Russian iTunes users get XXX content

Russian iTunes users got more than they bargained for when XXX-rated content showed up in their movie section, Wired.com says.When iTunes was launched in Russia, users who went to the “more films in different languages” section to download mainstream movie fare, they instead found content from porn sites, escort services and purveyors of sex toys, the online tech website reported Wednesday.Wired.com said the folks at iPhones.ru thought iTunes‘ tech staff may have put some temporary xx.xx.xx plac

Dec. 7, 2012

iPhone 5 hits S. Korea

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 made its belated debut in South Korea on Friday with avid fans welcoming the latest iPhone amid the U.S. smartphone maker's ongoing patent battle with homegrown player Samsung Electronics Co.SK Telcom Co. and KT Corp., the country's two biggest mobile carriers, kicked off the release of the first iPhone that runs on the fourth-generation long-term evolution (LTE) network after beginning pre-orders a week earlier.While Apple rolled out the latest iPhone on its home turf in e

Dec. 7, 2012

Influenza

In 2009, there was a worldwide pandemic of influenza. The pathogenic virus is still prevalent and is becoming a common cause of influenza. Influenza caused the deaths of approximately 20 million people worldwide between 1918 and 1919. This was the “Spanish Flu” and the large number of deaths increased the awareness of the disease. Since then, there have been similar pandemics every 10 to 40 years. The pandemic in 2009 followed the “Hong Kong Flu” in 1958 by approximately 40 years.The influenza v

Dec. 6, 2012

Dealing with itchy skin

Cho Min-shik, 62, wakes up at midnight scratching his legs and arms. “It’s quite unpleasant and somehow stressful when the feeling of itchiness wakes you up in the middle of night,” he said. Cho has been in a clinical program to treat constant itchy skin for the last two years. But as the weather gets dry in the winter, he feels the treatment doesn’t work at all. Taking extra care with his skin, applying ceramide-added moisturizers as much as possible and taking other medication is all he can do

Dec. 6, 2012

Hunger based more on perception than amount of food eaten: study

Hunger is more closely related to how people perceive their meal rather than the actual calories ingested, a new study suggested. Researchers from the University of Bristol in England claimed to have found that the people who think they have eaten a lot -- even when they have had an average-sized or smaller meal -- are less likely to be hungry hours later compared to people who think they had a smaller meal.In the study, 100 volunteers were first shown containers of either 300 ml or 500 ml of so

Dec. 6, 2012

McAfee arrested in Guatemala for illegal entry

U.S. Internet security guru John McAfee, on the run from authorities in Belize over a murder probe, was arrested by Guatemalan police Wednesday for illegally entering the country, officials said.“National police agents have taken Mr. John David McAfee before immigration authorities... He has entered our country illegally,” police spokesman Pablo Castillo told AFP.The former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, now a weathered 67-year-old, had been in hiding for more than three weeks until he crossed the

Dec. 6, 2012

Multiple media use linked to depression

People who use multiple media -- such as playing a computer game while watching TV -- have a higher risk of of anxiety and depression, U.S. researchers say.Lead investigator Mark Becker of Michigan State University said he was surprised to find such a clear association between media multitasking and mental health problems, but he is not clear why it occurred. “We don‘t know whether the media multitasking is causing symptoms of depression and social anxiety, or if it’s that people who are depress

Dec. 6, 2012

Mobile game spices up working women’s lives

As the smartphone has become a necessity regardless of gender, mobile games have successfully pegged the female gaming culture now prevalent among working women. “In the past when online games were dominant, excellent female gamers would be stigmatized as game-addicted hermits,” said NHN Hangame spokesman Hwang Hyun-don, saying that female gamers had unfairly suffered from a negative, androgynous image. “Nowadays, all men and women can play games without damaging their personal image and style.”

Dec. 5, 2012

How to throw off an opponent attacking with legs apart

You are confronting an opponent in front of you and the opponent has his or her legs apart in a steady stance as shown in the pictures below.Here is how you can quickly overtake the situation with this self-defense technique.1. Cover your face with both hands while lowering your body to level up with the opponent’s lower body. Be careful not to look at the ground, but to look forward to watch the opponent’s movements. If the opponent attacks with the knees or feet, be prepared to immediately def

Dec. 5, 2012

Changes in emotions linked to body temperature: report

Recent research from the University of Granada in Spain found that people’s emotions could be detected through thermographs, especially when they lie. The team claimed that when people lie, their nose and the orbit muscles around the eyes show a higher temperature than other parts of the face. The insula (a part of brain that is in charge of consciousness, detection and regulation of body temperature) may have some link to this temperature difference. In addition, the team has discovered that th

Dec. 5, 2012

Dental health linked to men’s sexual performance: study

Turkish research suggested that men who suffer from serious periodontitis are likely to have erectile dysfunction.The study, published in Journal of Sexual Medicine, selected 80 men from the age of 30 to 40 with erection problems. The control group was composed of 82 men of the same age. Other possible factors such as BMI or income and education level were controlled for. Among those with erectile dysfunction, 53 percent had inflamed gums. Only 23 percent of the control group had dental problems

Dec. 5, 2012

Medical sensor is temporary skin tattoo

A medical sensor that attaches to the skin like a temporary tattoo could help doctors detect metabolic problems, researchers at the University of Toronto say.The sensor that comes in a thin, flexible package shaped like a smiley face could also help coaches fine-tune athlete‘s training routines, they said.The sensor can detect changes in the skin’s pH levels in response to metabolic stress from exertion during exercise, but can also give clues to underlying metabolic diseases such as Addison‘s d

Dec. 5, 2012

Voyager 1 poised on space frontier

NASA says the Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a region at the edge of the solar system, a final frontier it has to cross before reaching interstellar space.Scientists have dubbed the region a “magnetic highway” where charged particles where our sun‘s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magnetic field lines, the space agency said.The Voyager science team said it consider this region as still being inside our solar system because the direction of the magnetic field lines has not ch

Dec. 5, 2012

NASA aims to send another rover to Mars in 2020

NASA is headed to Mars again.The space agency said Tuesday it plans to launch another mega-rover to Mars in 2020 that will be modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. To keep costs down, engineers will borrow Curiosity's blueprints, build from spare parts where possible and use proven technology including the novel landing system that delivered the car-size rover inside an ancient crater in August.The announcement comes as NASA reboots its Mars exploration program during tough fiscal times.``

Dec. 5, 2012

Mars rover detects traces of carbon in soil analysis

The Mars rover Curiosity has offered a tantalizing sign that there might have once been life on the Red Planet, but scientists said it was too soon to make much of the first soil analyses. NASA’s Sample Analysis at Mars instruments have been sending back information as it hunts for compounds such as methane, as well as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, that are the building blocks of life.Researchers detected simple organic compounds in the soil scooped up from a crusted dune. But they cautioned th

Dec. 4, 2012