A Colorado Springs, Colo. basset hound is recovering, 11 days after eating 31 rusty roofing nails, her rabies tag, and rock-like siding from the house. “Sophie” ate the nails after her family’s other dog dug them up in the yard. (Oct. 28)
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The head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, has said the organisation faces “real, constant…
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Complaints by British Airways have sparked a trans-Atlantic debate over airport security. (Oct. 28)
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We’ve receive a number of reports that a 2.3.20 software update for Verizon’s Droid 2 is slowly making the rounds this morning. The OTA push promises a number of improvements and enhancements with the promise of better battery life, faster transitions between WiFi and 3G data connection, and quicker location tracking when using GPS being perhaps the most notable. Here’s the full breakdown as we understand it: Improvements: Improved battery life. Heightened proximity sensor accuracy to enable faster screen response. View the Weather widget in both landscape and portrait orientation. Simpler setup, improved user interactions, and better notifications for Visual Voice Mail. Background Email Sync during display inactivity for better user experience. Support for email domain suffixes containing more than three characters. Keep text messages organized with chronological in-box screen. Edit text messages after you’ve inserted a video file. Improved audio sound during recorded video playbacks. Stream Guided Tour videos on device in Help Center application with ease. Faster location tracking during GPS navigation. Faster transitions between Wi-Fi and 3G in data connection. Enhancements: New ability to add pictures from your Gallery to a contact. Export all your contacts to the SD card. View details of Social Networking contacts. VZ Navigator is now preloaded on device. [Thanks, Mark L.] Droid 2 update begins with promise of better battery life and more originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: DailyMail The magnificent red deer stag know as the Emperor of Exmoor was shot and killed three weeks ago. This happened just a few days after his photograph appeared in national newspapers across the country. Who could resist a photo of such a magnificent stag. It turns out that trophy hunters had to have it; soon after being shot locals saw the stag’s carcass being loaded into a truc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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By Deanne Stillman Why Sarah Palin is no grizzly and how she and her sister travelers will wipe out the real thing. Related Entries October 28, 2010 Obama Does the ‘Daily Show’ October 28, 2010 Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour
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Following hot on the heels of the PR 1.3 update for the N900 comes the official MeeGo v1.1 build for handsets with U-Boot support. For developers, or anyone who simply likes to hack around, that means that the Nokia N900 is now ready to dual-boot into your choice of Maemo or MeeGo environments. If that sounds like fun then boy do we have the image repository for you (Hint: it’s in the source link below). We’ll let everyone else know when the community has made the process idiot-proof. Until then, why not play an unmodified webOS game or catch a glimpse of the dual-boot process in action in the video after the break. Continue reading MeeGo v1.1 for handsets is out, let the N900 dual-booting begin (video) MeeGo v1.1 for handsets is out, let the N900 dual-booting begin (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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After three years of record earnings, the mighty house that Mario built is reporting a net loss of
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Jon Stewart was respectful but tough as the president defended his accomplishments and made the case for his party. Highlight of the night: President Obama said “Larry Summers did a heckuva job …” to which Stewart replied, “You don’t want to use that phrase, dude.” Related Entries October 28, 2010 The Rise of Sewer Money October 28, 2010 Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour
Continue reading …iBuyPower revamps Gamer Mage / Paladin desktops with Radeon HD 6800 GPUs
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You’re already sold on ATI’s new Radeon HD 6800 series , but your existing motherboard and CPU just feel too aged to become home to such a shiny, fresh piece of silicon. We hear you. So does iBuyPower. Rather than forking out and upgrading just your GPU, these guys are hoping you’ll ogle the newly revised Gamer Mage D295, Gamer Mage D355, and Gamer Paladin F820, all three of which are available with the HD 6870 and HD 6850. The Gamer Mage D295 gets housed in a Thermaltake V9 enclosure and ships with a liquid cooled Athlon II X4 640 quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, a Radeon HD 6850 (1GB), LG Blu-ray reader / DVD combo drive, 1TB of HDD space and a 700 watt power supply — all for the low, low price of $899. The D335 (starts at $1,239) steps up to a liquid cool Phenom II X6 1055T, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a Radeon HD 6870 GPU, 64GB SSD and an 800 watt PSU, while the F280 (starts at $1,369) goes all-out with a liquid cooled Core i7 950, 6GB of DDR3 memory, an HD 6870 GPU and NZXT’s Guardian 921 R case. Hit the links below to get your customization on. Gallery: iBuyPower Gamer Mage and Paladin gaming desktops Continue reading iBuyPower revamps Gamer Mage / Paladin desktops with Radeon HD 6800 GPUs iBuyPower revamps Gamer Mage / Paladin desktops with Radeon HD 6800 GPUs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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