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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A man shot and wounded a suburban Los Angeles police officer Wednesday and holed up in a home with two hostages, one of whom may be a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.

The Inglewood officer’s protective vest stopped the bullet and he was taken to a hospital in good condition but “in a lot of pain,” Capt. James D. Madia said. The officer was later transferred to another hospital.

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We have seen just how cheeky Microsoft can get by targeting some of the rival tablets in its ads recently, where the Surface RT was seen firing a salvo at the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 from Samsung, while Apple’s iPad Air was not exempted either, as it was compared to the Surface 2. This time around, we have seen Microsoft aim their crosshairs at the Samsung Galaxy Tab, where said tablet was lambasted for not having a full sized USB port, unlike Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet, of course.

This would be a great advantage for those who want to juice up their smartphone, or connect a camera or a smartphone to their tablet without having to purchase yet another cable to add to their collection. Do you think that advertisements such as these would actually be able to work? After all, it is always nice to be respectful of your rivals in the marketplace, and somehow, telling the world about the good points of your items alone should be the more gentlemanly thing to do, it seems. Ah well, all’s fair in love and war, are they not? It would be interesting to see whether Apple and Samsung already have some sort of counterattacking plan in store…

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Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.

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Briana McGeough graduated from Brown University in 2012 without a penny of student debt to her name. In fact, she left college with $16,000 to spare after covering her expenses.

How did she do it?

McGeough says her debt-free college experience began right when she was in high school.

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MSI has introduced another all-in-one desktop PC to its range, the AP200. Powered by either a 3.0GHz Intel Pentium G3220 or 3.40GHz Intel Core i3-4130 processor, this space-saving system is packed with a 20-inch 1600 x 900 LED-backlight flicker-free display (multi-touch optional), an Intel H81 Chipset, an Intel HD Graphics, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 3.5-inch SATA III HDD, a 1M-pixel Full HD webcam, a tray-in DVD Super Multi Drive, a 3-in-1 card reader, WiFi and runs on either Windows 7 or 8.1 OS. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing yet. [MSI]