The Black Friday and Christmas sales this spring are repeated in USA 

A desperate . As reported by CNBC just four months after U.S. consumers were running to the malls to hunt for bargains known as Black Friday .

However, this year , Walmart, the largest retailer in the world has decided to put more pressure on its competitors and revive the euphoria of Black Friday with a wave of big sales in the growing field of home improvement .

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So tomorrow, Walmart will celebrate the arrival of spring lowering prices and offering deals at their related segments life and home and garden products. This measure puts pressure on competitors like Home Depot and Lowes , who consider criticism spring selling season , their version of the Christmas shopping for conventional retailers.

In your particular release of Black Friday are spring flavor, ending March 29 , Walmart will offer between 30 and 50 percent discount on lawn mowers , furniture, charcoal grills and flowers. Also will lower their prices if any product is cheaper at any of its competitors.

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This strategy is now also causes the retailer has recorded four consecutive quarters of declining sales in its own stores here in America . These losses have led some analysts to question the company's growth in the world's largest economy . According to research firm IBISWorld , is expected to retail for home improvement achieved revenues of $ 143,600 million in 2014.

Facebook test on Android notification bar

As news portal reported The Next Web, Facebook is testing a new persistent notifications bar on Android. The section shown in notification tray mobile operating system and includes friend requests, messages and alerts.

On the left side of the bar persistent user profile picture (something that could be uncomfortable for some) is shown, while on the far right there is a button to access the options of the Facebook app, where you can disable function as Qore.

A company representative confirmed that the feature is available for a small group of people, but would not say whether the general public.

Facebook for BlackBerry 10 receives updates and new features 

Blackberry announced on its official blog the arrival of a new update to Facebook for BlackBerry 10, which incorporates new features that are very late compared to the versions of the app for iOS and Android.

For starters, it is possible to filter the News Feed to display recent or important news, which is configured via the gear icon in the relevant section of the side menu. Facebook for BlackBerry 10 also adds emoji, which can be quickly added to the text box, as Qore.

  

When you check in at a location, the application will now display a map that can verify that the location is correct, while the carousel pictures and supports tags. 

10.4 Updating Facebook for BlackBerry 10 is available in BlackBerry World, but could take up to 24 hours to appear on all devices of the brand. 

Christian Bale plays Steve Jobs in new biopic

Although a biopic of Steve Jobs has already been created , another film based on his life filmed . On this occasion, the cofunfador Apple will be played by Christian Bale.

The first tape , Jobs , was released in 2013 and Steve Wozniak said it was not very accurate in representing excolaborador . The new film, which takes a couple of years in preparation , will be an adaptation of the book Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson and is the only authorized biography of the entrepreneur.

Apparently, the new biopic , which will be distributed by Sony Pictures and directed by David Fincher (The Social Network), and has a problem. This is because Fincher made ​​it a condition that Christian Bale represent Steve Jobs.

This makes sense, as Bale, plus you can use various accents , has the ability to change their physical appearance, from very thin to overweight , as you can see on their holdings in The Machinist and American Hustle, according Qore . You may not have the appearance of Ashton Kutcher, but compensate with acting chops

Turkish government blocked access to Twitter

Service Twitter was blocked widely in Turkey, after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to eradicate social sites, due to the distribution and publication of allegations linking him with several instances of corruption. Meanwhile a spokesperson for the social network recently said they are investigating the situation. Meanwhile, the official Twitter account in Turkey has started to post updates on the situation.

The social network microblogging reminded that Turkish citizens can tweet still using text messages and published the numbers that Turkcell and Vodafone users can send their SMS as Qore .

On the other hand , the Turkish government has followed this case through an official website , which has been publishing information as the situation develops. According to this site , today , March 20 , the measure known as İstanbul Başsavcılığı Cumhuriyet , a ruling issued by a court of that country that apparently was the one who gave the green light to lock service was implemented .

And although so far only Twitter has been blocked , the prime minister also threatened to YouTube , since a considerable number of Turkish citizens recorded and released video messages expressing outrage and opinion regarding the corruption charges against him.

Note that this is not the first time the service Twitter is blocked in a country. Previously, access to the social network was blocked in Pakistan, in 2012, Egypt in 2011 , China in 2009 , and so on .

Gmail encrypts communication between servers to avoid the NSA spying 

Google has announced that its email service , Gmail , used at all times encrypted communications between your servers to prevent these intermediate steps in the National Intelligence Agency U.S. (NSA ) can penetrate private communications.

"Starting today , Gmail will always use HTTPS encrypted connection when reviewing or sending emails ," Google said in a statement .

The more secure , HTTPS system was already appearing by default in Gmail since 2010 , but will now be mandatory and impossible to disable protection.

"The change means that no one can listen to messages when they come and go between you and Gmail servers , regardless if you are using a public WiFi network , your computer, phone or tablet ," said Google .

Gmail for iOS allow synchronization without having to open the app .

As reported EFE , other measures have been taken to encode communications between the user and Google servers , the California company also protect communications between data centers, according exanalista revelations of NSA Edward Snowden were targeted NSA .

In apparent reference to leaks Snowden, Google explained that the encoding of communications between these data centers has become a priority " from the revelations of last summer."

According to the external exanalista NSA now taken refuge in Russia, the NSA spying variously servers overseas internet companies for U.S. intelligence .

Nash currently does meet and greets, hosts small events, and

streams online to his combined 2.5 million social media

followers/subscribers. He is beginning to make the switch to 

YouTube where he will make longer videos as well as continue his 

work on vine! Nash has worked with many brands big and small on 

social media but he now aspires to move his attributes from the 

computer to the television where he has already made few 

appearances on shows like "Good Morning America" and "Inside 

Edition". Nash is one of the fastest increasing social media 

sensations in history. He gains (approx.) 200,000 + followers a 

week and got 1,000,000 + just last month on vine alone. 

 ​Nash is a young intuitive teenager with big aspirations. 

He plays lacrosse and currently goes to high school on 

the East Coast. He has aspirations in filming, producing, 

and acting. He currently is looking for a path to pursue 

this on. Nash's love for movie making and acting began 

on a social media app (Vine) which he now has 2 million 

+ followers on! Nash plans to channel his momentum 

and following on to the big screen one day, as of now 

he's looking for the right agent/group/manager to do so. 

U.S. condemns Kabul attack and criticism fear of insurgent free vote

The U.S. government today condemned the attack on a hotel in Kabul in which 13 people, including a U.S. citizen died and criticized the "fear " of Afghan insurgents open vote.
"We offer our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded ," said State Department spokesman , Jen Psaki , in a press conference .
Thirteen people, including two children, were killed Thursday in an attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul , one of the best protected in the capital frequented by Afghan and foreign nationals .
Psaki denounced the perpetrators of this attack " needlessly shed the blood of both Afghans and their international partners when citizens are celebrating Nowruz and preparing to vote in a historic election ."
" The barbaric nature of these events reminds us all that the insurgents have disregard for human life and the fear of a free vote for the future of Afghanistan," the spokesman added .
Psaki also confirmed that the victims of the attack is a U.S. citizen, but gave no further details.
Also be known after another of the deceased was a journalist , the State Department spokesman praised the " incredible service " of reporters who " put their lives at risk in many countries around the world" and said his work " commendable " .

Zuckerberg and other senior executives attend meeting at the White House

 Today, U.S. President Barack Obama held a meeting at the White House with a group of top executives from the world of technology. According to an official , privacy issues , technology and intelligence will be discussed.

Attendees are Mark Zuckerberg , CEO of Facebook, and Eric Schmidt , chairman of Google . Marissa Mayer , CEO of Yahoo , was also invited to the event , but a source said he was unable to attend due to time constraints .

Recall that last week , Zuckerberg made ​​his frustration after a phone call with Obama, in which it was concluded that there is still plenty of time for a total overhaul impacting espionage arises.

No one involved has issued a statement about it, but more information is expected once the board . Moreover, it is certain that among the topics will find the NSA and the revelations of Edward Snowden .

Apple may launch iTunes Store for Android

Recently, reports surfaced about Apple 's possible participation in a new business model, in which they would launch a service that would compete directly with Spotify , besides presenting an app from iTunes to Android.

The report , which appeared on Billboard's website says the company began the necessary discussions with different record labels that would integrate the catalog streaming service , which still has no name. The reason for this movement is registered by subscription services earnings are on the rise, while the digital music stores begin to diminish as Qore .

To counter the losses and join the trend , it seems that Apple plans to launch a subscription service like Rdio and Spotify. One could argue that already exists in the form of iTunes Radio, but not exactly like the other options, it is not available in much of the world and its function is tied to iTunes.

Another strategy that apparently Apple wants to develop is to launch an application that Android users can purchase music from the iTune Store. Although it sounds impossible , low profit orillaría Apple to begin developing applications for Android , which extended its market, but probably would make the credibility of the brand fell. We look at how these rumors develop.

System administrators are a target for NSA 

The news portal The Intercept revealed a new document leaked by Edward Snowden, who reveals that the NSA located sysadmins to get your information and thus undermine the infrastructure they oversee.

Entitled I Hunt Sys Admins , the document created in 2012 explains that the agency targets are email accounts and Facebook sysadmins outside the United States . With the information gathered , the attackers enter the systems in question and review information such as emails and phone calls from a company .

The detection system administrators could likely targets to search on the Internet, while the author of the document from the NSA created a database with those who would be potential victims , according to Qore .

Significantly, the security agency focuses on system administrators to have access to infrastructure companies in which they work , and not by criminal motives .

Finally , I Hunt Sys Admins also reveals that some workers consider NSA issue the amount of information produced by the methods of monitoring agency and the lousy infrastructure resulting from this.

Twitter: we keep our side of users in Turkey

Nearly 24 hours after their service was blocked in Turkey , Twitter said , through his official account of policies that will remain firm in its position and will continue to side with the users. According to the tweet of the company, its subscribers are people who rely on the company and considered a vital communications platform , so expect access to be restored shortly.

Remember that the blockade was established yesterday , March 20 , by order of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan , who threatened to kill Twitter , YouTube and other social networks in the country , after a significant number of citizens used these services to spread rumors of an alleged corruption case, according Qore .

Either way , the population of this country discovered today that the blockade was performed using a simple blocking DNS , so that users started using services like Google DNS to evade and to tweet again. Interestingly, the situation served to increase the popularity of the service , and increase global awareness of corruption attributed to the prime minister.

Study reveals that the faces are very popular Instagram

If you want your photos on Instagram to succeed, maybe you should stay away from pictures of food, magazines and include more faces , at least so recommends research that was recently published .

The study was conducted by Yahoo Labs and Georgia Institute of Technology. Both institutions were devoted to review 1.1 million photos on Instagram. Among their results , they found that images with faces were 38 % more likely to receive likes, plus it also had 32 % more likely to generate comments.

According to the research , no matter the gender or age of the person in the photo . In addition , the team found that the people most actualizaban your account in Instagram, were less likely to receive feedback , which sounds odd , since one would expect that an updated timeline generates comments and likes , as Qore .

Moreover, the cause was not analyzed because the faces are more successful . However, it is expected to delve into that topic when the research is presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, to be held in Toronto from April 26 to May 1 .

Obama and executives from Facebook and Google talk programs NSA surveillance

The U.S. president , Barack Obama , met Friday with top executives of Internet companies and technology to ensure that his government is "committed " to protecting the privacy of individuals .

The U.S. president , Barack Obama , met Friday with top executives of Internet companies and technology to ensure that his government is "committed " to protecting the privacy of individuals .

This meeting comes just one week before the self-imposed deadline for the U.S. president to review the programs of the National Security Agency (NSA ) , as recalled by the newspaper ' The Washington Post' .

The CEOs of Facebook, Google , Netflix and other companies in the sector spent more than two hours with Obama stating their concerns about spyware NSA , who sparked outrage and criticism from a number of these companies.

"The president has reiterated the commitment of his Government action that can give people greater confidence that their rights are being protected ," said the White House statement , which also specifies that the message searches persevere in that there are important tools that seek to maintain national security safe.

The meeting was attended by the CEO of Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , who last week criticized surveillance practices and claimed the U.S. government , through its page on the social network, which the president personally called to express their discontent.

"When our engineers work tirelessly to improve safety, imagine that you are protecting criminals, not of our own government," Zuckerberg , who added that " unfortunately , it appears that a total reform and take real long time," he said.

This call has occurred in a context of new revelations about U.S. intelligence on the part of U.S. intelligence exanalista Edward Snowden . Some documents leaked online have indicated that the NSA used Facebook pages to collect information from their targets by malicious code and so infiltrate your computers and delete data.

Robots help to make money, hunting meteorites and now writing news

Wall Street uses to make multimillion dollar decisions within nanoseconds , NASA to identify meteorites , medicine for cures to major diseases and now journalism to inform better and faster .

They are the " robot journalists " , or algorithms , sets of defined rules that allow a machine to perform activities such as searching the Google browser .

And this week are current , after the Los Angeles Times on Monday give exclusive earthquake in California using one of their " robots" , pre- programmed to be " working " when an earthquake occurs .

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The child's father is journalist and developer Ken Schwencke , the creator of " Quakebot " , an algorithm designed to extract information from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ) when there is an earthquake and include it in a template.

So when the earthquake brought Schwencke of bed at 6:25 Monday morning , the news was already written and waiting in the system for a publisher pulsase the submit button .

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The media have been slow to adopt the technology , gaining traction but is still " in its infancy " in this field , explained in an interview with Efe Chase Davis , associate editor of interactive equipment of The New York Times.

"Some media as ProPublica are doing sophisticated things but overall this is beginning ," Davis said.

The Times used algorithms " in subtle ways " in many interactive graphics and data analysis processes .

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The newspaper also created an algorithm that scans of photographs for each " Fashion Week " in New York and generates a graph with the colors and patterns of the season.

"It's a very easy system to understand and perceive visually," Davis said.

ProPublica , a nonprofit investigative journalism organization headed by former Director of The Wall Street Journal, Paul Steiger, organization is at the forefront in the use of algorithms in the United States.

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Among the projects that have more to talk is one of "reverse engineering" that was used to investigate the direct email system used by President Barack Obama during his campaign for reelection and sending some emails or other depending on the age , race, or the purchasing power of the recipient.

The Associated Press has also developed in recent years Overview, open source platform funded by the Knight Foundation, which allows you to navigate large quantities of documents such as the WikiLeaks on the war in Iraq or the U.S. diplomatic cables .

The platform , powered by an intelligent algorithm to organize documents by topics and subtopics and display , so that the journalist can find exactly what I wanted, count the number of documents in each area or entire categories labeled for later analysis .

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Davis downplays the fear that automation destroys more jobs in an industry in crisis and sees it as a step in the right direction , which will allow more sophisticated news coverage and machine the more routine and boring tasks .

Journalism joins a field already well advanced in other areas. This week it was announced , without going any further , that the New York Genome Center will use the IBM supercomputer Watson to design a personalized treatment for brain cancer patients .

The powerful machine "proved " that also has a talent for cooking during the recent multidisciplinary festival South by Southwest (SXSW ) held in Austin (Texas, USA ) , which used its huge database to design innovative recipes that are served in a food truck festival .

Will Grier accounted for 90 touchdowns this fall, he’s Parade Magazine’s All America Player of the Year, and he may be on the field starting at quarterback at the University of Florida as early as this fall.

Yet Will still claims he’s the second most well-known member of his family.

Nash Grier, his younger brother by two years, has several million followers on Vine — the video equivalent of Twitter. His Twitter account has over 1 million followers and the funny thing is, a year ago none of this existed.

It was also a little more than a year ago that Will began getting some national notoriety—but nothing on the level of his “gone viral in six seconds” brother. Nash has been all over the northern hemisphere in the past two months—including Iceland for New Years and a guest at the Grammys. Teen girls hang on his every word, a dream come true for any teen boy.

It’s amazing how much the Charlotte (N.C.) area based Grier family household has changed since the beginning of 2013.

“It’s pretty accurate. It’s funny though, that has definitely changed just this year,” Nash told Saturday Down South. “And there’s definitely a fine line between who knows what. When a bunch of teenagers see us, they say ‘That’s Nash’s brother who plays football’ but with older fans, I’m definitely Will’s brother. It’s pretty funny how it works. I think we both help each other with the recognition.

“Me and Will have a pretty unique relationship. It’s always been goofy. We just mess around and do stupid stuff. We have a lot of fun. When we do Vines, we’re just trying to make people laugh.”

Will told SDS that Nash was actually a pretty good football player before he began working on his future career in showbiz at the age of 15. Things blew up from there, and younger siblings Hayes and Skylynn have joined with Will to help Nash push the stardom. Skylynn is the little girl in several of Nash’s “Vines” and has 13,000 Twitter followers–and she’s not even five years old yet. Hayes has almost 200,000 followers. For those keeping track at home, Will has 23,000.

Nash Grier and his sister Skylynn Grier walk in New York City.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/15/4389868/vine-sensation-nash-grier-heads.html#.Uywc3ah5Nzo#storylink=cpy

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