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As Patently Apple reports, the $999 billion lawsuit was filed by one Violetta Mailyan in California, stating that “each member of the Class had to buy a newer iPhone model because the performance of their older iPhone model had slowed down as a result of [the] Defendant’s purposeful conduct.”

Mailyan’s suit goes on to claim that, had Apple disclosed that it slowed down iPhones, Class members could have obtained new batteries rather than replace their devices. Other plaintiffs reiterate that the “throttle” defect forced them into upgrading their handsets.

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Lineup of 3 planets is not the reason for Moment uptick; the Moon's 1st quarter has a History of "bringing in the Sheaves"- 5-6.0M.

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Flyhigh Works have confirmed today that they are bringing Opus: Rocket of Whispers to the Nintendo Switch next year. The previous title Opus: The Day We Found Earth is already available on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game is currently available on both…

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Google Image Search Results Tests New Related Searches Box

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Novel Complementary Effects of Estrogen Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis

A study by UCLA researchers reveals the cellular basis for how the hormone estrogen protects against damage to the central nervous system in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers found that estrogen treatment exerts positive effects on two types of cells during disease --immune cells in the brain and also cells called oligodendrocytes. Complementary actions on these two types provide protection from disease.

The research is in Brain. (full open access)

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Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space. NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than ever before. And two of NASA’s vehicles already in space will finally arrive at their intended targets: one will rendezvous with a nearby asteroid, while another will pass by a distant space rock billions of miles from Earth.

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Worth waiting for

Rhododendron arboretum

Bhutan

Here in Norway the last weeks have been a dismal affair! Snowfall going sleet and then rain, only to freeze over and make everything dangerously slippery is the norm so far, and now the last downpour has melted most of the snow again, but not enough to also melt the black ice on the roads, trails and wherever someone has walked before and compacted what snow was there.

No winter wonderland to ease this dark season. Only bland, grey, black and dark.

Yet we know that this is temporary and one day the sun will have won over darkness, and snow will be a distant memory.

That is when nature explodes with colors, and perhaps nowhere else is it as magical as in the Himalayas when the rhododendrons are in bloom

They stand alone as tall beacons of splendor and abundance, or together as forests of a dreamland of another world.

It is in the midst of this we remember how a long winter is worth it, as the joy of spring also melts away all that is bland, grey, black and dark of winter. Without this darkness the spring would also not have been so intensely wonderful and filling our hearts with gratitude and appreciation of the flow of the universe.

Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 13 April 2017 17:18
Altitude: 3047 meters

#spring #flowers #landscape #bhutan

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Selenium Protects a Specific Type of Interneurons in the Brain

Exactly 200 years ago, the Swedish scientist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered the trace element selenium, which he named after the goddess of the moon, Selene. Besides its industrial applications (chemical industry, production of semiconductors and toners), selenium is an essential trace element and indispensable for humans, many animals and some bacteria. A team led by Dr. Marcus Conrad, research group leader at the Institute of Developmental Genetics (IDG) at Helmholtz Zentrum München, showed for the first time why selenium is a limiting factor for mammals.

The research is in Cell. (full access paywall)

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Samsung is reportedly preparing to launch a new detachable Chromebook codenamed “Nautilus,” which will come with a stowable stylus. #News #Chromebook #Nautilus

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Amazon Blocks YouTube on the Amazon Fire TV Before Google’s Deadline - In recent months, Google and Amazon have had what can only be described as a petty fight. Amazon prevented Google’s Chromecast from playing Amazon Prime Video and delisted Chromecast devices from its store. Google, for its part, blocked Amazon’s Echo Show speaker from accessing YouTube, and announced it would no longer support the YouTube application on Fire TV devices after January 1st, 2018. If all that wasn’t bad enou...

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The Secret iPhone Feature That Could Save Your Life

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Samsung and LG join Motorola and HTC in confirming that they do not slow down the processor in phones with older and degraded batteries. #News #Apple #LG

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While humbled by our relative size, our brains can none the less comprehend, to some extent, just how large the Universe is.

"In a finite world, a cosmic perspective isn’t a luxury, it is a necessity."

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Huawei's 2018 roadmap has leaked, new smartphones are inbound #huawei

As a manufacturer, the last thing you want to leak is your entire annual product roadmap. This was the case for Huawei, who’s 2018 roadmap surfaced in the wild earlier this week. Thanks to it and all it glory, we have a good idea as to what to expect out…

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Yet another Android 8.0 Oreo beta begins rolling out to Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ #Android8.0 #galaxys8 #Oreo #Samsung

Samsung has polished up some bugs, and features in need of improvement with its latest Oreo beta for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. The two Samsung models will be first among all the company’s smartphones to receive Google’s Android 8.0 software. This is the…

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ASUS ZenFone 4 is getting Android Oreo via OTA - In early December, we reported that ASUS was planning to bring Android Oreo to its newest mid-range smartphone, the ZenFone 4, before the end of the month. On Friday, the company made good on its promise and announced that it’s issued a software update to the ZenFone 4 (ZE554KL). The Android Oreo update (which the carries build number 15.0405.1711.76) is based on ZenUI 4.0, the latest version of ASUS’s custom skin. After updating, ZenFone 4 u...

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Google Tests ‘More Results’ Mobile Search Interface And New Search Refinement Buttons

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Some mobile games are listening to what children watch http://engt.co/2DxmqRq

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ELECTIONS: RANDOM-WINNER DRAWING DELAYED IN TIED VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES RACE ... AFTER CHALLENGE BY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/democratic-candidate-seeks-halt-virginia-random-winner-drawing-tied-race-n832636

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Wrist Worn Gadget Allows Researchers to Capture Real Life Sleep

"There has been practically no possibility of getting detailed sleep structures in a normal life setting over a long period of time," says Till Roenneberg of LMU Munich in Germany. "You can't easily give somebody an EEG to take home and have next to the bed. You can't do this over six weeks or six months. We are going to see things nobody has seen before."

The research is in Current Biology. (full open access)

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USA Today is reporting that the Nintendo Switch was the fifth best-selling technology product of 2017. Once again it was Apple’s iPhone which topped the chart by a huge margin, it was followed by the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 smartphones, Amazon Echo…

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From Algo To Aggro: How SEOs Really Feel About Google Algorithm Updates

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Search in Pics: Google Christmas tree in a police box, office ski lift & who’s working - In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google’s Boulder office has a ski lift: Source: Twitter Google has a... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Round things in hexagons - and the ORIGINAL brass pillars!

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Who is the Hottest MMA Woman? Ep 54

Cast your vote now at https://mmaprophet.com/2017/12/29/hottest-mma-woman-ep-54/

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Both webOS and Windows Mobile previously shared the lime light, and it might be a pipe dream to hope that either one of them makes a return. But if either platform did make a comeback, what would you like to see out of the hardware bringing that software to market? Would you adopt webOS or Windows Mobile if they returned?

#webOS #LG #HP #Microsoft #WindowsMobile #Windows10 #Android #iOS #Google #Apple

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It’s feels colder in parts of Canada than on Mars

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Are millennials also to blame for the NFL’s falling ratings? http://nyp.st/2CpI0YH

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Full Wolf Supermoon - New Year's Day Coincides with the Biggest Moon of 2018

A supermoon is set to light up the sky on New Year's Day, as the lunar cycle and calendar cycle align for a rare astronomical treat.

New Year's first full moon will peak on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018, at around 02:24 GMT (January 1, 9 24 p.m. ET).

It was known by early Native American tribes as the "Wolf Moon", because this was the time of the year when hungry wolf packs howled outside their camps.

The 2018 Wolf Moon is also a "supermoon", which means it coincides with the Moon's closest approach to Earth - known as the perigee.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/full-wolf-moon-light-up-11761984

It will appear up to 8% wider and 16% brighter than average full Moons later in the year. The extra brightness of the full Moon on the night of Jan. 1-2 may have some side effects. Namely, super moondogs: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parmoon.htm

Moondogs are rainbow-colored splashes of light to the left and right of bright moons, created by the light-bending action of ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-january

Clips, images credit: ESA/HUBBLE, ESO, NASA & THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC

Music credit: YouTube Audio Library

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“To construct such a laser array would necessitate a tremendous investment in the building of infrastructure in space. To develop the sails capable of reflecting enough light while withstanding the heat and maintaining their balance will require a tremendous advance in materials science and engineering. To withstand the journey through interstellar space at such high speeds, we’ll need to develop unprecedented shielding/deflection technologies. To slow down to sufficiently low speeds to take data will require a new kind of braking technology, which will likely also be developed in tandem with the laser sail. And to miniaturize the technologies capable of storing, recording, and transmitting information from the Alpha Centauri system back to Earth will likely mean we need to reach (or at least approach) the quantum limit for materials.”

If you want to accomplish something great, you need to be willing to take on challenges that might seem impossible, given what we currently know. But striving for those lofty goals, and investing the necessary resources in the endeavor, is how we move forward as a species. If we aim for Alpha Centauri, there are a huge number of challenges and obstacles we’ll have to overcome, but none of them require overhauling the laws of physics. Instead, they simply require developing new techniques and technologies, which is the same set of challenges that the Apollo program faced. When we look at the spinoff technologies that have traditionally come from this type of research and development, we find that the value we’ve gleaned has far surpassed whatever we invested. Imagine what will be come possible if we develop what we perceive is necessary for a reconnaissance mission to another star system?

Even if the mission itself fails, simply attempting to reach for the stars could change our world in ways we can barely envision. It’s worth it. Let’s go.

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Three preferences, one vote. You have the power.

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I don't usually share these posts... but here ya go. 😉

Here are 59 temporarily free and 143 on-sale apps for your Thursday, including games from Devolver and Square Enix http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndroidPolice/~3/EEEXKQGotA0/

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James Harrison ruffled more than a few feathers when he signed a contract to join the New England Patriots on Tuesday. That news sent social media into a tailspin of wild.....
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