In Which country electricity and gas is cheapest

Worldwide the most affordable electricity and gas in the U.S. is provided
 
London (CCU ) in electricity and gas worldwide increasingly outspoken about being expensive is a survey of the most expensive electricity in the world second to Denmark , Germany , Italy , third , fourth and fifth Ireland Português L' sixth Austria , Belgium seventh , eighth Netherlands' ninth- and tenth- ranked Sweden and the UK, the cheapest electricity in the U.S. is provided as well as the most expensive gas in Sweden and the cheapest gas is supplied to the public in the United States .

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North Korea caught spying on South Korea with low-tech GoPro ‘drones’

You know how the USA has Predator and Global Hawk (pictured above) drones capable of surveilling and killing almost anyone, anywhere in the world? Well, stick this in your pipe and smoke it, Uncle Sam: North Korea had at least two unmanned drones that were probably capable of flying at around a dozen knots, and were probably equipped with “high-resolution” GoPro cameras. I say “had” because they crashed while trying to surveil South Korean military installations.
A few days ago, a North Korean drone (pictured below left) was found near Paju, just south of the Korean DMZ. The South Korean Yonhap news agency says that the drone was equipped with a high-resolution camera that had taken photos of military installations and the South Korean presidential compound. I don’t know about you, but that rectangular cutout in the middle of the drone’s underbelly looks to be the perfect size for a GoPro video camera. The engine appears to be a fairly standard model airplane engine. While South Korea calls it a drone, I’m a little dubious: I doubt that such a rudimentary construction would be capable of autonomous flight. (Read: DARPA shows off 1.8-gigapixel surveillance drone, can spot a terrorist from 20,000 feet.)

North Korean drones. The one on the left looks like it should have a GoPro slotted into its underbelly. [Image credit: AFP]

The second drone, pictured on the right, was found on the island of Baengnyeong yesterday, following an odd show of strength that saw North and South Korea firing a bunch of artillery shells into some (empty) disputed waters. Baengnyeong Island is technically within South Korea’s maritime border, but it’s close enough to the Northern Limit Line (a de facto maritime border that extends from the land-based DMZ) that North Korea occasionally does something stupid. Back in 2010, it sunk the South Korean Cheonan near the island, and now it appears to be surveilling the island with these highly advanced drones.

The Korean DMZ, plus the Northern Line Limit [Image credit: BBC]

Details of this second drone are even sparser than the first — but again, the technology appears to be fairly rudimentary. I seriously doubt these drones were capable of using GPS (or something similar) to fly autonomously, but who knows.
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US dismisses charges against Indian diplomat

New York (AFP) - A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and strip-search sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Delhi.

Devyani Khobragade was arrested on December 12 outside her children's New York school, accused of defrauding her Indian housekeeper's visa application.

An outraged India claimed full diplomatic immunity on her behalf after Khobragade said she was subjected to a cavity search while in custody.

Employed at the Indian consulate in New York, she acquired in January the full diplomatic immunity granted to diplomats at the Indian mission to the UN.

It was on grounds of immunity that she petitioned a US court on January 9 to drop the case.

US District Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the indictment Wednesday on grounds that Khobragade was granted full diplomatic immunity on January 8.

"Even if Khobragade had no immunity at the time of her arrest and has none now, her acquisition of immunity during the pendency of proceedings mandates dismissal," Scheindlin wrote.

"Khobragade's conditions of bail are terminated, and her bond is exonerated... It is ordered that any open arrest warrants based on this indictment must be vacated."

Khobragade in January returned to India in January, leaving behind her two daughters and husband, a US citizen.

Khobragade told an Indian newspaper of her anguish at being separated from her seven- and four-year-old girls and their father, an academic.

US prosecutors, disputing her immunity, accused Khobragade of sometimes forcing her Indian maid to work 100-hour weeks, even when sick and often without a day off, for pay as little as $1.22 an hour.

The diplomatic row between the two countries, which had embraced each other as strategic partners, strained ties and fanned resentment on both sides.

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Obama Sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis

In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on “Between Two Ferns,” Funny or Die’s intentionally awkward interview series hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.

Seated between two ferns, Obama — identified on screen as “Community Organizer” — fielded interview questions he likely has never faced in the White House briefing room.

“In 2013 you pardoned the turkey,” Galifianakis began. “What do you have planned for 2014?”

“We’ll probably pardon another turkey,” the president replied. “We do that every Thanksgiving.”

The deadpanning continued from there.

“So how does this work: Do you send Ambassador Rodman to North Korea on your behalf? I read somewhere that you’ll be sending Hulk Hogan to Syria, or is that more of a job for Tonya Harding?”

“He’s not our ambassador,” Obama replied. “Zach, why don’t we move on.”

“I have to know,” Galifianakis said later. “What’s it like to be the last black president?”

“Seriously?” Obama replied. “What’s it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president?”

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told the New York Times that the president’s Funny or Die appearance is part of a push to promote the March 31 deadline for young people to sign up for health insurance on HealthCare.gov.

“We have to find ways to break through,” Pfeiffer said. “This is essentially an extension of the code we have been trying to crack for seven years now.”

It’s not the first time Obama has made an appeal to young viewers through comedy. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama famously “slow-jammed” the news on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

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Google to unveil Nexus 8 in July: report

   

It is reported that Google will stop making the 7-inch Nexus tablet.

(Web Desk) - The all rumored Nexus tablet is coming up in the month of July as per the new rumors, these rumors also says that Google will be launching its Android 4.5 also along with this device according to the reports from Android Geeks.
It is also reported that Google will stop making the 7-inch Nexus tablet, probably due to increased competition in the segment.
Also, the line between large smartphones and tablets is getting too blurred and a 7-inch display is not much bigger than a 6-inch one.
In the 8-inch tablet segment, Google’s Nexus would potentially compete with the Galaxy Note 8.0, LG G Pad 8.3 and also the reigning iOS 7 based iPad mini.
As per company’s senior vice-president Sundar Pichai, the annual conference of developers is now scheduled to be held at San Francisco from June 25 to 26, 2014. The company is expected to launch this tablet coupled with Android 4.5 on the sidelines of this event.

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Israeli air strike kills three Palestinians in Gaza

A witness confirmed Israeli tanks and bulldozers had tried to enter the area.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the territory s Hamas-run health ministry said.
"Three martyrs have died in a Zionist (Israeli) strike," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
The three were members of the Al-Quds Brigades, a statement from the group said.
It said they had been killed after firing mortars in a bid to try and prevent "an Israeli incursion east of Khan Yunis."
A witness confirmed Israeli tanks and bulldozers had tried to enter the area.
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air strike, targeting Islamic Jihad militants who had fired at troops.

"Moments ago, terrorists affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the southern Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell at IDF (army) forces. An IAF aircraft responded immediately in order to prevent further attacks on Israeli civilians and targeted the terrorist squad," it said.
"Direct hits were confirmed."
The air strike came just hours after an unmanned aircraft of the sort Israel uses for surveillance and missile strikes crashed in the same area, just east of Khan Yunis.
It was unclear if the two incidents were related.
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Elephants recognise human voices

Elephants are able to differentiate between ethnicities and genders, and can tell an adult from a child - all from the sound of a human voice.

This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.
The animals showed more fear when they heard the voices of adult Masai men.
Livestock-herding Masai people do come into conflict with elephants, and this suggests that animals have adapted to specifically listen for and avoid them.
The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nature's giants

• African elephants are the largest living land animals
• Until recently there was one species of elephant in Africa - but they are now classified as either forest or bush (or savannah) elephants
• Forest elephants, as the name suggests, are found in equatorial forests and have straighter trunks and rounded ears
• Bush elephants are more widespread, mostly south of the Sahara in a range of habitats including savannah, swamps and deserts

Prof Karen McComb and Dr Graeme Shannon from the University of Sussex, who led the study, explained that in previous research they had used similar playback experiments to reveal that elephants could tell - from the sound of a lion's roar - whether the animal was a female or a more dangerous male.

Other studies have shown that elephants respond with fear to the scent and even to the red colour of the Masai clothing.
"I've experienced that," explained Prof McComb.
"If you give a Masai man a lift in your car, you can see the elephants behave in a different way around you.
"They're much more wary of the car and you see a lot of smelling and listening."
Prof McComb wanted to find out if the animals used their very acute sense of hearing to identify a potential threat from humans.
The scientists recorded Masai men, women and children saying, in their own language, "look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming".
They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase.
While cattle-herding Maasai people often encounter free-ranging elephants, which can result in violent conflict, the Kamba people's more agricultural lifestyle does not generally bring them into aggressive contact with the animals.
When the team played recordings of these different voices through a camouflaged loudspeaker, they found that elephant family groups reacted more fearfully in response to the voice of a Masai man, than to a Kamba man's voice - retreating and bunching together defensively.
And the adult male Masai voices triggered far more of these defensive reactions than the voices of women or boys.
Hidden sounds An additional and unexpected finding was that when the researchers changed the pitch and frequency of the voices - making a male Masai voice sound more female - the elephants would still react in the same way as they did to the original recording.

The matriarch in a family of elephants acts as an anchor - keeping her group together in the face of danger

"That suggests they're using completely different cues [to us] in order to attribute gender," said Prof McComb.
Frans van der Waal from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, a researcher and the author of several books on animal behaviour, wrote in an accompanying article in PNAS that this finding suggested we had "much to learn about how elephants make decisions".
In this brief clip, Professor Richard Byrne describes how elephants respond to human pointing

He added in an interview with BBC News: "Making these kinds of fine distinctions in human voice patterns is quite remarkable."
Prof McComb said the research showed that elephants were "trying to adapt" to human threat
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"Humans are undoubtedly the most dangerous and versatile predators the elephants are face
d with these days," she said.
Prof de Waal added: "The more we understand about how elephants navigate their physical and social worlds, and how their behaviour continues to adapt to ever-changing threats, the better able we will be to effectively work to protect them in the wild."
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BankIslami Launches Pakistan’s First Cardless Biometric ATM Service

BankIslami Pakistan Limited has officially launched Pakistan’s first cardless biometric ATM service to facilitate its customers. This service will use customer’s thumb impression for his/her identity and no pin code will be required.
This service will be especially helpful for Pakistan’s rural population for whom it is difficult to remember pin codes due to low literacy rates.
BankIslami first launched biometric enabled ATMs in Pakistan back in 2006. In December 2012 BankIslami had a soft launch of the cardless service at selected ATMs. However, now the service has been activated throughout the nation across a network of 201 branches in 77 cities.
BankIslami currently has 160 ATMs, which are biometric enabled. The bank aims to add another 40 ATMs across Pakistan by the end of this year.

The biometric ATM service is limited to Bankislami customers only; however, customers of other banks can continue using BankIslami’s regular ATM service with their ATM cards and pin numbers.
Kazi Abdul Muqtadir and Saeed Ahmed, Deputy Governors State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) inaugurated the unique service at a ceremony held at BankIslami’s Head Office. Hasan Aziz Bilgrami CEO BankIslami, Asad Alim Head Information System, George Flouros Area VP MEA NCR, Muhammad Faisal Shaikh Head Products & Business Development were also present during the launch ceremony.
To enable the usage of this service BankIslami customers will be asked to register his/her biometric identification against CNIC while opening an account. Customer’s left and right thumb will be used for registration purposes. After approval of the customer’s account opening request, his/her thumb impressions/biometric record will be linked with the account through CNIC.
During the launch of this service Mr Hasan Aziz Bilgrami, CEO of BankIslami reiterated that this biometric technology has been adopted to make banking transactions more secure. He further stated that now Bankislami customers can use ATM facility with just a single thumb impression.
On the occasion NCR Corporation’s representative George Flouros said that with the successful launch of biometric ATM, now NCR can export this technology from Pakistan.
The NCR Corporation is a US-based computer hardware, software and electronics company that provides products and services that enable businesses to connect, interact and transact with their customers.

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New ozone-depleting gases found in atmosphere

PARIS: Worried scientists said Sunday they had found four new ozone-destroying gases in the atmosphere, most likely put there by humans in the last 50-odd years despite a ban on these dangerous compounds.

It is the first time since the 1990s that new substances damaging to Earth's stratospheric shield have been found, and others may be out there, they said.

"Our research has shown four gases that were not around in the atmosphere at all until the 1960s, which suggests they are man-made," the team from Europe and Australia wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience.

They analysed unpolluted air samples collected in Tasmania between 1978 and 2012, and from deep, compacted snow in Greenland.

"The identification of these four new gases is very worrying as they will contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer," added a statement from the team.

"We don't know where the new gases are being emitted from, and this should be investigated."

Three of the gases are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- a group which includes chemicals traditionally found in air-conditioning, refrigerators and aerosol spray cans but banned under the Montreal Protocol.

The fourth is a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC), part of a closely-related group of compounds which replaced CFCs but are being phased out.

More than 74,000 tonnes of the four newly-identified gases had accumulated in the atmosphere by 2012, said the team.

This is very small compared with peak emissions of CFCs in the 1980s of more than a million tonnes per year.

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"However, the reported emissions are clearly contrary to the intentions behind the Montreal Protocol, and raise questions about the sources of these gases," the team wrote.

Two of the gases, one CFC and the HCFC, are still accumulating.

Previously, seven types of CFC and six of HCFC were known to contribute to ozone destruction.

CFCs, the main cause of the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, are man-made organic compounds made of carbon, chlorine and fluorine.

They were phased out from 1989, followed by a total ban in 2010.

HCFCs, CFC-like compounds which also include one or more hydrogen atoms, are less ozone-damaging but contribute to climate change by trapping more of the Sun's heat in the atmosphere.

The ozone layer comprises triple-atom oxygen molecules that are spread thinly in the stratosphere.

It plays a vital role in protecting life by filtering out ultraviolet rays that can damage vegetation and cause skin cancer.

In high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, where the ozone layer is damaged or subject to seasonal fluctuations, people are advised to cover exposed skin and wear sunglasses.

Possible sources for the new gases include chemicals used for insecticide production and solvents for cleaning electronic components, said the researchers.

Concentration differences between the samples suggested the dominant source was in the industrialised Northern Hemisphere, they added.

Study co-author Johannes Laube from the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences said the ozone layer stopped thinning from the late 1990s and there were signs of it starting to recover.

"As many ODSs [ozone-depleting substances], and especially CFCs, take a long time to break down once released into the atmosphere, it will be many decades until it will fully recover," he told AFP.

"Provided we do not have further unpleasant surprises."

Martyn Chipperfield, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds in northern England, said the low concentrations of the four gases "do not present concern at the moment."

But, he added, "the fact that these gases are in the atmosphere and some are increasing needs investigation."

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Tribo-electric,' the buzzword of the future?

PARIS: Out at sea, gentle waves provide power for thousands of homes. In cities, dancefloor moves generate electricity for nightclubs. In the countryside, hikers use leg power to recharge their phones.

It is an alluring goal of clean, reliable power free from geo-political risks -- and scientists in the United States said Tuesday it lies within reach, thanks to a smart way to harvest energy called tribo-electricity.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology said they had built a simple prototype device that converts stop-start movement into power.

Waves, walking and dancing -- even rainfall, computer keys or urban traffic -- could one day be harnessed to drive sensors, mobile gadgets or even electricity plants, they contend.

Zhong Lin Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering, described the invention a "breakthrough."

"Our technology can be used for large-scale energy harvesting, so that the energy we have wasted for centuries will be useful," he told AFP by email.

"Tribo-electric" is a modern term with ancient roots -- from the Greek word for "rub."

Its electricity is created from friction between two substances causing a charge of electrons to be transferred from one to the other.

It commonly happens, for instance, when plastic-soled shoes are in contact with a nylon carpet, causing the snap of static discharge when one's hand touches a metal doorknob.

Because tribo-electric is so unpredictable, it has been generally shunned as a power source.

The preferred method has been magnetic induction -- a turbine driven by nuclear- or fossil-powered steam or water.

But, in a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Wang's team said they had overcome key hurdles to converting a haphazardly-generated electrical charge into current.

Their prototype comprises a disc about 10 centimetres (four inches) across, designed to show the potential from a small, portable generator moved by ambient energy.

Inside are two circular sheets of material, one an electron "donor" and the other an electron "receiver," brought together through rotary movement.

If the sheets are separated, one then holds an electrical charge isolated by the gap between them.

Sandwiched between the two discs is a third disc with electrodes, which bridges the gap and helps a small current to flow.

At a top speed of 3,000 revolutions per minute, the device generated 1.5 watts.

This gave it an energy efficiency of 24 percent, three times greater than piezoelectric, the previously best source of mechanical electricity harvesting -- and as efficient as magnetic-induction turbines.

It can run on a gentle wind or tap water, or "random jerky motions," including human movement, to provide the rotation, Wang said.

"As long as there is mechanical action, there is power that can be generated."

The prototype used copper for the rotator and gold for the electrodes in lab tests, but these could easily be substituted for low-cost synthetics, he said.

The team is working on ways to scale up tribo-electric energy for harvesting power from the ocean. (AFP)

 

 

 

 

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Cookbook returned to library after 21-plus years

LAWRENCE: More than two decades after a cookbook was checked out of a Kansas library, it's just now been returned.

6NewsLawrence reports a copy of "The Versatile Grain and the Elegant Bean: A Celebration of the World's Most Healthful Foods" was placed in a Lawrence Public Library return box one night this week. The book had been checked out on Sept. 24, 1992.

Library official Kristin Soper speculates the borrower misplaced the volume and came across it just recently. The maximum late fee in 1992 was $3; it's now $4.50.

"The Versatile Grain and the Elegant Bean" contains more than 300 recipes from around the world. Reviewers noted in 1992 that its publication coincided with growing U.S. interest in healthy cooking.

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Potent new painkiller stokes alarm in US

WASHINGTON: A potent new painkiller hit the US market this week, despite warnings from top experts that the drug may deliver a deadly setback in America's battle with opioid addiction.

Zohydro ER can contain 10 times the amount of hydrocodone as the most popular prescription painkiller, Vicodin, and is easily crushable so it could be snorted, bearing none of the recent safeguards added to pills like OxyContin (oxycodone).

In a nation where some 15,000 people die annually from prescription painkiller use, the drug's approval has raised alarm among doctors, lawmakers and relatives of those lost to overdose.

Two senators have launched an investigation into practices by the US Food and Drug Administration, amid allegations that pharmaceutical companies eager for a chunk of the $9 billion painkiller market may have paid to influence regulators' decisions.

"It's almost unheard of," said Andrew Kolodny, president of the group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.

"For FDA to approve a drug that is going to make a serious problem worse, it is pretty shocking."

Zohydro was approved in October 2013, even though a panel of FDA-convened experts voted against 11-2. The FDA is not obligated to follow the advice of its advisory committees, but it typically does.

An FDA spokesman told AFP the decision was made "after careful consideration," and "the product's benefits outweigh its risks when used as intended."

Zohydro contains pure hydrocodone in a range of doses, including time-release options that are much stronger than competitor products.

It does not contain acetaminophen, which can cause liver damage and death in high doses and is included in most other prescription opioids.

The drugmaker, California-based Zogenix, said in a statement that the "acetaminophen-free formulation of extended release hydrocodone is an important therapeutic option for certain chronic pain patients."

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Finally, Marvel's ready for you to hear its comics (scoop)

Marvel upgrades its subscription app with a long-promised smart soundtrack and DVD-style video commentary, after spending a year laying the foundation for a more multimedia-friendly comics reading experience.

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Starting with the popular story Captain AmericaL The Winter Soldier, Marvel is adding "adaptive audio" to some of its digital comics.

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)

It's a fallacy of the superhero genre that a new costume accompanies every power boost the hero earns. That's also the case with a major upgrade to Marvel Unlimited, the preferred (and only) subscription-based comics reading app for fans of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Captain America.
Scheduled to be announced on Sunday afternoon's Marvel panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, and currently live in Apple's iTunes Store, the new version of Marvel Unlimited looks a lot like the old version of Marvel Unlimited. Don't let that fool you, though, as the changes could present a way forward for smarter integration between traditional comics and multimedia features.

A year in the making, the new version of the app comes with three important changes: transitions from one panel to the next are faster and smoother, there's now adaptive audio, and Marvel AR's DVD-style extras are now included in its digital comics for the first time.
While the added features might turn off more traditionalist comics readers, Kristin Vincent, Marvel's vice president of digital products, said that the goal was to make digital comics feel more digital without losing their essential nature.
"We knew we had something conceptually," she said of last year's adaptive audio announcement by Marvel at SXSW, "but we weren't sure how it was going to work with comics. We wanted to figure out how we could tell stories in new ways."
Arune Singh, executive director of TV Communications at Marvel, described the change as one that could alter how the company makes its comics available electronically.
"The way we used to paste comics together on the page in production, so far we have been pasting comics on our iPad," he said. "Now, we have adaptive audio."
The features can also be disabled in the Options panel. Because Marvel Unlimited is a subscription-based app, the features have been added at no extra cost. To entice new readers, Marvel has dropped the cost of subscribing for the first month to $0.99, if you sign up by March 14 with the promo code SXSW99. Normally and thereafter, Marvel Unlimited costs $9.99 per month, or $69.99 per year.

The DVD-extras added commentary of Marvel AR videos now comes to Marvel's digital comics.

The overhaul to the comics reader has swapped out HTML5 for native iOS code, so page turning and panel transitions are smoother. The update to the Android app is "so, so close," Vincent said. Both were done as work-for-hire by Chaotic Moon, Marvel's long-standing partner on Marvel Unlimited.
The big new feature, though, is that Marvel is finally making available to its readers what it calls "adaptive audio." It's similar to a background soundtrack or movie score, but it detects when you move from one panel to the next and plays themed music appropriate to each panel. It can also gauge how quickly the reader is changing panels and will adapt the score to suit the pace of the reader, says Marvel.
The music plays from when the comic loads, starting with the book's cover, and then adding in adaptive elements such as the pinging sonar of a submarine when viewing a panel of a submarine and mines.
The adaptive audio, which is only available on Captain America: The Winter Soldier storyline at first, probably owing to the extra time required to create the score for each comic. Vincent said that other comics will be added, but added that Marvel wants to hear from its fans on what they think of the debut.

More traditional fans can disable the new features through the options panel.

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)

"I think we have the best fans in the world, and the most vocal fans in the world. We're always watching the metrics," she said. "We look for what people are sharing in the social space. We're very in tune with our fans, or at least try to be, and move where they move."
Marvel's previous partners on the adaptive audio, CORD and Momentum, are no longer working on the project. In their place, Marvel has signed on Melbourne, Australia-based Firelight Technologies' FMOD, which also is used in video games such as Crysis, Bioshock and Guitar Hero, and contracted with Emmy-nominated composer David Ari Leon's SoundMind Music. SoundMind is no stranger to Marvel, having also worked on Marvel cartoons and motion comics.
Marvel AR, or augmented reality, videos have been available previously only to people who bought the printed comic. You would then have to hold your phone or tablet over an AR-enabled panel to activate the video, and it would show you a behind-the-scenes look at the comic, often interviews with writers or artists, or the process of developing the page.
Marvel has begun integrating that AR content into Marvel Unlimited with 20 videos related to the first issue of author Jonathan Hickman's Avengers series from 2012. The company plans to move its current 1,400 videos to Marvel Unlimited, Vincent said, as well as adding new videos.

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