Nintendo 3DS Book reco

It will be released March 25, just over a week from today, but it would not stop the hype that was created for months around the Nintendo 3DS, new handheld console the Big N, successor to the DS. Apparently the new game machine in the company of Kyoto has in common with the old habit of breaking records and new sign. This time he talks about the reservations that have proven to 3DS very numerous, so to speak, precisely, of record.

To sustain it is Amazon, which received bookings for the console . The Nintendo 3DS gaming machine would be the most reserved of the story.

The previous record belonged to the PlayStation 3 , but the new handheld beat Sony's flagship home of twenty percent.

Not only the Nintendo 3DS also beat all the other Nintendo console, the Wii to the DSi . The first was exceeded by 56 percent, while the second as much as 255%!

The director of games at Amazon, Chris Poad he said of the unusual record of 3DS:

E 'unusual for a handheld console to pull on this level of excitement to the launch. Such high levels of interest are usually reserved for household hardware such as the Nintendo Wii and the Microsoft Kinect.

Mr. Poad, however, immediately gave a more plausible explanation, and add more predictable to the unexpected success of pre - order the Nintendo 3DS:

The Nintendo 3DS runs at a time when the interest is high in all that is in 3D and promises real 3D graphics without glasses, it's really a step forward for the portable video game entertainment.

The men are macho, supports a study of neurology

There is an area of the brain can stop the sexist beliefs in men. If this is inhibited people male, although young and with a highly educated, give way to the stereotype that the successful combination of power-what is by men. The study, published in the journal Neuroimage , which deals with brain research and brain imaging was conducted at the University of Milano-Bicocca, by Zaira Cattaneo, researcher at the Department of Psychology, by Costanza Papagno, Professor of Psychology and Psychobiology Physiological, Giulia Mattavelli, a PhD student at the same Department and Elisa Platania, a new graduate in psychology from the University Bicocca.

The researchers used a test that measures the people's implicit beliefs on gender (Gender Implicit Association Test, Iact) and are administered through the computer to 62 students of the Faculty of Psychology (31 men and 31 women). During the test appeared at the center of the monitor a person's name that the participants had to classify as male or female using a left or right.Subsequently, participants were classified - using the same keyboard response - a few words as related to a notion of "force" or "weakness." When asked to use the same response key to categorize "feminine" and "strength" of male participants have committed more errors than when the same key was used to classify the "feminine" and "weak" (and vice versa for male names).

Bicocca University scientists have discovered that - in the men participating - there is a strong tendency to link the men to concepts related to force, such as power, authority, success, prestige, and to associate with notions of female " weakness ", such as weakness, indecision, passivity, submissiveness. The girls who participated in the experiment did not show, however, no association between gender and concepts of strength and weakness.

The researchers then studied the neural basis of stereotypical beliefs found in male participants using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that allows you to selectively interfere with the activity of a certain brain area and then to study the role in a particular cognitive process. It was discovered that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex play a key role in the control of stereotypes: in fact, when these areas were temporarily inhibited by the stimulation, male participants were associated with an even sharper words related to the strength male gender, and words related to the weakness of the female sex. In practice, the men, although not in a conscious way, combining the positive elements, such as the success and prestige, primarily male and scope only by the growth of the prefrontal cortex, these impulses are slowed and did not result in discriminatory episodes.

Prefrontal areas are the last to mature in the brain and play high-level cognitive functions such as reasoning, planning, inhibition of inappropriate responses, decision-making. The results showed that the control of the stereotypes - those related to gender (as well as race and ethnicity, for example) - can be modulated by interfering with the activity of the prefrontal lobes. I understand and control processes mediated by the prefrontal cortex are highly influenced by education and by the environment: Although gender-stereotypical beliefs are still deeply rooted in our culture, the prefrontal cortex can be "trained" to control negative associations acquired implicitly. It is therefore essential to invest in education the control exerted by the prefrontal cortex acting on stereotypical beliefs as possible.

HP: An app store to carry the company through the clouds!

For starters, the ' HP TouchPad , the tablet with webOS rival ' iPad will be launched in June, while on the tablet with Windows, Apoteker is waiting for the "right version" of the operating system, or the long-awaited Windows Tablet Edition . In addition, HP will launch in 2012 a "cloud marketplace" through which sell both consumer and business applications and not limited only to HP products. To quote his words on the market "there will be only HP HP technologies and applications, but also other".

"This is a great market," Apotheker said, adding that services will be offered to consumers, businesses and developers, which will make HP a direct competitor to companies like Amazon.com.Despite the competition, Creative Strategy President Tim Bajarin , HP has the infrastructures and resources to compete in this fierce market at large, which is a cornerstone on which to lay the foundations for future growth. Secont Bajarin, " if there is a company able to provide a large group of cloud services, that is HP . " All the heads in the clouds, then, but with feet firmly planted on the ground.

IPAD 2 thinner and lighter. The secret is the battery

PAD 2 has a thickness thinner by as much as 33% thanks to new battery, but for which the range is unchanged.

The "iPad 2 has one of its strengths nellle two dimensions being smaller, thinner and lighter.
But how could this have happened if it were included as two other hardware the two cameras? Actually, even before the thickness looks better, but the answer is simple.
Apple engineers have been working on the battery to reduce the size of the "iPad level manioera drastic thickness of 4.6mm compared to well over" iPad 1 with a 33% reduction.
In fact, the battery was reduced by 6.1 mm of "iPad 1 to 2.55 of the new model, with a reduction of 59% even if the" autonomy remained intact at 10 hours of standby time.
The total cost of the "iPad is $ 327 for Apple, which sells it at $ 499 Wifi. Should be emphasized that the" iPad 2 Improvement in hardware is also from the point of view of the A5 dual Core processor, more ram went from 256 to 512 Mb and the cameras just to mention the most important elements.
But as explained by the same analysts Apple, the Cupertino company could remain the same, the price of fog "iPad 2 relative to that of his predecessor (who declined), despite the improvements due to gtran nmero PAH sold that provided a stronger contract in "purchasing individual components from the real hardware manufacturers.

Saturday arrives Superluna

It happened for eighteen: Saturday, March 19, the Moon will appear to our eyes bigger than usual, 14% to be exact.You will experience what is called "perigee Moon ': the moon, which is full, it will at the minimum distance to Earth, about 356,577 km. What has already been nicknamed the "Superluna," also brought with it the inevitable catastrophic prophecies that circulated a few days with particular insistence on the Net but do not worry: there will be the apocalypse, just a wonderful show astronomical.

PERIGEE - With head held high, and with the naked eye, we witness an astronomical phenomenon very specific, albeit ordinary. But this has not occurred since March 1993. The next full moon, scheduled this Saturday, it will seem bigger and brighter than usual, if the sky is always clear. Our satellite is at perigee, the point of minimum distance from Earth. A phenomenon that depends primarily on changes that periodically affect the lunar orbit, due to the gravitational perturbations exerted by the sun The last lunar perigee occurred in September five years ago. Then, the distance from Earth was 357,210 km. On average, the Earth-Moon distance is 382,900 km. The next peak however, that the maximum distance between the Moon and the Earth, will take place Oct. 12 this year. On that day the satellite will be well over 49,857 km away than it will be Saturday, March 19.

Apocalyptic predictions - Coinciding with the 'Giant Moon' on Saturday have emerged from a series of network theory, more or less elaborate, but most apocalyptic. Especially the correlation with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan Friday, March 11 is cause for concern for some users not paying attention. Experts, however, astronomers and blogger specializing reassure: "No," Superluna "did not cause the earthquake in Japan," explain on the query, the journal of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (the Cicap).

MOON ILLUSION - "The effects of" Superluna "on our planet are low," says the head scientist at NASA, Jim Garvin. Stresses that: "Taking into account some very detailed studies of seismologists and volcanologists, the alignment of the Moon in conjunction with the full moon, should not have any major impact on Earth." To enjoy the show the best from the pages of the American Space Agency should be observed when the satellite is closer horizon. Furthermore, looking at the moon through a foreground object, such as a tree, is triggered in an optical effect called imaginatively "moon illusion." The human eye is actually deceived and the Moon will appear artificially large.

Internet Explorer 9: 2.35 million downloads, but the record is Mozilla

Internet Explorer 9, the new version of Microsoft's browser, has registered 2.3 million downloads in the first 24 hours after his release.

Although large, the number of downloads is less than that involved in the final version of Mozilla Firefox 3, in July 2008.Then there were 8 million downloads in 24 hours, with "most software downloads in 24 hours" they put Firefox in the Guinness Book of Records.

The new version of Internet Explorer is still only compatible with Windows Vista and 7. Users of Windows XP, 55% of Microsoft users around the world, must continue to use version 8 of the browser.

PUBLISHING: FROM MARCH 28 SITE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES PAY

New York - It 's over the free ride. From March 28 to 'read' the articles in the website of the New York Times must 'pay. To browse the NYT there will be three three different membership options, starting at $ 15 per month for access to digital editions and the app for the iPad will cost 'of $ 20 per month. For access to all platforms, $ 35 per month. Non-subscribers can see a maximum of 20 free articles per month.