Felicity McCoy, an 8-year-old in Frankfort, Ohio, had to take a day off school last week after an alleged beating that left her traumatized.
Adena Schools officials are investigating allegations that Felicity suffered beating on a school bus from a high school student more than twice her age. Felicity suspects that the 17-year-old was upset for tripping over her foot, which Felicity didn’t realize was in the aisle. She tells WBNS that the teen hit her in the face three times.
“She just came up, grabbed me by my hair and started to hit me in my eye,” Felicity told the station.
New York University, too, felt the effects of the storm, canceling classes as students hunkered down in dorms scattered throughout the West Village campus.
As of Tuesday morning, the school was to remain shuttered through Wednesday, according to a blast email sent by Jules Martin, vice president for NYU’s Global Security and Crisis Management.
The failed backup power generators that led to the evacuation of the New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan are adequate, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
“Our generators are fully compliant with all state and federal regulations and, using good prudence, we test them all the time as we have to do anyway,” Lisa Greiner told HuffPost. More than 200 patients, including 20 infants from the neonatal intensive care unit, were relocated to other hospitals during Hurricane Sandy on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The chairman of the hospital’s board, who was one of the patients evacuated Monday night, said he and NYU believed the generators would hold up through the storm, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. “Do you think they’d have kept me in there if they thought I was going to be unsafe?” Home Depot founder Kenneth Langone told Bloomberg News.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Latinos should vote for President Barack Obama because Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn’t respect them.
In a Monday interview with “The Enrique Rodriquez Show” on Univision — the interview transcript was released Tuesday — Biden was asked why he thinks undecided Latino voters should pick Obama over Romney.
“First of all, it just is a matter of simple respect,” said the vice president. “It’s all about genuine respect. And you know, in the neighborhoods I come from you can tell, you can tell when people genuinely respect you. Genuinely want you participating. Genuinely want you on, genuinely understand the potential, the incredible potential that exists in the community.”
A petition urging Ann Coulter to publicly apologize for “constantly using the R-word” has racked up more than 70,000 supporters since its launch.
Dennis Morgan from Norlina, N.C., said he started the Change.org petition to “raise awareness that using the word retard(ed) is disrespectful, dehumanizing, and very hurtful.”
Samsung has out-Retina’d Apple, and Google is definitely making the most of it. The Nexus 10 tablet may not have had the New York City debut it was promised, but even with a low-key press release its segment-busting specifications catch your eye. A 10.1-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 display breaks through the 300dpi pixel density mark, easily satisfying the “individual pixels indistinguishable at typical use-distance” criteria Apple created, while inside there’s Samsung’s own 1.7GHz dualcore Exynos 5250 with 2GB of RAM. If the Nexus 7 is Google’s attempt to conquer the bargain mainstream, then the Nexus 10 is its assault on the very high-end, giving Android 4.2 Jelly Bean everything it needs in hardware in order to shine.
It’s the display that obviously catches your attention. Samsung calls its panel True RGB Real Stripe PLS but the only takeaway you need is that it’s incredibly bright, has vast viewing angles – you can basically look at it askance and still see everything, without any color inversion or distortion – and graphics appear painted onto the Gorilla Glass 2.
We’re not sure if it’s wariness around Apple’s design patents, or a specific design direction for Google and Samsung, but the curvy Nexus 10 has echoes of the first, albeit not-officially-Nexus Android tablet, Motorola’s XOOM. The soft-touch plastics are creak-free but lack the premium feel of metal, though they do make for a grippy slate and a lightweight one, with the Nexus 10 tipping the scales at 603g. It’s also slim, at 8.9mm thick.
The dualcore ARM Cortex A15 chipset isn’t the only magic going on inside: there’s also WiFi a/b/g/n (with MIMO), Bluetooth 4.0, twin NFC, a 9,000 mAh battery to keep up with all those pixels, and twin cameras: 5-megapixels on the back, working with the new Photo Sphere feature of Android 4.2, and 1.9-megapixels up front for video calls. We’ll be particularly interested to see how Google’s battery life predictions hold up in regular use, with the company promising 9-10hrs of runtime on a single charge, despite the power-hungry specifications.
Android 4.2 also debuts one much-requested tablet feature, the ability to set up multiple profiles for different users. With so many tablets – particularly those that live on the coffee table and seldom leave the house – being shared by all family members, it’s a welcome addition. We’ll see how it shapes up in practice for our full review.
Kicking off at $399 there’s certainly plenty to the Nexus 10 on paper, and our first impressions are similarly positive. We’ll be putting it through its paces to see if it can truly deliver; until then, enjoy our hands-on gallery and demo video!
Fourth in the Nexus series Google’s new LG Nexus 4 has plenty to live up to. Android phones have proliferated, but the expectations of Nexus flagships by users and platform enthusiasts have arguably increased even more. Not only do they represent a glimpse into the hardware direction Google envisages for Android, but the promise of the most timely software updates in an OS world growing increasingly fragmented. With the Nexus 4, there’s also a resurrected challenge at the carrier model, with some impressively competitive pricing for an unlocked device. Read on for some first-impressions.
The Nexus 4 is instantly familiar from our time with the LG Optimus G: the new Googlephone shares the LG’s 4.7-inch 1270 x 768 IPS LCD display, as well as its 8-megapixel camera, and its quadcore Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. It also gets a plastic chassis that, while creak free and sturdy, doesn’t match the same premium feel as, say, Apple’s metal iPhone 5 or HTC or Nokia’s polycarbonate.
The 1.5GHz processor is running Android 4.2, complete with updated Google Now functionality, a clever 360-degree “Photo Sphere” panoramic camera feature, and keyboard gestures for Swype-style typing – those on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean can get the new Google Now abilities by updating the Google Search app from the Play market.
In practice, the Nexus 4 runs smoothly and slickly; Project Butter continues to show its worth for keeping the Android interface lag-free, and we far prefer Google’s pure UI than LG’s modified layout. It’s perhaps price that’s the biggest selling point of the Nexus 4, though. Yes, T-Mobile USA will be offering a subsidized version – HSPA+ only, unfortunately, with no 4G LTE Nexus 4 available – but the more cost effective route to purchase will be the $299 SIM-free, unlocked option from Google’s own Play store. That’s impressively affordable, and starts to make rival devices from other Android OEMs, Windows Phone manufacturers, and Apple look uncomfortably expensive.
We’ll have a full review of the Nexus 4 up very soon, but until then enjoy our hands-on gallery and demo video. Let us know your questions and thoughts in the comments!
Gadgets aren’t everything: I learned that last night as I watched while hurricane Sandy batter NYC. The newest tablet computer seems unimportant when so many people are in significant danger. But the storm’s over now, and it’s back to technology!
While some people were hurt, a lot of people got out OK and things are slowly going back to normal. However, most of Lower Manhattan is still without power, and that means some people are getting desperate for a gadget charge. I present to you a unidentified New Yorker, generously offering his power strip to other desperate New Yorkers. Look at all those phones he’s charging! Sure, he might not be dragging people out of flooded cars, but to someone who needed to call their mother or husband or brother, he was a little bit of a hero today. It’s great to see people helping other people out, and more people should do this, especially as our gadgets become our life lines.
What happens when you gut a pumpkin and replace its insides with heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming? You get what self-proclaimed tinkerer Nathan Pryor calls “Pumpktris.” Over the years we’ve seen the classic puzzle game Tetris ported to some amazing things, but a piece of fruit? Just in time for Halloween, this high-tech spin on the jack-o’-lantern features a fully playable Tetris game controlled from the pumpkin’s joystick stem. Whether you’re a hardcore do-it-yourselfer, or a diehard Tetris fan hoping to top the system’s high score (9,800 points), you can build your very own Pumpktris. Of course, its creator estimates it’ll take around 12 hours or longer to build the custom LED matrix and joystem and carve up the gourd of your choice. If you’re up to the challenge, you can find a complete walkthrough of the project at the source link below. However, if you’d just like to see this quasi-organic gaming rig in action, check out the groovy video after the break.
The military and quasi-military divisions of the United States Government have been able to launch missiles from unarmed flying drones for a while, but only recently have they expanded the functionality to unmanned seafaring vessels. Today, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Special Warfare Program Office announced that they successfully launched six missiles from an unmanned vessel on October 24. The missiles launched were Rafael Spike missiles, which feature automatic self-guidance with a 3.5km range. The missiles are made in Israel which the United States worked with to complete this project. They were launched from a USV PEM, which a remotely-operated 33-foot boat. Personell navigate the boat from shore sitting in a remote control center.
This project, aside from being a capability the US Military needs, is designed to help out when there are swarms of small attack craft.
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