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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Engadget Podcast 277 - 01.20.2012
Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater, Darren Murph
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: La Isla Bonita
02:30 - Apple's education announcement: what you need to know
03:45 - Apple launches iBooks 2 e-Textbook platform (video)
11:38 - Apple announces free iBooks Author OS X app for publishing books to the App Store
16:10 - Apple revamps iTunes U and intros dedicated app (video)
20:07 - Federal prosecutors shut down Megaupload file-sharing site, founders charged
00:30:27 - Samsung wasn't interested in buying RIM, still isn't interested in buying RIM
00:32:02 - Google's Q4 results: $2.71 billion profit, $8.13 billion in revenue, Wall Street disappointed
00:40:30 - Kodak files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, expects to complete restructuring by 2013
00:41:00 - Kodak says smile Samsung, you're being sued for infringing five digital imaging patents
00:47:00 - Apple files German lawsuit against Samsung, targets Galaxy S II, nine other smartphones
00:50:52 - Microsoft's Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good
00:55:17 - One-quarter of South Korean phone owners have a Galaxy S II, according to Samsung
00:56:35 - Sony dashes Dash development: is Bieber's favorite tablet on the way out?
00:57:08 - Yahoo's Jerry Yang quits the company he co-founded, walks away from Alibaba as well
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The helix in new colors
Thursday, January 19, 2012
ESO's VISTA telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, has captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as well as bringing to light a rich background of stars and galaxies.
The Helix Nebula is one of the closest and most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. It lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer), about 700 light-years away from Earth. This strange object formed when a star like the Sun was in the final stages of its life. Unable to hold onto its outer layers, the star slowly shed shells of gas that became the nebula. It is evolving to become a white dwarf star and appears as the tiny blue dot seen at the centre of the image.
The nebula itself is a complex object composed of dust, ionised material as well as molecular gas, arrayed in a beautiful and intricate flower-like pattern and glowing in the fierce glare of ultraviolet light from the central hot star.
The main ring of the Helix is about two light-years across, roughly half the distance between the Sun and the nearest star. However, material from the nebula spreads out from the star to at least four light-years. This is particularly clear in this infrared view since red molecular gas can be seen across much of the image.
While hard to see visually, the glow from the thinly spread gas is easily captured by VISTA's special detectors, which are very sensitive to infrared light. The 4.1-metre telescope is also able to detect an impressive array of background stars and galaxies.
The powerful vision of ESO's VISTA telescope also reveals fine structure in the nebula's rings. The infrared light picks out how the cooler, molecular gas is organised. The material clumps into filaments that radiate out from the centre and the whole view resembles a celestial firework display.
Even though they look tiny, these strands of molecular hydrogen, known as cometary knots, are about the size of our Solar System. The molecules in them are able to survive the high-energy radiation that emanates from the dying star precisely because they clump into these knots, which in turn are shielded by dust and molecular gas. It is currently unclear how the cometary knots may have originated.
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Suddenly 'neck and neck' ? Romney, Gingrich in SC (AP)
CHARLESTON, S.C. ? On the eve of a Southern showdown, Mitt Romney conceded Friday he's in a tight race with Newt Gingrich for Saturday's South Carolina primary in a Republican campaign suddenly turned turbulent.
It's "neck and neck," Romney declared, while a third presidential contender, former Sen. Rick Santorum, swiped at both men in hopes of springing yet another campaign surprise.
Several days after forecasting a Romney victory in his state, Sen. Jim DeMint said the campaign's first Southern primary was now a two-man race between the former Massachusetts governor, who has struggled in recent days with questions about his personal wealth and taxes, and Gingrich, the former House speaker who has been surging in polls after a pair of well-received debate performances.
The stakes were high as Republicans sought a challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama. Television advertising by the candidates and their supporters exceeded $10 million here, much of it spent in the past two weeks, and mailboxes were stuffed with campaign flyers.
In a bit of home-state boosterism, DeMint said the primary winner was "likely to be the next president of the United States."
Indeed, the winner of the state's primary has gone on to capture the Republican nomination each year since 1980.
A victory by Romney would place him in a commanding position heading into the Florida primary on Jan. 31. He and an organization supporting him are already airing television ads in that state, which is one of the country's costliest in which to campaign.
If the former Massachusetts governor stumbles in South Carolina, it could portend a long, drawn-out battle for the nomination stretching well into spring and further expose rifts inside the party between those who want a candidate who can defeat Obama more than anything else, and those whose strong preference is for a solid conservative.
Romney sounded anything but confident as he told reporters that in South Carolina, "I realize that I had a lot of ground to make up and Speaker Gingrich is from a neighboring state, well known, popular ... and frankly to be in a neck-and-neck race at this last moment is kind of exciting."
Left unspoken was that he swept into South Carolina 10 days ago on the strength of a strong victory in the New Hampshire primary and maintained a double-digit lead in the South Carolina polls for much of the week.
Campaigning in Gilbert, S.C., on Friday, Romney demanded that Gingrich release hundreds of supporting documents relating to an ethics committee investigation into his activities while he was speaker of the House in the mid-1990s.
""Of course he should," he told reporters. Referring to the House Democratic leader, he said, "Nancy Pelosi has the full record of that ethics investigation. You know it's going to get out ahead of the general election."
That was an attempt to turn the tables on Gingrich, who has demanded Romney release his income tax returns before the weekend primary so Republicans can know in advance if they contain anything that could compromise the party's chances against Obama this fall.
Gingrich's campaign brushed off Romney's demand, calling it a "panic attack" brought on by sinking poll numbers.
"Don't you love these guys?" the former speaker said in Orangeburg. "He doesn't release anything. He doesn't answer anything and he's even confused about whether he will ever release anything. And then they decide to pick a fight over releasing stuff?"
In January 1997, Gingrich became the first speaker ever reprimanded and fined for ethics violations, slapped with a $300,000 penalty. He said he'd failed to follow legal advice concerning the use of tax-exempt contributions to advance potentially partisan goals, but he was also cleared of numerous other allegations.
At the same time he fended off a demand on one front Friday, Gingrich was less than eager to face further questions made by his second wife, Marianne, who said in an ABC interview broadcast Thursday night that he had once sought an open marriage so he could keep the mistress who later became his current wife.
He denies the ex-wife's account.
On his final lap through the state, Santorum campaigned as the Goldilocks candidate ? just right for the state's conservative voters.
"One candidate is too radioactive, a little too hot," he said, referring to Gingrich. "And we have another candidate who is just too darn cold, who doesn't have bold plans," he added, speaking of Romney.
His campaign also announced endorsements from conservative leaders in the upcounty portion of the state around Greenville, where the heaviest concentration of evangelical voters lives.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, dismissed Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the fourth contender in the race. "There are four, three of whom have a chance to win the nomination," he said, including himself.
Paul, who finished third in the Iowa caucuses and second in the New Hampshire primary, has had a limited presence in South Carolina.
But he flew to six cities on a burst of campaigning on the race's final day, and drew applause for having returned to Washington, D.C., earlier in the week to vote against Obama's requested increase in the debt limit.
"When you hear the word principle, you think of Ron Paul. He's the embodiment of that," said Derek Smith, a 26-year-old engineer for the Navy in Charleston. "If he were to run as a third-party candidate, I would vote for him unconditionally."
Paul has said he has no intention of doing that.
Interviewed on C-SPAN, Santorum said the race "has just transformed itself in the last 24 hours." It was hard for any of the campaigns to argue with that.
In a bewildering series of events on Thursday, Romney was stripped of his victory in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses by state party officials, who said a recount showed Santorum ahead by 34 votes.
Then came an unexpected withdrawal by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who endorsed Gingrich. But Gingrich was suddenly caught in a controversy caused by his ex-wife's accusations.
At a two-hour debate that capped the day, Gingrich drew applause when he strongly attacked ABC and the "liberal news media" in general for injecting the issue into the final days of the South Carolina campaign.
By contrast, Romney faced a round of boos from the audience when he stuck by earlier statements that he would wait until April to release his tax returns.
Romney has stumbled several times in recent days, including once when he said he paid an effective tax rate of about 15 percent. That's half what many middle-income Americans pay, but it's what the law stipulates because his income derives from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages.
Gingrich posted his own tax returns online during the Thursday debate, reporting he paid 31.5 percent of his income to the IRS.
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Associated Press writers Charles Babington, Kasie Hunt, Thomas Beaumont, Philip Elliott, Beth Fouhy and Shannon McCaffrey contributed to this report.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Shogun Bros. unveils Ballista MK-1 gaming mouse for the ...
What makes the Ballista MK-1 an apparent ideal gaming peripheral for gamers is its indepedent X and Y DPI settings. According to Shogun Bros., these independent settings will allow for more stabilized targeting which they?re calling a ?precision sniping system?. The Ballista MK-1 will also feature a thumb selector for speed shooting, 5,700 DPI accuracy with 1,000MHz polling rate, 11,570 FPS, independent X, Y, and refresh rate indicator along with 11 macro keys spread out across the body.
Users will also be able to store up to 20 customized DPI settings for a variety of situations, such as for FPS gaming, MMO, RTS, RPG, and even regular desktop usage. Unfortunately Shogun Bros. neglected to reveal a price for the Ballista MK-1, but if you?re interested in picking one up for yourself, expect to see a worldwide release come Q2 2012.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
TSA admits errors in NY searches of elderly women
NEW YORK (AP) ? Security screeners at Kennedy Airport violated procedures this fall when they asked two elderly women to show them medical devices concealed beneath their clothing, senior Homeland Security officials acknowledged in correspondence made public this week.
In a pair of letters to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and state Sen. Michael Gianaris, Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole and Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Betsy Markey said screeners at the airport will get refresher training on how to handle passengers with medical conditions.
The action followed complaints by Lenore Zimmerman, 85, of Long Beach, N.Y., and Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Fla., that they were effectively strip-searched while traveling separately through the airport in November.
Zimmerman, who weighs less than 110 pounds and is in a wheelchair, said that after being escorted into a private room she had to raise her shirt and lower her pants for a female TSA agent and remove her back brace, which was put through an X-ray machine.
Sherman said was humiliated when two female screeners made her lower her sweatpants so they could examine her colostomy bag.
In their letters to the New York politicians, Pistole and Markey disputed some of the details of the women's accounts.
They said Zimmerman had raised her shirt voluntarily. "At no point was the passenger asked to remove any items of clothing," the letters said. But in her letter, Markey acknowledged that Zimmerman should have been allowed to leave the brace on.
"It is not standard procedure for TSOs to screen back braces through the X-ray, and TSA apologizes for this employee's action," she wrote.
Likewise, she said Sherman had also initially lowered her pants voluntarily, and was never asked to remove any items of clothing, but added that "it is not standard operating procedure for colostomy devices to be visually inspected, and TSA also apologizes for this employee's action."
Zimmerman and her son didn't immediately return messages Wednesday from The Associated Press, but she told the Daily News that she was upset that federal officials were still insisting that she hadn't been asked to remove clothing.
"They're lying," she said. "I don't have a problem with the back brace. I have a problem with being strip-searched," she said.
Schumer reiterated his call for the TSA to designate a passenger advocate at each airport, "who vulnerable passengers can turn to when they feel they are being asked to undergo overly invasive, embarrassing screening procedures."
"The TSA needs to do a whole lot more than just provide 'refresher training' to screening agents," he said.
Gianaris said it was a "positive step" for federal officials to acknowledge mistakes in the way the women were handled, but he said the agency still appeared to be dragging its feet in acknowledging the severity of the problem, and still needs to do more to ensure that passengers "don't have to make a choice between degrading themselves or passing through security."
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World Bank warns of global growth slowdown (AP)
BEIJING ? The World Bank has warned of an impending global economic slowdown, sharply cutting its growth forecast and cautioning developing countries to prepare for shocks.
The bank on Wednesday lowered its growth forecast for developing countries this year to 5.4 percent from 6.2 percent, and for developed countries to 1.4 percent from 2.7 percent.
It forecast a contraction this year for the 17 countries that use the euro currency, cutting their growth forecast to -0.3 percent from 1.8 percent.
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