Oscar nominee Natalie Portman reveals the injuries she suffered during training for her career defining role in psychosexual thriller ‘Black Swan.’ (Jan. 26)
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It’s still going to be a little bit before you can get your hands on a Xoom , but if you’d like to start playing with the Honeycomb SDK right now — and hey, developers, we’d encourage you to do just that — Google’s now made it possible. A version of the Android 3.0 SDK billed as a “preview” is now available for download, featuring “non-final” APIs and system images that will help would-be Android tablet devs get their feet wet as they prepare for an inevitable onslaught of these things over the next few months. So go on, get it while the gettin’s good. Among the more delicious promises from Google are tablet-specific UI elements like “richer” widgets and notifications, a built-in GL renderer that permits GPU acceleration of both 2D and 3D visuals, and support for multicore processor architectures . Yay for making the most out of the available hardware. [Thanks, D] Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview goes live originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …A bid to overhaul the Senate’s filibuster rules appears to have fallen short of the mark. Instead, lawmakers are expected to approve a set of modest changes in coming days as a compromise, reports the Washington Post . Some Democratic lawmakers wanted to require senators to actually stand and talk the…
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NBC's Today show, on Wednesday, used the occasion of two responses to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, by Republicans Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann, as an opportunity to portray the GOP as a party divided. Despite a historic victory by Republicans in last year's midterm elections NBC anchors, past and present, on this morning's Today show, took pains to portray the
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There’s a story going around today about an alleged problem in the power management unit affecting Motorola’s first two dual-core smartphones — AT&T’s Atrix 4G and Verizon’s Droid Bionic — that leads to a hodgepodge of issues: overheating, weird RF fluctuation, the list goes on. Sounds like a tragedy in the making, doesn’t it? Worst yet, the PMU problem is said to be a “major unfixable flaw that will plaque [sic] it forever.” Bummer! But let’s back up and consider the facts here. First, as best we can tell, the sources are two posters in a HowardForums thread, one of which doesn’t even have the information firsthand — he was allegedly given the news “by someone who is testing the devices.” Furthermore, there’s really no such thing as an “unfixable” bug; you might need to peel away several layers of software and hardware to fix an issue depending on how fundamental the flaw turns out to be, but engineers have proven time and time again that “unfixable” isn’t really in their vocabulary ( white paint aside , of course). Continue reading Editorial: bugs on unreleased phones don’t matter Editorial: bugs on unreleased phones don’t matter originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The FDA warns that both saline and silicone breast implants may be linked to a rare, dangerous cancer called ALCL. Only 60 cases have been reported; implant removal is not advised.
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Image: SouthwestRooms.com The InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns the Holiday Inn conglomerate and is the world’s largest hotel group (by number of rooms), announced this week that its sustainability program in existing hotels has been awarded with a LEED volume precertification, one of the first steps in a streamlined path to LEED certification for a large group of hotels. According to IHG, the program, called
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Residents of a small Wisconsin town are looking forward to hearing from President Barack Obama on the heals of his State of the Union speech. Obama is scheduled to visit the area on Wednesday. (Jan. 26)
Continue reading …BGR: BlackBerry PlayBook to possibly use Android’s Dalvik virtual machine, might run Android apps
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RIM’s been hyping AIR apps and web apps for the PlayBook for a while now, but there’s a chance much bigger things are in the works: BGR says the company wants to add in Java compatibility for legacy BlackBerry apps, and that among other options it’s considering using the Dalvik virtual machine found in Android to get there. That makes a lot of sense — Dalvik is one of the most advanced Java(ish) virtual machines out there, and it’s open-source, so RIM could conceivably take it and tweak it to work with existing BlackBerry apps, which are built in Java. Clever, clever. But that’s not all: BGR goes on to speculate that using Dalvik will also allow the PlayBook and future QNX devices to straight-up run regular Android apps, which is obviously a much bigger deal than simply using the same virtual machine. Exactly how or why BGR’s making that leap is unclear, since running Android apps on the PlayBook would require porting much more than just Dalvik, but it’s out there. In fact, it’s been out there since December 7, when Fortune picked up a note from Gleacher & Company analyst Mark McKechnie suggesting that RIM was planning to offer Android compatibility, so we’re curious if this rumor’s just taking another trip through the internet meat grinder. Honestly, our bet is that RIM is far too proud to offer Android compatibility and that it’s just investigating Dalvik as a Java environment, but we’d love to be proven wrong — we’ll see what happens. BGR: BlackBerry PlayBook to possibly use Android’s Dalvik virtual machine, might run Android apps originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Quest Point Solar Solutions I just got off a conference call with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu , in which he discussed the vision for clean energy President Obama put forth in last night’s State of the Union address. In that speech, Obama proclaimed that this was America’s renewable energy Sputnik moment (a line he took from Chu , actually) — the juncture… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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