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April Fools tradition popularized

On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other.

Although the day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

Historians have also linked April Fools’ Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There’s also speculation that April Fools’ Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.

April Fools’ Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with “hunting the gowk,” in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people’s derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or “kick me” signs on them.

In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustratedtricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a “Left-Handed Whopper,” scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.

From : http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-fools-tradition-popularized

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iPhone SE

iPhone SE: Apple's 4-inch iPhone

Apple introduced the 4-inch iPhone SE, its first 4-inch iPhone since 2013, at a media event on March 21, 2016, with the official launch following on March 31. Described as the "most powerful 4-inch iPhone ever," the iPhone SE marries the design of the iPhone 5s with many internal components from the iPhone 6s, resulting in an affordable, highly capable device that's available in a small package.

Design wise, the iPhone SE uses the same body as the iPhone 5s, but it includes a color-matched inset stainless steel Apple logo and matte chamfered edges, contrasting the shiny chamfered edges and standard logo of the iPhone 5s. The iPhone SE is available in Silver, Space Gray, Gold, and Rose Gold.

An A9 chip with integrated M9 motion coprocessor, also used in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, powers the iPhone SE, enablingalways-on "Hey Siri" functionality. Its efficiency results in longer battery life with up to 14 hours of talk time and 13 hours of Internet use.

Also adopted from the iPhone 6s is a rear-facing 12-megapixel camera which has faster focusing, better noise reduction, improved tone mapping, and a new image signal processor for sharper, more detailed photos. The iPhone SE can shoot 4K video and capture 63-megapixel panoramas, and it can take Live Photos, but there is no 3D Touch support.

The FaceTime HD camera has not been upgraded, continuing to support 1.2-megapixel photos and 720p video recording. Retina Flash, which lights up the iPhone's display for illumination, is included.

Other iPhone SE features include faster LTE with support for up to 19 bands at speeds of up to 150MB/s, plus it has fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 support. A first-generation Touch ID sensor and an NFC chip are available in the iPhone SE, enabling Apple Pay functionality.

The most appealing aspect of the iPhone SE is its low price, which starts at $399 for 16GB of storage and goes up to $499 for 64GB of storage.

Reviews

Apple let press go hands-on with the iPhone SE at its launch event and provided several publications with iPhone SE review units ahead of the device's debut, and we've gathered excerpts from each site to highlight the general release reaction to Apple's new 4-inch iPhone. Reviews and first impressions have been largely positive, with reviewers praising the device's powerful internals.

The general consensus is that the iPhone SE is the perfect phone for people who want the power of Apple's flagship iPhone lineup in a small form factor.

From : http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-se/

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The life is not perfect

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Apple iPad Pro 9.7 has 2GB RAM and not 4GB like bigger Pro

Last week when Apple launched the new iPad Pro 9.7-inch model , it became quite clear that Apple's new tablet was actually better than the larger model which was launched alongside the iPhone 6S. However, that's changing because tech website Ars Technica which is one of the first sites to review the new iPad Pro has revealed that the smaller tablet is actually trotting 2GB lesser RAM than larger 12.9-inch model, which can cause a major difference in performance, that too, negatively.

Apple usually doesn't dive deep into technical specifications and it never releases the figures on the amount of RAM its iOS devices have. While Apple upgraded the camera on the iPad Pro and outfitted it with the same imaging gear as the iPhone 6S, it actually downgraded the processing chops of the device.

The review has revealed that the iPad Pro 9.7-inch not only has 2GB lesser RAM than the 12.9-inch model, but its processor also has a lower clock speed of 2.15GHz. The overall effect is that in some memory intensive benchmarks like the GFXBench, the performance of the iPad Pro 9.7-inch is about 25 per cent lesser than the larger model which Apple released. In fact, the performance of the tablet isn't significantly faster than the iPad Air 2 because that has a 3-core processor while the A9X SoC on the iPad Pro 9.7-inch is a dual-core chip.

Another area where the iPad Pro 9.7-inch lags behind the larger 12.9-inch iPad Pro is in the area of data transfer speeds. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro is capable of USB 3.0 speeds while the smaller one is still straddled on USB 2.0 speeds. Even to incorporate the 12-megapixel camera from the iPhone 6S, Apple had to make design compromises like the minor camera bump which sticks out the symmetrical iPad Pro rear.  

Apple isn't even using the same resolution as the iPad Pro 12.9-inch. The 9.7-inch model gets a 2048x1536 pixels display, though it converts to the same 264 ppi as the larger model. Apple has also improved the colour gamut and is using adaptive contrast technology which it calls the TrueTone display.

The iPad Pro 9.7-inch is likely to be launched in India alongside the iPhone SE on April 8 for a starting price of Rs.49,900.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/apple-ipad-pro-9-7-has-2gb-ram-and-not-4gb-like-bigger-pro/1/629942.html

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6 EXCITING AND TASTY EXPERIMENTS THAT MAY HELP US GET TO MARS

THEY'RE LAUNCHING TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NEXT WEEK

By Sarah Fecht

For the first time since the June explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX will attempt to carry cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 8. The Dragon capsule will lug 3,800 pounds of supplies into orbit, including more than 250 science experiments. Here are a few of the most exciting, as highlighted by a NASA press conference. Each one could play an important role in helping move humanity beyond low Earth orbit.

For the first time since the June explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX will attempt to carry cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 8. The Dragon capsule will lug 3,800 pounds of supplies into orbit, including more than 250 science experiments. Here are a few of the most exciting, as highlighted by a NASA press conference. Each one could play an important role in helping move humanity beyond low Earth orbit.

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NASA

Space Cabbage

Astronauts had great success this year in growing lettuce on the ISS (shown above), and now NASA's Veggie program plans to expand to growing space cabbage as well. A variety called Toyko Bekana cabbage was popular among taste-testers on Earth, and scientists think it should be able to grow in the space station's microgravity. Some portion of the space cabbage is expected to get eaten onboard, while the rest will be frozen for further analysis back on Earth.

"We're also working on sending up some Ranch dressing, too," said Gioia Massa, who's heading up the project from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Growing crops in space could play an important role in keeping astronauts healthy on the way to Mars, since some nutrients, such as vitamin C, cannot survive over a long time in space.

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Space Fungus

This one's not for eating. Aspergillus nidulans (shown in the top left of the image above) will be the first fungus (deliberately) brought to the space station, and it may help develop new drugs that can be used both in space and on Earth.

Fungi can be an important source for natural medicines--like penicillin, for instance, which was discovered in a slime mold. But pharmacologist Clay Wang from the University of Southern California explained that fungi contain many pathways whose functions are unknown, and they could be untapped reservoirs for therapeutic agents.

Wang's team is planning to grow the fuzzy green fungus on space and on the ground, then compare the two groups in terms of their genes, proteins, and metabolites. The group is wondering if the space environment will induce the fungus to create new compounds, or perhaps speed up the process of manufacturing medicines. This data could potentially help astronauts grow their own medicines in space.

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Popular Science/NASA/Nickelodeon

Seeking Out The Tiniest Space Station Inhabitants

Although only about three to six astronauts live on the space station at a time, each of those astronauts brought up millions or billions of microbes. Kasthuri Venkateswaran from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been sampling the space station to see how the structure's microbiome evolves over time. Launching with SpaceX next week will be the third installment of the experiment. The test will use DNA analysis to determine how microgravity, radiation, and a limited human presence influence the bacterial population.

The research could help curb any potentially harmful bacteria that might arise during long-term human spaceflight, and "if there are beneficial microbes living there that are different from the Earth," says Venkateswaran, "that can be exploited to our benefit."

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NASA

Curbing Muscle Loss

Pharmaceutical developer Eli Lilly and Company will test an antibody that may help prevent muscle wasting in mice. Because gravity is weaker in the ISS, astronauts lose a lot of muscle mass during long-term spaceflight, even though they exercise for about two hours a day. Same goes for mouse-tronauts. In 20 mice, the company will test a potential treatment to see if it prevents muscle wasting in mice on the ISS. If the treatment works, it could not only be a boon for long-term space travelers, but also people here on Earth who have ALS, muscular dystrophy, or age-related muscle loss.

NASA

Testing A DNA Copy Machine

On Earth, a technique called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, makes genetic studies a lot easier by making copies of DNA. Now a high school senior is launching a test to see if PCR works in space. If it does, the space-based PCR might help detect any genetic changes that astronauts undergo during long-term spaceflight, which could explain, for example, why astronauts tend to have suppressed immune systems.

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Bigelow Aerospace

BEAM Us Up

And of course, no one can stop talking about the inflatable habitat that will be tested on the space station. Like a pop-up tent, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will fly to the ISS compacted in the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, then expand to over 10 times its original volume after it's attached to the space station. It'll still only be about the size of a small bedroom, but if it works, the technology will have huge implications for the future of human space exploration.

Over the next two years, sensors on the BEAM module will measure impacts from debris, as well as radiation levels and temperature inside the module. Astronauts will enter and leave the module 4-6 times per year, staying for about 3 hours at a time. With the exception of the first entry, they should be able to hang out in there without a spacesuit or other life-support equipment.

The BEAM module is scheduled to expand to its full size and begin taking measurements near the end of May or early June. If it works, it could eventually pave the way for privately owned space stations in Earth orbit as well as lightweight, inflatable habitats that could be sent to the moon or Mars.

From http://www.popsci.com/

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