Toyota to recall 1 million vehicles for airbag, wiper glitches

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will recall 1.1 million cars globally for defects, including 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the United States to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently, the automaker said on Wednesday.

The airbag problems have caused minor injuries such as abrasions in 18 cases that have been reported, Toyota spokesman Naoto Fuse said. Two accidents have been reported by customers outside Japan, although Toyota has not been able to confirm them, he said.

An IC chip in the airbag control unit can malfunction when it receives electrical interference from other parts in the car, causing the airbags to deploy when it is not necessary, Fuse said.

Toyota will add an electrical signal filter to the airbag control module to the recalled vehicles -- repairs expected to take an hour to hour-and-a-half, he said.

The spokesman declined to disclose the costs involved.

Separately, Toyota will also recall 385,000 Lexus IS and its series, including 270,000 Lexus IS vehicles in the United States over wiper problems, Fuse said.

The wiper arm nut of the front wiper in these vehicles may not be tight enough and the wiper may not work under certain weather occasions, including in snow.

Toyota will exchange the nut in repairs that will take about 30 minutes, Fuse said.

(This story is corrected in the third paragraph to say electrical interference from "other parts in the car", not "other" cars)

(Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Daniel Magnowski and Ken Wills)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/toyota-recall-752-000-corollas-u-airbag-problems-072932952--sector.html

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BlackBerry Q10 official with keyboard, 3.1-inch display

BlackBerry (formerly RIM) has just unveiled the BlackBerry 10 device that, let's face it, many of the faithful really want: the keyboard-equipped Q10. It mates the QWERTY hardware input that BlackBerry fans have known and loved while including a 3.1-inch touchscreen. Yes, it will have LTE, and there's already confirmed plans from Sprint, Verizon and Canadian providers to carry it -- although we've yet to learn pricing or a ship date. Check our hands-on with the Q10 for early impressions.

Gallery: BlackBerry Q10

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New genre of 'intelligent' micro- and nanomotors

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Enzymes, workhorse molecules of life that underpin almost every biological process, may have a new role as "intelligent" micro- and nanomotors with applications in medicine, engineering and other fields. That's the topic of a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showing that single molecules of common enzymes can generate enough force to cause movement in specific directions.

Peter J. Butler, Ayusman Sen and colleagues point out that enzymes -- proteins that jump-start chemical reactions -- are the basis of natural biological motors essential to life. Scientists long have wondered whether a single enzyme molecule, the smallest machine that could possibly exist, might be able to generate enough force to cause its own movement in a specific direction. "Positive answers to these questions," they explain, "have important implications in areas ranging from biological transport to the design of 'intelligent,' enzyme-powered, autonomous nano- and micromotors, which are expected to find applications in bottom-up assembly of structures, pattern formation, cargo (drug) delivery at specific locations, roving sensors and related functions."

They provide the positive answers in experiments with two common enzymes called catalase and urease. Catalase protects the body from harmful effects of hydrogen peroxide formed naturally in the course of life. Urease, found in many plants, converts urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide. The researchers show that these two enzymes, in the presence of their respective substrate (hydrogen peroxide or urea, which acts as fuel), show movement. More significantly, the movement becomes directional through the imposition of a substrate gradient, a form of chemotaxis. Chemotaxis is what attracts living things toward sources of food. The researchers also show that movement causes chemically interconnected enzymes to be drawn together; a form of predator-prey behavior at the nanoscale.

The authors acknowledge funding from The Pennsylvania State University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center supported by the National Science Foundation.

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1. Samudra Sengupta, Krishna K. Dey, Hari S. Muddana, Tristan Tabouillot, Michael E. Ibele, Peter J. Butler, Ayusman Sen. Enzyme Molecules as Nanomotors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013; 135 (4): 1406 DOI: 10.1021/ja3091615

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Rovio, Angry Birds Star Wars g?ncellemesinin ipucunu Twitter ?zerinden payla?t?

Bad Piggies ve Angry Birds Star Wars paketleri ile oyunseverleri yine ekran ba??na toplayan Rovio, paketler i?in haz?rlad??? g?ncellemelere ait ipu?lar? vermeye devam ediyor.

Bad Piggies i?in Road Hogs adl? bir g?ncelleme haz?rland??? duyurulmu?tu. Angry Birds Star Wars i?in de haz?rlanan g?ncellemeye ait bir g?rsel Twitter ?zerinden payla??ld?.

G?rselde Millenium Falcon arac?n?n yeralt?na do?ru indi?i g?r?l?yor. Muhtemelen yeni g?ncelleme yer alt?nda ge?ecek. Ad?n?n ise Escape from Hoth olaca?? belirtiliyor. G?ncellemenin 19 etiketi ile Twitter ?zerinde duyurulmas? bekleniyor.

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US investigators ask Boeing for battery history

TOKYO (AP) ? U.S. investigators said Wednesday they asked Boeing Co. to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded 787 Dreamliners after Japan's All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the batteries even before overheating problems surfaced.

National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency made the request after recently becoming aware of battery problems at ANA that occurred before a Jan. 7 battery fire in a 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport. Boeing has already collected some of the information, he said.

ANA said it had replaced batteries on its 787 aircraft some 10 times because they didn't charge properly or connections with electrical systems failed, and informed Boeing about the swaps. Japan Airlines also said it had replaced 787 batteries. It described the number involved as a few but couldn't immediately give further details.

All 50 of the Boeing 787s in use around the world remain grounded after an ANA flight on Jan. 16 made an emergency landing in Japan when its main battery overheated.

The 787 is the first airliner to make wide use of lithium-ion batteries. They are prone to overheating and require additional safeguards to prevent fires. However, ANA spokeswoman Megumi Tezuka said the airline was not required to report the battery replacements to Japan's Transport Ministry because they did not interfere with flights and did not raise safety concerns.

Having to replace batteries on aircraft is not uncommon and was not considered out of the ordinary, she said.

Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, said in Washington that the agency was checking whether the previous battery incidents had been reported by Boeing.

Boeing in Japan said it couldn't comment while the NSTB investigation is underway. GS Yuasa, the Kyoto, Japan-based manufacturer of the batteries, said it could not comment.

With 17 of the jets, ANA was Boeing's launch customer for the technologically advanced airliner. The airline has had to cancel hundreds of flights, affecting tens of thousands of people, but has sought to minimize disruptions by switching to other aircraft as much as possible. ANA and Japan Airlines are among the biggest customers for the 787 and Japanese manufacturers make about 35 percent of the aircraft.

The battery problems experienced by ANA before the emergency landing were first reported by The New York Times.

Japanese and U.S. investigators looking into the Boeing 787's battery problems shifted their attention this week from GS Yuasa to the manufacturer of a monitoring system. That company, Kanto Aircraft Instrument Co., makes a system that monitors voltage, charging and temperature of the lithium-ion batteries.

On Tuesday, the NTSB said it was conducting a chemical analysis of internal short circuiting and thermal damage of the battery that caught fire in Boston.

The probe is also analyzing data from flight data recorders on the aircraft, the NTSB said in a statement on its website.

LOT Polish Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines, two of the eight international carriers that fly the 787, said in separate statements Wednesday that they had not experienced any problems with the plane's lithium ion batteries.

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Joan Lowy reported from Washington.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-investigators-ask-boeing-battery-history-134241290--finance.html

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Hydrogen sulfide: The next anti-aging agent?

Jan. 29, 2013 ? Hydrogen sulfide* (H₂S) may play a wide-ranging role in staving off aging, according to a paper published online ahead of print in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. In this review article, a team from China explores the compound's plethora of potential anti-aging pathways.

"H₂S has been gaining increasing attention as an important endogenous signaling molecule because of its significant effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems," the team writes. The evidence is mounting, they note, that hydrogen sulfide slows aging by inhibiting free-radical reactions, by activating SIRT1, an enzyme believed to be a regulator of lifespan, and probably through its interactions with a gene, klotho, which appears to have its own market basket of anti-aging activity.

Hydrogen sulfide is produced within the human body, and has a variety of important physiological effects. For example, it relaxes the vascular endothelium and smooth muscle cells, which is important to maintaining clean arteries as one ages, says first author Zhi-Sheng Jiang, of the University of South China, Hunan. It functions as an antioxidant. And it inhibits expression of pro-inflammatory factors, all of which "imply an important role in aging and age-associated diseases," according to the paper. For example, mice lacking CSE, the gene for an enzyme involved in producing H₂S, manifest extensive, premature arteriosclerosis, an inevitable consequence of aging, says Jiang.

The gene, klotho, which appears to be upregulated by hydrogen sulfide, is thought to extend lifespan via a number of different pathways, some of which promote production of endogenous antioxidants, according to the report. Produced in the kidneys, it has direct angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibiting activity; that is, it's an ACE inhibitor, just like certain drugs that mitigate high blood pressure. Not surprisingly, plasma H₂S declines with age, and is lower in spontaneously hypertensive rats than in those with normal blood pressure. More generally, a lack of H₂S is implicated in cardiovascular disease.

A decline in H₂S is also thought to undermine neurological health. Endogenous H₂S has been found wanting in an animal model of Parkinson's disease, and is found to be depressed in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. There are even suggestions, mostly in animal models, but also in human studies, that H₂S may be protective against cancer, according to the report.

"Data available so far strongly suggest that H₂S may become the next potent agent for preventing and ameliorating the symptoms of aging and age-associated diseases," concludes Jiang. In the future, he says, people may take H₂S via food, or as an anti-aging supplement.

* Hydrogen sulfide (British English: hydrogen sulphide) is the chemical compound with the formula H₂S. It is a colorless, very poisonous, flammable gas that gives off the odor of rotten eggs.

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Facebook gives Graph Search privacy tips

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Facebook's new search feature, still being rolled out to users, promises to be pretty nifty if you want to find friends who, say, moved to another city or use a certain doctor. But if you don't want to be found???and pestered??? the social network wants you to know there are steps you can take to remove your information from its new Graph Search.

Privacy advocates are understandably concerned about Graph Search because, like other personal information you can't hide on Facebook, this is another feature?you cannot opt out of; you can only change your settings to try to?minimize what others find out about you.

"Ultimately, Graph Search will make everything you share with the public and with friends a whole lot easier for people to find," notes security software maker Kaspersky, on its blog. (For a funny???but scary???look at how Graph Search can be used, see Tom Scott's Tumblr blog;?hat tip to NPR's On The Media.)?

On Facebook, users can find a handy Q-and-A about Graph Search and a helpful video, shared below as well, about changing privacy settings.?

Facebook wants users to believe it takes their privacy seriously, especially after a settlement last summer?of federal charges that Facebook deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they had intended. As part of the settlement, the Federal Trade Commission requires Facebook to get user consent for some changes to privacy settings. Facebook is?also subject to 20 years of independent audits about privacy.

Michael Richter, Facebook privacy officer for product, writes on the Q-and-A page that "privacy works consistently across Facebook, not just on Graph Search. When you control who you share your information with, you determine who it's shared with across Facebook???including News Feed, timeline and in Graph Search."

There are also two other Graph Search info pages that are very useful, one on How Privacy Works with Graph Search and another, Graph Search Privacy. Bookmark those pages, because you'll want to refer to them often once Graph Search is completely rolled out.

In a related move this week, Facebook said its Chief Privacy Officer of policy, Erin Egan, now has an "Ask the CPO" feature on the site's "Facebook and Privacy" page, where you can ask Egan?questions. Not all will be answered, but Facebook says, "Each month, Erin will respond to some of your questions."

Here's Facebook's video that?walks?you?through?the?steps you can take to help ensure privacy when it comes to Graph Search:

Check out Technology, GadgetBox, Digital?Life and InGame on?Facebook,?and on?Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

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Google+ Becomes 2nd Most Used Social Media Network | Boston ...

It?s beginning to seem like anything that Google touches becomes Internet gold. Google+ has now become the 2^nd most popular Social Media Network in terms of share of users. While Google+ currently ranks 2nd at 25%, it has now surpassed Twitter and YouTube, who both came in tied in 3rd at 21%. Google still has a ways to go before catching up to the Social Media giant known as Facebook, with a stunning 51% of internet users are actively on Facebook.

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Must See HDTV (January 28th - February 3rd)

There's a football game this week, in case you hadn't heard -- but that's not all. Netflix is debuting the series that it claims will change internet TV, and there's also a few other new options to keep an eye out for. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

The Americans
Add another basic cable series to your watchlist this week, as FX debuts The Americans. Based in 1981, it focuses on a family of Soviet spies living in the US during the Cold War. The show already has a two year commitment to air in the UK, so it's unlikely to face a quick hook -- feel free to settle in.
(FX, January 20th, 10PM)

Super Bowl XLVII
It's the Super Bowl. All other Sunday night programing has been pushed aside, so you'll either be huddled around the flatscreen watching 49ers/Ravens or... we're not sure what.
(CBS, February 2nd, 6:30PM)

House of Cards
Netflix's next venture into the world of original programming begins Friday morning, when it will make the entire first season of its series House of Cards available for streaming. Starring Kevin Spacey, it has all the trademarks of a well produced cable series, it's just not on cable -- it's on the internet.
(Netflix, February 1st)

Blu-ray & Games

• Downton Abbey (S3)
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Part 2)
• Hotel Transylvania (3D)
• Seven Psychopaths
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Amazing Ocean (3D)
• Fascination Coral Reef (3D)

Monday

• Dallas (season premiere), TNT, 9 & 10PM
• The Bachelor, ABC, 8PM
• Bones, Fox, 8PM
• Continuum, Syfy, 8PM
• The Carrie Diaries, CW, 8PM
• Switched at Birth, ABC Family, 8PM
• WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
• The Following, Fox, 9PM
• 90210, NBC, 9PM
• Being Human, Syfy, 9PM
• Bunheads, ABC Family, 9PM
• Lost Girl, Syfy, 10PM
• Deception, NBC, 10PM
• Castle, ABC, 10PM
• Catfish, MTV, 11PM

Tuesday

• The Taste, ABC, 8PM
• NCIS, CBS, 8PM
• Raising Hope, Fox, 8PM
• Betty White's Off Their Rockers, NBC, 8 & 8:30PM
• Hart of Dixie, CW, 8PM
• Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family, 8PM
• Go On, NBC, 9PM
• The Lying Game, CW, 9PM
• NCIS: LA, CBS, 9PM
• New Girl, Fox, 9PM
• Happy Endings, ABC, 9PM
• Emily Owens M.D., CW, 9PM
• Dual Survival, Discovery, 9PM
• The Ultimate Fighter, FX, 9PM
• Top Gear (US) (winter premiere), History, 9PM
• Happy Endings, ABC, 9 & 9:30PM
• The Mindy Project, Fox, 9:30PM
• The New Normal , NBC, 9:30PM
• White Collar, USA, 10PM
• Africa, Discovery, 10PM
• Vegas, CBS, 10PM
• Cougar Town, TBS, 10PM
• Justified, FX, 10PM
• The Burn with Jeff Ross, Comedy Central, 10:30PM

Wednesday

• The Americans (series premiere), FX, 10PM
• American Idol, Fox, 8PM
• Arrow, CW, 8PM
• Whitney, NBC, 8PM
• WWE Main Event, Ion, 8PM
• The Neighbors, ABC, 8:30PM
• Guys With Kids, NBC, 8:30PM
• Supernatural CW, 9PM
• Modern Family, ABC, 9PM
• Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9PM
• Suburgatory, ABC, 9:30PM
• Workaholics, Comedy Central, 10PM
• Necessary Roughness, USA, 10PM
• NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 10PM
• Nashville, ABC, 10PM
• Unsung: Midnight Star, TV One, 10PM
• The Kroll Show, Comedy Central, 10:30PM

Thursday

• 30 Rock (series finale), NBC, 8PM
• Do No Harm (series premiere), NBC, 10PM
• Impact Wrestling, Spike TV, 8PM
• The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8PM
• The Vampire Diaries, CW, 8PM
• Grizzlies/Thunder, TNT, 8PM
• American Idol, Fox, 8PM
• Two and a Half Men, CBS, 8:30PM
• Person of Interest, CBS, 9PM
• Beauty & the Beast, CW, 9PM
• Glee, Fox, 9PM
• Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 9PM
• The Office, NBC, 9PM
• The Office, NBC, 9:30PM
• Anger Management, FX, 9:30PM
• King of the Nerds, TBS, 10PM
• Archer, FX, 10PM
• Elementary, CBS, 10PM
• Scandal, ABC, 10PM
• Bellator MMA Live, Spike TV, 10PM
• Suits, USA, 10PM
• Legit, FX, 10:30PM
• Mavericks/Warriors, TNT, 10:30PM
• Totally Biased with W Kamau Bell, FX, 11PM

Friday

• House of Cards, Netflix
• Heat/Pacers, ESPN, 8PM
• Nikita, CW, 8PM
• WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
• Malibu Country, ABC, 8:30PM
• CSI: NY, CBS, 9PM
• Spartacus: War of the Damned, Starz, 9PM
• Friday Night Fights, ESPN2, 9PM
• Lakers/Timberwolves, ESPN, 9:30PM
• Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, 10PM
• Banshee, Cinemax, 10PM
• Merlin, Syfy, 10PM
• Portlandia, IFC, 10PM

Saturday

• Victorious (series finale), Nickelodeon, 8PM
• Cops, Fox, 8 & 8:30PM
• NFL Honors, CBS, 9PM
• Girls, HBO, 10:05PM
• Enlightened, HBO, 10:35PM

Sunday

• Super Bowl XLVII, CBS, 6:30PM
• Downton Abbey, PBS, 9PM
• Elementary, CBS, 10PM

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