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Avian, or bird flu virus, was confined primarily to birds, mostly chickens, up to the 1990s. Until then it was not considered a health threat to humans. Early cases in humans emerged in Hong Kong in 1997. Although the original bird flu was a rare strain, individuals…

Consumption of MSG causes numerous side effects, including headaches, migraines, muscle spasms, nausea, rashes, anaphylaxis, seizures, depression and heart irregularities. MSG is known to cause damage to the nervous system. In fact, there are whole classes of chemicals…

Mothballs. Remember those smelly little white balls mothers and grandmothers used to store winter sweaters in? And that odor! They gave off an odor that would make the nose and eyes run like Niagara Falls. They looked harmless enough, after all, Grammy used them, the…

Presumably in response to the continued release of independent studies that warn about the uselessness of prostate cancer screenings, the American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued its own alert about the questionable practice. In a recent statement published in…

The field of psychiatry has succeeded in branding some whoppers into the minds of millions, to the tune of billions, with no accountability. You’d think the Federal Trade Commission would hold psychiatry accountable for blatantly misleading the public, but there is…

“If kids grow kale, they eat kale,” Ron Finley, a famed guerrilla gardener, asserts during his 2013 TED talk. He also believes that food gardening is a revolutionary move with the ability to change the world. In an act of rebellion against the food desert of South Central…

At three major firearms manufacturers have announced plans to relocate their operations from Connecticut to another more gun-friendly state following the recent passage of what Connecticut legislators say is “the most far-reaching gun-legislation package in the country…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested nearly $300 million in additional agency funding from Congress in order to implement the oppressive tenets of the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which will stifle American farmers and commercial…

In some sort of desperate attempt to retain a formidable customer base in this changing nutritional climate, fast food giant McDonald’s has come out publicly with some rather humorous claims about the alleged nutritional value of its food offerings. Speaking at the recent…

New peer-reviewed research published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics raises fresh concerns about the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on American children and babies. As has long been suspected by those with an understanding of the widespread…

Evidence is increasingly emerging that a Western diet may be a significant risk factor for asthma. Asthma is a growing and serious health problem worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2003 asthma was responsible for 4,261 deaths…

An unusual surge of stranded dying and dead sea lions (seals) have littered Southern California beaches from Santa Barbara to San Diego since earlier this year. Most of the area newspapers and media outlets have been alarmingly reporting this unusual phenomenon. It’s…

Two bombs have rocked the streets of Boston and reportedly injured 22 marathon runners (two have reportedly died). It’s too early to know the cause of these explosions, but you can rest assured both the state and federal government will try to use this tragic event to…

A report released by the American Chemical Society reveals that rice imported into the United States from China and other countries contains very high levels of lead. The FDA has established a “provisional total tolerable intake” (PTTI) level for lead, but some of…

They serve a critical role in pollinating crops, killing insects, and fertilizing soil, but their presence throughout the state of Pennsylvania is in a disastrously serious decline. According to a new report by PhillyBurbs.com, 99.99 percent of bats living in Pennsylvania’s…

It’s now being suggested that Google Glass, the computers worn over the eyes, can be used to catch rogue stock traders before they wander off the reservation and destroy the firms they work for. Google Glass records everything the wearer sees and says. So if all brokers…

Apple, Google, LG, and Samsung are all reportedly working on wrist-worn computing devices behind closed doors, and it seems like that little club of big companies may soon get another member. If a new report from the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Microsoft has been in touch with an undisclosed number of suppliers who have apparently been tasked with delivering components for a smartwatch-like device that supports touch input.

Now that’s not to say that such a Microsoft smartwatch is a done deal just yet. The Journal’s sources couldn’t confirm that it would ever actually see the light of day, and I’d wager that’s because the folks in Redmond aren’t exactly sure themselves. After all, some of the company’s most intriguing potential products died ignominious deaths after being stuck in the research and production pipeline. Remember the Courier? The curious dual-screen tablet was apparently very far along (according to CNET, an employee who worked on Courier said it could’ve been completed in “months”) before Microsoft announced its demise in 2010.

It doesn’t help that the nascent smartwatch market has proven to be a tough one to crack. After all, the prospect of delivering a compelling user experience on a wrist-worn gadget isn’t a new one, and only a few of those devices (like the Pebble) could be considered anything close to successful.

Microsoft knows this all too well — the Redmond-based company debuted its SPOT (“Smart Personal Objects Technology”) data delivery service back at CES 2003, and it wasn’t long before watchmakers like Fossil, Suunto, and Tissot began folding SPOT into their own timepieces. Microsoft toyed around with at least one SPOT watch concept of its own, but as a company that was devoted largely to its software endeavors, it seemed more than happy to leave the finicky business of building watches to others before ultimately killing SPOT in 2008.

That’s not exactly the Microsoft we know today though. Early, fruitful hardware projects like the XBOX and its successful successor have paved the way for a Microsoft that’s much more willing to take calculated chances on hardware. One could argue that devices like the Zune and Surface/Surface Pro tablets are more reactions to shifts in the consumer tech industry rather than game-changing innovations in their own right, but that’s not necessarily a problem when it comes to mass market gadgetry. The winner isn’t usually the company that does things first, it’s the company that does things best. For all we know, Microsoft could be the company best equipped to take the smartwatch concept and bring it to the masses, but we’ll have to wait and see if Redmond actually rises to that particular challenge first.

Rackspace fancies itself as the OpenStack supplier to the stars. The company says it will provide telcos and other service providers with OpenStack technology that will enable them to compete better with Amazon Web Services — although you could argue it is arming other large companies to compete with its own OpenStack offerings. This announcement is no doubt just the start of a flurry of press releases timed for this week’s OpenStack Summit in Portland.

Big IT vendors, telcos and hosting companies have watched Amazon’s growing dominance in public cloud computing with concern and that’s why many of them — AT&T, IBM, HP, Red Hat  soon to be joined by Ericsson and JuniperNetworks et al. have glommed onto OpenStack, as an open-source cloud underpinning to jump-start their efforts. Now, Rackspace says it can give them an even better head start, sharing all its best practices and blueprints for OpenStack-based public clouds.

Rackpace CTO John Engates said telcos and service providers have “approached us for years about helping them to get into the cloud business — they want the same category of service that we offer specifically around OpenStack … They want to go faster without having to do all the heavy lifting. They see us as uniquely positioned in that we know how to operate OpenStack, we have a public cloud.”

A federated set of OpenStack clouds

As part of this program, Rackspace would specify hardware and software infrastructure “powered by OpenStack” and handle automated testing and delivery of updates. It will likewise take care of patching, tuning and monitoring the resulting cloud with “carrier-grade”  service level agreements or SLAs.

Scott Sanchez, director of strategy for the San Antonio, Texas, company described what could emerge as a network of interconnected OpenStack-based clouds operated by different telcos but all federated to support multi-national companies as needed. “We’ll treat their data centers as our data centers. they’ll all run technology that is interconnected, we can link them all. So customers of one provider will see all the zones fo all the providers in this network,” he said.

In some ways Rackspace’s pitch to embed its OpenStack into third-party  clouds mimics VMware’s initial go-to-market for vCloud Director. VMware’s vision initially focused on moving legacy applications to the cloud while Amazon attacked new applications, said Gary Chen, IDC’s research manager for cloud and virtualization software. But now, as VMware  and Amazon’s are encroaching on each other’s turf. And, different flavors of OpenStack, depending on the provider, are attacking old and new applications as well.

Target:  Amazon Web Services

Rackspace would not name any telcos or service providers who have signed on but Sanchez said telcos that are the incumbents or dominate in a given region are likely prospects.

With the latest, seventh release of OpenStack, code-named Grizzly, OpenStack has gained maturity and features but still lags far behind features and functions that Amazon has churned out since the AWS launch in 2007. But the desire for an AWS alternative remains strong.

“This is all about OpenStack as a global infrastructure-as-a-service platform available to customers in every geography,” Engates said.

Sanchez shrugged off the notion that Rackspace may be fostering more competition for its own cloud services. “In a way we did that three years ago when we took our code and open sourced it to people who may have been considered our competitors. The goal here is to help people be more successful as cloud providers.”

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For those of you who like to hack and crack your phones, there is good news! Members of the XDA Developers forums have reported a successful Bootloader unlock on the AT&T version of the HTC One. According to sources, the same methods used on the International version to root and install ClockWorkMod will also work on the US version.

There were concerns initially that by the time the One officially launched AT&T would have disabled the standard HTC bootloader unlocking tool, but thankfully this was not the case. As is the case with most Bootloader unlock procedures, you can expect your One to be completely wiped to the factory settings, so back up any and all personal files you hold near and dear. Additional items you may miss following the unlock procedure include:

• Flashlight
• Ringtone Trimmer
• Sound Recorder

All of which can be replaced by third-party apps on the Google Play Store if need be. Be advices, if you are attached to those handy, but not always timely OTA updates, you are going to have to learn to live without them because your One will no longer pass the required file integrity checks necessary to receive them.

If you are a true tweaker, you are probably sneering at the fact that you will lose these basic apps and have probably never relied on an OTA update in your life anyway…so go forth and happy hacking!

A WORD OF CAUTION! TalkAndroid can not be held accountable for any damage this unlocker might do to your device.  Please err on the side of caution on this one and if you don’t think you are tech savvy enough to do it yourself, go grab the geek down the street to help you out.

Source:  XDA Developers

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