Monday, October 21, 2013

Dell Venue 8 Pro Windows 8.1 tablet and refreshed XPS 15 now available online



Dell introduced us to its Venue 8 Pro Windows 8.1 tablet and Haswell refresh of the XPS 15 earlier this month, and starting today both products -- along with two Venue Android slates -- are available online. The Venue 8 Pro, you may recall, offers an 1,280 x 800 IPS display, an Atom processor and an optional Synaptics digitizer. That model will go for $300 and up, while the pen costs an extra $35. Meanwhile, Dell's answer to the Surface Pro 2, the Venue Pro 11, will ship in November.


The latest XPS 15, available with a 3,200 x 1,800 IPS display and up to a Core i7 Haswell CPU, starts at $1,500 for a full HD panel and $1,900 for the more pixel-dense version. Finally, the budget-priced Dell Venue 7 and 8 tablets, both of which run Android 4.2, are also available today. As previously reported, these guys will set you back $150 or $180, respectively. Head to Dell's website to view all the configuration options.


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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Former House Speaker Tom Foley Dies At 84

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Former House Speaker Tom Foley has died. The Washington Democrat spent 30 years in the House until he lost his seat in the 1995 Republican revolution. He went on to serve as ambassador to Japan under Clinton. Foley was 84 years old and died of complications from a stroke.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NprProgramsATC/~3/YJu4BduilpQ/story.php
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Hilary Duff and the Fam Dress Down for a Halloween Party

Saving the costumes for when the big day gets closer, Hilary Duff took her family to a Halloween party in Studio City, California on Saturday (October 19).


The "Lizzie McGuire" star wore a black top and black leggings with a plaid shirt tied around her waist as she held her adorable little man Luca in her arms while hubby Mike Comrie followed closely.


Though she's been concentrating on acting more lately, making appearances on "Raising Hope" and "Two and a Half Men," the 26-year-old working mama is keeping up with her music dreams.


On Saturday, Hilary posted a photo to Twitter of herself in a recording booth with the caption, "Last night."


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Five best Tina Fey-Amy Poehler moments

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler go together like chocolate and peanut butter. And they'll be making more sweet moments together — on Tuesday, it was announced that they'll be co-hosting the Golden Globe Awards both in 2014 and 2015.

What can viewers expect from the comedic chemistry of the two ex-"Saturday Night Live" pals? These classic Fey-Poehler moments might give a few hints.

Golden girls at the 2013 Globes
Hosts Fey and Poehler managed to get in some deft jibes without leaving the audience feeling like they'd turned into the "Mean Girls" from Fey's 2005 movie. They even poked fun at the event's sponsor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with Poehler pretending to confuse it with HPV, saying, "When left untreated, HFPA can lead to cervical cancer."

Channeling their inner Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton on 'SNL'
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't actually say, "I can see Russia from my house," (she said: "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska"), but Fey delivered that "SNL" line so perfectly in an iconic 2008 skit that some are actually confused about who said what. Poehler was equally memorable as Sen. Hillary Clinton, eventually blowing up at the very idea that Palin was closer to the White House than she was.

Behind the Weekend Update desk
In 2004, Fey and Poehler became the first all-female team to anchor fake newscast Weekend Update on "SNL." (On their first broadcast, Horatio Sanz as Elton John referred to Poehler as "the other girl.") They fell into the swing of things just as anyone would expect from two old friends, whether it was one-upping each other's Ray Charles impression or "interviewing" old clips of actor Robert Blake after his 2005 acquittal on murder charges. ("He's free, but he's still mad!" cracked Poehler.)

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Fey and Poehler made history as the first all-female anchor team on Weekend Update.

Hangin' at the Jersey Floor
Jimmy Fallon's show has a mysterious elevator with a button labeled "Jersey Floor" that turns elevator occupants into tanned-and-moussed "Jersey Shore" residents. And when Fey and Poehler visited in 2011, the elevator transformed them as well, hiking their hair and their hemlines and turning them into nightclub stalkers of Fallon and crew. "I wanna make babies with you!" a mega-made-up Fey shouts at Fallon on the dance floor. The ensuing bleep-filled fight was all too real for anyone who ever watched Snooki and crew.

Crying with laughter at 'Baby Mama'
In 2008, Fey and Poehler co-starred in the big-screen comedy "Baby Mama," with Poehler playing an obnoxious surrogate mother carrying a child for Fey's character. Poehler is stumped by Fey's child-proofed toilet, appalled by her healthy dietary suggestions, and horrified as labor approaches. They feud, they fight, but in the end, they end up friends, just as the actors are. 

What's your favorite Fey-Poehler moment? Vote in our poll.








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Samsung finally offering the ATIV Book 9 Plus in the US with a 256GB SSD, Core i7

If you read our review of Samsung's new flagship Ultrabook, the ATIV Book 9 Plus, you know we mostly adore it: it's exceptionally thin, runs cool and rocks a best-in-class display. Unfortunately for some of the nerds reading Engadget, the laptop launched in the United States with just one ...


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JPMorgan to pay record $13 bln to settle US probes: WSJ


Washington (AFP) - US banking giant JPMorgan Chase may pay a record $13 billion fine to the Justice Department to settle investigations into its residential mortgage-backed securities business, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

But the still tentative deal wouldn't resolve a criminal investigation into the bank's activities being conducted by a court in Sacramento, California, the Journal said.

Citing someone familiar with the decision, the newspaper reported in its online edition that the tentative agreement was hashed out during a phone call Friday with US Attorney General Eric Holder, his deputy Tony West and JPMorgan's top lawyer Stephen Cutler.

The New York Times also reported that the bank was nearing the huge settlement with the Justice Department over its mortgage practices.

US companies tend to avoid paying fines, and often try to make financial settlements without admitting fault.

If the amount is confirmed, it would be the largest ever paid by a US company in this type of settlement with the government. It's also significantly larger than JP Morgan's previous offer of $11 billion.

But the still tentative deal wouldn't resolve a criminal investigation into the bank's activities being conducted by a court in Sacramento, California, the Journal said.

It would, however, settle allegations by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, a mortgage regulator that accuses JPMorgan of having overstated the quality of the mortgages it sold on to the government-sponsored housing finance enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It would also resolve a separate lawsuit filed by New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

JPMorgan, the largest US bank by assets, has been under investigation by several US regulatory agencies. It recently agreed to pay more than $1 billion in fines over the "London whale" trading debacle.

The bank just reported its first quarterly loss in nearly 10 years, a net loss of $380 million on revenues of $23.12 billion, due in large part to a $9.15 billion charge for legal expenses.

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Michael Fassbender Talks About His Longest Relationship With GQ!


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Michael Fassbender looks like a God among insects on the cover of GQ, and never let anyone tell you differently!


We all know Fassy has a huge, long…helmet whenever he plays Magneto (always wear protection), but the metal bending actor (who can manipulate our hard objects) talked about the longest relationship he's had:




“I think the longest relationship that I’ve been in was two years. I started doing this when I was 17, so I guess in my dating, adult life, that kind of covers it.”



Wow, Michael might be in 12 Years a Slave, but he's only been 2 years a boyfriend tops! What a Shame!


We hope one day Michael share the rest of his days of future past with the love of his life! He's so mutantly charming!


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