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Well, it looks like LG won’t be the only option available this month for those in the market for a 55-inch curved OLED TV. According to CNET, Samsung’s similar TV set, already on sale in Korea, is headed to “select dealers” in the US as early as this week. At least one of those, NY-based Value Electronics, says that its shipment is already on the way, and that it will run the same $14,999 that LG’s TV demands at Best Buy. To be clear, that is $15k per TV. One TV. Fifteen thousand dollars. Slightly curved.

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The Transmission Control Protocol is like a crossing guard for the internet, regulating traffic to keep things flowing. Sure, engineers are constantly working to improve it, but it’s manmade, so there’s always room for human error. But researchers at MIT have created a computer system that could fix all that—and make the internet two to three times faster.

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NEW YORK -– A couple weeks after Nate Silver was proven right across all 50 states on Election Day last year, Gawker Media chief Nick Denton honored The New York Times blogger and statistician with a book party in his Soho loft. Bill Keller, the former Times executive editor who convinced Silver to bring his FiveThirtyEight blog to the paper in 2010, offered a glowing introduction to the emerging Times star.

“I strongly suspect,” Keller said, “the first line of my obit will be ‘Bill Keller, who brought Nate Silver to The New York Times.’”

Keller may have been joking, but coming on the heels of Silver’s blog accounting for 20 percent of the paper’s online traffic, it was hard to overstate the 35-year-old’s importance to the Times. Now eight months later, Silver is heading to ESPN in a move that strikes a blow to the venerable newspaper and has sparked speculation about whether he fit with the newsroom culture.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — A tea party challenger signaled on Monday that he intends to take on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in next year’s GOP primary in Kentucky.

Louisville businessman Matt Bevin’s entry into the race would force a major shift in the McConnell campaign, which has been concentrating entirely on Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s 34-year-old secretary of state.

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Fresh Paint, the digital art app born on Windows 8, has finally migrated to mobile devices, and starting today, aspiring artists running Windows Phone 8 can fiddle with its brushes to their hearts’ content. This new, simplified version doesn’t make any major departures from the Windows 8 application; you can still mix pigments to create custom hues, share your creations via text, e-mail and SkyDrive and add filters to your photos to make them look like paintings or sketches. It’s worth noting that WP8 doesn’t support styluses, so you’ll have to make do with finger painting or a capacitive stylus without pressure sensitivity. To download the free app, head over to Windows Phone store, linked below.

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Source: Windows Phone Store, Windows Phone Blog