Lesley Manville, Hailee Steinfeld, Jacki Weaver and actor John Hawkes have combined for more than a dozen awards season wins for their films in 2010. The quartet talks about surviving awards season. (Feb. 7)
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Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Movies Stones Throw Records In celebration of legendary producer J. Dilla ‘s 37th birthday today, a documentary has been released about the revered former A Tribe Called Quest and Slum Village producer. The 39-minute film , entitled ‘Still Shining,’ covers the life of the_thumbnail.gifted Detroit producer and rapper, who died of lupus on Feb. 10, 2006, just days… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : The Boombox Music Blog Discovery Date : 07/02/2011 20:41 Number of articles : 5
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Authorities in Europe are looking for two twin 6-year-old girls who vanished. Their father, Matthias Kaspar Schepp, apparently committed suicide in Italy by throwing himself under a train. (Feb. 7)
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The evil geniuses at Northrop Grumman successfully completed the first flight of its X-47B unmanned stealth bomber a few days ago at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. In the air for a full twenty-nine minutes, the tailless, fighter-sized UAV flew to 5,000 feet and completed several racetrack-type patterns, before landing safely at 2:38 pm PST. The aircraft will continue to undergo tests at Edwards AFB before heading to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, later this year. The ultimate goal is to get this bad boy taking off and landing on US Navy carriers. Carrier trials are currently slated for sometime in 2013. Video, PR after the break. Continue reading X-47B unmanned stealth bomber completes its first flight (video) X-47B unmanned stealth bomber completes its first flight (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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President Barack Obama is telling business leaders that despite some strong disagreements, “we can and must work together.” Obama spoke Monday morning at the US Chamber of Commerce. (Feb. 7)
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The world cried out for a dual-core smartphone and LG and NVIDIA answered the call. Actually, the world only ever dreamt about multicore mobile architectures up until late last year, but sometimes that’s all it takes to get those zany engineers engineering. So here we are, in early February 2011, beholding the world’s first smartphone built around a dual-core processor, the Optimus 2X . This is a landmark handset in more ways than one, however, as its presence on the market signals LG’s first sincere foray into the Android high end. Although the company delivered two thoroughly competent devices for the platform with the Optimus S and T in 2010, they were the very definition of mid-range smartphones and the truth is that Samsung, HTC and Motorola were left to fight among themselves for the most demanding Android users’ hard-earned rubles. So now that LG’s joined their ranks, was the wait worth it? Gallery: LG Optimus 2X review Continue reading LG Optimus 2X review LG Optimus 2X review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video)
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If you want to get your conductive body orchestra going, you no longer need 15 bikini models and a bunch of conductive paint. You just need a Ningen Gakki, coming this summer from Takara Tomy . It has four conductive patches on the limbs of its vaguely anthropomorphized shape. If two people each touch one of the patches and then touch each other a circuit is created and a note is played. Up to four people can play songs or drums by clapping hands or, as you can see in the video below, generally slapping each other about. The notes don’t appear to get louder the harder the hit, but perhaps that’s for the best. Continue reading Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video) Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Fox Ran ‘John 3:16′ Ad During Super Bowl XLV After All, At Least in Washington, D.C. Market
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On Thursday evening I noted news reports that the Fox entertainment network would not air an ad by a Christian website, LookUp316 — referring of course to John 3:16 — during Super Bowl XLV. So I was pleasantly surprised last night to find that Fox did air the ad after all, just before the beginning of the 4th quarter of the game. USA Today religion reporter Cathy Lynn Grossman was also surprised , telling her readers in a February 7 post that she has to look into what made network executives change their mind. [To view the ad, click play on the embedded video posted after the page break] The ad, sponsored by the Fixed Point Foundation, was “originally rejected by Fox Sports for containing too much 'religious doctrine' and for being too offensive,” Nathan Black of The Christian Post noted this morning. Like Grossman, Black had no explanation from the Fox officials as to why they changed their minds. Perhaps its possible the ad only ran in the Washington, D.C. market as a Glenn Garvin blog post at the Miami Herald's website this morning counted the LookUp316.com ad as one that was not broadcast last night. For his part the Herald columnist failed to see the controversy in the “milquetoast” ad, quipping of the actors in the ad, “Maybe Fox and the NFL think fat people can’t go to heaven.”
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Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and political activist,arrested on 25 January by Egyptian authorities has been released.
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Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed for a fourth straight day – with hours of shelling and machine gun fire. The soldiers are battling along a disputed border area surrounding a 900-year-old mountaintop temple. The fighting has shocked residents in what are normally quiet rural villages, as Wayne Hay reports.
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