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Watch out Lisa Vanderpump, another Lisa — Lisa Rinna — could be heading to “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

According to RadarOnline, Rinna has been approached to join the Season 4 cast of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” “Lisa already knows people at Bravo and they really like her. She’s funny but she’s got a great sense of humor so she can send zingers,” a source told the gossip site.

In 2011, Rinna revealed she was close to joining the show’s cast for Season 1. “We were in discussions originally,” Rinna said. “I was up for it, and at the time I did my show instead of ‘Beverly Hills.’ It was part of the process, but then my show came along so I ended up doing our show.” The show Rinna referred to was “Harry Loves Lisa” on TV Land.

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For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers, their lifespans can be brutally short. See IBM’s Roadrunner as a textbook example: the 116,640-core cluster was smashing records just five years ago, and yet it’s already considered so behind the times that Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking it out of action today. Don’t mourn too much for the one-time legend, however. The blend of Opteron and Cell processors proved instrumental to understanding energy flow in weapons while also advancing the studies of HIV, nanowires and the known universe. Roadrunner should even be useful in its last gasps, as researchers will have a month to experiment with the system’s data routing and OS memory compression before it’s dismantled in earnest. It’s true that the supercomputer has been eclipsed by cheaper, faster or greener competitors, including its reborn Cray arch-nemesis — but there’s no question that we’ll have learned from Roadrunner’s brief moment in the spotlight.

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Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory

With months until the release of “Fast & Furious 6,” Universal may already have plans for a seventh film in the ongoing franchise.

“Fast Six” star Vin Diesel posted a photo of himself to Facebook on Saturday with a caption reading, “There was an early screening in LA this week of ‘Fast 6.’ The crowd reaction was surreal… and their demand for the continuation was powerful.”

Diesel teased plans for an upcoming “Fast & Furious 7” by adding, “It’s remarkable to think I first embodied this character in 1999… and the evolution continues… Filming begins this summer in LA, where it all started… talk about a studio in sync with the audience.”

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If a picture is typically worth a thousand words, this one is worth at least double that.

This photo, which is making the rounds on Facebook, purportedly shows 3 American soliders abroad during Easter time.

Happy Easter, indeed.

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Apple has been denied the trademark for its iPad Mini devices in the U.S. The United States Patent and Trademark Office denied Apple’s application because it says that the word “Mini” is “merely descriptive” of Apple’s iPad. The reviewer of the application stated, “the applied-for mark merely describes a feature or characteristic of the applicant’s goods.” Apple is able to appeal the decision, however, and will most likely be granted the trademark as long as it addresses all of the reasons why the application was denied.

The rejection letter was sent to Apple back in January 24th. The reviewer stated that the term Mini just described “something that is distinctively smaller than other members of its type or class.” The reviewer referred to other products with the term Mini slapped onto their descriptions as well, and stated that the word is so common, and that Apple’s use of it only describes “a small sized handheld tablet computer.

Apple needs to find a better way to distinguish the iPad Mini from the regular iPad in order to obtain the trademark. Alongside these grounds for refusal, the reviewer also stated that Apple is not allowed to submit images from its product webpages in its trademark applications. Something strange about that refusal is that it’s actually common for Apple to use images from its product webpages, and that this is the first time that USPTO has had a problem with it.

Apple has until July 24th to appeal its trademark application with the appropriate amendments, but Apple should already be well on its way to solving the issue. Apple’s iPad Mini has gained a lot of popularity in the past 6 months, with consumer interest in the device almost doubling from what it was before. You can check out our iPad Mini review in order to see if its a tablet you should get.

[via Apple Insider]

Apple gets denied the iPad Mini trademark is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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