Day: May 19, 2014

Business Culture HealthCare

This pill could stop 90 percent of HIV cases in the US

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As reported on The Verge. By Arielle Duhaime-Ross But only if it reaches the right people Michael Lucas has been taking Truvada, the HIV prevention pill, for about a year now. And the 42-year-old adult film director and gay porn performer readily admits that the decision wasn’t all that hard to make — especially when compared with the alternative. “It just seemed healthier to run the risk of experiencing side effects than to worry about HIV,”…

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Business

AT&T To Acquire DirecTV For Nearly $50B

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak As has been rumored for the past few weeks, AT&T has just officially announced their plans to acquire DirecTV. The terms of the deal came together at roughly $95 per share, which comes to a grand total of $48.5 billion dollars. If you add in the nearly $19B worth of debt that DirecTV is towing behind it, though, this deal sets AT&T back to a tune closer to $67 billion. It…

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Watch Hardware Hackers Fly A Drone Over The Burj Khalifa, The Tallest Building In The World

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by John Biggs Robotics isn’t all stomping metal men and robotic dogs – it’s also about beauty. The folks from Team BlackSheep proved this by flying a powerful, long-range drone over the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. And when I say over I mean over. The average drone can hit about 165 feet before panicking and coming back to earth. TBS uses the TBS Discovery, a drone with a range of up to three kilometers. The team travelled to the UAE…

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Mobile

Japan: the country where flip-phones refuse to die

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH The buttons are easier to type on, the battery lasts longer, it’s familiar. No, we’re not talking about BlackBerry this time, but the Japanese feature phone. Glorious, folding forefather to the smartphone, and the form-factor that gave birth to gara-kei, a shorthand phrase for “Galapagos phones”. It’s a negative term pointing to devices that simply wouldn’t survive outside of Japan. However, it’s not stopped the country’s biggest carrier, NTT…

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Celebrate the 40th birthday of Rubik’s Cube with today’s Google Doodle

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As reported on Engadget. BY SHARIF SAKR It must be hard being Ernő Rubik. Back in the 1980s, the architect and toy inventor had the rare good fortune of becoming one of very few self-made millionaires from communist Europe. But in the process he was horribly pigeon-holed. His patented Rubik’s Cube sold 350 million units, while his other creations — Rubik’s Snake, Rubik’s Magic, and presumably a few blocky buildings somewhere in Hungary — barely got a mention.…

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