WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he’ll work with Congress to help the public understand the circumstances under which the government will target an American citizen with ties to al-Qaida using an unmanned aerial drone.
Obama says he doesn’t believe a president can do whatever he wants, whenever, under the guise of counterterrorism.
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Stream popular internet channels, as well as personal photos, music and movies from other networked devices in the home, directly to your HDTV with Western Digital’s latest WD TV Play media player. This easy to set up media player is equipped with a number of connection interfaces including 2x USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, optical audio and Gigabit Ethernet, and comes with WiFi connectivity. The WD TV Play retails for $69.99 (WD TV Remote included). [Western Digital]
PNY has just dropped their newest portable mobile charger into the market, the PowerPack. This travel-friendly device comes with a sleek and durable brushed aluminum housing, a convenient on/off power switch, a unique digital display for showing how much charging power you have left, two USB output ports and a high-capacity 7800mAh battery. Price itself is set at $79.99. [PNY]
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband wants to end his involvement in the former couple’s divorce proceedings.
Marshall Waller says irreconcilable differences have arisen between him and Kris Humphries, and he should be allowed to leave the case.
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Thursday that raising the minimum wage, as he has proposed, might trim corporate profits, but he added that U.S. firms were enjoying robust earnings and needed customers with money to spend.
“It might have some modest impact on their profits,” he said in an on-line video question and answer session sponsored by Google+.
“But the fact of the matter is, if we’re going to have a society in which we’ve got broad-based prosperity, those same businesses also have to worry about do those customers have money in their pockets.”
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ASK Inc. Japan has listed MSI’s N650GTX-1GD5 OC graphics card on their product page. This extremely compact graphics card is packed with 384 CUDA Cores, a 128-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1071MHz and a 1GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5000MHz, and features 1x dual-link DVI-D, 1x D-Sub and 1x HDMI outputs. The N650GTX-1GD5 OC will become available from February 15th for around 11,800 Yen (about $126). [Product Page]
Century Japan hits back with their new HDD docking station that comes with a built-in media player and WiFi connectivity. Codenamed CROSU2TV, this docking station is equipped with a USB 2.0 connection interface, an HDMI output port, a built-in media player and WiFi connectivity, and provides one SATA slots for 2.5-inch & 3.5-inch HDD/SSD. The CROSU2TV is available now for 12,800 Yen (about $137). [Century]
This Valentine’s Day, as we celebrate our loved ones with chocolates, flowers, and sometimes even pink cards with massive glitter, I can’t help but also think of the families who are missing people due to gun violence–and about the importance of making our communities safer for everyone.
To be blunt: Our nation can’t wait any longer for common-sense gun laws.
More than once in the last 12 months, I’ve received a call that no parent ever wants to get from their school. A call saying that my children’s school was in lock down because of a nearby threat.
NBC has cast Minnie Driver as the female lead in their adaptation of “About A Boy,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Driver will play Fiona, the role originated by Toni Collette in the 2002 film of the same name. “New Girl’s” David Walton will play Will, an immature bachelor who befriends a boy who moves in next door with his slightly crazy mom (Driver).
Fiona is described as an “eccentric and quirky mother who is attempting to find herself following a recent divorce. She’s in a stage of ‘vegan throwback hippie-ness’ and still sad about the split when she and her son move next door to Will to San Francisco in the hopes that they can improve their lives.”
This could be a life changing and historic moment for a number of blind patients in the world: the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of an Artificial Retina that could help a specific group of vision-impaired patients to recover a partial vision. The principle of the Artificial Retina works like this: the retina is basically the eye’s “light sensors”, and when it is damaged, the light information isn’t received, and therefore it cannot be transmitted to the brain. (more…)
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