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IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does

A chip that uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses may signal the beginning of a new era of more intelligent computers. <ASIDE class=img-left><img alt="IBM chip" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO9AvHaIqrI1ERlZCJDOKDg3eOgpWRx-97bG39v9KBZJitGv2OhuPh15FVInsxrRSn33oc7CRqW-zyxoMeMJwgT-UlHLDeAZE8ZwOtIhW5yIYwZw0TYxIeBrfSRd08Z5dhyaE5SQ_s0HZ//" width="299"> <ASIDE class=caption-left>New thinking: IBM has built a processor designed using principles at work in your brain.A new kind of computer chip, unveiled by IBM today, takes design cues from the wrinkled outer layer of the human brain. Though it is no match for a conventional microprocessor at crunching numbers, the chip consumes significantly less power, and is vastly better suited to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.IBM’s SyNapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million “neurons,” which communicate with one another using electrical spikes—as actual neurons do. The chip uses the same basic components as today’s commercial chips—silicon transistors. But its transistors are configured to mimic the behavior of both neurons and the connections—synapses—between them.The SyNapse chip breaks with a design known as the Von Neumann architecture that has underpinned computer chips for decades. Although researchers have been experimenting with chips modeled on brains—known as neuromorphic chips—since the late 1980s, until now all have been many times less complex, and not powerful enough to be practical (see “Thinking in Silicon”). Details of the chip were published today in the journal Science.The new chip is not yet a product, but it is powerful enough to work on real-world problems. In a demonstration at IBM’s Almaden research center, MIT Technology Review saw one recognize cars, people, and bicycles in video of a road intersection. A nearby laptop that had been programed to do the same task processed the footage 100 times slower than real time, and it consumed 100,000 times as much power as the IBM chip. IBM researchers are now experimenting with connecting multiple SyNapse chips together, and they hope to build a supercomputer using thousands.When data is fed into a SyNapse chip it causes a stream of spikes, and its neurons react with a storm of further spikes. The just over one million neurons on the chip are organized into 4,096 identical blocks of 250, an arrangement inspired by the structure of mammalian brains, which appear to be built out of repeating circuits of 100 to 250 neurons, says Dharmendra Modha, chief scientist for brain-inspired computing at IBM. Programming the chip involves choosing which neurons are connected, and how strongly they influence one another. To recognize cars in video, for example, a programmer would work out the necessary settings on a simulated version of the chip, which would then be transferred over to the real thing.In recent years, major breakthroughs in image analysis and speech recognition have come from using large, simulated neural networks to work on data (see “Deep Learning”). But those networks require giant clusters of conventional computers. As an example, Google’s famous neural network capable of recognizing cat and human faces required 1,000 computers with 16 processors apiece (see “Self-Taught Software”).Although the new SyNapse chip has more transistors than most desktop processors, or any chip IBM has ever made, with over five billion, it consumes strikingly little power. When running the traffic video recognition demo, it consumed just 63 milliwatts of power. Server chips with similar numbers of transistors consume tens of watts of power—around 10,000 times more.The efficiency of conventional computers is limited because they store data and program instructions in a block of memory that’s separate from the processor that carries out instructions. As the processor works through its instructions in a linear sequence, it has to constantly shuttle information back and forth from the memory store—a bottleneck that slows things down and wastes energy.IBM’s new chip doesn’t have separate memory and processing blocks, because its neurons and synapses intertwine the two functions. And it doesn’t work on data in a linear sequence of operations; individual neurons simply fire when the spikes they receive from other neurons cause them to.<ASIDE class=ad-left>Horst Simon, the deputy director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and an expert in supercomputing, says that until now the industry has focused on tinkering with the Von Neumann approach rather than replacing it, for example by using multiple processors in parallel, or using graphics processors to speed up certain types of calculations. The new chip “may be a historic development,” he says. “The very low power consumption and scalability of this architecture are really unique.”One downside is that IBM’s chip requires an entirely new approach to programming. Although the company announced a suite of tools geared toward writing code for its forthcoming chip last year (see “IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing”), even the best programmers find learning to work with the chip bruising, says Modha: “It’s almost always a frustrating experience.” His team is working to create a library of ready-made blocks of code to make the process easier.Asking the industry to adopt an entirely new kind of chip and way of coding may seem audacious. But IBM may find a receptive audience because it is becoming clear that current computers won’t be able to deliver much more in the way of performance gains. “This chip is coming at the right time,” says Simon.Hear more from IBM at EmTech 2014. 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IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does

A chip that uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses may signal the beginning of a new era of more intelligent computers. N...

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Could a Genetic Test Predict the Risk for Suicide?

Scientists are hunting for the genetic basis of suicide and developing suicide DNA tests. No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.Or could they?When someone commits suicide, the reaction is often the same. It’s disbelief, mixed with a recognition that the signs were all there. Depression. Maybe talk of ending one’s life.Now, by studying people who think about committing suicide, as well as brains of people who actually did, two groups of genome researchers in the U.S. and Europe are claiming they can use DNA tests to actually predict who will attempt suicide.While claims for a suicide test remain preliminary, and controversial, a “suicide gene” is not as fanciful as it sounds. The chance that a person takes his or her own life is in fact heritable, and many scientific teams are now involved in broad expeditions across the human genome to locate suicide’s biological causes.Based on such gene research, one startup company, Sundance Diagnostics, based in Boulder, Colorado, says it will begin offering a suicide risk test to doctors next month, but only in connection with patients taking antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft.The Sundance test rests on research findings reported by the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in 2012. The German researchers, based in Munich, scanned the genes of 898 people taking antidepressants and identified 79 genetic markers they claimed together had a 91 percent probability of correctly predicting “suicidal ideation,” or imagining the act of suicide.It’s well known that after going on antidepressants, some people do begin thinking about killing themselves. The risk is large enough that a decade ago the U.S. Food and Drug Administration slapped a warnings on antidepressant pills, saying they “increased the risk … of suicidal thinking and behavior” in children and young adults.“The number of completed suicides is not large, but none of us want our loved one to be at risk. You wouldn’t play roulette if it was your child,” says Sundance CEO Kim Bechthold, who licensed the test idea from Max Planck. She says the DNA tests will be carried out on a saliva sample.Given how many people take antidepressants, the market for a suicide test could be big. In the U.S., about 11 percent of Americans 12 years and older take antidepressants, according to a 2011 estimate by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.For now, however, experts say there are good reasons to view any suicide test with skepticism. Genome studies often turn up apparent connections that later are found not to mean much. Dozens of genes have been linked to suicide, but none in a truly definitive fashion.<ASIDE class=ad-left>“I don’t think there are any credible genomic tests for suicide risk or prevention,” says Muin J. Khoury, head of the Office of Public Health Genomics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the CDC, suicide is the 10th most common cause of death in the U.S.,  accounting for 39,518 deaths in 2011.What is certain, says the CDC’s Khoury, is that suicide runs in families. On its list of suicide risk factors, the CDC lists family history first, followed by mistreatment of children, prior suicide attempts, and depression.That family connection is what makes scientists certain that genes are involved. In 2013, for instance, Danish researchers looked at 221 adopted children who later in life committed suicide. They found that their biological siblings, raised in different households, were five times as likely to also commit suicide as other people. Identical twins are also more likely to both kill themselves than are two non-identical twins.Altogether, epidemiologists believe that 30 percent to 55 percent of the risk that someone takes their own life is inherited, and the risk isn’t linked to any specific mental illness, like depression or schizophrenia.That means suicide probably has its own unique genetic causes, says Stella Dracheva, a pathologist who studies the brains of suicide victims at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. “Suicide is a very complex condition, but there is a lot of evidence that it has a biological base,” she says. “There is something different in people who commit suicide.”In her view, that means it’s worth searching for suicide genes and that a DNA test is also theoretically plausible. She says a test would be particularly useful among veterans or other groups at unusually high risk of harming themselves.A person’s life history still has more to do with whether it ends in suicide than genes do. Virginia Willour, a geneticist at the University of Iowa who studies suicidal thinking among bipolar patients, says environmental factors are especially important in preventing suicide. Getting medical treatment, an involved family, and religious beliefs all cut the chance of suicide dramatically.Willour’s grandfather was bipolar and killed himself. “I chose to research suicidal behavior because I knew the impact. His suicide was a constant reminder and presence in my childhood,” she says.The pain and disbelief surrounding suicide only raises the stakes for scientists claiming they can predict it. The latest report of a possible suicide test came in July from Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, where geneticists published a report saying that the presence of alterations to a single gene could predict who will attempt suicide with 80 percent accuracy.Johns Hopkins has filed a patent on a suicide test, and the university is attempting to license it.That research, carried out by Zachary Kaminsky, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, began on a collection of a small number of brains of suicide victims held by the National Institutes of Health. Instead of looking just at DNA, they studied patterns of methylation, a type of chemical block on genes that can lower their activity. They found that one gene, SKA2, seemed to be blocked often in the suicide brains. They later found the same gene block was common when they tested the blood of a larger number of people having suicidal thoughts.“We seem to be able to predict suicidal behavior and attempts, based on seeing these epigenetic changes in the blood,” says Kaminsky. “The caveat is that we have small sample sizes.”Kaminsky says that following the report, his e-mail inbox was immediately flooded by people wanting the test. “They wanted to know, if my dad died from suicide, is my son at risk?” he says. They didn’t understand that the type of DNA change he identified probably isn’t the inherited kind, but instead may be the result of stress or some other environmental factor.Kaminsky’s publication has drawn some criticism from scientists who say his conclusions were based on thin evidence. They say more data is needed. “It’s a striking finding, but as always, when you look at complex genetics, you need replication. Time will tell if it [stands up],” says Willour.The bigger problem, says Dracheva, is that there are simply not enough brains of suicide victims to study. Unlike studies of diabetes or schizophrenia, where scientists can call on thousands or tens of thousands of patients, suicide studies remain small, and their findings much more tentative.It’s because they don’t have DNA from enough people who committed suicide that researchers, including those at Hopkins and Max Planck, have had to try connecting the dots between DNA and whether or not people have suicidal thoughts. Yet there’s no straight line between the contemplation of suicide and actually doing it.“Who doesn’t think about killing themselves?” says Dracheva.Gain the insight you need on genomics at EmTech MIT. 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Could a Genetic Test Predict the Risk for Suicide?

Scientists are hunting for the genetic basis of suicide and developing suicide DNA tests. No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning co...

Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois

Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois. Cùng với việc có vị trí chính thức, Thibaut Courtois đã đồng ý đàm phán gia hạn với Chelsea. Nếu không có gì thay đổi, vào đầu tuần tới, thủ thành trẻ người Bỉ sẽ đặt bút ký vào bản hợp đồng gia hạn thêm 5 năm với The Blues, thay cho bản hợp đồng cũ sẽ hết vào hè tới. Mức lương của Courtois sẽ tăng gấp 3 lần, từ 37.000 euro/tuần lên thành 110.000 euro/tuần. Nastasic từ chối Arsenal. Matija Nastasic không còn cơ hội ở lại Man City. Arsenal đánh tiếng mời gọi. Tuy nhiên, trung vệ 21 tuổi này khẳng định, anh không có ý định gia nhập đội bóng thành London. Thay vào đó hướng ánh mắt của mình tới Juventus. Giá của Nastasic chỉ vào khoảng 12 triệu bảng. <img alt="Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois - Ảnh 1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4wTW3Z0sho8sT-mXG8r-nPIzfxT9wFlX9Gi8UDZpfinEO9LCKOn0GS354b7C0YoAZm0A4iIgh9CYkJaT-aD-PrBdQ97qGILGZ4NgNJpnSil4D3I2pGjzFVV-ITbcLVYmDyvJX7-Inwpz//" title="Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois - Ảnh 1"> Di Maria Di Maria sẽ ra mắt cùng Rojo. Sau khi đạt thỏa thuận chiêu mộ Marcos Rojo từ Sporting Lisbon với giá 16 triệu bảng, M.U quyết định dồn toàn lực cho thương vụ chuyển nhượng Angel di Maria. Mức giá mà họ đề nghị vẫn là 50 triệu bảng. Dự kiến trong ngày mai, Phó chủ tịch Ed Woodward sẽ bay tới Madrid để yêu cầu Chủ tịch Perez đưa ra câu trả lời chính thức về tương lai của tiền vệ người Argentina. Họ hi vọng Di Maria sẽ ra mắt CLB cùng ngày với Rojo. Ancelotti muốn Di Maria đến PSG. HLV Carlo Ancelotti thừa nhận, Angel Di Maria có thể rời Real Madrid trong mùa hè năm nay. Và một khi điều này xảy ra, ông muốn cậu học trò đến PSG chứ không phải M.U. “Tôi không thể nói trước điều gì về tương lai của Di Maria. Chúng ta hãy chờ xem. Tôi từng dẫn dắt PSG và đó là một đội bóng tốt”, Ancelotti chia sẻ. Benatia đến Bayern Munich. M.U đã chiêu một thành công Marcos Rojo và gần như ngay lập tức, họ tạm dừng những cuộc đàm phán với Mehdi Benatia. Điều này giúp Bayern Munich sáng cửa chiêu mộ ngôi sao người Ma-rốc. Theo hé lộ, AS Roma đã đồng ý mức giá 30 triệu euro mà “Hùm xám” đưa ra. Hai bên sẽ bắt đầu đàm phán trong tuần tới. Hé lộ mức giá thật vụ Suarez đến Barcelona. Ban đầu Liverpool và Barcelona đều cùng xác nhận mức phí chuyển nhượng vụ Luis Suarez là 75 triệu bảng. Tuy nhiên mới đây đích thân phó chủ tịch Barca, ông Jordi Mestre đã phủ nhận mức giá này, và ông khẳng định đội chủ sân Nou Camp chỉ phải mua Suarez với giá 65 triệu bảng mà thôi. <img alt="Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois - Ảnh 2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5B-ho19jcV8JAWbx7gtUCmoJfgmHz5sWeFmGn57Vsq3iK4JFaGnAMdjVOxk0Awzv1XpialfB8GeKIyQOca-S4u98pWsMlwijLn7kL6VY-c_VGVtMdvtpjkc2n_Hobydn0K9aYJAHfrjeV//" title="Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois - Ảnh 2"> Alonso sẵn sàng tái hợp Liverpool. Theo Le10sport, tiền vệ Xabi Alonso có thể sẽ trở lại khoác áo Liverpool khi chỗ đứng của anh ở Real Madrid không còn vững chắc với sự xuất hiện của Toni Kroos. Thực tế, HLV Ancelotti vẫn muốn giữ chân Alonso nhưng tuyển thủ Tây Ban Nha không cảm thấy thoải mái trên băng ghế dự bị.   Everton quan tâm đến Samuel Eto’o. Theo tờ Daily Mail, Everton đang tiếp cận Samuel Eto’o đồng thời tiếp tục tìm kiếm thêm những tiền đạo. Chân sút kỳ cựu người Cameroon vẫn đang thất nghiệp sau khi chia tay Chelsea. Ngoài ra, tuyển thủ U17 Anh, tiền vệ Ryan Ledson vừa ký hợp đồng chuyên nghiệp đầu tiên của mình với đội bóng vùng Merseyside. Sunderland tiếp cận Welbeck. Sunderland đang tỏ ra rất quan tâm đến Danny Welbeck, chân sút đang khoác áo Manchester United. Nguyên nhân đến từ việc Sunderland đang gặp không ít khó khăn trong thương vụ Fabio Borini. Ngoài Sunderland, Welbeck còn nhận được sự quan tâm từ Hull City khi đội bóng này sẵn sàng đưa ra lời đề nghị trị giá 12 triệu bảng. Lập Dương Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois. Cùng với việc có vị trí chính thức, Thibaut Courtois đã đồng ý đàm phán gia hạn với Chelsea. Nếu không có gì thay đổi, vào đầu tuần tới, thủ thành trẻ người Bỉ sẽ đặt bút ký vào bản hợp đồng gia hạn thêm 5 năm với The Blues, thay cho bản hợp đồng cũ sẽ hết vào hè tới. Mức lương của Courtois sẽ tăng gấp 3 lần, từ 37.000 euro/tuần lên thành 110.000 euro/tuần. Xem thêm video clip : Clip:Những pha bóng ác ý của U19 Thái Lan với U19 Việt Nam

Tin nhanh chuyển nhượng 20-8: Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois

Tăng lương gấp 3, Chelsea trói Courtois. Cùng với việc có vị trí chính thức, Thibaut Courtois đã đồng ý đàm phán gia hạn v...

A Headset Meant to Make Augmented Reality Less of a Gimmick

A novel optical technique could overlay virtual imagery on the real world through a compact pair of glasses. <ASIDE class=img-left><img alt="Version 2 of prototype glasses" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdO702Am-yp7ebJ8XId4lmh66r7Q3TmNQQS3NMIjr82CRO80GqqoOgRo3X39UCP5aFy54BMTspI7i6F2LldGqpwzxEUXbUV4kJ4hjpaLpxd3u2U4ykQ4GlQOiOX4bmdUDsKLJxaNdc_nk//" width="299"> <ASIDE class=caption-left>Looking good: A prototype headset constructed by Andrew Maimone and colleagues.Andrew Maimone thinks augmented reality hasn’t been much more than a gimmick so far.Maimone, a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality —whereby digital objects or pieces of information are overlaid on the real world via a screen—significantly more immersive.While it’s possible to use a smartphone or tablet to, for example, conjure a virtual character and place it onto a real world table viewed on a smartphone’s screen, this just “isn’t very compelling” says Maimone. “The experience doesn’t occur in one’s own vision,” he says. “It acts as a little more than a small window into the virtual place.”Conventional augmented reality glasses use lenses, beam splitters, waveguides, reflectors, and other optics to relay an image to the eye, and place the image at a distance where the eye can focus on it. These components add bulk, however, and the resulting glasses usually have a limited field of view.Together with three other researchers from the University of North Carolina and two from Nvidia Research, Maimone has been working on an entirely new kind of augmented reality device that is light and compact, and offers a wide field of view.Maimone’s device, called a Pinlight Display, does not use conventional optical components. It replaces these with an array of bright dots dubbed pinlights. “A transparent display panel is placed between the pinlights and the eye to modulate the light and form the perceived image,” says Maimone. “Since the light rays that hit each display pixel come from the same direction, they appear in focus without the use of lenses.”In this configuration, small fragments of the image are flipped and superimposed, so the team has compensated for this by performing some image manipulation in software.“One could think of Pinlight Displays as exploiting how the eye sees an image that is out of focus, in order to form an image that is in focus,” says Maimone. “The resulting hardware configuration is very simple—there are no reflective, refractive, or diffractive elements—so we do not run into the trade-off between form factor and field of view that has been encountered in past glasses designs.”<ASIDE class=ad-left>The benefits of the approach over previous devices are significant. While state-of-the-art commercial augmented reality glasses have a field of view of 40° or less, early Pinlight prototypes have demonstrated fields of view of 100° or more. It’s an impressive breakthrough, as evidenced by this explanatory video, which shows the difference that a wide field of view makes when viewing, say, a holographic-style spaceship from Star Wars.Maimone argues that the potential uses for the technology are wide-ranging. “I’d love to be able to navigate a city by following some virtual bread crumbs laid down on the sidewalk,” he says. “I’d love to have a virtual lunch with my wife every day as if she’s seated across the table. I’d love to see the name of a new acquaintance floating next to them when we meet. I’d love to have all of things happen effortlessly in my glasses, and when they do, I think we’ll start to see computer graphics more as integral part of our visual system, rather than something that exists only on external screens.”There may be other potential benefits to the team’s approach. “Since part of the image formation process takes place in software, we can adjust parameters such as eye separation and focus dynamically,” says Maimone. “[Therefore] we can imagine incorporating the pinlights into the corrective lenses or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.”Problems remain for the team, which recently showed off the technology at the Siggraph 2014 conference in Vancouver. The prototype suffers from low resolution and image quality, far below the level of existing commercial augmented reality glasses. Additionally they must successfully implement tracking, networking, low latency rendering, various and other features.“The next step is to improve these factors,” says Maimone. And despite his skepticism about the current state or augmented reality, he believes that with the right research and engineering, the technology could be “transformed into something practical for everyday use.”Gain the insight you need on emerging technologies at EmTech MIT. Register today<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJzI5rmITetGwtE1I_VHwHg4tHBmTxExlp0MRBKG-oyecfXfJPK37JMqmz4adfV-imQy-7bi7YP3blD4I23j0nDJ4ZnLZRBBHMgb85FKt2ntzw4XGztPxqqnU775Bu6teiYsNrVnaJAI-//">

A Headset Meant to Make Augmented Reality Less of a Gimmick

A novel optical technique could overlay virtual imagery on the real world through a compact pair of glasses. Looking good: A prototype he...

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Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo

Ngay sau khi Marcos Rojo rời Sporting Lisbon và gia nhập M.U theo bản hợp đồng trị giá 16 triệu bảng, bạn gái Eugenia Lusardo của cầu thủ này đã có những lời chúc mừng dành cho anh trên mạng xã hội Instagram. Ngoài ra, cô cũng đăng kèm bức hình tình cảm giữa hai người cùng với những lời dẫn ngọt ngào. <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMARz2-_EWjSagar6N_QKG4PTFQQr3anXsMsE51pphm21fhNHfsaf_AD2BRl6YMHu60wKl6PsBEJM6yn5WYezu6ATfHuJPi8DFXoSy8lRoKUZQOv9RAo2_z3kYJ52kylaYsMP9IqLo61ty//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 1"> Với cái tên Rojo, M.U không chỉ có thêm một trong những hậu vệ trái tài năng của bóng đá thế giới mà còn bổ sung vào đội hình WAG, người đẹp Eugenia Lusardo. Rojo và cô bồ 22 tuổi này đã có với nhau 1 cô công chúa bé bỏng tên Morena vào năm 2012. Anh này và Lusardo đều có sở thích xăm hình. Rojo có nhiều hình xăm độc đáo ở ngực và cánh tay. Một vài trong số những hình xăm của Rojo được viết bằng tiếng Anh, số còn lại bằng tiếng Tây Ban Nha. Eugenia là một người mẫu đồ lót, được quản lý bởi công ty Dama de Copas có trụ sở ở Lisbon. Tuy nhiên, kể từ khi gắn bó với Rojo, cô dành phần lớn thời gian chăm sóc cho gia đình nhỏ. Trên trang cá nhân của Eugenia tràn ngập những hình ảnh đáng yêu với con gái Morena. Cùng ngắm nàng WAGs "mỡ màng" của Marcos Rojo: <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUAWyMPHP4rej6PwJqaNN9ltaGGJsCn_PJ1pBbrbbUpAlmdCSTn2OncTPJxgGypXz1VBHwxlJTewp2kZEmEs5_PYCLT1jgk2NREcch9we2F3Wl1CwL76EJb939M5XI0avJ0iZy7Mar0xz//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 2"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 3" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmmUc4rmNX8cKCPGDcBTQwa5EGEsAdwjQwuRMRazU2jGwD9CZeY5RzUBxR2vMUGjZVHsG7Kaxo1pLR1_LcEGNWhDQwWeK-XnmRcygoenIykCz9e0UXuEusyIYFCFjOrtlqPhinic8Jgfm1//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 3"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 4" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKFpsaAz02tIZUqQJUmVUNk-Cg9J04cde7zTOV4ui0ydwsvJvJwjVQgjPKSNhQGM8NFwFuH-kbIBPz_CYPKfCL9sIWRXk0pbwyw4MpmW1ni_XziR02KmeiWY1CEa9-4Ng07ePdk40E7t2//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 4"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 5" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrq6LQv6Ee9gZJRY0K4_qT74tTcz0UDFT0S11SwKwl-BTcIdgRoQFg0kuTU7rdBptT7SEj30psfVumpNccyRpm1RjVqFz_9Np-BOU_J5ru-bAhBpEURSwjrOS7kFDkZg5Y1KeX9eEY242//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 5"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 6" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMICqonqbPk65m6GioSIxwTWVm-MsFz5ELv8RpYCSiGFDFx9oe9gB3Ike0kVI-80Xa6iwSVnOqpeuh0t0lXfAiY3YQwFGEn-U3GSRSCuNo4xFb9Fa5ETuXKV2pcy721O7jOtPoeBfR3e1f//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 6"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 7" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlpKhyphenhyphen4-nZXhN4uOMoFd4LIkNNUHJrDIiDcxCimVM4PMmE2FyFGfpx87CeHhUKjlOx99fCW6_S8eeWpW-QDzjRynFuyaJYsfo0jgH6ZqJhh4BzdWlGsD_iCoPOUW7Kh81hhHWAYhyipXR//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 7"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 8" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Bdlpr13yRblNLrNO8cc3Rz8iPb7opg4nYo4h4HBnsLeTIpk63qim19rwKPGXF8dT8i12w-lKtCVV1cHcb8ncX2XYUaS6R6vpyAlYIma0P96PndhoTOzpOwHWgLS4cCEMmXu_CDXSPUi0//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 8"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 9" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO5mKxi_c3dMyhVOBp2BsxujXHS7o1D9Lq6xN_b4FEcdQay2fdBGcToZ3xbzLRjuUI9rgaeWsbwWX-TZfVFkaaDy6LSPjdQfryD4C1qwFzqo8pSkeGwcRLfsnNHCJMDXkkMa_xpKhp1yJu//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 9"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 10" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbWn0yGiLqhBFC5WRS5pEGtQJAispHBqclrcGDYsXhvjx69-xmxSYnmT7kYUEXsDYsdzeNvFJIOD2AOr-2nCTIX4aeuPnWTeEQv2eHKItPcSHEEgAf83bFPjDKusgdu8NorhjByjAHRiG//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 10"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 11" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUUixPnUG9HPFerUAyyzoai7M21gSm00oLg6PrnOeQoC2IKsFvu2h3gDoQKj6BNkIkNpH5o_TV2ULSMTnzuIj_IUof0OSnKdi-4gEpEacSd1Z3AtaEXmygRNTXungrEDS6dMJ5o7y6AVnC//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 11"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipvkkMLCxv3yf2k0u6jstRWY-AQeeMf3YqswMokjD7EWMNGGWCY327ogn2bLC3Bb52wh7UOyGTbLF_uXq-Plqh3kTgjSh3MyzRN-A3TpGxy0WApjSI0mpnmiy-SCNeCfSj1gwhSsoIgHCh//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 12"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 13" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKqY2r5p7IDKj27Nr2luThZFTBUreK6lxSE09_HGWOJXxmDiZm7_zAedrvwTZXLT6XkPPmCE1m6wvGuy6UUY-LXSQCYNGeM5spLq7vGOuOVAXDhyphenhyphenqwEIHmZ98Rc_rOvFnlAHIy2otFISQ//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 13"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHL_fHUpkJ2f5bhsQn7yE0VHMU8XKwjLPJ2xPoSGnxp2Ps3CJeOQx5M_tD5htiH_2ySDf6WoW1V6kRgQOFpmuDqab3WBmjT7vncOJZCPOVevxMeY-8ooywegsWpOi7RkI1g7XN6aaKve8//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 14"> <img alt="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTCN2qwarF8MXh6uR9vkRoebpgn0-XRTejDkI8RruFbTM0CF7n-OlAuZmS3V-viwtjA3fYXIRsPQ3HD-N5HqBwaFxTmVGEXgM9HuuxL9TCUWwclCFOQiUm2prQ1RTnLZ-PWoCWr8AFzba//" title="Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo - Ảnh 15"> Vĩnh Chi Xem thêm video clip : Clip:Những pha bóng ác ý của U19 Thái Lan với U19 Việt Nam

Cô bồ 'mỡ màng' của Marcos Rojo

Ngay sau khi Marcos Rojo rời Sporting Lisbon và gia nhập M.U theo bản hợp đồng trị giá 16 triệu bảng, bạn gái Eugenia Lusardo của...

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