DRAMA AT THE HOME OF WINGS AND BOSOMS! A Detroit area Hooters waitress, 20 year-old Cassie Smith, is claiming that she was put on weight probation. As you
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Gateway brings ZX4300 and ZX6900 all-in-one touchscreen PCs into a world of fingers
We’ve still yet to find a great reason to eschew our tried-and-true mouse / keyboard tandem in favor of using our desktop with just our fingers, but if you know better, Gateway has a new duo it’d sure love for you to check out. The ZX4300 line, which is the lower-end of the two, gets served AMD’s Athlon II X2 CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), a 20-inch touchpanel (1,600 x 900 resolution), integrated ATI Radeon HD 4270 graphics, 4GB of DDR3 memory a 640GB hard drive, 8x SuperMulti drive, a bundled wireless keyboard and mouse, inbuilt WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 sockets and a pair of five-watt speakers. The Gateway One ZX6900 family sports a 23-inch LCD (1,920 x 1,080), and while the vast majority of the specs mimic the others we’ve mentioned, the Core i3 power plant is a notable reason for paying extra. Speaking of which, the ZX4300-01e is slated to first hit stores next month for $749.99, while the ZX6900-01e lands alongside of it for $1,019.99.
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Password Sync Coming Soon to Google Chrome [Google Chrome]
It just landed in the open-source code for Chromium, so expect password syncing to arrive soon in Google Chrome’s Dev Channel. It will likely require a command line switch (
--enable-sync-passwords) to activate, and no details yet on whether Chrome will offer a master password to protect your browsing. In the meantime, we recommend LastPass, the secure password solution that works with any browser. [Download Squad] More »
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Man dies in fiery highway crash
A man died Wednesday morning after the car he was in crashed, rolled and burst into flames on Highway 10, near Melville, Sask., RCMP say.
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Nvidia’s Android Tablet: Okay, I Could Want This [Nvidia]
A rounded, plasticky take on the iPad. That’s how Nvidia’s latest Android tablet prototype struck me. It’s pretty nice. But not as nice as the inside. More »
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Revision3 Lands Penn Jillette For New Web Video Show
Revision3 might have finally found a star bigger than its own founder Kevin Rose (who co-hosts Revsion3's flagship show Diggnation). The Web video production house just signed magician/comedian Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller for a new show called Penn Point. The first episode will go up on May 24.The format will be a 3 to 7 minute rant by
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Microsoft planning to support VP8 in Internet Explorer 9 – with a catch
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it plans to introduce support for the VP8 video codec in Internet Explorer 9. But there’s a catch, the user must have the VP8 codec installed on Windows.
Google announced a developer preview of WebM earlier today. WebM is an open, royalty-free media file format designed…
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Google and VMware form joint Cloud venture
Google and VMware have teamed up to facilitate the rapid expansion of the lucrative Cloud computing market.
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Google launches open WebM web video format based on VP8 (update: hardware partners and Microsoft statement)
Google’s plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn’t exactly been a secret, and the company’s finally made it official today as part of a new format called WebM. The WebM container is based on Matroska, with VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio streams packed inside — Google says the format is efficient enough to support playback on lower-power devices like netbooks, tablets, and handhelds, while the encoding profiles are simple enough to limit complexity when you’re trying to create WebM files. WebM is open-sourced and licensed royalty-free under a BSD-style license, so all those H.264 patent licensing concerns shouldn’t be an issue — and as you’d expect, Mozilla is supporting WebM right off the bat, with support in Firefox nightly builds as of today. Chromium nightlies will also support WebM as of today, with Chrome early access builds getting support on May 24 — and Opera is listed as “coming soon.”
Google’s also going to be supporting the format as an option for YouTube playback, so that should drive adoption in a big way — if you’re running these latest Firefox or Chromium nightlies you can actually try it out now. The big question, of course, is whether Apple and Microsoft will roll WebM support into Safari and IE and onto their mobile platforms. We’ll see — Google definitely has the ability to push a format into the mainstream.
Update: Industry support announced at I/O — including Adobe, who’ll be rolling VP8 support into Flash Player. Take note of the hardware partners, though: AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and TI, among others. Missing in action? Intel.
Update 2: The always-reliable Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet says she’s heard Microsoft will be supporting WebM in IE9. That’s a big deal if it’s true, but we’ll have to wait for confirmation — IE9 isn’t due out for a year, so a lot can change in the meantime. Fingers crossed.
Update 3: Microsoft’s made an official statement on its blog — while the company is “all in” with HTML5, IE9 will only come with H.264 installed be default due to technical and IP concerns. HTML5 / VP8 playback will be supported, but users will have to download and install the codec separately, which doesn’t bode well for widespread adoption. Here’s the money quote:
In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.[Thanks, Sean]
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Gartner: Android Smartphone Sales Now Exceed Windows Mobile
A new Gartner report shows that worldwide mobile phone sales grew 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, to 314.7 million units. Of those, 54.3 million were smartphones, a 48.7 percent jump from the same period one year ago.Significantly, Android sales jumped 707 percent during the same period, and now exceed sales of Windows Mobile devices around the world.Symbian still leads the pack with 44.3 percent market share (down from 48.8 in Q1 2009). BlackBerry OS devices come in second at 19.4 percent (down slightly from 20.6), while iPhone OS rings in third at 15.4 percent (up from 10.5 percent).After that, Android is now in fourth place at 9.6 percent (up from just 1.6 percent in Q1 2009), while Windows Mobile takes fifth place at 6.8 percent (down from 10.2 percent). -
A new look for Google Calendar
Posted by Joe Ashear, User Experience Designer
When I came to Google four years ago, a small group of engineers was putting the finishing touches on a calendar application. A few of us started using it, and I remember thinking, “Wow! It’s so fresh and shiny and new!”
But over time the shiny new Calendar started to feel a little bit old, a little out of step with other Google Apps. So we rolled up our sleeves and we tweaked the layout, we twiddled the colors and we tuned the text…and this week we’re pleased to show off a fresh new look for Google Calendar.
If you use Tasks in Calendar, you'll discover another change: we've removed the old Tasks link. Now to turn Tasks on and off, just click the Tasks calendar in your calendar list. If you only want to see tasks with due dates — the ones above your calendar — you can hide the task list by clicking the tall blue bar that separates the calendar from the task list. -
Are Anti-Bacterial Soaps Poisoning Our Water?
A common chemical found in antibacterial soaps is turning up in lakes and streams and could potentially harm wildlife and human health.
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Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007 [Ipad]
May 30, 2007. Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device. Then watch Jobs saying that, actually, the future was the PC. More »
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Howe to receive honorary degree in Sask.
The University of Saskatchewan plans to recognize National Hockey League legend Gordie Howe with an honorary degree at its graduation ceremonies next month.
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Charlie Sheen staying on ‘Two and a Half Men’
Charlie Sheen has renewed his deal with “Two and a Half Men.”
Full story at The Live Feed
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Rumor: Tiered PSN service coming to PS3
After years of lambasting Microsoft for charging users to access premium online services on the Xbox 360, Sony may finally break down and start doing the same thing on the PS3.
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Study Funded by Cell Phone Industry Says, ‘No Cancer’
The first results of the long-awaited, 10-year, international Interphone study finds little evidence that cell phones cause either glioma or meningioma, the two most common types of brain cancer.
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Official: Acer will not launch Chrome OS devices at Computex
Oh, what’s this? Acer officially saying it will not launch a Chrome OS device at Computex or in the “short term,” just like our sources told us a few days ago? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s going on. Like we said last week, Google’s other operating system just doesn’t look like it’s ready for prime time yet, and it’s a little premature to expect devices running Chrome OS to “launch” in just two weeks — although we’re sure we’ll see someone throw an early Chromium build on a new tablet or netbook, and show it off at the upcoming Taipei computer show. Of course, we are expecting Android tablets and smartbooks to be in full force at the show, and we’ll be there hunting down the best ones. Hit the break for Acer’s official Chrome comment.
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Hollywood injunction forces Pirate Bay offline
An official injunction has forced Pirate Bay to temporarily take its controversial file sharing site offline.
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GM makes first profit in 3 years
General Motors has reported its first quarterly profit in almost three years.
