Housing Prices Fell in March for Eighth Straight Month

Housing prices fell in March to their lowest point since the downturn began, erasing the last little bit of recovery from the depths achieved two years ago, according to data released Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index for 20 large cities fell 0.8 percent from February, the eighth drop in a row. Prices are now down 33.1 percent from July 2006 peak.
“Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight,” said David M. Blitzer, chairman of the S.& P. index committee.
Housing is in persistent trouble, industry analysts say, not only because so many people are blocked from the market — being unemployed, in foreclosure or trapped in homes that are worth less than the mortgage — but because even those who are solvent are opting out.
“The emotional scars left by the collapse are changing the American psyche,” said Pete Flint, chief executive of the housing Web site Trulia. “There was a time when owning a home was a symbol you had made it. Now it’s O.K. not to own.”

Officials say man must tear down ‘Phonehenge’ house

Phonehenge compound in southern California

Los Angeles county officials are demanding that a creative homeowner tear down a 20,000-square-foot domicile he calls "Phonehenge West"--or face up to seven years in jail.
Former telephone technician Alan Kimble Fahey began building the structure three decades ago in Acton, the Los Angeles Times reports. Fahey, who christened the project "Phonehenge" because it sits atop pilings modified from phone utility poles, says he intends to turn the compound into a museum.
The labyrinthine network of buildings where Fahey, his wife, and teenage son live even includes a 70-foot tower covered in Italian stained-glass windows, and a barn. Fahey uses a "motorized cart" to get between buildings,an earlier report said.

Egyptians decry 'virginity tests' on protesters


CAIRO – Activists and bloggers are pressing Egypt's military rulers to investigate accusations of serious abuses against protesters, including claims that soldiers subjected female detainees to so-called "virginity tests."
Bloggers say they will hold a day of online protest Wednesday to voice their outrage, adding to criticism of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took control of the country from ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
In the face of the criticism, four journalists along with a prominent blogger were summoned for questioning by the military prosecutor, according to a rights group. They were released without charges.

Rent out your car, make some dough

A new startup Getaround makes it easy for you to rent out your car to a stranger by the hour or by the day. VIDEO

$60,000 submarine ride - TITANIC 100th Anniversary

A luxury concierge firm is offering a pricey ride to see the Titanic - 100 years after it sank. VIDEO

$1 billion to build the Great Pyramid today


Turner Construction estimates that most of the cost would come from buying the materials for the massive structure.
VIDEO

Japan's auto aftershock - Crash & Burn

Japanese auto production has been dramatically reduced as the damaged part-making plants have yet to fully recover from the tsunami's destruction. VIDEO

Fort Worth woman fatally shot walking into garage

A woman walking into a garage Sunday evening was fatally shot after a man yelled at her and opened fire when she turned around, Fort Worth police said Tuesday.
No one has been arrested as of this morning.
The 34-year-old victim, whose identity had not been released, died at John Peter Smith Hospital Sunday shortly after she was shot in the chest, police said Tuesday.

Jellyfish hordes crash Florida beach parties

Ah, summer: the lazy, hazy time when Americans adjourn to beaches in droves to soak up the sun--and this year, at least, to get stung by jellyfish.
More than 800 people at beaches along Florida's Atlantic coast were stung this weekend by the swarm of purple-colored sea creatures, which washed up on shore en masse, thanks to consistent east winds, according to Eisen Wicher, a Brevard County Ocean Rescue official.
CNN interviewed one local family, the Smiths, who said they'd driven for three quarters of an hour to get to Cocoa Beach, but left after five minutes when their daughter was stung.

War hero Stann stands out at UFC 130

UFC 130 overall was generally considered a mediocre show, yet it might have heralded big things ahead for three fighters on the undercard.
Bantamweight Demetrious Johnson (14-1) scored a unanimous decision win over former champion Miguel Angel Torres. The victory puts Johnson and former champion Brian Bowles in position as the two most likely fighters to face the winner of the July 2 Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber title fight.
Welterweight Rick Story (13-3) moved up in a deep division with a unanimous decision win over former top contender Thiago Alves. Story specifically asked for Jon Fitch, the most successful UFC fighter in the division not named Georges St. Pierre, as his next opponent. A win over Fitch, whose only UFC loss was to St. Pierre, would make him leap frog the crowded pack.
But to the public, the hero of Saturday night’s show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas was middleweight Brian Stann (11-3). The promotion of the former U.S. Marine Corps Captain fighting on Memorial Day weekend would seem brilliant marketing with the benefit of hindsight.

Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah's Cave is seen in Jerusalem's Old City. Underneath the stone buildings and crowded alleys of old JerusaJERUSALEM – Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above.
At street level, the walled Old City is an energetic and fractious enclave with a physical landscape that is predominantly Islamic and a population that is mainly Arab.
Underground Jerusalem is different: Here the noise recedes, the fierce Middle Eastern sun disappears, and light comes from fluorescent bulbs. There is a smell of earth and mildew, and the geography recalls a Jewish city that existed 2,000 years ago.
Archaeological digs under the disputed Old City are a matter of immense sensitivity. For Israel, the tunnels are proof of the depth of Jewish roots here, and this has made the tunnels one of Jerusalem's main tourist draws: The number of visitors, mostly Jews and Christians, has risen dramatically in recent years to more than a million visitors in 2010.

The quad-core superphone of the future


While most of us in the U.S. were relaxing over the holiday weekend, tech titans were busy talking up the next generation of gadgets at the Computex trade show in Taiwan.
One of the coolest demos so far comes from the crew at Nvidia -- the guys who make the Tegra 2 chips that power most of the high-profile Android devices on the market today.
While Tegra 2 is a dual-core processor, Nvidia's next-gen chip -- codenamed Kal El -- ups the ante with four separate cores for your mobile computing pleasure. That's right, my friends: the quad-core smartphone is actually almost here. Man, this stuff evolves fast.

US 'federal government 2.0' ditches BlackBerry, embraces Apple

Obama
A new story offers a look at how employees of the U.S. government are making major tech changes, trading BlackBerries for iPhones, and laptops for Apple's iPad.

The new devices are "invading" the federal government, according to a feature inThe Washington Post. The story kicks off by painting the picture of a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tracking a "bad guy" with video surveillance via an iPad.

"This is not a movie. This is not a Steve Jobs dream," author Michael S. Rosenwald wrote. "This is the federal government 2.0, where technology upgrades no longer come at a 'Little House on the Prairie' pace. Even President Obama, a BlackBerry devotee, has upgraded. He now owns an iPad, and it has been seen on his desk and under his arm."

One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manhunt Master Controller


Thought military tracking technology couldn’t get any creepier? Hold onto your tinfoil hats and hide behind the nearest curtain because the next generation of manhunting gear just took another step closer to reality. The Pentagon’s bleeding-edge research shop, Darpa, announced this week that it awarded a $14 million contract to defense contractor SAIC to build Insight, its system-of-systems effort to mashup snooping sensors that’ll find human prey on the battlefield.

Darpa has developed loads of sensors and spying gear: everything from from the 1.8-gigapixel Argus camera to the Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (given the wonderful acronym, “Vader”) that pinpoints humans, cars and trucks from a distance. But getting all these systems to mesh together so that your average grunt can form a picture clear enough to track a high value terrorist or insurgent in real time is tricky, to say the least. It’s a classic problem in intelligence work: too much information and too much trouble connecting the dots. The result is “information overload” in general, and “information underload” on specific targets.

Drug Raid Turns Ugly as SWAT Guns Down Marine Vet


What began as a carefully orchestrated drug raid by Arizona police ended in chaos, bloodshed and outrage. Now, a young Marine veteran is dead, leaving his wife and two young boys to mourn for him on this Memorial Day, after he made it through two tours in Iraq.
The tragic assault also opened a rare window into the military-style tactics and equipment of police Special Weapons Assault Teams locked in a bloody war with Mexican drug cartels — including military-style armored vehicles and two types of robots also found on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

Details on why director Russell REALLY left the Uncharted movie

Details on why director Russell REALLY left the Uncharted movie

Yesterday, we reported that the movie based on the awesome PS3 videogameUncharted: Drake's Fortune had lost its director, David O. Russell (The Fighter) due to "creative differences." Today, we have more details on why Russell and Sony Studios agreed to part.
The L.A. Times has more of the story. It turns out Russell went "in a different direction than studio Sony wanted":
Among the many flourishes Russell had added were a bevy of characters not in the video game. (The director had given hints of this in December when he said he loved the idea of a "a family that's a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities ... [a family] that deals with heads of state and heads of museums and metes out justice." The game centers on a lone adventurer, Nathan Drake.)

5 stunning behind-the-scenes Polaroids from the Blade Runner set

5 stunning behind-the-scenes Polaroids from the Blade Runner set

Oh, sure, now that everybody has a cellphone that can snap photos, behind-the-scenes movie pics have become so plentiful they've almost beome a bit boring. But that wasn't the case back when Blade Runner was being made, which is what makes Sean Young's set pics so awesome.
Young, who had the starring role opposite Harrison Ford (and who can be seen with him as well as Rutger Hauer below), brought along her Polaroid to the set and captured some of the magic.
Check out a few of our favorites below, and go see more amazing pics over at Sean Young's personal site. PHOTOS
(via Badass Digest)

CONFIRMED: Orlando Bloom to return as Legolas in The Hobbit!

CONFIRMED: Orlando Bloom to return as Legolas in The Hobbit!

Orlando Bloom is back! The British actor's elf ears and bow and arrow will live again. Bloom has finally been confirmed to reprise the role of Legolas in Jackson's The Hobbit. Jackson is officially getting the old band back together.
Peter Jackson confirmed the casting news when he announced Bloom's return onFacebook:
"Ten years ago, Orlando Bloom created an iconic character with his portrayal of Legolas. I'm excited to announce today that we'll be revisiting Middle-earth with him once more. I'm thrilled to be working with Orlando again. Funny thing is, I look older--and he doesn't! I guess that's why he makes such a wonderful elf."
The Hobbit is currently shooting down in New Zealand, with Martin Freeman playing the title character. Bloom will rejoin other Lord of the Rings actors Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett. Everyone's in this thing! There's a reason they're breaking it up into two parts.
The first Hobbit is expected to open on Dec. 19, 2012, while Part 2 will open in December 2013. The releases will be a year apart, just like the good old Lord of the Rings days. Do you smell that? It's called nostalgia!
Are you excited for Legolas' return? LINK
(via First Showing)

U.S. Tells Its Afghan Workers: No Torture, Corpse Mutilation


It’s never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses. But U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are leaving nothing to chance.

The Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan put 10 contracts for “perimetersecurity“ up for bid on Friday morning. Hired guards, mostly Afghans, will keep watch over anyone who approaches the elite commandos’ remote outposts. The bases on which they’ll work range in size from tiny “village support platforms” staffed by a mere 12-man “A Team” to one near Kabul’s infamous Pol-e-Charkhi prison, but there are uniform expectations for would-be guards. Some of them read more like baseline conditions for membership in civilized humanity.

Chinese e-commerce giant opens furniture showroom


In this Friday May 27, 2011, photo, a computer screen display various furniture items with selling price while Chinese shop inside the newly opened TaBEIJING – China's e-commerce giant is stepping up its heated rivalry with bricks-and-mortar retailers with the launch of a five-story home furnishings showroom in Beijing.
Alibaba Group's Taobao, an Internet platform through which an estimated 3 percent of all retail sales in China pass, opened the showroom Friday for customers to try out sofas, tables and other big-ticket items before placing an order online with one of its merchants.
The mall is a new intrusion into the territory of China's real-world retailers by e-commerce rivals that are growing so fast some suggest they could become the country's leading retail force — its version of Wal Mart.
"The dominant retailer in China someday may be an online retailer," said Morgan Stanley analyst Richard Ji.

Move Over, Robots: Army Prefers Flesh-and-Blood Mules

The experimental four-legged, pack-hauling robots aren’t gonna be ready for duty at the front anytime soon. So the Army is considering a big step backward in front-line logistics.
In place of the ultra-sophisticated BigDog cargo ‘bots that have been slowly trudging their way through the development process, the ground-combat branch wants more flesh-and-blood mules and donkeys. The Army is even considering the revival of a long-defunct headquarters, the “Animal Corps,” to oversee the four-legged recruits.

Man builds plane in basement, demolishes wall to get it out

Man builds plane in basement, demolishes wall to get it out

Most people have ordinary stuff like nuclear reactors in their basement, but not Dan Reeves. For the last 9 years he's been putting together a Van's RV-7A airplane kit in his basement, and that's not just a little R/C model, the RV-7A one can take two people as high as 25,000 feet.

Egyptian exec faces sex abuse charges at NY hotel


NEW YORK – A businessman and former chairman of a major Egyptian bank faces charges of sexually abusing a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of a former International Monetary Fund chief on similar allegations.
Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar was arrested on Monday and is accused of sexually abusing the maid at The Pierre, a luxurious hotel near Central Park and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, police said.
The maid was called to Omar's room Sunday night to drop off tissues, police said. But once inside the 74-year-old's room, police said Omar would not let her leave and touched her inappropriately. The encounter was not reported until Monday, police said.

Watch a gamer propose to his girlfriend INSIDE World of Warcraft

Watch a gamer propose to his girlfriend INSIDE World of Warcraft

In When Harry Met Sally, Harry says, "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." If you're Thomas, a World of Warcraft gamer, that includes raid time.
Thomas recently proposed to his girlfriend Abby during a raid ... and he recorded it for posterity.

Activision bets on online play for 'Call of Duty'

In this screen shot provided by Activision, �Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,� the upcoming installment of the popular shooter series, is shown. AcActivision knows it's more fun to blast on-screen enemies into oblivion with friends, so this fall it's launching an online service for its "Call of Duty" games that's part Facebook, part player matchmaker and part organized sports.
It's the logical next step for Activision Blizzard Inc., whose "Call of Duty" franchise has enjoyed unprecedented success. The latest title, "Black Ops," has sold 22 million copies worldwide since its November launch. More than 7 million people play every day online.
The service officially launches on Nov. 8 with the next "Call of Duty" installment, Activision said Tuesday. A test version will be available before that, but Activision isn't saying when.

Alaska Air To Use Apple's IPads To Replace Paper Flight Manuals


Alaska Air Group's (ALK) namesake airline said it will issue its pilots Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPad tablets in place of paper flight manuals to cut down the weight of the required documents.
The iPads, which will be distributed by mid-June, will weigh 1.5 pounds against the traditional manuals' 25 pounds, the company's Alaska Airlines unit said.

Rumor mill: Audi readying flagship A9 coupe/convertible



Continuing its push into virtually every niche segment, Audi is reportedly moving forward with a new flagship coupe and convertible model. Referred to as the A9, the new model could arrive in Audi showroom Cross-country rival Mercedes-Benz is said to be readying coupe and convertible versions of its next S-Class – the former replacing the current CL – with Audi’s rumored A9 shaping up to be a legitimate contender. Like the S-Class, the A9 will essentially be a two-door variant of the A8 sedan.

Nissan’s exaggerated commercial takes shot at Chevy Volt

Audi RS6 Evotech vs Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Supercharged

Apple's First CEO Says Steve Jobs Was Even 'More Particular' Than Today


Early Steve JobsWho was Apple's first CEO? If you said Steve Jobs, go to the back of theclass. When Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, they brought in some help to run the company they created. Apple's fifth employee was Michael Scott (no "relation" to character from The Office), who was chosen as CEO and the ostensible "adult supervision" of what would go on to become one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
In an interview with Business Insider, Scott dishes on Apple's early years, and what Jobs was like as a twentysomething colleague. Apparently Jobs was just as demanding and sure of himself as he's reputed to be today—if not more so.
"He was maybe more particular," Scott said in the interview. "The Apple II case came, it had a beige and a green, so for all the standard colors of beige available in the world, of which there are thousands, none was exactly proper for him. So we actually had to create 'Apple beige' and get that registered."

China 'setting up military cyber-warfare team'

BEIJING (AFP) – China's military has set up an elite Internet security task force tasked with fending off cyberattacks, state media reported on Friday, denying that the initiative is intended to create a "hacker army".
The People's Liberation Army has reportedly invested tens of millions of yuan (millions of dollars) in the project -- which is sure to ring alarm bells around the world among governments and businesses wary of Beijing's intentions.
"Cyber attacks have become an international problem affecting both civilian and military areas," the Global Times quoted China's defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng as telling a rare briefing this week.
"China is relatively weak in cyber-security and has often been targeted. This temporary programme is aimed at improving our defences against such attacks."
The 30-member "Cyber Blue Team" -- the core of the PLA's cyber force -- has been organised under the Guangdong military command in the country's south, and will carry out "cyber-warfare drills", the newspaper said.
The United States, Australia, Germany and other Western nations have long alleged that hackers inside China are carrying out a wide-range of cyberattacks on government and corporate computer systems worldwide.
But in a commentary, the Global Times hit out at "some foreign media" for interpreting the programme as a breeding ground for a "hacker army".
"China's capability is often exaggerated. Without substantiated evidence, it is often depicted by overseas media as the culprit for cyberattacks on the US and Europe," the paper said.
"China needs to develop its strong cyber defence strength. Otherwise, it would remain at the mercy of others."

Remains of the Day: Killer design

One financial guru says Microsoft’s problems stem from the very top, Apple files a lawsuit and gets hit with one in return, and we discover how the industrial design field is a lot like Highlander. When it comes to the remainders for Thursday, May 26, 2011, there can be only…well, like six, apparently.

Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS



Out of 72,000 paid apps in Google's Android Market, only two have sold more than 50,000 copies
What that report didn't mention, as Roughly Drafted's Daniel Eran Dilger pointed out in a pungent analysis entitled "Distimo polishes the Android turd," is that the App Store is generating billions for developers, while hardly anybody is getting rich in the Android Market.The Utrecht-based analytics company Distimo generated some catchy headlines last month with a report suggesting that Google's (GOOG) Android Market was rapidly catching up to Apple's (AAPL) App Store and might surpass it by July.
In a new report issued Friday, Distimo looks at why that might be. One obvious factor -- not highlighted in April -- is that there are nearly three times as many paid apps on Apple's App Store (211,369, by Distimo's count) as on Google's (71,801).

SEC broke law with Apple equipment purchase

The SEC violated procurement law in 2008 when, without proper testing, it spent about $1 million buying computer equipment from Apple that “immediately failed” to work as intended, the agency’s inspector general said in a report released this week.
The agency violated federal regulations by awarding the contract without competitive bidding and by telling Apple its budget for one of the orders, the report said. Apple used that information to tailor its offer precisely to the budgeted amount, the report said. But Apple left out “essential equipment that the SEC was subsequently forced to purchase” at additional cost, the report said.
Among other violations, the SEC bought the equipment before the written justification for the contract had been approved, the report said.

Apple’s cloud music service scans user’s iTunes library for content, sources say

Apple cloud


Apple's cloud-based music streaming service will reportedly scan each user's music library and then populate their streaming playlist with mirrored content, regardless of whether or not the source material comes from the iTunes Store.
Apple has yet to formally announce its planned cloud-based music service, but it’s really just a rumor in name only at this point. Amazon and Google are both up and running, to varying degrees, with competing offerings. Cupertino’s been silent on this front simply because of a reported push to ensure that deals are struck with the major record labels before there’s any kind of launch. EMI, Sony and Warner Music are all on board, and Universal is said to be not far behind. Of course, just because nothing is official doesn’t mean people in the know haven’t been talking. They have, and Bloomberg Businessweek has some insider-sourced details on what’s planned.

Wash. girl, 15, accused of shooting dad with arrow

TAHUYA, Wash. – A 15-year-old girl used a hunting bow to shoot her father with an arrow after he grounded her and took her cell phone, then hid in the woods until she was arrested, authorities said.
The man, who told officers about the Wednesday evening attack, was airlifted from the rural, forested Tahuya, Wash., area to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and was listed Thursday in serious condition. He was shot once in the torso, authorities said.
The man told the sheriff's dispatcher that his daughter prevented him from calling for help after she shot him in their house. After she fled into the woods behind the home with the bow and arrows, he crawled out a window, got in his truck and drove to the closest neighbor, about a third of a mile away, Mason County detective William Adam said Thursday.

Fukushima tsunami plan a single page

TOKYO – Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago.
In the Dec. 19, 2001 document — one double-sized page obtained by The Associated Press under Japan's public records law — Tokyo Electric Power Co. rules out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline and gives scant details to justify this conclusion, which proved to be wildly optimistic.
Regulators at the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, or NISA, had asked plant operators for assessments of their earthquake and tsunami preparedness. They didn't mind the brevity of TEPCO's response, and apparently made no moves to verify its calculations or ask for supporting documents.
"This is all we saw," said Masaru Kobayashi, who now heads NISA's quake-safety section. "We did not look into the validity of the content."

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Meets Barack and Michelle Obama

Kahn and the Obamas at a dinner during the G-20 conference in September 2009.

Some pictures say a thousand words. This one just says two: No Touching.
For more retrospectively awkward photos of DSK and world leaders check out our slideshow.

Skype offers instructions to fix Mac connectivity issues

Skype has published instructionsfor correcting an issue that prevented many users from successfully logging into the service. Early Thursday morning, some Skype users found that they couldn’t log in or stay connected. Not all users were affected, however: Folks using Skype on iOS and Android devices were fine, as were some people using different desktop editions of the client.
That said, the issue did keep some callers on Mac OS X and various incarnations of Windows from connecting. According to Skype, Mac users battling connection issues can repair the problem by following these steps:
  1. Quit Skype.
  2. Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Skype/ (~ refers to your Home directory).
  3. Locate the file shared.xml, and delete it.
  4. Launch Skype again.

Yahoo CEO vows to clean up Alibaba mess in China

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz found herself in a familiar position Wednesday: assuring stock market analysts that she will clean up a mess damaging the long-slumping Internet company's market value.
The latest challenge to confront Bartz in her nearly 2 1/2 year-tenure emerged two weeks ago. That's when Yahoo jarred investors by informing them of an abrupt change affecting the value of its 43 percent stake in Alibaba Group, one of the leaders in China's rapidly growing Internet market.
Alibaba had spun off a potential jewel — its online payment service Alipay — into a separate company controlled by its CEO, Jack Ma, without giving Yahoo anything in return.
Yahoo's stock price has plunged by 13 percent since the May 10 revelation, leaving Bartz little choice but to place the issue at the top of the agenda for a meeting that Yahoo had scheduled to provide an update on its turnaround strategy. The Associated Press monitored the San Jose, Calif. meeting through a webcast because Yahoo wouldn't allow reporters to attend.

University's new SSDs boost video production speeds by 16X

When Brigham Young University-Hawaii's digital media lab needed to turbo-charge its high-def video processing system, it had two choices: Add a storage area network or plop an solid state drive into its MacBook Pro laptop.

While by no means cheap—the BYU lab spent about $7,000 for each of two WarpDrive SLP-300 PCIe solid state storage cards it bought from LSI Corp.—the move was far less expensive than building out the school's SAN.It chose the latter and its drive performance immediately improved by 16 times, which allows the lab to process the 4K video resolution being recorded by its cutting-edge, $25,000 Red One video camera.
A SAN upgrade "would cost us $20,000 to $30,000," said Russell Merrill, director of BYU-Hawaii's Instructional Media and Production Department. "Yeah, you might have more storage with a SAN, but you still wouldn't have the speed of a WarpDrive,"