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My life with the BodyMedia Fit activity tracker
2013-06-18 15:46:00| CNET News.com
If you really want to know how many calories that exercise burned, the BodyMedia Fit easily beats other popular trackers. But being an armband, rather than wristband, isn't particularly comfortable. [Read more]
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Microchip's New Op Amps Extend Battery Life With Exceptionally Low Power Consumption
2013-06-18 10:00:00| electronicsweb News Articles
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, recently announced a new nine-member low-power, general-purpose operational amplifier (op amp) family—the MCP647X/8X/9X
Warming bad for life in freshwater lakes and rivers
2013-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Austria's alpine lakes are warming, and that's bad news for the region's fish and economy, according to new research in the journal Hydrobiologia. The Alpine valleys are warming: From 1980 to 1999 the region warmed three times the global average. Martin Dokulil of the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck studied data from nine lakes larger than 10 square kilometers, or about 2,500 acres. The largest, Bodensee or Lake Constance, touches Austria's border with Germany and Switzerland;...
An Economic Boom in Turkey Takes a Toll on Marine Life
2013-06-17 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: We were bobbing just south of the Bosphorus, where the straits open to the Marmara Sea. Onshore, were Istanbuls iconic monuments -- the Blue Mosque, the Topkapi Palace, the Aya Sofia -- and in the water was a pod of bottlenose dolphins. Two dorsal fins broke the surface, then a few gray backs arched up, gleaming in the sun. One shot into the air, pale belly flashing briefly. Its the resident group, said Aylin Akkaya, a biologist with Istanbul University who studies the citys dolphins. Theyre...
Pondering Life in a PRISM World
2013-06-17 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Not a single week goes by here in the Linux blogosphere without some assortment of news and events to keep life interesting. It's not often, however, that something comes along with the magnitude of PRISM. Linux Girl was comfortably ensconced on her favorite barstool when the news broke down at the Punchy Penguin Saloon, and it's been chaos ever since.
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