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| Jared Leto: Fasting isn't bad Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:32 PM PST Jared Leto is hoping to achieve a "meditative state" by fasting. 1 December 2012 The 40-year-old singer-and-actor was cast as a transsexual woman in new movie 'Dallas Buyer's Club' - for which co-star Matthew McConaughey has dramatically lost a huge amount of weight - and is taking his diet to the extreme to look right for the role, though he admits it has sparked some "weird" effects on his body. To Really Read Emotions, Look at Body Language, Not Facial Expressions Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:29 PM PST We like to think we can read people like a book, relying mostly on tell-tale facial expressions that give away the emotions inside: the way the brows lift slightly with alarm, or the crow’s feet that crinkle with a wide smile. But when it comes to the strongest emotions, we read much less from facial expressions than we think we do. In fact, even though we believe it’s the face that tells the ... Man arrested in community college killing Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:28 PM PST CENTRE, Ala. (AP) â€" A 37-year-old man was arrested in the death of a woman who was found on the campus of a north Alabama community college. The Gadsden Times reported Vennie Leroy Keaton was arrested about 10:30 a.m. Friday in Cookeville, Tenn., about 100 miles north of Chattanooga. The body of 32-year-old Melissa Leann Hudgins was found Wednesday in the mechanical room of an arena at Gadsden ... Police identify woman found dead near park Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:20 PM PST Kansas City police identify the woman whose body was found near Platte Purchase Park on Thursday. Former Apes & Androids Frontman Releases New Amazing Music As Majestyy Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:20 PM PST At the start of this week I wrote about this love I had for the Maroon 5 song "One More Night," and how its perfectly manufactured pop vibrations refused to leave my body. Like one of those people who get the hiccups forever and just have to live with them, I felt as though I would never be able to rid myself of the song. It was all I wanted to listen to for almost two weeks, well past the ... Info sought in stabbing death Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:17 PM PST On Nov. 26 at approximately 11:30 p.m., the San Bernardino Police Department Dispatch Center received a call from an anonymous male caller about a dead body inside a vacant residence on Mt. View Avenue. Camacho Mourned in East Harlem Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:16 PM PST A horse-drawn carriage led Hector "Macho" Camacho's body through the streets of East Harlem Friday as hundreds gathered to mourn the late boxer. Body found in Plunge Creek identified Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:16 PM PST On November 25, at approximately 9:30 a.m., Sheriff's dispatch received a call from a hiker who stated that he was hiking in the mountains above Highland and had located human remains. Kerry Greenwood on Tamam Shud, the Somerton Man mystery Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:12 PM PST The writer Kerry Greenwood shares the story of her long held fascination with one of Australia's most notorious unsolved cases, the 1948 discovery of an unidentified body on an Adelaide beach. Harry Franklin Martin, Sr. age 83 of Peachtree City Fri, 30 Nov, 2012 02:01 PM PST Mr. Harry Franklin Martin, Sr. age 83 of Peachtree City, GA died Wednesday, November 28, 2012. His body was cremated and services are planned for Sunday, December 2, 2012 at Higgins Hillcrest Chapel Funeral Home, 1 Bullsboro Drive, Newnan, GA 30263. A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. with visitation from 2:00 p.m. until service time. read more | |
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The Squier Strat by Fender (or Squier by Fender Strat or however they want to name this thing) is one of the first guitars with a built-in digital signal processor. The guitar plugs right into any computer or 30-pin iOS device (Lightning cables are not yet available) so you can play directly into any sound editor including GarageBand and Logic Pro. It's a $200 guitar that's designed primarily to plug into a PC or Mac and allows you to almost entirely eschew a standalone amp. 
Cinemagram, a startup founded in Montreal that's now moving to San Francisco, today announced an $8.5 million Series A round via AllThingsD. The investment comes from Menlo Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Real Ventures and Atlas, and stands as an exception to the decidedly reserved climate for follow-on capital after a startup's seed round. So what's Cinemagram's secret?
Paul Maritz will lead a new platform group that will combine VMware's 
People on Twitter are complaining that Facebook has been down for about 10 minutes at the time of writing this article. Many TechCrunch writers could confirm the issue. The mobile app and website are still working though.
User generated content company Wikia is breaking the news of its raise of over $10.8 million in Series C funding today in a press release soon to be sent out to tech media. The financing was led by Institutional Venture Partners with a follow on from existing investors Bessemer Ventures Partners and Amazon.com. The company, which is already profitable according to the release, will use the cash to bolster its mobile and video efforts. With the added financing, Wikia's total funding is now $25 million. 
Design-focused e-commerce site Fab 
The Surface Pro launches in January, just after the holiday rush. It's 
Google today announced their acquisition of YC alumni BufferBox, a Waterloo-based startup that specializes in providing users with temporary lockers to receive delivery of packages from online e-commerce retailers. The company is led by a founding team of three University of Waterloo graduates, Mike McCauley, Aditya Bali and Jay Shah. The startup actually already shares a building with Google's Waterloo office, and is located in the Communitech accelerator offices in that city.
Every few years someone tries to unseat the big social networks by creating something unique and unusual. They often fail. However, I think MyFiveBy has a fighting chance. Built by a team out of Barcelona, the web-based app creates a sort of “workspace” for your microblogging exploits, allowing you to bring in outside content and post directly to the service. The UI is a bit complex and skeuomorphic, it does have a sort of weird charm. To begin, understand that the project is a labor of love. “We are not funded. We've dedicated all of our free time and weekends over the past year to build this of our own accord, because we believe in it,” said one of the founders, Harry Marshall. The team built the project over the past year and have just come out of beta. They’ve added a very cool feature – a sort RSS scraping – that will bring in all of your older content right into the system, ensuring that the community is vibrant right from the start. “We're coming out of the gate and don't currently have traction. We've built in a feature that should allow us to build content quite fast, to get started – users can type in the web address of their existing blog, if they have one, and myfiveby will automatically search for and add their RSS feed, syndicating their content,” said Marshall. “We were originally working on a very simple network to let people share the 5 principles they live their lives by. As we developed the site, we realised the structure we'd planned would be able to support a much wider variety of content. As it turned out, all of us had started and subsequently abandoned a personal blog, and so we started investigated this and speaking to others in similar situations to find out what had gone wrong.” Given the popularity of microblogging services like Tumblr and “writing services” like Wattpad, it’s clear the team is at least attacking an interesting problem. While I would disagree with some of their design decisions – it’s far too noisy as it stands – there is still plenty of room for better blogging platforms out there. “myfiveby is blogging for people who aren’t into blogging. Blogging should be as easy as owning a diary. You have a diary, you write in it, that’s it. WordPress and CMS-like blogging platforms
Facebook can now save photos you don't publish, which effectively makes it a cloud storage locker. Today it starts 
Google's Knowledge Graph is quickly becoming one of the key features of the company's search engine and today, the company added yet another area of information to the project. Starting now, users who search for medications will see a box with key facts about them in the right-hand sidebar of Google Search. This data, Google says, comes from the U.S. FDA, the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs, among a number of other vendors.
It's no secret that manufacturing activity in the United States has taken a nosedive in recent decades as globalization has made it more financially profitable to offshore the making of things to countries such as China and India. While there has been a bit of a resurgence lately of made in USA in 
Mike Krieger, Instagram's founder thinks you can build apps that fit the real world by watching what people want, not guessing. He presented his eight core product design insights today at 
Online and mobile digital cash network 
As one of TechCrunch's resident watch fans, I was intrigued by the Victorinox Dive Master 500, a fairly unique automatic watch that brings the best of the Swiss mechanical along with styling reminiscent of some of the better divers. The build is solid, the 43mm case is well-polished, and the face is very legible. Interestingly, I'd actually recommend this for a fairly adventurous lady who is looking for something a little more rugged - and handsome - than the traditional sport watch.