The Best Videos of 2011: Day 2

WWE.com's best videos of 2011 continue with a savage assault, corporate power plays and, of course, The Great One's return to WWE.?

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Sound and fury

When Big Show?s music played randomly during Mark Henry's match and cost him the contest, The World?s Strongest Man didn?t take kindly to the interruption. However, with The World's Largest Athlete nowhere to be found,?the irate Henry took out his frustrations on the first innocent he could find.

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WWE.com exclusive: Pipe bomb at San Diego Comic-Con

His contract with WWE expired only days before, but that didn?t stop WWE Champion CM Punk from crashing Comic-Con International in San Diego and dropping some knowledge on COO Triple H, guerilla-style.

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FINALLY...

Mr. McMahon promised the guest host for Wrestlemania XXVII would shock the WWE Universe. Indeed, the revelation on a Valentine?s Day Raw proved to be quite ? electrifying.

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Triple H fires?Mr.?McMahon

With CM Punk on the lam and the WWE Championship lost to the outside world, The King of Kings?returned with?with some grave news for Mr. McMahon ...

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Mr. McMahon?fires Triple H

? Though a couple of months later, The Chairman would make a surprise reappearance to reluctantly return the favor on WWE's COO.?

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PS Vita second week hardware sales plummet in Japan

Sony's PS Vita portable console launched in Japan on December 17 and one third party report claimed later that 321,000 units of the console were sold in Japan in its first two days. Now a new report claims that sales of the PS Vita have basically dropped off a cliff during the second week of the console's sales in Japan.

AllThingsD.com reports that according to the Japanese research firm Media Create sales of the PS Vita went down to just 72,479 units in the second week of sales in that country. The sales of the PS Vita were just below those of the Playstation 3 console and well below the number one best selling console in Japan, Nintendo's 3DS portable console with 482,200 units sold.

The article speculates that the drastically lower second week sales for the PS Vita might have to do with inventory issues. However, there are no reports that indicate that their is a shortage of PS Vita units on sale. The far more likely explanation is that the PS Vita is priced much higher than current portable game consoles and as such is keeping consumers from purchasing it, even during the normally busy Christmas sales week.

Meanwhile the PS Vita is still set to debut in the US and Europe on February 22. Sony will likely demo US-themed PS Vita launch games at CES in early January.

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John began his journalism career writing for print newspapers but 11 years ago moved on to write mostly for online outlets, particularly PC gaming sites. He has worked for a variety of sites including Firing Squad and most recently AOL's Big Download web site.

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Is Shift Worker Diet An Occupational Hazard?

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An editorial in PLOS Medicine makes the case for considering the poor eating habits of shift workers, and the associated health risk, as a legally defined occupational hazard. Sophie Bushwick reports.

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For shift workers, odd hours usually mean strange sleeping habits and unhealthy meals. And now an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine takes the position that unhealthy eating associated with unusual working hours could be considered a new form of occupational hazard. Because such eating is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes. [Poor Diet in Shift Workers: A New Occupational Health Hazard?]

More than 15 percent of workers in the United States are employed in shifts, with workers taking over for each other so that the establishment can stay open for up to 24 hours a day. Because some shifts take place at night, employees have their circadian rhythms disrupted, and thus their metabolisms.

Taking round the clock shifts also makes eating a good diet and getting sufficient exercise difficult. A recent study in the same journal found an increase in diabetes risk among nurses who performed shift work. [An Pan et al, Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women]

The editorial suggests not only employee incentives, but also legislation to make healthful diets easy and cheap. It concludes that treating poor eating among shift workers as an occupational hazard is consistent with the history of workplace safety rights.

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Most Popular iPhone Apps and Posts [Best Of Lifehacker 2011]

2011 gave us iOS 5, one of the best upgrades to Apple's mobile operating system, and plenty of great apps. Here are the most popular iPhone-related posts and apps this year.

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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Jailbreaking Your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad [iOS 4.3.3]

Jailbreaking is a process that changes little by little with each iOS upgrade. Rather than always publishing new guides, we're simply going to keep this one up to date. If you want to jailbreak your iOS device, this is the guide you want. More ?

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Upgrade to iOS 5 Right Now

Even though iOS 5 won't be released officially until October 12th, you can install the final version right now even if you're not a developer. Thanks to some anonymous public postings of the software update files, you can update right now. Here's how. More ?

(But you should really just read this since iOS 5 is out already.)

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Four Reasons Not to Jailbreak Your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad

We love jailbreaking our iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads because it opens up it opens up so many great new possibilities. It also has the potential to cause a lot of problems and headaches. Here's why you might not want to jailbreak. More ?

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How to Make Your Entire Home AirPlay-Compatible

Apple's new media-streaming technology, AirPlay, is a great way to stream devices across your home, but it only works on Apple-approved destinations out of the box. Here's how to make your entire home AirPlay-compatible, so that whether you're using Windows or Mac, Android or iOS, XBMC or another media center, you can stream media seamlessly between each. More ?

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Supercharge Your Smartphone This Weekend

Got an Android or iPhone? Want to do more with it? Here are a bunch of little things you can do this weekend to supercharge your smartphone so it can do almost anything you want. More ?

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Everything You Need to Know About iOS 5 in Seven Minutes

Apple's finalized the next version of its operating system, iOS 5, and it's a pretty big upgrade. Here's a look at all the new stuff you can expect when you install it on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. More ?

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How Can I Breathe New Life Into My Old iPhone (or iPod touch)?

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As attractive as buying a shiny new gadget might seem, I don't want to drop hundreds of dollars on a new phone when my old iPhone still does everything I need. That said, I'm also suffering from at least a little new-phone envy. Anything I can do to make my old iPhone faster? More ?

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Jailbroken iOS Device

In the early days of jailbreaking, the benefits weren't always that great. Nearly four years into the debut of iOS, however, the jailbreaking community has matured into something amazing. If you've neglected to jailbreak your iOS device, there's no better time than now. Here's why you should take the plunge and how to get the most out of it once you do. More ?

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Our Biggest iOS Annoyances and How to Fix Them

Whether you love or hate your iPhone (or fall somewhere in between), there are at least a few things about it that annoy you. Here are our-and your-biggest annoyances, along with how to fix them. More ?

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Top 10 Ways iOS Outdoes Android

We love both mobile operating systems and their corresponding devices, but just like Android has its many advantages so does iOS. Here are our favorite parts of iOS that outdo their Android counterparts. More ?

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How to Customize Your Jailbroken iOS Lockscreen

The default iOS lockscreen is little more than a glorified wristwatch; functional, but not very useful for much else than checking the date. Having a jailbroken iOS device opens up a Pandora's box of possibilities, allowing you to add more info and a personal touch to the most basic of your phone's functions: the lockscreen. More ?

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How to Make Your iPhone (or Other iOS Device) More Like Android

If you own an iPhone, chances are you genuinely prefer the feature set of iOS to Android, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't appreciate having access to some of Android's best features. This guide walks through setting up the best of both worlds. More ?

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Lifehacker Pack for iPhone: Our List of the Best iPhone Apps

Looking to power up your iPhone with the best free and cheap apps out there? Our second edition of the Lifehacker Pack for iPhone rounds up our favorite must-have iPhone applications. More ?

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A Comic Book Lover's Guide to Going Digital

Whether you've been a diehard comic book fan for years or you just want to see what they're all about, you may find reading them digitally a better experience than on paper. Here's how to get started with digital comics. More ?

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How Do I Sync My iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with a New Computer Without Wiping Out All My Data?

Dear Lifehacker,
I've been syncing my iPhone with laptop, but now I want to start syncing with my desktop. When I connect it to the desktop, iTunes wants to erase everything in order to start syncing with his new machine. I want to start syncing with the new machine, not remove all the content already on my phone. What can I do?More ?

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iOS 5 Synchronization Speed Tests: Is Wi-Fi Syncing Worth It?

One of the big new features in iOS 5 is liberation from your sync cable. Now, you can sync your music, movies, and apps all over Wi-Fi-albeit a bit slower than over USB. How much slower? We put it to the test to find out whether it was still fast enough to be worth your time. More ?

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There you have it. It's been a great year for the iPhone and iOS, so we've had a lot to write about. Whether your favorite of the year made the list or not, we'd love to hear about the iPhone post or app (especially app, seeing as there are so few on this list) you loved most in the comments. Happy 2011, iOS users!

By the way, if you want more popular iOS posts from previous years, check out 2010 and 2009.

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Chile Churros Accident: Newspaper Must Pay Damages

SANTIAGO, Chile ? Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.

The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from as little as $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns were particularly severe.

The high court's ruling was announced Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.

Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the suggested temperature. Grupo Copesa, which publishes the paper, said it will abide by the ruling.

Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

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Yorvit Torrealba Suspended By Venezuela League: Rangers Catcher Hits Umpire (VIDEO)

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Texas Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba has been suspended from Venezuela's professional baseball league for 66 games for striking an umpire.

Torrealba was arguing with the home-plate umpire Friday after striking out. He angrily put a hand on the umpire's mask and shoved him. He was then ejected.

League President Jose Grasso Vecchio called Torrealba's behavior unacceptable and a violation of league rules.

Torrealba plays for the Caracas Lions when not playing in the majors. His agent, Melvin Roman, said Torrealba acknowledges he got carried away in the heat of the moment.

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First freely elected Tunisian govt sworn in (AP)

TUNIS, Tunisia ? Tunisia's first freely elected government has been sworn in following a popular uprising earlier this year.

The new government led by moderate Islamist party Ennahda received a vote of confidence in parliament Friday and was sworn in Saturday.

Tunisia threw off decades of authoritarian rule in January and held widely praised elections, but Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali warned the country faces many challenges: high unemployment, pockets of unrest and a stagnating economy.

Tunisia's democratic transition is being closely watched since its revolt led to a rash of similar uprisings across the Arab world.

Its new government is still only temporary, running the country until a new constitution is written and another round of elections held.

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Mead Johnson: No bacteria found in infant formula

This photo provided Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, by the Holman Howe Funeral Home, shows Avery Cornett of Lebanon, Mo., who died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Federal health agencies are testing samples of liquid and powdered infant formula and some distilled water used to prepare the powder by the Missouri parents of a 10-day-old boy who died from an apparent bacterial infection. Cornett died Sunday night after he was fed Enfamil Newborn powder bought at a Walmart store in Lebanon, Mo. The store has stopped selling the product, and the company pulled a batch of the infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide. (AP Photo/Holman Howe Funeral Home)

This photo provided Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, by the Holman Howe Funeral Home, shows Avery Cornett of Lebanon, Mo., who died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Federal health agencies are testing samples of liquid and powdered infant formula and some distilled water used to prepare the powder by the Missouri parents of a 10-day-old boy who died from an apparent bacterial infection. Cornett died Sunday night after he was fed Enfamil Newborn powder bought at a Walmart store in Lebanon, Mo. The store has stopped selling the product, and the company pulled a batch of the infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide. (AP Photo/Holman Howe Funeral Home)

COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) ? Illinois-based Mead Johnson says another batch of tests done on its Enfamil Premium Newborn infant formula found no trace of the bacteria tied to the death of a baby in Missouri.

Preliminary hospital tests indicated 10-day-old Avery Cornett died Dec. 18 of a rare infection caused by bacteria known as Cronobacter sakazakii. The source of the bacteria hasn't been determined, but it can be found in powdered formula.

Avery had consumed Enfamil Newborn formula.

National retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Walgreen Co., Kroger Co. and Safeway have since pulled a batch of the powdered infant formula from their shelves.

The Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and the Missouri Department of Health are investigating Avery's death.

Mead Johnson said Sunday it shared its test results with investigators.

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SkyStar 2 driver error problem fix Windows 7 / latest driver

Many SkyStar 2 PCI users face a problem when reinstalling their DVB-S PCI card to find them selves with a code 10 error for an incompatible hardware after a successful driver installation.

This error is caused by a bad computability for Windows 7 and/or a bad IRQ code set on windows 7, and in my case I managed to fix it by some easy steps, you can try if you have the same problem:

Solution: So to fix the driver problem first uninstall the old driver from your operating system, shutdown the PC and remove the skystar 2 PCI card, start your computer without the card leave it until widows start and then shutdown the computer and install the card back into another PCI ports, start your computer and install the latest driver over Here or Here.

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Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading the 'classics'

So, you can read all those tomes you've picked up through Google Books offline on your smartphone and tablet, but what about on your laptop? Well, if for some reason you've got the desire to power through Finnegans Wake in your browser (though, we're not really sure why you'd do that to yourself) we've got good news -- the Google Books app for Chrome now caches your titles for local reading. To download a book, just hover over the cover in library view and select "make available offline" from the pop-up. Then, even when you can't get your Chromebook connected, you'll be able to sit back and relax with a classic novel or seedy romance tale.

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Scientists Invent Painless Dental Filling Process&mdash;Uses Plasma Toothbrush [Video]

Rejoice! Scientists at the University of Missouri have invented a way to apply fillings that is completely painless. It uses a new plasma brush that disinfects and cleans out cavities, killing bacterias and forming a better bond for the fillings. More »

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Cancer fears as fatty diets trigger 50% surge in acid reflux in just a decade

By Jenny Hope

Last updated at 2:45 AM on 22nd December 2011

Obesity can cause a number of health problems including type 2 diabetes and heart disease

Obesity could be driving a 50 per cent rise in people suffering acid reflux over the last decade, research suggests.

Concern is mounting because the condition can trigger oesophageal cancer, which is also on the increase.

Reflux ? where acid from the stomach leaks into the gullet, or oesophagus, causing heartburn ? has been linked to obesity, diets high in fatty foods, alcohol and smoking.

The proportion of people suffering from it rose from 11.6 per cent in 1995-97 to 17.1 per cent in 2006-09, the latest study shows.

Women are more at risk than men of developing the condition, known medically as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Middle-aged people suffer the most severe symptoms, according to the study of almost 30,000 people in Norway published in medical journal Gut.

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The researchers, from Norway, Sweden and King's College London, said: 'The increasing prevalence of acid reflux is alarming, because it will most likely contribute to the increasing incidence of cancer of the oesophagus.'

Professor Hugh Barr, of the British Society of Gastroenterology's oesophageal section, said occasional reflux affects as many as one in five people.

But persistent episodes of heartburn should be investigated.

Reflux is the type of cancer which killed Christopher Hitchens and is seen as a growing danger

Prof Barr said: 'Having indigestion after a curry isn't necessarily a cause for concern and about half of those with persistent reflux will not have any damage to their gullet.

'But we need to identify earlier people at risk of what is an epidemic of this type of cancer, and one that has so recently killed the writer Christopher Hitchens.'

Reflux sufferers are advised to lose weight or given acid-suppressing drugs.

The UK has the highest rate of oesophageal cancer in Europe.

Experts say that by not smoking or drinking alcohol, and by choosing a healthy diet, most of the 8,000 oesophageal cancer cases diagnosed each year could be prevented.

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Video: Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip ? or even the whole device ? is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?

A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink. Led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.

"It simplifies the system," said chemistry professor Jeffrey Moore, a co-author of the paper. "Rather than having to build in redundancies or to build in a sensory diagnostics system, this material is designed to take care of the problem itself."

As electronic devices are evolving to perform more sophisticated tasks, manufacturers are packing as much density onto a chip as possible. However, such density compounds reliability problems, such as failure stemming from fluctuating temperature cycles as the device operates or fatigue. A failure at any point in the circuit can shut down the whole device.

"In general there's not much avenue for manual repair," Sottos said. "Sometimes you just can't get to the inside. In a multilayer integrated circuit, there's no opening it up. Normally you just replace the whole chip. It's true for a battery too. You can't pull a battery apart and try to find the source of the failure."

Professor Scott White and his team of scientists have developed a new way for electronics and batteries to repair themselves. Credit: Katherine Gatsche, University of Illinois

Most consumer devices are meant to be replaced with some frequency, adding to electronic waste issues, but in many important applications ? such as instruments or vehicles for space or military functions ? electrical failures cannot be replaced or repaired.

The Illinois team previously developed a system for self-healing polymer materials and decided to adapt their technique for conductive systems. They dispersed tiny microcapsules, as small as 10 microns in diameter, on top of a gold line functioning as a circuit. As a crack propagates, the microcapsules break open and release the liquid metal contained inside. The liquid metal fills in the gap in the circuit, restoring electrical flow.

"What's really cool about this paper is it's the first example of taking the microcapsule-based healing approach and applying it to a new function," White said. "Everything prior to this has been on structural repair. This is on conductivity restoration. It shows the concept translates to other things as well."

A failure interrupts current for mere microseconds as the liquid metal immediately fills the crack. The researchers demonstrated that 90 percent of their samples healed to 99 percent of original conductivity, even with a small amount of microcapsules.

The self-healing system also has the advantages of being localized and autonomous. Only the microcapsules that a crack intercepts are opened, so repair only takes place at the point of damage. Furthermore, it requires no human intervention or diagnostics, a boon for applications where accessing a break for repair is impossible, such as a battery, or finding the source of a failure is difficult, such as an air- or spacecraft.

"In an aircraft, especially a defense-based aircraft, there are miles and miles of conductive wire," Sottos said. "You don't often know where the break occurs. The autonomous part is nice ? it knows where it broke, even if we don't."

Next, the researchers plan to further refine their system and explore other possibilities for using microcapsules to control conductivity. They are particularly interested in applying the microcapsule-based self-healing system to batteries, improving their safety and longevity.

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