Naomi Campbell’s new spaceship is almost done. The stunning 28,524-square-foot (2,650-square-meter) mansion feels like a smoothed Star Destroyer, with two 65-foot (20-meter) towers as the ship’s bridge overlooking lush hills covered with birch and pine forests. The photos and the scale is nothing short of stunning. More »
CINCINNATI — Mitt Romney began a two-day swing through the crucial swing state of Ohio on Thursday by repeating a phrase that got big roars from a rally with several thousand supporters.
“Do you want real big change in this country?” Romney asked the crowd. “Well then you’re going to get it on Nov. 6!”
The Republican nominee for president mentioned the phrase “big change” at least four other times in a roughly 20-minute speech.
Life imitated art for Kristen Stewart, and now the “Twilight” actress is speaking out about love triangles.
While Stewart discusses the on-screen love triangle that plays out in the “Twilight Saga,” she herself has personal experience with such trials of the heart.
Stewart’s now-infamous real-life love triangle with boyfriend Robert Pattinson and married “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders might have given her some insight into her character Bella Swan’s love struggles. On screen, Bella feels for both vampire Edward Cullen (Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
Bravo has released the first clip from Start-Ups, its parody-rife reality show about Silicon Valley. Here is the rundown of the short scene in which angel investor Dave McClure looks over a pitch from brother-sister disruptin’ duo Ben and Hermione (Hermione!) Way’s rip-roarin’ vaguely-purposed company, Ignite. It follows what we’ve come to know as Standard Reality Television Script and relies heavily on Start Up Lingo: More »
Microsoft is showing off their new products here the company’s Windows 8 event in New York City, and they’ve been shoving the word “touch” down everyone’s throat — not in a mean and rude way, but it’s a strong focus of their’s no doubt. They mentioned that “as soon as you’ve had touch, you’ll want it on everything.”
This is a fairly different approach compared to Apple, who have always said that reaching out to touch your laptop’s display is counter-intuitive. Steve Jobs famously dismissed the idea when launching the iPad, and Tim Cook has shown no signs of altering that strategy. Microsoft thinks otherwise, saying that once you try out a touchscreen-equipped device, you’ll want that experience on all your devices, which might be true for some people, but maybe not everyone.
We even mentioned in our recent Microsoft Surface review with Windows RT that utilizing and navigating around a classic desktop view is extremely tricky using your fingers, even with all of Microsoft’s changes to the user interface. The text happens to be way too small to easily tap with your finger, and it’s overall really annoying compared to a tablet-optimized solution.
We’ve seen this philosophy of Microsoft’s for the past couple of years, and OEM manufacturers have hopped on board to deliver touchscreen-enabled desktop computers — not just tablets. While larger screens definitely improve the touch experience on the classic desktop UI, it almost seems that keyboard, mice, and trackpads should stay the norm for desktop and laptop computers, and leave the touchscreens to the tablets.
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Rebecca Edmonds, the daughter of an Air Force captain, proudly followed in her father’s footsteps when she joined the armed forces. But her dream came to an abrupt halt when the Air Force found out that she was about to start a family of her own.
Edmonds, a graduate of Marquette University with a full scholarship from the Air Force, became pregnant 13 weeks before she was going to be commissioned as an officer, CNN reported. Six months into her pregnancy, she shared her news with the Air Force. In response, they revoked her $92,000 scholarship and ejected her from the ranks.
The Air Force strictly forbids single parents from enlisting — a policy Edmonds alleges that she was unaware of when she found out she was pregnant. The Air Force put the single parent policy in place due to the difficult strains deployment puts on the children of single parents, according to CNN.
A Tea Party spinoff group that is training poll-watchers to either monitor or intimidate voters — depending on whom you believe — is now explicitly expanding its reach into Latino communities.
True the Vote, a Houston-based group that says it is training thousands of poll-watchers across the country, recently announced a new “Voto Honesto” initiative.
“People need to know it’s a crime if you try to vote when you’re not a citizen,” said Adryana Boyne, a conservative activist and Latina spokesperson for the Republican Party of Texas. Boyne is leading Voto Honesto — which means Honest Vote.
It seemed like a minor adjustment. To comply with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in 2003, the state Registry of Vital Records and Statistics said it needed to revise its birth certificate forms for babies born to same-sex couples. The box for “father” would be relabeled “father or second parent,’’ reflecting the new law.
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While Boston Dynamics‘ Cheetah has already premiered, speeding along on its robot-friendly treadmill, we’ve now got a better glimpse at how the similarly DARPA-funded human-hunting obstacle-scaling Atlas fares, courtesy of its ancestor. That’s the Pet-Proto you can see in the video below, balancing and leaping across narrow terrain, conducting its own “autonomous decision-making” and keeping upright — all very important points for DARPA’s own Robotics Challenge, a competition where winners will gain access to their very own modified version of the Atlas for future disaster response tests. Watch the Pet-Proto gradually advance towards camera right after the break. And we’ll sleep with one eye open.
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An apparent Facebook exchange has surfaced between 12-year-old murder victim Autumn Pasquale and one of her alleged killers.
The exchange, which took place four days before the Clayton, N.J. girl disappeared, was initiated by Pasquale after one of the suspects posted a photo of a BMX bike on his Facebook page. The photo and the subsequent exchange were initially accessible to the public, but have since been removed from public view.
[Pasquale:] “Is that ur bike?”
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