Google has described the benefits for deceased employees

Google has guaranteed his posthumous benefits to workers who are paid to relatives in case of death of the employee. Human Resources Director, Laszlo Bock, Google told this magazine Forbes. Until now, information on these benefits not mentioned anywhere. According to Bock, a Google employee after the death of the surviving spouse will be in ten years get 50% of his salary. Deceased children per month will be paid a thousand dollars. Payments will continue until the child reaches 19 years of the employee (or up to 23 years if the child was full-time students). Bock confirmed that this benefit for years of service is irrelevant. Therefore, this benefit can claim all the 34,000 employees of the search engine. Bock acknowledged that such payments are, of course, do not bring any benefits the company, but Google is considered necessary to help the families of its employees.

The Google search engine was created in 1998 by students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In the same year was founded the same name and company. In the past few years, Google recognizes the most attractive employer in the United States, including through various additional benefits to employees.

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Assassin's Creed 3 will be released on PC in November

Publisher Ubisoft has officially announced that the release of the game Assassin's Creed 3 on PC will be on November 23, thus confirming the rumors of delay in the release. The console version of Half-Blood adventures assassin goes on sale in the U.S. on October 30 in Europe - a day later. The information that Ubisoft will release PC-version for almost a month later than the console, appeared in late June. Then at the disposal of the Czech branch portal Eurogamer got a poster retailer ConQuest, where it was said that the game will be released on November 23. At the same publisher has refused to confirm if this information is official. 

The plot of the adventure game Assassin's Creed 3 will be developed in North America of the eighteenth century. The main character will be an Indian AC3-Blood Kinvey Connor. The game takes place in three cities and in the forest zone, called the Border. Assassin's Creed 3 - the last game of the series, which will be the hero of the entire series AC Desmond Miles. For transfer of Ubisoft PC-version of the game is not unusual. As previously stated the company, so it prevents the pirates. In some cases, the publisher completely abandons design variants of the game for the PC. So, for example, happened to Action I Am Alive, which was released for consoles, but never went on sale on the PC. Creative director of the game when he said that the decision was purely economic: due to the fact that the PC-gamers in most cases, set the pirated versions, porting games on this platform brings a loss.

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MPMan MPCS255 - 256mb MP3 and Video Player with 2.5" Screen and 1.3 Megapixel Camera

Details of Camara

Audio Line-In Interface: Yes

Built-In Microphone: Yes

Built-In Radio: No

Compact Flash Card: No

Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB): No

Direct Radio Recording: No

Integrated TV Tuner: No

MP3 Playback: Yes

Memory Stick: No

Multimedia Card: No

Photo Viewer: No

Screen Size in Inch: 2.5

Screen Size in Inches: 2.5

Secure Digital Card: Yes

Smart Media Card: No

Storage Capacity in MB: 256

Storage Medium: Built-In Memory

xD-Picture Card: No

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SoundDock® 10 digital music system

Technical Details

Apple Docking

Lifelike, powerful performance rivalling that of a larger, more expensive stereo system

Deeper low notes from a newly designed driver enhanced by Bose waveguide speaker technology

Auxiliary input for connecting your music phone, MP3 player or other audio device

Compatible with all iPhone and most iPod models

Optional Bluetooth® dock for playing your stereo Bluetooth® music phone 

About Bose

Dedication to research and excellence has been the Bose approach to better sound since Dr. Amar G. Bose founded the company in 1964. Ever since then, Bose engineers have focused on creating better technology. You'll find that focus exemplified in the SoundDock® 10 system.

About The Product

Prepare to be amazed by the SoundDock® 10 digital music system, our best-performing system for your iPhone and iPod. It offers sound that is so natural and powerful that it may just become the main music system in your home. It’s the perfect gadget for personal listening, gatherings and parties. In fact, your iPod or iPhone have possibly never sounded so great. You'll hear an enormous range of tones, from the rich lows of a bass line to the towering highs of a soprano. This remarkable sound performance is the result of improved Bose waveguide speaker technology along with an innovative woofer that’s extremely capable. The waveguide, a long tube intricately folded inside the system, boosts audio from the woofer to create notably richer, stronger low notes.

Easy to use and enjoy

The SoundDock® 10 system may have some complicated Bose technology on the inside, but it’s thrillingly simple to use, with an equally simple design exterior. Just dock your iPhone or iPod and play. The system's simple, sleek look will go with any room.

More sound sources

If you’d like to add another audio sound source – like a DVD player or MP3 – simply connect it to the SoundDock® 10 system's auxiliary input. The remote control can switch back and forth between your iPhone or iPod and the source you’ve connected to it, and can even navigate an iPhone/iPod playlist. There's also an output for watching iPod or iPhone videos on your television while you listen to it on your system. If you have a Bluetooth® stereo music phone, use the optional Bluetooth® music dock to listen wirelessly.

Once you’ve heard our top-performing digital music system for yourself, we think you'll agree that nothing else compares.

Features

Proprietary waveguide speaker technology gives a full-bodied sound performance, especially in the lower registers, for more lifelike bass and percussion instruments. The re-engineered woofer has a bigger magnet than normal woofers – for stronger performances, with deeply resonating low notes. Bose digital signal processing circuitry allows more control over your audio for consistent, natural sounding music, even at low volumes. The system works with all iPhone models and most iPod models and is "Made for iPhone/iPod" certified. Watch video output from your iPhone or iPod on your television while enjoying sound from your SoundDock® 10 system. There is an auxiliary input for playing a CD/DVD player, MP3 player or television using the system. Handle power, volume, track seek and iPhone or iPod playlists from wherever you are in the room with the handy remote control. You can charge your docked iPhone/iPod, even while playing, provided that the system is plugged in.

What's in the box

SoundDock® 10 digital music system

AC power cord

remote control

Product Description

SoundDock® 10 digital music system, best-performing system for your iPhone and iPod. It offers sound that is so natural and powerful that it may just become the main music system in your home. It's the perfect gadget for personal listening, gatherings and parties. In fact, your iPod or iPhone have possibly never sounded so great. You'll hear an enormous range of tones, from the rich lows of a bass line to the towering highs of a soprano. This remarkable sound performance is the result of improved Bose waveguide speaker technology along with an innovative woofer that's extremely capable. The waveguide, a long tube intricately folded inside the system, boosts audio from the woofer to create notably richer, stronger low notes.

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Microsoft forced to rename the interface Metro

Microsoft's need to stop using the word "Metro" in the name of the interface of Windows 8 and Windows Phone, The Verge blog reports, citing its own sources. The publication has at its disposal a memo in which Microsoft employees are urged to no longer use that word. A letter with similar content sent as Microsoft application developers for Windows 8. Currently the company is looking for a new term for the name of the interface. Until then, until it is approved, Metro recommended to call the "new user interface."

According to one version, the reason for rejection of the word "Metro" was a dispute over intellectual property rights with the German company Metro AG. Both companies did not comment on that information. Name of Metro are based on the language of typography design (design language), as well as the user interface, which embodied the principles of the language. One of the key elements of the interface are the Metro "live tiles" with the updated information.

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Windows 8 of Published the RTM-version

According to the official blog of Microsoft, the evening of August 2 the company has released a ready-to-replicate (RTM, Released To Manufacturing) version of Windows 8. The appearance of RTM-version suggests that Microsoft has completed development and testing of the new operating system. Code Windows 8 will be sent to computer makers, and from mid-August to get developers and partners. Production of computers to Windows 8 announced Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba and other companies. 

Private users will be able to install new OSes on my PC since October 26 when the sale will go to the final version of Windows 8. Those users who have installed OS XP, Vista or Windows 7 upgrade to "eight" will cost 39.9 dollars. The Next Web Blog is also reported that on 1 August RTM-out version of Windows RT (operating system for ARM-plates), and Windows Server 2012 (server operating system). Microsoft has released three preview versions of Windows 8 - Developer Preview (September 2011), Consumer Preview (February 2012) and Release Preview (May 2012). They are free, but will work within a certain period - for example, Release Preview can be used up to January 16, 2013.

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IT News 200,000 by Techli8

Dear visitors! We are pleased to announce 200,001 th news of our portal.  Of course, at any time be removed or vice versa restored some old news, and news of other numbers will also change, but the fact of two hundred thousand on the website published news will remain so. Number of published knowledge, and how many unpublished (deleted)? Slightly less than one hundred thousand news removed, then there are only a moderate 2/3 of all the news. Two hundred thousand - a lot or a little? For me a lot, even though I am the author of only five thousand of them. If we divide this number by the age of the site, then come out 100 news the day that many objectively. Why should we celebrate this event a separate news? I do not know there was such a desire - to publicly take a kind of summary. I can promise that we, as before, will do so very rarely.

The number is growing, and quality? Unfortunately, the first growth inevitably leads to a fall in the second, and total lack of assistance to users in this issue only complicates the situation. Several years ago I could single-handedly, not only to check the news all the texts, but all the archives. Now those functions vested in the whole group of people, and the probability of failure of large and complex mechanism is much higher than one part. All previous and current years, we have focused solely on the creation and modernization of the tracking system for the actions of the authors and moderators, and now news of any change of any fixed and is reversible. What's next? And then (very soon) a lot of things: change the domain's zone to keep the site updated design based on customer feedback, new features and, of course, the news from our sponsors. Our main goal and the basic requirement for authors to always be the maximum match headlines, descriptions and their archives. It is counting on your help in maintaining this high bar in the future.

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ODROID-X Korea

All must remember all the noise that rose after the launch of Raspberry Pi. Someone said that Pi is capable of everything, there were those who doubted the possibilities and a skeptical admitted that on Linux this is quite enough. Yesterday it was announced by the Korean product - ODROID-X. Call it Pi analogue difficult, as both are quite different configuration, and from this and the prices are, respectively, far away from each other. Let's look at what this product and is it worth to you to think about ordering it. ODROID-X - motherboard from the Korean manufacturer Hardkernel based on ARM. Looks like Pi and its analogs, but in fact the case before us is the leader among similar devices. For skeptics immediately present configuration, since the device is what the show itself. We already know that the board consists of:

CPU Samsung Exynos brand with the four cores and 1.4 GHz

Mali graphics processor with 400 MHz

RAM type DDR2 1GB

Video output mini-HDMI

Audio output jacks and standard 3.5 mm audio input

Exit the LAN 10/100 MB

Entry MIPI CSI camera

Slots for SDHC cards and the like

Port GPIO, which translates video signals, and can also be used to program the board 

And now to the other data on ODROID-X. Along with all these twists, board size is about 9 by 9.5 inches, which equals 2.5 boards suspended Pi. Power consumption has increased but not significantly compared to Pi, laptops or home PC. At this time, the price board at around 129 dollars, almost $ 100 more than the most fancy Pi. Should you buy such a thing? Manufacturers claim that ODROID-X can easily provide the work of the last version of Ubuntu, and Android. The device comes with Android 4.0.1, which is very nice for the money. Maybe better to buy a tablet or Pi - think about it after watching ODROID-X at work:

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Squishiness of Saturn's Moon Suggests Salty Ocean Below Surface

Scientists have reported the strongest sign yet that Saturn's giant moon may have a salty ocean beneath its chilly surface. If confirmed, it would catapult Titan into an elite class of solar system moons harboring water, an essential ingredient for life. Titan boasts methane-filled seas at the poles and a possible lake near the equator. And it's long been speculated that Titan contains a hidden liquid layer, based on mathematical modeling and electric field measurements made by the Huygens spacecraft that landed on the surface in 2005. The latest evidence is still indirect, but outside scientists said it's probably the best that can be obtained short of sending a spacecraft to drill into the surface — a costly endeavor that won't happen anytime soon. The research looks convincing, said Gabriel Tobie of France's University of Nantes. "If the analysis is correct, this is a very important finding," Tobie said in an email.

Squeezing, stretching suggests buried ocean

The finding by an international team of researchers led by astronomer Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome was released online Thursday by the journal Science. The scientists pored over data from NASA's orbiting Cassini spacecraft, which flew by Titan half a dozen times between 2006 and last year and took gravity measurements for a glimpse of its interior. They found Titan got squeezed and stretched depending on its orbit around Saturn, suggesting the presence of a buried ocean. If Titan were solid rock and ice, such deformations would not occur.  "Titan is quite squishy," noted Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University, who was part of the research team.

Scientists did not delve into the characteristics of the ocean, but previous estimates suggested it could be 50 to 100 kilometres deep and contain traces of ammonia. Titan is one of the few worlds in the solar system with a significant atmosphere, and the presence of an underground ocean could help explain how Titan replenishes methane in its hazy atmosphere. Having an internal body of water would also make Titan an attractive place to study whether it would be capable of supporting microbial life. Other moons on the shortlist: Jupiter's Europa, where an underground ocean is thought to exist and another Saturn moon, Enceladus, where jets have been seen spewing from the surface. "Any environment that has liquid water needs to be investigated carefully," said planetary scientist Jean-Luc Margot of the University of California, Los Angeles, who had no role in the research.

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Milky Way Collision Reverberating 100 Million Years Later

A satellite galaxy or other massive object that passed through the Milky Way 100 million years ago sent shock waves through its many millions of stars that are still reverberating today, a team of Canadian and U.S. physicists has found. Astrophysicist Lawrence Widrow of Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and his colleagues looked at data for hundreds of thousands of stars in the Milky Way and found that the way they were moving within what is known as the disk of the galaxy indicated they had been disturbed in some way.  The stars are moving up and down through the disk, and we expect them to have a distribution of positions and velocities in something close to an equilibrium distribution," Widrow said.

"What we've seen suggests that perhaps the galaxy isn't quite in equilibrium, and the hypothesis is that something has come through and perturbed the disk in this way." That "something" could have been a smaller satellite galaxy, such as the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, or a massive dark matter object, Widrow said, and most likely was only one of many such satellites to pass through the Milky Way and disrupt its stars.  "The idea of satellites coming through the disk and perturbing the disk is an old idea; the idea that we're seeing a particular signature of this, a smoking gun, is what's new," Widrow said.

Ripples in a pond'

The Milky Way "disk" is the mass of stars orbiting around the centre of the spiral galaxy held together by gravity. The disk contains tens of billions of stars moving at a speed of around 200 kilometres per second around the galaxy centre as well as vertically above and below the so-called galactic midplane in a complex motion Widrow compares to a dance. "Each star has an ideal circular path around the centre of the galaxy, but they're also bobbing up and down in and out of the plane of the disk and they're also not quite on circular paths, they're on slightly elliptical orbits," he said. "When we studied these motions … we noticed what appeared to be perturbations or oscillations or waves in the positions and velocities."

By assuming that the undisturbed state of the stars should be a more even distribution of motion, the researchers speculated that the oscillations were a sign that something had passed through the galaxy and disrupted the equilibrium. "In physics, if there is some force trying to bring the system back into equilibrium, the system tends to overshoot, and that gives rise to oscillations, ripples in a pond," Widrow said. "You almost think of these stars as behaving like a fluid in the disk of the galaxy held together by gravity."

Sloan sky survey provided data

Widrow and his fellow physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, the University of Chicago and the University of Kentucky focused on a cluster of several hundred thousand stars in what astronomers call the solar neighbourhood — the region of the galaxy disk near the sun.

They used measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which compiles data from a telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico and makes it openly available to scientists for their own use. By analyzing everything from the stars' brightness, colour, velocity and different kinds of motion and by setting up a computer simulation of how a galaxy might respond were it perturbed by one of the satellite galaxies known to surround the Milky Way, they were able to determine how long ago the disruption might have happened. "One has to set up a galaxy that has been perturbed and then evolve it and see how long it takes for those perturbations to die away, and they seem to die away on the time scale of hundreds of millions of years, so if we're seeing the perturbations now, they must have occurred within the last 100 or 200 million years," Widrow said.

Satellite galaxy interactions likely commonMost astronomers suspect that the Milky Way is never quite entirely in equilibrium but is continually being disturbed by one satellite or another passing through it, and Widrow admits that his team's explanation is only one hypothetical scenario of one kind of disruption that could cause the kind of motion detected by the Sloan telescope. 'It's an open question what might have caused this effect and when exactly it happened and how big the dwarf was. These are things we hope to study," he said. Widrow anticipates that the study of the motion of stars and the effect of satellite galaxies on the Milky Way disk will only get better as data from upcoming space missions accumulates over the next two years.

"There's quite a lot of discussion in the astronomical community about how many satellites there actually are and how they interact with the disk of the galaxy and what effect they're having on the disk," Widrow said. "What we'd like to think is that this is perhaps one piece of a broader discussion of how the disk galaxies interact with these satellites." The findings are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Chinese iPad Naming Case Apple to pay $60M

Apple has agreed to pay a Chinese company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market.  Apple Inc. says it bought the global rights to the iPad name from Shenzhen Proview Technology in 2009 but Chinese authorities say the rights in China were never transferred. A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview still owned the name in China and the company asked Chinese authorities to seize iPads. 

"The iPad dispute resolution is ended," the Guangdong High People's Court said in a statement. "Apple Inc. has transferred $60 million to the account of the Guangdong High Court as requested in the mediation letter." China is Apple's second-largest market after the United States and the source of much of the Cupertino, California-based company's sales growth. Proview hoped for more money but felt pressure to settle because it needs to pay debts, said a lawyer for the company, Xie Xianghui. He said the company had hoped for as much as $400 million and might still be declared bankrupt in a separate legal proceeding despite the infusion of settlement money.

"This is a result that is acceptable to both sides," Xie said. The dispute centered on whether Apple acquired the iPad name in China when it bought rights in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for £35,000 ($55,845). The December court ruling said Proview, which registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001, was not bound by that sale, even though it was part of the same company. Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong.

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