Starbucks Opens at Disney World: What Would Walt Say?

Main Street, U.S.A., the gateway to Disney's Orlando park and a nostalgic evocation of small-town America, is the heart of the Magic Kingdom for many Disney lovers. That's why some patrons are balking at a Starbucks' taking over the Main Street Bakery, a popular institution along the strip.

Despite a complaints on Disney blogs and a petition on Change.org (with 2,000 signatures so far) seeking to ban the corporate coffee giant from converting the eatery, famous for its freshly made cinnamon rolls, the chain had a soft opening last weekend.

"I used to work for Starbucks and I love coffee but seriously Walt Disney World is a place of DREAMS not NAME BRANDS!!! KEEP DISNEY WORLD A DREAM NOT A SELLOUT!!!" was one comment on the petition.

Men's Wearhouse ousts founder and exec. chairman

Men's Wearhouse fires founder, executive chairman George Zimmer, the face of the company on TV

NEW YORK (AP) -- Men's Wearhouse Inc. has dismissed its founder and executive chairman George Zimmer.

In a terse release issued Wednesday, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to one of the nation's largest specialty retailers in men's clothing, with 1,143 locations.

Microsoft Freed Millions Of PC From Criminal Botnet

The swashbuckling crime fighters at Microsoft have taken down the botnet run by the notorious criminal mastermind known as Aquabox. Millions of PCs were freed in the effort but the head of the crime organization is still on the loose. Heh, this stuff writes itself.

Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday.

Ultra High Definition VIA Video Walls Unveiled

You guys really have to see this. VIA is showing off its new high-end VIA Video Wall in 8 and 16 panel configurations, both displaying video and images in 4K resolution.

Why Joss Whedon says he's afraid to continue the Firefly universe

Geek god Joss Whedon has wowed us for decades with iconic TV series such as Buffy, Angel, and Firefly and now with last year's huge summer hit movie, Marvel’s The Avengers.

Of all those series, Firefly may be the one that has achieved the biggest cult status among fans. (Okay, so have Buffy and, by extension, Angel.) However, the fact that the sci-fi series was culled before its time makes it one the fans are desperate to see again -- though at least we got Serenity,right?

A robot that runs like a cat

Thanks to the design of its legs, which faithfully mimic feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" shares the advantages of its biological model: it is small, light and runs very fast. In the long term, this type of machine, which is still in an experimental stage, could be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration.

Nvidia To License Its GPU Technology

According to this blog post, NVIDIA has plans to license its GPU technology to device manufacturers.

We’ll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world’s most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. Through our efforts designing Tegra into mobile devices, we’ve gained valuable experience designing for the smallest power envelopes. As a result, Kepler can operate in a half-watt power envelope, making it scalable from smartphones to supercomputers.

Project Zero tiltrotor shows off battery-powered flight

LE BOURGET, France -- Sure, there are electric vehicles on the road now. But aviation company AgustaWestland thinks they may have a place in the air, too.

At the Paris Air Show here, the Finmeccanica subsidiary showed off an exotic tiltrotor aircraft called Project Zero that's powered by lithium batteries. It flies, but project manager Jianye Zhang wouldn't say how far or how fast.

Tending California's vineyards with RC helicopters

Researchers at UC Davis have a new toy. It's a helicopter the size of a Motorcycle — one which just might put an end to one of humanity's most dangerous professions.

Crop dusting is — literally — a dying trade. In the state of California alone, several pilots arekilled on the job every year. But now, thanks to this little whirly-bird, all that may be coming to an end. Developed in Japan, the not-so-little R/C helicopter has recently begun being put through its paces in Northern California's Napa Valley.

NASA issues asteroid 'Grand Challenge' to all

Are you up for a challenge? How about a Grand Challenge? NASA on Tuesday issued a Grand Challenge aimed at locating all asteroid threats to Earth and figuring out what to do about them.

Man of Steel writer says DC's movie plan is: Do the OPPOSITE of Marvel

With Marvel already in Phase II of their box-office takeover, DC is admittedly late to the party — but they think they can succeed by doing the opposite of The Avengers playbook.

BioShock's creator signs on to write long-delayed Logan's Run remake

Our interest in this remake just skyrocketed. 

Logan's Run is one of those cult sci-fi movies that's beloved based more upon how weird it is than its actual quality. But the book-turned-film has its charms. The idea of a seemingly utopian society that kills off all its citizens once they turn 30 years old (21 in the book) is the kind of speculative sci-fi that hits all the right moral questions and mortal fears.

New 3 min World War Z clip is longest look yet at zombie carnage

A new clip from Brad Pitt’s World War Z finally shows off more of the zombie insanity, and gives us our best look yet at those ant-like undead.

Mortensen may save that long-delayed 'Alien'-esque Dracula pic

After nearly a decade in development hell, the Dracula period piece The Last Voyage of the Demeter is finally starting to move again—and Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings, The Road) could be the guy to bring it all together.

This odd-looking chopper just set a new world speed record

The Eurocopter X3 may look a little strange at first glance. It's got a nose that only a mother could love, a couple of stubby wings, and too many spinny things for a purebred helicopter. But all that adds up to one heck of a speedy aircraft: it's a design which blew past everyone's expectations — even the engineers behind its odd appearance.

China asks U.S. to explain Internet surveillance

BEIJING (Reuters) - China made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community.

Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data.

"We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing.

The Chinese government has previously not commented directly on the case, simply repeating the government's standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking attacks.

Breast-Pumping Mom Humiliated on Flight

Dawn Brahos, a 38-year old mom of three, says that she was mortified on a recent flight when a female American Airlines flight attendant forbade her from using a breast pump. 

 Brahos says that the attendant called her a liar when the Indiana mom explained that she had been allowed to use her Medelabreast pump on two American Airlines flights the week before. 

 "I started it off being quiet and discreet, but theflight attendant wasn't discreet at all," Brahos told the Daily News. "She came back three times to my seat and was really loud about it. She was like, 'You absolutely cannot pump."

"She was just dismissing any possibility of me resolving my situation," she added. "She got angry with me and then wasn't willing to give me her name."

TSA Officer Accused of Shaming Teen for Wearing Leggings. Dad's Got This.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)  is investigating a report that one of its officers allegedly humiliated a 15-year-old girl wearing leggings, a tank top, and a button-down, telling her she should cover up as she went through an ID-check line in the Los Angeles Airport Sunday.  

More on Shine: Dying Woman Humiliated at Sea-Tac Airport by Security Search

“She said the officer was ‘glaring’ at her and mumbling. She said, ‘Excuse me?’ and he said, ‘You're only 15, cover yourself!’ in a hostile tone,” the girl's father, Mark Frauenfelder, toldYahoo! Shine, echoing what he had written in a Boing Boing blog post describing the incident. “It shook her up," he added.

Utah businessman known for good deeds accused of Internet fraud

A Utah businessman known locally for his good deeds is being accused of masterminding a massive Internet fraud.

According to a recent profile in The New York Times, heroic acts like rescuing lost hikers and piloting his own helicopter to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti may have been funded on the backs of defrauded customers from his business.

Fox cub with head stuck in jar seeks a helping hand

A wild animal’s natural instinct is to steer clear of humans. But when a fox cub somehow got its head hopelessly stuck inside a glass jar recently in a Russian forest, there seemed no recourse but to seek a helping pair of human hands. Watch closely as the fox cautiously approaches hikers, and as one of them carefully pulls its furry head from the object and sets the critter free. (The version used with this post is the most widely-viewed, as it has been tweaked for a better viewing perspective.)

Miss Connecticut Wins Miss USA Contest in Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA.

Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the beauty pageant Sunday night after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests.

She beat out 51 other beauty queens every U.S. state and Washington D.C.at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip to take the title from outgoing champion Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether.

Asked if she agreed with the decision to swab the cheeks of arrestees, Brady said she did, since they had committed crimes after all.

Gordon Ramsay's Hellish Kitchen? Why Star Chef Is Being Sued By Ex-Employees

Some of the former staffers of Gordon Ramsay's Fat Cow restaurant have reached their boiling point.

The controversial British chef and star of TV's "Hell's Kitchen," "MasterChef," "Kitchen Nightmares," and "Hotel Hell" has found himself a part of a new class-action lawsuit, Yahoo! TV has confirmed.

Legal papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 13 by four former hourly employees at Fat Cow, the culinary artist's eatery at the Grove shopping and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, against Gordon RamsayLos Angeles LP, the Fat Cow LLC, and FCLA LP. The plaintiffs ― Jennifer Becerra, Montinique Dever, Andrea Bourke, and Lauren Benge ― allege that the restaurant stiffed them of minimum hourly wages and overtime pay, failed to provide break times for meals and rest, and didn't pay them in a timely manner, among other violations. 

Ford enlists robots to drive trucks in tests too tough for humans

Even in an era where most large automakers have a supercomputer available to help design vehicles, there's still no alternative to putting hundreds of thousands of miles on a new model to shake out glitches before it goes on sale. That has always meant a cadre of bleary-eyed test drivers who work endless hours running laps on proving grounds — until Ford came up with a way to have its vehicles test themselves through robotics that don't need caffeine.

Corporate America Fights Back Against (Chinese) Hackers

We’ve heard all about American companies providing data to U.S. spy agencies; this has ruffled a lot of feathers lately. But there may be some good news in the secret partnerships between corporate America and the spooks in Washington.

Bloomberg reports that “thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies” routinely provide sensitive technological information to the government, to help with spying and counterespionage. Unlike the Prism and Blarney programs run by the National Security Agency to gather data from phone and Internet firms, the big corporate data-sharing programs don’t appear to be geared toward counterterrorism. And there’s no customer data involved, according to Bloomberg. Instead, Big Business and the U.S. government appear to be teaming up to defeat hackers, especially those sponsored by foreign governments. Think China.

Snowden Strikes Again: Brits Accused of Spying on G20

New documents revealed by alleged NSA leaker Edward Snowden reportedly show how British cyber spies regularly stole secrets from foreign diplomats during the 2009 G20 summit in London.

During espionage campaign, which was reported Sunday by the U.K.'s The Guardian newspaper, England's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) allegedly set up internet cafes outfitted with email interception and key-logging software designed to track any delegates' computer use there. The GCHQ also allegedly hacked into delegates' blackberries to read their emails and gather phone call information.

NASA Unveils New Astronaut Class for Deep-Space Exploration

NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveiled today (June 17), could be part of the first crews to visit an asteroid or Mars, deep-space goals that NASA aims to explore. They could also be the first people to launch to space on a U.S.-built rocket since the era of the space shuttle, which ended in 2011.

The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You

A nation continues to wait for final word on the Supreme Court's Big Four cases this term — voting rights, affirmative action, DOMA, and Proposition 8 — but the justices' closest decision arrived first on Monday, in a 5-4 ruling on Salinas v. Texas in which the conservative members of the Court and Anthony Kennedydetermined that if you remain silent before police read your Miranda rights, that silence can and will be held against you. Here's what that means.

Basically, if you're ever in any trouble with police (no, we don't condone breaking laws) and want to keep your mouth shut, you will need to announce that you're invoking your Fifth Amendment right instead of, you know, just keeping your mouth shut. "Petitioner's Fifth Amendment claim fails because he did not expressly invoke the privilege against self-incrimination in response to the officer's question,"reads the opinion from Justice Samuel Alito, which Justice Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts backed. Justices Thomas and Scalia had a concurring opinion while the remaining four Supremes dissented. 

This Little Plane Comes With An Awesome Backup Safety System

The 2013 Paris Air Show kicked off today, and there are tons of new aircraft and technology on display. Among the many large planes with fancy new engines and fuel-saving composite materials is this little Cirrus, equipped with one of the more interesting advances in recent aviation.

'True Blood' and the Problem of a Bad Lead

HBO's often sloppy and overcrowded horror-comedy series True Blood returned for its sixth season last night, picking up where we left off in last year's annoyingly entertaining season finale. It looks like I'll be watching yet another season of this show, despite every urging of the more rational parts of my brain to stop. So, if I am going to be with this thing for the long haul once more, would it be too much to make one simple request? Please get rid of Sookie.

Microsoft Blunders Again with Mobile Office

With Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8 flop and the firm's restriction on gamers in its upcoming Xbox One release, it looked as if the company couldn't get more bad press. But then along came the new Microsoft Office Mobile for the iPhone. 

If the company continues down its current path, it could become as obsolete as International Business Machines was in the 1990s. In the company's latest flub, Microsoft's Office Mobile doesn't follow basic file compatibility, said CloudOn's chief executive Milind Gadekar. It should be noted, however, that CloudOn is the rival to Microsoft's Office Mobile, so there is some bias in his opinion. Gadekar did admit, however, that the software is superior to CloudOn in its offline capabilities.

What the bad press means to Microsoft

Microsoft continues to shoot itself in the foot at a time when the company is trying to re-brand itself. The company has also faced criticism for the limitations it has put on users of the November release of the Xbox One. Already, the company said people can't give games away to friends more than once, and the person that receives the gift has to be a friend for at least 30 days. Furthermore, the company's Windows 8 operating system was considered user unfriendly due to confusion among users. 

I'm Overweight and My Boyfriend's Not. Big Freaking Deal

My boyfriend Ali is 5'10" with friendly blue eyes, a dimpled smile and a fit, muscular body. He's someone you'd expect to see with a really hot, thin woman...not an overweight girl like me. 

We've been dating for 18 months, and, wherever we go - whether we're walking hand-in-hand through the mall, airport or down the street in his hometown (Glasgow, Scotland) or mine (San Jose, Calif.) - we get confused looks that say, He can do better than her! 

When people say things out loud, their comments range from cruel ("Is he blind?" "He's only with you to get a green card") to awkward quips such as, "It's great he can see past your looks" or "He's so nice for being with you," they say. I usually respond, "He's not doing me a favor - he's my boyfriend!" 

10 Laid-Back Dog Breeds

Looking for an easygoing dog that's just as happy relaxing as he is playing? These breeds come in a variety of shapes and sizes to match your lifestyle--and throw pillows. 

1. Bulldog 

 Known for their gentle disposition, lovable personality and signature wrinkles, the Bulldog is one of the most popular breeds, according to the American Kennel Club (AKC). With a medium-sized body and strong, sturdy build, Bulldogs may not be able to fit in your lap, but are content relaxing by your side any hour of the day. Gentle and protective, they form strong bonds with children and are known for being excellent family pets, according to the AKC. Bulldogs require minimal grooming and exercise and prefer to stay indoors or in the shade in warm weather because of their flat, short noses. 

What Your Nail Shape Says About Your Health

Next time you're at the nail salon, take a look around you. It doesn't take a detective to notice that not all nails are created equal. No, we're not talking about the tendency for peeling or brittleness-but more to do with the shape of the nail plate itself. Some look pretty "normal," while others are short and stubby or appear to fan out. What gives? 

An atypical shape may be the result of an underlying health issue, in which case it's important to seek medical intervention. But more often than not, it's the luck of the genetic draw. Luckily, the right filing tips will help you nail down the most flattering solution for your fingers. 

UK police looking into Nigella throat-grab pics

LONDON (AP) — British police are investigating newspaper photos that show art collector Charles Saatchi with his hands around the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.

The pictures drew widespread condemnation after they were published by the Sunday People tabloid. The paper said the images were taken during an argument at a London restaurant on June 9.

The London police force said Monday it had not received a criminal complaint about the incident, and "inquiries are in hand to establish the facts" in order to assess whether a formal investigation is warranted.

Raw sewage at Coliseum forces Athletics and Mariners to share Oakland Raiders clubhouse

It's the kind of backup no Major League Baseball team needs: Raw sewage.

A drainage problem at Oakland's Coliseum on Sunday created stinking pools of fluid that rose a foot deep in some parts of the home and visiting clubhouses. The disgusting situation forced the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners to share accommodations on a higher floor inside of the NFL's Oakland Raiders' locker room after the game.

Meet Binary, an iPad app for writing code!

Writing code on an iPad is a seductive idea with a lot of technical hurdles. That’s why developer/entrepreneur/Y Combinator alumnus Darshan Shankar created Binary, an iPad app that lets you write, test, and run code from just about anywhere.

“This means instead of carrying laptops around, a developer could write an app, test it, and deploy it — all from the iPad,” Shankar explained to VentureBeat via email.

Binary also features tabs, themes, syntax highlighting, and all the handy code editor/IDE features you love so well.

10,000 Apple accounts subject to data requests

U.S. law enforcement officials made thousands of requests for data about Apple users over the last seven months, the company said Monday.

Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) said it had received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests, covering between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices, from federal, state and local authorities.

Some of the requests were related to national security matters, but most were made by police investigating crimes, searching for missing persons or trying to prevent suicide, according to the company.

Apple Releases Some Data on Government Requests

Amid reports that technology companies cooperated with the United States government’s surveillance efforts, Apple has maintained that it does not provide the government with unfettered access to its servers. On Monday, the company released some numbers and information about its online services to try to prove it.

In a statement on its Web site, Apple said that from December 2012 through May 2013, it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from American law enforcement agencies for customer data. Among those requests, government officials asked for information about roughly 10,000 accounts or devices, Apple said.

Apple got up to 5,000 data requests in six months

(Reuters) - Apple received over the last six months between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer datafrom U.S. law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters, the company said on Monday.

Microsoft and Facebook Inc published similar data last week after reaching a deal about disclosures with U.S. national security authorities.

Mother Protects Kids From Alleged Carjacker: 'I Told Him He Messed With the Wrong Witch'

A Texas mother's determination to keep her family out of danger drove her to battle an alleged carjacker until he fled from her minivan -- only to be struck by her vehicle as she tried to "stop him so he didn't hurt anybody else," the woman said.

While Dorothy Baker and her 2-year-old and 5-year-old sons were shopping Friday at a CVS in Baytown, Texas, a man identified as Ismael Martinez allegedly hid out in her unlocked van, police said.

When the family got back into the car, Baker said Martinez "popped up out of the backseat and said that if I didn't want my kids to get hurt, that I would do exactly what he said."

Martinez, 54, allegedly pulled a knife on Baker while she was driving and demanded she stop at an ATM for money, she said.

When she refused, Martinez allegedly became violent, she said.

The 7 Worst Things You Can Say To Your Child

Parenting can be so damn stressful. Kids push boundaries and buttons, and it’s a parent’s job to stay calm and steady in the face of it all. But most of us don’t perform this job with absolute perfection. We sometimes and say things to our kids we wish we could stuff back inside our mouths. I’m sure most of us have some cringeworthy moments to mull over and make up for.

But some verbal mistakes are worse than others. Parenting expert Chick Moorman, the author of  Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Child in Language That Builds Self-Esteem and Encourages Responsibility,  thinks there are seven really big baddies. How many of them have you heard slip out of your mouth? LINK

The Class Photo that Broke a Mother’s Heart

What is wrong with this picture?

It's one of those things that you don't get, until you get it. Unless you are eternally empathetic, you look at this photo and don't see much wrong at all.

To Anne Belanger, mother of Miles, the photo is unbearable to look at.

When the class portrait for her son's Grade 2 class came home, she opened it excitedly, and immediately shoved it back in the envelope. She couldn't look at it. It broke her heart.

Anne's son, Miles, has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. At the age of 13 months, his parents were told that Miles would never walk, he has spent his life in a wheelchair. 

5-year-old girl takes on Westboro with lemonade stand

A 5-year-old girl who set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., on Friday raised more than $10,000 in the name of peace.

Jayden Sink, with more than a little help from her father, Jon, sold "Pink Lemonade for Peace" from her stand outside the Equality House, a rainbow-painted building across the street from the controversial church's headquarters on Friday. According to Jon, his daughter got more than $170 in cash and more than $10,000 in online donations through Crowdrise. The money went to Planting Peace, a nonprofit that owns the Equality House.

Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online

KENT, Ohio (AP) — If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police ChiefDavid Oliver and some of his small department's 49,000 Facebookfans.

And Oliver does not mince words.

Guardian: NSA leaker Snowden live chats in hiding

WASHINGTON (AP) — NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian and attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor.

"The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me," he said. He added the government "immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home," by labeling him a traitor, and indicated he would not return to the U.S. voluntarily.

Congressional leaders have called Snowden a traitor for revealing once-secret surveillance programs two weeks ago in the Guardian and The Washington Post. The National Security Agency programs collect records of millions of Americans' telephone calls and Internet usage as a counterterror tool. The disclosures revealed the scope of the collections, which surprised many Americans and have sparked debate about how much privacy the government can take away in the name of national security.

Watch an awesome trailer for that long-awaited Captain Harlock movie

A brand-new and very cool full Japanese trailer for the upcoming CGI flick Space Pirate Captain Harlock has hit the web.

Vin Diesel kicks more merc and monster ass in new Riddick trailer

A new trailer for Vin Diesel’s Riddick has arrived, showing off even more merc-fighting and monster attacks. Want to see?

The 50 Best Booth Babes of E3 2013

Legit Reviews has posted pictures of the 50 best booth babes of E3 2013. I scrolled through the images, everything I saw was safe for work.

Wolfenstein: The New Order Interview

The folks at GameTrailers sat down with the creative director of the upcoming Wolfenstein: The New Order. Watch the video below for a bit of gameplay footage intertwined with the interview.

World's 1st CPU Cooler With Active Noise Cancellation

This looks pretty interesting. I guess we'll have to get one of these for our in-house cooling expert to take a look at.

Cable Holding Back Superfast Broadband?

Is cable holding back superfast broadband adoption on purpose? Without having to even think about it, I am going to go ahead and just say "yes."

The cable industry says it is more than ready to compete with Google Fiber, but adds that consumers are nowhere near ready for gigabit speeds. Is it cable's pricing schemes that are holding back adoption?

'Blue Waters' supercomputer helps crack HIV code

Scientists have been investigating the structure of the HIV capsid for years; the protein shell protects the virus' genetic material, helps debilitate the infected person's immune system, and is the target for the development of new antiretroviral drugs. Research teams have turned to a wide range of futuristic-sounding techniques to crack the code, from cryo-electron microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to cryo-EM tomography and X-ray crystallography.

Smart dog collar lets us know how Fido is feeling

The Whistle Dog Collar is a smart collar that tracks your pet dog's activity (or lack thereof) throughout the day. For $99.95, the San Francisco start-up responsible for this cute, perhaps slightly excessive gizmo will send you a small wireless sensor that clips to collars and keeps an eye on Fido whenever you want. All the information is logged on your smartphone or web app so you can review it at your leisure.

Samsung analysts ask hard questions as S4 marketing charm wears off

SEOUL (Reuters) - Analysts fell under Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's marketing spell when they made what they now admit were hopelessly optimistic forecasts for its smartphone sales.

Samsung's huge share of the high-end smartphone market also persuaded some analysts to downplay industry data pointing to a fast-saturating segment, a reality that is already eating into sales of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone 5.

Woori Investment & Securities , one of South Korea's largest securities firms, cut its outlook for Samsung's earnings and target share price on June 5. It was the first to adjust its view.

Special Report: Lack of a prenup imperils oil billionaire's fortune

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The divorce of oil baron Harold Hamm has had its dramatic moments. Among them: allegations that Harold was unfaithful - and a heated debate over whether the court should order his wife, Sue Ann, to turn over secret video and audio recordings she made of him at home.

But the split of the Continental Resources chief executive's fortune, worth at least $11 billion, could turn on the absence of a single document - and result in the largest divorce settlement in history.

Despite efforts by the Hamms to keep their divorce proceedings secret, Reuters has learned that the couple never signed a prenuptial agreement when they were married 25 years ago.

Little-known sci-fi fact: Whedon spent 7 weeks rewriting 'generic' Waterworld script

The writer/director of one of genre cinema's biggest hits also had a hand in one of its biggest flops.

Back in the early '90s Joss Whedon was spending a lot of time working as a Hollywood "script doctor," a writer hired to come in and, usually anonymously, "fix" or "punch up" problematic scripts in an effort to make them funnier, smoother or often just plain cheaper to produce. Among his script doctor credits are blockbuster hits like Speed and X-Men, but he also had to spend what he later described as "seven weeks of hell" trying to punch up the notoriously awful and notoriously unprofitable 1995 flick Waterworld.