First Apple Store in China.

Apple opened its first store in China. The new store is located in Beijing’s newest Village at Sanlitun. The store carries the same design as Apple’s other retail stores but with a multilingual Genius bar. iPhone is not available in China at this point. This will be their 219th retail store worldwide.

Dark Knight Arrested.

The “Dark Knight” star Christian Bale was arrested in London after allegedly assaulting his sister and mother. His mother and sister brought the accusations to the Hampshire police station. After being held for more than four hours, Bale was released on the condition that he returns to the station at an unspecified date in September. The film Dark Knight raked in 158.4 million dollars, breaking the previous North American box-office opening record of 151.1 million held by “Spider-Man 3″.

Female Domination

Male domination is common among primates including monkeys. But when the number of males increases, females become more strong and dominant. According to researchers, this new finding could true with humans. Male primates are usually larger than females, and it is easier for them to be stronger. But there are times where females dominate, for instance lemurs in Madagascar and macaques.

Findings support that these females are not larger than males, but they dominate due to odds. Chances of wining a fight by a female increases when male aggression is more intense and more males are defeated by other males. Therefore high-ranking females may be victorious over these losers. When females win a fight by chance, they grow more confident and win more fights, and eventually they dominate.

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Gender Affects Kidney Transplant

According to a analysis of the “Collaborative Transplant Study”, female donor kidneys do not function as well in men, because to their smaller size. Women are at higher risk of rejecting a male donor kidney. Therefore, gender will be considered more in the allocation of donor kidneys in future. Data collected from almost 200,000 kidney recipients from 1985 to 2004 analyzed, and transplanting a female kidney was less successful than a male kidney. This is because of female kidneys have fewer nephrons. Immunological rejection problems occurred most frequently when women received a male kidney as well.

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Laptops with 3G Connectivity

Lenovo has announced that it has teamed up with Vodafone in the UK to offer mobile broadband built-in to the laptops. Customers will be able to purchase new ThinkPad notebooks in the T and X Series and on all of Lenovo’s new ThinkPad SL Series notebooks with the new connectivity option. The price for the data plan will cost £8.50 a day for unlimited data around Europe, USA and Japan according to Vodafone.

How War Affects Children

War tears the childhood happiness apart. According to the United Nations, children in 50 countries are currently growing up in the midst of war. When researchers asked few moral questions to these children, there was a whole new moral outlook found. When researchers questioned these children about the morality of stealing or harming someone. Although they grew up in an environment filled with homicide, theft and physical violence on daily basis, surprisingly, these children all said that stealing and harming others was wrong, morally wrong, even if everybody did it. But the children had a whole different view of right and wrong within the context of revenge. They will harm someone when it comes to revenge.

Fights, terrorism and all-out conflict are based in real or imagined scenarios where each side see themselves as victims. These children justified the reason for revenge. You have harmed me or those I love, so I can righteously harm you and yours which is a social context of tit-for-tat. These children are dragged into the complex network of revenge justice.

Grandmas Can Have Babies

When scientists predicted a scenario just like test-tube babies 30 years ago, it shocked us, but now it is an acceptable routine to most people. According to the journal Nature “Making Babies: The Next 30 Years”, newborns and 100-year-old can have children; labs will generate sperm and eggs for anybody; human embryos will be easily made by pluripotent stem cell; “Genetic cassettes” will be inserted to correct any genetic diseases or mutation; and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) will become as cheap as $100.

But don’t you thing the old-fashioned way is cheaper and more fun?

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Interior on the Map.

EveryScape Inc is developing a mapping service which displays interior of the buildings. Google’s Street View doesn’t have this feature. EveryScape employed individual contractors to take pictures of the street. Once an area has been mapped, EveryScape will approach local businesses to having their interiors photographed and listed in the map. EveryScape got more than $11 million from Venture Capital firms, a sign that the idea has a potential.

Reason For Teenage Obesity

Dr. Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard Medical School, Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), surveyed more than 5000 girls, 14 - 21 years from all 50 states, and their weekly habits were recorded. The researchers found that more Internet time, more alcohol consumption, and less sleep resulted in extra weight gain. Girls who consumed 2 or more alcoholic beverages a week or slept less than 6 hours at night gained more weight. Girls who use Internet in addition to alcohol and sleep gain 4 extra pounds a year. Researchers are encouraging adolescent girls to replace recreational Internet time with more sleep, and avoid alcoholic beverage consumption to lose their weight.

Top 10 Computers From Past To Present

The Difference Engine by Charles Babbage -1822
ENIAC -1946
IBM System/360 - 1964
Datapoint 2200 - 1970
Xerox PARC Alto - 1974
TRS-80 - 1977
Apple II - 1977
IBM PC - 1981
Apple Macintosh - 1984
IBM Roadrunner - Current

Can Snakes Smell?

Most snakes have poor eye sight and limited hearing, but have an excellent sense of smell. It doesn’t have a conventional nose, but they sniff with an organ at the roof of the mouth. This organ is called a Jacobson’s organ, which is found in a few lizard species. Snakes flick their tongues and collect scent particles for Jacobson’s organ. They stuck their forked tongue into a pair of holes in the Jacobson’s organ to support the sense of smell.

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RIM fixes BlackBerry Enterprise Server bug

A critical bug in BlackBerry Enterprise Server(BES) (which is severe enough to makes the US Department of Homeland Security post a security alert), has been fixed by RIM. Hackers exploit a security vulnerability in the PDF distiller component of the BlackBerry Attachment Service,to break into company networks. By getting BlackBerry users to open malicious PDF files attached to e-mail messages, attackers could compromise servers running BES. BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is the name of the middle ware software package that is part of the BlackBerry wireless platform from Research In Motion.

Toshiba’s New Cell powered Laptops.

Toshiba unveiled its first Quad Core HD processor notebook. The new mobile PC features a Cell-based chip said to be able to offer a “revolutionary high-definition, multimedia user experience”. The Qosmio G55-Q802 series laptop is equipped with a Quad Core HD co-processor with 4 SPEs (Synergistic Processor Elements) and 128MB of XDR memory. The starting price of the G55-Q802 is set at $1,549.99. The notebook will ship with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed. The featured components are a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo T7350 CPU, 4GB of DDR2 memory, a GeForce 9600M GT graphics card with 512MB of dedicated memory, 500GB worth of storage space via two 250GB SATA hard drives and a DVD SuperMulti drive.

Sunlight Helps You Live Longer?

There is a relationship between the low vitamin D levels and deaths from heart disease. Patients with the lowest vitamin D in their blood were two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels of vitamin D. But largest doses of vitamin D pills or sun exposure can be dangerous and can lead to skin cancer. Low vitamin D levels may be reflected by age due to the lack of physical activity and other lifestyle factors.

Ticking Male’s Biological Clock

More evidence were found that men as well as women have ticking biological clocks that start to tick in mid-30s. A study done on 12,200 couples proved that the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is over 35, and it is significantly lower if he is over 40. The researchers told in a health conference that it was due to the DNA damage in sperm.

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Canadian’s complained about Ruined iPhone

Around 60 000 people signed a petition in Canada to bring down the prices of the data plan on the Apple iPhone 3G offered by Rogers Wireless. David McGuinty, a member of parliament also spoke up and also asked for support of C-555 - the Get Connected Fairly Act. Rogers offer a third fewer minutes and limited data compared to AT&T, US service provider for iPhone. The petition and the comments of the disappointed customers can be found at ruinediphone.com. Its believed that Apple responded to customer complaints by limiting the iPhone shipment to Rogers.

Nature’s Viagara : Watermelon

Citrulline an ingredient in Watermelon,triggers the production of a compound which helps relax the body’s blood vessels, like Viagara does in a man’s body. When consumed in large volume Citrulline reacts with the body’s enzymes and is changed into Arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems. Citrulline is found in the flesh and rind of all colors of watermelon and is highest in the yellow-fleshed types.

Keyboard without Physical Keys.

Optimus Tactus, a concept keyboard designed by Russian design company Art. Lebedev,doesn’t have any physical keys,instead any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images. Videos can also be played on the keyboard. The idea is to utilize the keyboard as a screen, providing a limitless amount of personalization to its look and layout.

Genome Changes With Age

Human genomes can change throughout a person’s lifespan. It’s influenced by environmental or nutritional factors. This change may explain the reasons for different deadly illnesses such as cancer which comes with age. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found epigenetic marks on a DNA sequence which modify over the course of one’s life. The extent of such changes is similar among family members. The changes in the genomic structure can occur as a result of dietary and other environmental exposure. Epigenetics may play a role in diseases like diabetes, autism and cancer.

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Past Events Control Your Future Planning

Imagine a world where people are punished before committing a crime. Although it is strange, but it allows people to remember things before they happen. According to researchers posterior hippocampus is involved in future planning. Now scientists are discovering that human memory does indeed work forward. Studies show that the your past performances are more important in envisioning your future. The severely depressed patients have difficulty visualizing positive future events.

Researchers recognized that memory can construct, simulate and predict possible future events. These ongoing studies can provide new insights regarding the memory that relates to future-oriented thinking, planning, prediction and remembering intentions.

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