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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III Tracks Your Eyes, Knows When You?re Ready to Call
After months of speculation, Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone is here. It has a massive touch screen and quad-core CPU, but it's most noteworthy features tie into human behavior prediction -- seriously.
The Bachelorette Season Synopsis Released; Emily Maynard to Travel a Lot
ABC has released, in the form of a season overview, more details of Emily Maynard's search for love, commencing Monday, May 14 on The Bachelorette.
While kicking things off in her hometown of Charlotte, Emily will travel to Dubrovnik, Croatia; Prague, Czech Republic; and London, England this summer.
Read The Bachelorette spoilers we've pulled together so far regarding which men make it to the hometown dates and more, then read ABC's rundown:
The 26-year-old former Bachelor winner first meets her 25 suitors at a southern mansion for a cocktail party after putting six-year-old daughter Ricki to bed.
Several of Maynard's bachelors will attempt to make memorable first impressions during their arrivals as always ... that's par for the course on this show.
Think actual glass slippers being presented, dudes riding in on skateboards, a party MC who breaks down into dance, and a gesture from a true southern gentleman who gives Emily something to symbolize how he'd protect her and Ricki.
In addition, Maynard will also encounter one suitor who makes a grand entrance in a helicopter ... is it Brad Womack? Is it Bentley Williams? No and no.
The promos always mislead you that way ...
Anyway, once the cocktail party begins, the competition to impress Maynard only intensifies, as a "confident" charmer gets upstaged by a single dad of six.
A "handsome" man gives her a pair of custom bobblehead dolls, a bachelor is nervous to explain his career because it may remind her of her late fiance, and another single father brings her a heartfelt letter from his 11-year-old son to read.
The mood then turns serious when host Chris Harrison arrives and reveals it's time for Maynard to present one of the men with a first impression rose.
The men will become increasingly competitive, as Emily decides to award the special rose to one "charming" bachelor ... a decision surprising nobody.
The Bachelorette season premiere will conclude with Maynard whittling her 25 bachelors down to 19. But she's just getting started at that juncture.
Emily Maynard's around-the-world dates will include:
- Traveling to Bermuda where she must eliminate three bachelors before leaving.
- Visiting London for a week where she'll receive a double-decker bus tour of Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park along with a solo dinner in the Tower of London and watching a group of suitors perform scenes from "Romeo and Juliet" in Stratford-on-Avon.
- Traveling to Dubrovnik where she'lll watch Pixar's upocoming Brave movie and a group of bachelors will compete in a round of Highland games to win extra time with her.
- Going to Prague where Maynard and her remaining bachelors will enjoy a private dinner cruise down the Vltava River, explore a medieval castle, and check out the Lennon Wall of Love and a spooky dungeon.
After four hometown dates, the final three men will then have "exotic" overnight dates with Maynard in an undisclosed location. According to ABC, obviously "there are surprises in store for Emily that will shake her world."
Color us shocked and in utter disbelief.
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Why Is Target Kicking Amazon Kindles Out of Its Stores? [Amazon]
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
This is BlackBerry 10, eh?
We know it's still pretty early for the life of BlackBerry 10 devices, but we're also not really all that worried about RIM stealing away Android's market share anytime soon. Any of you thinking of jumping ship yet?
Keep up with all of today's BB10 announcements at CrackBerry.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Akamai: Global Average Connection Speed Dropped 14% In Q4 2011, Down 5.3% in U.S.
According to Akamai's latest State of the Internet report, the average Internet connection speed around the world was 2.3 Mbps by the end of 2011. That's down about 14% from the previous quarter. In the U.S., which ranks thirteenth in this report, the average connection speed in the last quarter of 2011 dropped 5.3% to 5.8 Mbps. In total, eight out of the top 10 countries in Akamai's report saw their average connection speed decline compared to Q3 2011. Worldwide, speeds declined in 93 of the countries included in this report and only increased in 41 countries.nfl draft nascar d rose iman shumpert mayweather vs cotto shumpert hopkins
Mutltitasking hurts performance but makes you feel better
ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2012) ? People aren't very good at media multitasking -- like reading a book while watching TV -- but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new study suggests. The findings provide clues as to why multitasking is so popular, even though many studies show it is not productive.
Researchers had college students record all of their media use and other activities for 28 days, including why they used various media sources and what they got out of it.
The findings showed that multitasking often gave the students an emotional boost, even when it hurt their cognitive functions, such as studying.
"There's this myth among some people that multitasking makes them more productive," said Zheng Wang, lead author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University.
"But they seem to be misperceiving the positive feelings they get from multitasking. They are not being more productive -- they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work."
Take, for example, students who watched TV while reading a book. They reported feeling more emotionally satisfied than those who studied without watching TV, but also reported that they didn't achieve their cognitive goals as well, Wang said.
"They felt satisfied not because they were effective at studying, but because the addition of TV made the studying entertaining. The combination of the activities accounts for the good feelings obtained," Wang said.
Wang conducted the study with John Tchernev, a graduate student in Communication at Ohio State. Their results appear online in the Journal of Communication and will be published in a future print edition.
Wang said many studies done in laboratory settings have found that people show poorer performance on a variety of tasks when they try to juggle multiple media sources at the same time: for example, going from texting a friend, to reading a book, to watching an online video.
But surveys show that media multitasking is only becoming more popular. The question, Wang said, is why do people do so much multitasking if it actually impairs their performance?
To answer that question, Wang said they had to move out of the laboratory and into real life. They recruited 32 college students who agreed to carry a cellphone-like device and report on their activities three times each day for four weeks.
The participants reported on each media use (such as computer, radio, print, television, radio) and sub types (for computer use, whether they were web browsing, using social networking, etc.) They reported the type of activity, the duration, and whether any other activities were performed simultaneously (in other words, whether they were multitasking).
They also provided their motivations for each activity or combination of activities from a list of seven potential needs, including social, fun/entertainment, study/work, and habits/background noise. For each need, they reported the strength of the need on a 10-point scale, and whether those needs were met on a 4-point scale.
The results showed that participants were more likely to multitask when they reported an increase in cognitive needs (such as study or work) or habitual needs or both.
That means, for example, that the students were more likely to multitask when they needed to study (a cognitive need.)
But one of the key findings of the study is that this multitasking didn't do a very good job of satisfying their cognitive needs which actually motivate the multitasking in the first place, Wang said. That's probably because their other media use distracted them from the job of studying. However, the students reported that the multitasking was very good at meeting their emotional needs (fun/entertainment/relaxing) -- interestingly, a need they weren't even seeking to fulfill.
In addition, the results showed that habits played an important role in the use of media multitasking.
"Our findings showed that habitual needs increase media multitasking and are also gratified from multitasking," she said.
This suggests that people get used to multitasking, which makes them more likely to continue.
"We found what we call a dynamical feedback loop. If you multitask today, you're likely to do so again tomorrow, further strengthening the behavior over time," she said.
"This is worrisome because students begin to feel like they need to have the TV on or they need to continually check their text messages or computer while they do their homework. It's not helping them, but they get an emotional reward that keeps them doing it.
"It is critical that we carefully examine the long-term influence of media multitasking on how we perform on cognitive tasks."
The study was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Journal Reference:
- Zheng Wang, John M. Tchernev. The ?Myth? of Media Multitasking: Reciprocal Dynamics of Media Multitasking, Personal Needs, and Gratifications. Journal of Communication, 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01641.x
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