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“I am honored that it took something as large and violent as an oncoming train to terminate my character,” he says.

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Yes, we’ve now reached the point in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung brouhaha where we’re having lawsuits revealed within lawsuits. As spotted by FOSS Patents‘ Florian Mueller, Apple’s recent complaint against Samsung that led to a preliminary injunction blocking sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe also contained a brief passage indicating that Apple is suing Motorola over the decidedly tablet-like Xoom as well. What’s not clear, however, is whether Apple is also seeking an injunction against Motorola to block sales of the Xoom, but Mueller suggests that is indeed likely (Apple has also reportedly sued and received an injunction against local German tablet manufacturer JAY-tech). Of course, Apple and Motorola are no strangers to legal entanglements, but this is the first time we’ve seen things spread beyond phones to tablets.

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Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer says it has ended its 10-year commercial relationship with Tiger Woods and hopes he can "overcome his difficulties."

A simple blood test in mothers-to-be can answer the boy or girl question with surprising accuracy at about seven weeks, a research analysis has found.

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Ashton Kutcher makes the most bank on “Two and a Half Men,” while Kiefer Sutherland took a big pay cut.

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South Korean forces returned fire after North Korean artillery shells fell into waters near the tense maritime line that separates the two rivals, a South Korean defence official says.

That tingling feeling when your hand or foot falls asleep (a condition known as paresthesia) sure is aggravating. You can wake your hand up in under a minute, however, just by rocking your head side to side. More »

Back in June HP announced their webOS based TouchPad tablet would be available mid-July for $519.99 for the 16GB and for 619.99 for the 32GB version. They right before launch day the tablet received its first price drop of $70 off each. Now, Best Buy has reduced the price even further by a stunning $50 on each version. The 16GB TouchPad now retails for a low $399.99 and the 32GB can be yours for $499.99. (This is about a 25% cut since launching)

Source: Best Buy

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The fifth of November: the day Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the English Parliament in 1605, and the day Anonymous threatens to destroy Facebook in 2011. More »

Actor William Shatner is set to perform at the arts centre in Regina as part of his cross-Canada tour How Time Flies.

It isn’t particularly difficult to start a torrent download, but if you’re not at your main computer, starting a download and controlling your queue from afar can be a pain. Install one of these browser extensions in Chrome or Firefox to streamline your BitTorrent downloads, letting you monitor your torrents from any computer and start new ones with one click. More »

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“Who’s not going to watch? … I’m just as curious as everybody else,” the former star said.

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Fringe returns for a miraculous fourth season next month, and we’ll finally get to discover just what kind of world(s) our characters are living in now. More »

Facebook thinks it should be easier to communicate with your friends.

In an effort to simplify, consolidate and, ultimately, make it easier to get in touch with your Facebook contacts, they have released a mobile app for iOS and Android called Messenger. Simply put, it sends a message to whatever method your friend allows his or her Facebook friends to get in touch, whether by Chat, Email or SMS. This makes it much more likely the that message will find him or her quickly.

It also cuts down the clutter of sending multiple messages via disparate services. In a word, it’s a great idea.

The app was borne out of the ashes of Beluga, an app/company that was purchased by Facebook in March of this year. The global giant had already made it easier to communicate using its various mobile and desktop interfaces: instead of Messages being separate from Chats, they were merged into one. If neither was available, a communique would be sent an as email or text message, depending on what the user set in the preferences. Messenger is an extension of that functionality.

But the market is already pretty saturated with proprietary messengers: BlackBerry users have BBM; iOS users will be getting iMessage with iOS 5; Android users have been using Gtalk natively for years. Then there are the secondary apps such as Kik, WhatsApp and LiveProfile that attempt to bridge the gap between platforms. Facebook Messenger, though it is launching on iOS and Android, is fairly platform-agnostic. Since the idea is that the message will be delivered regardless of whether the recipient has a mobile device or not, it has the capacity to reach exponentially more users.

Messenger is available for iOS and Android (starting later today). The question is, will you be using it?

Source: Facebook

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Here’s a crazy-looking picture of Shaquille O’Neal walking with his girlfriend, Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander.

When he’s surrounded by other basketball players, it’s easy to lose sight of how big Shaq really is. It's not until he's next to a normal-sized person that you get some perspective.

Hoopz is 5’3”, according to videostunners.com (very NSFW), which isn’t even that short.

Shaq is 7’1”.

Hoopz is an aspiring celebrity who has appeared on shows such as Flavor of Love.

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When do you safely remove a device? Some users put caution to the wind and yank out any device, while others perform religious rituals every time. Here are some tips and guidelines for practicing safe drive removal.

Removable storage has been around as long as the personal computer and safely removing or “ejecting” drives is something that OS X and Linux users are very familiar with. Whenever an external storage device is plugged into those operating system it becomes mounted to a location, and if you just pull it out without warning your OS, typically you receive a nasty warning saying you may have just lost all your data.

In Windows, however, drive mounting is different. It doesn’t always require you to safely remove a device and rarely does it send out nastygram popups when you remove a device without warning. At most, you may get a popup the next time you plug in the device asking you to scan and fix the drive.

So how can you know when you should eject a drive before unplugging it? Here are some never, always, and sometimes situations to consider.

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