Scientists develop blood test that estimates how quickly people age – and their risk of Alzheimer’s
Scientists have developed a blood test to estimate how quickly someone is ageing. They believe it could be used to predict a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease as well as the “youthfulness” of donated organs for transplant operations.
September 7, 2015 at 02:30PM
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Hoping to snag a few extra strange coins this week to prepare for the The Taken King when it drops in the 15th? You’re out of luck, unfortunately. There’s no daily, weekly, or nightfall events for Destiny coming with the reset tomorrow, but there should still be plenty of new content for anyone looking to get into the game. Bungie is dropping patch 2.00 for all players tomorrow, regardless of whether they’ve purchased The Taken King or not.
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For many Americans, the meaning of national holidays gets lost in the more mundane pleasures of workless Mondays. Based on an informal poll I made with friends and family, Labor Day is one of those days. And it’s not just that people prefer barbecue and beer to remembrance. It’s more that the narrative about the American labor movement has been suffering from both malignant and benign neglect.
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The percentage of US computer science bachelor’s degrees awarded to women has been at a near-constant decline since the early 1980s, when women earned 37% of such degrees, according to the US National Science Foundation. By the time this freshman class was born in the mid-1990s, that percentage had dropped to 28%. Today, it’s 18%, where it’s been hovering since around 2007, according to the NSF.
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Networks have been pretty bland and generic for the past 20 years. There has been innovation, but it has been more about playing to existing themes and less about the disruption that we have seen in servers, storage, and even datacenters. But new workloads and data patterns will challenge companies like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise from established non-network players from other markets like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft as well as startups like Big Switch Networks and Cumulus Networks. In the past, networks and computing were very centralized, but changing workloads are pushing compute and network control out of the center of the network and out to the edges. It’s time for businesses to start thinking outside the box because the real action on the network might be outside of the datacenter, either at the edge or in the cloud.
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El curso ha comenzado, y bien vestidos y con muchas ganas comenzamos un mes de septiembre repleto de grandes lanzamientos en un sector de los videojuegos que no para de renovarse, y teniendo como principal motor el mercado de los juegos para dispositivos portátiles. Esta semana te traemos un jamón electrónico de buena calidad destacando títulos como El Camino a Luma, Bullet Boy o On the Run. ¿Nos sigues?.
Winter Fugitives – Mezclando la jugabilidad de sigilo de Metal Gear junto al control dando saltitos de Crossy Road nos llega un Winter Fugitives donde nos toca encarnar a un perezoso y tonto ladrón en su periplo en busca de la libertad, algo que no tendrá precisamente fácil por la ingente cantidad de guardias que le buscan.
Demi Lovato: Path to Fame – Si eres un seguidor de Demi Lovato deberías haberte descargado ya Path to Fame, y si no lo eres quizás te interese saber que estamos ante una especie de aventura gráfica donde iremos recibiendo consejos para llegar al estrellato musical.
Camino a Luma – La originalidad y la lucha por un mundo en paz y sostenible se explotan en Camino a Luma, una propuesta de aventura y puzles donde un personaje debe buscar el equilibrio en planetas que podremos rotar a nuestro antojo para revivirlos, en una pieza electrónica diferente y apetecible para los amantes de los buenos juegos.
On the Run – La velocidad precisamente no está reñida con una buena jugabilidad, y es que con On the Run lo vamos a pasar realmente bien conduciendo sin límite por unos escenarios donde recibiremos puntos según la distancia recorrida y nuestro buen hacer al volante, no dejando de lado esa esencia arcade.
Bullet Boy – Rescatando la jugabilidad de los barriles de Donkey Kong Country se lanza al esterellato Bullet Boy, un título donde nos toca manejar a un simpático hombre bala exigiéndonos precisión y destreza para superar unos niveles genialmente creados en favor de la diversión.
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As we told you a few days ago, Micromax-backed Indian smartphone maker Yu will hold an event tomorrow during which it’s expected to reveal a new device. And it looks like most of this handset’s specs have been leaked already.
First off, a Yu 5050 has been spotted entering India for testing purposes by a specialized website tracking imports into the subcontinent. This also helpfully tells us that the phone’s screen size will be 5.2″.
Next up, the same Yu 5050 has turned up in the databases of two different benchmarking apps for Android – GeekBench and AnTuTu. And thanks to this we find out that the handset will come with QHD resolution, a 21 MP rear camera, an 8 MP selfie snapper, 32GB of storage, 3 or 4GB of RAM, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 SoC at the helm. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
What’s even more interesting is that the Yu 5050’s price is rumored to be around $310 unlocked. That would make it cheaper than the OnePlus 2, for example, and it could end up being the cheapest phone powered by the Snapdragon 810 chipset. On the other hand, the two different RAM amounts seem to indicate we’ll see two versions of the 5050, in which case the lower-end one is probably going to start at that price.
One thing to keep in mind is that such benchmark reports are not at all impossible to fake. Then again, we’ll officially find out everything there is to know about this phone in less than 24 hours.
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Sometimes, you can’t make everything you want to. It happens more frequently when you’re getting fired and already making a sprawling, 40-50 hour game. Such seemed to be the case with Metal Gear Solid 5 which, despite having some of the best open-world stealth I’ve ever played, can be pretty uneven in its storytelling and struggles with wrapping up one of the most long-running series in video games. As it turns out, however, there was an unfinished mission 51 titled “Kingdom of The Flies” contained on the collector’s edition blu-ray. It comes complete with fully-voiced cutscenes, though one imagines the gameplay was far from complete.
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Over in Berlin, the covers were taken off of a number of high-profile new smartwatches that will be hitting the shops over the next few months.
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Sony has started sending out a new software update for some of its older Xperia Z-series devices. The software in question is Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, still the latest stable version to come out of Google.
The devices for which the rollout has started today are the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, and the Xperia Tablet Z in both Wi-Fi-only and LTE-enabled iterations.
Currently only certain variations of these models are receiving the update. For the Xperia Z we’re talking about handsets with the model number C6602 and C6603, as well as the C6503 and C6506 Xperia ZL units, C5503-badged Xperia ZR, the SGP311 and SGP312 Wi-Fi-only Tablet Z, and the SGP321 Tablet Z with LTE.
Unfortunately it looks like the much-discussed Stagefright exploit has not been fully patched in this release, so we expect to see a further, smaller update coming in the future to address that.
Regardless of which of the aforementioned devices you install the update onto, after having applied it you’ll be on build number…
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