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Monday, August 5, 2013
Japan launches talking humanoid robot into space
TOKYO (AP) ? Japan has launched the world's first talking humanoid robot "astronaut" toward the International Space Station.
Kirobo ? derived from the Japanese words for "hope" and "robot" ? was among five tons of supplies and machinery on a rocket launched Sunday from Tanegashima in southwestern Japan, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said.
The childlike robot was designed to be a companion for astronaut Koichi Wakata and will communicate with another robot on Earth, according to developers. Wakata is expected to arrive at the space station in November.
Robot designer Tomotaka Takahashi, of the University of Tokyo, advertiser Dentsu and automaker Toyota Motor Corp. worked on the robot.
The challenge was making sure it could move and talk where there was no gravity.
Ahead of the launch, the 34-centimeter (13-inch) tall Kirobo told reporters, "one small step for me, a giant leap for robots."
Japan boasts the most sophisticated robotics in the world, but because of its "manga" culture, it tends to favor cute robots with human-like characteristics with emotional appeal, a use of technology that has at times drawn criticism for being not productive.
But Takahashi said sending a robot into space could help write a new chapter in the history of communication.
"I wish for this robot to function as a mediator between person and machine, or person and Internet and sometimes even between people," he said.
JAXA said the rocket launch was successful, and the separation of a cargo vehicle, carrying the robot to the space station, was confirmed about 15 minutes after liftoff.
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US band attacked following Russian flag stunt
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Jared Hasselhoff of Bloodhound Gang pushing the Russian flag into his pants.
Americans aren't the only ones sensitive about how their national flag is handled ? it turns out the Russians also like to make sure their country's flag is treated well. That's what U.S.-based band Bloodhound Gang discovered on their recent tour.
While visiting the Ukranian town of Odessa last Wednesday, bassist Jared Hasselhoff (real name: Jared Victor Hennegan) put a Russian flag down his pants, telling the cheering crowd "Don't tell (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," and pulled it out the rear. The video went on YouTube and quickly went viral overseas.
Not everyone in the band liked what they saw; the video also shows frontman Jimmy Pop telling the crowd he disagreed with what Hasselhoff had just done: "Russia is better than America," he said, "so I disapprove of that."
Doing that in the Ukraine is one thing. But where Bloodhound Gang made their next mistake was in continuing the tour ... in Russia. Russian officials got involved after viewing the video, and the band's participation at the Kubana Music Festival in the southern Russian area of Krasnodar Krai over the weekend was canceled, according to The New York Times.?
According to Rolling Stone, culture minister Vladimir Medinsky tweeted on Friday: "Bloodhound Gang packing suitcases. These idiots won't perform in Kubana."
But it wasn't just Russian officials getting heated about the display. The Times also wrote that locals threw eggs and tomatoes at the band as it headed out of Anapa, a town near the venue where their show was canceled. Later, as the band were being deported, Russian nationalists tracked the band down at an airport lounge and assaulted the musicians, trying to smother one band member with an American flag.
Police intervened, and the band reportedly left the country on Sunday.?
Hasselhoff has publicly apologized, adding that the passing of items of all kinds through his pants is a band tradition, but Russia's top law enforcement agency is still considering pressing charges.
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Top Colorado GOP donors urge congressmen to support immigration reform
A judge administers the Oath of Allegiance ceremony to sixty area residents, representing 25 countries, during a naturalization ceremony at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Centennial on July, 2, 2012. (Denver Post file photo)
WASHINGTON ? A who's who of top Republican donors in Colorado sent a letter Tuesday beseeching Colorado's GOP delegation to embrace comprehensive immigration reform and provide a path to legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
The seven donors have collectively contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to both the Republican party and to Colorado's four House Republicans' re-election efforts in the past two years.
"Doing nothing is de facto amnesty," the letter said. "We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules."
Among those who signed the letter were NexGen Resources CEO Charlie McNeil, who between 2011 and 2013 contributed $107,000 to various candidates and the party, M.D.C. Holdings CEO Larry Mizel, who contributed $212,000 between 2011 and 2013, and Marilyn Ware, former ambassador to Finland and former chair of American Water Works, who donated $167,000 between 2011 and 2013 to Republican candidates and the party.
"It's something I've believed in for a very long time. We definitely are motivated to get the message to the congressional delegation," said Laramie Energy II CEO Bruce Payne, who has donated $26,000 from 2011 to 2013 to Republicans and the party. "I just believe these are the exact kind of citizens we want here. They came here at extreme risk to themselves to improve their lives, and that's the American dream."
The letter says "doing nothing" is "not the path for the Republican party."
"Immigrants are often entrepreneurial, family-minded and guided by faith. These are Republican values," the letter says. "These are Colorado values."
The donor letter does not mention the Senate immigration bill that passed with a bipartisan majority in June and gives a 13-year path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
That measure faces no real future in the GOP-controlled House, and leaders say they may take a piecemeal approach to solving the problem.
Colorado's four Republicans have varying ? and even changing ? beliefs on immigration reform.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told a group of immigrant rights advocates gathered at a Catholic church Sunday he supported an earned pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people.
Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said he supports proposals that strengthen border security and enforcement first. He said he supports a strong guest worker program in areas such as agriculture and construction.
"After that ? and only after that ? can we begin to look at next steps for those who are here without documentation," Gardner said.
Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, was mum Tuesday about whether he believes in a pathway to legal status for anyone.
"The House is currently in the process of putting forward an immigration reform plan of its own, and as we progress, I believe both parties need to work together with the goal of achieving a solution," he said.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, did not respond to the letter Tuesday.
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Ohio killer set for execution found hanged in cell
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Billy Slagle. Slagle, facing execution Wednesday was found hanged in his cell at the Chillecothe, Ohio Correctional Institution Sunday morning, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, File)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Billy Slagle. Slagle, facing execution Wednesday was found hanged in his cell at the Chillecothe, Ohio Correctional Institution Sunday morning, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, File)
CLEVELAND (AP) ? A man condemned to death for fatally stabbing a neighbor during a Cleveland burglary was found hanged in his cell Sunday just days before his Wednesday execution.
Billy Slagle, 44, was found at about 5 a.m. at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution south of Columbus and was declared dead within the hour, prison spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.
"He was in his cell alone. No other inmates suspected to be involved," Smith said in an email. "It does appear to be a suicide."
Under regular prison policy, he was scheduled to be placed under pre-execution watch Sunday morning but "was not yet placed under constant watch," Smith said.
Slagle's defense team was shocked and saddened at the news and had no clue he might commit suicide, attorney Vicki Werneke said.
"We were still litigating in court and had hoped that the execution would have been stopped. There was oral argument scheduled for Monday afternoon," she told The Associated Press in an email.
An autopsy will be conducted Monday, according to Mike Ratliff, chief investigator for the Ross County coroner. He said the case was under investigation and no initial findings could be provided.
Slagle was sentenced in 1988 to die for the stabbing of Mari Anne Pope, who was killed while two young children she was watching were in the house.
In a rare move, the prosecutor in Cleveland asked the Ohio Parole Board to spare Slagle. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said jurors today, with the option of life without parole, would be unlikely to sentence Slagle to death.
The parole board and Gov. John Kasich both rejected mercy for Slagle.
McGinty declined comment through a spokesman.
Last week, Slagle's attorney argued that a jury never got the chance to hear the full details of his troubled childhood.
The attorneys, arguing for a new trial and to delay his execution, said that information met requirements for asking for a new trial, which normally must happen within four months of a conviction.
Slagle was "unavoidably prevented" from filing his request because his original attorneys didn't develop and present the evidence, the filing said.
McGinty and Slagle's attorneys had cited his age ? at 18, he was barely old enough for execution in Ohio ? and his history of alcohol and drug addiction.
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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus contributed to this report
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Microsoft Announces Xbox One GPU Upgrade
Xbox executive Marc Whitten announced on Major Nelson?s podcast yesterday that the upcoming Xbox One has received upgrades to its graphic specifications. According to Whitten, a brand new Xbox One-specific driver called the ?mono driver? has been implemented, and the clock speed of the GPU has been raised from 800 MHz to 853 MHz.
Whitten explained the philosophy and timing behind this update, as follows:
?This is the time where we?ve gone from theory of how the hardware works?what do we think the yield is going to look like, what is the thermal envelope, how do things come together?to really having them in our hands. That?s the time where you start tweaking the knobs because either your theory was right dead-on or you were a little too conservative or you were a little too aggressive.?
These upgrades are being implemented before the console?s release this November, so it?s tough to say how ? or even if ? these changes will make much of a difference. Most people have yet to get their hands on the new Xbox, let alone spend enough time with it to be able to mark a noticeable difference.
What?s clear, however, is that this is yet another piece of news in a series of announcements from Microsoft that are aimed squarely at doing away with any concerns from the public over the Xbox One?s perceived inferiority to Sony?s PlayStation 4.?After Digital Foundry?s recent report that the PS4 could have ?20% better performance? than the new Xbox, the timing of this performance upgrade reveal couldn?t be more appropriate.
At this point, Xbox is playing catch-up with the PlayStation and Microsoft is desperately trying to narrow the gap they created at their E3 conference. Now with the policies and specifications of the Xbox One more closely resembling those of the PS4, it?ll be interesting to see if they can take the pre-launch lead in the next console race, or if its too little, too late. Either way, it?s sure to be a close one.
Source: http://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/xbox-one-graphics-upgrade/
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Kentucky college lands $250 million donation from trust
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Kentucky ? Centre College has been granted a $250 million donation from the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), the all-stock donation is stated to be among the largest single gifts ever provided to a higher education school in the U.S.
The small liberal arts school stated the money will be used for scholarships for students majoring in natural sciences, economics and computational sciences.
Centre President John A. Roush is quoted by the AP as stating of the gift, ?The challenges and opportunities confronting our nation and world are increasingly complex, and the Brockman Scholars Program will empower talented young women and men with the knowledge, creativity and integrity necessary to address them.?
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