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Thursday, 11 July 2013
Las lunas mayores del sistema solar en una ilustración
Las lunas mayores del sistema solar agrupadas por el planeta alrededor del que orbitan
En el sistema solar hay 18 ó 19 lunas, según las cuentes, que son lo suficientemente grandes como para que su gravedad las haga redondas. La duda de sin 18 ó 19 está con Proteo, una de las lunas de Neptuno, que está en el límite.
Emily Lakdawalla las ha juntado todas a la misma escala en unas ilustraciones disponibles en The Solar System's Major Moons .
La Luna es una foto de Gari Arrillaga; las otras son cortesía de la NASA y el JPL, de las misiones Galileo (Júpiter), Cassini (Saturno), y Voyager 2 (Urano y Neptuno). Han sido procesadas por Ted Stryk, Gordan Ugarkovic, Emily Lakdawalla, y Jason Perry.
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Surface RT 16GB gets price cut to $349 at Staples, starting July 14th
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In Amazon dispute, EU Court of Justice rules that levies on blank CDs can be collected 'in some cases'
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Moto X and HTC One get August street dates on Verizon in leaked roadmap
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Sprint Unlimited, My Way and All-in plans now official, arrive tomorrow
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Substantial price cut for Surface RT rumored
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Audi teams up with Philips, Merck for world's first 3D OLED tail lights
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Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 1020
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Microsoft reportedly eased NSA access to Outlook.com, SkyDrive and Skype
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Google files for touchscreen keyboard patent because it wants to own all the things
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The Engadget Interview: Nokia head of sales operations Matt Rothschild
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Life After Kickstarter: Pebble Boasts More Than 190,000 Pre-Orders
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The Engadget Interview: Nokia's Stephen Elop on the Lumia 1020
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BLU Dash 4.5 offers quad-core Android 4.2 action for $139 unsubsidized
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Pebble: a million app downloads so far, all Kickstarter orders to be shipped within a week
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Spot the pattern: Nokia Lumia 1020 hangs out with 808 PureView and N8
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Vine Finally Comes to Windows Phone
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The Next Level of 3D Printing: Liquid Metal
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With Cal, Any.DO hopes to bring its productivity magic to calendars (hands-on)
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Digital Storm's 13.3-inch VELOCE gaming laptop grants Haswell power savings, HD gameplay for $1,535 on July 17
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Google's One Today Android app now open to all US-based philanthropists
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Nokia Lumia 1020 to launch in the UK this quarter on O2 and Three
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Path partners with Nokia to bring app to Lumia 1020, 'all Windows Phones'
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Slingbox 500 gets My Media feature, morphs into AV player
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Nokia Lumia 1020 hands-on
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Breakthrough Grabs $5M From Social+Capital, First Round And More To Bring Mental Health Therapy Online
Today, 67 million Americans are living with some sort of diagnosable mental illness, yet nearly 35 percent receive inadequate care and 50 percent receive no treatment whatsoever. For one of the biggest problems in healthcare, it’s also one of the least discussed. The reasons are many, ranging from the stigma that comes with mental illness and the cost to the poor access and low distribution of quality care providers.
Breakthrough launched in 2009 to help address the lack of adequate care by helping to bring, affordable mental health therapy online. Today, the startup is announcing that it has raised $5 million in series A financing led by The Social+Capital Partnership, with participation from First Round Capital and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
While an increasing number of venture firms are beginning to dip their toes into digital health, Social Capital has emerged as one of the early leaders in the investment community, with Rock Health’s industry report recently naming the firm as the most active digital health investor.
For Breakthrough, this follows the $1 million in seed capital it raised last year from investors like Keith Rabois, Kapor Capital, Morado Ventures and Practice Fusion co-founder Matt Douglass, and will allow it to ramp up its engineering and sales teams and expand its network of credentialed therapists.
It also marks critical validation for the company’s approach to combining modern “tele-health” tech with evidence-based healthcare practices, allowing patients to peruse through profiles of licensed therapists, view video introductions, book appointments and get live care via videoconferencing. When one considers that the majority of small towns in the U.S. don’t have psychiatrists or access to mental health care practices, this is where Breakthrough can make a difference.
By offering a HIPAA-secure teleconferencing and video network, the startup can begin to bring these “tele-shrinks” into patients’ home via its virtual therapy network, literally bringing in-home care to regions that have largely remained uncovered in this critical area of healthcare. And, to that point, if you cringe slightly at the thought of a “telepsychiatrist,” you’re probably not alone.
That’s why founder and CEO Mark Goldenson believes that Breakthrough’s biggest differentiator — and, he hopes, a point of assurance for patients — is that the platform actually accepts insurance. Today, most other online therapy services ask their users to pay out-of-pocket, he says, which, in a country where healthcare is already unaffordable, ends up pricing out a lot of potential customers.
According to Goldenson, Breakthrough now covers two million members of health plans, including Blue Shield of California and Magellan. Though this makes it the widest coverage of any telepsychiatry service, he says, it will be critical for Breakthrough to continue to add support from a laundry list of insurance providers if it hopes to hit real scale.
Beyond insurance coverage and access, both the stigma around mental health itself and the belief that online care is less effective than its in-person equivalent have been major barriers to mental health therapy — online and off. But the founder believes that by offering live video therapy to patients, Breakthrough can help remove some of the most significant barriers that stand in the way of progress, particularly by helping people search for book and pay for mental health therapy online.
The case has also been strengthened of late by research from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Johns Hopkins, which has asserted that telehealth care can be just as effective as in-person care. In fact, Goldenson tells us, a landmark study last year found that live video treatment of 98,000 veterans with mental illnesses was able to reduce hospitalization rates (and duration of their stays) by 25 percent.
Of course, that percentage needs to go up, but one can imagine the potential affect this could have in the future, as more and more of the nation’s respected therapists and psychiatrists begin to jump on the bandwagon. To incentivize therapists and help catalyze that very change, Breakthrough also now offers a suite of practice management tools for care providers.
Therapists can use the platform to manage scheduling, patient messaging and customer support — and, coming soon, Goldenson says, insurance claim filing and payment processing as well.
With Americans spending $135 billion each year on mental health care, Goldenson believes that Breakthrough has a big opportunity to help reduce those costs, while still providing value for care providers. To that point, the Breakthrough founder is willing to venture that this space will eventually produce a billion-dollar company, and now that it has some financial fuel to begin scaling, its name might be in the running.
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T-Mobile Poland to ship Firefox OS-powered Alcatel One Touch Fire starting tomorrow
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Nokia Lumia 1020 vs. 925 vs. 920 vs. 808 PureView: what's changed?
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Nokia announces Lumia 1020 Imaging SDK, enlists CNN, Yelp and others for custom enhancements
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Flipboard coming soon to Windows Phone 8
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Nokia announces a new version of Here with location-based augmented reality
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Nokia officially announces the Lumia 1020
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Chartboost Launches New Way For Mobile Game Devs To Power In-App Purchases
Chartboost, the fast-growing cross-promotion network for mobile game developers, is adding another revenue stream to its belt. It’s launching a new back-end service that will power in-app purchases and stores inside mobile games.
The company says the product, Chartboost Store, will make it easier for studios to add new items and pricing on the fly, instead of having to go through a time-consuming update process.
The new store service also gives developers analytics capabilities so they can track which items and price points perform the best. Many of the biggest game developers already have built similar technology in-house to manage their stores, but smaller developers don’t have the resources to do this.
The company says there are five games already live with the store today, including Retro Dreamer’s Ice Cream Drop, Sniderware’s Eric’s Sudoku, Dobsoft’s Run & Gun, Trivial Technology’s Word Buster, and Naquatic’s Basketball Showdown. The store is in closed beta for iOS, Android and Unity. and can apply for the beta
It’s free for now, but Chartboost will ask for a 10 percent revenue share when the product comes out for a full launch later this year. That means after Apple or Google Play’s 30 percent cut, Chartboost will take a 10 percent share on top of that.
Chartboost, which raised $19 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital this year, has grown a network that includes more than 16,000 games by largely giving its services away for free. It makes tools for developers to cross-promote games within their own network, and arranges direct deals between different developers to trade ads for each other’s work. They make money by managing remnant advertising inventory in the network, which reaches 300 million unique monthly devices and contributes to more than eight billion game sessions per month.
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Nokia Unveils Lumia 1020 Smartphone With 41-Megapixel Camera
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Live from Nokia's 41 Million Reasons event!
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El Hubble le saca los colores a un planeta extrasolar
Impresión artística de HD 189733b
HD 189733b es un planeta extrasolar que está a unos 63 años luz de la Tierra y se ha convertido en el primero del que hemos podido averiguar su color.
Tal y como se puede leer en Hubble spots azure blue planet gracias a mediciones realizadas con el espectrógrafo que lleva a bordo el Hubble Frédéric Pont y su equipo han podido determinar que visto desde el espacio HD 189733b es de un azul muy oscuro, lo que en cierto modo recordaría a la Tierra, aunque en realidad no es que ambos planetas se parezcan mucho.
Se calcula que la atmósfera de HD 189733b alcanza temperaturas de unos 1.000 grados centígrados y que en ella puede haber vientos de unos 7.000 kilómetros por hora cargados de silicatos que podrían caer –de lado, eso sí– en algunas regiones en forma de pequeños granos de cristal. La velocidad de los vientos está causada por los aproximadamente 260 grados de diferencia de temperatura entre el lado día y el lado noche del planeta.
El método utilizado para poder averiguar el color de HD 189733b fue analizar la luz que llega desde su estrella antes, durante, y después de un tránsito del planeta por delante de ella, lo que permitió determinar que cuando HD 189733b pasa por detrás de ella se produce un descenso de aproximadamente una parte en 10.000 de las longitudes de onda correspondientes al azul mientras que las otras no varían.
Pero curiosamente, si pudiéramos ponernos en la superficie de HD 189733b, veríamos una atmósfera rojiza a causa de la presencia de sodio en esta, que absorbe el rojo de la luz que pasa por ella, haciendo que la luz reflejada se vea azul desde fuera.
Atardecer en HD 189733 b por Frédéric Pont
La Tierra, por ejemplo, se ve azul desde el espacio –aunque otro tono de azul– porque los océanos absorben con más intensidad las longitudes de onda rojas y verdes que las azules, que además son dispersadas por las moléculas de oxígeno y nitrógeno en la atmósfera, reforzando ese tono azul.
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