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The back button in Windows Phone devices is there to allow users who want to go back to other applications with ease, though if a new rumor is true, future devices might do away with this button altogether. Paul Thurrott, a man believed to have insights into Microsoft’s work, has heard from a single source that the support for a hardware back button will be eliminated in WIndows Phone 8.1. This particular WP update is expected to be released next year.

It is not known how multitasking will work in Windows Phone 8.1, given the fact that the back button is also used to bring up the multitasking user interface. Microsoft is expected to tweak the multitasking experience in Windows Phone 8.1, so its possible that it might devise a completely new way of bringing up the interface. This update is also expected to bring support for devices that have displays up to 10 inches. The current Windows Phone 8 GDR3 update brings support for devices with 5 and 6 inch displays, going by this rumor, it appears that Windows Phone 8.1 will up the ante. The company is also rumored to be creating a universal binary for apps, which would mean that developers won’t have to make separate apps for Windows Phone and Windows RT, a single app will be able to run on both platforms. This is in line with recent rumors which suggest that Microsoft might merge Windows RT and WIndows Phone over the next two years. Windows Phone 8.1 is expected to release for existing devices in spring next year.

Windows Phone 8.1 Rumored To Drop Support For Hardware Back Button original content from Ubergizmo.

Lea Michele opened up about the “Glee” tribute episode dedicated to the late Cory Monteith and his character Finn Hudson.

“For me personally, I’ve lost two people: Cory and Finn,” Michele told TV Week Australia. “We had a beautiful memorial for Cory in the auditorium and some of the cast members sang and people spoke about him. It only felt right that we would do the same thing for Finn, so I felt it was very therapeutic.”

The episode, titled “The Quarterback,” will feature the “Glee” characters dealing with Finn’s death. Following Monteith’s death, “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy said he struggled with how to move forward and even toyed with ending “Glee” entirely. However, Michele told him they should carry on and the tribute episode took shape. Michele said they did an episode “because it was something we all needed to do together.”

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When newly elected President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961 with his radical ideals for social reform, all eyes were on The White House. But it wouldn’t be long before his wife, Jackie Kennedy, would steal the spotlight thanks to her designer threads and signature bouffant.

Jackie’s super-teased hair — whether styled into a flipped-up bob or brushed back into a shoulder-skimming ‘do — embodied grace and glamour. Naturally, it became a highly-requested look at salons all across America.

’60s film actresses like Jane Fonda and Raquel Welch also made big hair popular. Meanwhile, style icons Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot showed us how to add flirty and feminine touches to the bouffant with ribbons and headbands. And with the right amount of hairspray, backcombing and bobby pins, the bouffant could easily be achieve by women with short or long lengths, bangs and even curlier textures.

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SHANGHAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed one man for life and sentenced more than a dozen to up to 15 years in jail for producing and selling cooking oil made from gutter waste, the latest food safety scandal to fuel public mistrust.

The Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Lianyungang, 480 km (530 miles) north of Shanghai, found the defendants guilty of making and trafficking in the “poisonous, harmful” oil between January 2011 and March 2012, it said on its website (www.lygfy.gov.cn).

The product, made from waste oil and “meat-product waste”, known in China as “gutter oil”, was sold to processors in at least four provinces or provincial-level cities, including Beijing, it said. In 2011 and 2012 Wang’s company, Kangrun, made more than 60 million yuan ($9.80 million) selling the oil.

Food safety is a highly emotive issue in China where there have been numerous scandals in recent years, from photos of food oil being scooped from drains to tales of phoney eggs and poison milk powder. ($1 = 6.1211 yuan) (Reporting by John Ruwitch; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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The British hotel owners who made international headlines when they denied a room to a gay couple is taking their case to the U.K.’s Supreme Court.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull, who were ordered to pay £3,600 (or $5,800) after a 2008 incident in which they turned away Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy from the Chymorvah Hotel, will bring their case to the Supreme Court Oct. 9 after an original appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in 2012, The Independent is reporting.

“We’re running this under our own roof and our God demands that our faith doesn’t end at the kitchen door,” Hazelmary Bull is quoted by the publication as saying. “He means your faith to run in every corner of your life, you can’t just section him off like that.”

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