#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
it's hard to banish thoughts of cheeseburgers, pizza or--many a dieters'Achilles'heel--bacon. But some of those cravings, at least, might soon be banished,
"Langdon says in an article in the University's newspaper.""There hasn't been a lot of interest in using it in a fresh form.
"Dulse, which is an"excellent source"of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants and contains a high percentage of protein,
could be the answer we're all looking for, he and his co-workers say.""Dulse is a superfood, with twice the nutritional value of kale,"Chuck Toombs, a faculty member in OSU's College of Business,
who worked with Langdon to make the strain a commercial prospect, added.""OSU had developed this variety that can be farmed, with the potential for a new industry for Oregon."
"Its quick growth time is an advantage that the seaweed has over other food sources, especially livestock,
#Cell phones and risk of brain tumor The ordinance, called the Right to Know law, will start to require retailers to give customers a handout,
telling them about federal guidelines on the amount of radiation that cell phones can emit
and the instructions on safe phone use. Lawyers and clinicians involved in creating the new law said that it is meant to make consumers aware of the already existing regulations.
said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.
What the law does not require is that consumers be provided information about the specific health risks of being exposed to radiation.
Although Moskowitz said that it is"highly probable"that long-term cell phone use causes brain tumors,
many experts think that the evidence is far from definitive, or that it shows there is no risk.
In 2011, the World health organization classified the kind of low energy radiation that cell phones emit as"possibly carcinogenic"because of a link between cell phone use and a type of malignant brain tumor called glioma and a benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma.
Both types of brain tumors are rare. About 5 in 10,000 adults are diagnosed with glioma in the United states every year,
whereas about 10 in a million people develop acoustic neuromas every year. Although THE WHO classification sounds ominous, it puts cell phones on the same level of cancer risk as caffeine and pickled vegetables.
The position of numerous health organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is measured even more,
stating that current evidence is not conclusive and more research is needed."("Since 2011), I don't think any evidence has come along that would necessarily move from this uncertain designation to something on one side or the other...
In reality we are in a very gray zone with the evidence, "said Jonathan M. Samet,
chairman of preventive medicine at University of Southern California who led THE WHO panel that determined the classification.
Many large studies have failed to detect an association between cell phone use and brain tumors. One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
However, as Samet said, THE WHO panel took into account studies that suggested that those who used cell phones did have higher rates of certain brain tumors.
The Interphone study is the largest study to date looking at cell phones and brain tumors. It involves 13 countries,
including Canada, the United kingdom, Denmark and Japan. Researchers asked more than 7, 000 people who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor
and 14,000 healthy people about their previous cell phone use. The study found no association between cell phone use
and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
Those participants were 40%more likely than those who never used a cell phone to have a glioma.
However authors of the Interphone study stated that people with brain tumors might be more likely than healthy people to exaggerate their cell phone use
and thus the link between heavy phone use and brain tumor risk in the study might not be real."
"It's quite plausible that there would be excess reporting in people who suffered a life-threatening disease.
They are looking for an explanation for this tragic circumstance, "said David A. Savitz, professor of epidemiology at Brown University,
who was involved not in the Interphone study. Another set of studies by researchers in Sweden also looked at reported cell phone use among people diagnosed with glioma
and compared them to healthy peers. A recent analysis found that people who used a mobile phone were 30%more likely to have a glioma,
and those whose use had lasted at least 25 years were three times more likely. The researchers also found that users of cordless phones
which emit less radiation than cell phones, had 40%to 70%higher glioma risk.""There are individual studies
and findings that do produce a risk, but on balance the judgment has to be made on the totality (of the evidence),
"Savitz said, adding that there is error in even the best and biggest studies.""We know quite a bit (about the risk) actually
Although Samet, THE WHO panel leader, agrees that we probably know the risk is not great,
we would have more consistent results from epidemiological data. These pictures are compatible with perhaps a weak or moderate risk,
Another argument against the possibility that cell phones cause cancer is that there has not been an increase in the incidence of brain tumors in the United states,
Although there has been an increase in brain tumors among 20 to 29-year-old females in the United states,
they were not in a part of the brain that researchers predict would be affected by cell phone radiation.
In addition to the lack of strong evidence showing a link between cell phone use and brain tumors,
Cell phones (and to a lesser extent cordless phones) give off non-ionizing radiation, which unlike ionizing radiation such as X-rays,
CT SCANS and radon do not have the potential to damage DNA.""There is no known pathway for any adverse health effects,
"said University of Southern California's Samet. New studies are underway that might provide a better idea of
whether there are health risks associated with cell phone use. The COSMOS study is looking at cell phone records
and the long-term health of 290,000 participants in five countries in Europe including the United kingdom and Sweden.
and will probably get more accurate data, Samet said. However it could take several studies on the scale of COSMOS to really feel more confident in
and could at least in theory be more vulnerable to the effects of phone radiation. The Mobi-Kids study is currently comparing cell phone use between 2,
000 people who were diagnosed with brain tumors at 10 to 24 years of age with 2, 000 healthy young people.
some experts say we know enough to put concerns to rest.""There is no evidence for this (and)
"said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine."
"I wouldn't make the recommendation for my grandchildren that they shouldn't use a cell phone.
"However because these warnings are not going to be accompanied by information about specific health risks, "some people will be concerned about this
Unlike its neighbor Berkeley, San francisco would have required cellphone retailers to post information about health concerns and carcinogenic potential of cell phone radiation."
Moskowitz said he said that he hardly ever uses his cell phone, but when he does he uses a headset or speaker mode.
He carries the phone turned off in his briefcase. There are a number of ways to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation,
if users are worried about the possibility of health risks, including using a headset and texting instead of talking g
#Samsung Finally Has a Phone That Runs Its Own Operating system After years of delays and false starts,
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched finally a smartphone that runs on its own Tizen operating system, a landmark move that may mark the beginning of the end of its dependence on Google Inc. Android system.
But the launch of the Z1 phone in India at a price of only $92 makes it clear how much the Korean has scaled down its ambitions for Tizen, at least in the short term,
and how far it still has to go before it can wean itself off Android.
The company has pared the offering down to a no-frills product aimed at first-time smartphone buyers at the bottom end of the market,
who won demand the comforts and capabilities of Android, still less Apple ios. Those two systems operate 19 out of every 20 smartphones worldwide.
In truth, Samsung had been left with little alternative after three failed launches last year frustrated the developers that it needs
in order to build an ecosystem capable of rivalling those two. The company has to engineer the product so as to make standard services like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube available without a Tizen-specific app,
according to the Wall street journal. Reuters quoted Samsung as saying that the phone will have more than 1, 000 apps available for downloadess than one-tenth of those available for Android and ios. At the bottom end of the market, that may be no great problem.
More important for the company is to get the product out so that it can build on it in the course of timend,
in the short term, defend its global market share. Samsung was deposed last year by Xiaomi as the largest smartphone maker in China.
Tizen is already in use in Samsung smartwatches and cameras and, most recently, its TVS. The company ultimately intends to make it the cornerstone of its strategy for making all of its household appliances connectable to the nternet of Thingsin due course.
The question is whether even in the world third biggest market for smartphones, Samsung can achieve enough scale for Tizen to persuade skeptical developers that making apps for it is worth their while.
At $92, the phone is almost four times as expensive as the ultra-basic Nokia 130 phone
which aims at the same segment, and more than 700 million people in the target market of India live on less than $2 a day, according to research firm IDC.
The phone has a four-inch display, one front-facing camera and an ultra-power savings mode.
In an effort to help sales it being sold with three-month subscriptions to music and Bollywood movie-streaming services, according to the WSJ
#This Handheld Scanner Identifies Pills Determines Calories and More What if you could scan a piece of cheese to discover its caloric content
or a stray pill to figure out if it a vitamin or your pain medication? It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie,
but it's a feat that already possible thanks to a tiny device called SCIO.
After raising close to $3 million on Kickstarter last year, the company showed off a prototype of its molecular scanner this week at the Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas
. Since its time on Kickstarter the device has gotten even better.""SCIO current design incorporates more features
and increased functionality than the original molecular sensor we promised, "says Dror Sharon, CEO and cofounder of Consumer Physics, the company behind Scio.
Since Kickstarter, SCIO has added a remote temperature sensor, a protective cover that pulls double duty as a calibration mechanism and a new light indicator on the activation button to let you know a scan is underway. ou don have to be a scientist,
says Sharon"Users can just follow their curiosity. The applications are truly endless and as SCIO grows
and learns so will our users be able to scan more and more materials. That learning is an important piece of the puzzle.
In order for SCIO to accurately scan something, it will need to have scanned it before and have the item in its database.
Once it saved, it can always identity that item in the future. It can even tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi.
The more people who use SCIO the greater that database will eventually become. This Handheld Scanner Identifies Pills
Determines Calories and More SCIO is currently available for pre-order on the company website with as estimated ship date of July 2015.
while the device software development kit is $449 t
#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,
share and store their work digitally with unprecedented ease. The music platform is compatible with popular digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Logic pro and FL Studio,
with others in the works. ee trying to allow artists to create fearlessly and never worry about backup, losing their work
or missing files when theye sending things to people, says Martocci, a tech and startup veteran who previously co-founded the messaging platform Groupme. hey just get to focus on making their music.
Add in a community angle that allows aspiring musicians to play with tunes, isolating tracks and creating remixes,
and Splice has the makings of an online musical playground. New york-based Martocci sold Groupme to Skype in 2011 for a figure reported between $43 million and $85 million.
He declined to comment. He met his Splice cofounder, Santa monica, Calif.-based software architect Matt Aimonetti, at a 2012 entrepreneurship conference.
They were united in their belief that the digital creation process for music was stuck in the 0s. att was an audio engineer for half his life.
I a huge music fan, Martocci says. f you sit at this apex of music and code,
Aimonetti adds. o much of it is black box. I obsessed with exposing the creative aspect.
and Sony Playstation) launched Splice in October 2013 with $2. 75 million in seed funding.
The company raised an additional $4. 5 million last year in Series A funding, led by Palo alto, Calif.-based True Ventures.
That round also included investments from New york-based Union square Ventures, as well as some music-industry heavyweights, including superstar DJS Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia Steve Angello;
Justin Bieber manager, Scooter Braun; and the William Morris Endeavor Entertainment talent agency. True Ventures principal Adam Dugelli was impressed with Splice founders
and the platform easy integration for musicians. hey were focused highly and executed wellhey built the first version of the product themselves while gathering market and potential customer feedback in a few weeks,
Dugelli says. e were excited about their tight focus on building a platform that didn require any changes in work flow but, rather,
The investments from the music industry are big piece of validation, Martocci adds. hen you show Splice to an artist,
The site will maintain a free tier, but Martocci says it will migrate slowly toward charging for additional features. ee constantly building a backlog of the amazing things we think we can offer for premium services from the education side, the professional producersside,
he says. t endless. r
#Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Suspends Operations Following Hack Fueling fears of a Mt. Gox-caliber meltdown, Bitstamp--the world second most-trafficked USD bitcoin exchange--ceased operations today in the wake of a hack.
The Slovenia-and UK-based bitcoin marketplace temporarily halted withdrawals, then later completely shut down, after discovering that some of its operational ot walletswere compromised yesterday.
Related: Bitcoin Named Worst-Performing Currency of 2014 In a statement to Entrepreneur late Monday, Bitstamp said that less than 19,000 BTC,
or about $5. 1 million at today's pricing, was lost and assured that all customers will be able to recover the balances they held before service was halted."
"This breach represents a small fraction of Bitstamp total bitcoin reserves, the overwhelming majority of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems.
We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected
and will be honored in full.""The site is being transitioned onto a"new safe environment "and is expected to resume service in coming days,
the company said. Related: Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin The trouble at the popular exchange couldn come at a worse time for the ultra-hyped virtual money,
only days ago dubbed the world worst-performing currency of 2014. Today its price fell below $270,
the cryptocurrency lowest value since 2013. According to the Coindesk Price index, which Bitstamp was suspended just temporarily from,
Bitcoin is currently trading at $270 a
#UK and U s. Intelligence agencies to Up Cyber security Cooperation Britain and the United states will increase cooperation on cyber security Prime minister David cameron said setting up cyber cells to share intelligence
and conduct simulated attacks to test the defences of organisations such as banks. Cameron is on a two-day visit to Washington focused on the economy
and security and is due to have a second meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday at the White house.
We have got hugely capable cyber defences we have got the expertise and that is why we should combine as we are going to set up cyber cells on both sides of the Atlantic to share information Cameron told the BBC in an interview aired on Friday.
The cooperation between Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency and the U s. National security agency will include joint war games with the first exercise later this year to involve the Bank of england and commercial banks in both the City of London and Wall street the BBC reported.
This is a real signal it is time to step up the efforts and to do more said Cameron.
The british leader said he also planned to discuss with Obama how the two countries could work more closely with big Internet companies such as Facebook
and Google to monitor communications between terror suspects. Reporting by Kylie Maclellan; Editing by Dominic Evans s
#New Water-Saving Technologies Help Weather Drought but More Innovation Is needed Here in California, people are cheering from one end of the state to the other.
Why? We just had the biggest rainfall event in four years, and everyone is hoping more will be on the way.
In the 1970s, few buildings installed aerators or similar devices to restrict the amount of water released from faucets.
Finally, for commercial facilities with landscaping, automatic drip-type irrigation systems another new technology are helping consumers
Some of these systems also come with ainand soil moisture sensors so that irrigation is released only when and as needed.
Hoping for the Best California just had a wonderful rainfall event, and everyone here is hoping for more.
But, if it another very dry year, things could get very serious for the state businesses, commercial buildings, and residents.
#Factory Dairy farms on the Rise in Asia The expansion of industrial dairy farms in Asia could lead to severe consequences for the environment, public health, animal welfare and rural economies, according to a policy paper by Brighter Green.
The Emergence of Industrialized Dairy Systems in Asia, forecasts that by 2025 countries in the global south will consume 375 million metric tons of milk and dairy products, nearly twice as much as in 1997.
which aside from India includes virtually no dairy, has created an emerging market of nearly 3 billion potential new dairy consumers.
To meet demand, concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOS or factory farms are being set up across Asia.
While factory farms are an efficient way to produce large amounts of animal products in a short time frame
they also create high levels of waste and pollution, according to the paper. Factory farms can contaminate local soil
and water supplies and produce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, the paper says. Brighter Green, the organization behind the paper, wants policymakers to take notice of the consequences of dairy CAFOS
and to place it higher on the international agenda as an opportunity to reduce emissions,
pollution and promote sustainable agriculture. While these negative effects are known, the impact of this trend in Asia is undocumented still largely,
the paper says. Many of these operations which house thousands of cows, are run by global and new national dairy corporations often in partnership with governments.
For instance, Danone and Nestle are active in Indonesia, where the governments wants to double the number of dairy cows by 2020.
In Vietnam, a massive dairy CAFO that will have nearly 140,000 cowsaking it one of the largest in the worlds expected to open in 2017.
Meanwhile, the US dairy industry has improved its sustainability, according to research published last year in the Journal of Dairy Science.
Researchers analyzed the sustainability of the US dairy industry from 1944 to 2012 and found advances in genetics
nutrition and herd management have resulted in greater efficiency more than a fourfold increase in milk yield and a reduction in farms and cows m
#GE HP Walmart Play Regulator in Their Own Supply Chains Where regulation of environmental impacts is weak,
what do big companies do? They take on the regulatory role themselves, according to Bloomberg. The news outlet says government enforcement of environmental rules in some developing countries is struggling to keep up with a surge in manufacturing so General electric,
Wal-mart and Hewlett-packard are increasing their training, to help suppliers manage EHS issues. Theye also using new tools to track performance.
Ann Condon, head of efficiency, stewardship and product environmental compliance programs for the GE supply chain,
says the company found poor performance in China and India, among other countries. GE partnered with NGOS to help build EHS management systems for suppliers.
The company was a founding partner of the Environment Health and Safety Academy, launched in China Guangdong Province in 2009.
Walmart approach has centered on its Sustainability Index, launched in 2009 and since expanded to 700 product categories and 5, 000 suppliers up from the 200 categories and 1, 000 suppliers announced last September.
That month, Walmart said it will work with suppliers to reduce fertilizer use on up to 14 million acres in the US by 2020.
The Walmart Foundation gave a $2 million grant to launch The Sustainability Consortium in China as part of a number of supply chain initiatives it announced in 2012.
The company is also working with the Electronic industry Citizenship Coalition to develop an industry standard for reporting on supplier emissions.
and product transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions intensity 20 percent by 2020, compared to 2010. It said was the first IT company to set a supply chain emissions goal.
Major companies including General electric, Walmart and HP are innovating new approaches to managing the environmental impacts of their supply chains
#Nestle JLL Levi's Among 223 Companies Supporting the Clean Power Plan More than 200 companies, including Nestlé, JLL,
Novelis and Levi strauss & Co, have announced their support for the EPA Clean Power Plan. The comment period on the proposed carbon standard for electric power plants closed Monday.
In a letter coordinated by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy organization, Ceres, 223 companies including industry giants such as Ikea,
Mars and VF Corporation said he new standards will reinforce what leading companies already know:
climate change poses real financial risks and substantial economic opportunities and we must act now. The letter was sent to the EPA, the Obama Administration,
and Senate and House majority and minority leaders. Many of the signatory companies have set their own renewable energy and energy efficiency goals.
Ikea, for example, has set a goal to use 100 percent renewable energy for its global facilities by 2020
and recently announced the purchase of a 165-megawatt Texas wind farm that will boost the home furnishing company total wind production capacity to nearly 1, 000 gigawatts of electricity per year.
has helped its commercial real estate clients reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 12 million metric tons while saving them $2. 5 billion in energy costs over the past seven years.
a business-led call to action that urges federal and state policymakers to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate change e
#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,
committing to ensure their fabric sourcing doesn harm endangered forests or contribute to deforestation. Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
The nonprofit has released also a report titled A Snapshot of Change: One Year of Fashion Loved by Forest,
which highlights key endangered forest otspotsthat it says should be protected from the impacts of the dissolving pulp and viscose sectors.
As part of the Fashion Loved by Forest initiative, more than 25 brands, retailers and designers, representing more than $75 billion in annual sales,
including Zara/Inditex, H&m, Eileen Fisher, Patagonia and Stella Mccartney, have committed to eliminate their use of fabrics that contain endangered forest fiber;
engage their suppliers to shift away from any endangered forest sourcing, advance long-term conservation solutions and alternative fabric options that are more sustainable such as recycled fabrics
or non-wood fibers like straw i
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