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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Box Office Preview: 'Ender's Game' Eyeing $25 Million-Plus North American Debut

Sci-fi epic Ender's Game is poised to win the North American box-office race this weekend with a solid $25 million or more opening, hoping to reverse a disturbing downturn in movie adaptations of young-adult books. Overseas, the film has already opened in the U.K., where it is doing softer-than-expected business.

The big headline internationally this weekend will be Disney and Marvel Studios' sequel Thor: The Dark World, which began rolling out Wednesday in the U.K., France and a handful of other markets, grossing north of $8 million and pacing ahead of the first Thor. On Thursday and Friday, Thor 2, with Chris Hemsworth returning in the title role, opens in a number of other major markets before hitting theaters in North America on Nov. 8.

PHOTOS: 'Ender's Game' Premiere Invades Hollywood With Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield

Ender's Game, a co-production between Summit Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment and Digital Domain, will need to do substantial business worldwide in order to make up its $110-million budget. The action-adventure is based on the bestselling YA novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card, whose anti-gay comments have riled many.

Directed by Gavin Hood, Ender's Game stars Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin.

Outside of the Hunger Games and Twilight film franchises, YA properties have struggled at the box office. This year, The Host, Beautiful Creatures and Mortal Instruments: City of Bones all flopped.

Set in the near future, Ender's Game revolves around a young boy (Butterfield) who is recruited by the military to stop an alien race from destroying the world.

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Ender's Game is a sizeable gamble for Gigi Pritzker's OddLot, which financed much of the movie and dispatched sister company Sierra/Affinity to sell the movie internationally. Last weekend, Ender's Game debuted at No. 5 in the U.K. with just under $2 million, but the film could make up ground as it continues to roll out in additional foreign markets.

Relativity Media and Reel FX's animated 3D pic Free Birds is getting an early jump on Thanksgiving by rolling out now. The movie -- about a pair of turkeys who travel back in time to prevent their kind from becoming the traditional holiday meal -- should benefit from being the only new family entry in the market and hit $20 million in its debut (Entertainment One is distributing in Canada), athough Relativity insiders are expecting a figure more in the $16 million to $19 million range. The voice cast is led by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler.

Free Birds, costing $55 million to make, marks Relativity's first foray into the animated business. The company could use a box office win after suffering a string of disappointments.

CBS Films' sexagenarian comedy Last Vegas, the weekend's third new nationwide entry, is looking at a more modest opening in the $14 million range. Directed by Jon Turteltaub, the film's high-profile cast -- Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline -- should result in strong legs, however. A geezer version of The Hangover, Last Vegas stars four friends in their 60s who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Mary Steenburgen also stars.

PHOTOS: 'Last Vegas' Premiere

Older moviegoers rarely rush to see a film on its opening weekend. CBS Films believes Last Vegas will serve as strong counterprogramming throughout the month. In August 2012, Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, opened to a modest $14.7 million on its way to earning $63.5 million domestically and a hearty $114.3 million globally.

The specialty box office sees a number of high-profile debuts, including awards contender Dallas Buyers Club, which Focus Features opens in six theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and Diana, the biopic of Princess Diana starring Naomi Watts. Entertainment One is opening Diana in 38 markets.

Dallas Buyers Club has drawn raves for performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.

Universal also releases Richard Curtis' romantic fantasy-comedy About Time, starring Rachel McAdams opposite Tom Hollander, in the U.S. From Working Title Films, About Time is only opening in 175 theaters domestically. Overseas, the film has grossed $32 million from 40 markets, with 17 countries still left to go.

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IBM to nix SmartCloud Enterprise, migrate users to SoftLayer cloud

IBM has informed its customers that it will be phasing out its SmartCloud Enterprise cloud computing platform and is offering free migration of workloads to SoftLayer's cloud, which IBM recently purchased.

Two analysts who track the cloud computing industry first broke the news late Wednesday evening that IBM had informed its customers that SmartCloud Enterprise (SCE) is shutting down by Jan. 31, 2014. Cloud consultancy CohensiveFT posted on its blog a letter that appears to be from IBM to customers.

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An IBM spokesperson confirmed the news Thursday and said that it has been part of the plan since IBM acquired SoftLayer to migrate customers over to that platform. But today is the first time IBM has acknowledged that publicly.

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IBM's SCE service has been met with lackluster reviews. In Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for IaaS, authored by Lydia Leong, IBM placed in the least favorable position out of more than a dozen companies analyzed. In that report, Leong noted that SCE features lagged "significantly behind" its competitors, that it has weak security capabilities that make it difficult for customers to meet regulatory compliances, and that its service-level agreement (SLA) did not cover basic provisions such as when the service was unavailable for maintenance.

IBM added a company with a good reputation in the cloud industry when it closed its acquisition of SoftLayer in July. SoftLayer offers traditional pay-per-use virtual machines and storage, but also an array of bare-metal servers for rent as well. Those non-virtualized machines can provide higher compute performance for workloads that need it. SoftLayer has been focused on servicing the small and midsized business market and has based its platform on open source CloudStack. After being acquired by IBM, the company has been serving large enterprise customers more, and has begun exploring how it can integrate OpenStack into its offering. IBM has made public commitments to use OpenStack.

In a letter posted by CohesiveFT, IBM offers to migrate customers from SCE to SoftLayer for free, which it says should happen before Jan. 31 of next year, "at which time access to SmartCloud Enterprise will no longer be available." IBM says that SmartCloud Enterprise+, which is another product in IBM's cloud portfolio, is unaffected by this news.

Just a few weeks ago the cloud market reacted to the news of another cloud platform shuttering: Cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced it would be going out of business.

Check back to Network World later today for more information on the IBM news.

Senior Writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing for Network World and NetworkWorld.com. He can be reached at BButler@nww.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW. Read his Cloud Chronicles here.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/ibm-nix-smartcloud-enterprise-migrate-users-softlayer-cloud-229956
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Pa. residents living above mine fire free to stay

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 1983, file photo, smoke rises from the ground in Centralia, Pa., where and uncontrolled underground mine fire was burning. The attorney for the few remaining residents of the central Pennsylvania coal town that was decimated by a 50-year-old mine fire said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that they have settled their lawsuit against state officials who have been trying for years to evict them. The settlement allows eight Centralia residents to stay in their homes for as long as they live and it also includes a cash payout. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)

FILE -- This Jan. 13, 2010 file photo shows steam rising from the ground around retired Centralia Postmaster Tom Dempsey as he stands in an area that was in Centralia, Pa. The steam is caused by a fire that was still burning underground after it started in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein. The underground fire eventually forced an exodus of more than 1,000 people, nearly the entire population. The attorney for the few remaining residents of the central Pennsylvania coal town that was decimated by a 50-year-old mine fire said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that they have settled their lawsuit against state officials who have been trying for years to evict them. The settlement allows eight Centralia residents to stay in their homes for as long as they live and it also includes a cash payout. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, FILE)

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010 file photo, the empty town of Centralia, Pa., is seen from above. The attorney for the few remaining residents of the central Pennsylvania coal town that was decimated by a 50-year-old mine fire said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that they have settled their lawsuit against state officials who have been trying for years to evict them. The settlement allows eight Centralia residents to stay in their homes for as long as they live and it also includes a cash payout. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010, file photo, an old sign reading "Keep Centralia On The Map" is visible in the entrance of the closed Centralia Municipal Building in Centralia, Pa. The attorney for the few remaining residents of the central Pennsylvania coal town that was decimated by a 50-year-old mine fire said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that they have settled their lawsuit against state officials who have been trying for years to evict them. The settlement allows eight Centralia residents to stay in their homes for as long as they live and it also includes a cash payout. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - In this April, 1981, file photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that was burning under the town. The attorney for the few remaining residents of the central Pennsylvania coal town that was decimated by a 50-year-old mine fire said on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that they have settled their lawsuit against state officials who have been trying for years to evict them. The settlement allows eight Centralia residents to stay in their homes for as long as they live and it also includes a cash payout. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)

The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town that was largely razed in the 1980s because of an underground mine fire that still burns today have gotten their wish — to be left alone, free to live out their lives there.

A lengthy battle over eminent domain culminated this week when eight residents of Centralia settled their lawsuit against state officials who had been trying to evict them from their condemned homes. The settlement, notice of which was filed in U.S. District Court, allows the residents to stay for as long as they live. It also includes a cash payout of $349,500.

"Everybody got what we wanted, and everybody's happy now," resident Tom Hynoski, 52, said Thursday.

The mine fire was ignited in 1962 and eventually spread to the vast network of mines beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes. By the end of the 1980s, more than 1,000 people had moved and 500 structures had been demolished under a $42 million federal relocation program.

But some holdouts refused to go, even after their houses were seized in the early 1990s. They said the fire posed little danger to their part of town, accused government officials and mining companies of a plot to grab the rights to billions of dollars' worth of anthracite coal, and vowed to stay put.

After years of letting them be, state officials decided a few years ago to take possession of the homes. The homeowners fought back with a federal lawsuit.

Hynoski, who has long contended that government corruption involving the coal rights was behind the state's drive to force them out, claimed vindication.

"They bent us, but they didn't break us," he said.

State officials have long denied any such plot to grab the coal rights and say they sought possession of the properties out of public safety concerns.

Last year, a geologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said the fire may have gone deeper underground but still poses a threat because it has the potential to open up new pathways for deadly gases to reach the remaining homes. But residents say that's nonsense and point out that they've lived for decades in their homes without incident.

The agreement includes $218,000 to compensate residents for the value of their homes and $131,500 to settle additional claims raised in the lawsuit, according to Steve Kratz, spokesman for the state Department of Community and Economic Development, a defendant in the suit.

The mine fire has transformed Centralia into a macabre tourist attraction. There's an intact street grid with almost nothing on it, clouds of steam waft from the cracked earth, and visitors gawk at the ruins of an abandoned highway.

But the homes that remain are neatly kept, and this week's settlement means that Centralia as a town has not yet breathed its last.

"They get to live in their property and enjoy it the rest of their life," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Don Bailey. "We did very well."

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West tour postponed after 60-foot screen damaged

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 file photo, recording artist Kanye West speaks onstage during the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. West is postponing the rest of his “Yeezus” tour after a 60-foot LED screen used during his shows was damaged. A representative for the rapper says a truck that carried the screen was in an accident Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, that has “damaged the gear beyond repair.” (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is postponing the rest of his "Yeezus" tour after a 60-foot LED screen used during his shows was damaged.

A representative for the rapper says a truck that carried the screen was in an accident Wednesday that "damaged the gear beyond repair." The truck was on its way to Vancouver.

The rep said in a statement Thursday that it would be "impossible" to put on a show until the screen is repaired.

Thursday's show in Vancouver and next week's shows in Denver and Minneapolis were postponed. The West rep planned to provide an update later on any new dates.

West's tour kicked off this month in Seattle. Rapper Kendrick Lamar is his opening act.

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Online:

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Montana, feds to seek damages from Exxon spill

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After two years of review, Montana and federal officials notified Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday that they intend to seek damages for injuries to birds, fish and other natural resources from a major crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River.

The Texas company's 12-inch Silvertip pipeline broke near Laurel during flooding in July 2011, releasing 63,000 gallons of oil that washed up along an 85-mile stretch of the scenic river.

The move puts Exxon on notice that Montana and the Department of Interior expect the company to make up for harm done to wildlife and their habitat. The company also is being asked to pay for long-term environmental studies and for lost opportunities for fishing and recreation during and since the cleanup.

Separate fines totaling $3.4 million for safety and water pollution violations already have been resolved or are pending before state and federal agencies.

Exxon has told regulators it spent $135 million on the cleanup and related repair work intended to prevent a repeat of the spill, which came on a line installed just a few feet beneath the riverbed.

State officials said some of the damage is ongoing and will take years to fully understand and quantify.

That includes harm done to the river and its banks during the cleanup itself, when Exxon brought in 1,000 workers who removed hundreds of oil-stained wood piles along the river.

"You picked up the oil, but you picked up the stuff that makes the habitat work, as well," said Bob Gibson, a spokesman for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. "We know there's damage out there that has not been mitigated, cleaned up or compensated for. We need to decide what further can be done."

Representatives of Exxon said they were preparing a response to Thursday's notice.

The break spurred Congress to demand a Department of Transportation review of oil and other hazardous liquid pipelines that cross beneath major rivers and other waterways across the U.S. The agency last year said there were more than 2,800 such locations.

The Transportation Department recently revised its estimate to 18,136 hazardous pipeline crossings, including 5,110 locations where the body of water has a width of 100 feet or greater.

Federal officials have said they will return to Congress in early 2014 with a determination on whether rules such as a 4-foot depth requirement for pipeline crossings are sufficient.

The Yellowstone spill also prompted oil companies including Exxon to rebury pipelines at other water crossings where the lines were considered at risk of failure due to erosion. In the case of Silvertip, the company installed new sections of line dozens of feet beneath the surface at the Laurel site and two other crossings.

Negotiations with Exxon are ongoing but no agreement has been reached, said Robert Collins, the state's lead attorney in the case.

If the company resists paying for the upcoming studies or for compensation, Collins said the state and federal government could take legal action. It's uncertain how long it will take to gauge the extent of damages. For other spills the process has taken many years.

"We're anticipating we could go to court, but we want to give (negotiations) a try before we take that step because that would string things out even further," Collins said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/montana-feds-seek-damages-exxon-spill-153410442--finance.html
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AIDS Scientists Encouraged By Antibodies That Hit Monkey Virus

These HIV viruses even look a little like bull's-eyes.

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These HIV viruses even look a little like bull's-eyes.

A. Harrison and P. Feorino/CDC

Scientists have a new idea for beating HIV: Target the virus with guided missiles called monoclonal antibodies.

At least in monkeys infected with an experimental virus similar to the human AIDS virus, the approach produced what researchers call "profound therapeutic efficacy."

The results appear Thursday in two papers published by Nature — one from a Boston group, and a confirmatory report from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases.

The virus plummeted to undetectable levels in animals that got potent antibodies of a type recently discovered in some humans with HIV. And the virus remained undetectable for weeks after a single antibody injection.

“ This is a really new wrinkle in a field that needs new wrinkles

- Dr. Francis Collins

Most impressive, several monkeys who started out with low levels of HIV in their blood maintained extremely low levels of the virus in their systems months after a single antibody injection.

The researchers think they may have turned these animals into so-called elite controllers – like the 1 percent of HIV patients who are able to suppress the virus even without antiviral drugs.

The scientists say their results justify experiments in humans with HIV. And the potential implications seem to be large, in at least two ways:

Periodic injections of monoclonal antibodies might be a new kind of treatment for HIV-infected humans, either alone or in combination with conventional antiviral drugs.

Monoclonal antibodies might be incorporated into strategies, now being eagerly pursued by a number of scientists, to cure HIV infection – that is, to clear the virus from patients' cells, allowing them to stop taking antiviral drugs.

"The findings of these two papers could revolutionize efforts to cure HIV," two cure-seekers write in a Nature commentary. Why? Louis Picker of Oregon Health and Science University and Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco speculate that combining monoclonal antibodies with conventional antiviral drugs might turbocharge the suppression of HIV, stimulate the destruction of reservoirs of HIV-infected cells, and suppress the generalized immune activation that accompanies chronic HIV infection.

"At the very least, these results will catalyse collaborations between the massive teams of experts who have for decades worked on HIV prevention and treatment in separate venues," Picker and Deeks predict.

The findings stem from discoveries over the past year or so that some humans with HIV occasionally make antibodies to the virus that are highly potent. That insight came after years of disappointing efforts to find what researchers call broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV — or to stimulate their production with experimental vaccines.

Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and his colleagues generated several types of the newly discovered antibodies in mice. They then injected the antibodies into 18 rhesus monkeys who had been infected ninemonths earlier with a specially concocted virus with features of both HIV (the human AIDS virus) and SIV (the simian, or monkey, version). The hybrid virus, which doesn't appear in nature, is called SHIV.

The antibody injections resulted in rapid clearance of free-floating SHIV from the animals' blood that was sustained for weeks or months, until the antibodies gradually disappeared.

There was also evidence that the antibodies stimulated the monkeys' own immune systems to target and kill the cells infected by SHIV. That needs confirmation, but if it happens that would be important, because long-term control of infection requires the elimination of these hiding places – the cells that harbor viral genes that can give rise to new HIV.

The durability of the antibody treatment varied according to how much SHIV the monkeys had in their system to start with.

The Boston researchers were so surprised by their findings that they didn't publish them until the NIH group replicated them in a smaller study.

Other scientists say the implications of this early immunotherapy study are potentially far-reaching. NIH Director Francis Collins told The Wall Street Journal that he could imagine shifting HIV treatment from daily antiviral pills to injections of monoclonal antibodies every three months. "This is a really new wrinkle in a field that needs new wrinkles," Collins says.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/31/242093426/aids-scientists-encouraged-by-antibodies-that-hit-monkey-virus?ft=1&f=1001
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Windows 8.1's 'Hero' ads -- brought to you by stealthy snooping

Microsoft yesterday unveiled more details about its new search-based advertising for Windows 8.1. Microsoft calls the technology behind the ads "Smart Search," and it's certainly smart -- for advertisers, that is, not for you. For Windows 8.1 customers like you and me, Smart Search is the worst privacy-busting feature to ever slither its way into Windows.

I've talked about Smart Search before, but if you use Windows 8.1, it would behoove you to double-check right now and make sure you aren't being MicScroogled. And if you know somebody who's actually fallen for this bit of marketing muck, show them what's going on behind the scenes.

At this moment, I count 40 different tech publications that are parroting Stephen Sirich's official A View Into Tomorrow at Bing Ads Next blog post. (According to LinkedIn, Sirich is a general manager in Microsoft's Online Services Division.) Sirich is speaking to advertisers when he says:

We are currently running the pilot of Hero ads, which can appear when users are searching for certain brand-specific information in Bing Smart Search. The goal of Hero ads is to enable searchers to quickly find the most relevant information and complete the most popular tasks for the brand they are specifically searching for via a beautiful visual and interactive experience created in partnership with our brand partners.

Those 40-odd tech blog posts pick up on the fact that the Hero ad pilot comes a week after Google started testing banner ads, but that's a coincidence. In fact, Hero ads have been part and parcel of Windows 8.1's Smart Search since early beta versions. Search Engine Watch says this:

Bing Ads has announced a brand new ad experience today at its Bing Ads Next event, called Hero Ads. The new ads are a very visual ad unit within Windows 8.1 Bing Smart Search and are a great integration between Windows and Bing Ads.

The goal of the new Hero ads is to combine user intent, branding and task completion for consumers. From an advertiser perspective, it enables advertisers to get all the most important and relevant information before consumers, with plenty of call to action.

Hero Ads are very visual ad formats and essentially the ads look to be like a landing page, rather than an advertisement by Bing. Hero ads are currently part of the Windows 8.1 user experience with Bing Smart Search...

Hero ads are currently being run as free of cost during the consumer testing phase. During the limited pilot, Bing Ads will be scrutinizing metrics for consumer experience and get feedback from both advertisers and consumers. Specifically, they want to test how consumer satisfaction changes with hero ads. They also want to determine whether it should it be a total ad experience or a hybrid of ad and search when serving Hero ads.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/windows-81s-hero-ads-brought-you-stealthy-snooping-229907?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing

For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead. Now, we’ll be able to do that officially and more, according to the FAA. The American government organization overseeing air travel today announced that travelers won’t face regulations that are quite as strict when it comes to electronics on planes.

Don’t start celebrating just yet – this doesn’t mean you can continue playing Candy Crush while waiting for your massive, heavy hunk of metal to defy physics and launch itself into the air as of this very moment. The changes will differ depending on each airline, the FAA says, since there are differences between types of planes and how things are run at each different carrier, but the FAA anticipates that most will allow passengers to use their gadgets “in airplane mode, gate-to-gate, by the end of the year.”

Passengers can use e-book readers, play games and watch videos on devices, and can hold gadgets during both take-off and landing, or else stow them in the seatback pocket. These gadgets need to be in Airplane Mode or have cell service turned off during both landing and taxi/take-off, but you can actually use Wi-Fi during your flight and continue to use Bluetooth accessories connected to your phone.

There are still some things the FAA says travelers need to be aware of regarding these rules, to make sure they’re still in compliance with guidelines. Here’s a full list of those points flagged by the regulatory organization:

1. Make safety your first priority.

2. Changes to PED policies will not happen immediately and will vary by airline. Check with your airline to see if and when you can use your PED.

3. Current PED policies remain in effect until an airline completes a safety assessment, gets FAA approval, and changes its PED policy.

4. Cell phones may not be used for voice communications.

5. Devices must be used in airplane mode or with the cellular connection disabled. You may use the WiFi connection on your device if the plane has an installed WiFi system and the airline allows its use. You can also continue to use short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards.

6. Properly stow heavier devices under seats or in the overhead bins during takeoff and landing. These items could impede evacuation of an aircraft or may injure you or someone else in the event of turbulence or an accident.

7. During the safety briefing, put down electronic devices, books and newspapers and listen to the crewmember’s instructions.

8. It only takes a few minutes to secure items according to the crew’s instructions during takeoff and landing.

9. In some instances of low visibility – about one percent of flights – some landing systems may not be proved PED tolerant, so you may be asked to turn off your device.

10. Always follow crew instructions and immediately turn off your device if asked.

Earlier this year, the FAA seemed ready to relax the rules around personal electronics use in-flight, but they quickly noted that this didn’t mean we’d see blanket bans lifted immediately. Now, the FAA is taking pains to roll this out more quickly, and is “streamlining” approval of the new rules via clear instructions and guidelines for airlines about implementation of device use. Delta has announced that it’s the first to submit its plan to comply with the new regulations, and that it will do so by November 1, it hopes.

With any luck, some passengers might be able to watch Home Alone 2 on their new iPad Air while winging their way home to enjoy a family Christmas dinner. It’s about time.

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Supposed leaked docs point to Kit Kat being designed for low spec phones, televisions and wearables

Kit Kat

More last minute leaks point towards Kit Kat features

Another to add the the list of rumors about what's next for Google has magically surfaced tonight. According to ex-WSJ reporter Amir Efrati, Kit Kat will focus on unifying Android and making the OS run better on low-end hardware.

Specifically, he says it was designed for devices with 512MB of RAM, like the millions of devices in the wild running older versions of the OS. Google using a phone with a Snapdragon 800 and 2GB of RAM — if rumored specifications are to be believed — as a lead device for software designed for devices with old hardware is a bit puzzling though. This would be best done using the Nexus S, which Google surely has access to.

Additionally, Google has provided support for sensors such as a step detector and step counter, and and added what they are calling a geomagnetic rotation vector. This would enable Android to run as a fitness tracker as well as have more accurate and detailed location reporting. Bluetooth HID over GATT and Bluetooth MAP are additional services that would seem to suggest better wearable support.

Finally, It's said that there will be native support for IR controllers, such as the types used for televisions. We've seen these on devices before, though without support at the OS level.

Really, there's nothing here that hasn't been rumored for months. We'll know how much of it all is true, and what is just rampant speculation soon.

Source: Jessica Lessin

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FAA expands the use of portable electronics on planes, but you'll have to wait on the airlines to allow it

Portable electronics on planes

Airplane mode will still be required, and you'll have to pretend to pay attention to the safety briefing

The Federal Aviation Administration this morning at a news conference announced that it has determined that portable electronic devices can be used not just above 10,000 feet, but during "all phases of flight." That means no more turning off your iPhones, iPads, e-books, e-readers, Game Boys, Kindles, BlackBerry, blueberry, strawberry — anything with an on/off switch that must be in the off position before the aircraft can push back from the gate.

You will, however, have to wait on the airlines to implement the FAA's guidance, which it expects to see happen by the end of the year.

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Kate Middleton, Prince William Fawn Over Prince George In New Christening Photo, Christina Ricci Marries Fiance James Heerdegen: Top 5 Weekend Stories

Kate Middleton and Prince William fawned over Prince George in a new christening photo and Christina Ricci tied the knot with her fiance James Heerdegen: See Us Weekly's top 5 stories from the Oct. 26 weekend in the roundup!

1. Kate Middleton, Prince William Fawn Over Prince George In Touching New Christening Photo

Sweet baby George! One more photograph from Prince George's special christening day has been released! The royal family celebrated Prince George's christening at the Chapel Royal at St. James Palace in London on Wednesday, Oct. 23. The following day, four beautiful snapshots were released from the historic occasion.

2. Exclusive: Christina Ricci Marries Fiance James Heerdegen -- All the Wedding Details

Christina Ricci is hitched! The actress tied the knot with fiance James Heerdegen on Saturday, Oct. 26, Us Weekly can confirm. The two said "I do" on the Upper East Side in New York City.

3. Kim Kardashian Says She Was "Shaking the Entire Time" During Kanye West's Proposal

In absolute heaven! Kim Kardashian is still on a high following Kanye West's epic proposal earlier this week, and topped off her 33rd birthday celebrations by partying in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 25. There with family, friends and her new fiance, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star dished about baby North and how the proposal (heard around the world!) made her feel.

4. Jessica Simpson Goes Without Makeup While Out With Daughter Maxwell, 18 Months: Picture

Mom on-the-go! Jessica Simpson stepped out looking absolutely flawless without makeup in Calabasas, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 25. With daughter Maxwell in tow, the fresh-faced singer was photographed picking up Mexican food for dinner during the errand.

5. Olivia Wilde Pregnant: Actress and Fiance Jason Sudeikis Expecting First Child

Surprise! Olivia Wilde and fiance Jason Sudeikis are expecting their first child together, a rep for the actress confirms to Us Weekly.

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Microsoft goes big data with new Hadoop Azure service

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its new Windows Azure HDInsight service.

“I think what we’ve always done well as a company is take hard technology problems and simplify them. So we’re making Hadoop simple, and bringing it to everyone,” said Eron Kelly, Microsoft general manager for the data platform group.

Offered on Windows Azure as a PaaS (platform as a service), Windows Azure HDInsight provides a copy of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform and associated tools. HDInsight will use the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which is the flagship Hadoop distribution offered by Hortonworks.

Microsoft is not the first to offer Hadoop as a cloud service. Amazon Web Services offers Hadoop, and Rackspace plans to offer the HDP as a service soon. IBM’s SoftLayer hosting service also announced this week that it will offer the ability quickly spin-up copies of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution across multiple bare-metal servers.

But Microsoft is hoping to carve out a competitive advantage in this growing space by simplifying the process of deploying and then using Hadoop.

For instance, the service works well with Microsoft data-analysis tools. Users of the Excel spreadsheet can deploy a feature of the spreadsheet, called power BI, to ingest, then analyze and visualize data delivered by Hadoop MapReduce.

Background

Microsoft first announced plans for this service in 2011. Originally, the company intended to develop its own version of Hadoop, along with Hortonworks, which would be configured to run on Windows Server.

“We realized pretty quickly there would be a level of redundancy between what Hortonworks would provide and what we were going to provide. So we decided to align on one core offering, HDP on Windows,” Kelly said. Microsoft contributed over 16,000 lines of code to Apache Hadoop, an open source project, and related software.

Windows Azure HDInsight will run a stock version of HDP, allowing users to seamlessly move their workloads between Azure and other non-Azure HDP deployments, Kelly said. After Hortonworks releases its next version of HDP, version 2.0 is due next month, Azure’s version of HDP will be automatically upgraded.

The company has actually been running Windows Azure HDInsight in full production mode, at least for select clients, for a couple of months, Kelly said.

Some uses for the service

The city of Barcelona has used the service to analyze traffic patterns, garbage collection and data about other municipal duties, hoping the data will be useful in making more informed spending decisions.

A group of researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University are using the service to run DNA sequencing tools.

Quentin Clark, Microsoft corporate vice president of the data platform group, will speak more about Windows Azure HDInsight at O’Reilly’s Strata and Hadoop World conference, this week in New York.

Joab Jackson , IDG News Service

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Miley Cyrus: Spaced Out in Studio City

Taking a break from her demanding promotional schedule, Miley Cyrus went for a drive with a friend in Studio City, California on Tuesday (October 29).

The “Wrecking Ball” songstress definitely seemed a little out of it as she occupied the passenger seat of her pal’s ride, stopping to quickly take a photo with a fan who had tracked her down.

And while she’s received all kinds of feedback for her newfound penchant for flashing flesh, Cyrus told VEVO that she’s not sure what all the fuss is about.

"For me, nudity has never been something that I've ever tripped about. I don't really see it the way everyone else sees it. I'd rather be naked in front of people than cry in front of people because I don't like showing weakness and that shows a lot of vulnerabilities."

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Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite review: It's like a laptop for your Galaxy phone

Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite

$750.00
The Ativ Book 9 Lite is a good notebook if you also own a mobile Samsung device and intend to use the two together; otherwise, it's just average.

It’s no longer enough just to be constantly connected to the cloud. These days you must also be constantly connected to a slew of different devices. When I’m using my laptop, I’m also monitoring my phone. When I’m on my phone, I still like to view websites on my laptop. Websites are more full-featured on a PC, but many apps are more full-featured on a phone.

Samsung thinks it has a solution for my conundrum: Buy a laptop built by a company best known for making phones. Samsung’s Ativ Book 9 Lite is essentially a laptop for your phone. Let me explain. The Ativ Book 9 Lite is a thin-and-light laptop with a custom-designed quad-core AMD CPU, a solid-state drive, 4GB of DDR3/1600 memory, and a glossy touchscreen. But its real draw is its ability to connect (somewhat) seamlessly with your Samsung Galaxy device. The Ativ Book 9 Lite comes with Samsung’s SideSync and HomeSync built in, so you can be constantly connected to both your laptop and your phone.

ROBERT CARDINIf you don't own one of Samsung's Galaxy products, there's no strong reason to recommend the Ativ Book 9 Lite over other, less-expensive notebooks.

The Ativ Book 9 Lite is far from the shiniest, sexiest, most powerful ultrathin laptop on the market, but if you own a Samsung smartphone or tablet, it does offer one advantage over its competitors: Samsung’s SideSync phone-syncing program.

SideSync lets you connect your Samsung Galaxy–branded phone to your laptop in some pretty impressive ways. With SideSync, you can use your phone as a miniature second screen and control the phone using the laptop’s mouse and keyboard. You can compose text messages, open apps, and search Web pages in a mobile browser without ever picking up your phone.

SideSync also lets you replicate your phone’s screen on your laptop. This feature isn’t quite as useful as the mouse- and keyboard-sharing feature, but it’s a good way to ensure that you don’t miss important phone calls and text messages while you’re working on your laptop.

In theory, SideSync is a pretty awesome program. After all, who doesn’t want an easy, seamless way to connect and combine their laptop and smartphone? But in reality, SideSync isn’t quite so seamless. It took me slightly less than 3 hours to set it up with a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II.

SideSync was already installed on our Ativ Book 9 Lite review unit, but it needed to be updated. Twice. I also had to download the Samsung App Store on my Galaxy Note II, and then download two separate apps (one for SideSync, and one for mouse/keyboard sharing). Next, I had to find a USB cord to plug the phone into the computer, or use a shared Wi-Fi connection (I had been tethering the laptop to my phone’s cellular connection via Mobile Hotspot, but apparently that connection just didn’t cut it). Then I had to update the software again, since the mouse/keyboard sharing feature wouldn’t work without that update. At that point, I was finally able to connect my Note II to the Ativ Book 9 Lite. So setup was a pain in the neck, but once completed, I really appreciated the connection between the two devices.

Not-so-premium components

The Ativ Book 9 Lite has a street price of $750 (as of 10/30/13), which puts it just below most Ultrabooks (which range from $800 to $1400), but just above most budget machines (which go for $350 to $600). The third- and fourth-generation Core processors that power Ultrabooks (Intel owns the brand and so controls the specs for it) are much more powerful and power-conservative than the processor that AMD designed to Samsung’s specifications. For this laptop’s price, we expect to see features such as brushed-aluminum chassis, strong hinges, and high-quality keyboards and trackpads. The Ativ Book 9 Lite is fabricated largely from plastic, it has weaker-than-average hinges, and its keyboard and trackpad are subpar (more on this in a moment).

ROBERT CARDINThe Ativ Book 9 Lite's slippery keyboard is difficult to use when the computer is on your lap.

The Ativ Book 9 Lite isn’t a bad laptop, but its build is more budget than premium. The keyboard and trackpad are particularly disappointing, since the laptop’s winning feature—SideSync—sort of depends on them. The keyboard is just average, with light island-style keys that provide very little tactile feedback. It’s simply too light to type on quickly and accurately, and the keys are too slippery to be of any help. If you happen to be sitting still at a desk, this keyboard will be fine. But if you’re resting the laptop on your lap or riding on public transportation, your fingers will slip all over the place.

The trackpad is worse than the keyboard. It’s large, seamless, and erratic. One moment, the mouse cursor is jumping off the screen at the slightest brush of your fingertip, and the next, it’s scrolling sluggishly down the page. Rather than having mouse buttons, the entire pad clicks. But this feature is overly sensitive, and it often registered right-clicks as left-clicks, and vice versa.

The Ativ Book 9 Lite’s glossy touchscreen is a little better than its keyboard, but it’s far from exceptional, with a native resolution of 1366 by 768. That’s pretty average for a 13.3-inch laptop. It’s fairly light with accurate colors and acceptable off-axis viewing angles, although its blacks have a tendency to look gray. It’s quite good as a touchscreen: Smooth and very accurate. It works much better for input than the Ativ Book 9 Lite’s keyboard or mouse.

Good overall performance

AMD processors aren’t known for their speed. The Ativ Book 9 Lite delivers good performance with productivity applications, such as word processing, Web surfing, and light multimedia usage. It delivered a Notebook WorldBench 8.1 score of 198. That puts it on a par with some of the other Ultrabooks we’ve tested, such as the Asus B400A Ultrabook (197) and the Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch. It’s twice as fast as our benchmark testing unit, the Asus VivoBook S550CA.

But the Ativ Book 9 Lite isn’t a powerhouse, by any means. In our graphics tests, the laptop could barely eke out playable frame rates. In our Bioshock Infinite test (resolution of 1024 by 768 and with visual quality set to low), the Book 9 Lite managed just 15.3 frames per second. It also has a very average startup time of 10.1 seconds, and a below-average battery life of just under 5.5 hours.

And that brings us full-circle back to this notebook’s Samsung-based advantage. If you own a Samsung Galaxy phone—a Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note II, or Galaxy Note III—the SideSync feature makes the Ativ Book 9 Lite a valuable tool. You can control your phone with your computer (or on your computer), and you can use HomeSync to sync photos and videos between the two devices.

If you don’t have one of these other Samsung devices, or if you do, but don’t intend to use the Ativ Book 9 Lite as an extension of it, look elsewhere. You’ll get a higher-quality laptop for a lower price.

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Marilyn Monroe to join Madame Tussauds collection

WASHINGTON (AP) — Marilyn Monroe has a unique place in history and now will be remembered in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum in Washington.

The museum is unveiling its newest wax figure Wednesday. It will be displayed initially at Washington's O Street Museum in The Mansion on O Street.

An exhibit about the late Hollywood star will also include a pin-up calendar and photographs, as well as a shampoo advertisement and lunchbox featuring Monroe.

Monroe died 51 years ago but remains a pop culture phenomenon. She was well known for films that included "Some Like it Hot," ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "How to Marry a Millionaire." But for younger generations, Monroe remains an icon of style.

In Washington, a mural serves as a tribute to Monroe in the Woodley Park neighborhood.

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Victims Of Tainted Steroid Injections Still Struggling

Scans from patients with fungal meningitis show evidence of a stroke (left) and arachnoiditis.

New England Journal of Medicine

A year ago, public health officials were scrambling to figure out why people across the country were suddenly coming down with life-threatening cases of meningitis.

The outbreak eventually was traced back to contaminated steroids produced by the New England Compounding Center. All told, 751 people contracted fungal meningitis and other infections from the tainted shots; 64 died.

And it's not over. Some people are still undergoing treatment, and others who thought they were cured have relapsed and are once again fighting infection.

To get up to date, Shots talked with Dr. Thomas Kerkering, section chief for infectious disease at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., a hospital where 36 patients have been treated. Two of them had strokes and died almost immediately. A third person died after 101 days of treatment.

Kerkering, an expert on fungal infections, was a co-author of one of two papers published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine on the outbreak. This is an edited version of the conversation.

It's startling to hear that some people are still being treated for these infections a year later. Why does it last so long?

Fungal infections are hard to treat. That's due to the drugs we have, the mechanisms of how the drugs work on the fungus, and our own immune systems. Then there aren't drugs that reach high levels in the central nervous system. And the central nervous system is a much more severe place to be infected than the lungs, for example.

You've been monitoring patients' spinal fluid to see if they're getting better. How do you know when to stop?

We made the decision that we would treat for 30 more days after the spinal fluid was normal, and then to follow up we would do lumbar punctures at one month, three months and six months after completing therapy. We have a few more patients who are awaiting their six month lumbar puncture in November. And we still have two patients on therapy a year later.

One of your patients was treated for 99 days and looked fine. Then more fungus showed up, and she had four more months of intravenous medication. She's not the only patient nationwide who has relapsed. Do you know why?

Not yet. Did they have a second form of fungus, or does the organism just hang out in places that the medication didn't get to and we didn't treat enough? I don't know if any of us have the answers.

A lot of these people were in the hospital for weeks, and then on IV drugs at home. It sounds like it's been rough.

I don't think the public has an idea of all the things that the patients went through. Of course they had headaches and fevers and didn't feel well at all at first. But then some did have strokes. They needed rehabilitation and physical therapy for that. Some of them developed something that we call arachnoiditis. That leads to urinary retention and a whole lot of back pain. The patients were pretty miserable.

And remember these patients all had back problems to begin with. Then they got their shots and they get fungus and we treat them through all that misery, and they get back to where they were originally — they still have back pain. Some have gone on to have surgery and have done very well and have not relapsed. The patients were really troupers on this.

Are there lessons from this experience for those of us who didn't have to endure it?

Challenge is too harsh a word, but patients need to ask their doctors, do I really need this? Even with modern medicine, nothing is risk-free.

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ARM delivers first 16-core Mali GPU design

ARM has released designs for two new Mali GPU cores, including a 16-core part that should help bring higher-end capabilities like video-editing and gesture control to smartphones and tablets.

The high-end chip, called the Mali-T760, is ARM's most powerful GPU to date and will be aimed at devices priced at around US$350 and above, ARM said Tuesday.

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The processor design doubles the core count over its predecessor but is more energy efficient, according to ARM, thanks partly to a 50 percent reduction in the amount of bandwidth needed to move data in and out of memory. The upshot should be better graphics without reducing battery life.

ARM also released the lower-end Mali-T720, its first GPU for midrange devices that supports version 3.0 of the OpenGL ES graphics programming interface.

Version 3.0 is becoming a requirement for Android, and the T720 will allow makers of lower cost devices to use the latest releases of Google's mobile OS, said Trina Watt, ARM vice president for solutions marketing. Currently, cheaper smartphones and tablets often use older versions of Android.

ARM doesn't manufacture chips itself; it creates designs that it licenses to other companies. It's best known for its Cortex CPU designs, used in most smartphones and tablets including Apple's iPhone and iPads.

It's less dominant in graphics, where it trails Qualcomm and Imagination Technologies. But ARM's share of the mobile GPU market is growing and now stands at 18 percent, according to Jon Peddie Research.

Mali chips are used in about half the Android tablets sold today and about a fifth of the smartphones, according to Watt. They're used in Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 and Google's Nexus 10, for instance, though most Mali chips find their way into lower-cost products sold in China.

In that sense the T720 may be the more significant of the two products announced, because of its potentially wider reach. Along with the new Open GL standard, it brings graphics compute capabilities to the midrange of the Mali line, allowing devices to perform tasks like facial recognition and stitching photos together into a panorama.

GPUs tend to be more power efficient at those tasks than CPUs, so the T720 should help prolong battery life while freeing up the CPU to do other work.

Other priorities for manufacturers are a small chip size -- ARM says the T720 is 30 percent smaller in area than its predecessor -- and speed to market.

The extra cores on the higher-end T760 will help to enable features like video editing, gesture recognition and high resolution 4K displays on tablets, Watt said.

"We're trying to stop people having to open their PCs," she said.

Most devices probably won't need all 16 cores today, but some tablet makers are already asking for 12 to 14 cores, said Andy Loats, ARM's graphics product manager

If the T760 is still on the market by the time chip makers move to a more advanced manufacturing process -- which will let them make smaller transistors -- 16 cores will be a "no brainer," he said.

To improve energy efficiency, the T760 introduces a technology called frame buffer compression, which reduces the amount of bandwidth needed to transfer data between different parts of a system on chip.

Each time the GPU has to access memory it consumes power, so compressing the data and reducing its back and forth movement prolongs battery life, Loats said.

The Mali-T760 is based on a new ARM GPU core called Skrymir, named after a giant in Norse mythology. ARM entered the GPU market when it bought the Norwegian chip firm Falanx, hence the Nordic theme.

The cores are both available for licensing now, Watt said. It used to take around 18 months for new designs to find their way into finished products, but Watt said competitive pressure on device makers is shortening that time to less than a year in some cases.

James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James's e-mail address is james_niccolai@idg.com.

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Sprint announces their first 'Spark' tri-band LTE phones: LG G2, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy Mega

Sprint

Sprint Spark network is a go, phones coming November 8

Sprint has sent out a note to the press, chock full of news plenty of folks are going to love. They are about to officially kick out Sprint Spark — what they've named their tri-band LTE technology — and have three phones in the works to use it.

Spark is Sprint's attempt to get some serious LTE speeds for their customers by utilizing the three different wireless spectrums they use and hold licenses for. The network and devices capable will use active hand off between 800MHz, 1,9Ghz and 2.5GHz frequencies to cover three needs. The 800MHz bands will offer great building penetration, the 1.9GHz bands are good for general purpose LTE connections in more populated (and slightly congested) areas, while the 2.4GHz frequency allows Sprint to cover long distances with maximum capacity. There are five markets officially live today — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Tampa and Miami — and 100 of America's largest cities will be covered during the next three years.

You're going to need phones that support this, and Sprint has three new ones coming.