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Now an app that helps you confess your sins

A Roman Catholic prelate has developed a smart-phone application that will help let his parishioners know when and where he is available to listen to their sins. Rev. Richard Heilman's My Confessor App allows faithful to keep up digitally with when their local priest is hearing confession, the New York Daily News reported. Heilman said that he wanted people to not feel uncomfortable asking ...
Batteries hold key to wearable device revolution

Reuters © Sleiman Itani (L), co-founder and chief executive of Atheer, and Hosain Rahman, co-founder and chief executive of Jawbone, speak at the wearing computing panel during Reuters Global Technology Summit in San Francisco, June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen ...
AMD reveals details of Berlin and Seattle chips

AMD has released information on its first server APU supporting its heterogeous system architecture (HSA), codenamed Berlin, and its first ARM server processor, codenamed Seattle. AMD's server division has been busy preparing both x86 and ARM based processors and it has revealed some information about chips that will appear next year. The firm's x86 quad-core Berlin processor will ...
Kung Fu Panda beefs up Netflix

DreamWorks shares as much as 7pc in early trading on the Nasdaq.DreamWorks said the multi-year deal, which involves more than 300 hours of programming, is a cornerstone of a major initiative to expand its TV production and distribution.The companies did not disclose the value of the deal or the length of the contract, the biggest that Netflix has signed for original programming.Wedbush analyst ...
Bits Blog The Latest to Disclose Government Requests Yahoo Reveals the Least

Apple , Yahoo disclosed late Friday some broad data about the number of requests that American law enforcement authorities had made for data about its users. From Dec. 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, the Internet company received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests from the government, related to everything from local crimes to terrorism investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. ...

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21 Jump Street

The artistic bankruptcy of mining old television shows for big-budget movies is so firmly entrenched at this point that one of the best jokes in 21 Jump Streetyes, another movie mined from an old television showdirectly references it. Were reviving a cancelled undercover polic ... ...

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Ready or not compulsory Creative Cloud cometh

(Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET) It's been a bumpy few weeks for Adobe since announcing its controversial decision to move all its "perpetual license" Creative Suite applications to a subscription-only plan ...
Yahoo reveals U.S. government requests for user data

Web pioneer says it received more than 12,000 requests in the past six months for user information, most of which were related to criminal investigations such as fraud and ...
Solar-Powered Plane Faces the Human Factor

Solar Impulse airplane are looking at the challenge of flying around the globe but focusing on the weak spot in their cutting-edge technological effort: human ...
Oil Inches Up but Investors Cautious

U.S. oil ticked higher on Tuesday, holding near a nine-month peak struck in the previous session, but investors remain cautious as they wait for the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting for clues on the outlook for U.S. economic ...
Microsoft swaps Outlook.com linked accounts for aliases

"It's a new world" out there in terms of digital identity and security, Microsoft said Monday. And, this world is far more dangerous than it used to be. In order to mitigate e-mail infiltration by hackers and wrongdoers, Microsoft has announced that it's tossing linked accounts for ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

Hassan Rouhani

Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Why we crave things we should not

A new study from the University of British Columbia has shed light on how people become obsessed with forbidden pleasures.

The study showed that when people are forbidden from something, it takes on a new level of focus.

"Our findings show that when individuals are forbidden from everyday objects, our minds and brains pay more attention to them," said lead author Grace Truong, a graduate student in UBC's Dept. of Psychology.

"Our brains give forbidden objects the same level of attention as our own personal possessions," Truong added.

The study's most important finding, though, is that obsession is not as strong if others are also denied: when an object is forbidden to a group, the allure of the object drops dramatically.

This helps to explain why group diet techniques such as Weight Watchers can be more successful than dieting alone. It also offers important insights for compulsive hoarding and parents seeking to help their children's attachment to toys and other possessions.

For the study, groups of participants were shown images of everyday objects and told the objects were either theirs, someone else's, forbidden to them or forbidden to everyone. Using electronic brain imaging and memory tests, researchers found the forbidden objects were recognized as well as self-owned objects. ...