Here's How Newly-Released Benghazi Emails Could Actually Embarrass the White House

In the immediate aftermath of the 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House quickly jumped from questions about the cause of the attack to blaming the incendiary YouTube video promoted by Florida pastor Terry Jones.
Last May, a set of emails was leaked by opponents of President Obama outlining the development of the talking points then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice used in a series of television appearances following the September 11, 2012 attack. The White House then released a more complete set of messages, effectively neutralizing critique of how the talking points were created.
New documents, obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch by a Freedom of Information Act request, include a different set of talking points created by Obama advisor Ben Rhodes and sent to administration officials including spokesman Jay Carney. At the top, it outlines four goals:
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Get ready to kiss Google's Nexus smartphones goodbye

 
Google's Nexus-branded mobile devices are the best Android smartphones and tablets you can buy. Period. They're the first ones to get the latest software updates and they're darn cheap, when compared to other unlocked smartphone prices. The Nexus party's reportedly over, and Google is working on a new program that will replace the Nexus program. But don't freak out. This might actually be a good thing.

Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members

Image: DARPA 

Some think that the Defense Department couldn’t possibly reduce its forces as much as it claims it will. After all, who would fly the planes?
Now DARPA has an answer. The Pentagon’s research arm is developing a sophisticated, drop-in autopilot that can replace as many as five crew members of a military aircraft, and turn the pilot into a high-level “mission supervisor” issuing commands through a touch screen.

10 vehicles that cause the most property damage

 Big and tall vehicles are the bulls in the china shop of the contemporary motoring scene.

The list of 2014 vehicles that cause the most property damage, just released by Insure.com, is proof: It comprises massive pickup trucks and larger sport-utility vehicles. The common element in all these vehicles is a bumper that does not match up with the bumpers found on passenger cars.

Army Vet Helps Develop Life-Saving Device for Treating Battlefield Wounds

Growing up in Erie, Penn., John Steinbaugh loved the outdoors, guns and hunting, he recalled, so becoming an infantryman seemed a natural fit. So, he joined the Army in 1987 as something to do out of high school. "The plan was to join the infantry, be there for 4 years, get out and go to college," Steinbaugh said.
While in the Army, he discovered the Special Forces. "When I joined Special Forces, I joined with the intention to be a weapons guy or something tactical similar to the infantry," he said.
But Special Forces had a different plan for him. After the selection process, he was chosen to be a medic.
The job of medics changed dramatically after 2001, he said, from a "total training environment" to a relative paucity of training. "No more fake deployment stuff. Everything you do is real combat for 12 years. I did that for 12 years of my life," he said.

10 best and worst vehicles for preventing passenger injuries


Even people who know very little about the laws of physics will find few surprises on the 2014 edition of the best and worst cars for preventing passenger injuries, just released by Insure.com.

The 10 best cars for preventing passenger injuries are not cars at all, but large, costly trucks and sport-utility vehicles like the Ford F-350 and Cadillac Escalade. The 10 worst cars for preventing passenger injuries fall into precisely the opposite category:  small, lightweight cars that stress low prices and fuel economy. 

Nokia sells Cellphone division to Microsoft

‘New Nokia’ Looks to Move Forward after Selling Handset Division to Microsoft
Nokia says it has completed the €5.44 billion ($7.5 billion) sale of its troubled cellphone and services division to Microsoft, ending a chapter in the former world leading cellphone maker’s history that began with paper making in 1865.
The Friday closure of the deal, which includes a license to a portfolio of Nokia patents to Microsoft, follows delays in global regulatory approvals and ends the production of mobile phones by the Finnish company, which had led the field for more than a decade, peaking with a 40 percent global market share in 2008.

New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Has No Ties to Expanded Universe, Lucasfilm Confirms

Our long, global crisis is finally over: The new “Star Wars” trilogy will not have any ties to the Expanded Universe post-”Return of the Jedi.”
“In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe,” Lucasfilm announced in a press release on StarWars.com Friday.

Totally Parched: 100% of California in Drought - April, 2014

California is parched, with 100 percent of the Golden State entrenched in drought conditions for the first time in 15 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM).
"With the expansion of D1 [moderate drought] across southeast California and southwest Arizona, this week marks the first time in the 15-year history of the USDM that 100 percent of California was in moderate to exceptional drought," according to a statement by the Monitor, which is a joint effort by the National Drought Mitigation Center, NOAA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. drought observers.
Since March 25, the state has been under "abnormally dry" conditions, and just this week the Drought Monitor listed the entire state as experiencing a moderate drought. 

China building world's first video game stadium

League of Legends Season 3 World ChampionshipsChina is getting serious about eSports.
Located in the country's Guangdong province and off the coast of gambling paradise Macau, Hengqin Island will play host to a 15,000 seat arena designed specifically for competitive video game events.
The stadium will be the centerpiece of a $2.8 billion gaming theme park currently dubbed the 'V-Zone'. The first phase of the park's development is expected to be complete in 2017 and will cost roughly $480 million.
“We started with a blank sheet of paper, and we were looking for what would be the fastest-growing field in the world,” Chew Fook Aun, chairman of Lai Fung, which is overseeing development on the overall project, told Bloomberg. “The trends were with video gaming.”

Technology + Toy Dinosaur = BOOMER!

They need to get this thing on store shelves ASAP. eek!

Inside the Startup That’s Trying to Build a Battery That Lasts Forever

Inside the Startup That’s Trying to Build a Battery That Lasts Forever
Imergy Power Systems’ headquarters in an office park in one of Silicon Valley’s less glamorous precincts is the type of place where the future used to be invented. There are no Beats headphones-wearing 20-somethings on scooters. No foosball tables, rooftop beer gardens, or ironically named conference rooms. No birdhouses. Just a sea of drab, blue-gray cubicles. The median employee age appears to be around that of the typical software engineer who files an age-discrimination lawsuit. There are scientists wearing white lab coats. Some have white hair. The chief executive is 61 — that’s 120 in Silicon Valley years.
Needless to say, Imergy is not developing the next $19 billion app that Facebook will acquire, but the startup could end up powering Facebook.

Awesome Dad Launches Unisex Teen Beauty Line


Sick of cutesy pink products being the only option for his teenage daughter, one father decided to do something about it. Now, the line of teen skin and haircare products he's created to combat gender stereotypes will be hitting stores in June. 

As Army shrinks, young officers being pushed out

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — After the 9/11 attacks, tens of thousands of young men and women joined the military, heading for the rugged mountains of Afghanistan and dusty deserts of Iraq.
Many of them now are officers in the Army with multiple combat deployments under their belts. But as the wars wind down and Pentagon budgets shrink, a lot of them are being told they have to leave.
It's painful and frustrating. In quiet conversations at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Eustis in Virginia, captains talk about their new worries after 15-month deployments in which they battled insurgents and saw roadside bombs kill and maim their comrades. They nervously wait as their fates rest in the hands of evaluation boards that may spend only a few minutes reading through service records before making decisions that could end careers.

US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Nears Day 500 in Orbit

US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Nears Day 500 in Orbit
The U.S. Air Force's mysterious robotic X-37B space plane is sailing toward the 500-day mark in Earth orbit on a secret military mission.
The X-37B space plane presently in orbit is carrying out the Orbital Test Vehicle 3 (OTV-3) mission, a classified spaceflight that marks the third long-duration flight for the unmanned Air Force spaceflight program. The miniature space shuttle launched on Dec. 11, 2012.
The record-breaking X-37B mission now underway uses the first of the Air Force's two robotic space plane vehicles. This same space plane flew the first-ever X-37B mission (the 225-day OTV-1 flight in 2010), and a second vehicle flew the longer OTV-2 mission in 2011, chalking up 469 days in orbit. [Photos: The X-37B Space Plane's 3rd Mystery Mission]

US Military Developing Foldable Space Telescope (Video, Images)

The United States military's advanced research arm is working on a foldable space telescope that could image Earth in high resolution at a relatively low cost.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the telescope design — known as theMembrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation, or MOIRE — would be of great use in geosynchronous Earth orbit, the spot 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers) up where most telecommunications satellites reside.
"Membrane optics could enable us to fit much larger, higher-resolution telescopes in smaller and lighter packages," Lt. Col. Larry Gunn, MOIRE program manager, said in a statement. [Giant Space Telescopes of the Future (Infographic)]

Beijing Purging The Internet Of Porn

Purging the internet of porn? Ummm, good luck with that! roll eyes (sarcastic)
The Chinese government has shut down thousands of websites and social media sites in a bid to purge the internet of online pornography, it was revealed today. The nation’s state media services announced the progress of its ‘Cleaning the Web 2014’ campaign today, which has resulted in the closure of 110 websites and more than 3,300 accounts containing ‘obscene’ material since January.

Futuristic Firefighter Helmet

This futuristic firefighter helmet concept not only looks bad ass, it seems like a solid design as well.
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Fixed Wing Hybrid-Quadrotor UAV

Yes, this thing is as bad ass as it looks in this video

AT&T Looking to Bring Its Super-Fast Internet to 21 New Cities - GigaPower

AT&T Looking to Bring Its Super-Fast Internet to 21 New Cities
AT&T plans a major expansion of super-fast Internet services to cover as many as 100 municipalities in 25 total metropolitan areas.
The service, called GigaPower, has a 1-gigabit-per-second speed that is about 100 times what U.S. consumers typically get with broadband. That means faster video downloads and the ability for more devices to connect to the network without congestion.
AT&T currently has such speeds in Austin, Texas, and has committed to offer the service in Dallas. The company is also in advanced talks to bring GigaPower to two additional markets, Raleigh-Durham and Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Watch Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robots Build Stuff

Aghhhh! Micro-robots are going to kill us all! Or just build a bunch of stuff. Either way, we should all be panicking!

All Flights Required To Have GPS Tracking System By 2020

Why wait until 2020 to enforce this rule? Why not require airlines to comply by next week and fine them for every day they are not in compliance. That would set a fire under their asses.
The FAA is accelerating the implementation of the next generation of aviation tracking following the disappearance of the Malaysian Airline Boeing 777. The agency has been working on a system called Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast, or ADS-B, radio network. It allows controllers to monitor an aircraft from the time it takes off to the time it lands, using GPS satellite tracking, rather than ground-based radar.

Barbed Wire Industry Protests Bethesda's Latest Game

Even though this video is a parody, it's funny because that's how critics of video games usually react to everything. wink

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Boy gets kicked in the face by a conductor while taking a selfie in front of a speeding train

No, you probably shouldn’t take selfies when standing in close proximity to large vehicles that are hurtling toward you. Gawker points us to a new video posted this week by someone named Jared Michael, who says that he recently “tried to take a selfie while a train passed a ‘safe’ distance behind.” The trouble was that he was still close enough to the tracks for the train’s conductor to reach out with his foot and kick him in the face. The results are predictably hilarious.

Forget 5G – 10Gbps WiFi is coming next year


The 5Mbps, 10Mbps or even 20Mbps download speeds we see now are fast, and the 5G data speeds we have been promised down the road are even more impressive. But wait until you hear about the next big advancement in WiFitechnology. WiFi is already much faster than any current-generation cellular network will ever be, of course, but the wireless standard’s limited range is a big barrier to its utility outside of homes and offices. In 2015, however, we can now look forward to WiFi that is exponentially faster than current networks and also has a much further range.

SRT Viper TA Gets Anodized Carbon Special Edition Treatment

SRT Viper TA Gets Anodized Carbon Special Edition Treatment: Live From New York
Late last year, SRT rolled out a special edition version of its Viper called the Anodized Carbon Special Edition Package. Based on the Viper GTS, the special edition featured a unique metallic matte exterior along with a number of premium features in the cabin, and only 50 examples were slated to be produced.

Now SRT has announced that its Viper Time Attack model will also get the Anodized Carbon Special Edition Package treatment. It makes its world debut today at the 2014 New York Auto Show.

Mom Whose Child Died After Catching Chicken Pox Advocates for Vaccines

Abby Peterson was just a few weeks shy of her sixth birthday in 2001 when she caught a severe case of chicken pox that made her so weak that she came down with pneumonia, her mother recalled. Her little body couldn’t fight against two infections and after ten agonizing hours in the hospital, she died in her mother’s arms.
Both chicken pox and pneumonia are preventable with vaccines, but Abby’s mom, Shannon Duffy Peterson, who lives in the rural area of Sleepy Eye, Minn., said her pediatrician steered her away from vaccinating her daughter.
“I asked for them and my doctor talked me out of it,” Duffy Peterson recalled. “He said vaccines were too new and recommended I expose my children to diseases instead because he felt they could build up their immunity naturally.”
Duffy Peterson said that she wishes she had questioned the doctor’s recommendations more forcefully. It was only discovered after an autopsy that Abby was born without a spleen, an organ that is an essential part of the immune system. This made her especially vulnerable to germs and viruses, Duffy Peterson said.

This number controls your finances - LIBOR

CNN Money's Zain Asher explains LIBOR, the most important number to your everyday finances. VIDEO

What is Bitcoin?

CNN Money's Zain Asher explains how Bitcoin works and if it's the currency of our future. VIDEO

How to avoid a Ponzi scheme

CNNMoney's Zain Asher explains how a Ponzi scheme works and how to avoid falling for one. VIDEO

Time is money: Getting rich by computer

CNNMoney's Zain Asher explains high frequency trading -- how it works and how its effecting your bank account. VIDEO

Amazon smartphone with five front-facing cameras revealed


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Amazon's smartphone plans are coming together at last. New photos and information published by BGR reveal Amazon's smartphone will employ an array of front-facing cameras to create a unique 3D user interface.
When you're planning to go up against the two most successful smartphones — Apple'siPhone 5s and Samsung's Galaxy S5 — you can't just go to the fight without a secret weapon.

Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity

It slices, it dices, it's an amazing thermal conductor, it is bendable and now it generates electricity using saltwater. Is there anything graphene can't do?
Here, we show that a voltage of a few millivolts can be produced by moving a droplet of sea water or ionic solution over a strip of monolayer graphene under ambient conditions. Through experiments and density functional theory calculations, we find that a pseudocapacitor is formed at the droplet/graphene interface, which is driven forward by the moving droplet, charging and discharging at the front and rear of the droplet.
Here's a neat video of graphene slicing and dicing ice. cool

Half-Life Done In 20 Minutes

Got a few minutes to spare? Watch this guy beat Half-Life in twenty minutes. cool

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Smaller Than Borderlands 2?

According to the folks at CVG, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel will be smaller than Borderlands 2 but bigger than the original Borderlands.
"It's pretty big. I don't think it's going to be as big as Borderlands 2," Pitchford said. "It might be as big, or a little bigger, than Borderlands 1. It might be kind of in between the two."

Georgia Passes Law Giving $25M In Video Game Tax Breaks

It's a wonder more states don't do stuff like this to lure game studios into their area. Then again, after that whole 38 Studios mess, the video game industry is probably thrilled this is even happening at all.
Georgia state governor Nathan Deal signed a bill into law this morning that will provide $25 million in tax credits for video game developers in the region, according to a report published to the website of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being."

Not so long ago, images of a young girl washed over the Internet. She was impossibly blonde and impossibly shaped, and surely it was all a masterly work of Photoshop. Right? Michael Idov travels to meet with Eastern Bloc Barbie herself and discovers that her world is far more bizarre and twisted than anything in the photos


Per Barbie's instructions, I enter Kamasutra, a brightly lit Ukrainian version of an Indian restaurant. Imagine a blind date, with all the attendant "Does she look like her picture?" jitters, multiplied by the queasy fear that she does look like her picture. If you saw the pictures I saw, you would understand. You would know that meeting Valeria Lukyanova is the closest you will come to an alien encounter.

Secret Spaceplane, Mystery Mission

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The Air Force’s secret space plane has been up in orbit for nearly 500 days—a space endurance record. But nearly a year and a half into the mission, the Pentagon still won’t say what the X-37B is doing up there, or when it might come back.  
The U.S. Air Force boosted the robotic X-37B atop the nose of an Atlas-5 rocket in December 2012. Since then it’s orbited the Earth thousands of times, overflying such interesting places as North Korea and Iran.  
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Similar to the Space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles. But there are major differences. Lacking a crew, the spacecraft has no cockpit windows. The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed.

Snowden, Greenwald urge caution of wider government monitoring at Amnesty event


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Edward Snowden and reporter Glenn Greenwald, who brought to light the whistleblower's leaks about mass U.S. government surveillance last year, appeared together via video link from opposite ends of the earth on Saturday for what was believed to be the first time since Snowden sought asylum in Russia.
A sympathetic crowd of nearly 1,000 packed a downtown Chicago hotel ballroom at Amnesty International USA's annual human rights meeting and gave Greenwald, who dialed in from Brazil, a raucous welcome before Snowden was patched in 15 minutes later to a standing ovation.
The pair cautioned that government monitoring of "metadata" is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails and stressed the importance of a free press willing to scrutinize government activity.
Metadata includes which telephone number calls which other numbers, when the calls were made and how long they lasted. Metadata does not include the content of the calls.

Tech Firms May Find No-Poaching Pacts Costly

Steve Jobs and Eric SchmidtIt is the talk of the Valley.

A high-stakes negotiation is taking place in Silicon Valley among some of the biggest names in the industry — Apple and Google among them — over accusations that they were involved in a collusion to prevent their employees from being hired at rival companies. The employees filed a class-action suit, contending that the illegal hiring practices cost employees $9 billion in lost wages. Now the companies are locked in mediation sessions, hoping to settle the case in the next several weeks.
The question being whispered all over town now is how much will Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe ultimately have to pay?

U.S. Navy to test futuristic, super-fast gun at sea in 2016

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy, a "Star Wars" technology that will make enemies think twice, the Navy's research chief said.
Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, the chief of Naval Research, told a round table group recently the futuristic electromagnetic rail gun had already undergone extensive testing on land and would be mounted on the USNS Millinocket, a high-speed vessel, for sea trials beginning in 2016.
"It's now reality and it's not science fiction. It's actually real. You can look at it. It's firing," said Klunder, who planned to discuss progress on the system later on Monday with military and industry leaders at a major maritime event - the Sea-Air-Space Exposition - near Washington.
"It will help us in air defense, it will help us in cruise missile defense, it will help us in ballistic missile defense," he said. "We're also talking about a gun that's going to shoot a projectile that's about one one-hundredth of the cost of an existing missile system today."

IT Salary Survey 2014

It's time once again for the IT Salary Survey! This time around there is an interactive map to help you gloat / feel bad about what you make compared to others in the industry. wink
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IT employees who participated in Computerworld's annual salary survey share that view of the market. They say a shortage of IT workers with the right skills, an uptick in new projects and a shift in the way IT works with business units have given them renewed optimism about IT careers -- though salaries and bonuses are advancing slowly.

Flight 370: Optimism 'fading' as days go by since last detected 'pings'

(CNN) -- Cheers and optimism over what searchers believed might be underwater pulses from Malaysia Flight 370 have given way, four days later, to little more proof the aircraft is close to being found.
No more signals have been detected since Saturday's momentary jubilation aboard an Australian navy ship some 1,100 miles (1,750 kilometers) northwest of Perth -- pulses consistent with those sent by a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, explained Angus Houston, head of the Australian-based part of the massive search effort.
This lack of new info, and the fact no wreckage of the Boeing 777-200ER has been discovered, makes searchers "more cautious," said U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet.
"As hours pass," he said, "our optimism is fading away, ever so slightly.

In Pakistan, giant poster of a child looks up at drone operators

The goal is to put a human face on what drone operators are said to call 'bug splats'

Putting a face on civilian drone victims

In an attempt to put a face on civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes, a group of artists has installed a massive portrait of a girl facing up from a field in Pakistan.
The poster, measuring 90 by 60 feet and made of vinyl, was unrolled with the help of locals two weeks ago in a village in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in northwest Pakistan, where residents say attacks by the pilotless aircraft are a part of daily life.

'Gods' make comeback at Toyota as humans steal jobs from robots

 
Inside Toyota Motor Corp.'s oldest plant, there's a corner where humans have taken over from robots in thwacking glowing lumps of metal into crankshafts. This is Mitsuru Kawai's vision of the future.
"We need to become more solid and get back to basics, to sharpen our manual skills and further develop them," said Kawai, a half century-long company veteran tapped by President Akio Toyoda to promote craftsmanship at Toyota's plants. "When I was a novice, experienced masters used to be called gods, and they could make anything."

These gods, or Kami-sama in Japanese, are making a comeback at Toyota, the company that long set the pace for manufacturing prowess in the auto industry and beyond. Toyota's next step forward is counter-intuitive in an age of automation: Humans are taking the place of machines in plants across Japan so workers can develop new skills and figure out ways to improve production lines and the car-building process.
"Toyota views their people who work in a plant like this as craftsmen who need to continue to refine their art and skill level," said Jeff Liker, who has written eight books on Toyota and visited Kawai last year. "In almost every company you would visit, the workers' jobs are to feed parts into a machine and call somebody for help when it breaks down."

US Navy 'game-changer': converting seawater into fuel

Washington (AFP) - The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel.
The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being hailed as "a game-changer" because it would signficantly shorten the supply chain, a weak link that makes any force easier to attack.
The US has a fleet of 15 military oil tankers, and only aircraft carriers and some submarines are equipped with nuclear propulsion.
All other vessels must frequently abandon their mission for a few hours to navigate in parallel with the tanker, a delicate operation, especially in bad weather.
The ultimate goal is to eventually get away from the dependence on oil altogether, which would also mean the navy is no longer hostage to potential shortages of oil or fluctuations in its cost.
Vice Admiral Philip Cullom declared: "It's a huge milestone for us."

Moon's Age Revealed, and a Lunar Mystery May Be Solved

Moon's Age Revealed, and a Lunar Mystery May Be Solved 
Scientists have pinned down the birth date of the moon to within 100 million years of the birth of the solar system — the best timeline yet for the evolution of our planet's natural satellite.
This new discovery about the origin of the moon may help solve a mystery about why the moon and the Earth appear virtually identical in makeup, investigators added.

NVIDIA Launches GeForce Experience 2.0

If you are a GeForce owner you should head on over to NVIDIA and grab the new GeForce Experience 2.0
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Charge Your Phone In 30 Seconds?

Time for you guys to weigh in on this one.

What do you think? Real or fake?

Intel to Change Financial Reporting Structure

Beginning with the publication of Intel Corporation's first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, April 15, the company will revise the presentation of its operating segments to reflect changes in our organizational model, which are aligned with our critical objectives. The company is providing our financial reporting structure now, as shown below, in order to give visibility into the new model. Actual results will be reported with the first-quarter earnings report. These changes will be comprised of the following:
  • PC Client Group (PCCG): PCCG will now include the results of our gateway and set-top box business, previously reported as the Service Provider Group within the other Intel architecture (Other IA) operating segments.

U.S. Gets New, Hyper-Accurate Atomic Clock

Anybody have the correct time? That would be a definite yes if you are asking the guys over at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The new atomic clock could be off by a second, give or take, over a 300 million year period or the NIST gets double their money back. big grin
"Modern telecommunication networks require synchronization to about a millionth of a second per day," O'Brian said. "Power grids also ... (and) GPS systems require about 1 billionth of a second per day.