Oscars 2016: The complete list of winners

Spotlight Steve Golin, Michael Sugar, Blye Pagon Faust	Best Picture
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant	Best Actor
Brie Larson Room	Best Actress
Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant	Best Director
Mark Rylance Bridge of Spies	Best Supporting Actor
Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl	Best Supporting Actress
Son of Saul László Nemes	Best Foreign Language Film
Writing's on the Wall Sam Smith, Jimmy Napes	Best Original Song
Spotlight Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer	Best Original Screenplay
Emmanuel Lubezki The Revenant	Best Cinematography
The Big Short Adam McKay, Charles Randolph	Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
Ex Machina Andrew Whitehurst, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris	Best Visual Effects
Amy Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees	Best Documentary Feature
David White Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Sound Editing
Mark Mangini Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Sound Editing
Margaret Sixel Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Film Editing
Inside Out  Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera	Best Animated Feature Film
Jenny Beavan Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Costume Design
Bear Story Gabriel Osorio, Pato Escala	Best Animated Short Film
Gregg Rudloff Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Sound Mixing
Chris Jenkins Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Sound Mixing
Ben Osmo Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Sound Mixing
Lisa Thompson Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Production Design
Colin Gibson Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Production Design
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	Best Documentary Short Subject
Stutterer Benjamin Cleary, Serena Armitage	Best Live Action Short Film
The Hateful Eight Ennio Morricone	Best Original Music Score
Lesley Vanderwalt Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Makeup
Damien Martin Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Makeup
Elka Wardega Mad Max: Fury Road	Best Makeup

Leica Camera coming on SmartPhone

There's already a big announcement at the CP+ camera show in Japan, but it's actually for smartphones. Huawei has announced a strategic partnership with Leica, the German company known for making some of the best, and most expensive, cameras and lenses in the world. In a fabulously over-the-top press release, Huawei promised "both technology and photography brands combining their shared ethos in a long-term commitment to the art of craftsmanship ... to create a powerhouse in the reinvention of smartphone photography." The companies say the tie-up will "span research and development, design, co-engineering, user experience, marketing and retail distribution," but gave no other details.

Unlike fellow Teutonic lens-makers Zeiss, Leica has only made lenses for one smartphone: Panasonic's photography-oriented CM1. The company has also slapped its own brand on Panasonic's mirrorless cameras and jacked up the price in the process. Leica CEO Oliver Kaltner said the company would bring its "comprehensive expertise in optical engineering to the long-term partnership with Huawei in order to achieve the best possible imaging results in the field of smartphone photography -- and to take it to the next level of quality." However, it's not clear if Leica will supply lenses for Huawei or help them design its smartphone cameras.

If Huawei devices start carrying the Leica red dot, it would certainly give them an immediate name-brand appeal, especially in its prime market of Asia. And in turn, Huawei, as the number three smartphone brand in the world, could open up vast new avenues to Leica. Both companies said they'll share more details "as the partnership continues."

About Huawei Consumer Business Group

Huawei's products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world's population, ranking third in the world in mobile phone shipments in 2014.  Sixteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India, and China. Huawei Consumer Business Group is one of Huawei's three business units and covers smartphones, mobile broadband devices, home devices and cloud services. Huawei's global network is built on 20 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.

About Leica Camer

Leica Camera AG is an internationally operating, premium-segment manufacturer of cameras and sport optics products. The legendary status of the Leica brand is founded on a long tradition of excellence in the construction of lenses. And today, in combination with innovative technologies, Leica products continue to guarantee better pictures in all situations in the worlds of visualisation and perception. Leica Camera AG has its headquarters in Wetzlar, in the state of Hesse in Germany, and a second production site in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. The company operates branch offices in China, England, France, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, South Korea, Italy, Australia and the USA. New and innovative products have been the driving force behind the company's positive development in recent years.

Courtesy: engadget.com

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T-cell therapy brings excitement at new Cancer Treatment

A new form of cancer treatment known as T-Cell Treatment has been revealed, and its initial studies show some outstanding results. In some cases, 9 out of 10 patients treated were left with no signs of cancer cells in their body upon completion.

White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in the lab and then put back.

But the data has not been published or reviewed and two patients are said to have died from an extreme immune response.

Experts said the trial was exciting, but still only "a baby step."

The news bubbled out of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington DC.

The lead scientist, Prof Stanley Riddell from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, said all other treatments had failed in these patients and they had only two-to-five months to live.

He told the conference that "the early data is unprecedented."

In the trial, cells from the immune system called killer t-cells were taken out of dozens of patients. The cells normally act like bombs destroying infected tissue.

The researchers genetically modified the t-cells to engineer a new targeting mechanism - with the technical name of chimeric antigen receptors - to target acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Prof Riddell said: "Essentially what this process does is, it genetically reprograms the T-cell to seek out and recognise and destroy the patient's tumour cells.

"The patients were really at the end of the line in terms of treatment options and yet a single dose of this therapy put more than 90 percent of these patients in complete remission where we can't detect any of these leukaemia cells."

But one cancer expert said they still felt in the dark on the full significance of the study, as the data was not available.

Also, seven of the patients developed cytokine release syndrome so severe that they required intensive care, and a further two patients died.

While those odds may be acceptable if facing terminal cancer, the side-effects are much greater than conventional leukaemia treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which work in the majority of patients.

Dr Alan Worsley, from Cancer Research UK, said that while the field was incredibly exciting, "this is a baby step".

"We've been working for a while using this type of technology, genetically engineering cells. So far it's really shown some promise in this type of blood cancer.

"We should say that in most cases standard treatment for blood cancer is quite effective, so this is for those rare patients where that hasn't worked.

"The real challenge now is how do we get this to work for other cancers, how do we get it to work for what's known as solid cancers, cancers in the tissue?"

Courtesy: BBC.com

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"THANK YOU" MacCullum

Hitting hundred 6’s in test cricket Brendon MacCullum made a record few days ago. Now in his last ODI match he reaches into another milestone by hitting 200 sixes in ODI Internationals.

He just needed only 3 sixes to make that record in his last match. He did hit those covetable 6’s in his innings of 47 runs in 27 balls. In all the cases the victim was the young aussie bowlers Scott Boland. And Maccullum finished his career with exact 200 sixes.

He knew about the landmark and it was also in his head, MACcullum said this in the post-match presentation ceremony.

New-Zealand Cricketer Brendon MacCullum played 260 ODI’s Internationals for his country in his career which is the 3rd highest. The 1st in this record is Daniel Vettori who played 291 ODI’s and the 2nd is Stephen Fleming who played 279 ODI’s.

He is also in 3rd position in list of Total Run by scoring 6083 runs. Former opener Nathan Astle is the 2nd position who scored 7090 runs and Stephen Fleming is the 1st in this list 8007 runs. Brendon MacCullum also played 62 ODI’s as the Captain of New-Zealand Cricket Team and won 36 of them with the percentage of 61.86. His strike rate is 96.37 which is the 2nd in list of World record.

Brendon MacCullum is also successful as Wicket keeper. He made 242 dismissals among them 227 was catch and stamping was 15. He made 5 dismissals in one innings 5 times which is also a record.

Lots of record can also be found in the Record Book about him but those can express him a little. He was a panic to all the bowlers in the world and gave lots of entertainment to all the spectators. He tried to give his team more combative and offensive when he was the captain.

He takes his retirement by winning the Chappell Hadlee Trophy 2016 against Australia. But his greatest achievement is winning the heart of million people.

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World's 10 most Dangerous Roads

North Yungas Road, Bolivia:

It is Situated in Yungas region of Bolivia and also known as ( Grove's Road, Coroico Road Camino de las Yungas, Death Road or Road of fate ). The 40-mile stretch linking La Paz to Coroico hugs cliffs that overlook a sprawling canyon and features so many sharp turns where vehicles have fallen. From one estimate it can be seen that 200 to 300 travellers are killed yearly along the road due to the occurrence for buses and trucks to go tumbling to the valley below, specially when they try passing each other.

Commonwealth Avenue, Philippines:

Many of the world’s deadliest roads are situated in high altitudes or remote locations, where the lack of government intervention, rehabilitation, or supervision can cause fatal road accidents. Commonwealth Avenue, located in the heart of Quezon City, one of the Southeast Asian country’s cultural, commercial, and political centers, is an exception to the rule. It’s just a normal 7.5-mile urban highway, and a wide one at that with up to 18 lanes which is also known as “Killer Highway” to the locals due to its high number of casualties and fatalities and thousands of deaths per year actually. It is the result from awful regulations and enforcement of traffic laws.

James Dalton Highway, Alaska:

The Dalton Highway is a 414-mile road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Although appearing serene at first glance, is filled with potholes, small flying rocks carried by fast winds, and worst of all it runs through the middle of nowhere.

BR-116, Brazil:

The second longest road in Brazil has been nicknamed “The Highway of Death” for obvious reasons. Every year thousands of people die due to its poor upkeep and maintenance and even threats from gangs and bandits.

Karakoram Highway, Pakistan:

The Karakoram Highway is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres. It’s prone to landslides and floods and to make matters worse, the road is unpaved in Pakistan. But it is still a tourist attraction, passing through some spectacular gorges along the old Silk Road.

Guoliang Tunnel Road, China:

The literal English translation for the mile-long Guoliang Tunnel Rd is “Road that tolerates no mistakes.” It’s 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) long, 5 metres (16 ft) tall and 4 metres (13 ft) wide, located high in the Taihang Mountains of the Henan Province, China. The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. It may be hard to see in the photo, this road was hollowed out of the side of a mountain by several villagers from the town of Guoliang. Before the construction of this mountain pass the village was cut of from the rest of civilization by the surrounding cliffs. Although it doesn’t see much traffic, due to its construction it is inherently fairly dangerous.

Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand:

The Skippers Canyon Road, located in in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island, is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads and unbelievably scary as it’s totally narrow and different to manouvre your car. This gravel road, with a length of 16,5 miles, carved by hand by miners over 140 years ago is made from a very narrow cut in the middle of a sheer cliff face. This winding road actually requires a special permit to drive. If you do manage to get permission though, be ready for a slippery challenge and good luck if you run into someone coming from the other direction.

Los Caracoles Pass, Chile:

Chile and Argentina share more than 5,000 miles of border, most of them drawn on the imposing peaks of the Andes. With over 40 border crossings between the two countries spread over the mountains, the most spectacular and important is Paso de los Libertadores, also known as the Paso del Cristo Redentor. The road is snow-covered almost all the year. Snow together with the complex natural landscape requires extreme patience and driving skill to drive in emergency situations. However, this road is maintained in working condition, which significantly reduces the number of accidents on it. Trucks and even double-decker tourist buses travel daily on this road.

The Stelvio Pass, Italy:

The Stelvio Pass is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 2.757 m (9,045 feet)  above the sea level, located in the Ortler Alps in Italy between Stilfs in South Tyrol and Bormio in the province of Sondrio. With more hairpins than Helena Bonham Carter, the Stelvio Pass looks like a child’s scribble over the hills. The road climbs almost two kilometers and, with just a low concrete barrier between you and the steep mountain drop, it’s best not to look down. A bit too much speed on one of the road’s 60 180-degree corners could spell disaster.

Atlantic Road, Norway:

Atlantic Road is one of the most scenic drives in the world, located in the midwest part of the Norwegian coastline. The five-mile highway links islands between Kristansund and Molde, boasts eight bridges, and has an infamous stretch along the ocean that gets battered by massive waves and fierce winds during storms. Conditions get crazy enough that you'll wish you stayed in Oslo. 

 

Courtesy: dangerousroads.go

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"NEWS FEED is changing again" : FACEBOOK

" The actions people take on Facebook -- liking, clicking, commenting or sharing a post -- are historically some of the main factors considered to determine what to show at the top of your News Feed. But these factors don’t always tell us the whole story of what is most meaningful to you " Cheng Zhang and Si Chen, the Facebook software engineers said.

 

According to a blog post we have also learnt from them that social network is now relying on user feedback to help it deliver a more meaningful News Feed experience to its 1.6 billion users. But the key to getting visibility in a Facebook News Feed is no longer just about how many likes and comments a post receives.

 

" News Feed will begin to look at both the probability that you would want to see the story at the top of your feed and the probability that you will like, comment on, click or share a story " Facebook stated in a blog post on MONDAY. "We will rank stories higher in feed which we think people might take action on, and which people might want to see near the top of their News Feed "

The social media network said it gathered user feedback by analyzing the way these users’ rate posts on a one-to-five scale before deciding on the change. They also used this information to understand what stories matter the most to people, even if they choose not to click, like or comment on them.

" We ask over a thousand people to rate their experience every day and tell us how we can improve the content they see when they check Facebook -- we call this our Feed Quality Panel. We also survey tens of thousands of people around the world each day to learn more about how well we're ranking each person's feed " the blog post said.

Therefore Facebook users can once again expect to see a change to their News Feeds. The updated algorithm will weigh the level of engagement on a post as well as the likelihood a user may want to see it at the top of their feed.

Facebook also made some key changes to News Feed last summer when it began allowing users to take control of their News Feed preference, allowing users to select group of pages and friends whose posts Facebook promises to always share first at the top of a user's News Feed.

Courtesy: abcnews.go

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