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Wednesday, 17 April 2013
New moms more likely to seek help for depression if it's online
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after high-risk pregnancy would go online for help if they could remain anonymous, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve. (Credit: WagMob) Postpartum depression afflicts between 10 percent and 15 percent of new moms. But with some never seeking help, those numbers may be even higher.
BlackBerry 10.1 : Gotta have it? Get it!
Hey BlackBerry devs ? we?ve got exciting news for you! To tide you over until the much awaited BlackBerry Q10 release, you?ll be seeing a new SDK OS update for your BlackBerry Dev Alpha C devices.
Goodbye InvocationMirror, Hello Invocation
TL;DR: We added a class Symbol to dart:core, renamed the class InvocationMirror to Invocation (keeping it in dart:core ), and moved Invoke.invokeOn to InstanceMirror.delegate (moving this functionality from dart:core to dart:mirrors ). Furthermore, Function.apply and InstanceMirror.invoke take a Map to represent named arguments. Finally, dart:mirror uses Symbol instead of String to represent names.
MySQL Cluster 7.3 DMR2: Increasing Developer Flexibility and Simplicity
The MySQL team at Oracle are excited to announce the immediate availability of the second MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Milestone Release (DMR). Some might call MySQL Cluster 7.3 "the foreign keys re
Vibrating fork to combat obesity makes its debut
Those who contribute at least $89 on the crowd funding website will get a HAPIfork, which comes in blue, green and pink, ahead of its planned general release to consumers in the United States and Europe later this year.
LinkedIn for Windows Phone Gets a Major Update
The Windows Phone Blog reported Monday that a major update for the LinkedIn app hit the Windows P
Oases of cool: Creating urban chill-out zones
How can architects and planners keep city dwellers comfortable as global warming bites? We could learn a thing or two from old buildings in the Middle East, which are built to capture cooling breezes. And in the future, new designs could allow shoppers in hot climates to chill out in the dappled shade of an artificial forest or in cold air flowing off a downtown glacier.
Tachyon - Fault Tolerant Distributed File System with 300 Times Higher Throughput than HDFS
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 9:25AM Tachyon ( github) is interesting new filesystem brought to by the folks at the UC Berkeley AMP Lab: Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed ?le system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce.It offers up to 300 times higher throughput than HDFS, by leveraging lineage information and using memory aggressively.
NASA experimenting with 3D printing for space exploration
President Obama said 3D printing 'has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.' So why not start with NASA? CNET's Sumi Das visits NASA Ames to look at how they're making space parts from 3D-printing machines. Read this article by Jason Pepper on CNET News.
Microsoft Account Gets More Secure
Over the next couple days we will roll out a major upgrade to Microsoft account, including optional two-step verification to help keep your account more secure. Microsoft has increasingly focused on delivering connected devices and services that are currently used by more than 700 million people around the world.
Joshua Prager: In search for the man who broke my neck - (watch video)
When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a quadriplegic for several years. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this mesmerizing tale of their meeting, Prager probes deep questions of nature, nurture, self-deception and destiny.
Latest Security Intelligence Report Shows 24 Percent of PCs are Unprotected
Today, Microsoft released new research as part of its Security Intelligence Report, volume 14, which takes a close look at the importance of running up-to-date antivirus software on your computer. The research showed that, on average, computers without antivirus software are 5.5 times more likely to be infected.
Port-A-Thon Rewards Update
Lou Gazzola held the first Port-A-Thon in November of last year. It was a 36 hour event where we asked, ?Got Game?? and you answered ? with apps. Since that successful event, we?ve held four more P
Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure - including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support, and is ready to use for production apps.
Samsung Galaxy S 4 sales start next week in US (Update)
AT&T Inc. has started taking pre-orders, and says phones will be shipped starting April 30. It's charging $200 for the base model, with 16 gigabytes of memory, under a two-year contract. Staples says it will start selling the AT&T model on April 26. Sprint Nextel Corp.
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