The Lumia 925. What a way to make a living. Peter Bright At a sweltering press conference in London today, and hot on the heels of the Lumia 928 introduction, Nokia announced the latest addition to its Windows Phone family: the Lumia 925. After a veritable multitude of polycarbonate and glass designs, Nokia has branched out: the Lumia 925 is polycarbonate, glass, and aluminum. The phone sports a metal strip around the edge, which doubles as the phone's antenna. The company says that while many users are attracted by its strikingly colorful all-plastic phones, some want something a little different. The Lumia 925 is the company's answer. On the inside, the phone is pretty much the same as the Lumia 920 and 928. Dual core Snapdragon S4 at 1.5GHz, 1GB RAM and, for most models, 16GB of nonexpandable storage. There are twin cameras, with Nokia's optical image-stabilized 8.7 MP device on the rear, and a 1.2 MP device on the front. Interestingly, the 925's sensor is identical to that of the older 920, but it has a new lens system; the 928 has the 920's lens and sensor. This makes the 928's rear camera assembly unique. Like the 920, and unlike the 928, the flash is an LED unit, not a Xenon flash. Like the 928, and unlike the 920, the phone has a 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1280×768. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Meet Toshiba's Kirabook, a high-res Ultrabook for the Windows world. Andrew Cunningham High-resolution, high-density screens are expected on most high-end phones and tablets today. Everything from the iPhone 5 to the Samsung Galaxy S 4 to the Nexus 10 is trying to pack as many pixels as it can into a given screen size to increase the sharpness of on-screen text and images. You often hold a phone or tablet pretty close to your face, so the benefits of a high-resolution, high-density display are easy to see. Perhaps it makes sense then that the technology hasn't been picked up as quickly in laptop computers. To date, there have only been a few serious contenders: Apple's 15-inch and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros, Google's Chromebook Pixel, and now Toshiba's Kirabook. We're sure that more high-density Windows laptops are on the way, but the Kirabook is the first to make it to market. The laptop raises some natural questions: Does a computer that is both thinner and lighter than the Pixel and the Pros skimp on battery life to achieve these feats? Is the Kirabook good enough to justify its jaw-dropping $1,599.99 starting price? Most importantly, can Windows support high-density displays as well as OS X, Chrome OS, iOS, Android, and others can? Read 35 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Nvidia's Project Shield has become just-plain-Shield, and it's coming next month. Nvidia Nvidia's Project Shield, a portable Android-powered game console, was one of the few true surprises to come out of this year's CES. While Nvidia had a few demo units to show off then and a couple of months later at its GPU Technology Conference, we still didn't have specific information about pricing and availability. The company answered both of these questions in a new Shield-focused blog post this morning: the tablet-turned-console will begin shipping in June for $349 from a variety of online and brick-and-mortar stores, including Newegg, GameStop, Micro Center and Canada Computers. General pre-orders begin on next Monday, May 20th, but if you've signed up to receive Shield updates from Nvidia you can pre-order the device starting today. If you haven't already registered, those who do so between now and the 20th should still be eligible to buy the device before the unwashed masses have the opportunity. At $349, the Shield is definitely more expensive than mid-range, pure Android tablets like the $199 Nexus 7, but compares favorably to the $329 iPad mini or the $399 Nexus 10 if the physical controller appeals to you. Given the form factor, however, the more apt comparison might be to other portable game consoles rather than all-touchscreen tablets. Here, the comparison is less flattering—Sony's PlayStation Vita starts at $249.99, while Nintendo's 3DS and 3DS XL start at $169.99 and $199.99, respectively. Android's versatility makes the Shield a bit more intriguing than either of those consoles in many ways, but you'll definitely have to pay more to get that extra feature. Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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The long-rumored Nokia Lumia 928 will debut this Thursday when it become available on Verizon as the answer to AT&T’s Lumia 920. This Windows Phone 8 handset is slimmed down compared to its predecessor and has some spec bumps. The Lumia 928 has a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage with no SD card slot. The display is a 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ OLED WXGA HD display with a 1280x768 resolution. We’re very impressed with the quality of the screen on our initial meeting: it’s crisp and bright with good black levels. The body of the phone is highlighted by a curved white plastic back. The phone is heavy for its size, and a good size bezel on the 4.5-inch screen means it’s not very thin either. While it’s not quite pocket-friendly, the curvature makes it comfortable to hold even if the plastic is a little slippery. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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One of D-Wave's chips. D-Wave Back in 2007, a company called D-Wave made waves by claiming it had built a 16-bit quantum computer at a time where most academic labs could only manage a handful of bits. What they demonstrated, however, wasn't a quantum computer in the sense that most people use the term. The company has since started calling its device a "quantum optimizer." Although it's not a general-purpose quantum computer, the hardware does seem to be capable of tackling some computationally hard challenges. The actual performance of the hardware and the software that controls it (called, somewhat ironically, the Black Box) hasn't really been described in detail. That situation seems to be changing this week, as a pair of academic researchers will be presenting a set of problems tackled both by D-Wave's hardware and by software running on more traditional computers. The results generally show D-Wave's equipment performing well but not always beating the more mundane computers. In a quantum computer, a set of qubits are both entangled and placed in a superposition state where they have a mixture of the two possible values (zero and one). The system is manipulated to perform a calculation, and then the actual values held by the qubits are read in order to provide the solution. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Lynn Gardner / flickr Despite the fact that four of the lawyers linked to porn-trolling enterprise Prenda Law have been forwarded to criminal investigators, the organization is charging full-steam ahead with one of its last cases: LW Systems v. Hubbard. The case is an Illinois state lawsuit making vague allegations over computer hacking against a defendant with a lawyer who some have said is actually in cahoots with Prenda. The case landed Prenda an incredibly broad order that allows it to subpoena subscriber information from practically any ISP in the country. So Prenda lawyer Paul Duffy has used that power to launch a barrage of threat letters telling people to pay up or get sued. In mid-April—just a week after Duffy pled the Fifth to avoid testifying about his actions in Prenda litigation—his law firm was sending out demand letters asking for $2,400. Now, the anti-Prenda blog Fight Copyright Trolls has published a newer version of the letter, which also appears to be signed by Duffy. The new letter has gone out under the name of Anti-Piracy Law Group, and it suggests that letter recipients might have their neighbors or family members contacted about the allegations in the lawsuit. Since those accusations concern adult content, that action seems like a threat that could increase the embarrassment factor for recipients. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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If you've ever been nagged about the weakness of your password while changing account credentials on Google, Facebook, or any number of other sites, you may have wondered: do these things actually make people choose stronger passcodes? A team of scientists has concluded that the meters do work—or at least they have the potential to do so, assuming they're set up correctly. The researchers—from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and Microsoft—are among the first to test the effect that the ubiquitous password meters have on real users choosing passwords. They found that meters grading the strength of passwords had a measurable impact in helping users pick stronger passcodes that weren't used on other accounts. But the group also discovered these new, stronger passwords weren't any harder for users to remember than weaker ones. The scientists were quick to point out caveats to their findings. For one, the meters provided little benefit when users were choosing passwords while setting up a new account, as opposed to changing passwords for an already established account. And the meters provided no improvement for accounts people considered unimportant. Read 13 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Aaron Swartz at the Freedom to Connect Conference, May 2012. Peretz Partensky The federal judge who would have overseen the trial of Aaron Swartz on computer hacking charges has ordered the prosecution to reveal much of the evidence it had against him. However, the government and MIT will be allowed to keep most of the relevant names redacted.  Swartz killed himself in January, not long before he was scheduled to defend himself in a trial that could have resulted in several years of prison time. Swartz famously used MIT's computer network to download millions of academic papers published in the JSTOR archive, and prosecutors said those actions violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In the wake of Swartz's death, the Internet activist has become a symbol and rallying cry for those who want to reform CFAA. Swartz's attorney accused the prosecutors handling the case of misconduct, and in March family members moved to unseal the evidence against him. Members of Congress have also asked to see documents related to what happened in the Swartz case. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Pichai seems open to Android meaning lots of different things to lots of people and companies. It Came from China An interview with Sundar Pichai over at Wired has settled some questions about suspected Google plans, rivalries, and alliances. Pichai was recently announced as Andy Rubin’s replacement as head of Android, and he expressed cool confidence ahead of Google I/O about the company’s relationships with both Facebook and Samsung. He even felt good about the future of the spotty Android OS update situation. Tensions between Google and Samsung, the overwhelmingly dominant Android handset manufacturer, are reportedly rising. But Pichai expressed nothing but goodwill toward the company. “We work with them on pretty much almost all our important products,” Pichai said while brandishing his own Samsung Galaxy S 4. “Samsung plays a critical role in helping Android be successful.” Pichai noted in particular the need for companies that make “innovation in displays [and] in batteries” a priority. His attitude toward Motorola, which Google bought almost two years ago, was more nonchalant: “For the purposes of the Android ecosystem, Motorola is [just another] partner.” Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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IITA / flickr A long-lasting court fight over patented soybeans is over, and agribusiness giant Monsanto has won. In a decision issued today, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Monsanto must be allowed to patent its seeds—and it must be able to punish farmers who try to dodge the patents. Farmers are compelled to sign a patent agreement when they buy Monsanto's Roundup Ready herbicide-resistant soybeans, promising that they won't use the seeds to produce additional crops. A small-time Indiana farmer, Vernon Bowman, tried to avoid signing that agreement by simply buying a batch of undifferentiated "bin grain" from a grain elevator. Bowman went ahead and sprayed his crops with glyphosate, knowing that because Monsanto's genetically altered seed has become ubiquitous in the food supply, around 90 percent of soybeans would have the Roundup Ready trait that provides resistance to that herbicide. Read 10 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Wikipedia Mobily, a Saudi Arabian telecommunications company with 4.8 million subscribers, is working on a way to intercept encrypted data sent over the Internet by Twitter, Viber, and other mobile apps, a security researcher said Monday. Moxie Marlinspike, the pseudonymous cryptographer who has identified several security bugs in the secure sockets layer protocol used to protect website transactions, said he learned of the project after receiving an e-mail from company officials. Carrying the subject line "Solution for monitoring encrypted data on telecom," it said the project was required by "the regulator." Marlinspike believed this meant the government of Saudi Arabia. In follow-up e-mails, the Mobily officials said they were looking for ways to bypass the protections built into the SSL and Transport Layer Security protocols so telecom workers could monitor messages spreading terrorism. "One of the design documents that they volunteered specifically called out compelling a [certificate authority] in the jurisdiction of the UAE or Saudi Arabia to produce SSL certificates that they could use for interception," Marlinspike wrote in a blog post. "A considerable portion of the document was also dedicated to a discussion of purchasing SSL vulnerabilities or other exploits as possibilities." Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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What will the next Nexus hold? Casey Johnston Google I/O officially kicks off on Wednesday, and the current scuttlebutt is that Google will be announcing a follow-up to the Nexus 7 tablet at its day-one keynote. We still like the original Nexus 7, but last week we put together a list of improvements we wanted to see in the new version. We also asked you what you would liked to see in a new Nexus 7, and you came through with some solid suggestions. Naturally, you have many of the same requests we do: a higher-resolution screen, a faster processor, and a rear-facing camera among them. But you also came up with plenty of things that didn't make our list. With our combined suggestions, Google can create the perfect Nexus 7. Don't touch that bezel! The Nexus 7 has pretty large bezels around the screen in comparison to tablets like the iPad mini, and in our post we suggested that the screen could be made slightly larger (or the device slightly smaller) by shrinking those a bit. Commenter Phil Ta agreed with us in the post's first comment, but most of you disagreed. Read 12 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Facebook’s HTC First, the smartphone herald of Facebook Home, will be discontinued by carrier partner AT&T, according a report from BGR Monday. The phones, released just over a month ago, will be returned as unsold inventory to HTC, with only 15,000 handsets making it into customers’ hands. Facebook announced its Android UI overlay Facebook Home in early April, and both the flagship HTC First phone and Google Play became available on April 12. The First hardware was solid (if lackluster) and in line with the $99-with-two-year-contract price. But the Facebook Home interface has proved confusing and borderline repulsive to users, with a current Google Play store rating of two out of five stars generated from 16,700 votes. Last Thursday, the First was discounted to a mere 99¢. Just four days later, it appears AT&T can no longer bear the shame of associating itself with Facebook’s unwanted Android love-child. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Suburban Express' online campaign against a passenger has now extended to a page dedicated to outing him online. You might think that Dennis Toeppen, the one-time domain squatter and owner of weekend shuttle service Suburban Express, would have learned valuable lessons about social media by now. Toeppen became the focus of much Internet anger and earned the attention of activist attorneys and the Illinois Attorney General after threatening to sue a reddit moderator. Around the same time, his personal and business websites were all apparently defaced. But if you thought that he was done, you'd be wrong. Toeppen has once again taken to the Web, raising the stakes in his attack against a social-media critic of his company. Some reddit users claim that he is again trolling reddit with "throwaway" reddit accounts as part of his campaign to silence critics. And there has been speculation that Toeppen defaced his own sites in an effort to make himself look like a victim. The full Streisand Toeppen's activities have already drawn the interest of the Illinois Attorney General's Office in addition to the massive amounts of bad press. The problems began when Toeppen's company assessed a $500 "liquidated damages" fine to the credit card of passenger Jeremy Leval after Leval recounted an incident on a bus contracted by Suburban Express on March 31. Leval said that the driver had yelled at an international student boarding the bus for not following his instructions, reportedly telling her, "If you don’t understand English, you don’t belong at the University of Illinois or any ‘American’ University." Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Straight from Amazon's press room comes the news that Amazon has officially launched Amazon Coins, which the company excitingly claims are "a great way for customers to save money when they buy apps, games and in-app items" for Kindle Fire users. To help get everyone kicked off using Amazon Coins, Amazon has also deposited 500 of the things into the accounts of all existing and new Kindle Fire users in the US. Amazon Coins were initially announced back in February, with the company saying they're primarily designed to benefit developers and consumers. "For customers, Amazon Coins is an easy way to purchase apps and in-app items on Kindle Fire, and for developers it’s another opportunity to drive traffic, downloads and increased monetization," proclaims this morning's press release. Ecosystem-specific virtual points systems like Microsoft Points and Amazon Coins have some marginal benefits to consumers and developers, but the real winner is always going to be the issuer—Amazon isn't doing this out of the goodness of its publicly traded heart. Shortly after Amazon Coins were announced in February, The Verge put up a very cogent analysis of the good and bad points behind the system, and the folks stuck using these systems—the customers—are the ones receiving, as my grandmother used to say, the short end of the stick. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Using the Raspberry Pi to create robots is nothing new. But a new product called BrickPi seeks to make building Pi-based robots easier than ever with an add-on board and case that connect the Pi to Lego Mindstorm robot kits. BrickPi is a Kickstarter project that has blown past its goal of $1,889 with more than $21,000 raised. The BrickPi add-on board "slides over your Raspberry Pi and connects, controls, and powers Mindstorm motors and sensors, and provides power to the Raspberry Pi." The add-on board's firmware is written in Arduino and the code is available online. The second component of BrickPi is a case with holes that Lego pieces can snap into. Kickstarter contributions of $35 will get you the BrickPi itself, while $45 or more gets you the BrickPi and the case. Dexter Industries, the company making BrickPi, says deliveries will begin in August 2013. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Munir Squires Over the course of the past year, a case about four financial software patents has taken on great significance. In 2007, Alice Corp accused CLS Bank of infringing its patents on a type of computerized trading platform that used "shadow accounts." In the years since then, the Supreme Court had significantly tightened up the rules about what is patentable. In 2011, Alice's patents were thrown out by a federal judge, who ruled they didn't cover patentable subject matter. Last year, Alice won a surprising reversal. An appeals panel ruled 2-1 that Alice's patents should be allowed after all, suggesting only the most abstract of claims should be barred from winning patents under Section 101. The third judge, US Circuit Judge Sharon Prost, wrote a blistering dissent, suggesting that the ruling violated Supreme Court guidance, by allowing a patent on a financial technology that was "literally ancient." With the waters thus muddied, the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals, made the choice to reconsider CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. as an "en banc" case that all the judges would weigh in on. It thus became a highly anticipated decision, with many observers wondering what the nation's top patent court would have to say about software patents, in the wake of several Supreme Court rulings giving more strict guidance about the patent system.  Read 21 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Google’s annual developer conference is mere days away, so expect a giant heaping of announcements in the near future. We absolutely know the keynote will take place on Wednesday, May 15, and there we can hope for a number of new products and features to be unveiled. But truthfully, for now, we can only assume and guess at what those might actually be. Plenty of rumors cropped up to fuel this intrigue, most of them surrounding Google’s forthcoming Nexus devices. But there are a few related to new features within Android, like an integrated multiplayer gaming service. We may also see the return of the Nexus Q, or a device like it, that Google could be putting the finishing touches on at this time. Speculation points to happenings with Google's Wallet service too, and there is even talk surrounding Google's consolidated messaging service. Google "Games" Android Police The hysteria began when Android Police first discovered a feature list related to what appears to be a multiplayer gaming service, a la Apple’s Game Center. The list was discovered in a tear down of My Glass, which is the companion application for Google Glass. The package contained back-end code for an integrated multiplayer gaming service that has a separate “Games” folder. The folder revealed files related to turn-based multiplayer games and an in-game chat module. Further evidence pointed to a gaming leaderboard, as well as the ability to receive invitations from other users wanting to play or “lobbies” where players can hang out as they wait for the roster to fill up. Many popular game titles have made their way over to Android in the last year and Google recently hired Noah Falstein as its Chief Game Designer. In the pre-I/O rumor mill, that's enough to give some credence to these findings. Read 19 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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The chances are good that if you're buying a smartphone or tablet in 2013, you're buying something with iOS or Android on it. The two operating systems loom so large over their competitors that even the entrenched, deep-pocketed Microsoft has had trouble making headway into this market with its Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Windows RT systems. Google and Apple's combined dominance hasn't stopped others from trying, though. New mobile operating systems have been springing up like weeds in the last six months. RIM (now BlackBerry) finally launched the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Z10 in an attempt to overhaul its image. Mozilla is making Firefox OS in an effort to tackle developing markets and prove that a browser is all you really need. And Canonical wants to take Ubuntu beyond the desktop with Ubuntu Touch. We got a not-quite-hands-on test drive of a 12.10-based version of Ubuntu's mobile operating system back at CES, but the OS images were recently updated to Ubuntu 13.04 when Raring Ringtail was introduced at the end of last month. Though Ubuntu Touch won't be available at retail before the end of this year at the earliest, we figured now is an opportune time to check in and see how things are going. Read 54 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Part parasailer, part fanboat, all Dick Van Dyke's wildest dream. Brian Reed A flying car crashed near an elementary school in Vernon, British Columbia on Friday, according to a report from CBCNews. The car, which is kept aloft by a parasail and driven forward by a rear propeller, hit a fence and then a tree. Both the pilot and passenger were injured. The experimental car is named Maverick, and CBC calls it “the fifth-ever flying car” in Canada. The Transportation Safety Board confirmed the crash, calling the vehicle an “I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute.” The company is actually named I-TEC (Indigenous Peoples’ Technology and Education Center) and purports to “provide tools and technologies to God-followers in frontiers areas to meet their needs” The pilot and passenger had to be pulled out of the tree and taken to a hospital where they were treated and released. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield would be notable solely for his work on the International Space Station. But... he may have the greatest YouTube account on Earth (and beyond) despite uploading only 17 videos. He's demonstrated how to open a soda on the ocean floor, explained the process of using the toilet in space, and modeled interstellar wristwear among other videos. Today, Hadfield unleashed his newest creation: the most literal interpretation of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" we've ever seen. Hadfield and friends took footage from the ISS along with music partially created there to pay homage to Ziggy Stardust. Hadfield posted his recording on Google+ this afternoon. "With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World." Hadfield thanked a number of collaborators including video editor Andrew Tidby, music producer Joe Corcoran, musician Emm Gryner, Evan Hadfield and all of the Canadian Space Agency. Fans of Hadfield's YouTube page will note this isn't his first musical foray, just likely the most popular. Previously, Hadfield paid tribute to Sally Ride with "Ride On" and he recorded an original called "Jewel in the Night" from the ISS. Read on Ars Technica | Comments
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Two astronauts completed an impromptu spacewalk on Saturday afternoon, per a press release from NASA. The crew of the International Space Station discovered a small leak in the cooling system, and the Earth crew stayed up overnight to plan an expedition to repair it. The leak was first detected on Thursday when the crew saw small “snowflakes” of ammonia floating away from the station, per the Associated Press. The leak was present for some time and located in the pump or flow control subassembly. When this suddenly accelerated, the increasing issue prompted engineers on the ground to start plotting a spacewalk to fix it. NASA emphasized that the leak was small to start, but the agency wanted to take advantage of “a spacewalking crew member who is about to return home,” according to the AP. Thus, the astronauts replaced the 260-pound pump controller with a spare. The operation took about five and a half hours and, since the replacement, the leak appears to have stopped. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Dunwich Beach Sutterstock A professor of physical geography has put together the most detailed map yet of the sunken medieval town of Dunwich using underwater acoustic imagining. The port town, often referred to as "the British Atlantis," was a hub of activity up until its collapse in the 1400s. This was brought about after a series of epic storms battered the coastline in the 1200s and 1300s, causing repeated flooding, submerging parts of the town, and flooding the harbor and river with silt. Today it stands as a small village, but up until its demise it was around the same size as medieval London. Despite still existing at depths of just three to 10 meters (or, 9.8 ft to 32.8 ft) below sea level, the murky conditions have made investigating what lies beneath particularly tricky. Since 2010, however, Southampton's David Sear—along with the GeoData Institute, the National Oceanography Center, Wessex Archaeology, and local divers from North Sea Recovery and Learn Scuba—has been exploring the muddy depths using dual-frequency identification sonar (DIDSON) acoustic imaging. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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A website built by two programmers, Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, displays recent changes to Wikipedia in real-time on a map of the world. When a new change is saved to the crowd-sourced encyclopedia, the title of the edited article shows up on the map with the editor's location according to his or her IP address. Not all recent changes are counted, however. Actually, the website only maps the contributions made by unregistered Wikipedia users, because when they make an edit they are identified only by IP address. This is just as well—a similar website called Wikistream logs all changes to Wikipedia (although not in such a graphically-friendly way), and watching the flood of new entries can get overwhelming, fast. LaPorte and Hashemi said they built their map using the JavaScript library D3, datamaps-world.js, a service for searching the geolocation of IP addresses called freegeoip.net, and Wikimedia's recent changes IRC feed. The two programmers note in their blog that “you may see some users add non-productive or disruptive content to Wikipedia. A survey in 2007 indicated that unregistered users are less likely to make productive edits to the encyclopedia.” Helpfully, when you see a change made to a specific article, you can click on that change to see how the page has been edited (and change it back, it merits more editing). Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Stack Exchange This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites. Dokkat was contracted to do a small job on a website for a large corporation. After giving the project a once over, he realized the code base was full of security risks: "Lots of PHP files throwing user get/post input directly into mysql requests and system commands." Dokkat says the programmer responsible has a family and children, and he doesn't want to be the one to put this employee's job in jeopardy. How should he proceed without throwing someone under the bus? See the original question here. Read 13 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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