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Meet the guys who store humans at freezing temperatures for the future

We Will Live Again is a fascinating documentary on the Cryonics Institute, the place where 99 dead human bodies are stored at freezing temperatures in hopes that they'll be able to be revived and live again in another life. It's crazy and bizarre and eerie in all the right ways.

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Made for a Marathon: The Science of Long Distance Running

What drives people to run a marathon? Join Hayley Birch as she tackles 26.2 miles, aided by science.

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It's Okay To Torrent These Games. Really.

One hundred games, all in a bundle you can only get on the world's most infamous piracy website.

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Track this Interorbital Cube Satellite from your iPhone and stream John Frusciante’s new album

John Frusciante has a new album, titled Enclosure, which will be available April 8 worldwide. But if you have an iPhone, iPad or Android device, you can get a sneak peak via an ingenious app and a satellite.

Frusciante has loaded a recording of Enclosure into a self-launched satellite, and with the new app you’ll be able to preview the tunes when the satellite is over your location.

You’re not actually streaming from the satellite, of course, but it’s a novel way to use location data.

You can grab the iOS app at the App Store link here.

Source: johnfrusciante.com

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White Nexus 7 now available in the U.S.

Amid all the Google Play edition news dropping today, Google has also taken the wraps off the Nexus 7 (2013) in white. Google says it'll be available in the UK, U.S. and Japan, and besides the change in color it's the same ASUS-made, current-generation Nexus 7 we've been using since the summer.

It's worth noting that at the time of writing it's only available in Wifi + 32GB versions — no 16GB or LTE at present.

For more, see the Play Store link above. It's currently marked as "coming soon" in the UK; in the U.S. it's available to order right now.

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Your iPhone's Flash Keeps These Festive Cases Sparkling

When it comes to properly spreading holiday cheer, an ugly Christmas sweater just isn't enough anymore. You've got to up your game, and nothing guarantees gameupmanship like floating around your office holiday party brandishing these festive light-up iPhone cases. They're not only a classy way to protect your device, they also don't require their own power or light source.

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Rihanna: Sexy in White

Making a snowy appearance while roaming the Big Apple, Rihanna arrived at her brother, Rorrey Fenty's, birthday party at Finale night club on Wednesday (November 27).

The "What Now" singer was sexy in a little white dress, wearing a long overcoat, and complimenting her outfit with a pair of black leather stockings and designer heels.

Honoring her brother with a quick tweet and a photo of his party poster on Twitter, the 25-year-old singer wrote, "My big lil bro @rorreyfenty birthday ba$hment continues!! Tonight in #NYC."

Reports also suggest that Rihanna donated $100,000 (£61,000) to help the Philippine victims of Typhoon Haiyan. She also tweeted, writing, "Thank you @RobinsonCano and @SkyDigg4 for getting on board with @UNICEF to help the people of the Philippines!!"

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Google Play Newsstand Is Your Personalized Feed of Stuff to Read

Google is overhauling its approach to serving you articles and news. With "Newsstand" Google's taking another shot at building a one-stop app for all the different stuff you might want to read online. It's a bit like Flipboard meets your magazine subscriptions in a single application for your phone.

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UFC 167 weigh-in results: Georges St-Pierre, Johny Hendricks make weight

LAS VEGAS -- If Friday's weigh-ins were any indication, Saturday night's atmosphere at the MGM Grand Garden Arena should be memorable.

One of the largest weigh-in crowds for a non-Anderson Silva fight in Las Vegas in quite some time showed up Friday for the UFC 167 weigh-ins. With sizable and vocal contingents on hand for both fighters, welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Johny Hendricks both hit the 170-pound title-fight limit for their main-event bout.

St-Pierre (24-2) is aiming to set several UFC records: A victory over Hendricks would be his 19th in the UFC, which would break his current tie with Matt Hughes. It would also mark his 12th victory in a UFC title fight, which would break the mark he now shares with Silva. And if the bout goes more than 40 seconds, he'll surpass B.J. Penn's mark of five hours, three minutes, 51 seconds total Octagon time.

"Don't blink, it's going to be a good fight," said St-Pierre.

"I'm going to knock him out, that's all I'm going to do," said Hendricks (15-1).

All 24 fighters made weight for the UFC's 20th anniversary card.

Main Card (PPV)

Georges St-Pierre (170) vs. Johny Hendricks (170)
Rashad Evans (205) vs. Chael Sonnen (206)
Rory MacDonald (171) vs. Robbie Lawler (170)
Josh Koscheck (170) vs. Tyron Woodley (171)
Tim Elliott (125) vs. Ali Bagautinov (126)

FOX Sports 1 prelims
Donald Cerrone (155) vs. Evan Dunham (156)
Ed Herman (186) vs. Thales Leites (186)
Brian Ebersole (171) vs. Rick Story (170)
Erik Perez (135) vs. Edwin Figueroa (135)

Facebook prelims
Jason High (170) vs. Anthony Lapsley (170)
Sergio Pettis (135) vs. Will Campuzano (135)
Cody Donovan (205) vs. Gian Villante (205)

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/11/15/5108736/ufc-167-weight-in-results
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New AWS service AppStream offloads graphics work to the cloud

With its new AppStream offering, Amazon is offering intensive graphics processing as a service, with the promise of freeing developers from worrying about the rendering capabilities of each user's device.

"The developer can build for the high-end computational load but still be able to distribute to lots of customers," said Mike Frazzini, general manager of the Amazon games unit. "It frees them up to be more creative."

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The new cloud service, now in beta, can render graphics or video in high definition or even in 3D on behalf of an application, streaming the results to the application in 720p resolution. The service can take interactive input from the local client's mouse, keyboard or touchscreen interfaces.

Like a number of other services launched at Amazon's re:Invent user conference, held this week in Las Vegas, AppStream tailors the capabilities of AWS (Amazon Web Services) for specific sets of users -- in this case application developers. Amazon is hoping that its model of pay-as-you go cloud services will provide benefits over traditional methods of running IT operations.

The immediate advantage that AppSteam offers is that the app that uses the service is not constrained by the limitations of its graphics processors, be it a smart phone, tablet or traditional computer.

As a result, this approach could broaden the potential user base for many graphically rich applications, Frazzini said.

Typically, developers have had to target their graphics-intensive applications to either the subset of computers with superior graphics rendering capabilities, or to a much larger set of computing devices with more limited rendering abilities. AppStream removes the need to make that choice, Frazzini said.

The service could also ease the process of updating applications, because the code can be updated once in the cloud, rather than requiring that a patch be pushed out to every user. It could also reduce the amount of work required to port an application to multiple platforms.

AWS originally developed the service for computer game makers, though the company soon found other potential uses, such as medical imagery, photo or media editing, advanced media delivery, or collaboration on large CAD (computer aided design) files.

One early user, fashion design firm Embody, used the service to let customers design their own clothing through real-time 3D renderings of the garment.

"As we've opened this up and talked to a diverse set of potential customers, we've been surprised by the use cases," Frazzini said.

Any device with a broadband connection and the ability to decode video could work with the service. Frazzini did warn that a small subset of applications with zero tolerance for latency (fast-paced first-person shooters for instance) would not be suitable for running entirely on AppStream, though most types of applications would work well with the service.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/new-aws-service-appstream-offloads-graphics-work-the-cloud-230978
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