At least 78 people have been killed in heavy fighting between the Taliban and security forces in the Afghan province of Nuristan, officials say. Provincial Governor Jamaludin Badar told the BBC that 33 border police had been killed in two days of…
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How’s hog-tying search terms sound as an alternative to plain old cut and paste? Well, according to Microsoft, it sounds mighty fine. The software giant just announced Lasso, a new touch-friendly search tool for the Bing iPad app that allows you to rope in your internet queries by circling a word or phrase. Once you’ve drawn the circle, Bing automatically generates a search using the selected words. No word on how this will work out for us chubby-fingered searchers, but if you’ve given it a go ’round the ole corral, let us know how it’s treating you in the comments. Bing introduces Lasso for iPad app, does cut and paste the cowboy way originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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“If someone is out there, there is a good chance that they are still surviving, and we will keep looking for them.” — BILL BURWELL, a Coast Guard lieutenant, on the search for several people still missing after a tourist boat capsized Sunday off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula (via CNN)
Continue reading …Look out, Bernie Madoff: A trio of mothers in a well-to-do suburb of Los Angeles have been charged with scamming other parents out of millions. Police say the women, all members of an elementary school PTA, ran a $14 million Ponzi scheme by simply winning the trust of victims at…
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Continue reading …At least 178 teachers and principals at nearly four dozen schools in Atlanta have been implicated in what is likely the largest cheating scandal in U.S. history to date. The report found that teachers, principals and administrators were both helping students on the state’s standardized test, the Criterion-Reference Competency Test, and correcting incorrect answers after
Continue reading …President Obama is hauling congressional leaders into the White House tomorrow for a sit-down in a desperate attempt to break the debt-ceiling deadlock. He rejected calls for a short-term increase in the limit, saying they had “a unique opportunity to do something big.” He said the sides had “made progress”…
Continue reading …Following the Casey Anthony verdict yesterday, #notguilty instantly became a trending topic on Twitter—and Entenmann’s made the not-so-wise decision to capitalize on that fact, tweeting , “Who’s #notguilty about eating all the tasty treats they want?!” The tweet was quickly deleted, and a follow-up reads, “Sorry everyone, we weren’t trying…
Continue reading …The good news for Newt Gingrich: His faltering campaign pulled in about $2 million in the second quarter. The bad news: He’s still about a million bucks in the hole. That puts him in a tough spot to compete in Iowa, notes Politico, though the former House speaker has been…
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