Angry Birds Friends comes to Android on May 2

Posted Apr 30 2013 by Scott Webster in?News

Rovio will introduce the Android version of its popular Angry Birds Friends game on May 2. A tweet from the developer advises that both Android and iOS editions will be here in two days time.

What is Angry Birds Friends, you ask? In a nutshell, it?s a head-to-head game to see how you fare against other players.

Description from the Facebook game:

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the greedy pigs who stole their eggs. Use the unique abilities of each bird to destroy the pigs? defenses. Angry Birds features challenging physics-based gameplay, intense score-based competition and hours of replay value. Each level requires logic, skill and power to solve.

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Give yourself an edge in the battle against the pigs (and your friends!) with four awesome power-ups. Participate in a different game mode with the Mighty Eagle and collect total destruction feathers from all your levels.

It?s unclear whether this will be an exact replication of the Facebook game, however we suspect it will be. We?ll find out in short order!

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HIV-infected children: Less-used regimen is more effective for children in low-resource settings

Apr. 30, 2013 ? Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, conducted the first large-scale comparison of first-line treatments for HIV-positive children, finding that initial treatment with efavirenz was more effective than nevirapine in suppressing the virus in children ages 3 to 16. However, the less effective nevirapine is currently used much more often in countries with a high prevalence of HIV. The results of the study of more than 800 children are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

There are more than 3 million HIV-positive children in the world, and more than 90 percent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends both efavirenz and nevirapine for first-line pediatric use in resource-limited settings such as sub-Saharan Africa. Lead author Elizabeth Lowenthal, MD, MSCE of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, says this study has the potential to change the standard of care in the parts of the world where most HIV-infected children live.

"Because nevirapine costs less than efavirenz and is more widely available in pediatric formulations, it is currently the more frequent choice for initial treatment in these children. However, our study suggests that efavirenz produces better outcomes," said Dr. Lowenthal.

Senior author Robert Gross, MD, MSCE, an associate professor of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Penn Medicine, adds, "Given this evidence, it is very reasonable to adjust pediatric HIV treatment guidelines. However, as we move towards such changes, more work should be done to make efavirenz a more financially viable option for children on anti-retroviral therapy in these resource-limited settings."

Previous studies favoring efavirenz over nevirapine in adults have resulted in treatment guidelines for adults in many countries, including a few in resource-limited settings, to recommend the use of efavirenz over nevirapine. "In these low-resource settings, Non-Government Organizations typically work with countries' medical programs to forecast their HIV-related drug needs and lobby companies to lower prices for bulk purchases," explained Lowenthal. "Through such programs, drugs that were once more expensive can become cost-effective."

Doctors Lowenthal and Gross applaud the work that the government of Botswana has done to both bring high-quality HIV treatment to its citizens and to facilitate the generation of knowledge to help improve treatment options. "Botswana has been extremely supportive of clinical trials and epidemiological studies, and is very forward thinking in its willingness to inform the world. For such a small country, the amount of research that comes out of Botswana on HIV and tuberculosis is tremendous, which has not only benefitted their public health, but public health for all."

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1. Elizabeth D. Lowenthal et al. Association Between Efavirenz-Based Compared With Nevirapine-Based Antiretroviral Regimens and Virological Failure in HIV-Infected Children. JAMA, 2013 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.3710

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Simple Task-Management Asana Debuts Organizations To Help ...

Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that?s trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), is tackling the scale of its productivity app with a new announcement today.

Last year, Asana announced premium plans, which allowed larger teams larger than 30 members to use the cloud-based app. Co-founder Justin Rosenstein says that there has been rapid adoption of Asana in larger teams that have grown to hundreds of members. These teams have generated more than 55 million tasks and 85 million messages.

Asana has been noticing that businesses want to expand Asana to several parts of their companies. Rosenstein says that the startup identified a big problem for enterprises?as companies get bigger, it?s a challenge to expand productivity across all products and missions. Today, the company is announcing organizations, which enables companies to adopt Asana at an enterprise scale: from hundreds to thousands of employees.

The company is debuting a number of new features that would help large organizations coordinate and achieve their goals. Specifically, Asana says that larger organizations need better support for managers, multiple teams and IT departments, and the app now allows managers and team members alike who belong to multiple teams to access a single Inbox and single My Tasks list across all their teams. They will also be able to search or create custom reports from saved searches across all these teams. This is especially useful for employees using Asana across multiple teams and projects.

Asana is also making it easier for new members to join groups. Before Organizations, new team members needed to be invited to join an Asana team by someone already on the team. Now, anyone who creates an account with their company?s email address will automatically be added to that company?s Organization.

Asana now categorizes teams as groups of people (working on projects) within an Organization. Anyone can create and name a new Team, and invite existing or new Asana members to it. Teams are listed in the new Team Browser this is a new feature of Organizations. The Asana left pane now lets you see all the Teams in your Organization. Within the Team settings, each team has control over how their team membership is defined and whether the Team is listed or not.

Lastly, IT teams can create admin accounts to view user activity, set security and access policies, centralize billing, and manage users. Clearly for large enterprises, this added security and control is necessary.

Asana has been consistently adding innovative features to its productivity app. A few weeks ago, Asana added unified search. And this iteration seems to be paying off?Asana, which is less than two years old, now has tens of thousands of users and hundreds of companies paying for the product.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/simple-task-management-asana-debuts-organizations-to-help-enterprises-streamline-productivity/

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Girl of five dies after rape attack on farm in India

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Best Rx for bees? Their own honey

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A scout bee (top) comes home and shares her findings with another forager.

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience

Honey contains chemicals that could help bees ward off parasites and protect them from pesticide damage, new research suggests.

The findings, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that the immune-boosting chemicals in honey could be a solution to colony-collapse disorder, which has decimated bee populations worldwide.

"The natural honey has components in it that help trigger defenses in the bees," said Jay Evans, a bee pathologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Maryland who was not involved in the study.

Mysterious disappearance
Honeybees have been disappearing mysteriously, in a trend known as colony-collapse disorder. Though no one knows exactly what causes the dramatic die-off, scientists think a range of factors, including parasites and pesticides, may be culprits.

Beekeepers often feed bees to get them safely through the winter. Honey may be ideal, but corn syrup is cheaper, so most beekeepers feed bees artificial sweeteners, Evans said. [On the Hunt: Honeybee Scouts Find Food]

To see whether honey provided any benefit to the bees, May Berenbaum, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her colleagues identified several chemicals in honey that could play a role in helping bees fight parasites and pesticides.

The researchers then took those chemicals, added them to bee candy ? a combination of sucrose and powdered sugar ? and fed them to 15 worker bees. Another group got bee candy without any special compounds added. The team then dissected the mid-gut, or small intestine, of the bees, to see which genes were activated.

Bee immunity
The bees that ate the honey chemicals showed activation in genes that are known to help bees fight parasites and break down pesticides, while those who ate the normal bee candy showed no such activation. One particular chemical, p-Coumaric acid, in particular, was tied to the gene activation.

The findings suggest that honey isn't just providing bees with a quick source of "fast food," but is also giving them compounds that keep them healthy.

It also suggests a potential way to strengthen bee colonies.

"P-Coumaric acid may ?nd use as an additive to honey substitutes to allow beekeepers to maintain colonies during food shortages, without compromising the ability of their bees to defend themselves against the pesticides and pathogens that currently bedevil beekeeping in the United States," the researchers wrote in the paper.

That suggestion seems practical, Evans said.

"I don't think we'll get beekeepers to go back to feeding their bees just honey. But scientists should try supplementing the corn syrup with these compounds, and hoping that replaces the good stuff in the honey," Evans told LiveScience.

Although this change alone may not prevent colony collapses, anything that strengthens the bees could help, Evans said.

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Major League Baseball Brings Archives, Highlights And Live Streaming Games To YouTube (But Not In The U.S.)

Major League Baseball has always been very strict about its content appearing on YouTube and other video streaming sites. Peruse YouTube for highlights from your favorite players and teams, and you'll find it nearly impossible to find quality footage. As soon as a clip from a game goes up on YouTube, it's taken down. Up until now, it's just a collection of slideshows and footage uploaded from fans' shaky hand-held cameras at the ballpark. Finally, Major League Baseball is stepping up its effort to tear down those walls.

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Mandela frail in first TV footage in months

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela made his first television appearance in almost a year on Monday, looking thin and frail in his Johannesburg home where he has been resting after a bout of pneumonia.

The veteran leader stared mostly straight ahead, his face showing little expression in the footage of a visit from President Jacob Zuma and other officials, shown by state broadcaster SABC.

The 94-year-old was in good health and good spirits, the ruling African National Congress said after the Monday visit, in the first update on his condition since he was discharged from hospital in early April.

The footage showed Mandela sitting next to Zuma with a pillow behind his head and his legs propped up under a blanket.

"After receiving a briefing from the medical team, the national officials are satisfied that President Mandela is in good health and is receiving the very best medical care," the ANC said.

Zuma and the other leaders had found "Mandela in good shape and in good spirits", the party added in a statement.

Mandela spent more than a week in hospital being treated for a recurring lung infection identified as pneumonia - the third health scare in four months for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He stepped down as president in 1999 and has not been politically active for about a decade.

But he is still revered at home and abroad for leading the long campaign against apartheid and then championing racial reconciliation.

Mandela's lung problems date from his time as a political prisoner when he contracted tuberculosis. He spent 27 years on Robben Island and in other jails for trying to oust the white-minority government.

Television stations showed still images of Mandela smiling broadly during a visit by Hillary Clinton to his country home in August.

The last video footage of Mandela showed his birthday celebrations in July last year.

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