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A landmark study, conducted by researchers from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and published in the journal Clinical Biochemistry in 2009, suggested that treatment with antioxidants may be able to significantly reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. Celiac disease…

The medical-industrial complex is backtracking heavily these days from recommending that men undergo prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests for prostate cancer, as continually emerging evidence reveals the test to be dangerous, inaccurate, and essentially useless for…

“There aren’t many large well-designed studies lasting longer than a few weeks looking at alternative therapies, yet patients have a lot of questions about their value,” said Robert D. Brook, M.D., Chair of the panel and an associate professor of medicine at the University…

The economic destruction of America, a once-shining beacon of prosperity that has slowly, steadily been transformed into a massive debtor nation, continues unabated as now, foreign holdings of U.S. debt are nearly equal to our annual gross domestic product. According…

Another day, another saga about the growing police state in America. Apparently some North Carolina communities are cracking down on the consumption of iced tea in the parking lots of some businesses. A YouTube video posted recently captured what appears to be an…

Women consuming at last two servings weekly of peaches or nectarines saw a stunning 41 percent risk reduction for postmenopausal ER- breast cancer, while those eating at least one serving of blueberries weekly saw a 31 percent risk reduction, according to one of the…

With life threatening instances of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections on the rise, many are seeking safe and effective alternatives in the realm of natural medicine. Manuka oil is a shinning example. Reports of healing attributed to the oil…

The immense dangers associated with exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide are becoming incontrovertible, with the latest indictment of this deadly chemical cocktail coming from a new paper published in the open access, peer-reviewed journal Entropy. A scientist from…

PCOS stands for polycystic ovary syndrome, quite a mouthful that implies something that rarely occurs. But it is common among women. The word polycystic refers to multiple small cysts around the edges of the ovaries. This situation causes sex hormone problems that…

A medical clinic in America’s heartland that utilizes natural rather than toxic methods to treat cancer patients is under attack by the American police state oligarchy, according to new reports. As publicized by Tulsa, Okla.-based NewsOn6.com, the U.S. Food and Drug…

(NaturalNews)These days, we are witnessing an acceleration in the use of psychiatry to target Americans, to label them as dangerous, to take away guns they own, to blame gun violence in the US on mentally ill people. It’s a winning strategy, because most Americans don’t have a…

Nutrient absorption is a very important health topic that gets very little attention. The amount of available nutrients in a food is important as well, but not particularly helpful if those nutrients do not get absorbed and therefore used by the body. There are a few…

Yesterday (yeah, yeah, I’m late), Google released a stunning new version of Gmail for iPad and iPhone. I tried to write this story several times on May 6, but the newsroom was short-staffed, keeping me extra busy. Vacations, bank holiday in United Kingdom and Orthodox Easter Monday just about emptied BetaNews. So, please, pardon this belated story about the great Google escape.

What a wild one, too. Control-freak Apple uses Safari to keep developers like Google in check. Especially such a rival that invades iOS with a remarkably rich set of apps tightly tied to myriad web services. So Gmail’s sudden liberation is quite surprising. Links now go to installed Google apps — gasp, Chrome, Maps and YouTube — rather than opening Safari. Chrome linkage really is a shocker, and all the more so with Google kissing WebKit to the wind in favor of its own browsing engine. Expect it in the Chrome stable channel soon.

Google is clearly set out to invade Apple’s mobile platform with strong apps and connected services. Last week, Google Now arrived, rivaling Siri, and available to more iOS users than members of the so-called Android Army. How strange a strategy is that?

Many of Google’s apps are even better than Apple’s. The search giant embraces iOS, extends utility with its own services and extinguishes competing ones, or tries to. That’s old business. The company’s business is long about co-opting other platforms, everything from desktop search app for Windows to Google Frame for Internet Explorer, and more. But the recent aggressiveness on iOS, which really started after Apple pulled Google Maps, is quite new — and good for iOS users, but probably bad for the fruit-logo company. That is long-term.

Apple wants iOS users connecting to its services and iCloud. But given Google’s far reach, a strategy of booting the search giant’s apps is no longer viable. Customers want Google apps and services, which co-opt the Apple experience. Still, I have to wonder if this linkage will last. If Google, why not other developers? Letting every Tom, Dick and Jane developer link to whatever — gee, like Chrome instead of Safari — is chaos, a control freak’s worst nightmare.

So, I wonder: Is Google’s prison break an open tunnel for other developers to follow? Or will Apple shoot the inmates and send the hounds after Gmail?

Photo Credit: Stasys Eidiejus/Shutterstock

With hectic schedules, it can be hard to keep track of everything in your news feed. That’s why we created the TalkAndroid Daily Dose. This is where we recap the day’s hottest stories so you can get yourself up to speed in quick fashion. Happy reading!!

Guides

How to remove apps from the Google Play Store ‘My Apps’ list

Apps

Google Babel to be called Hangouts and might not have SMS/MMS support

Hardware

Intel announces new Silvermont architecture for low-power, high-performance applications

Phones

Red HTC One shows up on UK retail website

Benchmark for mysterious “Obake” smartphone for Verizon surfaces, does its best to remind us of the XT1055 smartphone in the process

Sprint variant of successor to LG Optimus G discovered?

Samsung releases two more graduation-themed commercials showing off Easy Mode and Eraser Shot

AT&T to release the 32GB Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone Friday, May 10th

Samsung to release Galaxy Core – a smaller, cheaper, and weaker GS3

Sony finally puts up Xperia Z for sale on US site

Sony C3 leaks, possibly Sony’s first MediaTek phone

Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 shows up in AnTuTu Benchmarks

Miscellaneous

HTC slowly improving financially, releases unaudited April revenue

BlueStacks hits 10 million downloads in one year

European Commission looking at Motorola Mobility’s potential abuse of patents against Apple

 

 

 

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A new filing with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group for a new LG device may point the way to the successor to the LG Optimus G. The new device carries the model name LS980, which seems to be consistent with LG devices headed for the Sprint network. Some digging on the Sprint site yielded a build.prop info page for the LS980 indicating the device will run Android 4.2.2 and has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chipset. The Snapdragon 800 is not scheduled to be available until later this year, so the release of this device may be timed to hit the holiday shopping season.

The Sprint page also reveals the LS980 will have a 1920×1080 screen, so it will likely be capable of displaying full 1080p HD video. The device will have 2GB of RAM and carries 32GB of onboard memory. However, it does not look like it will support an external microSD card for additional memory. A rear-facing camera is listed at 13MP and capable of recording full 1080p HD video. All of these specs are consistent with earlier information discovered in some AnTuTu benchmark scores for a new LG device.

source: Bluetooth SIG, Sprint
via: Android Police

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With the PC industry in decidedly bad shape lately, PC vendors have been looking for alternative ways to generate revenues in a computer market that’s increasingly tilted toward mobile devices. IDG News, via PCWorld, reports that Asus plans to release its first Chromebook in the second half of 2013 while hoping to continue the success it’s had so far in shipping Android tablets. Asus has no illusions that Chromebooks will be mass consumer products, but Asus CEO Jerry Shen tells IDG News that the “Chromebook is good, not on the consumer side, but it’s good in the education and government side, and some for the commercial side.” IDG notes that Asus shipped 3 million Android tablets in the first quarter of 2013, so it’s clear that the company is more than willing to look beyond Microsoft for operating systems for its devices.

Intel announced today their new Silvermont microarchitecture, a new design for 22nm Tri-Gate SoC chips. The architecture will offer three times the performance of current generation Atom processors while using five times less power. The new chips may help Intel get their chips into top-tier phones that seem to be dominated by Qualcomm chips. Besides making use of the 22nm SoC process, the chips also “revolutionary” 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. Intel says the architecture will also offer:

• A new out-of-order execution engine enables best-in-class, single-threaded performance.
  

• A new multi-core and system fabric architecture scalable up to eight cores and enabling greater performance for higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient out-of-order support for a more balanced and responsive system.

• New IA instructions and technologies bringing enhanced performance, virtualization and security management capabilities to support a wide range of products. These instructions build on Intel’s existing support for 64-bit and the breadth of the IA software installed base.

• Enhanced power management capabilities including a new intelligent burst technology, low- power C states and a wider dynamic range of operation taking advantage of Intel’s 3-D transistors. Intel® Burst Technology 2.0 support for single- and multi-core offers great responsiveness scaled for power efficiency.

Building on the Silvermont architecture, Intel is planning to produce quad-core Bay Trail processors to be used in tablet devices by the end of 2013. The chips may also be used in some entry-level laptops or desktops using non-traditional form factors. For smartphones, Intel is working on the Merrifield version of the chips, which are also slated to be ready before 2013 draws to a close.

Intel has had some success getting their high end chips into devices from Lenovo and ZTE. The question remains as to whether they can break through into a market largely controlled by Qualcomm, Samsung and NVIDIA.

source: Intel

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Amanda Bynes has been something of a headline hog recently; between her alleged strange behavior during most of 2012–reported hit and runs, walking around nude at a tanning salon, locking herself in a bathroom at a cupcake shop, and deleting her Twitter account–and her recent move to New York, the former child actress is no stranger to news stories. That’s why she’s so irritated that everyone keeps using the same old pictures of her, wearing her old face.

“The reason I’ve asked all magazines and blogs to stop using old photos of me is I don’t look like that anymore! I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes,” she said on her reinstated Twitter account over the weekend.

Bynes claims she was going to keep the surgery hush-hush, but now that she’s seeing these old photos everywhere it’s getting under her skin.

“I wasn’t going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos that I don’t want old photos used anymore!,” she said. “When will they stop? I will never look like that again!”

Bynes recently tweeted out some topless photos of herself after announcing that she’d gotten a new haircut–which included having half her head shaved–and appears to be loving her new look.

Amanda before:

And after:

Apple may be developing a lower-cost iPhone to sell in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil, but it’s increasingly having difficulty finding wireless carriers willing to meet its terms for selling its mobile devices. Bloomberg reports that Apple “is missing out on a chance to court as many as 2.8 billion new smartphone customers, many of them in Asia, as wireless-service providers balk at conditions imposed by the iPhone maker and drag their heels in signing on as partners.”

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