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Diclofenac, according to studies, is the most used and most popular painkiller in the world. It may not be as popular as other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) in the United States, its popularity is boosted in, at least, 15 countries as it continues to outsell naproxen, ibuprofen, and other NSAIDs.
Studies also suggest that diclofenac may increase the chance of heart attack in a person by 40 percent. If his annual heart attack risk is 1 in 1,000, it will be increased to 1.4. The figures may be perceived as "insubstantial" but for people with higher heart attack risk, it's different.
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How Many Heartbeats Does Each Species Get in a Lifetime? An interesting theory claims that a lifespan for every living creature is equivalent to about 1 billion heartbeats (in average). The theory is based on the correlation between metabolic rate (heart rate) and size of the species. Thus, referring to this claim, animals including humans have about 1 billion heartbeats to use up before they expire.
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The British have been using this little drone for about a year. It's called the Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Aircraft System, costs $195,000 and can fly for a total of 25 minutes. It is equipped with a small camera that can send back full video or still images to the soldiers screen, with range of up to 1000 meters. The device is 10 cm long and weighing 16 grams, with a 4 inch rotor span — think a little longer than your middle finger.
The British seem to really like this drone, it is powered by a small battery pack that enables it to fly at up to 10 m/s. What is really awesome about it is that it can be controlled via an 'autopilot' type mode where it goes to its destination via a GPS chip.
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Pakistan has banned both Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Medal of Honor: Warfighter for their reported portrayal of the south Asian country as a haven for terrorists. Pakistani shop owners have complained that the games suggest the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency supports Al Qaeda.
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It was a team of researchers at Virginia Tech, led by Shashank Priya, that created an emergency charging device that is powered by the movement of your phone. It uses what is called piezoelectric force to create this energy, and this force can be caused by typing on the phone's keyboard, speaking into the phone, and (more efficiently) shaking it like a polaroid picture.
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Going green may now involve something a bit yellow, as four teenage girls show off a urine-powered generator at Makers Faire Africa. The small group of 14 and 15 year old girls had the ingenuity and inspiration to help change world with one bathroom trip at a time. Imagine powering your house or charge you electronic devices after making a trip to the little boy or girls room. It takes only one liter of urine to run the generator for 6 whole hours.
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With the many celebrities present on Twitter worldwide, you would think one of them would the record for the most retweeted tweet ever, but, after last night's victory over Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama now holds that title.
With the current count at 701,022 retweets in just 11 hours after being posted, @BarackObama's message of "Four more years." can be said to have blown up rather quickly around the twitter-sphere. The tweet has also been favorited 241,130 times by people around the world.
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Guided by advanced molecular modeling on supercomputers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are investigating ways to turn atom-thick carbon layers into membranes for a new and improved desalination method in places with inadequate fresh water.
“Without any actual experimental demonstration, what our calculations tell us is that the performance of the graphene membrane for water desalination would be very high,” says Jeffrey Grossman, a materials scientist who is MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg associate professor of power engineering and leader of the investigation.
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As each day passes we enter more and more into the post-PC era, and the sector of mobile consumer electronics is one tough arena. There are so many companies completing for the majority of the market share by releasing new devices every month; it's hard to know what is the best device and if it's the right time to buy. The latest trendy product is the smaller, budget-priced tablet device mostly used for consumption, like reading, viewing emails and video, and sharing pictures. So let's take a look at what the market has to offer in terms of tiny tablets and which one can stand victorious as the best fit for all.
So we will be examining the recently announced iPad Mini, the Nexus 7, the Kindle Fire HD, and the Nook HD. Each of these tablets have a screen size of less than 8-inches and hold the latest technology that Apple, Google, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble have to offer. Each segment will point out the pros and cons of each device in terms of specifications, usability, and who may benefit the most from this brand of post-PC computing, as well as where you can purchase it. We will start with age before beauty and inspect the Nexus 7 first.
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Phil Schiller has taken the cover off of the first-generation iPad Mini; so, it's time to take a look what rumors turned true and see what surprises we have in store.
At 7.9-inches at the diagonal, the iPad Mini is the thinnest and lightest tablet device on the market now. It maintains the same resolution as the iPad 2 at 1024x768, and it is only 7.2-mm thin and weighing just 0.68 pounds. This is a truly incredible device that will make you rethink choosing any other brand of tablets.
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The job market is one competitive fight for making ends meet, especially when coming right out of college, but some career choices could lead a wide array of opportunity upon exiting higher education, like software engineering. This can be quite a lucrative field if you know what you're doing; so much so that here is the Top 10 highest paying companies for software engineers, according to recent research carried out by career website Glassdoor.
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Now this is not just some gossip swirling around the rumor mill, it has been confirmed by a Microsoft product manager. At a an event in the Czech republic earlier today, the manager stated that native versions of Microsoft Office should be made available in March 2013. It will also be seen on Windows Phone, Windows RT, Mac OS, and Symbian to try to reach as many consumers as possible.
There are many alternatives to the Office Suite, however it is the most common set of business tools found in education and professional sectors. There is no word of a price tag for this new native suite but one can assume it will be a pretty penny for the convenience of Office on your iPad.
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BlackBerry. It was THE name in mobile phones for the business world since 2003 when introduced the first successful smartphone to offer push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services. It's superb security and excellent email application made a device that no serious professional would be without, but that was back in 2003. Now RIM is holding onto one last hope to save their drowning company, BlackBerry 10.
Research In Motion, or RIM, had the perfect recipe for success, a quality mobile operating system paired with sleek and savvy hardware. They were dominating in their field for years with nearly no competition to worry about, at least until Apple decided to announce their own smartphone in 2007. That was the beginning to a new era in mobile technology and, unfortunately, RIM didn't take notice of this threat until much too late.
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This nifty gizmo was actually made of a popular gaming console camera that is fast enough to track the movements of a human eye, which can move 10 to 20 times a second. Such parts a made in bulk, so they are much cheaper than previous types of eye-tracking technology that cost upwards of $8000. This device, the GT3D, is made up of a pair of glasses, two attached cameras, and the elastic band to keep the cameras focused on the pupils.
The accuracy of this gadget is pretty incredible at this stage of development, as said by its creators:
"...is so accurate that if you were in a normal-sized room and wearing the device it would be able to locate where you were looking to within the size of a grapefruit."
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It's the final lap of the rumor race as we approach Apple media event on Wednesday, September 12th, and time to summarize what we expect to see from what is sure to be one of the most anticipated events of the year thus far.
The biggest thing to expect from the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, California, is the reveal of the iPhone 5 (should it be called that). We've seen several mockups over the previous months, some realistic and some purely fanciful, but one has stayed pretty consistent; the taller and thinner version of the iPhone4/4S design is the most logical update for Apple's next-generation smartphone. There were a few superficial changes that could make or break the record for the best selling smartphone of all time.
