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Apple gaat vanaf woensdag 18 september de nieuwste versie van haar iOS besturingssysteem voor de iPhone, iPad en iPod Touch als update aanbieden. De belangrijkste vernieuwing in iOS 7 is de interface.

Apple's entry-level phone comes with a premium price — and that only maintains the status quo

Apple had a chance to change the face of mobile again today. We currently have a landscape that splits the top-tier, high-priced desirable phones between Android-based models and iPhones, and the rest is dominated — absolutely dominated — by cheap Android-powered handsets. An inexpensive model from Apple could have changed all that. But they didn't do it. They could have, but for whatever reason they chose not to. And that doesn't help the consumers.

Android was designed to grab this lower-end market, and it's a great way to get smartphones into the hands of people who couldn't — or wouldn't — spend a lot of money to get one. It's a money-making plan, and why Android is free and why Google developers are sharing ways to make things great looking and running. We love it, and personally I'm a genuine fan of low-price, low-spec phones that bring the web and all it can do to more people.

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Capcom Vancouver's upcoming installment in the Dead Rising series, Dead Rising 3, will feature a world map that's bigger than the first two games combined, according to a report by the Financial Post.

The studio estimates users will use vehicles to traverse the map 50 percent of the time because of its size, and unlike its predecessor Dead Rising 3 won't include loading screens between areas.

"We don't have the luxury of putting up a load screen," said technical art director Liam Gilbride.

"We made that decision early on. So that became a big part of our decision making process. We kept have to ask ‘How can we make this seamless?' while still getting all of the data that we needed to get in ... But it really hurt the user...

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WALDORF, Md. (AP) — The Charles County Sheriff's Office says a woman told authorities she was texting behind the wheel when her car left the road and landed in a Waldorf lake.

The sheriff's office says the 25-year-old Temple Hills woman was driving on St. Charles Parkway on Tuesday when she lost control and hit a tree. The car was then propelled 60 feet into Westfield Lake.

The car was submerged in five feet of water, but the woman escaped through a window. She didn't have any visible signs of injury, but officials say she was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

The sheriff's office says the woman told investigators she was texting when she lost control of the car.

The crash is under investigation and the sheriff's office says charges are pending.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday.

Putin will renew an old offer to supply Iran with five of the sophisticated ground-to-air missile systems at a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on Friday, Kommersant said, quoting a souce close to the Kremlin.

Putin is set to meet Rowhani at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held in Kyrgyzstan on Friday.

Russia in 2007 signed a contract to deliver five of the advanced ground-to-air weapons -- which can take out aircraft or guided missiles -- to Iran at a cost of $800 million.

In 2010, then-president Dmitry Medvedev cancelled the contract after coming under strong US and Israeli pressure not to go ahead with the sale of the weapons system, drawing vehement protests from Tehran.

The source told Kommersant that Russia's offer would depend on Iran's withdrawing a $4 billion lawsuit that it has lodged at an international court in Geneva against Russia's arms export agency.

Kommersant wrote that Putin would offer to supply Tehran with a modified export version of the S-300 systems called S-300VM Antey-2500.

Russia has urged the West to soften sanctions against Iran after the election of Rowhani, a centrist cleric, in June.

The source also said that Putin was ready to sign a deal with Iran on building a second reactor for the Bushehr nuclear plant.

The source said the deal was not "particularly profitable from an economic point of view, but was rather political."

Russia completed the construction of Bushehr, which is Iran's only functioning nuclear power station, despite protests from Israel and the United States.

Iran is at loggerheads with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme, which the Western powers and Israel suspect is aimed at making a bomb despite repeated denials by Tehran.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to Kommersant that Putin and Rowhani were expected to discuss "working together in the nuclear energy sphere" and "questions of military technical cooperation" in talks at the summit in Bishkek.

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When smartphones crap out, it's all too often that they end up in a landfill and they stick around for a few centuries and make friends with the rest of our garbage.

Dave Hakkens sees things a different way, however. He notes that when a smartphone kicks the bucket, it's usually just a single component that needs to be fixed. What if there were a device that were part Android and part Legos, literally enabling you to build a custom phone from prefabricated parts to meet your needs. Instead of colorful plastic bricks, however, you're recombining GPS, Wi-Fi, battery, and other smartphone components until you have the phone that's right for you.

This is all still just an idea (though the site touts a September 16 launch), but you can see how far ahead Hakkens is thinking. For people who don't care about on-device storage, they can get set up with a bigger battery. For photobugs, they can attach a higher-quality camera

If you're interested and want to help make this phone a reality, you can learn more here. Check out the video below to get the whole picture.

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Netflix promised its next European expansion would occur in The Netherlands, and today it’s switching on service for the first time. Priced at €7.99 per month (with a one month free trial available), it brings the usual package of assorted Hollywood movies and TV shows, Netflix Originals and local selections like De Heineken Ontvoering, Alles is Liefde, Spiksplinter and Kikkerdril to Dutch viewers — we recommend Orange is the New Black. Check the press release after the break for more content details, as well as which hardware in the country is compatible with it at launch.

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Nothing is more migraine-inducing than getting back to an inbox that’s as bloated as your post-vacation belly. The sheer quantity of emails being sent keeps increasing, and despite your most valiant of efforts, you’re probably still drowning in a sea of I-should-read-this-laters, and this-might-be-useful-one-days.

A study last year revealed that the average worker spends 28 percent of his or her time on e-mail during a regular day. In another survey, respondents reported feeling like they devoted 50 percent of their workday to wrangling their inboxes. So after even a brief vacation, many of us can easily be stuck in email hell for days upon return.

In spite of the prolific nature of the problem, a one-size-fits-all solution remains elusive. Fortunately, Google has taken some recent steps toward helping us manage our collective inboxes, with Gmail’s new tabbed interface the most promising of the bunch. But it’s still only an incremental step forward, and hasn’t proven (yet) to be the solution everyone has been waiting for.

Lucky for you, hacking together a system for intelligently managing an unruly inbox is easier than you might think. We’ve pulled together five of our favorite hacks in hopes they will make your post-Labor Day inbox (and life) a little bit (or a lot) better.

1. Sanebox

Drastic times call for drastic measures. Instantly filter out a flood of insignificant messages with a service that sorts everything into two piles: now and later. Sanebox pulls data from your email address and optionally, social networks, to make these decisions based on a unique algorithm. It works with any email service and is free to try.

2. Taskforce

This Gmail add-on literally converts your emails into tasks. With a click, you can create a new task or add to an existing task. A checklist is automatically created, using the email subject as the task name. Set a due date, organize and collaborate, and when you’re done, checking off task will archive all related emails.

3. Boomerang

It’s a little sad that something as simple as scheduling messages isn’t built-in to every email app. For planners, odd-hour working, or beating the morning email rush, Boomerang is a must. Set messages to leave and come back at a time of your choosing, so you can respond to your boss first thing and delay getting back to your mother-in-law until you’ve had your morning joe.

4. Mailbox

A celebration in the art of “getting to zero,” Mailbox is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you conquer your Gmail inbox with a swipe. Its inviting interface encourages you to auto archive in bulk and offers a much-needed “snooze” to emails you’d rather handle later.

5. Gmail Labs

Google continues to cook up beta-type features under the guise of Gmail Labs (go to Gmail ‘Settings’ and chose ‘Labs’), the majority of which I’d wager you aren’t currently using. As Gmail states, they may break, change or disappear at any given moment, so tread carefully. The best one is Undo Send, which is the ultimate escape for those “oh crap!” moments.

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Dan Ucko is a product marketing specialist at Moshi, maker of design-driven electronics and accessories that enhance the digital lifestyle. Learn more about Moshi’s Android products here.

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BMW has pulled the wraps off of the highly anticipated production version of its i8 hybrid supercar, and we're thrilled to report that many of the qualities that made last year's concept so exciting, so aggressive, and so sleek are still in place. The strikingly cool gullwing doors remain, as do the radical spoilers built into rear window and rear fenders of the car. The blue highlights on BMW's signature kidney-shaped grill and beneath the doors are held over as well, as is the i8's wicked hood scoop.

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It used to be difficult to find a computer that could play games and still fit underneath your TV. Now, devices like the Alienware X51, Falcon Northwest Tiki, and Digital Storm Bolt can handily fill that role. But what if you want a gaming PC that can fit in your hand? That's where the Gigabyte Brix II comes in: it's both cute and powerful. Earlier this year, the company introduced the Brix lineup of tiny barebones computers that fit potent laptop processors in incredibly small cases, just 4.5 inches on a side. Now, the company's updating the lineup with new Haswell processors — and one with Intel's Iris Pro graphics inside.

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Imagine if you could change the parts on your smartphone like you could change the hardware on your PC. Phonebloks is an idea in that direction, allowing you to modularize i.e. have the option of changing, any part of your phone to suit what you require.

Need a bigger battery? Put a bigger battery in. Need more storage? Put more storage in. Dave Hakkens, the brain behind Phonebloks, has a video which visualizes his concept:

Not the most elegant design, essentially due to the need to be based on the size of a breadboard, but the idea is extremely attractive. Imagine being able to mix and match the pieces of your phone depending on whether it’s a work day or the weekend. The possibilities would be endless. And the idea that you could always upgrade your phone is almost priceless.

It would require some pretty involved collaboration with phone manufacturers and an OS that likely wouldn’t be Android, but that’s just speculating at this point. I know we’re definitely hoping this idea goes somewhere.

What do you think about Phonebloks? Let us know what your thoughts are down in the comments.

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How the US surveillance machine grew too big for even anyone at NSA to understand

WASHINGTON (AP) — The surveillance machine grew too big for anyone to understand.

The National Security Agency set it in motion in 2006 and the vast network of supercomputers, switches and wiretaps began gathering Americans' phone and Internet records by the millions, looking for signs of terrorism.

But every day, NSA analysts snooped on more American phone records than they were allowed to. Some officials searched databases of phone records without even realizing it. Others shared the results of their searches with people who weren't authorized to see them.

It took nearly three years before the government figured out that so much had gone wrong. It took even longer to figure out why.

Newly declassified documents released Tuesday tell a story of a surveillance apparatus so unwieldy and complex that nobody fully comprehended it, even as the government pointed it at the American people in the name of protecting them.

"There was no single person who had a complete technical understanding," government lawyers explained to a federal judge in 2009.

During a summer in which former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden released America's surveillance secrets to the world, the Obama administration has repeatedly tried to reassure people that the NSA's powers were kept in check by Congress and the courts. The mistakes discovered in 2009 have been fixed, the president said, a reflection of that oversight.

But the documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court show that, in developing the world's most sophisticated surveillance network, even senior lawyers and officials weren't sure how the system worked and didn't understand what they were told.

"It appears there was never a complete understanding among the key personnel . regarding what each individual meant by the terminology," lawyers wrote in March 2009 as the scope of the problems came into focus.

As a result, the judges on the surveillance court, who rely on the NSA to explain the surveillance program, approved a program that was far more intrusive than they believed.

"Given the executive branch's responsibility for and expertise in determining how best to protect our national security, and in light of the scale of this bulk collection program, the court must rely heavily on the government to monitor this program," Judge Reggie B. Walton wrote in a 2009 order that found the NSA had repeatedly misrepresented its programs.

In Congress, meanwhile, only some lawmakers fully understand the programs they have repeatedly authorized and are supposed to be overseeing. For instance, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., one of the sponsors of the USA Patriot Act, has said he never intended it to be used to collect and store the phone records of every American.

And when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was asked whether the government was doing that, he testified, "No." Yet Snowden's revelations, published in Britain's Guardian newspaper, show that is what happened.

There is no evidence in the new documents suggesting the NSA used its surveillance powers to spy on Americans for political purposes, a fear of many critics who recall the FBI's intrusive monitoring of civil rights leaders and anti-war protesters in the 1960s. Instead, the documents blame the years of government overreaching on technical mistakes, misunderstandings and lack of training.

From 2006 through early 2009, for instance, the NSA's computers reached into the database of phone records and compared them with thousands of others without "reasonable, articulable suspicion," the required legal standard.

By the time the problems were discovered, only about 10 percent of the 17,835 phone numbers on the government's watch list in early 2009 met the legal standard.

By then, Walton said he'd "lost confidence" in the NSA's ability to legally operate the program. He ordered a full review of the surveillance.

In its long report to the surveillance court in August 2009, the Obama administration blamed its mistakes on the complexity of the system and "a lack of shared understanding among the key stakeholders" about the scope of the surveillance.

"The documents released today are a testament to the government's strong commitment to detecting, correcting and reporting mistakes that occur in implementing technologically complex intelligence collection activities, and to continually improving its oversight and compliance processes," Clapper said in a statement Tuesday.

The surveillance court was satisfied by those improvements; it allowed the NSA to continue collecting phone records every day, a practice that continues today.

Now, the Obama administration is fending off lawsuits and a push in Congress to rein in the surveillance.

An unusual coalition of liberal Democrats and Republican civil libertarians has proposed several bills that would either scrap the phone surveillance entirely or require more oversight.

Obama has said he's open to more oversight but says the surveillance is essential to keep the country safe.

Obama and Clapper have said the changes made in 2009 resulted in tightened controls. American data is still collected but only seldom looked at, officials said. And it is kept on secure computer servers equipped with special software to protect it from analysts looking to illegally snoop.

"There are checks at multiple levels," NSA Deputy Director John Inglis told Congress in July. "There are checks in terms of what an individual might be doing at any moment in time."

The same checks that protect Americans' personal data were also supposed to protect the NSA's information. Yet Snowden, a 29-year-old contractor, managed to walk out with flash drives full of the nation's most highly classified documents.

The NSA is still trying to figure out, in such a complex system, exactly how Snowden defeated those checks.

"I think we can say that they failed," Inglis said. "But we don't yet know where."

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Associated Press writers Stephan Braun, Adam Goldman, Kimberly Dozier, Eileen Sullivan, Ted Bridis, Jim Drinkard and Paul Elias in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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Samsung's phones and tablets aren't the only thing under attack for patent infringement. The BBC reports that vacuum maker Dyson has filed a suit accusing Samsung of using its patented vacuum-steering system in its own Motion Sync vacuum cleaner, announced at IFA earlier this week. "This looks like a cynical rip-off," said company founder Sir James Dyson. "Samsung has many patent lawyers, so I find it hard not to believe that this is a deliberate or utterly reckless infringement of our patent."

Dyson has a history of patent battles with its rivals. It's periodically gone to court with Hoover, and it won another patent case against Samsung in 2009, when a court ruled that Samsung had infringed on its super-powerful vacuuming mechanism....

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If Samsung’s patent infringement battle with Apple wasn’t enough, the Korean company is in the spotlight again over claims that it intentionally copied the design of a patented Dyson vacuum. The British manufacturer has filed a lawsuit with the UK High Court accusing Samsung of duplicating the steering mechanism used in its DC cylinder models and embedding a similar component in the new Motion Sync vacuum cleaner (unveiled last week at IFA 2013). Unfortunately for Samsung, Dyson patented the mechanism back in 2009, which has led Sir James Dyson, the company’s founder, to call it a “cynical rip-off.” Considering Dyson successfully sued its rival for infringing on its “triple-cyclone” patent four years ago, Samsung’s lawyers might just have to suck it up and make a settlement offer.

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The Apple Store is down?

Why?

Because at 1 p.m. Eastern today Apple will announce its new iPhones. Apple always takes down its online store right before new product announcements. 

The store should come back following the event and will have all the details about Apple's new devices.

You can follow our coverage of Apple's iPhone event live right here.

While you wait, why not catch up on everything Apple is about to announce?

Here's a look at the new software for iPhones and iPads, iOS 7 >>

And check out all the rumors about Apple's next iPhone, the iPhone 5S >>

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During the heyday of the iPod, Apple experimented with a head-mounted device that was apparently just a bit like Google Glass. "I built a bunch of those prototypes," former Apple executive Tony Fadell, an instrumental figure in the development of the iPod, tells Co.Design. The idea, he says, was to make a wearable visor, "so it's like you're sitting in a theater." Though many prototypes were made, the project was ultimately abandoned so that Apple could focus on its current products.

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In 2003, entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis started buying up RV dealerships with his company, FreedomRoads. Three years later, he merged it with parts and accessories dealer Camping World. Now, the combined company is a $3 billion business that controls 25% of the entire RV market. 

Going into that business wasn't an accident. Lemonis deliberately chose an industry he thought he could dominate, a decision sparked by what he calls the best piece of advice he's ever gotten.

Many entrepreneurs can trace their careers back to a powerful lesson learned on the way or a wise mentor. Not all of them get the help of Lee Iaccoca, the man who helped create the first Mustang, turned around a nearly bankrupt Chrysler, and remains one of the most legendary figures in American business.

"The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iaccoca, who was very influential in my career," Lemonis told Business Insider. "It was very simple. It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference. It's worked well for me."

Indeed, Lemonis has become a very big fish. And he's taking that advice, and everything he's learned over 13 years leading businesses, and using it to help others. In addition to his "day job" as CEO of Camping World and its parent company Good S, Lemonis is the host of CNBC's "The Profit," a primetime reality show in which Lemonis tries to save struggling businesses. But rather than just giving advice, he puts his own money and reputation on the line. 

"I wanted people to know that this wasn't just a fresh coat of paint on the wall, that these were real stakes," Lemonis says. "If you want to get somebody interested, you put money on the table. You don't go in there and tell them how smart you are or impress them by telling them what your credentials are. You go in there and stand side by side and put your money up."

The experience has had a real impact on the businesses Lemonis has invested in. It's taught him a lot as well.

"What I know now is that running a small business is as hard as running a big business," Lemonis says. "It also reaffirmed my belief that people are the ones that make the difference. My greatest takeaway is how important or unimportant people can be — how effective or how destructive they can be if they're not the right people."

Lemonis judges every business by what he calls the people-process-product principle: Great people, an excellent and relevant product, and the best possible process for creating, delivering, and selling that product. 

Beyond people, Lemonis noticed one common mistake among business owners that he finds particularly irksome. "People don't know their numbers," he says, referring to everything from inventory and price points to the company's balance sheet. "Nothing infuriates me more." 

Everything in business boils down to knowing how cash is flowing through the business, Lemonis says. He's remained in touch with all of the participants in the show, and he hears frequently how much knowing their numbers has positively impacted their businesses. 

Lemonis was in his 20s when he first got into the RV business. Before starting FreedomRoads, he worked his way up to managing 67 stores for AutoNation by the time he was 27. And he readily admits he made his share of errors.

"When I was young, I said things I shouldn't have; I did things I shouldn't have," Lemonis says. "I don't know that I could have necessarily re-charted that course. The benefit is that I learned lessons, and it helped me mature over time."

Doing the show and putting his own money on the line is about more than making good investments or even good TV, he says. It's about getting some of those lessons out there, so people don't have to make the same mistakes he did.  

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VOLKEL - Twee F-16's van vliegbasis Volkel zijn dinsdagmiddag in het kader van een Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) met spoed opgestegen omdat twee Russische bommenwerpers zonder radiocontact door Europees luchtruim vlogen. De Nederlandse straaljagers kregen hulp van Engelsen en Denen, aldus woordvoerders van de luchtmacht.

Today's the day, folks! Apple is announcing new iPhones, which means the entire world will be paying attention to all the coverage at our sister site, iMore.com! (Seriously, we asked the entire world, and that's what it said.)

Us? We're gonna keep on doing what we always do. And that includes our fifth annual "Anything but Apple" giveaway! What's in store? Why, just a brand-new 32-gigabyte Nexus 7 (with LTE!) and a brand-new Chromecast, that's what's in store.

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AMD has long signaled that embedded chips will play a major role in its future, and it’s backing up that claim by providing a glance at its 2014 roadmap. The highlight is Bald Eagle, a 35-watt x86 processor designed for demanding tasks like gaming; it should include up to four Steamroller cores, and it will optionally sport on-chip Graphics Core Next video. Devices that need even more visual power will use Adelaar, a dedicated graphics chipset that includes both GCN and 2GB of built-in memory. It’s reportedly fast enough to be useful for PC video cards, not just the usual set-top boxes and smart TVs.

Two system-on-chip designs are also joining AMD’s lineup. Hierofalcon is built with data centers in mind, and carries up to eight ARM Cortex-A57 cores; Steppe Eagle, meanwhile, is a combination of upgraded Jaguar x86 cores and GCN that should speed up AMD’s low-power G-series processors. With the exception of Hierofalcon, all of the new embedded chips should be available in the first half of next year. AMD hasn’t named any early customers, but its embedded silicon tends to reach products that you’d recognize. Check out the roadmap after the break.

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These mesmerizing GIFs of Jell-O falling, flattening, then bouncing back has been making the rounds of the Internet today. The original post, from the FreshPhotons Tumblr, has been re-blogged more than 3,000 times. 

These images may have you saying WTF, but really you should be asking WTP — P for physics. Watch the gelatin bounce, then read our explanation of the how and why behind gelatin's jiggle below:

The video came from ModernistCuisine YouTube Channel, taken at 6200 frames per second. They probably didn't use actual Jell-O, since the film says gelatin but the desserts properties are similar:

The amazing physics of this fruity desert come from its chemical make up. Originally gelatin is a flavorless protein, isolated originally from animal by-products but also found in seaweed. It gives the desert its wiggly texture. 

So... Is it a solid or a liquid? Actually.. it's neither. It's a colloid gel because it is actually liquid suspended in a matrix of solids. 

When the gelatin is heated up with water, sugar, and flavorings, it protein loses its shape and dissolves into the liquids. But, as it cools down, the protein falls out of solution and solidifies into a matrix of strands of protein and which trap the liquids into a solid-looking shape called a colloidal gel, according to a post from the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

These physical properties give the Jell-O a very high elastic limit — the point where the solid stops bouncing back from being deformed. That makes the squares of Jell-O bounce back to their original shape without breaking.

When you warm the Jello-O up again, by putting it in your body, it dissolves back into the water and turns liquid again. Boxed Jell-O has added flavorings and sugar, which interferes with the gelatin's ability to congeal, so it is typically softer than pure gelatin would be.

SEE ALSO: The Physics Of The Curve Ball

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When you lose out on even just one night of sleep you end up binging on food, especially high calorie food, a new study suggests. 

Not only does a loss of sleep decrease your self-control and decision-making abilities, but it also seems to make you hungrier. These two factors work together to make you reach for that donut after losing sleep. 

"We hypothesized that sleep deprivation’s impact on hunger and decision making would make for the 'perfect storm' with regard to shopping and food purchasing—leaving individuals hungrier and less capable of employing self-control and higher-level decision-making processes to avoid making impulsive, calorie-driven purchases," study researcher Colin Chapman, of Uppsala University, said in a press release.

The new study was published Sept.5 in the journal Obesity. The researchers kept 14 normal-weight people away overnight, given breakfast, then gave them $50 to go grocery shopping. Half of the foods they could choose from were low-calorie, and half were high-calorie. 

The subjects ended up buying more calories, and more food, than they did if they weren't sleep deprived. Even though the men had eaten, they had higher levels of ghrelin in their blood, a hormone that makes you feel hungry and want to eat. 

The new study builds on a bunch of older research about sleep and obesity. When low on sleep our brains crave fattier foods, likely because they will provide a quick burst of energy.

Another study showed that losing sleep disrupts your metabolism, changing the way your fat cells respond to insulin, the hormone released when we eat sugar. Sleep deprived people reacted to insulin in ways similar to diabetics.

Keeping up a normal sleep schedule and get eight full hours a night may help people lose weight and eat less.

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To say that Tales of Xillia feels familiar is an understatement.

It's a game packed to the brim with a bloated, banal story and a cast I've encountered in many previous lives. But its world is fleshed out by inviting environments and engaging combat. Everything the game does, good and bad, echoes with the voices of those that came before it.

Tales of Xillia is the ghost of every JRPG I've ever played — and that's exactly why I like it.

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