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A new range of internet services have made it possible for users to now send email greetings to their loved ones from beyond the grave. In a macabre new twist to hit the internet soon, these online services are being used to send birthday wishes to friends, congratulations on a graduation, and to keep spouses happy. Before they die, internet users can programme the sites to fire off posthumous emails on key dates each year. People using these services can even set up their own online memorial in advance.

The user however will not be around to witness their site as it only goes live when the particular website is alerted to the subscriber’s death. According to the reports, these websites are part of a growing trend for “digital wills”. Although not legally binding, the online wills are aimed at ensuring the next of kin can gain full access to a dead person’s musings on sites like Facebook and Hotmail, as well as passwords for internet banking and other possible e-documents. This new phenomenon is being touted as DeathBook, a play on the name of the popular social networking website Facebook.

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The best things in life are for free but it seems that money can buy you happiness. A new research shows that money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of social rejection. Through six experiments, psychologists and a marketing professor probed the power of money as a proxy for social acceptance. Among their results, they found that merely touching bills or thinking about expenses paid affected the participants both physically and emotionally. Because it affects pain, money can be a clue to how the brain evolved to process social interactions, Live Science quoted the researchers as saying. The study appears the journal Psychological Science.

In one experiment, 84 undergraduate student volunteers were divided into two groups and asked to take a “finger-dexterity test”. One group counted 80 $100 bills from a stack, the other group counted paper. Afterward, the volunteers played Cyberball, a computer game in which four players passed a ball to each other. They were told that they were playing with three real people, but in fact a computer simulated the other players. In half of the games, all the players received the ball an equal number of times, but the other half was rigged against the human players. And guess what? Those who played the rigged version of Cyberball reported that they felt snubbed. But, on average, those who had counted money before playing rated their level of social distress lower than those who had counted paper.

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Hello friends. How many of you would love to go outdoors for some fun activities? In recent times, most of the people are stressed out and are finding very little time to spend some time with their family. In fact, i had not been anywhere from a couple of months until recently, where i had been to trekking with my family. And what’s more? You need to ensure that you have the right belongings with you, before you go on a camping or hiking or trakking with your friends or family members. So check out the exclusive range of Travel and Outdoor Fun buying guide, which gives you an insight on to the products that you need to buy before you go on a camping and hiking with your children. You may also need Food Dehydrators, Kitchenware and many more essential products before you go on a camping and hiking.

So if you need a list of essential products before you go on a camping and hiking, then take a look at the Camping and Hiking guide for more information. I had been to trekking recently and i had a great time with my wife and children The best part about our trekking, was that we had all the essential products in hand and we did not face any difficulty.  I had purchased a pair of Trail Running Shoes and i had a great time running down and above the hill several times with a great pair of shoes and all i had was total fun. So, my only tip to all my blog readers is that you need to have all the necessary products before you go on a camping and hiking. For instance, you will definitely need a pair of  Hiking Boots if you are planning to go on a trekking and you will also definitely need a pair of Binoculars if you would love to see the places around you from the top of a mountain. So ensure that you have all those essential products before you leave your home.

So friends, what are you waiting for? Get ready for an exciting camping and hiking trip with your family and have a great time. And do not forget to carry Sleeping Bags as you need a place to sleep when you go for camping and hiking. And to top it all, ensure you also carry Tents when you go Outdoors with your family as you can rest anywhere you want. Have a great camping and hiking with your family and enjoy the time!

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A functional artificial human brain will be possible in the next 10 years, according to neuro-scientist Henry Markram, who made the announcement at TED Global 2009 at Oxford.

Dr Markram is the director of Blue Brain Project, a supercomputing project that can model components of the mammalian brain to precise cellular detail and simulate their activity in 3D. He has already created parts of a fully functioning rat brain.

The project, which was started in 2005, aims to recreate neurons, which are used by human brain to process information by sending electrical signals from neuron to neuron. In the cerebral cortex, neurons are organised into basic functional units, like microcircuits in a computer. This microcircuit, known as the neocortical coloumn( NCC ), is repeated millions of times across the cortex.

The Blue Brain project aims to re-create this fundamental microcircuit, down to the level of biologically accurate individual neurons and this can then be used in simulations. The difference between the brain of a mouse and the brain of a human is basically just volume - humans have many more neocortical coloumns and thus more neurons than mice.

“It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years. And if we do succeed, we will send a hologram to TED to talk,” said Dr Markram at the conference. The artificial brain would help understand  the mysteries of human brain and help find treatments for mental disorders, which afflict about two million people in the world.

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The US President, Barack Obama, on Thursday said the stabilisation in America’s financial system is a success story of the last six months; but rued that there has not been a change in the behaviour of the US companies that has resulted in their collapse last year.

“One of the success stories of the past six months is that we really have seen stabilisation in the financial system. It is not where it needs to be. But people are no longer talking about the financial system falling off a cliff. We have stepped away from the brink,” Mr Obama told reporters at a prime time White House press conference.

The President observed that it is important because it means a lot of companies right now can go into the marketplace and borrow money to fund inventory, fund payroll and that will help the economy grow as a whole.

“Now that the financial system has bounced back, what you are seeing is that banks are starting to make profits again. Some of them have paid back the federal aid money that they received, the bank bailout money that they received. And we expect more of them to pay this back. That is a good thing,” Mr Obama said.

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Hello friends. How many of you love to have your own website? Well. obviously everybody would certainly intend to have their own website, isn’t it? Having a own website has got several advantages and the main advantage is the freedom and the flexibility. Yes, having your own website gives you the freedom of expressing your own views and opinions to the public. However, having your own website does not solve the problem as you need to have unlimited a  space to express your views and opinions to the world. And if you feel expressing your views through a free hosting, then probably you are wrong.

To be honest enough, having your domain with a free hosting never guarantees your content. There are several instances where people have lost their content when the entire server crashes down. And what’s more? Having a free hosting always has several restrictions as there is a limited space available and there are very less possibilities where you can upload thousands of Megabytes of files on to your website. So what is the best possible solution?

Yes, the best possible solution is to purchase unlimited space in the World Wide Web through a branded and popular web host. And when i think about the most popular web host, the first company that comes to my mind is the Web Hosting Rating website as this website gives you a list of the top webs hosts, thus making your job easier to choose the right web host suitable for your needs. So what are you waiting for? Check out the web hosting rating website now and choose the right web host now and start building your website in minutes! Good luck!

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Yahoo! said it plans to introduce a major overhaul of its Internet home page on Tuesday, as the firm strives to make itself more relevant to Web surfers and create new ways to sell advertising. The new homepage blends Yahoo’s collection of online content and products with popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, representing what a Yahoo official called the most “radical!” make-over of the site since its inception more than a decade ago.

“It is a sea change in the way we think about products, the way we think about users, and the way we think about our business,” says Yahoo Senior VP of Integrated Consumer Experience, Tapan Bhat said ahead of the announcement.

The new homepage comes as negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft on a search and advertising partnership are regaining momentum. Yahoo, which is due to report its second quarter financial results on Tuesday, is facing increasing competition from Microsoft, following the release of Microsoft’s Bing Internet search engine in June.

Yahoo’s homepage, however, is one of the most visited pages on the Web, and among the most valuable of Yahoo assets. The homepage according to ComScore, had 330 million users worldwide in May.

According to Mr.Bhat, the new homepage is already available from Tuesday in the United Staes and in several other countries in the coming weeks, as a beta product that users can opt-in to receive.

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Andrew Flintoff insisted he would get through the rest of the Ashes series after bowling England to their First Test win over Australia at Lord’s in 75 years. Flintoff, on the eve of this match, announced he would retire from the Test cricket at the end of the Ashes.

The injury-plagued all-rounder has most recently been troubled by a knee problem and when he started to suffer fresh discomfort at Lord’s, speculation began to grow that he might bow out of Tests completely at the “Home of Cricket”.

But as he came roaring in at top pace here on Monday, there was no sign of the fast bowler struggling for full fitness during an unbroken 10-over spell. He finished with five wickets for 92 runs as England won the Second Test by 115 runs to go 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

The 31-year old Lancashire favorite was adamant that he was looking forward to the remainder of the series: “You hear what is been said and it is never my intention to bow at Lord’s. I want to be in an Ashes-winning team come the last test match at the Oval. To be on that podium at the last Test will be the perfect way for me to go,” said Flintoff, the star of England’s 2005 Ashes series win.

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Hello friends. How many of you would love to watch your favorite programs on your television without any disturbance? Well, obviously everyone would hope for the same, isn’t it? However, with the cable connection, watching television programmes or movies without getting disconnected has become very rare. In fact, on several occasions, cable connection would get disconnected, thus spoiling the fun of watching our favorite programmes on the television. In recent times, there are have been several new inventions and with the advancement of technology, there should be an alternative for the good old cable connection. And yes, indeed there is a solution which would probably eradicate cable television worldwide due to its simple technology and quality service. So which is the  possible alternative for cable television? Read below to know more.

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