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Sony files patent for rotating sensor and LCD display
Sony filed a patent for a camera with a rotating sensor and LCD screen that will let you take pictured in portrait mode while you still have a firm grip and hold the camera horizontally. Over-engineering or a brilliant idea?
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Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained
Conspiracy theorists, start your engines: On the wind-blown steppes of central Asia, in an isolated corner of Kazakhstan, there's a large pentagram etched into the Earth's surface. And now an archaeologist has revealed the source of the mysterious structure.
The five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, located on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir, shows up vividly on Google Maps. There are almost no other signs of human habitation in the area; the closest settlement is the city of Lisakovsk, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) to the east.
The region surrounding Lisakovsk is riddled with ancient archaeological ruins. Bronze Age settlements, cemeteries and burial grounds ? many of which have yet to be explored ? dot the windswept landscape. [10 Strangest Sights on Google Earth]
What is this bizarre symbol, measuring roughly 1,200 feet (366 meters) in diameter, doing on the side of a desolate lake in northern Kazakhstan? Naturally, many online comments have already linked the site with devil worship, nefarious religious sects or denizens of the underworld.?
It certainly doesn't help that, upon zooming into the center of the pentagram, viewers will see two places highlighted by previous visitors to Google Maps: One spot is called Adam, the other, Lucifer ? a name often linked to Satan.
The pentagram is an ancient symbol used by many (non-Satanic) cultures and religious groups. It has been adopted by the Mesopotamians, Pythagoreans (followers of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician), Christians, Freemasons and Wiccans.
The Kazakh pentagram certainly isn't the first odd discovery gleaned from Google Maps. Etched onto the desert floor of New Mexico are two large diamonds surrounded by a pair of overlapping circles. This is reportedly the site of a hidden bunker belonging to the Church of Scientology, according to the author of a book on the religious group.
Deep in the Gobi Desert, viewers of Google Maps can find a Yagi antenna array, a device that looks like a giant piece of cracked glass but is used for atmospheric research. And in a remote corner of Nevada, there's an enormous KFC advertisement, featuring the smiling face of Colonel Sanders.
Though it's difficult to discern from an aerial photograph exactly what the Kazakh pentagram is, Emma Usmanova, an archaeologist with years of experience working in the Lisakovsk area, has an answer.
"It is the outline of a park made in the form of a star," Usmanova told LiveScience. The star was a popular symbol during the Soviet era (Kazakhstan was a part of the former Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991). Stars were often used throughout the Soviet Union to decorate building facades, flags and monuments. (Several online comments had suggested the star shape was the abandoned site of a Soviet-era lakeside campground.)
The star in the Soviet-era lakeside park is marked by roadways that are now lined with trees, Usmanova explained, which make the star shape even more distinct in aerial photos. Additional images of the site, now abandoned and overgrown with weeds, can be seen at englishrussia.com.
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Collaborate To Innovate: Collaboration Prize Deadline Tomorrow ...
Co-operative Development Scotland?s Collaboration Prize aims to encourage businesses in Scotland to consider collaboration and pitch their idea for a new consortium co-operative, deadline tomorrow.
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Consortium co-operatives are established when groups of companies come together to pool their resources. A consortium is run on an equal basis for its members, and may be set up to buy or sell in scale, market more effectively, share facilities or jointly bid for contracts.
Each of the Collaboration Prize winners will receive a cash prize of ?5,000 and ?5,000 of support. This year?s funding has been boosted by ?10,000 to ?40,000 and four winning business concepts will be announced in October.
Sarah Deas, chief executive of Co-operative Development Scotland, said: ?Collaboration plays a key part in the way businesses operate in 2013 and we believe that this innovative business model has real benefit in terms of promoting growth of the Scottish economy.
?Through a cash investment and business support, our Collaboration Prize will give four companies a head start in getting their business idea off the ground.?
There are three sector-specific awards this year which will target Scottish businesses working in the tourism, creative and food and drink industries. These awards have been supported by the Scottish Tourism Alliance, Creative Scotland and Scotland Food and Drink.
Sarah continues: ?We?re looking forward to hearing from businesses, particularly working in our target sectors, that are interested in collaborating with others to gain more work through this proven alternative to the more traditional business models.?
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American economy adds modest 162,000 jobs in July
FILE - In this Monday, July 15, 2013 file photo, a woman waits to talk with employers at a job fair for laid-off IBM workers in South Burlington, Vt. The government issues the jobs report for July on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
FILE - In this Monday, July 15, 2013 file photo, a woman waits to talk with employers at a job fair for laid-off IBM workers in South Burlington, Vt. The government issues the jobs report for July on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. economy is steadily adding jobs ? just not at a consistently strong pace.
July's modest gain of 162,000 jobs was the smallest since March. And most of the job growth came in lower-paying industries or part-time work.
The unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to a 4?-year low of 7.4 percent, still well above the 5 percent to 6 percent typical of a healthy economy. The rate fell because more Americans said they were working, though some people stopped looking for a job and were no longer counted as unemployed.
All told, Friday's report from the Labor Department pointed to a less-than-robust job market. It suggested that the economy's subpar growth and modest consumer spending are making many businesses cautious about hiring.
The report is bound to be a key factor in the Federal Reserve's decision on whether to slow its bond purchases in September, as many economists have predicted it will do. Some think July's weaker hiring could make the Fed hold off on any pullback in its bond buying, which has helped keep long-term borrowing costs down.
Friday's report said employers added a combined 26,000 fewer jobs in May and June than the government had previously estimated. Americans also worked fewer hours in July, and their average pay dipped.
For the year, job growth has remained steady. The economy has added an average of 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the pace has slowed in the past three months to 175,000.
Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, called the employment report "slightly negative," in part because job growth for May and June was revised down.
Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West, said it showed "a mixed labor market picture of continued improvement but at a still frustratingly slow pace."
The reaction from investors was muted. Stock averages closed with modest gains. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.6 percent from 2.71 percent ? a sign that investors think the economy remains sluggish and might need continued help from the Fed.
Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor's, said she thinks the Fed will delay any slowdown in its $85 billion a month in bond purchases.
"September seems very unlikely now," she says. "I'm wondering if December is still in the cards."
Still, it's possible that the lower unemployment rate, along with the hiring gains over the past year, could convince the Fed that the job market is strengthening consistently. Job growth has topped 140,000 each month for nearly a year, and unemployment has steadily declined.
"While July itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be looking at the cumulative improvement," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "On that score, the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.1 percent last August to 7.4 percent this July, which is a significant improvement."
The government uses a survey of mostly large businesses and government agencies to determine how many jobs are added or lost each month. That's the survey that produced the gain of 162,000 jobs for July.
It uses a separate survey of households to calculate the unemployment rate. That survey captures hiring by companies of all sizes, including small businesses, new companies, farm workers and the self-employed.
The household survey found that 227,000 more people said they were employed last month. And 37,000 people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.
The number of self-employed jumped 241,000, or 2.6 percent, to 9.7 million ? the most in eight months. This group includes freelance workers, construction contractors, lawyers and other professionals with solo practices and farmers and ranchers.
Combined, those factors explain why the unemployment rate declined from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent.
More than half of July's job gain in the survey of big companies and government agencies came from lower-paying industries, extending a trend that's limiting Americans' incomes and possibly slowing consumer spending. Retailers, for example, added nearly 47,000 jobs ? the biggest gain for any industry last month. Restaurants and bars added 38,400.
One Atlanta-based retailer, Cellairis, which sells mobile phone accessories, says it hired about 75 employees last month to meet growing demand. The company has 650 U.S. outlets, most of them mall kiosks. It plans to add 45 walk-in stores this year.
"People are willing to spend more now to protect and personalize their devices," said CEO Taki Skouras.
By contrast, employers in higher-paying industries, like Stripmatic, a steel parts maker in Cleveland, remain wary. Stripmatic hasn't hired anyone since adding five workers in the first three months of the year. Revenue has fallen 10 percent below projections this year.
The company's exports have picked up a bit in Mexico and Brazil but remain flat in Asia. Company President Bill Adler says he's concerned that slower growth in China could hamper his overseas sales.
Low-paying industries have accounted for 61 percent of jobs added this year, even though they represent only 39 percent of U.S. jobs overall, according to government data analyzed by Moody's Analytics. Mid-paying industries have accounted for fewer than 22 percent of the jobs added.
Some job gains were made in higher-paying fields last month. Financial services, which include banking, real estate and insurance, added 15,000 positions. Information technology added 4,300 and accounting 2,500. And manufacturing added 6,000 jobs, though that figure was offset by an equivalent loss in construction.
One growing source of better-paying jobs is local governments. They've now added jobs for five straight months and have helped offset job cuts by state and federal governments.
The result is that governments overall are much less of a drag on hiring than in the first three years of the economic recovery, which began in the summer of 2009. All told, they've shed 39,000 jobs in the 12 months that ended in July. That's down from a loss of 137,000 in the 12 months that ended in July 2012.
Most of the hiring by local governments has been for teachers and other jobs related to education. Local property tax revenue, a key source of funding for localities, fell after the recession but has begun to recover in some communities. Nationwide, home prices have risen, a trend that typically leads to higher property tax revenue.
More broadly, many of the jobs added in July were only part time. The number of Americans who said they were working part time but would prefer full-time work stands at 8.2 million ? the highest since last fall. Part-time jobs accounted for 65 percent of the jobs added in July and 77 percent of those added this year.
The government defines part-time work as being fewer than 35 hours a week.
The percentage of adult Americans either working or actively seeking work dipped in July to 63.4 percent. This is called the "labor force participation rate." The participation rate has been generally declining since peaking at 67.3 percent in 2000. That's partly the result of baby boomers retiring and leaving the workforce.
Job gains are being slowed by the economy's tepid growth. It grew at an annual rate of just 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter, the government said this week. That was an improvement over the previous two quarters, but it's still far too weak to rapidly lower unemployment.
Recent data suggest that the economy could strengthen in the second half of the year.
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AP Economics Writers Paul Wiseman and Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.
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Lindsay Lohan's 'Canyons': How Did She Do?
Critics are saying Lohan is the best part of the mostly drab movie.
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Vector 3: Nick Arnott and security attacks
Nick Arnott of Neglected Potential talks to Rene about the state of modern electronic security, from Apple's developer center and Android's master keys, to social network hacks and engineering attacks.
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- Ibrahim Balic on what he did, why he feels reponsible for Developer Center downtime, and what he's heard back from Apple since
- SIM card hack announced... just enough to scare people
- Tango chat service hacked, 1.5 terabytes of phone, contact, and email data reportedly compromised
- Viber calling and messaging service hacked, 200 million phone numbers, IDs, IP addresses potentially compromised
- Investigating iMessage security and privacy claims
- Making sense of the latest Android 'Master Key' security scare
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Apple acquires low-energy chipmaker Passif
Jessica Lessin, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor who is starting up a new technology news publication, announced today that Apple purchased Silicon Valley-based wireless chip developer Passif Semiconductor. The news was validated by an Apple spokeswoman, who noted that "Apple buys small technology companies from time to time."
What's Passif's specialty? Radios that work with Bluetooth LE, the low-energy version of the popular short-range wireless protocol that is used in health-monitoring and fitness devices that need long battery life.
Although Lessin's sources didn't say how much Apple spent for Passif, those sources did say that Apple had tried to buy the company a few years ago for "mid-tens-of-millions of dollars." As Lessin notes, that figure would presumably be higher now.
The deal could also help Apple as it tries to wean itself from relying on rival Samsung Electronics for components for future products.
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Office workers and their My Bottle
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Demographics
At some recent point in time 641 members of the Do House monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.9% of the sample were male, 40.6% were in their twenties or thirties, and 59.4% were in their forties or fifties. All lived in the vicinities of Tokyo, and all were in employment, including part time and casual work.
I have both my own My Bottle and my own My Cup; I fill the thermos with tea from a tea bag, and slowly top up my My Cup from my My Bottle as time goes by. It feels like about a quarter of the people in myoffice bring their My Bottle, but I?ve never asked them what is inside, but for some reason I imagine it must be miso soup, although that doesn?t feature as a distinct option in Q3.
For some reason people drinking out of their thermos irritates me ? the unscrewing and clinking as they put the cap back on is not in itself a noise that gets on my nerves, but much like fan usage it just grates for some no particular reason.
Research results
Q1: What kinds of drink containers do you drink from at work? (Sample size=641, multiple answer)
| Plastic bottle | 60% |
| Can | 39% |
| Mug, glass (My Cup) | 31% |
| Thermos flask, stainless steel bottle (My Bottle) | 23% |
| Paper pack, chilled cup drink | 23% |
| Paper cup, plastic cup drink | 20% |
| Tumbler (My Cup) | 13% |
| Other | 1% |
| Don?t drink at the office | 8% |
These numbers are read off a graph, so they may not be exact. However, looking at the breakdown by sex and age group, younger men were the biggest can and plastic bottle drinkers (about 60% and 70% respectively), and older women the least likely to drink from them at work.
Q2 is probably the people from Q1 who used one or more My Cup or My Bottle in the office.
Q2: How often do you take your My Bottle, My Cup to the office? (Sample size=348)
| Always keep it in the office | 50.3% |
| Almost every day | 33.9% |
| Four or five days a week | 3.1% |
| Two or three days a week | 6.6% |
| Once a week | 2.2% |
| Less than that | 3.9% |
Men in their twenties and thirties were the most likely demographic to bring their own drinking utensils every day, and conversely men in their forties and fifties were most likely to store them in the office.
Q3: What do you fill your My Bottle, My Cup with? (Sample size=348, multiple answer)
| Tea bag, drip coffee, instant coffee | 64.4% |
| Shop-bought tea, coffee | 59.2% |
| Drinks made from tea leaves, coffee beans | 50.6% |
| Tap water, mineral water | 41.4% |
| Fizzy drinks | 23.9% |
| Fruit juice | 23.6% |
| Functional drinks | 20.4% |
| Vegetable juice | 19.8% |
| Milk, other dairy-based drinks | 12.4% |
| Other | 2.0% |
Q4 is probably the people from Q3 who drink tea or coffee either ready-made, or make themselves, the top three answers in Q3.
Q4: Where do you buy/prepare the drinks you drink at the office? (Sample size=299 and 260)
| ? | Tea drinkers N=299 | Coffee drinker N=260 |
| Take it from home | 23.3% | 15.8% |
| Buy on the way to work (included making at work) | 69.9% | 75.3% |
| Buy at a cafe, restaurant | 0.5% | 6.2% |
| Available for free at office | 6.3% | 2.7% |
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