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July 16, 2008 | 1:42 pm
Xobni spots hidden patterns in your email usage. It identifies, for instance, who your most important contacts are, what time of day they typically send email, and how long it takes you to reply to one another. I discovered that the missives I care about most — from my wife, editors, and closest friends — tend to arrive in bursts during the mid-morning and late afternoon.
This is incredibly useful knowledge. These days, instead of leaving my email open all the time and jumping with Pavlovian slaver at each ding, I check in only during what I now know are my two "hot zones." I can work uninterrupted most of the day with the confidence that I'll be online when the on-fire messages arrive.
Artificial intelligence in the service of life-hacking: It's the future of email. (Wired)
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Egypt, Jordan will get 3G iPhone – but not Israel6.20.08 at 7:17 am | The Jewish state has been excluded from Apple’s plan to create a ‘United Nations’ of 79 countries where the new iPhone will be available following its July 11 American and European ... (105)
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July 9, 2008 | 1:46 pm
A plant suffering from lead poisoning for example, which comes from waste released by battery and paint manufacturing plants into water sources, will produce a different resonance than that of a healthy plant. The method enables the early detection of penetrating contaminants and toxins that harm flora and fauna.
This improved method of detection is crucial, as [Israel's] dwindling supply of drinking water needs to be constantly monitored to detect contamination and any decline in quality.
The method will replace more outdated measurement methods such as marking a plant's growth substrate with radioactive carbon or measuring the quantities of oxygen emitted by the plant. The new method is more effective than previously used methods in identifying the source of the contamination. (JPost)
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July 8, 2008 | 4:18 pm
Yigal Pat-El, chairman of the Israeli Union of Astronomers, told Army Radio that the meteor was exceptionally large, and that its entry into the atmosphere was not expected.
Nevertheless, he emphasized that this was not an uncommon occurrence.
"Meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere all the time - it's not a rare phenomenon. The meteor was relatively large - most do not weigh a thousandth of a gram, and it seems this meteor would have weighed a few grams," he said.
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June 26, 2008 | 12:16 pm
A group of right-wing Israeli teen hackers, calling themselves Fanat al-Radical (the Fanatical Radicals), has broken into the Web site of Hamas’ armed wing (Izz al-Din al-Kassem) and replaced it with Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikvah,” and pictures of babies and children dressed as suicide bombers.
A representative for Fanat al-Radical says the group is made up of 16- to 18-year-olds and told YNet:
“We searched for relevant sites with the criteria we look for, whether leftist or anti-Zionist, and looked for loopholes. Our emphasis was always on the al-Qassam site.
“The criteria are defined as anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish sites that support or assist in harming Zionism and the existence of Israel as a Zionistic, Jewish state.”
The group, whose members were part of another group called Kamikaz Team, also broke into the Balad political party site, Hagada Hasmalit (the left bank) and the Kibush (occupation) site.
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June 23, 2008 | 10:03 am
As a guy who enjoys white over red wines, I’ve often felt like I had to justify my preference. Red wine fans frequently tout the health benefits of getting sloshed, while those of us drinking white could only claim we didn’t get the dreaded “red wine” migraine. Well, no more. White fans of the world unite!
Researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a white wine that contains polyphenols—the antioxidants that give red wine its cancer-fighting reputation. (And like other whites, the new polyphenol-spiked varieties won’t cause headaches.)
Israel’s Binyamina Wines plans to develop its own white with polyphenols and is hoping to sell it in the United States by the end of 2008.
Professor Michael Aviram, who was involved in the research, commented that “white wine, unlike red wine, does not contain the grape skin polyphenolic antioxidants as the skin is rapidly removed after grape squeezing. By using wine-derived alcohol, we were able to extract the grape polyphenols very rapidly during white wine preparation. There has been an incredible response from those that have heard about the research with many thinking of taking up drinking white wine more seriously.” (JPost)
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June 20, 2008 | 7:17 am
According to David Shamah’s analysis in the JPost, there are no clear-cut reasons why the 3G iPhone won’t be available in Israel.
His main thought is that it’s a money issue—basically, the phone will undercut competitors regarding initial price and then sock it to consumers with high service plan costs.
Shamah looks to cost for Orange, the country’s primary cell provider. Compared to the the Nokia n95 (NIS 3,205) and the Blackberry Curve 8310 (NIS 4,294), the 3G iPhone’s (U.S. subsidized price) of $199 would make it significantly cheaper at NIS 805, which might cut into overall profits. Then factor in that the 3G iPhone service plan makes it more expensive than its previous incarnation, according to Consumerist.
Also, Israel isn’t alone in not getting the 3G. Other high-tech countries that won’t be in the club include South Korea, China, Dubai, the UAE and Russia.
Shamah’s recommendation: Israelis should buy the second-generation iPhones at second-hand prices from Americans who upgraded to the 3G and then unlock them in the Jewish State.
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June 20, 2008 | 5:50 am
Based on an animated gif released by NASA this week, disappearing chunks of white stuff (assumed to be vaporized frozen water) has the Phoenix team itching to call what they’ve found under the Martian soil ice and not salt.
“These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it’s ice. This has been a wonderful day.”—Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, the lead scientist for the $420-million mission. (L.A. Times)
But then Jon Stewart has his alternative theory…
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June 20, 2008 | 4:53 am
The worldwide video game phenomenon of “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band” can be partly traced back to an MIT grad from Tel Aviv, Eran Egozy. Listed as one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2008, his love of music came from his childhood in Israel. But given his musical passion, one might expect that Egozy would have developed something like “Symphony Hero.” He took up the clarinet—not the guitar—as a seventh-grader. When his chemist parents—who met on the Technion campus in Haifa—asked him what instrument he wanted to play, his mind flashed to a series on musical instruments he watched on Israeli television.
“It seemed kind of cool, so when my parents asked me if I wanted to learn an instrument, I said, ‘Sure, the clarinet.’”
The Boston-based Egozy, 36, has performed in a variety of symphonies and currently plays in the Radius Ensemble. He recently returned to Israel for the first time in 10 years and was stunned at the high-tech developments made during his absence. He also found his Hebrew a little rusty.
“I still can get by, I still speak Hebrew casually with my parents and with some Israeli musician friends who are in the US. But being back in Israel demonstrated to me that my Hebrew is not quite what it used to be,” he laughs. (Jerusalem Post)
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