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Stars Most Stylish Selfie of the Week

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5-Minute Outfit Idea

5-Minute Outfit Idea: An Effortless, Polished Look to Try This Weekend.

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Sunday, 3 August 2014

Pics That Prove Harry Styles Is Obsessed With Fruit!

Pics That Prove Harry Styles Is Obsessed With Fruit!

Whether Harry Styles is performing on stage, or trimming Zayn Malik's beard, he's not going to let hunger get the best of him. His go-to snack? Fruit, of course! What a healthy obsession!
Harry knows that bananas are a good source of potassium!

We think Louis wants your apple, Harry!

It looks like Harry had a late night grape craving!

Harry refuses to put down his fruit, even if he's shaving Zayn's face.

Banana break!

Harry's definitely not picky when it comes to fruit. He likes it all!

Harry came out of the store with nothing but strawberries. SO healthy!

If anyone ever need to get Harry a gift we know the perfect thing -- a fruit platter!

Spray-painted solar cells promise cheap power on seemingly any surface

Spray-painted solar cells promise cheap power on seemingly any surface

Jon Fingas
Engadget 

Scientists have dreamed of painting solar cells to generate energy on just about any surface, but efficiency has been a problem; researchers were happy to get one percent just a couple of years ago. At last, though, it looks like viable paint-on power is close at hand. A team at the University of Sheffield has developed spray-on cells that should be both cheap and capable. The trick is to coat an object in perovskite, a calcium titanium oxide mineral -- it's inexpensive like organic solar cells, but absorbs light nearly as well as silicon.
In the lab, the technology isn't quite ready for prime time. A spray-based cell gets about 11 percent efficiency versus 19 percent at perovskite's ideal performance. However, it's still early days. Scientists believe that their approach could scale up to the same manufacturing techniques used for spray painting vehicles. If that happens, it's conceivable that your future car (and virtually any other device) could harvest the sun's rays without the steep costs and awkward product designs that are frequently involved when you use old-fashioned solar panels.Source: University of Sheffield, Royal Society of Chemistry

Microsoft Surface will be used in first NFL game tonight

Microsoft Surface will be used in first NFL game tonight

by Christopher White
Neowin

The NFL began their pre-season celebrations yesterday by inducting seven new players into the Hall of Fame, including two players from teams that kickoff tonight: Andre Reed of the Buffalo Bills, and Michael Strahan of the New York Giants. What will be different for fans watching the game tonight is that Microsoft Surface tablets will be visible everywhere on the sidelines and in the coaching booth. This is the result of a $400 million dollar, five year deal between Microsoft and the NFL.

The NFL is starting to emerge from the 20th century and Microsoft is helping them out with this by providing 25 Surface tablets to each team. Thirteen of the tablets will be used on the sidelines, with another dozen held by coaches watching the game from upstairs. SFGate reports that this is the first time that players will be allowed to use this type of technology during a game; previously they used fax machines to send pictures of plays down to the sideline, and these documents were stored in 3-ring binders for players to look through during breaks. With the new Surface tablet agreement, players will be able to look at full color plays and can display up to four images at a time.

The NFL isn't ready to open the lid on all of the technology quite yet though. For example, the Surface will be locked down to prevent players and coaches from watching video. In addition, there will be no Internet access available through the devices; the only network connectivity is via a secure private network that hooks all of the Surface devices together. According to the NFL, "we want to make sure the players are deciding wins and losses, not technology."

There's some other new technology that, while not as visible, will hopefully lead to a better game. These include RFID chips implanted in the shoulder pads so that coaches can know exactly where and how fast players are moving; wireless communication between the referees; and instant communication between the head referee and the instant replay officials in New York.

3Doodler Review: Fun but Quirky 3D Pen

3Doodler Review: Fun but Quirky 3D Pen
Associated Press

3D printing is all the rage. You can hit a button on your computer, which sends a file to a printer, which produces a small 3D object out of plastic. It's a cool technology, but it's not exactly a hands-on way to make things.

Enter the 3Doodler, the pen that turns you into the 3D printer.

The $99 3Doodler, made by Boston-based startup Wobbleworks, is a fat pen not unlike a hot glue gun. It needs to be plugged into a wall outlet. A stick of plastic goes in on the blunt end and comes out, melted, at the tip. As you move your hand, it leaves a thin trail of cooling, solidifying plastic. Move it around with a plan, laying down string upon string, and an object starts taking shape.

It's easy to get started. Within a few hours, I made a few rings, an unusable but cute eggcup, and a three-inch sculpture of a walking man. I made shoes for my daughter's Barbie by coating the doll's feet in plastic. They were popular until they broke a few minutes later.

The finished objects have a unique and intriguing look to them - they're all reminiscent of a jumble of fused plastic wire. But it's very hard to make anything durable or useful this way. The company behind the 3Doodle recommends making paper clips as one of the first exercises, and sure, you'll have paper clips, but they'll be the most fragile paper clips you've ever seen. Bending clips from steel wire would be a much better way to go, if you really need paper clips.

It's fun to work with plastic, though. Plastic has, so far, not been a do-it-yourselfer's material. You can whittle wood, machine metal, and mold clay. But plastic, that near ubiquitous material, has been out of reach. That's a pity, because it's pretty cute. It's light, colorful and easy to shape. It's too bad it's so fragile.

There are two types of plastic available. Polylactide or PLA is made from corn and is biodegradable. It comes in several colors, including attractive translucent ones. I found it the easiest material to work with. Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS, is opaque and more flexible. It's more easily recycled than PLA. It's hard to work with, in part because the strands don't stick that well to one another.

The plastic costs $10 for packs of 25 sticks. Each pack weighs about 1.5 ounces or 40 grams. When bought in big rolls for 3D printers, the same amount of plastic costs about $1, so 3Doodler's markup is pretty hefty.


While 3D printers for home and amateur use have gone through several cycles of improvement over the last five years or so, the 3Doodler is a first-generation product, and it shows. The speed of the plastic feed will vary, especially when you've fed in a fresh stick. When using ABS plastic, it stops frequently. This makes it difficult to build with precision. You can chose between "fast" and "slow" speeds, but even the slow one often feels too fast.

The pen can't feed the last bit of the stick, so when the plastic stops coming out of the head and you insert a new stick, a dozen inches of plastic from the old stick comes out first. This makes it difficult to switch colors without waste - serious 3Doodlers will probably want more than one pen for multicolor projects.

I think these are fixable problems - the next generation of pens should be better. And while they're at it, it would be great to get a few different extrusion heads - one that squeezes out square bars and another that does flat bands.

In the 3Doodler's favor, it's a much simpler machine than a 3D printer. I got a $1,000 printer from Solidoodle and didn't manage to produce a single usable thing. There were at least three things wrong with the printer, and fixing all of them would require a major investment in time. If you're buying a 3D printer, you're investing in a new hobby.

The 3Doodler, on the other hand, is a low-risk buy. It's fun to play with, and despite the markup on the plastic, a pretty good value, especially if you have kids or have an artistic sense. I did, eventually, figure out how to make a few things that were both useful and durable: a set of translucent napkin holders.

Flappy Bird Is Back - but Only on Amazon's Fire TV

Flappy Bird Is Back - but Only on Amazon's Fire TV
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Flappy Bird, the game that inspired countless knockoffs and was pulled down by its creator for being "too addictive", is back. Well, sort of.

Flappy Birds Family made an appearance on Amazon's Appstore on Friday. You would expect the game to be compatible with Android tablets and smartphones, or at least Amazon's own Fire range of portable devices, but the game can only be played on the Amazon Fire TV set-top box, which also doubles-up as a gaming console.

"Flappy Birds now are on Amazon Fire TV with incredible new features: Person vs Person mode, more obstacles, more fun and still very hard," the game's description reads. "Enjoy playing the game at home (not breaking your TV) with your family and friends."

The launch date and features of Flappy Birds Family are in line with what creator Dong Nguyen had predicted back in May, when he promised that a "less addictive" version of the game with multi-player support would be released in August.

It's not clear at this point when - and indeed if - Flappy Birds will be re-released on other platforms, or if Amazon is paying the developer to keep the game a Fire TV exclusive in a bid to promote the media player as a big gaming platform.

Flappy Birds made a name for its itself earlier this year thanks to its addictive gameplay, though it features crude graphics and copied artwork, leaving experts baffled at its success. The free game reportedly made millions from in-game advertising before being pulled down by its creator for being "too addictive." The game sparked an entire industry of Flappy Bird clones hoping to replicate its success.

Ten dead in strike on Gaza school as Israel renews shelling

Ten dead in strike on Gaza school as Israel renews shelling

An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a U.N.-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said, as dozens died in renewed Israeli shelling of the enclave.


Microsoft has a new NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 8

Microsoft has a new NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 8

Edgar Alvarez
Engadget

The start of a new NFL season is just around the corner, and Microsoft's been working hard to improve the experience for football fans on the Xbox One. What's different now, among other things, is that the company's NFL application is expected to be ready by Week 1; as opposed to last year, when it showed up in Week 12 because of the timing of the Xbox One's launch.

This time out, there are a lot more features too, with Fantasy Football and NFL Now, the league's upcoming online video service, playing a huge role in the refreshed version. First and foremost, Microsoft wants its NFL app to feel like your own, which is why it lets you personalize it with content from team and players you're interested in, as well as different media provided by NFL Network, NFL RedZone, NFL Sunday Ticket and, of course, NFL Now. %Slideshow-211399%
As far as Fantasy Football goes, the Xbox One now gives you quick access to a ton of stuff, including a feed of recent events (such as a touchdown catch by one of your receivers), exclusive in-game highlights and the ability to manage teams, all right from inside the app.

 At the moment, fantasy data is still only integrating with NFL.com leagues, but Microsoft did tell Engadget it's constantly working to bring more services into the fold -- think Yahoo Sports or ESPN's fantasy offerings. Not surprisingly, the NFL League Feed (pictured above) takes advantage of core Xbox One features like Snap, allowing you to easily keep track of your Fantasy Football stats, even while you're playing a game or, you know, watching an actual NFL matchup.

Furthermore, the very same application is also coming to Windows 8 devices for the first time. And although differences between platforms do exist, like no HDMI-in TV signal on tablets or PCs, a Microsoft representative told us that the NFL for Windows 8 and Xbox One apps are indeed the same, a universal one, if you will. Conversely, Xbox 360 owners can expect similar functionality to what's available already -- though there is going to be the addition of NFL Now, which brings more on-demand content from the National Football League to the aging console.

Microsoft has promised that its NFL-rich app will arrive in time for the regular season, both on Xbox One and Windows 8, but a "late August" delivery is what it is willing to commit to for now. Don't you worry, it'll be here soon enough.

NFL players will wear RFID chips this season to track their movements

NFL players will wear RFID chips this season to track their movements

Josh Lowensohn
The Verge 
This year's football season is set to begin in September, and for the first time 17 National Football Leaguestadiums will employ radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to better track how players move on the field during games. The league has partnered with Zebra Technologies to use its quarter-sized RFID sensors inside the shoulder pads of players. These sensors will track not just where players are on the field, but also how fast they get going, and what their acceleration was like on the way there — all in real-time.

Not all stadiums will be equipped

All this information could show up as part of information shown on TV or in stadiums during games, and on second-screen game apps. Imagine something like the lines TV sportscasters draw on the screen to track a receiver's route, but done using the tags instead. The NFL also plans to hand the data over to teams so that they can analyze it, but not initially. USA Today notes that the league plans to do some testing on the data it's gathered before making it available to teams, and that all NFL players agreed to wear sensors as part of their collective-bargaining agreement in 2011.
The first set of stadiums that are a part of the program include Atlanta, Baltimore, Caroline, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, Green Bay, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, New England, New Orleans, Oakland, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington. Some, including San Francisco and Detroit, used the technology as part of a live test last season, as did the University of Washington's football team. In its current iteration, the technology is accurate up to 6 inches, which means it can't be used by officials to help measure plays. However, next year's model will be able to measure things like heart rate, temperature, and even lung capaci

Must-See Celeb Nails of the Week

Must-See Celeb Nails of the Week

Certain celebrities' creative nail art is so cool that it practically deserves its own holiday — or in Zendaya's case, maybe even an entire month! Luckily we have Must-See Celeb Nails of the Week  to celebrate and show off amazing styles every week
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Call us obsessed with Zendaya's latest fierce manicure! We love her latest navy blue nail look, which features a fun, red-plaid accent nail and a cool glittery letter detail on her thumb.

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Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall showed off her cool glittery nails by Elegant Touch on Instagram, and we love her sparkly style! Jade alternated between nude nail polish shades and gold glitter accent nails for her latest powerful manicure style


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Peyton List showed off her chic manicure – and incredible view of the "Eiffel Tower"! – in a cool pic she snapped in Las Vegas! We love how classic and glossy her white nails are, but a fun graphic black design on her accent nail gives her look a bit of fun edge!

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Pretty Little Liars star Troian Bellisario showed off the coolest feathered nails we've ever seen! We love how some of her nails are cute polka dots and others look like more natural wispy bird feathers.

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We love the cool rainbow manicure style that Demi Lovato wore performing at New York City's Pride. Each almond-shaped nail features a cool ombre fade of multiple vibrant glittery polishes.


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Shay Mitchell's latest manicure is perfect for summer! The Pretty Little Liars star shared a stylish snap of her "vacay nails," before heading out on a tropical vacation, and her nail art definitely reflects that summer getaway vibe!


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Beyonce is officially the queen, and her latest mani knows it! She showed off her gold foiled nails that were embellished with tiny crowns


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Bella Thorne shared a fun mani featuring nude sparkly nails accented with colorful animal-themed accents.


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Victoria Justice showed off her pretty teal mani, adorable Alisa Michelle rings, amazing lime green Danielle Nicole clutch bag, and cool printed pants all in one stylish Instagram snap


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Alli Simpson showed off one of the cutest cartoon manicures ever! She painted her Broadway Nails a glittery light pink shade before applying fun sticker decals on top. We love how creative the look is!

Saturday, 2 August 2014

Justin Bieber bans Orlando Bloom from Ibiza party

Justin Bieber bans Orlando Bloom from Ibiza party


Justin Bieber reportedly banned Orlando Bloom from a star-studded party in Ibiza last night local time.
The 37-year-old hunk was allegedly refused entry into the birthday bash for Givenchy fashion designer Riccardo Tisci after the 20-year-old singer ordered his entourage to stop him from entering the celebration.
An insider told the New York Post's Page Six column: "Bloom was on the way as a late arrival, but when he got to the starry bash, Bieber, who was already inside, had his entourage insist organisers keep Bloom out."
The Baby hitmaker then continued to party inside the Spanish venue along with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kendall Jenner, Jared Leto and Kate Moss, while Orlando was forced to leave the area.

Google Glass: Paramedics' next tool

Google Glass: Paramedics' next tool

By Ameet Sachdev
Chicago Tribune 


While Google Glass' potential as a consumer device remains to be seen, Lauren Rubinson-Morris is excited about its possibilities in her workplace.
Rubinson-Morris is president and chief executive officer of MedEx Ambulance Service, a Skokie, Ill.-based company that provides transportation to hospitals and other health care sites throughout the Chicago area.
The company has acquired two pairs of Google Glass installed with software and connected to the Internet, allowing paramedics to transmit live video and audio from an ambulance to a doctor in an emergency room who will be able to watch the video stream on a tablet or desktop computer.
The additional eyes on a patient can provide paramedics with advice, diagnosis and treatment options. MedEx plans to launch a test with Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago this month, Rubinson-Morris said.

MedEx is one of several health care providers around the country experimenting with Glass to see whether it can improve collaboration and patient outcomes while reducing costs. At Rhode Island Hospital, for instance, ER doctors are using Glass to consult with off-site dermatologists for patients with burns or rashes.
Virtual medical exams where doctors in distant locations evaluate patients online are proliferating. But video consultations have traditionally connected patients in rural areas to specialists at urban medical centers. Google Glass offers the potential to expand video interactions into all corners of the health care industry because it is mobile.

At $1,500 a pair, Glass is less expensive than some videoconferencing equipment used by hospitals that can cost $10,000 to $40,000. Those systems are a significant investment in technology for doctors and hospitals, said Dr. Warren Wiechmann, associate dean of instructional technologies at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine.
"By hospital equipment standards, Google Glass is a steal," Wiechmann said.
Dr. Paul Porter, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brown University in Rhode Island who is leading a Glass study at Rhode Island Hospital, agreed.

"It's a really low-cost way of entering the telemedicine world," Porter said. "I think this is promising technology because it allows physicians to engage with a patient at eye level. There's nothing more discouraging than seeing a physician looking at his computer typing while trying to talk to you."
Porter said that although the video-streaming software on Glass has worked with few glitches, he hasn't tested it in a fast-moving ambulance with sirens blaring. That's the big challenge for MedEx. In an emergency, paramedics and physicians can't afford blurry images or dropped wireless signals.

"We have to make sure the technology works," said Dr. Eddie Markul, medical director for emergency medical services for the Chicago North EMS Region at Advocate Illinois Masonic. "We don't want to have critical patients relying on technology that fails."

Before Illinois Masonic can take part in the MedEx test, Glass has to be cleared for use by the hospital's legal department. Any software that sends patient information to a doctor, hospital or other health care provider must comply with federal regulations that protect the privacy of personal health data.
Out of the box, Glass does not comply with the federal privacy law, known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But Pristine Inc., a startup based in Austin, Texas, has customized the device for the medical profession in a way that the company said meets data security and patient privacy standards.

Google integrated email, maps, search, social media and other apps into the Glass operating system. Pristine took them off. It developed an encrypted video platform for Glass and renamed the device Pristine EyeSight.
The company buys Glasses from Google and resells or leases them to hospitals, medical schools and other health care providers. Pristine co-founder Kyle Samani said the company has more than a dozen clients, including MedEx and Rhode Island Hospital.
"It's very easy to think of us as a Glass company," Samani said. "But our vision is to be a telemedicine company."

California-Irvine's Wiechmann led the effort to introduce Pristine EyeSight into the medical school. At UC Irvine, the medical school is 13 miles from the hospital. Surgeons, for example, have worn Glass to broadcast procedures to students in the classroom.

Wiechmann, also an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine, said he sees a lot of potential for Glass in medical emergencies, such as strokes and heart attacks. Paramedics typically use two-way radios to talk with nurses and doctors at hospitals.

If a patient's condition suddenly changes in an ambulance, Glass allows a physician to provide more supervision and help at an earlier stage.
"There could be significant improvements in patient outcomes in having early intervention with a neurologist or cardiologist where they can see what's going on," Wiechmann said.
MedEx will test that theory in a small, informal way.

The company has a fleet of more than 50 ambulances that serve a number of hospitals, including Lurie Children's and the University of Chicago. Only two ambulances that transport critical-care patients will have Pristine EyeSight.

According to MedEx and Pristine, MedEx is the only ambulance company in Illinois with the video-loaded Glass. MedEx has an agreement with Pristine to lease two pairs of Glass for a year, Rubinson-Morris said.
The CEO credits one of her employees for introducing Glass to her. The employee also discovered Pristine after extensive research.

"We think it will do so much more to assist the patient and the physician," Rubinson-Morris said. "We're excited."

A Nest of Copper Foam Lets This Tiny PC Run Silently Without Fans

A Nest of Copper Foam Lets This Tiny PC Run Silently Without Fans

Andrew Liszewski
Gizmodo 

You eventually tune it out, but the constant whir of a desktop computer's cooling fans can take a toll on your psyche. It's like a buzzing mosquito that never strikes, and never stops. So the folks at a German company called Silent Power have created a compact desktop PC that trades noisy fans for a block of exposed copper foam that dissipates heat so effectively no fans are required.
The top of what its creators are claiming is the smallest high-end PC in the world looks like something you'd use to scrub pots and pans, but the intricate copper mesh provides a remarkable amount of surface area to dissipate heat channeled directly from the CPU and GPU—supposedly up to 500 times greater than a traditional heatsink using fins.
Silent Power is currently selling pre-orders to help raise the funds to put its PC into production, and the lowest spec model with an Intel quad-core i7-4785T 2.2 GHz processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive can be yours—sometime in 2015 hopefully—for around $935. But those specs can of course be upgraded if you're willing to sink some more cash into your next 'handheld' gaming machine.