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LOTD for July 30

UCLA researchers designed a "software obfuscation" system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/computer-scientists-develop-mathematical-jigsaw-puzzles-encrypt-software


Doctors may soon be able to *raise the dead*, reanimating people up to 24 hours after their death.  The Princess Bride got it right--some people are "mostly dead" and thus can be revived while others are "all dead":
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/modern-resuscitation-science-will-soon.html


12-year-old girl got a deadly brain-eating parasite when swimming in a sandy-bottom lake at a water park in Arkansas.  That water park also was linked to a fatal case of the same brain-eating amoeba in 2010.  The disease is rare but deadly--only 1 out of 128 people infected in the US between 1962 and 2012 survived:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/07/29/brain-eating-amoeba-case-closes-ark-water-park/


Zynga has been losing money, facing plummeting revenues, losing users rapidly, with their executives continually bailing on their company.  They kept some investors with their plan to get a gambling licence in the US to have users be able to wager money on Zynga games...but they have just been informed that they will not get a US gambling license:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50322&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10


This is a great deal to get a wireless charging pad for 50% off.  This will work great with the Nexus 7 tablets that my daughters just spent their life savings on, and with the Galaxy S4 I plan to get soon:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/30/deal-get-50-off-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-qi-wireless-charging-pad-with-this-coupon/


71% of developers plan to develop for Android while iOS was second at 56%.  52% of developers use HTML5 for developing mobile apps:
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/71-developers-pick-android-their-top-platform/2013-07-29
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