entertainment systems: October 2013

Monday, October 21, 2013

Apple rumored to have prototyped Surface-style keyboard covers for iPad

Apple rumored to have prototyped keyboard covers for iPad

The "lots more to cover" tag line on Apple's October 22 event invitations have lead many to speculate about updated Smart Covers in general, and Logitech/Microsoft Surface style keyboard covers in specific. Apple has tossed out patent applications for such things in the past, of course, and it's one of the more popular third-party and competitive features. So, prototyping an Apple version that would enjoy better and deeper integration is no surprise. Jamie Ryan:

I’ve been speaking to a couple of people at Apple for the last few days and they have told me that a case for the full size iPad that mimics Microsofts touch cover has been prototyped. It’s not clear whether the process is far enough along to make this Tuesdays event but they did say a few different styles had been in testing for a while. [...] It’s not just keyboards either. I’m told other cover like accessories are also being looked at.

There are always last minute rumors before an Apple event, some cool, some flat out crazy. Apple did produce a keyboard stand for the original iPad, which was simply their existing Mac keyboard with a 30-pin Dock connector and base and some customized keys. All iPads are still compatible with the existing Mac Bluetooth keyboard, although it has no customized keys and requires something like the third-party Origami case to provide any physical integration.

Unless Apple cancels the Smart Covers, they'll have to update them for the new iPad 5 form factor anyway. I use the Logitech keyboard cover and like it a bunch, so do many other people I know. An Apple branded, Apple integrated version would be great. It's one of the few things I like about Microsoft's Surface. So, I'd be all over this if it turns out to be real.

If the information above is accurate, the only questions are, has Apple taken it/them out of prototype and put it/them into production, and did they do it in time for the October 22 event?

Source: Jamie Ryan via Gizmodo

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Black Girl 'Geeks' Want To See More Of Themselves In Comics

Comic book characters aren't exactly known for their racial diversity, but now a group of self-proclaimed black girl geeks are trying to change that. Guest Host Celeste Headlee speaks to Grace Gipson, a blogger for Black Girl Nerds, about the lack of black representation in geek culture.

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Police: 2 dead, 2 boys hurt in Nev. school shooting

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A shooting at a middle school in northern Nevada has left two people dead and two boys in critical condition, rattling parents, teachers and students as they showed up for the start of the school week.

The identities of the shooter and victims weren't immediately known. The suspect is "down," police said, and school officials say there is no further danger.

The first reports of the shooting came in at about 7:15 a.m., about 15 minutes before the first classes were set to begin.

Students from the middle school and next door elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school, and classes were canceled.

At the evacuation center, parents walked with their arms around their children, some of whom were in tears.

"We came flying down here to get our kids," said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. "... It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's OK."

The shooting happened on the school's campus, but outside the school building itself, according to police.

Spokeswoman Angela Rambo of Renown Regional Medical Center says two boys are in critical condition.

Gov. Brian Sandoval issued a statement after hearing about the shooting.

"I was deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning. My administration is receiving regular updates and the Nevada Highway Patrol is assisting at the scene," he said. Sandoval extended his thoughts and prayers to those affected.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, offered his condolences to students, parents and staff who experienced "a traumatic morning."

"No words of condolence could possibly ease the pain, but I hope it is some small comfort that Nevada mourns with them. I stand by to be of any assistance if there is anything that can be done," Reid said in a statement.

The school, located in a working class neighborhood, enrolls about 700 students in 7th and 8th grades.

The violence erupted nearly a year after a gunman horrified the nation by opening fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., leaving 26 dead. The Dec. 14 shooting reignited debate over how best to protect the nation's schools and whether armed teachers should be part of that equation.

Washoe County School District held a session in the spring in light of the Connecticut tragedy to educate parents on what safety measures the district takes.

Sparks, a city of roughly 90,000 that sprung out of the railway industry, lies just east of Reno.

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Associated Press Writer Michelle Rindels contributed from Las Vegas.

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How Computer Scientists Make Programs Efficient Using Upside Down Trees

How do people manage to write the neatest, most compact code to make programs super-small and lightweight? Well, there are many ways—but one of the most common is to use trees. Upside down trees, to be precise.

European airspace carbon-fee plan set for bumpy ride

By Barbara Lewis

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should exert its right to impose carbon charges on aviation within its own airspace, the European Commission said on Wednesday, a step likely to rile emerging powers China and India and revive trade tensions.

A major retreat from previous legislation, which sought to levy charges on the full length of flights in and out of the EU, the proposal from the Commission, the EU executive, might fail to satisfy critics both inside and beyond the European Union.

Following a United Nations deal struck in Montreal this month to set up a global scheme to curb aircraft emissions, the European Commission is reviewing its own law making all aviation buy into its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard welcomed the U.N. deal, saying it would never have happened without EU pressure. But it will only take effect from 2020.

For the period 2014-2020, she is proposing an interim scheme that would cover EU airspace, rather than entire flights into and out of EU airports.

"It is a sovereign right to regulate aviation in and around our own EU airspace," Hedegaard told reporters on Wednesday. "I very much hope our partners will see this in the spirit in which it is being presented."

When the original EU law covering emissions for entire flights in and out of the European Union took effect in January last year, it triggered threats of a trade war.

Non-EU nations, led by India, China and the United States, complained the European Union was breaching national sovereignty and forced the bloc to freeze its law for a year to give the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. body, the chance to deliver a global alternative.

India, together with China, refused to comply with the EU law even before the decision to freeze it and haggled in Montreal for a further dilution of the accord. China blocked delivery of European Airbus jets in protest at the EU law.

BACK TO TRADE WARS?

Speaking in Brussels last week, one of the ICAO negotiators said charges on non-EU airlines would be a problem.

"If the EU decides, and I hope they do not, they will nevertheless want to capture emissions of non-European airlines, then we will be back to trade wars," said Abdul Wahab Teffaha, Secretary General of the Arab Air Carriers Organization.

Members of the European Parliament, which together with the EU's 28 member states would have to approve the Commission proposal for it to become law, have also raised objections, saying the Montreal agreement is empty.

It leaves decisions on details of the market-based mechanism until the next general assembly of ICAO in 2016.

Unless the parliament quickly approves the Commission's proposal - ahead of parliamentary elections and a change-over of commissioners in 2014 - the existing EU aviation law will resume effect.

Peter Liese, a German Christian Democrat who steered the original law through the European Parliament and led the debate on the "stop the clock" one-year suspension, said he was disappointed with the Montreal deal.

"The European Parliament will thoroughly examine the proposal and amend our regulation if need be," he said.

"If the European Parliament does not agree with the Council (of member states) on a new legislative text by April, legislation as originally planned will come into force for intercontinental flights taking off and landing in Europe. This pressure medium remains."

He also said it was indispensable to include all flights using EU airports for the part they travel in European airspace to be fair to European airlines.

Representing international airlines, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) issued a statement expressing "concern and surprise".

"The Commission is now recommending a course of action that has the potential to undermine the goodwill that has brought us to this point," IATA Director General and CEO Tony Tyler said.

Environmental campaigners strongly criticized the ICAO deal and were also unhappy on Wednesday, saying the Commission proposal would cover only 35 percent of aviation emissions compared with the original EU law.

"It is disgraceful that foreign and industry pressure has obliged Europe to shrink its own aviation emissions law to the bare minimum," Bill Hemmings, aviation manager at Transport & Environment campaign group, said.

"This is a grey day for the climate and for those that are serious about tackling aviation's fast-growing warming impact."

(Additional reporting by Michael Szabo and Ben Garside in London; Editing by Adrian Croft, William Hardy and Mark Potter)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/european-commission-proposes-airline-carbon-charge-eu-airspace-094602647--finance.html
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Teen found with fetus in bag at store, NYPD says

NEW YORK (AP) — The results of an autopsy could determine whether two teenage girls are hit with serious charges after one of them was found carrying a dead fetus in a bag while shopping at a Victoria's Secret store in Manhattan.

Police were called to the store Thursday after a security guard on the lookout of shoplifters searched the 17-year-old girls, discovered a strong odor coming from one of their bags and found the fetus.

The girls were arrested on charges of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, police said. The teenager thought to have given birth was hospitalized, and the other was questioned by police.

One of the girls told detectives she was carrying the remains because she had delivered a day earlier and didn't know what to do, authorities said. It wasn't clear whether the fetus was alive or dead when delivered.

The medical examiner's office was performing an autopsy on the remains, and more charges could follow depending on the results.

A person who answered the phone at the home of the girl believed to have given birth had no comment. No phone number was available at the address provided by police for the second teenager.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/teen-found-fetus-bag-store-nypd-says-055748875.html
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Investors heart GOOGLE, king of post-PC world -- MS ships RDP for iOS and Android -- POGUE pans WINDOWS 8.1 -- OBAMACARE website: Testing? What testing?

October 18, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC

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>> DRIVING THE DAY: Google beats expectations, posts $10.74 EPS on revenue of $14.9 billion in Q3, by Brad Reed: "The $14.9 billion in revenue represented a 12% year-over-year increase from the revenue the company posted in the third quarter of 2012. One of the few negatives for Google on the quarter was that its cost-per-click -- a key metric used to determine how much money Google can charge for advertisements -- deceased by 8% year-over-year in Q3 2013. The company also posted some bad news from its Motorola Mobility segment, which saw its revenues decline from $1.78 billion in Q3 2012 to just $1.18 billion in Q2 2013 while posting a $248 million loss on the quarter." BGR
>>>> Google shares jump $53 after strong results, adding $17B in value VentureBeat
>>>> Google flies high -- but Motorola sinks further InfoWorld
>>>> YouTube traffic from mobile devices nearing 50% CITEworld
>>>> Google's infrastructure spending skyrockets to $2.3B in third quarter GigaOM
>>>> Google Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349 Engadget

>> ROTTEN TOMATOES: Reconciling two worlds with Windows 8.1, by David Pogue: "The more you work with Windows 8, the more screamingly obvious the solution becomes: Split it up. Offer regular Windows on regular computers, offer TileWorld on tablets. That way, everyone has to learn only one operating system, and each operating system is suited to its task." NY Times (paywalled)
>>>> "Dear David Pogue, what a classic Pogue piece. Funny, inaccurate, opinionated in the skewed way only you can bring." Tweet from Microsoft PR head Frank X. Shaw
>>>> "What a classic @fxshaw tweet. Acerbic, vague, and insulting in the superior way only he can bring. (@nytimes @Pogue)" Kevin Fox
>>>> Windows 8.1 is the first rough draft of 'One Microsoft' Time
>>>> Users hit by Blue Screen, 0xC1900101 - 0x40017 error with Windows 8.1 update InfoWorld

>> PRO TIP: Want Office on your iPad or Android tablet? Try Microsoft's new Remote Desktop app for iOS, by Kevin Tofel: "Until Microsoft releases a touch-optimized version of Office for iPad, the next best solution might be the new Remote Desktop app for iOS. Microsoft released the free software on Thursday for iOS and Android, allowing users to remotely connect and control a Windows PC from a phone or tablet. There are a number of uses for such a product but the first one that came to my mind was using Office on an iPad via the Remote Desktop client. Microsoft is working on a version of Office for Apple's tablet but there's no release date information yet available." GigaOM
>>>> Microsoft takes RDP to Android, iOS, but not Windows Phone ZDNet

>> OPEN SOURCE CLOUD: OpenStack Havana rolls out networking, orchestration, and metering upgrades, by Serdar Yegulalp: "OpenStack has generally become the way for an enterprise to create its own private cloud solution, but its sprawl and complexity have been daunting. Vendor interest in OpenStack hasn't necessarily translated into broader interest in the three years it's been around. And since most of the changes to OpenStack in Havana are incremental -- lots of little details here and there, as opposed to a few big game-changers -- the song remains mostly the same." InfoWorld

>> DEADPOOL: Lenovo approaches BlackBerry, by Dana Mattioli, Dana Cimilluca, Liz Hoffman: "A Lenovo purchase of BlackBerry would be one of the biggest and most noteworthy Chinese acquisitions of a Western company. It would again highlight the desire of companies in the world's second-largest economy to become bigger players in the West, where they stand to gain both industrial expertise and a wider array of products to sell their customers." Wall Street Journal (paywalled)
>>>> Lenovo will face obstacles in any BlackBerry deal Reuters

>> CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS: Infosys prepares U.S. settlement over visa use, as it faces new class action suit, by Patrick Thibodeau: "One of the largest users of H-1B visas, Infosys, is facing a federal class action discrimination lawsuit filed against it by four people, and may be close to reaching a potential multimillion dollar settlement with the U.S. government over allegations it misused visitor visas. In the class action suit, four IT and sales people broadly claim that Infosys, an India-based IT services provider, has a U.S., workforce that consists of 'roughly' 90% South Asian, primarily Indian, citizens." Computerworld

>> DEMOTIVATIONAL POSTER: Troubled Obamacare website wasn't tested until a week before launch, by Richard Pollack: "The root cause of the problems was a pivotal decision by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials to act as systems integrator, the central coordinator for the entire program. Usually this role is reserved for the prime information technology contractor.... As a result, full testing of the site was delayed until four to six days before the fateful Oct. 1 launch of the health care exchanges." Washington Examiner

>> Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely The Verge

>> The streak is over: Xbox 360 dethroned by PS3 after 32 months atop U.S. market GeekWire

>> Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV The Verge

>> AMD reports Q3 profit after reducing reliance on PCs Computerworld

>> E-Loan specialist Wonga buys BillPay, the PayPal of Germany, to move deeper into payments TechCrunch

>> The 'good enough' mobile app is on the rise -- but develop with caution InfoWorld

>> AT&T announces $5 tablet day passes, deal to power Tesla's in-car wireless AllThingsD

>> Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough PCWorld

>> Where it makes sense to avoid the cloud InfoWorld

>> What's driving the Internet of things? GigaOM

>> Really? Java developers love writing non-Java InfoWorld

>> Algorithms for the traveling salesperson problem Peter Norvig

>> TWEET O' THE DAY: "Google has around one billion users. You're one of them. So *you* create about $60 of revenue and $12 of profit for them annually. Fun fact." @mikko

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Apple Patent Could Bring TouchID to iPads and Macs

The next generation of MacBook laptops and iPad tablets could be opened with a scan of a fingerprint (or nipple-print, or toe-print , or sausage-print), as Apple’s TouchID patent looks ready to cover a wider range of the Cupertino firm’s products.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Money For Dam Project In Shutdown Deal Riles Conservatives

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Kaley Cuoco Hides Behind a Giant Stuffed Animal While Out with Ryan Sweeting

Making quite an entrance with her gift, Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting attended a birthday party in Fillmore, California on Saturday (October 19).

The "Big Bang Theory" star wore a sleeveless black maxi dress as she hid behind a giant stuffed horse with her fiancée close behind.

Recently, the 27-year-old actress and her tennis star beau received a blessing from one of her trusted co-stars.

In an interview with Us Weekly, Jim Parsons gushed, "First off, she's engaged to Ryan and he is wonderful. As I made very clear, I'm a big, big tennis fan, and he's a tennis player, so I expect to exploit this relationship for all it's worth."

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Kris Humphries Auctions Off Kim Kardashian’s 16-Carat Engagement Ring!

Kris Humphries is washing his hands of ex-wife Kim Kardashian and sold her massive engagement ring at an auction for $749,000. The NBA player sold the 16-carat engagement ring he proposed to Kim with at Christie’s house auction in their “Magnificent Jewels” category. A spokesperson for the auction house released a statement, saying the Lorraine ...

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T-Mobile HTC One to get Android 4.3 next Monday

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HTC America president says update 'pushed a few days unexpectedly'

The T-Mobile HTC One was originally due to receive its Android 4.3 update around the middle of this week. But with no updates rolling out just yet, HTC America president Jason Mackenzie has been fielding questions from T-Mo HTC One owners on Twitter. Mackenzie says the update should now be pushing out next Monday, after it was unexpectedly pushed back a few days. So never fear, T-Mobile One owners, your update shouldn't be far away.

The unlocked versions, as well as Sprint and AT&T models have already received Android 4.3, so now we're just waiting on T-Mobile and Verizon. The latter is scheduled to get the OTA before the end of the month.

Source: @JasonMacHTC

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