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Philips Fidelio Speaker For iPad, iPhone And iPod

Philips today launched a new docking speaker system for iPad, iPhone and iPod that comes equipped with wireless Bluetooth streaming capabilities. Dubbed as the Philips Fidelio Speaker, the speaker system features a couple of 3-inch full range woofers that produce 2×15 Watts RMS stereo output. The Fidelio supports A2DP/AVRCP Bluetooth connectivity that can be used to playback music or game audio using the built-in Bluetooth capabilities on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. The free Fidelio+ app is available to allow further customization of the speaker system directly from the iOS device including access to a five-band equalizer and customizable alarm settings with sleep timer and the ability to wake to music, nature sounds and/or photos. Each purchase comes with a remote controller, allowing you to adjust volume and pause or change tracks from the comfort of your sofa. [Philips]

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Variations in fine-structure constant suggest laws of physics not the same everywhere

(PhysOrg.com) — One of the most controversial questions in cosmology is why the fundamental constants of nature seem fine-tuned for life. One of these fundamental constants is the fine-structure constant, or alpha, which is the coupling constant for the electromagnetic force and equal to about 1/137.0359. If alpha were just 4% bigger or smaller than it is, stars wouldn’t be able to make carbon and oxygen, which would have made it impossible for life as we know it to exist. Now, results from a new study show that alpha seems to have varied a tiny bit in different directions of the universe billions of years ago, being slightly smaller in the northern hemisphere and slightly larger in the southern hemisphere. One intriguing possible implication is that the fine-structure constant is continuously varying in space, and seems fine-tuned for life in our neighborhood of the universe.

Your Post-Craigslist Guide to Buying Sex Online [Guides]

As you’ve probably heard, Craigslist shut down its ‘Adult Services‘ section this weekend, caving to pressure from Attorneys General and anti-trafficking groups. But Craigslist is far from the only place to score sex on the Internet. Here are six alternatives! More »

Quantum key distribution in superposition of “insecure” and “unneeded”

It’s apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature Photonics titled “Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination.” I never thought I would live to see the word “hacking” used in its proper context in a physics paper. But enough about physics lingo. What about the quantum encryption hacks alluded to by the title?

What we have is another paper demonstrating that the weak point of quantum encryption systems is the point where classical meets quantum. This is not the first hack of its kind, but, it is, in true hacker tradition, the first focused on a commercial system.

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