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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Week in review: iOS 7 rumors, the Xbox One, Yahoo! gets busy and more!

It's been another busy week here on iMore, and as we get closer and closer to WWDC 2013 we're starting to see more iOS 7 rumors surface. Also making headlines this week was Yahoo!, who had a pretty busy Monday, Microsoft's future of the Xbox event, oh, and we were treated to an all-new iMore Show! Read on for the recap!

We'll start with Yahoo!, who came out swinging this past Monday. Rumors had been rife that they were preparing a bid to acquire blogging platform Tumblr, and those rumors turned into truth on Monday morning. Yahoo! and Tumblr announced the deal was to take place, and would be worth $1.1 billion in cash. Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Meyer, posted her first blog post on Tumblr that very same morning, proclaiming that "we promise we won't screw it up." Nice touch.

Yahoo! buys Tumblr, CEO promises not to screw it up

Then, at a press event in New York on Monday evening, Meyer herself took to the stage at the Flickr press event and presented a major overhaul to the popular photography service. The headline items were an all-new, and pretty awesome looking interface, along with a new pricing strategy that sees every single user on a free account receive a full terabyte of storage for their photos. An insane amount of free storage for your photos.

Flickr gets overhauled with a new UI and 1TB free storage. For everyone!

Next it was over to Microsoft to impress, with their Xbox event up at the company's Richmond headquarters. Our buddies from Windows Phone Central provided excellent coverage of the event, but while there was no specific mention of iOS related items, it's hard to deny that we were all pretty impressed. With gestures and speech recognition galore, did Microsoft beat Apple to making the killer Apple TV? Both Derek Kessler and Peter Cohan have written excellent pieces on the Xbox One and how it may fit into our world, so be sure to check them out if you missed them first time around.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that excitement is building as we get ever closer to WWDC 2013. We all have things we'd like to see come out of the annual developer conference, but likewise there's things we're pretty sure we will be seeing. One such thing is iOS 7, and this week a couple of rumors surfaced on what to expect. Firstly we heard that Flickr and Vimeo may well be integrated into iOS 7, much the same as Twitter and Facebook currently are. Then we were treated to the latest rumor around Jony Ive's all-new, flatter UI and that it is set to be "black, white and flat all over." Rumors are still just that, rumors, but it does still build up our anticipation ahead of WWDC.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made the trip cross-country this week to appear at a Senate hearing regarding the company's approach to taxes. Chris Umiastowski posted an excellent editorial on the subject that really got the iMore readers engaged, so if you happened to miss that one be sure to give it a read.

Apple already pays $1 out of every $40 tax dollars the U.S. collects. How much more does the Senate want?

Elsewhere this week, Peter Cohan gave us some excellent tips on how to breathe new life into your ageing Mac Pro, well worth reading if, like many, you're clinging onto your Mac Pro until the bitter end. Leanna continued her round up of photography related apps, this week moving onto a great selection for the professional photographer. And, speaking of photography, I just so happened to come across a piece of vintage Apple in the QuickTake 150 digital camera, so I had to share it with you guys. Ally also posted an excellent piece on where to find the best pre-paid deal for your iPhone in the U.S. All well worth a read.

Next week we'll be telling you all about #TM13, but this week we told you about the launch party in New York City! If that's not enough, we're offering a trip for two to NYC and the launch party where you'll get to meet all the editors from Mobile Nations. If you haven't entered yet, what are you waiting for?!

Next week we'll tell you all about #TM13, today we'll give you a chance to win a trip for two to NYC for the launch party!

And last, but by no means least, this week saw the first edition of our revamped iMore Show. Rene and Peter were joined by Derek Kessler, our Mobile Nations EiC-at-large, along with Michael Simmons of Flexibits to talk Apple Taxes, the Xbox One, the Mac Pro, apps, accessories and more!

iMore Show 350: All New!

There you have it, the best of iMore for the week. What stood out for you in everything that went on in the last 7 days? What do you still want to comment about? Have at it below!

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Friday, May 17, 2013

'The Voice' brings back Aguilera, Cee Lo Green

FILE - This Oct. 28, 2011 file photo shows, from left, Carson Daly, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Christina Aguilera, from the reality television competition "The Voice", in Culver City, Calif. The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green would return for ?The Voice? Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. Their midseason replacements _ Shakira and Usher _ will be back for Season 6, which will air in midseason 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? "The Voice" is leaving the judging drama to its rivals.

The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

Their midseason replacements ? Shakira and Usher ? will be back for Season 6, which will air in midseason 2014.

Meanwhile Fox is scrambling to revive "American Idol" after record low ratings for Thursday's finale, with 14.3 million viewers. Original judge Randy Jackson has already announced his exit and Fox is making yet-to-be detailed format changes.

Last week "The Voice" narrowly edged out "Idol" in weekly ratings.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

One bad gene: Mutation that causes rare sleep disorder linked to migraines

Friday, May 3, 2013

A gene mutation associated with a rare sleep disorder surprisingly also contributes to debilitating migraines, a new discovery that could change the treatment of migraines by allowing development of drugs specifically designed to treat the chronic headaches.

Further study is needed to understand how this genetic pathway relates to migraines. But the finding is exciting because it most likely will shed light on all types of migraines, meaning hundreds of millions of people worldwide could benefit, according to K.C. Brennan, M.D., University of Utah assistant professor of neurology and first author of a study published May 1, 2013, in Science Translational Medicine.

"We don't get the chance very often to isolate one molecule that we're confident is related to migraines," Brennan says. "Once we understand which molecules and cells this mutation changes, we can develop drugs specifically targeted to them."

The mutation occurs when an enzyme, CKI?, becomes impaired. CKI? has many "housekeeping" responsibilities in the body, one of which is to help control the circadian rhythm that determines the sleep cycle. The story of how the CKI? mutation's association with migraines was identified is one of cross-country collaboration.

In the mid-1990s a University of Vermont neurologist, Robert E. Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., was treating a family for migraines. Shapiro recognized that along with migraines his patients showed signs of familial advanced sleep phase syndrome, a rare disorder in which people's circadian rhythm causes them to go to bed extremely early in the evening and wake up well before dawn. For example, someone might regularly go to bed at 7 p.m. and wake up at 4 a.m.

Shapiro contacted Louis J. Pt??ek, M.D., a University of California, San Francisco, neurogeneticist and former U of U faculty member, a top expert in the field of sleep-related genes. Pt??ek, who was collaborating with U of U sleep expert and Professor of Neurology Christopher R. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., began searching for a gene related to the sleep disorder. Jones then started identifying the characteristics of familial advanced phase sleep disorder in the Vermont family members.

"The sleep disorder was the clue that allowed us to identify the needle in the haystack ? the mutated gene," Jones says. "Migraine is so common that we could not have identified the gene based on migraine features alone."

Pt??ek identified the CKI? mutation as a cause of the sleep disorder and then contacted Andrew C. Charles, M.D., a migraine expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, to investigate a potential link between the same mutation and migraines. At the time, Brennan was a postdoctoral fellow in Charles' lab. Beginning in Charles's lab and continuing in his own lab, Brennan used advanced imaging techniques to determine that mice carrying the human CKI? mutation were more susceptible to cortical spreading depression, a wave of electrical activity that moves through the brain preceding a migraine attack. This strongly indicated that migraines are related to the CKI? mutation.

"Nobody would have predicted that this gene would have been relevant to migraines," he says.

While Brennan pursued his work, a post-doctoral fellow in Pt??ek's lab, Emily A. Bates, Ph.D., was investigating the potential link as well. Bates, who received her undergraduate degree in biology from the U of U, is now an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Brigham Young University. She developed a test for migraine in mice using nitroglycerin, which (in addition to being used for chest pain) induces migraine in humans. Bates, a co-first author on the study, found that CKI? mutant mice given nitroglycerin had lower pain thresholds than mice without the mutation, again indicating that the CKI? mutation was associated with migraines.

"You can't ask a mouse if it has a headache, so we had to think creatively to find a way to study migraine in mice," Bates says. "Migraine is more than just a headache. It is a neurological disorder that affects many sensory systems, so we can measure migraine using some of the other symptoms like sensitivity to touch and heat."

After confirming the CKI? mutation's role in migraines, the researchers found a second mutation in the CKI? gene, which also appears to cause the headaches. This brings to six genes the total number of genes that have been isolated and found to cause migraines.

Migraines are an understudied disease, according to Brennan, and consequently have been difficult to treat, because so little is known about what causes them. All drugs currently prescribed for migraines were developed for other disorders. While these medications offer varying degrees of relief, much more is needed. Discovery of the CKI? mutation's role in migraines offers hope for a new type of migraine drug therapy. Although it will take years to bring such drugs to market, they eventually could help many more of the estimated 12 percent of people worldwide who suffer from migraines.

"We'll have to look in much finer detail at this genetic pathway before we get to new treatments," Brennan says. "But you can't get to that point without this first step."

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Obama: Deportations will continue until the law changes (Washington Bureau)

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Spanish league investigates possible match fix

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? The Spanish soccer league is investigating a game between first division teams Levante and Deportivo La Coruna for possible match-fixing.

League spokesman Juan Carlos Santamaria confirmed Spanish media reports to The Associated Press on Friday that the league was examining Deportivo's 4-0 win at Levante on April 13.

Following the loss, Levante forward Jose Barkero apparently accused some of his teammates of a lack of effort in the match. He later publicly retracted his accusations.

"I only want to make public what I have told my teammates," Barkero said at a news conference on Wednesday. "I asked them for forgiveness. ... I am the one who was wrong. I accused them of something that didn't really happen."

Levante issued a statement on its website saying it will "help and collaborate with any investigation."

Deportivo coach Fernandez Vazquez said "our conscience is clean."

Match-fixing is a crime in Spain and can lead to prison time for individuals or expulsion of a club from official competition.

Deportivo is in a fight to avoid relegation. Stuck in last place in Spain's first division last month, it started a four-game winning streak that ended with the lopsided victory at Levante. Deportivo has since tied two more games and currently is one point above the relegation zone with five games left.

Levante, meanwhile, has lost four straight games, its worst run in two seasons under coach Juan Ignacio Martinez.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-league-investigates-possible-match-fix-091211725.html

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Today in APIs: @Pay Two-Click API, Cabforce API, and 23 New APIs

@Pay announced the release of their first open API. The Cabforce API is ready to help with European transportation booking. Plus: Mozilla launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0?and 23 New APIs.

@Pay Released Two-Click Payment API

@Pay is a payment processing company that specializes in simplified web and email checkout. Founded in 2010 by CEO John Killoran, @Pay was originally intended to encourage generosity. The premise being that, ?the easier it is for people to be generous, the more generous they?ll be.? Since then the platform has evolved into a sophisticated two-click purchasing process. The company provides the @Pay Two-Click API, allowing developers integration possibilities. Check out the API documentation and quick-start guides for help getting started.

Taxi Booking Via the Cabforce API

One of the newest APIs added to the ProgrammableWeb API directory is the Cabforce API. Cabforce allows users to make transportation arrangements for all major European travel destinations. The companies goal is to:

?enable distribution of high quality and reliable pre-booked airport transfers and any other taxi rides within travel industry.?

The API documentation for this service is made available upon request.

API News You Shouldn?t Miss

23 New APIs

Today we had 23 new APIs added to our API directory including an add message screens within apps service, a minor celestial body information database, a biotechnology in the public interest service, a taxi booking and payment service and a price tracking tool. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

AddNag AddNag API: AddNag provides a platform for displaying and sharing content in mobile applications. Developers can create ?nags?, simple pages that appear upon opening an app that can be used to convey reminders, special offers, tutorials, etc. AddNag?s functions are available for integration via API. Further documentation can be accessed by logging in to the AddNag website.

Asterank Minor Planet Center API: The International Astronomical Union?s Minor Planet Center (MPC) is responsible for the designation of minor bodies found within our solar system. This includes minor planets, comets, and natural satellites. The MPC is also responsible for collecting, computing, checking, and disseminating astrometric observations and orbital information for those minor bodies.

The Asterank MPC API enables users to apply constraints to the more than 600,000 asteroids documented in the MPC?s MPCORB.DAT files. Because the Asterank database runs on MongoDB, queries must use Mongo?s JSON format. Information in the Asterank MPC database is updated nightly.

BioBricks Public Agreement API: The BioBricks Foundation is a public-benefit organization created to ensure that synthetic biology is conducted ethically and transparently, for the benefit of all people and the planet. The BioBrick Public Agreement is a free legal tool allowing institutions, individuals, and companies to make their standardized biological parts freely available.
The BioBrick Public Agreement API provides developer access to the resources within the Public Agreement database. The RESTful API currently supports only GET calls over HTTPS and returns XML formatted data. Other methods and JSON formatted data are planned for future development.

Cabforce API: Cabforce allows users to search for and book taxi rides and airport transfers online. They provide services for all major European travel destinations and are currently expanding into the U.S., Asia, and Australia. Cabforce works with certified service providers who operate clean, non-smoking cars and are guaranteed to arrive on-time. Bookings are always con?rmed, and Cabforce provides 24/7 customer service in English.

Cabforce customers pay an all-inclusive flat rate online via credit card, eliminating the issues of overpriced fares and unfamiliar currencies. Cabforce?s services can be accessed directly on the website or programmatically via API. Documentation for the API is available upon request.

Camel Camel API: The Camel API is a price tracking tool from Cosmic Shovel supporting programmatic management of price watches on popular shopping sites. In addition to Amazon, the tool can track Backcountry, Best Buy, Newegg, and zZounds prices. The Camel API supports POST/GET calls over HTTPS and uses HTTP basic access authentication. JSON and XML formatted responses are supported.

Code.org Local School Database API: Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to spreading computer programming education. On their website, they provide the Local School Search, which allows users to locate schools near a given location that offer programming courses. The database powering this service is accessible programmatically via JSON so that third parties can integrate it into their own applications. Public contact information is listed, but not private contact information.

Collins Dictionary API: Collins is a publisher of dictionaries and other reference works. The Collins Dictionary API provides developer access to the features and content of collinsdictionary.com. Exposed resources include definitions, synonyms, pronunciations, translations, new words, and word games. Data is JSON formatted.

CORE CORE API: CORE (COnnecting REpositories) facilitates free access to scholarly articles aggregated from Open Access repositories. Additionally, CORE harvests, enriches, and makes accessible metadata and full-text PDF content from many repositories.
The CORE API provides developer access to this metadata and text. The API is accessed via HTTP GET and POST calls, requires an API Key, and returns XML or JSON formatted responses.

Edicy Site API: Edicy is a cloud-based service for building and hosting multilingual websites and managing their content. It is optimized for both desktop and mobile viewing, provides built-in SEO, and comes with customizable themes.

The Edicy Site API allows users to access public Edicy site contents through a JSON-based API. This API is read-only and can be used to retrieve articles, comments, and other page elements.

eLife eLife API: The eLife journal seeks to improve access to new research and discoveries in the fields of life sciences and biomedicine. It provides researchers with a publishing option that?s designed to be publicly available and widely disseminated. To aid in dissemination, eLife makes its content available via REST API as well as through RSS and OAI end points. Content can also be accessed through a number of external endpoints that are not managed by eLife.

Ftsee Ftsee API: Ftsee is a service that tracks detailed information about securities that includes their products, competitors, and suppliers. Each security has its own message stream full of information that users can view, favorite, and share. Ftsee users can follow as many securities as they like through the service.

The Ftsee API can be used to retrieve low-level data and get alerts when there is unusual activity surrounding a security. It also provides real-time social analytics that include sentiment, volume, and trends for major securities and foreign exchange rates.

Load Impact API: Load Impact provides load testing and reporting to e-commerce and B2B sites. The Load Impact API provides developers with programmatic management of features such as data stores, load zone information, tests, and user scenarios. The API supports HTTP calls, returns JSON formatted data, and requires an API Key.

MacMillan Dictionary API: Macmillan is a reference work publisher whose primary products include encyclopedias and dictionaries. The Macmillan Dictionary API provides developer access to Macmillan?s online dictionary, exposing resources such as definitions, pronunciations, grammar, synonyms, and more.

MangoPay API: MangoPay is a full-stack payment platform for accepting online payments and managing e-money. It gives users the ability to create e-wallets, transfer money between e-wallets, allow group payments, hold escrow funds, and collect fees in a variety of ways. MangoPay provides advanced payment features such as recurring payments, single-click payments, and refunds on cards. The platform accepts payments from more than 150 countries in the local currencies. MangoPay?s functions can be accessed programmatically via REST API.

Municipal DataWorks API: Municipal DataWorks (MDW) is an asset management solution designed to assist municipalities in maintaining and managing their tangible capital assets. MDW stores data on the attributes and condition of an asset, tracks repairs, and converts data into information that policy-makers can use to estimate the level of investment required to maintain infrastructure.

MDW is based on the Municipal Infrastructure Data Standard (MIDS). Combined with MDW?s non-proprietary database, it allows users to take ownership of their data and make it available for integration with third party software applications. Integration is accomplished using a SOAP API, which allows users to retrieve information from MDW, save information to MDW, perform remote electronic data collection, and more.

Plagtracker API: Plagtracker is a free service for determining whether a given text is original or plagiarized. Users can upload their papers to the site, and Plagtracker will scan them for plagiarism and return a report on its findings. Plagtracker?s API enables webmasters and developers to analyze texts and URLs for originality and to see whether they?ve been duplicated elsewhere online.

Quandl Quandl API: Quandl is a portal to numerical data (especially time-series data) that is stored on the internet. It allows users to search over 5,000,000 financial, economic, and social datasets. Once found, data can be downloaded, visualized, saved, shared, authenticated, validated, uploaded, indexed, merged, and transformed. Every dataset on Quandl is available through its REST API, regardless of where, how, or in what format the data was originally published.

Skimap.org API: Skimap.org is an online database of ski area maps. The database includes maps from resorts worldwide, as well as historical maps. The Skimap.org API provides developer access to the websites resources, including region data, ski area data, and map files. The RESTful API returns XML or JSON formatted responses.

Styfee Styfee API: Styfee is a webservice that provides internalization and localization (i18n/L10n) services. So far, this includes reference services for languages, currencies, timezones, countries, and date and measurement conversions. This information can be retrieved programmatically via REST calls. Styfee has no interest in working with exchange rates for the time being.

Thinkery API: Thinkery is a fast, lightweight tool for storing notes, bookmarks, todos, and other such items. Notes are organized using hashtags, which can be color-coded to group them or make them stand out. Items can be retrieved using an as-you-type search. All notes, bookmarks, and other bits of information stored with Thinkery are private unless the user chooses make them public. Thinkery is accessible directly online, using mobile applications, or via REST API.

Voice RSS API: Voice RSS makes Text-To-Speech (TTS) capabilities available online for free. It does this using a RESTful API, which allows developers to integrate TTS functions into their applications. Voice RSS accepts text in any of 26 languages and returns a high quality audio stream in a human-sounding voice. A live demo is provided to give potential users a preview of the API?s capabilities

WhatsOnMyBookshelf API: WhatsOnMyBookshelf is a web-based book trading community. Users list the books they own and can trade with other users to read and discover new books as well as earn points which can be accumulated earn more books. The WhatsOnMyBookshelf API allows users to authenticate users, get user information, register users, and register books by ISBN number. The API has SOAP and REST versions depending on what type of calls are being made.

xmlstats API: Xmlstats is a straightforward API for obtaining MLB (Major League Baseball) and NBA (National Basketball Association) statistics in either XML or JSON format. Using the RESTful API, users can retrieve a list of events for a given date, the current standings table, the box score for a game, and each team?s results for the current season for both the MLB and NBA.

Source: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/05/03/today-in-apis-pay-two-click-api-cabforce-api-and-23-new-apis/

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Sun erupts with superheated plasma

The sun fired off super-hot plasma in a dazzling eruption, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

By Mai Ng?c Ch?u,?Contributor / May 2, 2013

A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million miles per hour. This CME occurred on the sun's limb and is not headed toward Earth. The video, taken in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), covers about two and a half hours.

Superheated plasma bursted from the sun's edge on May 1 in a gigantic rolling wave, said NASA, which published a?dazzling video?captured by its sun-watching spacecraft.

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This solar eruption is known as a coronal mass ejection, or?CME, a kind of solar storm on the sun's outer atmosphere?that can send electrically charged particles into space. When a CME explodes in our direction, it usually takes three days to arrive. CMEs can occur simultaneously with solar?flares, another kind of sun storm involved in releasing energy associated with sunspots.

A large CME can discharge?a billion tons of particles into space at several million miles per hour.?Solar matter gushes out through the interplanetary medium, hitting any planet or spacecraft along its way.?

Like solar flares, CMEs, when directed at the Earth, can generate a space weather event called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they interact with the Earth's magnetic envelope for an extended period of time. CMEs at this intensity are unlikely to disrupt electrical systems on the Earth or interfere with GPS or satellite-based communications systems. But they may cause auroras near the poles.

The most powerful Earth-directed CMEs can also imperil astronauts and satellites in?orbit, and they can even damage ground-based power infrastructure.

The latest CME, however, took?place on the edge of the sun and didn't point at the Earth, said agency officials. The video,?taken in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), shows that the sun's surface emitted a shimmering wave of plasma that splashed into open space. The event lasted two and a half hours.

Launched in 2010, the $850 million SDO satellite has provided detailed views of solar flares, CMEs, and other space weather events?in different wavelengths, including the extreme ultraviolet range of the light spectrum used to make the May 1 solar eruption video.

Wednesday's solar explosion was another indication that the sun is reaching the peak of its cycle, which lasts about 11 years. On April 12, the SDO observed an Earth-directed CME, preceded by?the most energetic?solar flare of the year.?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts have predicted that the solar maximum is likely to?occur this May.?

"But what we?ve come to find is the activity has really toned down over the last couple months," said Alex Young at NASA's?Goddard?Space Flight Center?in a NASA's podcast?on Wednesday. "We reached really the peak towards the end of 2011."

Because many of the previous solar cycles actually had two peaks, he believed that another solar maximum is going to happen.

"We?ve reached one of those humps and think that eventually the activity will pick back up and we?ll see another hump, a double hump solar maximum," Young said.

Do scientists expect a huge solar storm in 2013? On its website, NASA says that?no current observations or data?indicate an imminent solar?catastrophe. Scientists believe the intensity of the upcoming solar maximum will be similar to the previous maximum in 2002.

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Inspired By Coca-Cola, Instagram Reveals a Subtle Logotype Revamp

Today, when Instagram announced its new people-tagging feature, it focused on the new UI changes within the app. But if you look closely, you'll also see another change: a new script, designed by Denver typographer Mackey Saturday.