Christmas, William and Kate

Earlier press has learned that Prince William and his wife decided to celebrate Christmas with his family Kate. On Tuesday, the photographers managed to capture the crowned heads with relatives when they all went to the Christmas service at the Church of St. Mark in Berkshire. The Prince and his wife arrived, accompanied by six police officers. Among those who celebrate Christmas couple were spotted Kate's sister Pippa and mother Carole Middleton.




Meanwhile, William's family traditionally celebrates the holiday in a different place: Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and other members of the family were the monarchy in this day in the city Sandringeme, where we visited the service in the church of St. Mary Magdalene.

Carole Middleton

Pippa Middleton

Top 10 most dangerous animals in the world

10. Jellyfish Medusa is not an aggressive animal, it appears due to the tides. This does not prevent some species such as the sea wasp be super dangerous. It contains in its tentacles so powerful poison that it can cause immediate cardiac arrest and burns it could pass for months and sometimes years. Because of them die each year 100 people.
Habitat: Australia and South East Asia
9. Shark Exists in the world of about 360 species of sharks, but only 5 of them are dangerous, the white shark is the most famous. Sharks kill 30 to 100 people each year. They have a bad reputation mainly because of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws."
Habitat: Australia, South Africa, Florida, Hawaii
8. Hippo His strength and sharp teeth make it one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. It kills between 100 and 150 people a year. It attacks the water and on land, and can reach speeds for short distances up to 48 km / h
Habitat: Africa
7. Crocodile Crocodile - cunning animal that can not hesitate to attack just for fun (alligator attacks only when hungry). It kills every year between 600 and 800 people a year.
Habitat: Africa
6. Elephant He seems calm, the elephant is very unpredictable and can crush human kick. Therefore, do not be, if all the same that happened to stop and try to hide behind a large tree that can withstand an attack animals that you do not win, as the elephant killing 150 to 300 people a year.
Habitat: Africa and Asia
5. Big Cats In Africa, lions are responsible for about 100 deaths a year, of tigers in India, killed 40 to 60 people a year. Puma creates several deaths in North America.
Habitat: Africa and Asia
4. Bee
The bee is not really able to kill a man, but many people are allergic to the bites and it can die. The bees have to 400 deaths per year.
Habitat: Anywhere
3. Scorpio Scorpio has a powerful neurotoxic venom that digs holes one meter, its records - die each year from 800 to 2,000.
Habitat: Tropical America, Africa and Asia
2. Snake There are more than 2,000 species of snakes, of which 450 are poisonous and the most interesting thing is that only 250 of them are able to kill a man. Snakes killed 50,000 to 125,000 people a year.
Habitat: Asia, Africa and South America
1. Mosquito
He looks so innocent and at the same time he is the most dangerous to humans, the most dangerous insect in the world. Its range of diseases is dengue fever, malaria, West Nile fever or chikungunya, they cause the death of 2 million to 3 million people annually.
Habitat: Africa and South America

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Lincoln Lead 2013 BAFTA Nominations—But What Happened to Steven Spielberg?

If Lincoln's on its way to making BAFTA history, it'll have to do it without Steven Spielberg.
The director's historical biopic on the 16^th president garnered 10 nominations for the 2013 edition of the EE British Academy Film Awards, otherwise known as the British Oscars, including Best Film, Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Actress for Sally Field.
In perhaps the biggest snub so far in the awards season, Spielberg however was not nominated in the Best Director category.
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Nipping at Lincoln's heels are Les Misérables and Life of Pi, tied with nine nominations apiece including Best Picture. For their emotionally tuneful roles as Jean Valjean and Fantine respectively in the musical adapted from the beloved Broadway production, Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway collected nods for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. While Ang Lee took home a Best Director nomination for his adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy adventure novel.
Her Majesty and the rest of her British subjects along with 007 fans the world over can take pride over Skyfall capturing a whopping eight nominations—unheard for a James Bond adventure. Javier Bardem also snagged a nom for Best Supporting Actor.
Argo and Anna Karenina meanwhile notched six, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty picked up five noms, The Master and Amour held their own with four, while Silver Linings Playbook earned three.
But the man with the top hat is clearly the one to beat this year.
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Aside from Day-Lewis being a frontrunner for his landmark performance as the Commander-in-Chief, Lincoln also earned nods for Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, and Make Up and Hair.
As for Best Director, with Spielberg sidelined, this year may well mark the rise of Ben Affleck as one of Hollywood's most acclaimed filmmakers.
The thesp nabbed not only a Best Actor nom but one for Best Director as well and will compete against Amour's Michael Haneke, Django's Quentin Tarantino, Life of Pi's Lee and Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow.
Other notable acting noms include Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook, which scored three nominations, Helen Mirren for Hitchcock and Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty.
On the animation side, Pixar's Brave will face off against Tim Burton's Frankenweenie and Universal's Paranorman. While Searching for Sugarman, Marley, and West of Memphis reaped nominations in the Best Documentary category.
The 2013 BAFTA Awards ceremony, hosted once again by Stephen Fry, is set to take place on Feb. 10 at London's Royal Opera House.

CNET's Next Big Thing: Are we all too connected?

At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, tech industry stars discussed the benefits -- and pitfalls -- of an increasingly connected world. 

At CES 2013, Brian Cooley, Molly Wood, Fared Adib, Sheryl Connelly, James Fishler and Mark Cuban discuss the implications of a connected world.

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LAS VEGAS -- Pervasive Internet connectivity has changed the world, connecting people and objects and countries like never before. Data is the new oil. Sensors are ubiquitous. Electricity? Expected.
Is this trend healthy or harmful? Key players in the technology industry assembled here at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show to discuss just that. CNET's Molly Wood and Brian Cooley hosted entrepreneur Mark Cuban, LG Electronics executive James Fishler, Ford futurist Sheryl Connelly and Sprint executive Fared Adib in a rollicking, sometimes raucous debate on the connected revolution.
The discussion addressed three topics: how connected devices will evolve, how the communications infrastructure that supports them will change, and what it all means. It all began with a simple question: what's the next big thing?
Coming trends
Cuban cited the impact of connectivity on the healthcare industry. It's a "big game-changer," Cuban said, because "your body becomes the network of networks" that can inform medical professionals and help them tailor treatment to the individual patient.
LG's Fishler cited the smart appliance sector, painting a portrait of a Jetsons-like world in which a recipe can be passed around the kitchen -- starts with the refrigerator, ends with the oven, for example -- thanks to networked appliances.
Ford's Connelly took a more abstract tack. She said that the next big thing would be reclaiming one's time. Hyper-connectivity will allow us to curate the tremendous amount of data we're receiving, she said, so that we really only receive what's relevant and timely and important.
"It's not about information," she said. "It's about getting the right information at the right time."
Sprint's Adib said he was excited about machine-to-machine technology, which underlies all of the examples given by his fellow panelists, because it's a money-maker for a telecommunications company like his. But there are serious capacity issues that will only get worse, he warned.
Existential questions
But how will connectivity itself change? The panelists agreed that software and user interfaces were replacing hardware as the most innovative areas of technology. As the number of connected nodes increase, the network -- not the hardware -- is what really matters. It all comes down to technology's original promise: solve problems, Connelly said.
"What it boils down to is, what's convenient for the consumer?" she asked.
But it's not that simple, Cuban warned. There are pitfalls in every approach, and addressing a problem sometimes loses sight of the bigger picture. "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail," he said.
"Maybe your water bottle doesn't have to be tweeting," Wood said, half-joking, in accord.
Successful connectivity centers around helping the real world function better, Cuban said. It's not about the technology per se. "The sensor is almost irrelevant," because once there are enough nodes out there, you focus on the insights, he said.
Just look at the smartphone, an individual's personal pack of sensors. The smartphone has become a person's central processing unit, Adib said, complementing the brain.
Cuban agreed. The devices become platforms for other things, he said, assembling all the brainpower in a community to make the collective smarter.
Which means the technology needs to be seamless. "Easy, pervasive, and affordable," Cooley said.
But there's a big seam that's not easily smoothed: capacity. As the telecom executive on the panel, Adib reminded everyone that the communications pipeline has a very real limit to how much data it can transmit, and that could threaten the progress of some of these big-picture ideas. "One thing we can't do is change the laws of physics," he said. It's like a congested highway with no more room for additional lanes: you must address the problem from an efficiency standpoint, not a capacity one.
Which means developers need to get smarter about how data is flowing, even as telecom companies like Sprint build more capacity. One place we're seeing that already? The 4G LTE wireless standard, which promises a faster but more efficient link than the 3G version popular today. Unfortunately, usage continues to grow at a rapid clip even as efficiencies are made, Adib said, setting our wireless world up for another crunch. "Customers drive demand," Fishler said -- and they want data.
"The days of people being afraid of technology? Those days are gone," Cuban said.
Where rubber hits road
Finally, the panelists discussed how this technology would be adopted by people, and some of the potential issues as connectivity becomes more pervasive. Take "smart" televisions, for example -- they're connected, but few seem to know or care how to use them because they're so complicated to operate, Fishler said.
Connelly called the phenomenon "feature fatigue" -- that feeling of disappointment and regret of having purchased a powerful product that you don't know how to use. In fact, that's why she wants her precious personal time back. Where is the feature for that?
Playing devil's advocate, Cuban disagreed, citing how e-mail has made communication with people much faster for him. "I don't do meetings. I don't do phone calls. I do e-mail -- unless you're going to write me a check," he said to peals of laughter from the audience. "My life has been dramatically simplified."
Adib said this improvement could also pay dividends in other situations, such as driving. A faster way to achieve a task -- such as sending a text message to someone en route -- may also be a safer one.
It all comes down to the data and the insights from it, Cuban said. That is the key to the connected revolution -- once the path is established, we need to doing something useful with it.
"We have to learn how to process," Cuban said, "what's signal and what's noise."