence capable of bringing about the "creative destruction" of medicine.

That's the term Topol uses in his 2012 book, "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care," to refer to the transformation that accompanies radical innovation.

This disruption, said Topol, will be characterized by the personalization of drugs, devices, screening tests and treatments.

Personalized medicine can deliver better information to help patients make an individual choice about the risks and rewards of a particular course of treatment: which medicines will work for him or her, which drugs may pose a danger and whether doses may need to be adjusted. Personalized medicine can also help profile someone's potential risk for contracting a disease like cancer or diabetes.

But not everyone agrees with Topol.

"Personalized medicine is a myth. It's hyperbolic," argued Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives and chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Emanuel spoke with Topol and Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on a panel about personalized medicine at the Aspen Ideas Festival this month.

According to Emanuel, tailoring medical treatments to individual characteristics of each patient is both overly optimistic and cost-prohibitive. He likened it to buying a custom-made suit versus one off the rack.

But in an interview after Aspen Ideas, Topol disputed that, saying that nowhere is the promise of personalized medicine as hopeful or exciting as in cancer research.

"We are at a pivot point when it comes to cancer," Topol observed. "We may not have had the tools before, but we do now."

Mapping the human genome, which initially took more than a decade and roughly $3 billion, can now be performed in a little more than an hour to the tune of $900. Several cancer centers like MD Anderson in Texas and Sloan Kettering in New York have begun identifying the genetic fingerprints of tumors and targeting specific treatments.

The first step is to sequence the patient's DNA in order to uncover the cancer-causing mutation. Then, instead of administering a one-size-fits-all drug, doctors would use one that addresses the specific mutation.

"It's a more intelligent, precise way," Topol said.

The patient's response to treatment would also be monitored. "Instead of putting them through radiation, PET scans and CT scans, which are very expensive and potentially harmful, we are now looking at noninvasive tests that do the same job," Topol said.

One example, he said, is a promising test that uses microchip technology to sift through blood in search of circulating tumor cells, which come from solid tumors and roam through the blood.

"Both the initial treatment that addresses the root cause and the follow-up can be revamped," Topol said. "And it's not that expensive. In fact, it's far cheaper."

In addition to what he felt would be explosive costs, Emanuel also argued against personalized medicine by observing that behavioral and lifestyle changes like diet, smoking and exercise, which account for 40% to 60% of all disease, are far likelier to have an impact on longevity and health-care affordability than genetics and thus should be the center of focus.

Topol said that none of what we talk about in personalized medicine is meant to supplant efforts to improve people's diets, lifestyles and physical activity.

But, to use one lifestyle example, there are different explanations for obesity beyond "you are eating too much."

That approach doesn't take into account an individual's biological disposition. Some people are obese not because they eat too much but because they have a genetic structural variation. Others may have an issue related to their individual microbiomes: the totality of microbes, their genomes and the collective environmental reaction in the gut.

Researchers have linked certain microbiomes to obesity, which then opens the door to individualized probiotic and other therapies. "That's the whole idea behind individualized treatment and prevention," Topol said.

The bottom line is that when it comes to technology's disruption of medicine, Topol believes the genie is already out of the bottle. Some of the best cancer centers are on this path. They are, however, treating a minority of the patients out there.

There are a host of barriers to realizing the promise of personalized medicine -- insurance reimbursement, privacy and regulatory issues, information and aggregation issues, among others -- but perhaps none so pernicious as resistance.

"The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable," Topol said.

Resist as some might, the power of one's own data is the future of medicine.

"It is only a matter of when," Topol said.

More from Amanda Enayati: The aging brain -- why getting older just might be awesome

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NTT Docomo's Android phones have Mickey Mouse user interface

NTT Docomo announced a pair of 4.3-inch Android 2.3 smartphones whose styling, user interface, and content all have a Disney theme. Both have dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processors, but the & Disney Mobile on docomo F-08D& is clocked to 1.2GHz, offers HD resolution, and has a 13-megapixel camera, while the & Disney Mobile on docomo P-05D& offers 1GHz performance and a 960 x 540-pixel OLED screen....

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Afternoon Mail! Could Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Be Any Cuter?!

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