Angry Birds Seasons Available for Windows Phone 7.5 Too

Following its launch on Microsoft?s Windows Phone 8 operating system, the Angry Birds Seasons mobile game is now available for download on Windows Phone 7.5 devices as well.

Coming from popular mobile game publisher Rovio, the title promises more than 300 levels and regular free updates, for never-ending fun.

?These special episodes offer more challenging levels of pig-popping action and golden eggs to discover,? the company notes.

The new Angry Birds Seasons was pushed to the official Windows Phone Store with a price tag of $0.99 attached to it, and all those interested in grabbing it will find it available on this page.

For those out of the loop, we should note that the game was released for Windows Phone 8 only a few days ago, with the same price tag attached.

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Wedding Ring Flushed, Then Found A Week Later

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. ? We?ve all been there, a close call with something valuable falling down the drain or worse.

Recently Joe Meyers was on the receiving end of a fateful flush and a free falling wedding ring.

Joe and Angela Meyers have been happily married for four years, with a custom ring on Joe?s finger to prove it.

But a week ago he took that ring off to wash his hands and it took a dive into the now swirling waters of the toilet.

?I went to put it on and I either nicked my finger or I lost the grip and down it went, down the toilet,? said Meyers.

Like a scene from the movie Lord of the Rings, Meyers? ring was on it?s own course through the Grand Rapids sewer system.

?I didn?t know how she (his wife Angela) was going to react, so I was like, Ang?? She was like, what? I just flushed my ring down the toilet,? he said.

Angela responded, ?My first reaction was what?? Are you serious??

They couple?s own quest to retrieve the ring proved unsuccessful so they called the Grand Rapids sewer maintenance department.

Angela said the person who answered the phone kept her expectations in check, ?He goes, I don?t want to get your hopes up thinking I?m going to bring a ring to you.?

Adam Wohlfert said he was in the area when he heard about the Meyers? problem.

?A lot of time we will get calls from people losing their keys down a storm drain or a wallet,? said Wohlfert.

When Wohlfert heard about the job, he didn?t have much hope.

?It would be a matter of time before it ends up in a 48 inch sewer pipe and it?s just lost in a pile of dirt,? said Wohlfert.

But he did have an idea, ?We?ll block the outgoing pipe with that basket and the ring just kind of rides the flow.?

His plan worked. ?I shut the water off and sure enough there it is, just sitting right there.?

Wohlfert was able to get the ring back to it?s owner.

?I said here you go, he was very appreciative, very thankful and then I was on my way,? he said.

Angela said she was beyond thankful to get the ring back, ?He went down into the sewer to get a piece of metal that meant nothing to him.?

That would have been the end of this story until Angela finally realized exactly who brought the ring back.

?I said Adam Wohlfert? Oh my God.? That is a third cousin of mine,? said Angie.

Family aside, Meyers just wanted to say thank you to the city workers for the time they took just to look.

?I was really overwhelmed by that,? Angela said.? ?I just couldn?t believe what he did.?

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Chromebook Pixel hands-on

Taking a small stage in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, Google's Sundar Pichai introduced the Chromebook Pixel, the company's attempt to "rethink everything" in terms of laptop design. We can't say that the touchscreen notebook is a stark departure from the category's norm, but it certainly feels like a solid piece of kit. Weighing in at 3.35 pounds, the Chromebook Pixel's unibody frame looks and feels somewhat like a MacBook Pro -- flanking a comfortable chicklet keyboard and a luxuriously large trackpad with a small dip at its south end. The usual bevy of navigation and control keys headline the keyboard, and the machine's left side is populated by a Mini DisplayPort port, a power plug and two USB 2.0 plugs. The right edge houses an SD / MMC card reader and, well nothing else. The Pixel is a minimalist machine, and it both looks and feels good for the subtlety of design.

Gallery: Chromebook Pixel hands-on

The machine's real star is its 12-inch, 3:2 display. True to Google's word, the screen is gorgeous, and makes full use of that 2,560 x 1,700 resolution. Photos pop, text is crystal clear and at 400-nits, everything is stunningly bright. At first swipe, it seems to be a capable touchscreen too -- in the few minutes we had with the device, we didn't have any trouble flicking our way through Engadget's news roll, though the traditional trackpad still feels more natural at this stage. Still, everything we did was comfortable, eye-catching and rather quick, thanks, no doubt, to the Pixel's Intel Core-i5 processer. First impressions? Very solid, and possibly the finest Chromebook yet -- but at $1,299 for WiFi and $1,449 for LTE, it had better be. Skip on past the break for a hands-on video and a second hand look at the Pixel's high resolution display.

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China admits to 'cancer villages' in official report

The Chinese Government has acknowledged so-called "cancer villages" for the first time in an official report on pollution and public health.

The term is used to describe towns with higher incidences of cancer due to air and water pollution.

China's Environment Ministry has also acknowledged local industry habitually uses poisonous and harmful chemicals banned elsewhere in the world, which pose a risk to human health and the environment.

The government faces growing discontent over hazardous smog and industrial waste problems in China's big cities.

Environmental lawyer Wang Canfa, who runs an aid centre in Beijing for victims of pollution, says this is the first time the "cancer village" phrase has appeared in a ministry document.

"It shows that the Environment Ministry has acknowledged that pollution has led to people getting cancer," he said.

"It shows that this issue, of environmental pollution leading to health damages, has drawn attention."

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Facebook Bug Made Woman Lie About Age

Feb 21, 2013 3:47pm

We all know someone who?s lied about how old they are, especially on the Internet. But a 104-year-old woman in Michigan didn?t want to lie about her age on Facebook ? except that a bug on the website forced her for a while.

While Marguerite Joseph, is legally blind and hard of hearing, her granddaughter has been maintaining her profile for her and helping her to write posts and respond to messages.

Image credit: Facebook/Marguerite Joseph

?All of our family members always asked how grandma was doing on my Facebook page,? Gail Marlow, her granddaughter, told WDIV in Detroit. ?So I decided I would set up a page of her own so she could stay connected to her family in Canada.?

Joseph was 102 years old when she first registered for Facebook, but Marlow said she could never get her grandmother?s profile page to show an age older than 99. No matter how many times they attempted to update her birth year to 1908, the website would show an ?unknown error? had occurred and default to 1928.

?We?ve recently discovered an issue whereby some Facebook users may be unable to enter a birthday before 1910,? Facebook said in a statement provided to ABC News. ?We are working on a fix for this and we apologize for the inconvenience.?

When reached for additional comment, a spokesperson for Facebook told ABC News said that Joseph?s profile age has since been corrected. Messages left by ABC News for Joseph?s family were not immediately returned.

The spokesperson for Facebook was also asked about a story ABC News reported last year about Maria ?Mary? Colunia Segura-Metzgar?s claim as the ?Oldest Facebook User? in the world.? The software problem that Joseph?s family encountered may affect other centenarians, but we were able to confirm that Segura-Metzgar, who lives in New Mexico, now has a corrected profile to show she is 105, just a bit older than Marguerite Joseph.

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Researchers 'nanoweld' by applying light to aligned nanorods in solid materials

Feb. 21, 2013 ? Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials. Their technique, which melts fibers along a chosen direction within a material, may lead to stronger, more resilient nanofibers and materials.

Physicists Jason Bochinski and Laura Clarke, with materials scientist Joe Tracy, placed specifically aligned gold nanorods within a solid material. Gold nanorods absorb light at different wavelengths, depending upon the size and orientation of the nanorod, and then they convert that absorbed light directly into heat. In this case, the nanorods were designed to respond to light wavelengths of 520 nanometers (nm) in a horizontal alignment and 800 nm when vertically aligned. Human beings can see light at 520 nm (it looks green), while 808 nm is in the near infrared spectrum, invisible to our eyes.

When the different wavelengths of light were applied to the material, they melted the fibers along the chosen directions, while leaving surrounding fibers largely intact.

"Being able to heat materials spatially in this way gives us the ability to manipulate very specific portions of these materials, because nanorods localize heat -- that is, the heat they produce only affects the nanorod and its immediate surroundings," Tracy says.

According to Bochinski, the work also has implications for optimizing materials that have already been manufactured: "We can use heat at the nanoscale to change mechanical characteristics of objects postproduction without affecting their physical properties, which means more efficiency and less waste."

The researchers' findings appear in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. The work was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and Sigma Xi. Graduate students Wei-Chen Wu and Somsubhra Maity and former undergraduate student Krystian Kozek contributed to the work.

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1. Somsubhra Maity, Krystian A. Kozek, Wei-Chen Wu, Joseph B. Tracy, Jason R. Bochinski, Laura I. Clarke. Anisotropic Thermal Processing of Polymer Nanocomposites via the Photothermal Effect of Gold Nanorods. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 2013; DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201200084

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