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Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were victimized in the photo scandal. (Getty Images)

Who owns the rights to a hacked celebrity photo? If J. Law or Kate Upton didn't take the photos themselves, will that complicate their effort to scrub them from the Internet?
Let's be very clear: Whoever took the photos owns the rights to the photos. And by "took" I mean clicked the little button on the phone while their — girlfriends? — were posing.

So. If the people who took the photos want to be lowlifes about this whole business, then, yes, they could make life very unnecessarily painful for the women who appear in them. Theoretically, the owners could even contact the sites that are hosting the photos and say, in effect, "I own those rights! I don't care! Display away! Go to town!"

Sumeet Dhawan often referred to the the last few months as a “nightmare.”

But no one could know how that nightmare would end for Sumeet and his wife, Pallavi, who was under suspicion of killing their 10-year-old son, Arnav.

Sometime in the past week, the Frisco couple apparently ended their lives, which had begun to unravel earlier this year.

Police were called to their home Wednesday and found a woman’s body in the swimming pool and a dead man inside the house.

On Thursday, authorities confirmed Sumeet and Pallavi Dhawan were the deceased, but they still would not give any details about the manner of death.

Family members have received word of their deaths, according to Dallas attorney David Finn, who represented Pallavi Dhawan.

“These were gentle, good, decent people,” Finn said of the couple. “To me it’s a personal loss.”

Take that, billionaire heiresses and your $150 million pocket listings.

Petra Ecclestone may be "quietly" and unofficially shopping around the former Spelling Manor in Los Angeles for that amount, but the builder of Le Palais Royal in Florida is willing to go on record with a $139 million price tag. (Click here or on an image for a slideshow.)

“Le Palais Royal is to be the most expensive listing on the market in America," listing agent William P.D. Pierce said in a news release -- "fit for royalty and the upmost refined individual." (We think he meant "utmost.")

This graphic shows the path Asteroid 2014 RC will take as it passes Earth on Sunday, September 7. The space rock will come within one-tenth the distance from Earth to the moon, but it is not expected to threaten the planet.

(CNN) -- A newly discovered asteroid will pass "very close" to Earth on Sunday, NASA says.

The space rock is estimated to be 60 feet (18 meters) long. It's expected to fly over New Zealand about 2:18 p.m. EDT (11:18 a.m. PDT / 18:18 UTC.)

It won't hit Earth or any of the thousands of satellites orbiting the planet, NASA says. It will give astronomers and scientists a chance to study it.
The asteroid won't be visible the naked eye, but amateur astronomers should be able to see it with telescopes.

Akhleema and Tasleema, two sisters from Kolkata in eastern India, were sold as brides in Haryana state, in western India.

(CNN) -- Even for an employed schoolteacher like Narinder, it is hard to find a bride these days.

Narinder is a shy, slender 36-year old with a certain anxiety about him -- as if he has resigned to a fate that he is unable to change. He is very polite and at first, reluctant to talk about his situation.

Narinder is one of four sons and only one of his brothers has managed to get married. In his district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, there are only 858 girls born for every 1,000 boys, a ratio that doesn't occur naturally without medical intervention. The northwestern state of Uttar Pradesh is home to one of the largest skewed sex ratios in India.

The funny thing about this problem is that it is worse for people that actually use the site the way it was intended, to stay in contact with friends and family. Face it, once your friends leave, what reason is there to use Facebook?

It’s lemming-like, I know, to have followed my friends into the social network and then follow them out in this way. But the thing about social networks is that they only work when everyone’s there and everyone’s active.

I have no idea how a sidescrolling platform game can make you feel like you are actually in a war but this article is claiming just that.

This is the side of war that most people who play games never consider, but a side of war that is all too real. This is the core of the game. These are the people hiding in the corners of every modern war game, the ones the camera never stops to look for as you pretend to be a hero. This is the other side of the coin.

Why do Georgia dealerships want the Tesla store shut down? For selling too many cars already...the bastards!

The Georgia Automobile Dealers Association filed a complaint with the state’s Department of Revenue last week claiming that Tesla is illegally selling cars, as it’s sold 173 cars at its one retail store in the state. That’s more than the 150 it’s allowed under state law, the group alleges.

Wait, why does the Federal Communications Commission get $7.4 million? Were they the ones that had their personal information used for marketing purposes?

Verizon Communications has agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million to settle an investigation into the company's use of consumers' personal information for marketing purposes. This is the largest such payment the FCC has ever received in an investigation related solely to the privacy of telephone customers' personal information.

The crew at Overclockers Club took AMD's FX 8370 and the FX 8370E processors around the block a few times to see how they performed.

Both chips eagerly approached the 5GHz realm to compete on an almost level field with the pricier FX-9590 and FX 9370. First up was the FX-8370E, a chip I felt was going to be the weak link, but turned out to run at 4.99GHz with 1.5v applied in the BIOS while running the memory at over 2400MHz and hyperlink speeds above 2600MHz.

Geneva (AFP) - Public executions, amputations, lashings and mock crucifixion are a regular fixture in jihadist-controlled areas of Syria, a UN probe charged Wednesday, also accusing Damascus of repeatedly using chemical weapons against civilians.

In a 45-page report covering the period from January 20 to July 15, the commission also detailed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Syrian government and other armed opposition groups."Executions in public spaces have become a common spectacle on Fridays" -- the Muslim holy day -- in parts of Syria under control of the Islamic State (IS), the independent Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Syria said.

And it accused Damascus of dropping chlorine bombs on civilian areas in April -- the first time the UN has directly blamed the government for the chemical attacks.

(CNN) -- Gregory Sancoff thinks he knows what the Navy needs, even before U.S. war planners do.The Navy, he says, needs Ghost.Sancoff is CEO of Juliet Marine Systems — maker of a futuristic-looking, 21st-century warship that he says can protect large Navy ships from attacks by small boats.Simply put, Ghost looks a lot like an F-117 "stealth" attack jet — on skis.

(CNN) -- A pilot is missing after an Air National Guard F-15C fighter jet crashed Wednesday in Virginia's Augusta County, authorities said.It was not immediately clear whether the pilot ejected, Air Force Col. James Keefe, 104th Fighter Wing commander, told reporters."People are on site. We actually have helicopters over the site doing the search-and-rescue mission, but we have not been able to talk to anybody," he said.The single-seat aircraft went down in a remote, wooded area near the Virginia-West Virginia border.Prior to losing contact and the crash, the pilot reported an in-flight emergency, Keefe said. He declined to talk about the details of that report.There were no reports of injuries on the ground, said Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police.The state police got the call about the plane crash Wednesday morning, and smoke indicated the location of the crash.The 104th Fighter Wing is based in Westfield, Massachusetts. VIDEO

The Star Wars George Lucas Doesn't Want You To See

In 1978, Star Wars won seven Academy Awards. But if you want to watch that original version, the first of George Lucas’s soon to be seven-part saga, you’ll find it difficult. In fact, it’s actually impossible to buy an official copy of Star Wars as it was first released. Lucas doesn’t want you to see that version. Instead, he wants you to watch the continuously updated special editions—movies with added CGI, changed sound effects, and whole new scenes.

According to some fans, every element that prompted the Academy to recognize the original Star Wars has been changed in these new versions. And some of those fans are now taking it upon themselves to recreate the original Star Wars in a process they call “despecializing.” They gather in online forums and share their work—painstakingly reassembling the movie from a handful of different versions of the film, from VHS to DVD to 35mm print scans using photography and animation software.

One of the most well known despecializers goes by the name “Harmy,” and he recently released a little behind-the-scenes look at the various sources he used for his despecialized edition.

NATO Releases Satellite Photos Proving Russia Is Lying About Invading Ukraine

NATO on Thursday released a collection of satellite photos on its Tumblr page, which the intergovernmental military alliance says confirms the unmistakable military presence of Russian troops and heavy weapons inside Ukraine.

“Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine,” Dutch Brigadier General Nico Tak, director of NATO’s Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Centre said in a statement on NATO’s page.

(CNN) -- "It's even worse than I'd feared," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday of the Ebola outbreak rampaging through West Africa. "Every day this outbreak goes on, it increases the risk for another export to another country."The sooner the world comes together to help Liberia and West Africans, the safer we will all be."Frieden spoke to CNN's Nima Elbagir in Monrovia, Liberia, where fear and anger over the largest Ebola outbreak on record has grown as health officials put up quarantines around some of the capital city's poorest areas.More than 2,600 people have been infected by Ebola in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since the outbreak began in December, according to the World Health Organization. Nearly 1,500 have died.

One of the big mysteries in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is where the virus came from in the first place — and whether it's changed in any significant ways. These unanswered questions could be making it more difficult to diagnose the disease and find treatments.

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 photo, Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu, is seen from a Royal New Zealand airforce C130 aircraft...

You’ve heard of the dot-com boom. Is the dot-tv boom next?

On Monday, Amazon said it would pay $1.1 billion for a website that streams people playing video games. The website is called Twitch — but its address is notTwitch.com, but Twitch.tv.

It’s a distinction easily overlooked, but one that highlights an inexorable shift in how people — especially young people — consume video.

Over the years I've come across a lot of people, some of them otherwise very level-headed and sensible, who think that Apple – for some reason it's almost always Apple that's accused of this – can deliberately and maliciously makes existing iPhones and iPads run slow, thus forcing people to upgrade.Must See Gallery

The idea goes something like this. Buried deep in every iPhone or iPad is some code that's waiting for the day to come when Tim Cook, deep in his secure bunker, flips a switch, which in turn beams a signal to every existing iDevice on the planet to activate the "molasses" mode.

People get frustrated with their old iDevice, and promptly go out and buy a new one.

Yeah, OK, this is crazy talk. File it with the Bigfoot reports and the tinfoil from Roswell, right?

Home Depot Investigating a Possible Massive Credit Card Breach

NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a credit card data breach.

The Atlanta-based home improvement retailer told The Associated Press Tuesday that it is looking into “unusual activity” and working with both banks and law enforcement.

"Protecting our customers’ information is something we take extremely seriously, and we are aggressively gathering facts at this point while working to protect customers," said Paula Drake, a spokeswoman at Home Depot, declining to elaborate. She said the retailer would notify customers immediately if it confirms a breach.

Shares of Home Depot Inc. fell $1.88, or 2 percent, to close at $91.15.

Make sure you guys take a moment to check out our evaluation of the Antec EDGE 750W power supply today.

Antec is easily a go-to brand for many computer hardware enthusiasts and Antec has not been resting on its reputation. Today is the debut of the Antec EDGE 750W. This PSU boasts full modularity, up to 92% efficiency, high quality Japanese capacitors, "Flat Stealth Wires," all riding on two "High Current Rails."

Slowly but surely, Windows 8 is gaining market share.

For the month of August, Windows 8.1 eked out a 7.09 percent market share based on all the desktop OS traffic seen by Web tracker Net Applications. That number was up slightly from 6.56 percent in July, 6.61 percent in June, and 6.35 percent in May. Still in use among many people, Windows 8 scored 6.28 percent of the market last month.

Normally we'd make fun of Apple for something like this but, at least in this case, we just want to say "Thanks!"

It’s believed that the images were stolen by exploiting a glitch in Apple’s Find My iPhone service for people looking to track or shut down their lost devices. Normally, an iPhone user’s account would be locked out after a few failed password attempts, but the glitch allowed a remote hacker to run through multiple passwords until finding the one that unlocked the account.

Feds Punish Business For Engaging In ‘Citizenship-Discrimination’

A Texas catering business will pay the United States $26,400 for engaging in “citizenship-discrimination,” as part of a settlement with the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Culinaire International unlawfully discriminated against employees based on their citizenship status, the Justice Department claimed, because it required non-citizen employees to provide extra proof of their right to work in the United States.

Rollin' Like a Stormtrooper: Hoverbikes Will Soon Take Flight

Wanna ride like a Stormtrooper in “Star Wars?” Flying bikes like these aren’t too far, far away.

Stormtroopers used them to get around on Endor in “Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi.” A state cop used one to pull over a young James Kirk in “Star Trek.” And soon, you may be able to use flying motorcycles to admire the fall foliage in Vermont or to hit the open road in Arizona.

Yes, flying motorcycles are moving from sci-fi staple to reality.

PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed an instructor with an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range said immediately after the shooting that she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder, according to police reports released Tuesday.

Her family members were focused on the girl because they thought she was injured by the gun's recoil and didn't immediately realize instructor Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over to him.

The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona.

The report did not say why the family had gone to the range or why they let the girl handle the Uzi.

After arriving, the girl, her parents, sister and brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.

2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Gets Power Boost

Despite the repositioning of SRT as an official tuner to Dodge, the awesome Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT isn’t going anywhere and to really send the message home the performance SUV has been given a power boost for the latest model year. Yes, our favorite Jeep muscles into 2015 with output from its 6.4-liter HEMI V-8 rising to 475 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, up from the 2014 model’s 470 hp and 465 lb-ft.

Destiny's Raids So Tough You May Need Help from the Internet

Destiny's six-player raid missions are going to be so tough that you'll likely need to access a walkthrough on the Internet to help get your squad through to the end. That's according to Bungie design lead Luke Smith, who says that the game's raid missions were purposefully designed to not give players much information or direction.

"For the majority of raid encounters, you're going to need to work as a group," Smith says in Bungie's latest Weekly Update blog post. "That group of six is trying to form a metaphorical key which opens a given encounter's lock."

BMW X5 Security Plus.

BMW presented its all-new armored X5 Security Plus SUV this week at the Moscow International Auto Salon. To show off the true toughness of the high-security sport utility, the company did what was only logical: attack it with a barrage of machine gun and rifle fire.

The key to any successful vacation is in the planning. The same can be said for making a vacation destination a thriving hot spot. But as it turns out, many tourist attractions weren’t thought out that well. Case in point: Revel Casino. After two years in business, the luxury resort and casino in Atlantic City just announced that it would be closing its doors forever in September.

And while this seems to be a big fail, it isn’t the worst travel flop on record.

Shockingly, there are lots of hotels, entertainment parks, and even beaches that have proved the saying “the devil is in the details.” We rounded up the worst travel flops ever.

Founder Of Angry Birds Company Rovio Gives Up CEO Job After Collapse In Profits

Rovio's Mikael Hed and Pekka Rantala

Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, has a new CEO. Pekka Rantala succeeds founder Mikael Hed in the position.

The move comes after Rovio's profits fell 52% to €26.9 million in fiscal 2013, on revenues that ticked upward only 3% to €156 million. Staff headcount, meanwhile, ballooned from 500 to 800.
Hed had run the company for five years prior. He will become chairman of Rovio Animation Studios, the company's movie division, and likely ascend to a post on the board of directors.
Rantala joined the company as chief commercial officer in June. He came from Nokia, where he was SVP/worldwide marketing.
The move seems to indicate that Rovio is aware that it needs an experienced outsider to get it back on track.
The mobile games business is notoriously difficult: Games are essentially fads, and the Angry Birds fad is long over — eclipsed in part by Supercell's Clash of Clans and King's Candy Crush Saga. Rovio has extended the life of Angry Birds impressively; the game is now in its 13th different iteration. It also spawned a merchandising and media empire — which probably cushioned its revenues, according to Techcrunch.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has been described as a mixture of Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. during the preparation for its U.S. initial public offering. In the last quarter, Alibaba earned more than those companies combined.

Operating income at China's biggest e-commerce operator rose to $1.1 billion in the three months ended June, or 42 percent more than the combined profit of Amazon and EBay for the period. After including one-time gains, Alibaba's net income was more than double those of its competitors.
More from Bloomberg.com: Jack Ma Emerges as China's Richest Man Before Alibaba IPO
Alibaba's results, probably the last before the IPO, underscore how its Taobao and Tmall platforms are connecting consumers to businesses in the most populous nation and how the company is transitioning to mobile services. Alibaba may kick off its roadshow meetings to market the share sale next week, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
"Alibaba still has huge potential for making money, mostly because of its mobile platform," said Li Muzhi, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Arete Research Service LLP. "Alibaba has advanced more than EBay in that it also has its own business-to-consumer business, instead of just linking individual buyers and sellers."

South Korea's Samsung and LG unveiled new smartwatches Thursday with upgraded functions and design as they step up their drive to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices.

The "Gear S" is Samsung's first smartwatch able to make stand-alone phonecalls with built-in 3G alongside Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.
Users can make and receive calls directly from their wrist, or get calls forwarded from their smartphones. Notifications from social networks, calendars and applications can also be received.
"It will let consumers live a truly connected life anywhere, anytime," said JK Shin, head of Samsung's IT and mobile communications division.
Global handset and software makers have struggled to diversify from the saturated smartphone sector to wearable devices.
Global smartwatch sales are expected to grow this year by more than 500 percent from 1.9 million units in 2013, according to the market researcher Strategic Analytics.

If Scotland votes “Yes” on independence, it will begin a long process of creating its own naval defence force, a process that could leave its coastline at risk. The Royal United Services Institute, a British military think tank, said last week that Scottish independence would trigger a national debate over the U.K.’s nuclear weapons if the submarines carrying the Trident missile system were relocated to the south coast of Britain, away from the fleet’s current base in Scotland. The relocation could add £3.5 billion to the cost of maintaining the U.K.’s armed forces.
But there are larger concerns over the future of Scotland’s naval defenses. While Scottish independence would indeed spark a debate on Britain’s nuclear future, as well as kickstarting a costly process to relocate the submarine fleet, some experts caution that Scottish independence could leave it vulnerable to naval threats.

Putin Directly Addressed Rebels In Ukraine For The First Time, And He Used A Frightening Word To Describe Them

RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service/AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time on Friday publicly addressed pro-Russian rebels fighting in southeastern Ukraine, praising their "major success" inside Ukraine.

The Kremlin released a late-night statement from Putin on its website in which he appealed to the militia of "Novorossyia," or "New Russia."

Astronomers have spotted the wreckage of a mammoth collision around a distant young star, a landmark find that could shed light on how our own solar system's rocky planets took shape long ago.

The researchers detected a huge disk of dusty debris around a sunlike star called NGC-2547 ID8, which lies about 1,140 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vega. The cloud was likely spawned when two planetary building blocks slammed into each other just two years ago or so, scientists said.

Californian lawmakers passed a law on Thursday requiring universities to adopt "affirmative consent" language in their definitions of consensual sex, part of a nationwide drive to curb sexual assault on U.S. campuses.
The measure, passed unanimously by the California State Senate, has been called the "yes-means-yes" bill. It defines sexual consent between people as "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity".
The bill states that silence and a lack of resistance do not signify consent and that drugs or alcohol do not excuse unwanted sexual activity.

The latest endeavor to emerge from Google Inc. GOOGL -0.07% 's advanced-research lab is flying into a field buzzing with competitors.

Google X said Thursday it is developing a system of drones to deliver goods. Rival Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.23% is also testing delivery drones, and Domino's Pizza Inc. DPZ -0.05% tested delivering pies via drone in 2013.

Google said a 5-foot-wide single-wing prototype from its Project Wing carried supplies including candy bars, dog treats, cattle vaccines, water and radios to two farmers in Queensland, Australia, earlier this month. VIDEO

We have good news and we have bad news, Apple fans. The good news is that you’ll soon finally be able to get your hands on an iPhone with a significantly larger display, as Apple has sent out invitations to its big iPhone 6 event set to take place on September 9th. The bad news is that from the looks of things, the new iPhone with a significantly larger display is also going to be significantly uglier than its predecessor.

Astronauts looking down on Earth from the International Space Station in June were left scratching their heads when they spotted a “strange pattern of spikes" crossing Siberia's Kulunda Steppe.
The astronauts were so puzzled that they called down to Houston to ask for an explanation, according to NASA. But only recently have scientists at the agency's Johnson Space Center been able to explain what the astronauts were looking at when they saw the dark green spikes stretching over the rural landscape.
siberia spikes

You might not be able to swap this V-8 into your car to make it into a mean drift missile or rocket it to 60 mph in sub-three-seconds, but you could strap it to a bicycle or put it in an RC car for some ridiculous fun. Why? Because it’s a tiny nitromethane-powered V-8.

Hand-built by what appear to be a gang of rowdy, bare-footed Aussies, there are no specs on this engine as to horsepower and torque, but judging by the sound, it’s a feisty little powerhouse.

The work put into making the quad-carved little V-8 sing is amazing, too. From the valve covers to the pulleys to the block itself, it’s a truly impressive bit of craft. VIDEO

As exciting and intriguing as the CyanogenMod-powered OnePlus One might be, perhaps it’s a good thing that the phone is so difficult to purchase right now; with a relatively small number of OnePlus One handsets in the hands of the public, we already have out first report of an injury having been sustained when the handset randomly exploded in a user’s back pocket.

OnePlus forum poster “MiYzu” recently shared a story and a series of photographs that could be cause for concern for prospective OnePlus One owners. According to his post, the man’s phone randomly exploded in his back pocket, spewing out so much heat that it actually burned the back of his leg.

The AM General Humvee has been a workhorse of the U.S. military for decades, but now it's due for replacement. Rather than wait for a replacement from U.S. contractors, a company called Israeli Military Industries has developed their own extreme vehicle which they call Combat Guard.
Looking like a rock crawler that collided with an up-armored Humvee with a little Lamborghini LM-002 thrown in for the cool factor, the Combat Guard looks like it's ready to take on all threats, dead or undead. Naturally, it has four wheel drive and a big 300 horsepower General Motors Diesel engine, but it's also fully armored against small arms fire, landmines, and IEDs and can carry up to eight soldiers in relative comfort. For further protection, it also has an electronic countermeasures system called Bright Arrow that can be used to deflect or destroy guided weapons fired at the Combat Guard before they reach their target.

PHOTO: Justin Ross Harris, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, wipes his eye as he sits during his bond hearing in Cobb County Magistrate Court, July 3, 2014, in Marietta, Ga.

The Georgia dad charged with killing his toddler son by leaving the boy in a hot car all day could face the death penalty, a judge said Thursday at a court hearing.

Justin Ross Harris, 33, was denied bond and faces child cruelty and felony murder charges after he said he forgot his 22-month old son in his SUV while he was at work at Home Depot.

A detective said Harris spent part of the day while his son was dying in the overheated car sending explicit messages and photos to "multiple women." One of the females Harris sexted was 17, the detective said.

The prosecutor said that he brought up the sexting during the probable cause hearing because it "goes to the state of mind" of the defendant.

A Florida police dispatcher will be disciplined for not offering help to a frantic mother whose toddler son had locked himself inside her broiling car, officials said today.

Shana Dees had just left a Tampa drug store on Saturday when she strapped her 10-month-old son in the backseat of the car and shut the door, she told WFTS, ABC’s Tampa Bay affiliate. She quickly realized baby Jack, who often plays with her keys, had them in his hands – but it was too late. He hit a button that locked the doors, trapping himself inside the car on a day the temperature reached 95 degrees.

Dashcam video shows the terrifying scene as a Texas mom and four kids are pulled over by police at gunpoint. WFAA reports VIDEO

A St. Louis County police officer, who was seen pushing a CNN anchor during protests in Ferguson, Mo., this week, was suspended from duty after a controversial video surfaced, in which he fashions himself as a merciless killer.

“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, but I’m also a killer,” said officer Dan Page, a 35-year veteran, in the video. “I’ve killed a lot. And if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed, don’t show up in front of me. I have no problems with it. God did not raise me to be a coward." Page added, “I’m into diversity — I kill everybody. I don’t care."

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said Page has been suspended, pending a review by the internal affairs unit, which will begin Monday. The video was brought to Belmar’s attention by CNN's Don Lemon.

China has executed eight people for "terrorist attacks", including three it described as "masterminding" a suicide car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013, state media announced.

The official Xinhua news agency said early Sunday that the eight were involved in several cases connected to the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where Beijing says separatist militants are behind a string of attacks that have rocked China in recent months.

Three of the condemned, named by Xinhua as Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet, were "deprived of political rights to life" for their role in the brazen assault in Tiananmen Square in October.

Two tourists were killed in the attack, in which a car rammed into bystanders on the iconic square in the heart of Beijing before bursting into flames.

Three attackers also died in the incident Beijing blamed on Xinjiang separatists.

Xinhua said five others were executed, including Rozi Eziz, who was convicted of an attack on police in Aksu in 2013.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A 38-year-old man died Saturday after he was shot multiple times backstage during a concert at a popular Silicon Valley venue, authorities said.

The shooting occurred at Shoreline Amphitheatre, where Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, Atlanta hip hop artist Jeezy and others had finished performing Friday night. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, died at a hospital.

Police rushed to the outdoor venue after receiving multiple calls that shots had been fired. However, no arrests have been made, and officers were still looking for a male suspect believed to be in his 20s and armed with a handgun.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have found two ancient Mayan cities hidden in the jungle of southeastern Mexico, and the lead researcher says he believes there are "dozens" more to be found in the region.

Ivan Sprajc, associate professor at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said his team found the ancient cities of Lagunita and Tamchen on the Yucatan peninsula in April by examining aerial photographs of the region.

Sprajc said the two cities reached their heyday in the Late and Terminal Classic periods (600-1000 AD). At each site, researchers found palace-like buildings, pyramids and plazas. One of the pyramids is almost 20 meters (65 feet) high.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Mormon missionaries serving in Taiwan and another in Oklahoma have died.

Connor Benjamin Thredgold, 19, of Springville, Utah, and Yu Peng Xiong, 24, of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, were found dead Saturday in an apartment they shared in Taiwan, the Mormon church in a statement Saturday to The Associated Press.

Authorities said they do not suspect foul play, but they haven't determined a cause of death, church spokesman Eric Hawkins said.
In the U.S., Nancy Ann Vea, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, died from injuries sustained in a Tulsa car crash on Friday, Hawkins said.

Only a few missionaries die each year, and it is rare for deaths to occur within such a short period, Hawkins said.

Thredgold's family told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1q8h03V ) on Saturday that he loved serving overseas.

(Reuters) - The police chief of a small south Texas town was shot dead during a traffic stop on Saturday, a county sheriff said.

Michael Pimentel died of multiple gunshot wounds suffered in a confrontation with a motorist shortly before noon in Elmendorf, a rural community of about 1,500 people just southeast of San Antonio, said Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau.

“We don’t know exactly what ensued between the two individuals but it did result in the suspect firing a weapon that hit the chief several times,” Pamerleau said.

Pimentel was taken by air ambulance to a San Antonio hospital where he died a short time later, she said.

It should come as no surprise that tech employees in Silicon Valley make boatloads.

We learned just how many boatloads they make in a recent post by SFGate.

The average tech worker in San Francisco made $156,518 in 2013, a gain of roughly 19% from 2012.
If you head south on the Peninsula, salaries are even higher.

The mean salary in San Mateo County is $291,497. That's up 8% year-over-year.

It's important to remember these are averages, not median salaries. That means they can be distorted by outliers, like one person making a ton.

Washington (CNN) -- As debates swirl about the "militarization of police," President Barack Obama has ordered a review of programs enabling state and local law enforcement to buy military equipment, a senior administration official said Saturday.

The decision follows public criticism of the recent use of such assets -- including armored vehicles, high-tech weaponry and stun grenades -- in Ferguson, Missouri, where police have faced off with protesters ever since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.

Acquisition of military surplus equipment by local police departments became possible through the military's Defense Logistics Agency, a law enforcement support program established in 1999.

But, once in the hands of these departments, it's "up to local law enforcement to determine how and when and where and under what circumstances they use excess military equipment," Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said earlier this week.

Spy vs. Spy takes on new meaning if you're talking about Tor. The popular software used to obfuscate a user's digital shadow has been targeted by state intelligence agencies like NSA and GCHQ and defended by counter-intelligence reports from other agents in those same agencies, alleges a Tor Browser engineer.

"There are plenty of people in both organisations who can anonymously leak data to us to say - maybe you should look here, maybe you should look at this to fix this," [Andrew Lewman] said. "And they have."

Mr Lewman is part of a team of software engineers responsible for the Tor Browser - software designed to prevent it being possible to trace users' internet activity. The programs involved also offer access to otherwise hard-to-reach websites, some of which are used for illegal purposes.

In a first, Americans will likely buy more crossovers than midsize sedans this year — unseating the 4-door car as the default vehicle of choice. The crossover has become the family wagon equivalent of today, with hybrids and compacts SUVs expanding as the cars of choice for young singles, couples and families.

A long list of other model types now find themselves in the less-visited areas of new car dealerships. These vehicles that once drew enough buyers to justify new engineering now represent the endangered species of the auto industry. Some are in decline, others nearly defunct, and a few, sadly, may never return.

Revel, the sleek, stylish $2.4 billion beachfront resort that opened in April 2012, will close its doors at 11am ET on Monday, Sept 1. Revel, the fourth Atlantic City, NJ casino to shut down this year, has been plagued by financial problems from the start: construction was delayed in January 2009 because of lack of funds and Revel has filed for bankruptcy twice since opening.
Revel Casino

Revel was seen as the answer to Atlantic City's gambling woes; industry insiders, state politicans and locals believed Revel would attract the crowds that have slowly been leaving AC for gambling venues in New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Its modern design, open spaces and Vegas-like entertainment drew people to the resort, but Revel failed when it came to AC's bread and butter: gambling. LINK

In today's auto market, competition is stiff. Every car seems built to last, which makes it difficult for automakers to tout reliability as their sole selling point. Consumers can shop nearly any brand, confident that they'll drive home in something that will hold up for years. That's led to the demise of brand loyalty -- especially among younger buyers.

But brand loyalty hasn't completely died out. Experian Automotive showed us that some brands do pretty well on that front, while USA Today compiled data from Kelley Blue Book to reveal that some automakers are doing...less well.

(CNN) -- With a ruined centuries-old castle looming up on the hill above, the Slovakian village of Cachtice could easily take a starring role in a Gothic horror film.

However, exactly 400 years ago, on August 21, the horror was all too real, as the life of the most prolific female mass murderer of all time -- a noblewoman by the name of Countess Elizabeth Bathory -- came to a grim end.

It's not an anniversary they're likely to celebrate in Cachtice, where Bathory's reign of terror still haunts locals, but for some -- me included -- there's a strange fascination.

In the lovely Slovakian town of Trencin, my friend Martin and I are joined by two guides, Ivan Kralik and Peter Pastier, who work in the local tourism office.

Mills Police Department Officer Zachary Miller entered his plea on Friday, a month after drug-sniffing police dog "Nyx" died, the Casper Star Tribune reported.
Citing court filings, the paper reported that Miller left Nyx in his patrol car, parked outside the police station, with the windows rolled up.
Police dogs are prohibited from the Mills police station, the paper said.
If convicted of the misdemeanor charges, Miller faces up to six months in jail and a fine of $750, the paper reported.
Calls to the Natrona County District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case, were not immediately returned on Saturday. LINK

The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon may replace third party ads on its websites with a new in-house ad platform. Experts say that Amazon is a "sleeping giant" in the industry because it has a large amount of rich consumer data but has not fully leveraged it for advertising.

For Amazon, more advertising offers the prospect of more revenue and potentially higher profit margins. Amazon remains primarily a retailer, buying goods from suppliers and selling them to customers with small markups. The company operates on notoriously thin profit margins, and frequently posts losses, as it invests for expansion.

Google's ad-supported business is highly profitable. It generated more operating profit in the first six months of this year than Amazon has since it was founded 20 years ago, according to researcher S&P Capital IQ.

The movie is fantastic anyway, but in the wake of Robin Williams’ tragic death, there’s no better time to dig back into The Fisher King — so why not let Terry Gilliam guide your journey?

Gilliam’s long out-of-print commentary for The Fisher King, which was included on the Criterion Laserdisc release in 1991 (remember those?), has resurfaced in full thanks to the magic of the Internet. It’s a fascinating listen, and having Gilliam explain the ambitious tale brings a whole new dimension to the performance.

Some people don’t like riding in a car if they can’t literally put their feet up while ensuring the cabin has exactly the fragrance they desire. Others prefer cars that can stand up to terrorist attacks. For those who fall into both categories, Mercedes-Benz offers the new S600 Guard, the armored version of its flagship S-Class sedan.
To protect dignitaries, diplomats and the 1 percent from gunfire, hand grenades and other threats, Mercedes made the body of the 2015 S600 tougher than a $5 steak. It added liberal amounts of armor to the underbody. It stuffed “special steel”—Mercedes isn’t saying just what makes it special—between the body structure and the outer skin. And it coated the windows and windshield with polycarbonate.

A recent project from Thom Atkinson's documented the kits british soldiers took into battle throughout the ages. This collection is from the Battle of Hastings in 1066. You notice how few objects soldiers had compared to now--that's because of weight.
In the 13th century, if you wanted to kill a man your best bet was using a battle axe. By the 16th century, swords and daggers had given way to muskets. During World War I, hand grenades were a standard part of every British soldier’s inventory. And today? Soldiers carry iPads alongside their rifles.

Sort of reminds me of "Blade Runner"..

Antonio Banderas really, really believes in his new sci-fi movie, Automata.
How do we know? Because he not only stars in it, but produced it as well, calling the film "my baby" in a recent Reddit AMA session. He also described the movie as "an approach to science-fiction in a very European way, in an independent way," adding that the film is about "a philosophical, scientific concept called singularity, which is the time in which machines actually overcome the human mind. So it’s a very reflective philosophical science-fiction, going back to the science-fiction I love, like Isaac Asimov. That’s the type of movie we tried to do.”

Soldiers board an SDV, which deploys from a larger host submarine that can't maneuver in the shallow water near the shore.
Here’s the scenario: After suiting up with diving knives and silenced assault rifles, a team of three Navy SEALs on a submarine prepare to head to shore for a sneak attack. They put on their scuba gear and climb into a vessel that shaped like a torpedo and not much bigger than a shower. Powered by a single rear propeller, it deploys from the host submarine. After hours of slow, calculated movement through water too shallow for any submarine, radar indicates the SEALs have reached shore. Still underwater, they slide back the top canopy of their vessel and swim the last stretch to the beach under cover of night.

I think more and more people are starting to realize something you guys have known for a long time, buying games at launch is not such a good idea.

Early adopters pay the most for a game and get the least finished version of the release. It’s often worth it for them to play it along with the huge rush of other fans who want to be there first, but you don’t have to join them, even if many are perfectly happy to sign up for the journey of a game’s patches and updates and price drops rather than the pure destination of just playing the damned thing.

The SSD Review crew just put the finishing touches on their review of the Kingston SSDNow V310 SSD. If you are looking for a large solid state drive, this review will be of interest.

Although performance may not be the best, Kingston is targeting a specific demographic with this SSD, that being the beginner who will be migrating from a hard drive. Having said that, the included accessories within this SSD present a completely different outlook, one that we have yet to see from any other.

If you've been to a UPS franchise store this year, you are probably going to want to read this.

UPS said Wednesday that 51 of its franchised stores were hit with a malware attack that put customer credit and debit card data at risk from Jan. 20 to August 11. In a statement, UPS Store said that it was hit with a broad malware attack that anti-virus software didn't pick up. UPS Store was notified by federal investigators and then reviewed its systems.

What do you guys think? Will a new design change people's opinion about Google Glass?

US Patent D710,928S was granted to Google engineer Mitchell Heinrich on August, 12 2014. The patent appears to be focused solely on a new version of Google Glass that looks a lot less obtrusive than the current model and may finally remove the robot stigma that some Explorers have been feeling out in public.

Intel and Unity Technologies today announced a strategic collaboration to advance the development of Android*-based applications on Intel® architecture. The agreement accelerates Intel's mobility push as millions of developers using the Unity development platform can now bring native Android games and other apps to Intel-based mobile devices. Unity adds support for Android across all of Intel's current and future processors including both the Intel® Core™ and Intel® Atom™ processor families. Unity will ensure Intel product enhancements, including both graphics and CPU performance improvements and features, will be seamlessly integrated into future releases of the Unity 4 and Unity 5 product lines. As Intel architecture continues to gain market segment share on mobile devices, these improvements will help ensure that the Unity developers' games run natively as well as look great and perform beautifully on Intel platforms.

Here’s video of the cop pointing gun last night and saying “go fuck yourself” when asked his name http://bit.ly/1mmq2X2 #Ferguson

At roughly 11:55 PM CDT, a Ferguson police officer was spotted randomly pointing an assault rifle at protesters. This event was captured by the citizen journalist Rebelutionary_Z. The officer pointed his rifle at Rebelutionary_Z's companion, identified as Josiah (an African-American), and said "I will fucking kill you, get back." When asked for his name by Rebelutionary_Z, the officer responded "Go fuck yourself."

The full video is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51598475
The clip begins at around the 20 minute mark. The video quality is better on the original; my apologies. I don't really know what I'm doing.

Well before "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld was known in automotive circles as a consummate car collector, especially for classic Porsches, and his garages include the first 911 built. And as any car collector knows, the value of owning such vehicles isn't just in looking at them, but driving them as they were meant to be.

(CNN) -- In a single column, a veteran police officer has catapulted himself into the national debate over the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

"I'm a cop. If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me," the Washington Post headline blares. The piece was written by Sunil Dutta, a 17-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department.

"Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you," he wrote.

Dutta cautions against arguing, insulting, or screaming at officers, "and don't even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?"

Exchanging sex for positive press? Damn, no one offers me sex for positive press.

It turns out that Zoe has become somewhat infamous online, often accused of playing the victim to gain publicity. Speculation turned to accusation yesterday, when Zoe’s ex-boyfriend make a post on his own blog, accusing her (with proof) of cheating with a number of prominent industry figures. Among them was current Kotaku writer Nathan Grayson, apparently solicitating sexual favours for positive press.

Hacked three times in three years and this is the first we are hearing of it? That's just lovely.

Citing an internal investigation, the Nextgov website reports that computers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were successfully hacked on three occasions. Two of the attacks were conducted by foreigners and a third came from "an unidentifiable individual," according to Nextgov, which obtained an Office of Inspector General report through an open-records request.

£36 Starfish is a weight-activated sensor that fits to child's car seat

It automatically pairs to parent's iPhone or Android using Bluetooth

When activated, Starfish creates a 'geo-fence' radius around itself

If the phone leaves the geo-fenced area, Starfish will notify the parent

On average, one child dies in a hot car every nine days in the US

A young father horrified by the number of babies left alone in hot cars has invented a device to alert parents if they forget to take their child with them.

Matthew Sheets, 26, has designed a weight-activated seat sensor which notifies a parent's mobile phone when their child is still in their baby seat.

The alert appears on their phone once they step outside of a 20ft (6 metres) radius from the baby seat if they've forgotten to take their child out of its seat.

The Mountain from Game of Thrones is officially Europe's Strongest Man. Or as The Viper might say, "D'oh!"

Hafþór "Thor" Björnsson, who plays Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane on the HBO drama, won this year’s Europe’s Strongest Man contest last week. The 6-foot-9, 420-pound Iceland native won four of six strength competitions: Deadlift, Yoke, Forward Hold (Thor's Hammer), Giant Dumbell for reps (100 kg), Atlas Stones, and Loading Race.

Second chances are rare in sports, but when surfing phenom Jesse Billauer got his, he also wanted to share it with others like him.
As a 17-year-old amateur surfer in 1996, Billauer was flung head first from his surfboard onto a sandbar. Billauer sustained a spinal cord injury, and doctors diagnosed him as a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the midchest down.

Then in 1999, with the help of his family and friends, he founded a non-profit organization, Life Rolls On, that uses sports to improve quality of life for those suffering from spinal cord injuries. That same year Billauer got back on his surfboard. That led to the creation of Life Rolls On's signature program, They Will Surf Again, inspired by Billauer’s determination to ride the waves once more despite his paralysis.
“What that means is just get them on the waves and skateparks and just having that freedom and independence of having the wind and the water on their face and just getting out of their wheelchairs," Billauer told ThePostGame. "Whether it be surfing or skating, they're just doing new things -- just a whole different sensation and just a beautiful feeling."

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