JD.com Inc., China’s second best company in terms of shares, has recently announced that this July they will take pre-orders from Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One games console in China.

downloadIt will accept pre-orders through Tencent Holdings mobile social network since it has a 14.6 percent stake in the troupe. It has been said that company will soon present more information on its Xbox on Thursday.

In 2000, the court of China banned all the console sales in China, due to the effects it holds on the mental health of mankind. So, after fourteen years Xbox will be the first console game to be set up in China.

China telecom has declared that it will surely sell Xbox one after its dismissal in September. The company has not disclosed the price of its consoles yet. On the other hand, Sony Corp is also letting go of its play station 4 in September so it would be a hard contest between both of them.

The extinction of dinosaurs has been founded to be mainly due to colossal bad luck as Stephen Brusatte states. Brussate is an evolutionary biologist and a verterbrate paleontologist from the University of Edinburgh. He led the international team in is study about the extinction of dinosaurs and the asteroid hit as published in Biological Reviews’ latest issue.

As stated from his interview with the Discovery news, he said that the asteroid almost did it, wiping dinosaurs but it happened on a bad time when the dinosaurs’ ecosystem weakened due to diversity loss. He further said that the dinosaurs would have survived if the asteroid hits million years earlier than its actual timing, then the extinction would have not happened.

It was noted that years before the asteroid hit the Earth has been undergoing extreme changes in sea level and temperature, huge volcanic eruptions and many other interconnected changes. Mountain formation and other tectonic events even led to the large seaway disappearance that covered much of North America’s interior during the Cretaceous.

These changes led to the extinction of the plant-eating dinosaurs that leaves the ecosystem imbalanced. When this asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula 66 years ago, it hit a paradise-like static world where dinosaurs live and caused them to become extinct in nature as what Stephen Brusatte states further.

Richard Butler from the University of Birmingham’s School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, even reminds that many bird species have become extinct about 66 million years ago. So, Butler and Brussate both agrees that if no asteroid impact and other environmental changes have happened, dinosaurs would still survive up to the present time. Yet they have also pointed out that humans won’t be here on earth if dinosaurs have not perished or came into extinction.

With all the doom and gloom the world is plunged into, here is some light news which may stimulate some humor. Microsoft has attempted to go after Apple in its latest advertisement, comparing Cortana against Siri. Cortana is a digital voice assistant like Siri. The advert shows a husband asking Cortana to help him with the anniversary plans. In the ad, Cortana obliges adequately while Siri is unable to do the job.

The slight to Apple in the ad in through the repeated comparisons between the two voice assistants and Siri constantly being “unable to help.”

In the end Cortana automatically gives the husband a traffic alert while Siri finishes by admiring Cortana. This is certainly not the first time Microsoft has made fun of Apple in an ad and it also isn’t the first time Cortana has proves its worth against Siri, considering the disparity between the score predictions of the World Cup between the two softwares, with Cortana’s predictions being more accurate.

In the beginning of this year, HTC has introduced its new HTC one M8,  which has latest flagship and beautifully designed handset.
According to a report, HTC is planning to launch a new Windows phone handset which would be similar to the pattern of existing HTC one M8. The rumors are that the company has postponed the release date of its second flagship smart phone.

The Verge’s Tom Warren in his recent tweet, said that the new HTC smartphone will look like the previous device is still alive and well. In order to calm down the HTC one M8 lovers, who were more concerned about the appearance of this device.

The company has given a brief description regarding the Windows Phone 8.1. One of the basic alteration it has is the folder support which will enable the users to drag one tile on top of the other. It will have an interactive case accessories as well, which will introduce the new HTC dot view case. Furthermore, it will consist of phone book entry for Cortana, which will permit car owners to generate speech within their vehicles, support for the 280 x 800 screen resolution and 7-inch devices etc

A new study by the National Forrest Service has shown that trees save approximately eight hundred and fifty (850) lives on a yearly basis. According to the study, they do so by removing pollution from the air.

The study has shown that trees remove certain chemicals – such as carbon dioxide – from the air, thus preventing illness or even death in other, carbon based life forms, such as humans. Aside from the eight hundred and fifty lives that they save each year, trees have also been shown to help people with acute respiratory distress – which affects over six hundred and seventy thousand people per year.

Certain gases – most notably Nitrogen, Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide – have been linked to several diseases, but, as the study shows, trees are able to suck up a certain amount of these gases and exhaling gases that are more useful to humans, most notably oxygen.

While eight hundred and fifty lives may not seem like a lot, but if the prevention of respiratory problems and they alleviation of many other breathing related illnesses are taken into account, trees save the economy a staggering seven billion dollars in health care costs every year.

The study also went on to note that where trees are placed has a significant effect on the removal of pollution, as well as the effect that this will end up having on the health of people. According to the report:

“In terms of impact on human health, trees in urban areas are substantially more important than rural trees due to their proximity to people. We found that in general, the greater the tree cover, the greater the pollution removal, and the greater the removal and population density, the greater the value of human health benefits.”

JD.com Inc., China’s second best company in terms of shares, has recently announced that this July they will take pre-orders from Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One games console in China.
It will accept pre-orders through Tencent Holdings mobile social network since it has a 14.6 percent stake in the troupe. It has been said that company will soon present more information on its Xbox on Thursday.

In 2000, the court of China banned all the console sales in China, due to the effects it holds on the mental health of mankind. So, after fourteen years Xbox will be the first console game to be set up in China.

China telecom has declared that it will surely sell Xbox one after its dismissal in September. The company has not disclosed the price of its consoles yet. On the other hand, Sony Corp is also letting go of its play station 4 in September so it would be a hard contest between both of them.

Nissan is recalling over two hundred and twenty thousand more cars due to potentially faulty airbags, according to an announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The announcement comes after more than one million cars were recalled after a separate recall was announced in March.

According to Nissan, they are:

“…recalling certain model year 2002-2003 Nissan Maxima, Pathfinder and Infiniti I35 and QX4; 2002-2004 Nissan Sentra and 2003 Infiniti FX vehicles to address a safety defect in the passenger side frontal air bag which may produce excessive internal pressure causing the inflator to rupture upon deployment of the air bag. This recall addresses both the passenger side frontal air bags that were originally installed in the vehicles, as well as replacement air bags that may have been installed as replacement service parts.

“A replacement air bag may have been installed, as one example, if a vehicle had been in a crash necessitating the replacement of the passenger side frontal air bag.”

Nissan also went on to say that:

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“In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger’s frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking and potentially seriously injuring the passenger seat occupant or other occupants.

“Owners of all vehicles on which a defective air bag may have been installed either as original equipment, or as a replacement, will be notified. Dealers will inspect vehicles, and where a defective air bag inflator is identified, the inflator will be replaced, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin August 11, 2014. Owners may contact Nissan Customer Service at 1-800-647-7261.”

The current recall is an extension to the recall in March, and Nissan has said that they are currently unaware of any injuries resulting from the faulty airbags. Nissan also noted that you can check whether or not your vehicle needs to be recalled by visiting their website.

A live stream cam has caught something that not many people have been able to witness; the birth of some loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings on a Florida Keys beach. About one hundred of the turtles were born.

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The baby turtles – which measure at approximately three inches long – emerged from a mound on the Florida Keys beach and then proceeded to head towards the ocean, all while caught on camera. After they had entered the ocean, they disappeared from the camera’s view.

The camera – which films in high definition – was set up on the beach in order to capture some footage of the new hatchlings. The camera also films by utilizing infrared lenses so that any lights that would be needed otherwise would not affect the new hatchlings. Any artificial light that would be needed otherwise would have adversely affected the hatchlings, and would possibly have interrupted the process of them emerging from the mound and entering the sea.

The camera feed also helps in raising awareness for the efforts currently underway in Florida Keys to help raise awareness about the need to protect sea turtles. Loggerheads – the type of turtles that emerged from the mound on the beach – are among five different types of sea turtle that are currently considered either endangered or threatened, and that nest on Keys beaches and other Florida shorelines.

The webcam is currently funded by the Florida Keys tourism council, and was approved by both the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Nissan is recalling over two hundred and twenty thousand more cars due to potentially faulty airbags, according to an announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The announcement comes after more than one million cars were recalled after a separate recall was announced in March.

According to Nissan, they are:

“…recalling certain model year 2002-2003 Nissan Maxima, Pathfinder and Infiniti I35 and QX4; 2002-2004 Nissan Sentra and 2003 Infiniti FX vehicles to address a safety defect in the passenger side frontal air bag which may produce excessive internal pressure causing the inflator to rupture upon deployment of the air bag. This recall addresses both the passenger side frontal air bags that were originally installed in the vehicles, as well as replacement air bags that may have been installed as replacement service parts.

“A replacement air bag may have been installed, as one example, if a vehicle had been in a crash necessitating the replacement of the passenger side frontal air bag.”

Nissan also went on to say that:

“In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger’s frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking and potentially seriously injuring the passenger seat occupant or other occupants.

“Owners of all vehicles on which a defective air bag may have been installed either as original equipment, or as a replacement, will be notified. Dealers will inspect vehicles, and where a defective air bag inflator is identified, the inflator will be replaced, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin August 11, 2014. Owners may contact Nissan Customer Service at 1-800-647-7261.”

The current recall is an extension to the recall in March, and Nissan has said that they are currently unaware of any injuries resulting from the faulty airbags. Nissan also noted that you can check whether or not your vehicle needs to be recalled by visiting their website.