Trapped underground for more than two months, the Chilean miners constantly feared death and considered suicide, they tell 60 Minutes in an interview set to air this weekend. “I said to a friend, ‘Well, if we are going to continue suffering, it would be better for us to all go…
Continue reading …Next stop on the comedy circuit, CPAC? Rep. Raul Labrador, who was born in Puerto Rico, drew guffaws and applause after whipping out a birther joke during his address yesterday, saying he was “an American citizen by birth, and I have the birth certificate to prove it.” But the freshman…
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Action star Liam Neeson doesn’t let his age get in the way of making movies. The 58 year-old returns to the big screen with mystery-thriller ‘Unknown,’ alongside ‘Mad Men’ star January Jones. (Feb. 11)
Continue reading …Yet more carnage in Ciudad Juarez: Gunman opened fire in a bar in the border city last night, killing seven women and one man. Three other victims are in critical conditions. Investigators suspect the drug cartels battling over the city were behind the attack, AP reports. Elsewhere in Mexico, a…
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We’d prepared ourselves for a drawn-out legal battle between Oracle and Google when we heard the former was suing the latter for Java-related copyright infringement, but fortunately for Android enthusiasts, not everyone was so resigned. A team of developers are working on an Android fork called IcedRobot (yep, that’s the logo) to separate the offending Dalvik Virtual Machine from the OS, hopefully circumventing this epic argument altogether. The project seeks to create a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is based on OpenJDK (an open-source implementation of Java), avoiding Oracle’s Apache Harmony, and to allow Android to run on just about any PC with the use of Hotspot, another device non-specific JVM using open-source Java. It’s a tall order, and the devilish little Android has already gained a healthy amount of tech industry skepticism, but we’re interested to see if these guys can make it work. Either way, we’re pretty sure we’ve still got years of legal volleying to go before Google and Oracle can play nice again — this ain’t no People’s Court, folks. IcedRobot Android fork to sidestep legal battle between Oracle, Google originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Gabrielle Giffords had her eye on a Senate seat before she was wounded in last month’s shooting, the Washington Post reports. She had told confidantes that she’d enter the race if Sen. Jon Kyl retired—a prospect she didn’t think likely, an insider said. Now that Kyl has announced his…
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Crowds started streaming into Cairo’s Tahrir Square Friday, vowing to drive Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak out of office. Protesters also chanted outside State TV offices. (Feb. 11)
Continue reading …Michael Bloomberg was jeered by a throng of angry Irish-Americans after making a quip about Irish fondness for booze. The New York City mayor, speaking to the American Irish Historical Society, said he used to live near the society and was used to seeing a “bunch of people totally inebriated…
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Photo: the Telegraph You would think people would have better things to do (or steal) but you never know… Thieves in England have been digging up snow drops, the lovely white flower that is just popping up now in woods across the land. Then again, since one single rare snowdrop bulb just sold on ebay for £357 ($575), vigilance is necessary. It’s gotten so serious that the National Trust is putting tags and labels o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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