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The University of Sheffield is developing flying robots that can learn as they fly . Researchers say the flying robots will become self-aware at 2:14 A.M. EST on August 29th.

This would be funny if it wasn't the Supreme Court of the United States we were talking about.

But during April's oral arguments on the cases, the justices broadcast their own lack of technological expertise. Antonin Scalia didn't realize HBO was cable. During a line of questioning involving Dropbox and iCloud, Sonia Sotomayor referred to "the iDrop." And Stephen Breyer said that he wasn't sure if he owned an iPhone, "because I can never get into it because of the password."

I like Larry Page in his role as CEO of Google. He still says weird stuff, but nothing as creepy as Eric Schmidt used to.

Mr. Page argued that people’s instinctive reactions to new technologies were often negative. Once we see the utility in the new stuff, we often realize that it isn’t as scary as we once thought — and soon may realize we can’t live without it. "In the early days of Street View, this was a huge issue, but it’s not really a huge issue now," Mr. Page said of the company’s project to send a fleet of cars across the globe to snap photographs of public roadways. "People understand it now and it’s very useful," he said. "And it doesn’t really change your privacy that much. A lot of these things are like that."

At least she is honest. Most people would have faked an illness and blown the event off entirely.

Mayer was scheduled to attend a private dinner held by IPG, or Interpublic Group, one of the "big four" ad firms in the world. The event, which was attended by some of the biggest ad executives in the world, as well as marketers at other major Web brands, was Mayer's best opportunity to rub shoulders with the people who ultimately pay her to run ads on her company's network of sites. Although Mayer was able to make the dinner, she arrived two hours late after oversleeping.

Carnegie Mellon professor Rajkumar and Acting Undersecretary of Transportation Rogoff

It was supposed to demonstrate an error-free future. But then its builders brought it to Washington, D.C.

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University brought a prototype of a driverless car to Washington on Tuesday in an attempt to show Congress that it could embrace a future devoid of human errors.

And then Congress broke that car.
It was not immediately clear whether the mere proximity to the Capitol created the series of events that led to an emergency switch being flipped, causing the car to shut down, or if an actual member of Congress did it.

It is a sad day whenever we hear about a supercar being destroyed through the reckless operation of a foolish driver. It is maddening when you hear that the driver is not the owner, but an employee for the company with which the owner left the car.

Rush Limbaugh On Worst Economic Drop Since 2009: ‘This Is What I Meant When I Said I Hope He Fails’

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was dismayed by revised economic numbers showing the U.S. economy shrunk a staggering 2.9 percent in the first three months of 2014, placing the blame squaring on President Obama’s policies and claiming “this is what I meant when I said I hope he fails.”

On Wednesday, Limbaugh led his radio program with the Commerce Department’s “revision” of statistics on America’s gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2014.

While reports from April indicated a 0.1 percent decline and reports from May bumped that up to 1.0 percent, Commerce is now indicating that the U.S. lost nearly 3 percent of its entire economy between January and March. That’s one percentage point per month.

It’s always smart to expect the unexpected with Google, but a new report from Seth Weintraub at 9to5Google is the most unexpected Google I/O rumor we’ve ever heard. One of Weintraub’s sources, who apparently tipped him off to Google’s Glass skydiving stunt two years ago, says that there’s a chance that Google will take the wraps off of “some cutting-edge micro bots that can detect things like certain kinds of cancer” at I/O this year, although the source cautions that these nanobots are at least two years away from being ready to launch onto the market.

Why doesn’t it surprise us that Google would be working on nanotechnology? For a couple of reasons. First, Google has shown an enthusiasm for tackling “moonshot” projects that seem to come right out of science fiction novels and has in the past contemplated working on a space elevator and on teleportation. Second, Google right now employs visionary futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has written extensively about nanobots in the past.

Got a call from Micro Center here in Dallas last night and headed over this morning to pick up our first retail purchased Intel Core i7-4790K processor. We will be moving into some testing with this CPU today! Cost was $303 after local tax.

I don't know, while this looks cool as hell, this Master Chief motorcycle helmet doesn't look very aerodynamic to me.

This is a good ruling all the way around. Requiring a warrant just seems like common sense. I can't believe we had to go all the way to the Supreme Court over this.

The US Supreme Court unanimously held Wednesday that cell phones are protected from warrantless searches, ruling on two cases in which police searches of mobile devices led to long prison sentences. The decision provides a vindication for personal privacy and the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search at a time when so much of an individual's personal life is available on their mobile device.

And the Zenimax vs. Oculus saga continues.

Today's statement asserts that the Oculus VR headset technology was developed solely by Palmer Luckey, and claims that "[ZeniMax's] lawsuit is nothing more than ZeniMax seeking to correct for a massive missed opportunity through the assertion of meritless litigation." Oculus now demands a jury trial to resolve the issue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress aren't buying the contention by the head of the Internal Revenue Service that he has seen no evidence anyone committed a crime when the agency lost emails that might shed light on the targeting of tea party and other political groups before the 2010 and 2012 elections.

On Tuesday, a House panel will hear from a White House official who once worked at the IRS.
Jennifer O'Connor worked at the IRS from May to November 2013, helping the agency gather documents related to the congressional investigations, said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee. O'Connor has since moved to the White House counsel's office.
Issa subpoenaed O'Connor on Monday night after the White House declined his invitation to have her testify. After getting the subpoena, the White House relented.

A married 31-year-old marketing executive living in Tokyo told CNBC she would like to have a baby, but the decision is difficult. Like most Japanese women she says it can feel like a choice between having a family or a career.

"My work is interesting and it's kind of a disadvantage to take maternity leave," said the woman, who preferred to remain anonymous.
For many people in Japan parenthood isn't appealing, which is a major problem for the world's third-largest economy as it pursues radical economic reforms in a bid to drag itself out of deflation.
Japan's fertility rate is among the world's lowest. With the government projecting the population will shrink one third to 87 million by 2060, the implications are clear: a smaller work force, reduced productivity and less tax revenue.

Solar cells are only capable of converting less than one-third of the solar energy they collect into electricity.
Now Sharp Electronics has come up with a prototype based on "exotic physics" that more than doubles that efficiency.
If such a device can be brought to market, solar power could become widely economical.
To accomplish this new efficiency, the Sharp researchers had to solve the problem of waste heat. When sunlight strikes conventional solar cells, it generates high-energy electrons, which lose most of their energy as waste heat within a few trillionths of a second.
Sharp constructed a device that isn't very practical because it's too thin to soak up much light and it works with only a single light wavelength. Still, it's the first device ever to corral these elusive electrons and increase the cell's voltage output. In theory, Sharp reports, efficiency could reach 60 percent, more than twice the efficiency of today's most efficient cells.

'We have taken this report very seriously from the beginning,' spokesman says

KFC says it is investigating a report that the family of a 3-year-old girl who said she was asked to leave one of its restaurants because her scars from a vicious pit bull attack were frightening other customers made up the story to get sympathy — and donations.

According to a report by the Laurel Leader-Call published on Tuesday, the story, first posted on Facebook by Victoria Wilcher's grandmother, was "generated out of whole cloth and resulted in the family bilking the public and professionals for more than $135,000 in cash, as well as gifts and free surgeries."

Kelly Mullins, Victoria's grandmother, said she was driving her granddaughter home from the hospital when they stopped at a KFC in Jackson, Mississippi, for sweet tea and mashed potatoes.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Giants, dragons and vengeful queens have for generations populated Northern Ireland's folk tales. Now, such creatures are visiting the land in a different version — on the sets for the hit TV show "Game of Thrones." But rather than spells and destruction, they're bringing an economic boost to this British province still healing from its past of political violence.

Fans of the HBO fantasy drama would recognize here the landscapes from the fictional land of Westeros — the castle of Winterfell, the seaside cliffs of the Iron Isles and the King's Road leading to the north. About 75 percent of the show is filmed in Northern Ireland, both in natural settings and in the Titanic Studios in Belfast.
Since the pilot episode began filming in 2009, attracted by the local government's financial incentives, the show's presence has helped foster a film industry that is catching the eye of other Hollywood productions. And Northern Ireland is taking advantage of the attention by promoting the filming locations as tourist destinations.
The latest — and perhaps most illustrious — visitor is Queen Elizabeth II, who will tour the studio sets on Monday. But thousands have already been visiting from across the globe.

HONG KONG (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers lined up to vote Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands of others who cast electronic ballots in the first three days of an unofficial referendum on democratic reform that Beijing has blasted as a farce.

Tensions have soared in Hong Kong over how much say residents of the former British colony can have in choosing their next leader, who's currently hand-picked by a 1,200-member committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites.
Beijing, which has pledged to allow Hong Kongers to choose their own leader starting in 2017, has balked at letting members of the public nominate their own candidates, saying they would have to be vetted by a Beijing-friendly committee.
Pro-democratic organizers of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement are offering voters three proposals on so-called public nomination. They've vowed to hold a mass protest if the former British colony's government, which has carried out a consultation on electoral reform, doesn't come up with a proposal that meets their standards. The plan involves rallying at least 10,000 people to shut down the city's central business district and has alarmed businesses in the Asian financial hub.

Toyota and Subaru worked together to develop their respective GT 86 (Scion FR-S) and BRZ sports cars, but that may not be the case for any replacement models. Toyota turned to BMW for development of its new flagship sports car, a spiritual successor to the Supra based on the FT-1 concept, and the automaker is reportedly considering using BMW’s help, as opposed to Subaru’s, to develop future sports cars including a next-generation GT 86.'

When asked by Drive whether Subaru would remain involved in the GT 86 program, Toyota engineer Tetsuya Tada, the man responsible for the GT 86 and future Toyota sports cars, said: "Maybe, but this is not decided at the moment."

When asked if BMW could fill Subaru’s role in the GT 86 program, Tada said: “That is one possibility."

Just when you thought a Lamborghini Gallardo was as cool as the LAPD got, they went out and bought themselves a military-grade electric motorcycle. Why? Because it’s cool as hell, that’s why. And surprisingly cheap to run.

The Zero MMX is part of a pilot project for use of these motorcycles in police fleets around the country. Of course, the LAPD did have to pay for this new whip (unlike the Gallardo), but as mentioned, it is extremely cheap to run, and we doubt it costs more than a standard Crown Vic cop car.

One of these days, I'm going to get one of these for myself.

If you are going to brag about your world class security, you probably shouldn't have your Wi-Fi password displayed for the entire planet to see.

I think we all knew this was coming, but it still sucks.

The court ruled against Aereo by a vote of 6-3. The court found that Aereo violates federal copyright law by retransmitting copyrighted programs without paying a copyright fee. Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, stressed that it was a limited decision that will not "discourage the emergence or use of different kinds of technologies."

Drones have gotten a pretty bad reputation. The word conjures up images of war, surveillance and "collateral damage," which means civilian deaths.

"I think it makes sense to use these advanced technologies in places where you can have the most impact first."

This week on World 3.0, we're introducing you to one company offering a kinder, gentler drone.

Matternet's mission is to develop an unmanned aerial transportation system that can reach anyone, anywhere, perhaps most importantly those living in underdeveloped parts of the world. I sat down with founder Andreas Raptopoulos, an entrepreneur who has big visions for the future of drones and their potential to do good. Drones have the ultimate capability, in his words, "to redefine how we transport things around us."

It has become a forgone conclusion that each year’s iPhone launch is the biggest smartphone launch to date. With Apple’s current record sitting at a staggering 9 million units sold through the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c’s first weekend of availability, however, this year’s new iPhone models have a steep hill to climb.

A dozen independently confirmed reports point to two completely redesigned iPhone 6 models launching in 2014, so it indeed appears as though Apple is positioning itself for another record launch —but it can’t hurt to have a little data to support that notion. According to the results of a new survey released on Tuesday, Apple is definitely in store for a huge iPhone 6 launch this fall.

Investment bank RBC Capital Markets surveyed more than 4,000 consumers and found that the future is looking bright for Apple’s 2014 iPhone models.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 170 victims of child sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported missing, were rescued in the last week as part of an annual nationwide crackdown, the FBI said Monday.

Besides the 168 children rescued from the sex trade, 281 pimps were arrested during the same period on state and federal charges.
"These are not faraway kids in faraway lands," FBI Director James Comey said in announcing the annual enforcement push known as Operation Cross Country. Instead, he added, "These are America's children."
This is the eighth such week-long operation, which this year unfolded in 106 cities. The FBI says nearly 3,600 children have so far been recovered from the street.

T-Mobile’s various “Uncarrier” initiatives have done an unbelievable job of drawing new business to the nation’s No. 4 wireless carrier. The scrappy company actually managed to outpace its giant rivals in net subscriber additions, which is a scenario most industry watchers would have laughed at a few short years ago. As it turns out, however, one of T-Mobile’s most widely covered Uncarrier moves has brought about a new problem, and it has caused one used gadget buying service to reject all future attempts from potential customers looking to sell T-Mobile handsets.

“There’s a major issue that has come to our attention and it deals with used T-Mobile devices and their financing option for mobile devices,” UpgradeSwap wrote in a post on its company blog.
The company has found that because of the way T-Mobile’s smartphone financing program is set up, customary checks that would normally determine whether or not a smartphone is clear to resell are now ineffective.

A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.

His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.

A new aircraft carrier — the largest warship ever constructed for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy — will be officially named in a special ceremony on July 4.

Queen Elizabeth II will be on hand to christen the aircraft carrier, which will be named in her honor, according to the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence.
HMS Queen Elizabeth ushers in a new class of aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy, according to the Ministry of Defence.
"The carriers will be versatile enough to be used across the full spectrum of military activity from war fighting to providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief," defense officials said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.

Cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest, Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court. Because the phones contain so much information, police must get a warrant before looking through them, Roberts said.

"Modern cellphones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans the privacies of life," Roberts said.

The court chose not to extend earlier rulings that allow police to empty a suspect's pockets and examine whatever they find to ensure officers' safety and prevent the destruction of evidence.

To the dismay of cord-cutters everywhere, the Supreme Court put the kibosh on Internet television service Aereo.

The court ruled that Aereo, which transmits broadcast TV channels over the Internet to its subscribers, was just like a cable television service, which must pay licensing fees to broadcasters in return for showing copyrighted programs. Aereo had argued that it merely rented a tiny, dedicated broadcast antenna to each of its thousands of customers, who have a right to watch the copyrighted programs, and shouldn’t have to pay licensing fees.

Stocks of broadcasters, which had sued to shut Aereo down, shot up on the ruling, led by CBS (CBS), which gained 5%, and Sinclair Broadcasting (SBGI) up 16%. More diversified network owners Walt Disney (DIS), Twenty First Century Fox (FOXA) and Comcast (CMCSA) were up about 1%.

A ruling in favor of Aereo could have upset the current system that requires cable providers to pay billions of dollars a year to broadcasters such as CBS and Sinclair. Cable companies could have set up their own multiple antenna systems, mimicking Aereo, for example.

Are we taking bets on this one? Will Twitter hold out or knuckle under?

Russia asked Twitter on Monday to block access to a dozen accounts it deems "extremist", the head of the country's telecoms watchdog said, as Moscow seeks greater control over Internet sites based beyond its borders.

What's with all these publishers having disputes with Amazon lately? Is there only one place in the world left to sell books?

German book publishers have formally accused Amazon of violating the country’s competition laws and have asked the antitrust authorities to investigate. The formal complaint, filed last week but announced on Tuesday, comes nearly two months after Amazon stopped shipping books from a leading German publisher, the Bonnier Media Group, amid a dispute over dividing revenue from e-book sales.

Apple's new retail chief apparently has some interesting advice for getting ahead in the corporate world.

"First impressions are truly lasting and if you want to overthink anything, overthink how others are perceiving you and your leadership," she said. "Are they quickly lining up to follow you? This could single-handedly determine the speed of your assimilation and the company's success."

While BMW may say that its halo car is the all-new i8 hybrid, in reality, it’s the M3. The “i” line certainly predicts the future, but the M3 will always be a key to that future’s existence; just say “E30” to anyone who has the vaguest interest in performance cars and they’ll tell you that it embodies everything BMW’s M division stands for.

However, in the same breath they’ll complain about how it’s been going wrong ever since, and that the E46 was the last pureblooded M3. That timing loosely correlates with BMW’s expansion into SUVs with the X5, and a few short years later into big hatchbacks like the X6 and now plug-in hybrids. Model numbers have swelled too; today a 3 Series coupe is a 4 Series (although you can still buy a four-door 4 Series like the 3 Series if you opt for the Gran Coupe model — not to be confused with the four-door 3 Series Gran Turismo).

Aerial view of the United States military headquarters, the Pentagon, September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four senators have called on the Defense Department to end a practice that involves deliberately inserting false numbers into the Pentagon's accounting ledgers and financial reports.

The senators sent a letter to Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale urging the Pentagon to stop an accounting practice widely known as "plugging." The letter, dated June 12, 2014, said that plugs are fictitious dollar amounts inserted into financial ledgers to make it appear that the Pentagon’s books balance.

The Navy's new super stealthy destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, has a lot in common with Hollywood's starship Enterprise, according to folks who've seen it in person.
Much has been written about the Zumwalt's appropriately named commander, Capt. James Kirk. But aside from that coincidence, the ship's operations center utilizes advanced technology that takes multitasking to a deadly new level on the high seas.
First launched last year, this is a massive $3 billion warship -- the largest type of destroyer in the modern Navy by about 65%. One thing that sets it apart is a very small crew.
Compared with about 300 sailors needed for similar warships, the Zumwalt's minimum compliment is only 130.

you, can, now, download, 44, movies, in, 1, second, — the, fastest, internet, yet, was, just, invented,

The news: The world has a new fastest internet speed, thanks to researchers in the United Kingdom, and it’s mindboggling.

The record-breaking speed? 1.4 terabytes per second. To put that in perspective, an internet connection of 1.4 terabytes per second could download 44 high-definition movies in a single second, or all of the English version of Wikipedia in 0.006 seconds. Damn.

Russia Explodes At Ukraine After One Of Its Top Diplomats Called Putin A 'D—head'

Ukraine's foreign minister caused a diplomatic row with Russia on Sunday after nonchalantly referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the equivalent of a "dickhead."

Andriy Deshchytsia's salty comment, which he made while trying to reason with protesters outside the Russian embassy in Ukraine, sparked calls from Russia for his resignation.

Anyone averse to breastfeeding in public would have been wise to steer clear of West 26th Street in New York City Monday morning. That’s where a clutch of 30 women were stationed in front of the studio of "The Wendy Williams Show", defiantly nursing their babies to protest the host’s dissing ofKarlesha Thurman — the 25-year-old graduate whose breastfeeding photo stirred a maelstrom of criticism recently.

“I am all for breastfeeding, but do not like breastfeeding in public,” Williams had said on her show Friday. “I don’t want to see it at my kitchen table, I don’t want to see it at Target, I don’t want to see it at Starbucks, in the airplane — and I especially don’t want to see it at graduation.”

Yes, yes, the Vision Gran Turismo project — concept cars crafted by designers from more than a dozen automakers expressly for Sony's Gran Turismo 6 — has been successful in both drawing attention to the game and pushing the boundaries of creativity. We've already seen some breathtaking designs (the Toyota FT-1, theMercedes AMG Vision GT), and a few have braved the auto-show circut, but it's all been a bit weightless, without much of a tangible link to the real world.

Leave it to Nissan, the company that has more cars enlisted in Gran Turismo's virtual world than any other, to take the logical and welcome next step by actually using its Vision Gran Turismo car — shown here undisguised for the first time — to hint at a future production model, namely the next generation of GT-R. Godzilla's getting some style.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has ordered mandatory inspections of all Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets before further flights after a Marine Corps F-35B model suffered an in-flight emergency last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Sunday.

Joe DellaVedova, spokesman for the F-35 program office, said the inspections were ordered late on Friday but that a majority of the 97 F-35s in the fleet - 69 operational jets used for training and 28 test aircraft - had already been inspected and cleared to resume flights on Monday.

He said the inspections, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, were focused on the oil flow management valve fitting on all F135 engines, which are built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp. The valve provides oil flow to the engine bearing compartments.

The world's largest video game collection has found a new home.

Michael Thomasson’s epic collection, which includes over 11,000 unique games, was sold fora whopping $750,250 at auctionthis week. While the name of the winning bidder (who goes by the online handle "peeps_10091970") is unknown, he or she is now the proud owner of a Guinness certificate proving the collection is the world's largest, a lifetime subscription to Retro magazine, and enough video games to last several lifetimes.

Yesterday was the longest day of the year, and we hope that you were all able to make the most of it. If that means attending a car show or spending some time in the park, that is a good way to spend it. Many others will have spent it on the water in a sailboat or powerboat. We’re quite sure the boat in the video below did not make it out on the water this weekend.

In Mother Russia microchips replace you.

Russia has let it be known that it will be replacing Intel and AMD processors in government operated computers and replacing them with home-grown Baikal computer chips. No immediate reason was given for the change over. Thanks to forum member Cerulean for the link.

The Baikal chips will be installed on computers of government bodies and in state-run firms, which purchase some 700,000 personal computers annually worth $500 million and 300,000 servers worth $800 million.

Bear with us for a moment. Despite all the uproar about the Chevrolet Cobalt and its hazardous ignition-switch issue, it seems the plucky Chevy holds up well in an accident – or at least better than an exotic Italian supercar. Case in point, this bright-yellow Lamborghini Aventador collided with a Chevy Cobalt in downtown Vancouver. It did not end well for the Aventador, which starts at a cool $397,000. However, the reasonably priced Cobalt did get away fairly unblemished, though we’d be surprised if the Cobalt was the one speeding. And yes, those are the Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co. stores in the background. Twitter went alight shortly afterwards. Yeah, that’ll buff out. LINK

Months after all of the publicity surrounding the Heartbleed security exploit has died down, barely half of the estimated 600K servers have been patched to protect sensitive data according to a new report from the Errata Security blog.

What this means, oversimplified: while almost all of the Internet’s most popular sites (the top 1000 or so — the biggest, most obvious targets for attackers) are no longer vulnerable, lots and lots of smaller sites/systems are still at risk.

Geek has put together a few of what they call ‘the best video game trailers of all time’ and that a tall order considering the sheer volume of trailers and the quality of many of them out there. Give it a look and see if you agree with their selections and feel free to add your favorites to the list.

Shady backroom meetings and flat denials of any deals in the works can only mean that there must be a deal on the table between Verizon and Dish Network.

Verizon has reportedly been in talks with Dish to purchase a large chunk of Dish Network’s spectrum.

Buying spectrum from a private company may be Verizon's best shot at increasing its spectrum holdings. Plus, much of Dish’s spectrum is complementary to spectrum Verizon presently owns.

Intel has yet to verify the report from the Chinese website VR-Zone on the official release date for ‘Haswell-E’, the Wellsburg core-logic set and the beginning of the rollout of supporting hardware. According to the VR-Zone, Intel will make the official launch on September 14th. Mark your calendars.

As reported earlier, the new Core i7 "Haswell-E" 5000-series central processing units for high-end desktops will rely on the all-new Intel X99 core-logic set, which was developed specifically for performance and overclocking enthusiasts from the start.

Courtesy of Congressman Henry Cuellar

A staggering crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border has left federal officials scrambling to provide basic human necessities to thousands of undocumented immigrants — most of them unaccompanied children — who have flowed over the divide.

The office of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who represents the district including the southern border town of Laredo, provided Business Insider with photos showing just how bad the conditions are at one federal facility where some of these immigrants are being held.

Cuellar's office said the photos were taken recently in a Customs and Border Protection facility in south Texas. The congressman's office declined to identify the exact source or location of the photos to protect the source's identity.

Think you’ve got good reflexes? See how you’d stack up against this Volkswagen Touareg driver in – what else – another bowel-clenching Russian dashcam video.

Captured from the front and rear of a leading car, this lucky Touareg driver narrowly – and we mean very, very narrowly – dodged an out-of-control truck that was sent sideways after aquaplaning on a stretch of wet tarmac.

We’ve known for a while now that Google has been toying around with becoming a wireless service provider and a new acquisition spotted by GeekWire gives us some more evidence that the company is looking to get into this market in a big way. Apparently, Google recently acquired Alpental, a small startup that was founded by two former Clearwire engineers named Pete Gelbman and Mike Hart. The company was never exactly well known outside of tech circles but GeekWire says that before it got scooped up by Google, it “was developing technologies related to 5G, the next generation wireless network” that “could have applications in connecting fiber to the home and… Google’s municipal wi-fi offerings.”

Earlier this year, we learned that Google has reportedly had talks with both Verizon and Sprint to buy access to their wireless networks that it will then sell to consumers as a wholesale provider. Additionally, a report from The Information speculated that this would only be part of Google’s plan to get into wireless and that the company would rely primarily on using Wi-Fi calling made through Google Fiber Wi-Fi hotspots as its primary method of transmitting calls.

iPhone ‘Kill Switches’ Drastically Reduce Thefts, Report Says

New crime data shows that Apple’s addition of a “kill switch” to its iPhones last September has sharply reduced robberies and thefts, authorities said Thursday.

Their report from a year-old initiative called “Secure Our Smartphones” said Google and Microsoft will incorporate a kill switch into the next version of their operating systems on smartphones. The three systems — Android, iOS, and Windows Phone — are used in 97 percent of smartphones in the U.S.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, part of the initiative, said crimes instead surged against people carrying phones without switches intended to make them useless to thieves.

The viral image. Photo: Tumblr/Kristine Speare

A photo of a dad in a “Feminist Father” polo shirt has gone swiftly viral on Tumblr, where it’s been liked and shared more than 196,000 times since being posted by his proud daughter on Sunday.

"He's very supportive of me and the decisions I make for myself; he cares so much about me and my passion for feminism," Kristine Speare, 20, tells Yahoo Shine through a Twitter message regarding her father, Chuck, a restaurant owner in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. "He completely agrees with the shirt's message."

There is a new ten minute Far Cry 4 video out today. The graphics and gameplay look pretty good and shooting a machine gun from the back of an elephant looks like it might be fun.

Only 11% of the country is in favor of the merger? I wonder how far that number would drop if you didn't count employees and shareholders?

Our colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports ran a nationally representative survey to see what ordinary people think about Comcast and its plan to buy out Time Warner Cable, and the responses weren’t pretty. A full 56% of Americans oppose the merger, and only 11% of respondents were in favor of it.

I don't know that Linux "lacks a killer app" but I will say it is a mystery that, after all these years, a free operating system can't gain more ground on one that costs hundreds of dollars.

What Linux needs most is games, said Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. However, "if you were trying to narrow it down to one app, it would probably still be Photoshop. For all the talk of how great GIMP has become, usability is still an abject nightmare, and in spite of the OSS community's self-back-patting regarding documentation, there is no documentation for GIMP which is not pathetic."

KFC says it will donate $30,000 to the family of a 3-year-old girl who was asked to leave one of its restaurants because her scars from a vicious pit bull attack were frightening other customers.

That donation, coupled with a donation page set up in the injured girl's name that has raised more than $80,000 so far, will help offset her medical bills.

The girl, Victoria Wilcher, was badly injured in the pit bull attack in April. Her grandmother, Kelly Mullins, said she was driving her granddaughter home from the hospital in early June when they stopped at KFC for mashed potatoes.

“They just told us, ‘We have to ask you to leave because her face is disrupting our customers,’" Mullins told WAPT-TV. "[Victoria] understood exactly what they said."

Record numbers living abroad renounce U.S. citizenship over IRS reporting requirements

Patricia Moon was born in Dayton, Ohio, to a family descended from Quakers who settled in the New World before the American Revolution.

As a young woman, Ms. Moon fell for a Canadian man and moved to Toronto. The 59-year-old homemaker, who still visits the U.S. to see relatives, said she feels American in her bones, even after three decades abroad.

Yet despite her deep roots, Ms. Moon walked into a U.S. consulate two years ago, raised her right hand and recited an oath renouncing her U.S. citizenship. Afterward, she said, "I bawled my eyes out."

BERLIN (AP) — A cheap brand of Chinese-made smartphones carried by major online retailers comes preinstalled with espionage software, a German security firm said Tuesday.

G Data Software said it found malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500 when it ordered the handset from a website late last month. The find is the latest in a series of incidents where smartphones have appeared preloaded with malicious software.

Ben McKenzie and David Mazouz in 'Gotham'

The Batman story has been told over and over again, so this fall's Gotham decided to remove the Caped Crusader from his town's tale completely. The show focuses instead on the city that created Batman as seen through the eyes of young cop on the beat James Gordon (Ben McKenzie of Southland and The O.C.). Executive producer John Stephens calls the show a "crime opera," more serialized Mafia drama than superhero tale.

"I would say 75 percent of the episodes will have a procedural story," said Stephens. "But that will always be balanced out by the serialized crime drama that we'll be telling." He cited Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, and Ed Brubaker's Gotham Centralas points of reference for the show. "It's a world that feels real, but heightened."

Boot business finds success in going back to roots

Oak Street Bootmakers makes no ordinary shoe. Heavy and velvety to the touch, their shoes are made of 100% genuine Horween leather and boasts Goodyear welted construction. And if you don’t know what that is, you're not alone – these used to be the standards of American shoe-making that are no longer.

“We live in a disposable world where now you buy a pair of shoes, relatively inexpensively, and you wear them until they’re completely worn out and then you throw them out,” says Oak Street’s founder, George Vlagos. He describes his shoes as being made the old-fashioned way, using techniques that have disappeared from American shoe-making. “We really strive to create a product that you’re going to have forever,” says Vlgaos.

In more ways one, this boot business is a return to Vlagos’ roots: both the traditions of the craft itself, and also an unexpected return to his father’s family business.

There is a service out there that examines the content of your Facebook posts so that it can, according to the website, make "strikingly accurate estimates about individual personalities." My analysis says I'm kind of a dick. So at least we know it's accurate.

Mmmmmm, 3D printed Nutella.

As a man who loves things that come out of tubes, I am excited about the Discov3ry Extruder. Designed as an add-on to popular 3D printers, the system is essentially a plunger connected to a nozzle that squirts out pastes of various types including icing, Nutella, spackle, and silicone.

Something tells me this is headed back to court.

U.S. chipmaker Intel lost on Thursday its challenge against a record 1.06 billion euro ($1.44 billion) European Union fine handed down five years ago, as Europe's second highest court said regulators did not act too harshly.

The head of Xbox Games explained to Polygon why the company didn't bring any Windows games to E3.

"I'm head of gaming at Microsoft," Spencer said. "When we're doing gaming strategy, gaming focus inside the company, that's my job. I think in a lot of ways, you could argue gaming on Windows has never been more healthy in that the biggest of the big franchises, League of Legends, World of Tanks, those things dwarf a lot of what we're doing in this console space in terms of users and monetization. They're all on PC."

It’s hard to believe, but only four short months ago we were looking forward to season four of Game of Thrones and wondering what fair cities would pop up on its opening credits world map this year. As any fan knows, the best thing about the show’s opening credits (apart from the soaring music) is that the locations on the map change to reflect the show’s widening scope; this year, we added four new places. In the interest of being thorough, here they are:

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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — One of Africa's oldest national parks is under attack "from all fronts," said its director Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered over the past two months by poachers wielding chain saws and grenades and shooting them from helicopters.

Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is under constant assault by renegade Congolese soldiers, gunmen from South Sudan and others. And this is just a slice of the carnage: international wildlife regulators say 20,000 elephants were killed just in Africa in 2013.

President Obama has so far turned down Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s request for U.S. air strikes against the Islamic extremists taking over his country. But if Obama changes his mind, U.S. jets could be flying over Iraq in less than a day.

U.S. air bases, housing dozens of American fighters and bombers, are well within striking distance of Iraq. High-flying spy drones like the Global Hawk can just as easily fly over Iraq as Afghanistan or any other conflict zone in the region. The aircraft carrier U.S.S. George H.W. Bush is a few days’ sail away, in the North Arabian Sea. And it boasts dozens more fighters on board.

That’s why a number of retired high-ranking U.S. Air Force officers, including Lt. Gen. David Deptula, who served as the Air Force’s first deputy chief of staff for intelligence, say any strikes, if ordered, could begin almost immediately.

Erik Finman

When 15-year-old Erik Finman turned a $1,000 Easter gift from his grandma into $100,000 after cashing in on his Bitcoin investment, he wasn’t all like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece. He was all business.

The Idaho robotics champ and early North Idaho College student used his Bitcoin riches to launchBotangle.com, a burgeoning online video tutoring startup, according to Mashable.

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