sciencehabit writes, quoting an article in Science: “A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a ‘do not eat’ signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.”

The abstract and full paper are freely available. It seems fairly promising: “In mice given human bladder cancer tumors, for example, 10 of 10 untreated mice had cancer that spread to their lymph nodes. Only one of 10 mice treated with anti-CD47 had a lymph node with signs of cancer. Moreover, the implanted tumor often got smaller after treatment — colon cancers transplanted into the mice shrank to less than one-third of their original size, on average. And in five mice with breast cancer tumors, anti-CD47 eliminated all signs of the cancer cells, and the animals remained cancer-free 4 months after the treatment stopped.”

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The developers behind the XBMC project have released a major new version of the program. XBMC 11, which is codenamed Eden, brings better performance, broader platform support, theming enhancements, and a number of other improvements. The developers have also created a new XBMC live CD environment based on Ubuntu.

XBMC is a highly portable open source media center application with a sophisticated library management system. It indexes the user’s video content and provides an intuitive remote-friendly user interface for browsing and playing media. XBMC and its derivatives, such as Boxee and Plex, are popular among home theater PC users.

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It looks as if Comcast is preparing to move from a limited beta test to a wide release for its long-promised Xbox Live streaming video app, with some details appearing on the company’s support pages. Probably the biggest revelation about the service is that streaming Comcast’s On Demand videos through the Xbox 360 will not count towards customers’ 250GB monthly data limit.

Comcast says the Xbox app gets special treatment because the video is “being delivered over our private IP network and not the public Internet.” This gives the service a potentially large advantage over not just other video streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu Plus, but also over Comcast On Demand content streamed through the company’s website and mobile apps, both of which count against the data limits.

Streaming video can eat up limited data rather quickly, though you’d have to stream around 100 hours of Netflix per month before having a chance of bumping up against Comcast’s 250GB limit (assuming you didn’t use the Internet for anything else). Canadian ISP Shaw announced last year that its “Movie Club” service wouldn’t count towards users’ monthly data caps, because it is delivered though existing cable infrastructure.

Elsewhere in its Xbox FAQ, Comcast clarifies that cable subscribers who use a different Internet service provider won’t be able to stream content through their Xbox 360, and that the service requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription as well as at least one cable box elsewhere in the home. The FAQ also notes that Comcast has no plans to follow Verizon’s lead in offering live TV content through the Xbox 360, but offered that the “service will evolve over time.”

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The
folks are away, so it’s time to party! Or so David Rowe’s teenage daughter
thought. How could her dad find out if he’s hundreds of miles away?

The geek way, of course, by measuring his house’s power consumption using
Fluksometer:

On New Years Eve 2011 I was in Geelong at a restaurant, 800km from
my home in Adelaide. This year I happened to be away from my children,
who were staying elsewhere in Adelaide while I was interstate. My home
was supposedly vacant. However I knew it was very hot in Adelaide that
day (40C) and I wondered if this would affect my power consumption,
for example an increased duty cycle on the fridge. I am just that sort
of power-geek.

So I checked my Fluksometer via my 3G android phone. I was surprised
to see 1000W being used since 1pm – about what my Air-con uses.
I also noticed that around 7pm the power jumped by a few 100W, just
like the lights had gone on, or perhaps the TV.

Looked like some one was in my home. On New Years Eve. Hmmmmmm.

Damn you, technology! Link
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The last thing you want when things are getting hot in the battlefield, is for things to start heating-up under your desk too. Digital Storm’s been back in the lab, looking for ways to prevent just that, and thinks it’s cracked it with the new Aventum system. It’s the first to be kitted out with the PC-maker’s Cryo-TEC liquid cooling mechanism, and boasts a thermal exhaust, five software-regulated “zones” and no less than 13 configurable fans. The range starts with an Intel i7 2700K core, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD (1TB HDD) and a GeForce GTX680 for $3,859. If your pockets are even deeper, then you might fancy the 2x dual Xeon E5-2630 hexacore-totin’ system with 32GB DDR RAM, and three-way SLI (with the same GeForce GTX680) for a jaw dropping $7,856. With a price like that, however, it’s probably your credit card that’ll need cooling down. Digital Storm is taking orders as of today, and full details of the range in the PR after the break.

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Rovio’s bird-flinging physics game hit the 10 million mark this weekend, the developer said on the official Angry Birds Twitter account this morning. Angry Birds Space came out on March 22. [Angry Birds] More »

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Jessica Lloyd Jones creates rather unique representations of vital organs out of blown glass, then she adds neon to each piece to add a glow of life energy. Here’s what Jessica has to say about her works:

Blown glass human organs encapsulate inert gases displaying different colours under the influence of an electric current. The human anatomy is a complex, biological system in which energy plays a vital role. Brain Wave conveys neurological processing activity as a kinetic and sensory, physical phenomena through its display of moving electric plasma. Optic Nerve shows a similar effect, more akin to the blood vessels of the eye and with a front ‘lens’ magnifying the movement and the intensity of light. Heart is a representation of the human heart illuminated by still red neon gas. Electric Lungs is a more technically intricate structure with xenon gas spreading through its passage ways, communicating our human unawareness of the trace gases we inhale in our breathable atmosphere.

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shreshtha writes “Huawei says it has ‘recently introduced … Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases peak rates to 30Gbps — over 20 times faster than existing commercial LTE networks.’ It claims to have achieved this with ‘key breakthroughs in antenna structure, radio frequency architecture, IF (intermediate frequency) algorithms, and multi-user MIMO (multi-input multi-output).'”

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Square’s Card Case rechristened ‘Pay with Square,’ is first to bring geo-fenced hands-free payments to Android originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Maybe you’re a Dropbox devotee. Or perhaps you really like streaming Sherlock on Netflix. For that, you can thank the cloud.

In fact, it’s safe to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become synonymous with cloud computing; it’s the platform on which some of the Internet’s most popular sites and services are built. But just as cloud computing is used as a simplistic catchall term for a variety of online services, the same can be said for AWS—there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think.

If you’ve ever wanted to drop terms like EC2 and S3 into casual conversation (and really, who doesn’t?) we’re going to demystify the most important parts of AWS and show you how Amazon’s cloud really works.

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