Enlightened, Season 2

?Follow me,? Amy cooed this week in her latest dreamy voice-over. ?Follow me.? She speaks both to the people she imagines marching behind her toward revolution and to the decidedly more banal ritual of courting new followers on Twitter. Amy?s narcissism would seem to be a natural fit for the site, but even she bristles at some of its more pedestrian associations: ?I don?t, like, go on and tell everybody what I?ve had for breakfast,? she scoffs at a skeptical co-worker.

That Amy gives herself over to romantic ideas about social media feels right, and there are some clever gags, but Enlightened can?t escape the glib, dated trappings that befall too many shows when they suddenly discover Twitter, Facebook, and the like. In this case the show embraces the classic meet cute, wherein it?s hilarious Amy doesn?t know that it?s called a ?tweet? (not a ?twit,? silly!) and that she stares down her follower count until it jumps from 13 to 14. These jokes expired about the time Twitter?s co-founders taught Oprah how to tweet on the air in 2009, and yet here they are, on one of the slyest shows on television in 2013. ?

The funny thing is that social networks are an undeniably important part of the business of TV. The ratings-industrial complex has gleefully sopped up love with fictional character accounts and cast feeds hawking teasers for new episodes every week. The networks themselves overlay sponsored hashtags on the air to connect fans. Nielson, the traditional ratings service that delivers overnight ratings, now even has a special metric that considers Twitter saturation as part of a TV show?s real audience power. ?

But if social networking has found an aggressive and even sometimes sophisticated embrace on the network side, its infiltration of writers? rooms has been lazy and arbitrary. On Castle, a party turns into a? movie-ready rager because someone ... tweets about it. On The New Normal, Rocky shows Jane, the monster grandmother, how to use Twitter, and she creates a viral stream of vitriol that gets 422 followers in an instant. On Modern Family, there?s an entire episode about Claire?s Facebook momfails.

Even on the two episodes I have seen of Catfish, supposedly about life in a ?digital age,? social worlds are treated like Lynchian puzzles where every Like and photo are rightful objects of anxiety and paranoia. (Admittedly, it also features this sublime exchange: ?You asked him if he wanted to get engaged!? ?Well, Facebook engaged.?) This is all not to mention the show nominally based on Twitter, $#*! My Dad Says, which predictably turned into a dismal failure, stopping a handful of similar adaptations cold.

Does the Internet remain so exotic that we need Tim Allen jokes to understand it? Enlightened is the least of the offenders, but its adherence to the tiresome formula is still disappointing. I?d rather watch Amy sit on a couch and tweet for a half hour from her BlackBerry than sit through another winded lecture on how social media has transformed our lives?and like Amy, I know I?m not alone.

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Y Combinator Opens Applications For New Class, As Total Funding For Alums Reaches $1.5B, Or $3.18M Each

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham tweeted today that the accelerator's 464 startup graduates (prior to its current batch) have raised an average of $3.18 million in funding each, which means YC's companies have landed a total of just under $1.5 billion.

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OS X camera RAW compatibility update adds Sony RX1, Nikon D5200 and more

Apple's 'Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.04' is out, and although we rarely report on these frequent releases, there are a few notable shooters named in this particular version. Available for Macs running OS X Lion 10.7.5 and above, or Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and above, the update now allows RAW snaps from Sony's compact Cyber-shot RX1 and Nikon's D5200 SLR to play nice with Aperture and iPhoto software. Plenty of other cameras are also on the changelog: Leica's X2, V-Lux 4 and D-Lux 6, as well as Pentax's Q, K-30, K-5 II and IIs. A quick trip to the App Store will get you on the latest version and have you cooking something up in Aperture before you can say "medium-rare." Bon appétit.

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Judge narrows Google patent suit against Microsoft

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge narrowed a patent lawsuit brought by Google's Motorola Mobility unit against Microsoft Corp, finding that parts of three Motorola patents are invalid.

The ruling on Thursday came from U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle, who is overseeing a tandem lawsuit in which Microsoft claims Motorola deserves only a small royalty on many of its telecommunications patents. Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion, partly for its intellectual property stockpile.

Apple Inc and Microsoft have been litigating in courts around the world against Google and partners such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which use the Android operating system on their mobile devices.

Apple contends that Android is basically a copy of its iOS smartphone software and Microsoft holds patents it contends cover a number of Android features.

Motorola had sought up to $4 billion a year for its wireless and video patents, while Microsoft argues its rival deserves about $1 million a year.

If U.S. District Judge James Robart decides Google deserves only a small royalty, then its Motorola patents would be a weaker bargaining chip for Google to negotiate licensing deals with rivals. A ruling on that issue is expected sometime in the next several weeks.

After Microsoft filed its case over the royalty amounts, Motorola sued Microsoft on three patents that cover video technology. In an order on Thursday, Robart found that parts of those patents are "indefinite," which means Motorola's patent language did not distinctly articulate the invention. Other parts of those patents are still active in the lawsuit.

A Google spokesperson declined to comment and a Microsoft representative could not immediately comment when reached.

The case in U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington is Microsoft Corp. vs. Motorola Inc., 10-cv-1823.

(Reporting By Dan Levine in San Francisco. Editing by Andre Grenon)

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Lance Armstrong sued over $12 million in Tour de France prize money

(Reuters) - Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong on Thursday was sued by a company that paid him about $12 million in prize money in connection with three of the seven Tour de France titles that have since been stripped from him for his use of banned drugs.

SCA Promotions Inc, in a suit filed in Texas state court in Dallas, alleges Armstrong and his management company, Tailwind Sports, defrauded SCA into paying Armstrong $12.1 million in prize money for his 2002, 2003 and 2004 Tour de France wins by lying about Armstrong's use of performance-enhancing drugs during those events.

Last month, Armstrong ended years of vehement denial and admitted in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that he had cheated his way to a record seven Tour de France titles through the use of banned, performance-enhancing drugs.

Armstrong has been banned from cycling for life and stripped of race wins, including all of his Tour de France victories.

"Lance Armstrong cheated to win all of his Tour de France victories," SCA Chief Executive Officer Robert Hamman said in a statement. "He has admitted as much on national TV."

"As a result of Lance Armstrong's unjustly achieved victories and related activities, SCA paid $12,120,000 to Tailwind Sports Inc," Hamman said. "SCA also suffered reputational damage and substantial loss of business."

An attorney for Armstrong could not immediately be reached for comment.

Armstrong already has other legal problems.

He faces a civil whistleblower lawsuit filed by former teammate Floyd Landis accusing Armstrong of fraud. The U.S. Justice Department has not said whether it intends to join the suit.

Also, last month two California men sued Armstrong and his book publishers for fraud and false advertising, claiming his best-selling memoirs, billed as non-fiction, were revealed to be filled with lies after his confession to systematic doping.

(Writing by Dan Burns; Editing by Dale Hudson)

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Side-Dominant Science: Are You Left- or Right-Sided?

Are you left- or right-sided? You brain might work differently depending on which side of your body you use most. Image: George Resteck

Key concepts
Brain
Laterality
Handedness
Sidedness
Left/right dominance

Introduction
If you write with your right hand, you might also prefer to draw a picture, throw a ball or eat food with the same hand. But have you ever wondered if your right foot is also more dominant than your left foot? What about your right eye and ear?do you prefer to use them more than your left ones? In this activity you'll get to find out whether people have a sidedness?that is, whether they generally prefer to do most activities with one side of their body?and which side that is.

Background
Each person's brain is divided into two sides?the left and right hemispheres. In some cases, one hemisphere may be more active than the other during a certain activity. For example, when someone processes language, one hemisphere is usually more active than the other. Doing this or other activities, however, is not absolutely limited to using one hemisphere or the other, or even certain hemispheric parts. Different brain areas are important and work together for different activities, such as speech, hearing and sight. But if part of a hemisphere is damaged when a person is young, other parts of the brain can often take over doing whatever the damaged regions of the brain used to do.

What do the brain's hemispheres have to do with sidedness? When someone is processing language, one hemisphere is usually working harder than the other. There is also some correlation between the side(s) we use in our brain and the side we use on our body. This preference to use one side of the body over the other is known as sidedness, laterality or left/right dominance.

Materials
? Paper
? Pen or pencil
? A coin
? Paper towel tube or toilet paper tube
? A seashell or phone
? At least five volunteers

Preparation
? Have all of the materials ready so that you will be able to quickly test each volunteer.
? Prepare a small data table on a piece of paper to record your results. Going down the left side of the paper, write: "Hand," "Foot," "Eye" and "Ear." Going across the top of the paper, write your volunteers' names.

Procedure
? Ask your first volunteer to write their name on a piece of paper. Which hand do they write their name with? Record the result (writing either "Right" or "Left") in your data table in the row labeled "Hand," in the column under the volunteer's name.
? Place a coin on the floor directly in front of your first volunteer. Ask them to step onto the coin. Which foot is used to step on the coin? Record the result in your data table in the "Foot" row, under the volunteer's name.
? Give your first volunteer a paper towel tube or toilet paper tube and ask them to look at a distant object through it. Which eye do they use to look through the tube? Record the result in your data table in the "Eye" row, under the volunteer's name.
? Give your first volunteer a seashell or phone and ask them to listen to it. Which ear do they put the shell or phone up to? Record the result in your data table in the "Ear" column, under the volunteer's name.
? Repeat this process with at least four other volunteers. Be sure to record the results under the new volunteer's name each time.
? Are more of your volunteers right-handed or left-handed? What about right-footed versus left-footed, right-eyed versus left-eyed and right-eared versus left-eared? What side is the most common overall?
? How many people that are right-handed are also right-footed? (How about for lefties?) What about for the other possible combinations? Do you see a correlation?
? Extra: In this activity you only used one test to check for dominance in your volunteer's hands, feet, eyes and ears. Using additional tests would help you check and confirm your results. Can you think of other ways to test for sidedness using objects from around your home? Using other tests, are the results the same as the ones you got doing the original activity?
? Extra: If you collect additional data on your volunteers and test more volunteers, you can check your results and also test whether sidedness is linked to another factor. Does the trend in your results hold as you test more volunteers? Do you see a correlation between sidedness and other factors, like age, gender or being genetically related?
? Extra: Sometimes sidedness can run in families. Try to find volunteers from different families and then group your results by family. Do different families have similar or different percentages?

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