The Daily Populous

Friday October 13rd, 2017 evening edition

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The time has come for you to turn your doors, walls, and cabinets into touchscreens.

Sony unveiled its Xperia Touch projector at Mobile World Congress back in February, and now, it's bringing the device to the US.

Users can view calendar events, weather data, and a memo board, where they can leave notes for family members to see.

The projector runs Android Nougat, so it does anything an Android tablet can do, including web browsing, watching videos, and downloading apps from the Google Play Store.

It should last about an hour on its charge, Sony says, although you can plug it in through its USB-C port.

While I don't necessarily buy that this projector can revolutionize the home, the idea of families gathering around an interactive screen sounds nice.

At least this way, no one has to have private time with a screen and can instead broadcast what they're doing to the whole house. »

Nicolas Cage had no idea he was being turned into a snack food in Japan

Authored by japantoday.com

Add in his widely known financial woes and resume of Japanese pachinko commercial appearances, and the idea of Cage becoming the face of a Japanese snack food sub-brand wasn’t too far-fetched.

The Nicolasticks were originally intended to be given out with advance tickets to the movie, which go on sale Friday in Japan.

-- Star-struck American otaku run into Nicolas Cage while shopping for anime in L.A. -- Japanese idol placed in safe house after rape threat, official website still lists bust size. »

Paul Ryan says mental health reform is "critical ingredient" in stopping mass shootings

Authored by cbsnews.com

In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that mental health reform is crucial to ensuring that mass shootings are prevented in the future.

Republicans, Ryan noted, spent years working on mental health reform, passing a bill proposed by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pennsylvania, last year that was signed into law by President Obama.

"That's why the House of Representatives passed landmark mental health reform just a year ago. »

Magic mushrooms 'reboot' brain in depressed people – study

Authored by theguardian.com
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Imperial College London researchers used psilocybin – the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in magic mushrooms – to treat a small number of patients with depression, monitoring their brain function, before and after.

Images of patients’ brains revealed changes in brain activity that were associated with marked and lasting reductions in depressive symptoms and participants in the trial reported benefits lasting up to five weeks after treatment.

The authors currently plan to test psilocybin against a leading antidepressant in a trial set to start early next year. »

Girl, 17, 'suffers three separate sex attacks' on way home from night out

Authored by telegraph.co.uk
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A 17-year-old girl is believed to have been sexually assaulted on three separate occasions as she walked home from a night out.

It is believed she was repeatedly attacked over the course of an hour after she became separated from her friends following a visit to a club in Tower Hamlets, east London.

Police said her ordeal started shortly before midnight on Friday September 29 when she was picked up on camera being carried by a man in Cambridge Heath Road. »