Could Netflix change its video streaming service to use a P2P architecture, in order to save money on content delivery and sidestep peering conflicts with ISPs like Comcast? That’s a possibility raised by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a blog post Thursday, which urged the FCC to make peering part ...
http://gigaom.com/2014/03/21/what-if-netflix-switched-to-p2p-for-video-streaming/
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Essentially the Garage Band of coding, smart iPad coding editor Codea has received a major update. Adding a new iOS 7 interface and full 64-bit support for the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display, Codea 2.0 also includes “a brand new unified asset system that supports sounds, music, images...
http://www.cultofmac.com/271336/codea-adds-revamped-code-editor-64-bit-support/
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/24/mit-pioneers-living-materials-for-self-aware-chairs/
If Moya, Species 8472 and the White Star are any indication, then science fiction has always had a love affair with the idea of living spaceships crafted from genetically engineered material. We're not at that point yet, but a team at MIT has harnessed E. coli's natural ability to produce biofilms -- the pink slime you find in the shower if you're not too good at cleaning -- in order to build primitive structures. Even better, is that when the team added gold nanoparticles to the mix, the cells formed rows of nanowires that are capable of conducting electricity. The point of all this, of course, is to develop objects that react to their environment and regulate their activity accordingly. Researcher Timothy Lu told The Register that he was hoping the tech could be used to construct a living chair that adapts to your posture -- although the more we think about it, the more creeped out we are by the idea.
Via: The Register
Source: bioRxiv (PDF), MIT
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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/first-world-problems-are-no-joke-2014-3
People jokingly describe things like lines at Starbucks as first world problems.
Actually, first world problems are serious, involving things like elevated risk of death related to high blood pressure, tobacco, high blood sugar, obesity, and more.
Although low-income countries face so-called modern risks as well, wealthy countries are more at risk given greater opportunity for indolence and consumption of too much food, notably junk food, as well as cigarettes and alcohol.
The World Health Organization described this as a risk transition in a 2009 report:
Modern risks, which are nearly as deadly as traditional risks used to be, include high blood pressure (responsible for 13% of deaths globally), tobacco use (9%), high blood glucose (6%), physical inactivity (6%), overweight and obesity (5%), and more.
The following chart shows how high-income countries (15% of the global population at the time) face disproportionately high mortality rates associated with these risks.
And some more detail on how first-world problems compare to third-world problems:
SEE ALSO: 13 nutrition lies that made the world fat and sick
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