Commercial Break: an app that tells you exactly when the ads are over

When we're raiding the fridge during a Vikings game, what'd be nice is a push notification just before Adrian Peterson runs into the end zone. Seeing as that's probably not feasible given current tech, we'll settle for an iOS app that alerts us when a timeout or commercial is over. Commercial Break was designed to do just that: you tell it what channel you're watching and it uses DSP and some algorithms to analyze audio and video cues, delivering a push notification to your mobile device once what you were watching comes back.

As of right now, it's in public beta with 10 compatible channels in New York City: ABC, CBS, CNN, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, NBC, TNT, TBS and USA. Outside of the Big Apple, CNN, ESPN and ESPN2 are compatible nationwide, with a few of these channels also available to others along the East Coast. The developers said that once the test run is over, they plan to expand to other markets and port the app to Android. We just wish it worked with AMC too -- missing any of Heisenberg's return because of a fried chicken craving would be tragic.

Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile

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New analysis sheds light on the links between chemicals in our body and income

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study has found that the build-up of harmful chemicals in the body is affecting people of all social standings -- not just those from economically deprived backgrounds as previously thought.

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Barnabas on Public Health: Rise of the gym selfies

Are you for or against? Fitness selfies are everywhere: gym check-ins, Twitter updates of muddy runners at the True Grit finish line, and friends dripping sweat and self-congratulation onto Facebook feeds. Just check out #gym and #gymflow on Instagram - there's a lot of people intent on proving their fitness wins to the digital world.?

"When we take a photo of ourselves and post it on social media, we are trying to communicate a specific message," says Kellie Hodder, a psychologist at Bodymatters Australasia, an eating disorders clinic.?

"In the case of gym selfies, we are attempting to convey perhaps that we are hardworking. The pursuit of health is seen as something to be revered in society. Fitness and health have moral meanings attached. People who pursue health and fitness are viewed as being disciplined, motivated, controlled and valued members of society.'

A smug gym selfie doubles as a visual brag then, declaring with false nonchalance, "I'm better than you." Unhealthy people are perceived as lazy and undisciplined, so by posting a photo at the gym we are sharing our moral worth. read more

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Economist Leo Liederman tapped to head Bank of Israel

July 31, 2013 3:42pm

JERUSALEM (JTA) ? Leo Leiderman, an Israeli economics professor, was nominated to be the Bank of Israel governor.

The nomination Wednesday by Prime Minister?Benjamin Netanyahu?and Finance Minister?Yair Lapid?came two days after Jacob Frenkel withdrew his candidacy over accusations that he shoplifted at a duty-free shop in Hong Kong.

Leiderman, a professor at Tel Aviv University and former head of its school of economics, is the chief economist for Bank Hapoalim and the former head of the Bank of Israel Research Department, where he worked under Frenkel. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.

If his appointment is approved by the Appointments Advisory Committee, Leiderman would succeed Stanley Fischer, who stepped down last month.

Leiderman, an Argentina native, immigrated to Israel at 17.

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