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cold fjord writes "Curtis Morrison, co-founder of the Progress Kentucky PAC, which had previous issued an apology over a racially charged tweet about Senator McConnell's wife (former Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao), has admitted to bugging Senator McConnell. Morrison admitted he was behind the recording and said a grand jury is investigating the situation. "[Assistant] U.S. attorney, Bryan Calhoun, telephoned my attorney yesterday, asking to meet with him next Friday as charges against me are being presented to a grand jury," Morrison wrote on Salon. Morrison writes that after releasing the recording, his personal life took a negative turn. 'I've never doubted that making the recording was ethical.' He also says that he doesn't believe his actions were illegal, but admits he could be prosecuted for them."' Morrison has said that one of his inspirations was Julian Assange. Given the current direction of government activity, he may simply have been trying to build a suitable resume for future federal employment."

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Perfect fried rice in a frying pan - even on an electric range or hotplate | Just Hungry:

This needs resharing. Maki is brilliant with food generally: this works so well for those of us who don’t have restaurant-level stoves but want good fried rice.

From David Jacobs:

Code is like poetry; most of it shouldn’t have been written.

Lawyer-turned-"troll" started planning patent suit six days after iPhone launch.

Even the pups know where you can more for your dollar! Warner, NH Market Basket.

Unsurprisingly, the House of Mouse is way behind the curve when it comes to tackling LGBT issues.

People love to bag on millennials like me. But you'd be surprised how little debauchery and entitlement is going on.

Terraria already dug up the dirt on PC, XBLA and PSN, and this summer it's heading to tablets and phones - specifically iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8, 505 Games confirmed to Polygon following an initial announcement on Terraria Online.

Terraria mobile will have leaderboards, achievements and Facebook integration, and it's in development by Codeglue, with a complete revamp for touchscreen interfaces. Codeglue is responsible for Rocket Riot on XBLA, iOS and Windows Phone, and this year's PSN and Steam platformer, ibb & obb.

Terraria is still on its way to Vita this summer, ported by Engine Software.

Terraria taps into iOS, Android, Windows Phone this summer originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mitt Romney Strengthens Paul Ryan's Possible Presidential Bid Sunshine State News Unlike several vice presidential candidates in recent years, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin can count on the support of his running mate if he sets his sights on the Republican presidential nomination -- and recent signs indicate that Ryan is going all out to ... Ann Romney's Two CentsNew York Times (blog) Ann Romney writes a cookbookPolitico GOP contenders for 2016 vying for attention at Romney retreatDeseret News all 72 news articles »

From concept to completion this delta-style 3D printer (translated) is a sweet build. The quality of the work comes as no surprise. We’re familiar with [Arkadiusz Spiewak's] craftsmanship from that H-bot type 3D printer we saw from him back in April.

Planning started off with a render of the design using Blender 3D. Not only did this give him a 3D model to use as his building reference, but the animation framework allowed him to test the kinematics of the design. After ordering an extruded rail system and assembling the frame he found the pillars had too much flex to them due to the rails used on the top and bottom. The fix was to mill a top and bottom plate to stiffen things up. After testing out the motors and the extruder head mount he made one final design change. He exported his Blender design as dxf files to cut and weld an aluminum replacement for the extruder mounting platform. As you can see in this video, the preliminary results are looking good!

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The Cheerios spot shows a young girl asking her mother if the cereal is “good for your heart.” Her mother assures her that is so. The girl runs away with a cereal box, and in the next scene, the girl’s sleeping father awakes with a pile of Cheerios atop the side of his chest where his heart is. The commercial ends with the word “Love” on screen. ///// The spot, heartwarming to many, began on national television on Monday and was uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. But it has caused a furor for the maker of Cheerios, General Mills, because an interracial cast portrays the family.

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, Google’s wholly owned phone-making subsidiary, walked onto a stage yesterday with the company’s rumored new superphone, and while he refused to take it out of his pocket, he confirmed that it’s real and that it’s launching in October of this year.

He also dropped a number of technical details about the phone, known as the Moto X, which indicate that, essentially, it’s the world’s most sophisticated cluster of sensors you can wear on your person, and it’s going to know every single thing you do, whether it’s driving, sleeping or taking a walk around the block. Google is betting that you will love your pocket Stasi so much you’ll never want to be without it—and Google is right.

The Moto X phone will be the world’s most perfect spy

Normal smartphones are limited in their ability to spy on you because their makers never anticipated that this is a thing you’d want to do. For an app on your phone to monitor you day and night, it needs to be running in the background all the time, pinging the phone’s sensors and radios at pre-set intervals—all of which can be a significant drain on a phone’s battery.

Motorola’s new Moto X phone gets around this problem by virtue of an array of sensors that were designed from the ground up to draw very little power. The phone also has a pair of microprocessors that facilitate this always-on monitoring.

All these custom electronics will allow users “to interact with [the phone] in very different ways than you can with other devices,” said Woodside. For example, the phone knows how fast you’re traveling, so it might not let you text while driving. And it has enough contextual information to know not only whether or not you just took it out of your pocket, but also why you just took it out of your pocket, so it can immediately fire up the camera app when you want to take a picture.

From “Google Now” to “Google Always and Everywhere At Once”

It’s the fact that Google’s forthcoming phone will start to know that “why”—the causal connections that stitch together our actions and desires—that is nothing short of astonishing. It’s also the natural evolution of a pretty incredible technology Google has been refining but which has yet to become well known outside geeks and those who own newer Android phones: Google Now.

Google Now is Google’s effort to give you the information you need, when you need it, without you even asking for it. When you search using the Chrome browser on a newer Android phone, or in the Google search app on an iPhone, Google is integrating your search history, all of your emails in Gmail, your appointments in Google Calendar, etc., so that it can tell you what the weather is before you walk out the door, what time that movie you’ve been wanting to see will be showing near you, etc.

Adding in all the passive, always-on sensors present in the Moto X phone means Google Now, which is built right into the web browser on Google’s newer Android phones, will give Google access to unprecedented amounts of information about all of us. Imagine a spy with access to a second-by-second record of your location and all of your electronic communications—and which is also the world’s most sophisticated superbrain, capable of mining all that information, big data-style, for unexpected connections.

Motorola’s phones put Google on a collision course with Apple—and Google is playing to win

That’s Google Now turbocharged by the forthcoming Moto X phone. And while Motorola CEO Woodside insists that Motorola and Google are “separate companies,” he’s also admitted that the head of Android and Chrome, Sundar Pichai, has already seen the Moto X phone. Plus, Woodside is himself a former Googler, and only came to Motorola in 2011. However integrated or not the two companies have become, it’s clear that Motorola is taking seriously its mandate to start creating Android-powered phones that are unique showcases for the power of both Android and all of the Google web services with which it can integrate.

Google has never had the same level of control over both hardware and software that Apple does, and buying Motorola was an obvious way for Google to get it. As Apple has demonstrated, having total control over both sides of this equation allows unprecedented integration between the two. And since Google is much, much better at web services than Apple is, if the hardware in the new Moto X phone is compelling—and with all these new custom sensors and processors, it looks like it probably will be—it seems possible that Google may finally release the “iPhone killer” that all of Samsung’s flagship Android phones are often touted to be. Woodside as much as admitted that the iPhone is the real target of the Moto X phone, when he talked about (non-specified) companies selling their phones with up to a 50% margin. The Moto X, he assured the audience, will be sold with very low margins—just like the tablets that Google has been selling at virtually no profit, as an effort to make inroads against the iPad.

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Yesterday we learned that Matt Smith will be leaving Doctor Who at the end of this year, prompting speculation as to who would step in as the Doctor's next incarnation. Bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes have already placed odds on actors to fill Smith's fez. Is your favorite favored?

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Russian Prime Minister Egor Gaidar issued a decree to begin demilitarization of Compound 19 in 1992. However, the facility screwed its work.^{[citation needed]}

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Discovery Channel to air special for fallen 'Storm Chasers' Los Angeles Times The Discovery Channel will air “Mile Wide Tornado: Storm Chasers Tribute” on Wednesday to commemorate a trio of experienced television "storm chasers" who died during a string of deadly tornadoes late last month. Tim Samaras, Carl Young and Paul ... Discovery to Honor Killed Storm Chasers Stars with Special Tribute EpisodeSt. John News Online KCBD stormchaser remembers Tim SamarasKCBD-TV all 1,807 news articles »

Artist Cao Hui likes to infuse inanimate objects with bits of human-like flesh, muscles, organs, and bone. In a recent series, Hui remakes classic sculptures with human anatomies beneath their stoney exteriors and cuts them up, shifting our eye from the outside of the sculpture to the red stuff inside.

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…just one of those days…

Last night, my university gave an honorary master’s degree to the service dog who sat through every one of his owner’s classes. He dressed appropriately for the ceremony.