Clarke won't play till late 30s

Adelaide, May 25

Australia's cricket captain Michael Clarke revealed that he won't play cricket into his late 30s due to a back problem that was diagnosed at the age of 17.

Clarke was diagnosed with three degenerative discs in his back when aged 17. The 31-year-old, however, was confident that the back problem, which sidelined him during the last Australian summer and partly on the recent West Indies tour, would not curtail his playing career.

"Unfortunately degeneration, it can't improve, so it's about now managing my condition," said Clarke while delivering the lecture at the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia's annual convention.

Clarke said that before retiring, he would like the team to have success.

"I'd love to see this team have success, achieve everything it wants to achieve. And then I think that is time for me to give the reins to somebody else and go and start the other side of life I guess - get involved in some sort of business and have a family and do all the things that are special to me and I still want to do when my cricket career is over," he said.

Clarke also said that he was forced him to keep his wedding a secret from his parents because he is never comfortable with the scrutiny of his private life.

Clarke wed Kyly Boldy last week at a luxury resort in the New South Wales Blue Mountains and it was attended by family and close friends.

"We told nobody, our parents didn't know. We invited a small group of people to come away on a holiday with us for what they thought was a family holiday with us. And we shocked our family, let alone the world," he said.

Clarke said he is is ready to accept on-field scrutiny but is never comfortable with it off-field.

"I think I find the scrutiny on the field quite easy to deal with ... the stuff that I have probably found hard, and still find hard to accept, is the off-the-field stuff.

"When I was vice-captain I had a lot of media scrutiny anyway, so I was accustomed to the stuff off the field, so nothing has really changed as captain," he said.

Clarke also said that spin wizard Shane Warne was his biggest cricket influence.

"Yes, I do believe if he wanted to continue to play - no doubt he's as fit and as strong as I have ever seen him - so he could certainly still be playing Test cricket," he said.

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AT&T HTC One X update RUU leaks out

We've been hearing whispers that an update has been in the works for the AT&T version of the HTC One X, and this morning an RUU has leaked its way out. There's no real changelog, of course, though folks are noting a new radio and possibly improved Wifi performance (which is one of the features we'd heard was being targeted). The RUU takes the software version to 1.85.502.3.710RD, up from 1.73.XXX.

One thing to be aware of -- and which is strangely not mentioned in the source post -- is that this is a full RUU, which means if you run it, you're wiping the device. So keep that in mind if you're thinking about giving it a go. And do remember that this is all unofficial stuff, and no telling if it's actually the update that will be pushed by HTC and AT&T. But if you've just got to get your flash on, hit the link below to give it a go.

Source: Brief Mobile; More: HTC One X forums

 

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Bump app for Android and iOS adds desktop photo sharing

Bump has managed to garner quite a following among iPhone and Android users, but they've so far only been able to transfer files between two mobile devices, not between their phone and their home computer. The company's managed to find a workaround of sorts to that limitation though, and has today rolled out a new feature that will let you send photos (and only photos) from your phone to your desktop. To do so, you'll first have to update the Bump app on your phone and then head to the Bump website, at which point you can simply tap the spacebar to transfer your photos (with your phone if you want to keep the whole "bump" motif going). As you can probably surmise, that means photos are transferred to Bump's website and not directly to your computer, but that does have the added benefit of making the photos a bit easier to share on your social network of choice.

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Private supply ship flies by space station in test

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 file photo, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 file photo, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.

The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule flew within 1 1/2 miles of the orbiting lab as it performed a practice lap and checkout of its communication and navigation systems.

Officials at NASA and the SpaceX company said the rendezvous went well, although the test results still were being analyzed. The historic linkup is on track for Friday.

It is the first U.S. vessel to visit the space station since NASA's shuttles retired last summer ? and the first private spacecraft to ever attempt a delivery. The Dragon is carrying 1,000 pounds of provisions.

The space station astronauts struggled with bad computer monitors and camera trouble as the Dragon zoomed toward them, but the problem did not hold up the operation. Indeed, all of the tests appeared to go well.

The astronauts successfully turned on Dragon's strobe light by remote control, but could not see it because of the sun glare and distance of several miles. The Dragon finally popped into camera view about 10 minutes later, appearing as a bright speck of light against the blackness of space, near the Earth's blue horizon. The two solar wings were clearly visible as the Dragon drew closer.

"Can nicely see the vehicle," Dutch spaceman Andre Kuipers said.

SpaceX's near-term objective is to help stockpile the space station, joining Russia, Europe and Japan in resupply duties. In three or four more years, however, the California-based company run by the billionaire who co-founded PayPal, Elon Musk, hopes to be launching station astronauts.

It is the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's strategy for NASA: turning over orbital flights to private business so the space agency can concentrate on destinations farther afield, like asteroids and Mars.

Obama called Musk on Wednesday, a day after Dragon's flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

"The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer," Musk said via Twitter early Thursday. He ended his tweet with a smiley emoticon.

Musk monitored Thursday's operation from the SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, Calif., where the company is based.

On Friday, two of the space station's six astronauts, Kuipers and Donald Pettit, will use the space station's robot arm to grab the Dragon and attach it to the complex. The crew will have a week to unload the contents before releasing the spacecraft for re-entry. It is the only supply ship designed to return to Earth with experiments and equipment; the others burn up in the atmosphere.

The space shuttles used to be the primary means of getting things to and from the space station. Discovery is now a museum relic, with Endeavour and Atlantis soon to follow.

Aboard the incoming Dragon ? 19 feet tall and 12 feet across ? is food, clothes, batteries and other space station gear.

The space station and Dragon will be visible to Earthlings in select locations in the pre-dawn hours Friday, while flying tandem just prior to their linkup 250 miles above the planet. Among the many U.S. cities with viewing opportunities if skies are clear: New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla.

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Online:

SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/

NASA sighting list: http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

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Bell set to release the HTC One V on May 3

Some good news for those of you interested in the HTC One V who also happen to be Canadian. Bell will have the device available as of May 3 according to the information above and while pricing isn't shown here, it is expected to come in under $300 given the fact it is considered the entry level offering in the One series. If Bell isn't your preferred carrier, you can hold off and wait, as TELUS is expected to have the device eventually, but currently there is no timeframe for their release.

Need more info, or are you on the fence and not sure what to expect? Check out full review of the HTC One V via the link below.

Read our full HTC One V Review

Source: MobileSyrup

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