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Prepare for Shock: Apple Puts Old Parts in Replacement Products

A reader over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has asked the site what the quality of his iPhone would be after just being to the Genius Bar to replace his under-warranty iPhone for a hardware issue. Speaking from a former Apple technician’s point of view, “If you are merely a consumer, prepare to be...

3 November 2009
05:34 GMT

Commodore 64 Finally Arrives in the iTunes App Store

Originally rejected by Apple’s review board, the Commodore 64 application is now available for immediate download via the iTunes App Store, according to the people at TouchArcade. Despite being officially licensed from both rights holders of the Commodore ROMs and the individual games, the emulator was rejected...

7 September 2009
05:16 GMT

Johnny Depp Can’t Wait to Get a Beer Belly

Johnny Depp can do no wrong, it has often been claimed, especially by his very loyal female fanbase. As a matter of fact, it is being said that this one actor is so close to being perfect and so iconic that he even makes a beer belly look great. And a beer belly is what Depp wants for his old age, as a BANG report re...

26 May 2009
11:10 GMT

Famous Classic Mega Man II Hits iPhone, iPod touch

Mega Man II, one of the greatest NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) classics ever released, has made its way onto the iPhone and iPod touch. Requiring iPhone 2.2 Software Update, Mega Man II puts players in the shoes of the famous blue bomber on a journey to defeat evil Dr. Wily and his minions.From the iTunes App S...

3 April 2009
08:41 GMT

World's Hot Spots of Longevity

At the moment, the American life expectancy is of 77.8 years, but the number is expected to plummet due to the current obesity pandemics. However, there are zones on our planet where people live like in fairy tales, holding the secret of eternal youth. Dan Buettner has been tracking down world's centenarian hot ...

24 April 2008
14:06 GMT

The World's Oldest Person Is 115-Years-Old

The world's official oldest person is 115 years and 4 days old. Edna Parker lives in a retirement community in Shelbyville, Indiana, and was born on April 20, 1893. Parker was born on the same day as silent movie star Harold Lloyd. In the same retirement center also lives Sandy Allen, the tallest woman in the wo...

24 April 2008
14:06 GMT

This Is the World's Oldest Living Person: 120 Years!

Guinness Book credits as the oldest living person the American Edna Parker, born on the 20th of April, 1893 (thus 114 years, 7 months and 28 days old). Parker got her title in August 2007, after the death of the Japanese Yone Minagawa, 3 months and 16 days older than her. Parker was born on the same day as silent mov...

19 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Could We Live 800 Years?

Immortality and eternal youth has always been the dream of the humankind. What about a lifespan of 800 years? Yeasts can do it, in their world, if experience a specific mutation. This is the result of a research published in PLoS Genetics by a team at the University of Southern California. They prolonged the lifespan...

17 January 2008
05:28 GMT

World's Oldest Person Has Just Died!

Guinness Book credits as the oldest living person the American Edna Parker, born on the 20th of April, 1893 (thus 114 years, 7 months and 28 days old). But, the oldest person in the world seems to actually have been an Ukraine man, Hryhoriy Nestor, a bachelor born on the 15th March, 1891, according to the family doc...

18 December 2007
03:08 GMT

Why Do We Lose Memory with the Aging?

"You're getting old! You're getting old!". They chase you for each mistake involving recalling. And the truth is that indeed elders have troubles with the memory, from recalling a name to what they ate 5 minutes ago. And we're talking about healthy old persons, not experiencing Alzheimer's or othe...

6 December 2007
06:00 GMT

8 Facts About Death and Long Life

1.Today, there are over 200,000 centennial (aged over 100) persons. 66 are over 110, turning into supercentennial individuals. These have certifying papers, but their number could be up to about 450. 2.A quarter of the deaths around young Americans, aged 15 to 24, are caused by fire guns. In 1990, this translated to ...

5 December 2007
14:06 GMT

The Longest-Lived Animal Ever: 410 Years Old!

When we talk about longevity, our minds think about giant tortoises and crocodiles, elephants and other animals.Indeed, crocodiles can live as much as human beings and elephants do, also reaching the sixties. Giant tortoises are proved to live more than 200 years. And some ravens and parrots indeed live longer than o...

29 October 2007
15:06 GMT

The Retarded Malware

Malware seems to have a certain graphic that it loyally follows and once it heads for a certain direction, it keeps going that way like there's no turning back. Well, that is what happens most of the times, but it seems that as of late, we've had our share of retarded malware and by that I mean threats that...

10 October 2007
10:01 GMT

Top 10 Issues that Make You Grow Old Earlier

The knife cannot solve everything and it is not the elixir of youth. A healthy life style is much cheaper and more effective. Bad habits make you grow old too soon. These, however, are the worst:1. Stress. People who are not able to get rid of it get older earlier. It decreases our immunity (thus infection resistance...

22 August 2007
13:36 GMT

The New Oldest Person in the World: 114 Years 3 Months and 25 Days Old

The oldest person in the world, the Japanese Yone Minagawa, died on Monday evening, at the age of 114, according to AFP. She was the holder of the Guiness Book Record as the oldest living human. Now her title is attributed to the American woman Edna Parker, younger than Minagawa by 3 months and 16 days, born on 20 of...

15 August 2007
13:51 GMT

The First Born Child Is the Most Intelligent in the House

Who is older, Dexter or Deedee? Apparently, the answer to this question is Dexter, as revealed by a new research made on 250,000 military draftees in Norway. Firstborn children have appeared to score significantly higher in IQ tests than their younger siblings, something linked by researchers to social, not biologica...

22 June 2007
15:31 GMT

Old Guys Boost YouTube Traffic

A Cypriot couple from London managed to boost the YouTube traffic after they posted several clips on the online video sharing service, presenting cookery techniques and multiple recipes. According to The Telegraph, the pensioners Andreas Theodoulou, 76, and his wife Christina, 69 managed to boost YouTube's traff...

6 June 2007
17:06 GMT

Exercise Found to Rejuvenate Human Tissue

Exercise not only makes us look younger, but it seems that - in case of healthy elder individuals - resistance training actually restores the muscle tissue's youth.A recent approach led by Buck Institute faculty member Dr. Simon Melov and Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky of McMaster University Medical Center in Hamilton, O...

23 May 2007
05:37 GMT


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