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New app utilises phone processor for medical research while user sleeps

BlackPearl 0 app, medical, Power, research, Samsung, sleep, university, vienna 21:32

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghettejvipIpynlG82u5K333QPboL_UAbiSc0SwpJ6TZgqkSApdHaeNNP5rLgil-6FTlPGuMOGD8IUdbwFObuI70B0spc_nr3DNjJKJzDPKC-OThm4KF4uaWn9WuJKn48azBikuFbFp-Q/s640/blogger-image--1990612407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghettejvipIpynlG82u5K333QPboL_UAbiSc0SwpJ6TZgqkSApdHaeNNP5rLgil-6FTlPGuMOGD8IUdbwFObuI70B0spc_nr3DNjJKJzDPKC-OThm4KF4uaWn9WuJKn48azBikuFbFp-Q/s640/blogger-image--1990612407.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A new app has been developed that allows users to donate the processing power of their mobile phone for scientific research while they sleep.</span><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile phones lie dormant when users are asleep, which means that millions of powerful processors are going unused for hours at a time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The University of Vienna's Faculty of Life Sciences and <a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tags/samsung" style="cursor: pointer; ">Samsung</a> Austria are teaming up to tap the potential of all that unused processing power.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They developed the 'Power Sleep' app which provides users with a simple alarm clock function.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the alarm is set and the user's phone is plugged in, fully charged and connected to a Wi-Fi network, the app begins to process data sent from the Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) database.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Power Sleep is connected to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), a network that links around 60,000 PCs worldwide and harnesses their processing power for computational-based research.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The app can be downloaded from <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.samsung.powersleep&hl=en" style="cursor: pointer; " target="_blank">Play Store</a>.</span></p><p></p><p></p></div>

New app utilises phone processor for medical research while user sleeps

A new app has been developed that allows users to donate the processing power of their mobile phone for scientific research while they sleep...

Clash of Clans Making a whopping $654,000 a Day

BlackPearl 0 app, clans, Clash, finland, highest, in, purchase, supercell 20:45

<br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP3ATOJRkTWr4tLsg1Wz8_aLJ7mD1zN51YJ3eLuVpISjHrrigSR4Ed4oynhMsqPbat63-dQgMN9C2d1T9n6SldltSZsDapDcOc2lG3sGdXDSupwfKg8marhLJnrx_QFklD9uUJ3APTj4/s640/blogger-image--1893464587.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP3ATOJRkTWr4tLsg1Wz8_aLJ7mD1zN51YJ3eLuVpISjHrrigSR4Ed4oynhMsqPbat63-dQgMN9C2d1T9n6SldltSZsDapDcOc2lG3sGdXDSupwfKg8marhLJnrx_QFklD9uUJ3APTj4/s640/blogger-image--1893464587.jpg"></a><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">SuperCell, which developed the most popular free game of all time and which still rules the charts of the Apple's iOS Appstore is making a whopping $654,000 a day via its in-app purchases, Business Insider Reports.</span><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Clash of Clans which is developed by the finland based game studio SuperCell which was recently launched in google's Playstore last year and a few years ago on Appstore. It is a 'Tower-Defence and Strategy' based Game. The <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">multiplayer game, <i>Clash of Clans</i> allows players to build their community, train troops, and attack other players to earn gold and elixir while building their own defenses to protect against attackers. Players can also use the chat feature to communicate with others and join clans to aid each other.</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">On iOS alone, <a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/12/28/free-apps-generate-the-most-revenue-google-play-grows/" style="outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; "><i>Clash of Clans ranked number one in 2013</i></a> as the biggest grossing app on the market. Overall, SuperCell is roughly worth $3 billion in the year 2014, and it looks like the sky’s the limit.</span></div></div>

Clash of Clans Making a whopping $654,000 a Day

SuperCell, which developed the most popular free game of all time and which still rules the charts of the Apple's iOS Appstore is making...

Flappy Birds

BlackPearl 0 android, app, birds, discontinued, Flappy, ios, removed 18:15

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Flappy Bird</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> is a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-scrolling_video_game" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Side-scrolling video game">side-scrolling</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_game" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mobile game">mobile game</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> featuring </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D_computer_graphics" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="2D computer graphics">2D</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrogaming" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Retrogaming">retro style</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> graphics. The objective is to direct a flying bird, which moves continuously to the right, between each oncoming set of pipes without colliding with them, which otherwise </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_over" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Game over">ends the game</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. The bird briefly flaps upward each time the player taps the screen, and the player is </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_(game)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Score (game)">scored</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> on the number of pipe sets the bird successfully passes through.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Flappy Bird</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> received generally mixed reviews from critics, with a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacritic" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> score of 52/100 based on seven reviews.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> The app was criticized by the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffington_Post" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, which described it as "insanely irritating, difficult and frustrating game which combines a super-steep difficulty curve with bad, boring graphics and jerky movement".</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">On February 8, 2014, Nguyen announced on Twitter that the game was to be removed from both </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple">Apple's</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="App Store (iOS)">App Store</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Google Play">Google Play</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, writing at 11am UTC: "I am sorry </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Flappy Bird</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> users, 22 hours from now, I will take </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Flappy Bird</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> down. I cannot take this anymore."</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> He went on to say that taking down the game has "nothing to do with legal issues".</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> On February 9, 2014, almost exactly 22 hours after this announcement, the game was removed from both Apple's App Store and Google Play.</span></span></div>

Flappy Birds

Flappy Bird is a side-scrolling mobile game featuring 2D retro style graphics. The objective is to direct a flying bird, whic...