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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Manual Update Galaxy Tab 3 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210) with Official Jellybean 4.2.2 Firmware ? Guide
Galaxy Tab 3 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210) smart tablet can now be updated with the latest version of Jellybean which is 4.2.2 and that too officially. Samsung has started rolling out this update in some select places and will soon be rolling out globally very soon. Just in case if you are on the custom ROM firmware and wishes to update with the same, then we will help you do so in the due course of this article. Before proceeding to check out on what are the instructions with which you can apply the update, you will need to follow the list of quick pre requisites mentioned below. This Jellybean 4.2.2 for Galaxy Tab 3 is dubbed as XXUAMFA.
Quick Pre Requisites:
- All the data in your Galaxy Tab 3 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210) smart tablet should be backed up with the help of below mentioned steps so as to make sure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored with the help of below mentioned steps,
SMS?? Use ?SMS Backup & Restore app?,
Contacts???Sync with the Gmail application,
Call?Log?-?Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files?? Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings?? Note down from the path ?Applications > Settings >?Wireless?and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names?
- Enable the USB Debugging Mode in your computer from the path ?Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging?. Also, the minimum battery life should be a minimum of 40% or else there is a risk of device getting turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
Disclaimer:?Follow all the instructions mentioned in this article as if there is any damage caused due to not following instructions then we shall not be held liable or responsible. Just in case if you face any issues then we will try our level best to address the same.
Let?s proceed to the next step where we have mentioned the detailed tutorial on how to apply with this firmware update.
Procedure to Update Galaxy Tab 3 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210) with Official Jellybean 4.2.2 Firmware:
- Download Mode in Galaxy Tab 3 can be entered by first turning Off the device and then hold Volume Down Rocker Key + Menu Button and then Power ON the device. Once the device is booted and you see the Download Mode Green Robot, you can release the button combos.
- Connect your device to the computer with the help of original USB cable and then you will see that the ID: COM section will turn Blue indicating that all the drivers are installed successfully. Click on PDA to select the firmware file which you have got after extracting the firmware package.
- Click on ?Start? to start the process of firmware update. Once the firmware is updated successfully, you will see that the device will be rebooted. Please note that it may take us more than 4 -5 minutes for completing the whole process of firmware update.
Note: If the device gets into the boot loop sequence or say gets stuck in the welcome screen, just re insert the battery and re follow the above instructions so as to again follow the above mentioned instructions.
So, there you go, you have now successfully applied the firmware of Jellybean 4.2.2 in your Galaxy Tab 3 edition. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues in the process of firmware update.
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Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans
ISLAMABAD (AP) ? The United Nations says Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans living in the country. It was set to expire June 30.
The U.N.'s refugee agency said Friday Pakistan agreed to extend their status while it comes up with a new policy.
Pakistan has been hosting Afghan refugees dating back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan three decades ago. There are 1.6 million in Pakistan. Many Pakistanis have become frustrated with the length of time the Afghans have stayed and want them to leave.
Pakistan has said it will not forcibly evict Afghans. However, revoking their refugee status would encourage people to return to Afghanistan.
Refugee status allows Afghans to get a government ID card that they use for everyday activities like banking or registering for school.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-extends-refugee-status-afghans-060448915.html
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Good Reads: From algorithms, to Roman walls, to the new liberals and conservatives
ALGORITHMS ALL-POWERFUL?
In spite of appearances ? from the US National Security Agency searching American phone records for patterns to Google counting keywords in e-mails to decide which ads to display ? the algorithm may not conquer all.
This is the conclusion that science reporter Tom Whipple comes around to in his article ?Slaves to the Algorithm? in the magazine Intelligent Life, a sister publication of The Economist. An algorithm is how so-called big data is crunched into something meaningful. ?If p, then q? is an algorithm, but in the age of fast computers, the ?p? can include billions of data points.
Mr. Whipple explores the work of a company, Epagogix, that forecasts the earning power of proposed movies for Hollywood studios, based on thousands of factors punched into its software. It seems to work. And has uncovered some fun facts. One is that so-called bankable movie stars are almost nonexistent. Only three actors, Epagogix has found, actually bring a positive return on investment ? Will Smith, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp.
But human judgment has hardly left the picture. The head of Epagogix notes that his program assumes that everything about the movie is done well ? that the dialogue is credible and the actors good (stars or not). And even so, his algorithms can?t discern if the movie is good, only if, done well, a lot of people are likely to pay to see it.
Whipple discusses another facet of algorithms. They are good at finding patterns, sometimes surprising ones, in big numbers. They are not so good at predicting the behavior of individuals. Dating sites, for example, have yet to show any scientific evidence that they can predict who will hit it off with whom.
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LOST RECIPE FOR ROMAN CONCRETE, CRACKED
Some technology just isn?t what it used to be. The Portland cement that we use to make concrete these days doesn?t have a fraction of the lasting power of the aggregate the Romans used a couple millenniums ago. According to a report by Bernhard Warner in Bloomberg Businessweek, research engineers studying 12 ancient Roman-built harbors found that the breakwaters made of Roman concrete have stood the pounding waves for 2,000 years and are still intact. Modern concrete has a working life under water of a mere 50 years. The older, stronger stuff had an added advantage: Its manufacture was relatively clean. Creating Portland cement releases a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
NEEDED: A TURKISH MANDELA
One of the central dangers in Turkey today is of a slide into two sharply polarized camps ? the government and its conservative, religious, largely rural backers on one side and the more affluent, secular, and modernizing protesters on the other. They have come to be called ?black Turks? and ?white Turks.?
Daron Acemoglu, a Turkish-born economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been writing about the current troubles in his country of origin on his Why Nations Fail blog. He notes that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently grouped Turks into ?black? and ?white,? putting himself among the ?black Turks.?
How do societies break out of cycles of polarization? Mr. Acemoglu consults history and finds several routes, but the most attractive is when a leader musters the vision and courage to make peace across the fault lines and show goodwill to the other side.
?So bottom line: we badly need a Turkish Mandela,? he says.
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN BY ?CONSERVATIVE?
Meanwhile, Americans may not be quite as polarized as they think they are. A series of three new studies find that young adults who call themselves liberal Democrats are overall not quite as liberal on the issues as they think they are. But young people from the rest of the political spectrum tend to bill themselves as more conservative than they are on the issues. The biggest disparity is among those who regard themselves as most conservative. Not so much, it turns out. When asked their stands on a dozen major issues from welfare to gay rights, they didn?t toe as conservative a line as they thought they did, according to the studies, which were reported first in an academic journal, and brought to us by Tom Jacobs in Pacific Standard magazine. Clearly, conservatism is the more popular brand, even when it?s not an obvious fit.
THE BENEFITS OF MILITARY ?LAND POWER?
With US forces finally checking out of Afghanistan and American attention pivoting to East Asia, it?s time for some soul-searching: What?s the Army for?
Maj. Robert M. Chamberlain, writing in the Armed Forces Journal, sees future peace and prosperity in currently unfashionable land power. Terrorists who hole up in the world?s backwaters can best be pursued by special forces teams and armed drones. The Navy can protect the world?s sea lanes and global commerce. Air power can strike awesomely anywhere. But land power ? the job of the Army and Marines ? is inherently less threatening, he argues. ?Land power is the only avenue by which America can enhance regional security and stability, deter Chinese militarism and encourage Chinese commitment to the global status quo.?
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Kendrick Lamar Planning An 'Over The Top' BET Awards Performance?
'Really thinking about everybody that blessed that stage,' K. Dot teases MTV News days before Sunday's live show.
By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by James Lascina
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Senators protest cuts to wildfire prevention funds
DENVER (AP) ? A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is urging the Obama administration to focus more on preventing wildfires.
The administration is proposing a 31 percent cut in funding for fire prevention programs one year after record blazes burned 9.3 million acres. The federal government routinely spends so much money fighting increasingly-destructive fires that it uses money meant to be spent on clearing potential fuels like dead trees and underbrush in national forests.
In a letter to the administration, four senators call the habit "nonsensical" and said it just leads to bigger fires. They also strongly object to the proposed budget cut.
The senators who signed the letter are U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore), U.S. Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo), U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and U.S. Senator James Risch (R-Idaho).
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senators-protest-cuts-wildfire-prevention-funds-190456056.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
How Evolution Gave Humans the Ability to Throw a Fastball
As babies, it doesn't take long for us to realize that?as fun as it is to grab on to everything within our reach?it's even more fun to chuck those things as far and as hard as we can. And now, thanks to a new study, we know the reason behind that delightfully destructive pitcher's instinct?and it all started with Homo erectus almost two million years ago.
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This Solar Satellite Will Shed Light on the Inner Workings of the Sun
The Sun actually gets hotter as you travel away from its surface, jumping from 6,000 K there to over 1,000,000 K a few million kilometers above in the corona. This effect contributes to solar flares that can damage earthbound electronics and we have no idea how it does this. But NASA is about to find out thanks to the IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft that just launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base today.
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Cambridge Audio's Minx Air 200 Earns The Crown For Best Home ...
If you?re a high-end audio fan, you?ve probably heard of Cambridge Audio, the London-based firm that makes some of the best equipment in the business. The brand is currently undergoing some changes that involve targeting the growing number of users who are looking for wireless in-home and portable speaker solutions. Hence the new Minx line of devices, which borrows its name from Cambridge?s affordable home-theater speaker range, but adds goodies like AirPlay and Bluetooth.
The Minx Air 200 is part of this new effort. It?s a large home speaker that packs in AirPlay, Bluetooth, two 2.25-inch drivers and one 6.5-inch subwoofer, as well as direct access to up to five preset Internet radio stations without requiring a connection to an iPhone, smartphone or computer. The Minx Air 200 is a beast of a networked speaker system, and at $599 it compares price-wise to other higher-end options like the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air or the Libratone Live Speaker.
- AirPlay
- Bluetooth
- 3.5mm and RCA wired input
- 802.11 b/g
- Ethernet
- 200W amplifier output
- MSRP: $599
- Product info page
The Minx Air 200 is somewhat sober in its design choices if I had to pick one word to describe it. It?s white plastic, with a light gray front grill and metallic rim bordering the front grill. Unlike some of the competition like the Zeppelin, the Minx isn?t trying to draw too much attention to itself. The arc of it adds a little bit of design flare, but mostly this is a speaker that strikes you as subdued, and that?s just fine. The Air 200 isn?t bad looking, it just is. Which sets the stage for it to live or die based on its performance.
You?ll be able to connect to the Minx Air no matter what type of device you?re trying to use as your music source, and the AirPlay connectivity is solid (the protocol seems to have come a long way in terms of stability, which is a bonus for Cambridge, who are relative latecomers to the market). And Ethernet support is a hugely welcome addition if you?re the type that can?t even fathom the idea of an occasional drop-out. It?s probably not going to be much use to most looking for a wireless speaker, but the fact that it?s there at all is excellent.
Preset Internet radio stations is another huge advantage for the Minx Air 200. With the Minx Air app, you can change settings on your device and cycle through 10 preset stations. Minx sets these up automatically, but you can change them within the app. Best of all, you can switch between five presets on the Air 200 itself with hardware buttons, giving you access to Internet radio without any kind of connected device required. That?s a huge advantage versus the competition when it comes to features.
True to its audiophile roots, Cambridge has also included advanced audio signal-boosting technologies, including built-in digital to analog converters (DACs) and AAC decoding, as well as tech designed to maximize the quality of Bluetooth stereo streaming to CD-quality standards.
All those claims of better sound bring us to the money question: Is the?sound?actually better? Yes, yes it is. Put simply, this is the best-sounding AirPlay speaker I?ve reviewed, and the best-sounding Bluetooth one, too. AT $599, it isn?t cheap, but in this case you definitely get what you pay for. Bass performance is impressive, as is max volume, though even Cambridge admits this won?t go as loud as some of the competitors in the interest of preventing any kind of distortion even at the top end, something competitors aren?t necessarily as concerned about.
Cambridge may be trying to move into more mass-market products, but the Minx Air 200 still demonstrates the company?s audiophile roots. Audio clarity is great, even from streamed online sources like Rdio being streamed once again over the local network. The connection doesn?t seem to suffer from excess network traffic, either, and Bluetooth connections are likewise solid (with the usual limits on proximity), and sound quality also shines there. If you?ve been making do with even something as good as an Audyssey Audio Dock Air, you?ve been missing out. And that?s what Cambridge wants to do with the Minx line: Show a generation that hasn?t been particularly focused on audio quality what a difference it can make when someone pays attention to that above all. Mission accomplished.
This is an excellent choice for an AirPlay/wireless home speaker. A battery would be nice, as there?s a handle for easy enough portability, but in its category, it?s still by far the best choice at the current price, and probably a better option than some of the more expensive ones out there. Cambridge Audio may have waited and let its competitors get a head start in this category, but the wait paid off: The Minx Air 200 is a polished, well-designed piece of audio hardware that confidently tops the?competition.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Amanas, Oxford, Tiffin net interest savings on SRF loans
The Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently announced that three area communities are among the 114 statewide with current State Revolving Fund loans for water quality initiatives will be saving a total of $6.5 million in interest over the life of the loans as a result of the program?s interest rate being reduced from 3 percent to 1.75 percent as of June 1.
The local projects are
? Oxford: $11,000.
? Tiffin: $9,137.
? West Amana/High Amana Sanitary District: $27,750.
The State Revolving Fund is one of Iowa?s primary sources for financing projects designed to improve Iowa?s water quality. Two funds, one for drinking water and one for wastewater and pollution control, have provided low-cost financing worth more than $2 billion to more than 500 Iowa communities as well as to farmers, watershed groups and others for water quality projects. The program is operated jointly through the Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The State Revolving Fund recently reduced its interest rate on all new 20-year State Revolving Fund loans to 1.75 percent. Due to success of the program, the rate reduction is being extended to all existing loans that are at least 10 years old.
?The Iowa Finance Authority is proud to offer these 114 Iowa communities this significant interest savings, which we?re able to offer due to the recent growth of the program and careful financial management,? said Iowa Finance Authority Executive Director Dave Jamison. ?More than 500 communities have already benefited from the State Revolving Fund?s low-cost financing to upgrade drinking water and wastewater facilities and we?re positioned to assist many more.?
?Iowa?s State Revolving Fund is a win-win for Iowans and Iowa communities of all sizes,? said Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Chuck Gipp. ?The program offers low-interest loans to help communities affordably build or update water facilities, resulting in lower water and sewer bills for Iowans.?
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Besides offering the lowest interest rate to finance water infrastructure projects, the SRF offers other benefits to Iowa communities. Borrowing through the SRF means communities incur lower up-front costs and aren?t required to have a reserve. For more information on the State Revolving Loan program, visit?IowaSRF.com.
The Iowa Legislature created The Iowa Finance Authority, the state?s housing finance agency, in 1975 to undertake programs to assist in the attainment of housing for low- and moderate-income Iowans. IFA also administers the State Revolving Fund (SRF) in partnership with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The SRF assists communities with the costs of upgrading or constructing public wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects.
Source: http://yourweeklypaper.com/blog/2013/06/26/amanas-oxford-tiffin-net-interest-savings-on-srf-loans/
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Historic rulings on gay marriage
A gay rights activist waves a flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building June 24, 2013. (Win McNamee/Get??
The Supreme Court released two major decisions expanding gay rights across the country Wednesday as hordes of cheering demonstrators greeted the news outside. The justices struck down a federal law barring the recognition of same-sex marriage in a split decision, ruling that the law violates the rights of gays and lesbians, and intrudes into states' rights to define and regulate marriage. The court also dismissed a case involving California's gay marriage ban, ruling that supporters of the ban did not have the legal standing, or right, to appeal a lower court's decision striking down Proposition 8 as discriminatory.
The decision clears the way for gay marriage to again be legal in the nation's most populous state, even though the justices did not address the broader legal argument that gay people have a fundamental right to marriage.
The twin decisions throw the fight over gay marriage back to the states, since the court ruled the federal government must recognize the unions if states sanction them, but did not curtail states' rights to ban gay marriage if they choose.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's conservative-leaning swing vote with a legal history of supporting gay rights, joined his liberal colleagues in the DOMA decision, which will dramatically expand the rights of married gay couples in the country to access more than 1,000 federal benefits and responsibilities of marriage previously denied them.
"The avowed purpose and practical effect of the law here in question are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the States," Kennedy wrote of DOMA. He concluded that states must be allowed by the federal government to confer "dignity" on same-sex couples if they choose to legalize gay marriage. DOMA "undermines" same-sex marriages in visible ways and "tells those couples, and all the world, that their otherwise valid marriages are unworthy of federal recognition."
Eighty-three-year-old New Yorker Edith Windsor brought the DOMA suit after she was made to pay more than $363,000 in estate taxes when her same-sex spouse died. If the federal government had recognized her marriage, Windsor would not have owed the sum. She argued that the government has no rational reason to exclude her marriage (she and her late partner, Thea Spyer, had been married since 2007, and together for more than four decades) from the benefits and obligations other married couples receive.
DOMA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, and prevented the government from granting marriage benefits in more than 1,000 federal statutes to same-sex married couples in the 12 states and District of Columbia that allow gay marriage.
With this decision, Kennedy furthers his reputation as a defender of gay rights from the bench. He authored two of the most important Supreme Court decisions involving, and ultimately affirming, gay rights: Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Romer v. Evans (1996). In Romer, Kennedy struck down Colorado's constitutional amendment banning localities from passing anti-discrimination laws protecting gays and lesbians. In Lawrence, Kennedy invalidated state anti-sodomy laws, ruling that gay people have a right to engage in sexual behavior in their own homes free from the fear of punishment.
Legal experts said the DOMA decision lays the foundation for a future Supreme Court ruling that could find a broader right for same-sex couples to marry.
The decisions mark the first time the highest court has waded into the issue of same-sex marriage. Just 40 years ago, the Supreme Court tersely refused to hear a case brought by a gay couple who wanted to get married in Minnesota, writing that that their claim raised no significant legal issue. At the time, legal opinions often treated homosexuality as criminal, sexually deviant behavior rather than involuntary sexual orientation. Since then, public opinion has changed dramatically on gay people and same-sex marriage, with a majority of Americans only just recently saying they support gay unions. Now, 12 states representing about 18 percent of the U.S. population allow same-sex marriage. With California, the percentage of people living in gay marriage states shoots up to 30.
With the Prop 8 decision, the Supreme Court refused to wade into the constitutional issues surrounding the California gay marriage case, dismissing the Proposition 8 argument on procedural grounds. The legal dodge means a lower court's ruling making same-sex marriage legal in California will most likely stand, opening the door to marriage to gays and lesbians in the country's most populous state without directly ruling on whether gay people have a constitutional right to marriage.
California voters passed Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage in 2008, after 18,000 same-sex couples had already tied the knot under a state Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. A same-sex married couple with children, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, sued the state of California when their six-month-old marriage was invalidated by the ballot initiative. They argued that Proposition 8 discriminated against them and their union based only on their sexual orientation, and that the state had no rational reason for denying them the right to marry. Two lower courts ruled in their favor, and then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would no longer defend Proposition 8 in court, leaving a coalition of Prop 8 supporters led by a former state legislator to take up its defense.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan to rule the defenders of Prop 8 did not have the standing to defend the ban in court. The unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives argued that the Prop 8 supporters could not prove they were directly injured by the lower court's decision to overturn the ban and allow gay people to marry.
Same-sex marriage will most likely not be immediately legal in California, since the losing side may be given a few weeks to petition the courts.
The Prop 8 case was argued by two high-profile lawyers, Ted Olson and David Boies, who previously faced off against each other in Bush v. Gore. Olson, a conservative and Bush's former solicitor general, and Boies, a liberal, have cast gay marriage as the civil rights issue of our time.
Boies said on the steps of the Supreme Court Wednesday that the court had shown gay marriage does not harm society. "Today the United States Supreme Court said as much," Boies said. "They cannot point to anything that harms them because these two love each other.? President Barack Obama also reportedly called Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign gay rights group, to congratulate him on the legal victory. "We're proud of you guys, and we're proud to have this in California," the president said, according to audio on MSNBC.
"The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free," the president said in a statement.
Olson made the argument that gay marriage should be a conservative cause in a recent interview with NPR. "If you are a conservative, how could you be against a relationship in which people who love one another want to publicly state their vows ... and engage in a household in which they are committed to one another and become part of the community and accepted like other people?"
The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), a coalition of mostly Republican House lawmakers, defended DOMA since the Obama administration announced they believed the law was unconstitutional in 2011. (Chief Justice John Roberts criticized the president for this move during oral arguments in the case, saying the president lacked ?the courage of his convictions? in continuing to enforce the law but no longer defending it in court.)
"While I am obviously disappointed in the ruling, it is always critical that we protect our system of checks and balances," House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in a statement. "A robust national debate over marriage will continue in the public square, and it is my hope that states will define marriage as the union between one man and one woman."
--Rachel Rose Hartman contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-doma-140330141.html
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Apple allegedly looking into MacBook Air WiFi issue, replacing machines
Over the last few days we've been hearing from several of our readers about WiFi instability on new Haswell-equipped MacBook Airs, which also happens to be Apple's first computer with 802.11ac. Despite those rare reports, in our recent review it impressed us with solid performance and incredible battery life. Today 9to5Mac learned that Apple is supposedly aware of the issue and working on a fix, while some customers have also reported getting their systems replaced. In the meantime, the company has reportedly directed its Genius Bar employees to "capture" machines experiencing the problem -- i.e. return them to Cupertino for testing. We've contacted the company for comment and will keep you posted if there's any official response.
Source: 9to5Mac
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Putin: Snowden, still in Moscow airport, is a 'free man'
While Edward Snowden is in Moscow's?Sheremetyevo airport, he is technically not in Russia. Vladimir Putin said today he will not extradite him.?
The Aeroflot Airbus A330 plane that is to carry National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on a flight to Havana, Cuba, arrives at the gate at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Monday. Snowden arrived in Moscow two days ago from Hong Kong, where he had been hiding for several weeks.
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EnlargeThe mystery over intelligence leaker Edward Snowden's wherabouts was cleared up today when Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is still holed up in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport ? not technically Russian territory ? where he has been since?arriving on an Aeroflot flight from Hong Kong two days ago.
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Mr. Putin, who was on a visit to Finland, told journalists that Russia will not extradite the fugitive whistleblower to the US. Mr. Snowden is "a free man" who may choose his own final destination," he said, calling any suggestions that Russia may have played a role in Snowden's flight from Asia, "nonsense and rubbish."
But in a hint that US diplomatic pressure over the case may be getting to the Kremlin, Putin added that Snowden should hurry up and finalize his travel plans.?
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier insisted that Russia has no connection to Snowden ? whom, he said in carefully chosen words, "has not crossed the Russian border" ? but at the same time sees no reason to cooperate with the US in capturing him.
"We are in no way involved with either Mr. Snowden, his relations with US justice, nor to his movements around the world," Mr. Lavrov said.?"He chose his itinerary on his own. We learnt about it from the media. He has not crossed the Russian border?? We consider the attempts to accuse the Russian side of violating US laws, and practically of involvement in a plot, to be absolutely groundless and unacceptable," he added.
The US has demanded "a series of governments" to assist in apprehending Snowden and turning him over to US justice. Analysts say the US and Russia have been engaged in tense dialogue over the past three days as Washington tries to find a recipe for convincing the Kremlin,?which sees few reasons to cooperate amid generally deteriorating relations with the US, that it would be in its interests to turn the fugitive whistleblower over.?
"We're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that the rule of law is observed," President Barack Obama told journalists yesterday. ?
Ecuador has said it's considering an asylum request from Snowden. But other countries that have been suggested as possible refuges for him include Iceland, Venezuela, and even Russia.?Yesterday Snowden was booked on an Aeroflot flight to Cuba, but he failed to show up, leaving about 30 journalists stranded aboard a 12-hour flight to Havana.
Some analysts say he may have been delayed by Russian special services, who would have an obvious interest in interviewing him and examining the contents of the three laptop computers he reportedly carries with him.
But Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose organization appears to be sponsoring Snowden's flight to a safe haven, told reporters yesterday?that Snowden is "healthy and safe." On his movements, Mr. Assange would only say: "In relation to the travel out of Hong Kong, that is a fascinating story that I'm sure will one day be told ? but today is not the day." ? ? ? ??
And in what may be part of a coordinated US effort to bring the Russians around, former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden granted a lengthy interview to the Kremlin's English-language satellite TV network Russia Today, or RT, in which he responded cheerfully to searching questions?from host Sophie Shevardnadze about US intelligence-gathering intentions and methods.
"I think Hayden's appearance on RT, which is quite an unusual kind of event, was a sign of some kind of outreach to Russia. He was making the case that we all have the same kind of problems, should understand each other, work together," says Andrei Soldatov, an expert on the secret services and editor of the online security journal Agentura.ru.
"That's an interesting development, but I don't think the Kremlin would find it practical to cooperate on Snowden. This formula that 'we have nothing to do with it' is a fairly standard Putin way of saying 'no'," he adds.
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Sony's SmartWatch 2 Promises to Be Better This Time
We really wanted to love Sony's SmartWatch last year, but we couldn't. Which is to say, it made us want to bite our own arms off
For starters, the SmartWatch 2 has a bigger screen and higher resolution (1.6 inch, 220 x 176 pixels) and claims to have greater brightness than the previous version, so you can more easily read it in sunlight. It has a longer-lasting battery and it's water-resistant (IP57). We found last year's model to be a pain to pair with your phone, but this year's model has NFC, which generally makes linking your gadgets as simple as tapping them together. The UI has been reworked to make it more similar to Android, which will hopefully me more intuitive, and, unlike last year's, it can actually continue to do things (like read downloaded emails) even when disconnected with your phone.
From the photos above, it's actually pretty attractive. It has an aluminum body and comes with a stainless-steel wristband. The watchband can be swapped out for any standard 24 millimeter wristband, which leaves your styling options very open. It will also work with a wider range of Android phones than the previous model.
The SmartWatch 2 will ship globally in September of this year. No word on price yet, but last year's model launched at $150, to give you some idea. Here's hoping these improvements add up to make a real difference.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/sonys-smartwatch-2-promises-to-be-better-this-time-569157265
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Position These Lamps To Shine A Light On Corruption, Or Just Anything
Some spaces are awkward. Dark corners or cavernous closets that could really use some light. And tap lights don't always cut it in terms of brightness or aesthetic quality. But Australian designer Flynn Talbot is working on the situation. His aluminum and steel lights, called Latitude, can go anywhere and point in any direction.
The key is that you can attach the suspension cable anywhere on the spherical frame around the light, so it can be directed toward anything and light your space however you want. Talbot lists "indirect uplighting, downlighting, spotlighting" as some options to get you going. There's also kind of a light of the world vibe from the globe shape. Latitude currently comes in one size, a ~24 inch diameter, but a mini version with a ~16 inch diameter is coming soon. Gotta shed light where you can. [Contemporist]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/position-these-lamps-to-shine-a-light-on-corruption-or-547509927
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Mandela's condition now 'critical': South African government
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition deteriorated to "critical" on Sunday, the government said, two weeks after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted to hospital with a lung infection.
President Jacob Zuma and the deputy leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, visited Mandela in his Pretoria hospital, where doctors said his condition had worsened in the last 24 hours, a statement said.
"The doctors are doing everything possible to get his condition to improve and are ensuring that Madiba is well looked after and is comfortable," it said, referring to Mandela by his clan name.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president, in 1994, was rushed to a Pretoria hospital on June 8 with a recurrence of a lung infection, his fourth hospitalisation in six months.
Until Sunday, official communiques had described his condition has "serious but stable" although comments last week from Mandela family members and his presidential successor, Thabo Mbeki, suggested he was on the mend.
The description of his condition as critical is bound to concern South Africa's 53 million people, most of whom revere Mandela as the architect of the peaceful transition to democracy after three centuries of white domination.
However since stepping down in 1999 after one term in office he has played little role in public life. His last public appearance was at the final of the soccer World Cup in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium in July 2010.
Mandela's history of lung problems dates back to his time at Robben Island prison near Cape Town. He was released in 1990 after 27 years and went on to serve as president from 1994 to 1999.
(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-president-mandelas-condition-now-critical-government-195941217.html
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'Monsters' beats zombies, Superman at box office
En esta imagen promocional difundida por Disney-Pixar, los personajes de Mike, en la voz de Billy Crystal, a la izquierda, y el profesor Knight, cuya voz hace Alfred Molina, a la derecha, en una escena de la cinta animada "Monsters University". (AP Foto/Disney-Pixar)
En esta imagen promocional difundida por Disney-Pixar, los personajes de Mike, en la voz de Billy Crystal, a la izquierda, y el profesor Knight, cuya voz hace Alfred Molina, a la derecha, en una escena de la cinta animada "Monsters University". (AP Foto/Disney-Pixar)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Turns out zombies and Superman are no match for monsters.
Disney's "Monsters University" is the weekend box-office winner, according to studio estimates released Sunday. The animated family film, which reunites stars Billy Crystal and John Goodman and their characters from the 2001 hit "Monsters, Inc.," debuted in first place with $82 million, beating out swarming zombies in "World War Z" and Superman himself in "Man of Steel."
"The diversity of this weekend is part of what makes this business so great," said Dave Hollis, Disney's head of distribution. "It's a really extraordinary weekend for the industry."
Especially for "Monsters University," Pixar's 14th consecutive film to open in first place. Such expectations of excellence put a "healthy pressure" on filmmakers, Hollis said: "To deliver that kind of quality consistently is a differentiator in the marketplace."
Still, the film exceeded studio expectations with its domestic totals, he said.
Paramount's Brad Pitt zombie romp overcame critical advance publicity to open in second place with $66 million. Media reports months ahead of the film's opening chronicled its problems, including a revamped ending that delayed its release.
"What 'World War Z' proves is that all the negative backstory that can be thrown at a movie doesn't matter if the movie's good," said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "I don't think the audience cares one lick if they had to reshoot the ending if they like the ending and like the movie."
The success of the film means it could be a franchise in the making.
"It's the biggest live-action original opening since 'Avatar,'" said Don Harris, Paramount's president of domestic distribution. "(It's) Brad Pitt's biggest opening ever, and in terms of Paramount's recent history, it ranks behind 'Iron Man' and 'Transformers' as the third largest potential franchise opening in the history of the company."
Warner Bros. "Man of Steel" was third at the box office, adding another $41.2 million to its coffers and bringing its domestic ticket sales over $210 million in just the second week of release.
The Sony comedy "This Is the End," which stars Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jonah Hill as versions of themselves trapped in a mansion during the apocalypse, finished in fourth place.
Summit Entertainment's magic-heist thriller "Now You See Me" held onto fifth place in its fourth week in theaters.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Monsters University," $82 million.
2. "World War Z," $66 million.
3. "Man of Steel," $41.2 million.
4. "This Is the End," $13 million.
5. "Now You See Me," $7.87 million.
6. "Fast & Furious 6," $4.7 million.
7. "The Internship," $3.43 million.
8. "The Purge," $3.41 million.
9. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $3 million.
10. "Iron Man 3," $2.2 million.
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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .
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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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Exactly How the NSA Is Getting Away With Spying on US Citizens
The Guardian published a new batch of secret leaked FISA court and NSA documents yesterday, which detail the particulars of how government has been accessing Americans? emails without a warrant, in violation of the Constitution. The documents lay bare fundamental problems with the ineffectual attempts to place meaningful limitations on the NSA?s massive surveillance program.
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