By Robert Scheer Behind the wonderfully engaging smile of this president there is the increasingly disturbing suggestion of a cynical power-grabbing politician whose swift rise in power reflects less the earnestness of his message and far more the skills of a traditional political hack. Related Entries October 20, 2010 DOJ Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction October 14, 2010 U.S. Exploring Talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Continue reading …AMD demos next-gen Llano Fusion APU, promises consumer availability in 2011
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2011 can’t come soon enough, particularly if you’re AMD. The company has been attempting to maintain hype behind its CPU / GPU hybrid since last century, but the newest demonstration of its Llano Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) is getting us back in the mood. For those who haven’t followed the play-by-play, this here all-in-one chip is expected to hit laptops and desktops at some point in 2011 , and the company’s most recent demo featured a single chip simultaneously processing three separate compute-and graphics-intensive workloads. Llano was able to calculate the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places, decode HD video from a Blu-ray film and handle some other mysterious task that we may or may not ever truly find out about. Head on past the break for a promotional / informational video, and be sure to re-circle next year on your calendar. That’ll be the one… just like your high school football team always thought. Continue reading AMD demos next-gen Llano Fusion APU, promises consumer availability in 2011 AMD demos next-gen Llano Fusion APU, promises consumer availability in 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Police in Tampa, Fla. are looking for a man who walked into a local convenience store with a female companion and then stole a charity tip jar at the cash register. The money was supposed to go to United Cerebral Palsy. (Oct. 21)
Continue reading …AT&T Connection Kit marries Bug Labs with 3G, whatever crazy gizmo you dream up
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Creative spirits that know their way around an Eclipse project (and, optionally, a soldering iron) but have a deeply-rooted hatred for CDMA will be happy to know that the tinkerers at Bug Labs have announced a new partnership with AT&T, its second with a US carrier after teaming up with Verizon a few weeks back. The core of the program is the new BUG + 3G / GSM kit, featuring per-certified Bug modules ready to work on AT&T’s network; that package will in turn build on top of AT&T’s existing Connection Kit for developers that includes activated data SIMs and other tools you’ll need to build the next great connected device that Engadget will inevitably write about… and hopefully review. So, you know, make sure we’re on your list for review units, alright, everyone? It looks like the new modules will be available in January, so start working on those million-dollar ideas — in the meantime, you can find the full press release after the break. Continue reading AT&T Connection Kit marries Bug Labs with 3G, whatever crazy gizmo you dream up AT&T Connection Kit marries Bug Labs with 3G, whatever crazy gizmo you dream up originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …By Ruth Marcus In this, the year of the Mama Grizzly, let’s stop stirring the moose chili for a moment to ponder three words— man up and whore —and what they have to tell us about the muddled state of gender politics. Related Entries October 20, 2010 DOJ Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction October 14, 2010 U.S. Exploring Talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
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George Osborne will outline the full scale of cuts to public spending later, after months of wrangling within government. The Spending Review will represent the most savage round of cuts to the public sector in generations. It will result in many lost jobs, and a reduction of public services. For all the big decisions taken in June’s Emergency Budget, and the controversy surrounding the Strategic…
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The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. (Oct. 19)
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Karachi, Oct 20 (PTI) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 –> At least thirty one people were killed and 25 others injured in Pakistan’s commercial capital which has again been rocked by a fresh bout of target killings and violence, police said today. The spate of target killings continued unabated yesterday with 12 people gunned down in the city’s biggest junk market for car spare parts. The incident…
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The military has said it will accept openly gay recruits for the first time in US history, even as it tries to slow a bid to abolish its ban on gays serving openly. At least two service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Pentagon’s announcement on Tuesday. The new requirement brings down the barriers built by an institution long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays. On Tuesday Virginia Phillips, a California judge who overturned the 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy last week, rejected the government’s latest bid to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. The US defence department said it would comply with Phillips’ order…
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Hong Kong, China (CNN) — Asian markets fell on Wednesday, following the reaction of U.S. and European markets to China’s decision to raise its benchmark interest rates by a quarter-percentage point. Japan’s Nikkei was down a little over 2 percent, China’s Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.26 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 0.88 percent. Korea’s KOSPI was up slightly 0.54 percent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.85 percent. “This is classic…
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