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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Custom Raspberry Pi Case Harkens Back to ?80s-Era Computing
The low-cost Raspberry Pi micro-computer was created to give kids an application development platform that could be hacked with abandon ? thus saving Mom and Dad the heartache of a thoroughly borked home PC. The Pi?s creators hope that their modest development machine will rekindle the DIY spirit that was prevalent among nerds in the 1980s. Super-modder Ben Heck took that nostalgia-fueled idea, and went one step further by creating a Raspberry Pi case that resembles an iconic computer from the War Games era.
Chinese student's severed head found
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 5, 2012 -- Updated 0930 GMT (1730 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Jun Lin was killed and dismembered in May
- Luka Magnotta, the suspect in the case, is awaiting trial
- Police believe Magnotta posted a video of the death online
(CNN) -- A human head found in a Montreal park this week belongs to Jun Lin, the Chinese university student killed and dismembered in May, police said Wednesday.
The remains were discovered Sunday in Angrignon Park, and police had been waiting since then for them to be analyzed and results compiled before confirming their connection to the case.
Suspect Luka Magnotta is in Canada awaiting trial on first-degree murder and other charges in the case. Police have said they believe Magnotta filmed Lin's death and dismemberment and posted the video to the Internet.
They say the 10-minute video also shows Magnotta engaged in sexual acts involving body parts and includes evidence of cannibalism.
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Authorities were tipped to the case after finding Lin's torso in May behind a Montreal apartment where Magnotta lived. Police say Magnotta mailed other parts of Lin's body to Canadian politicians in Ottawa and to two schools in Vancouver.
Investigators say Magnotta, 29, fled to France and then Germany after the killing, which they believe happened on May 24 or May 25. Magnotta was arrested at a Berlin Internet cafe while browsing articles about himself; He was later extradited to Canada.
Lin, 33, was a student at Montreal's Concordia University. His family traveled to Canada last month to reclaim their only son's remains.
Donations from the public helped pay for the family's travel to Canada, and Concordia University has set up an award in Lin's name to assist Chinese students.
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CNN's Jake Carpenter contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
See four planets on the Fourth of July!
The two brightest planets in the night sky will kick off a July sky show early Wednesday (July 4) in a sort of celestial show-opener for the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. Mars, Saturn and a nearly full moon will end the show at night.
The planets Venus and Jupiter will kick off their month-long sky show before sunrise on the Fourth of July, when the two planets will shine bright in the eastern sky, weather permitting, according to a NASA alert.
"Look out any east-facing window to see Venus and Jupiter, shining side-by-side, so close together you can hide them behind your outstretched palm," astronomer Tony Phillips explained ?in the NASA planet-gazing advisory. "It's a great way to start the day."
On July 4, Venus will appear to pass through the center of Hyades, a star cluster about 153 light-years from Earth, according to Phillips. In binoculars, Venus should appear as if it is surrounded by dozens of stars, he added. [ Amazing Photos of Venus and Jupiter ]
On the evening of July 4, the planets Mars and Saturn are visible in the western night sky, weather permitting. Saturn will shine above and to the right of the bright star Spica, with reddish-orange Mars appearing to the lower right of Saturn, near the constellation Leo, the Lion. Meanwhile, the moon will also appear bright all evening, just one day after reaching its full moon phase for the month.
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By Saturday (July 7), the planetary arrangement will have changed. Venus and Jupiter will align with the bright star Aldebaran, which serves as the unblinking red eye in the constellation Taurus, the Bull.
"Together with Venus and Jupiter, it forms an almost perfect vertical line in the brightening dawn sky," Phillips said.
On July 9, Venus and Aldebaran will appear so close they should form a spectacular pair, with Jupiter above them. The crescent moon will join the sky show on July 14, when it will be a slender arc that forms one point of a cosmic triangle with Jupiter and Venus, Phillips explained.
This isn't the first time this year that Venus and Jupiter have teamed up to offer a dazzling celestial display.
For several months at the beginning of 2012, Venus and Jupiter sparkled together in the evening sky as bright planetary pinpoints. Since then, the two planets have shifted into the morning sky.
If you snap an amazing photo of Venus and the moon, or Mars and Saturn, that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please send images and comments to managing editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com.
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Rain cools Colo. fires, other wildfires grow
A sudden wind shift draws smoke back over the top of Sheep Mountain as the Squirrel Creek fire spreads Tuesday, July 3, 2012 near Woods Landing, Wyo. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Andy Carpenean)
A sudden wind shift draws smoke back over the top of Sheep Mountain as the Squirrel Creek fire spreads Tuesday, July 3, 2012 near Woods Landing, Wyo. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Andy Carpenean)
A wildfire burns in Lambert Park Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Alpine, Utah. Fire officials say a wildfire in Utah County destroyed a barn and forced the evacuation of Alpine neighborhoods. The Lone Peak Fire District says no houses have been damaged and the fire has moved up the Wasatch mountains. The U.S. Forest Service is stepping in to fight the fire and evacuating American Fork Canyon. The Utah National Guard says it dispatched two Blackhawk helicopters with 600-gallon water buckets. With fire crews stretched around Utah, Gov. Gary Herbert called on the guard for help. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Leah Hogsten)
Skyscrapers in downtown Denver are obscured by smoke drifting down from fires in Wyoming, eastern Montana and western South Dakota on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. While the wildfires are contained in Colorado, states to the north are facing an uphill battle as blazes burn unabated within their borders on Independence Day. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
DENVER (AP) ? Rains cooled Colorado's wildfires Wednesday, but more than a dozen wildfires elsewhere in the West continued chewing through bone-dry pine and brush as firefighters working through the holiday kept a nervous eye for fireworks and other hazards.
Wildfires in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado sent haze and smoke across Colorado's Front Range, prompting air-quality health advisories as firefighters warned of growing fires in sparsely populated areas.
In Colorado Springs, there was good news in the fight against the most destructive fire in state history.
Light rains that fell overnight helped calm the Waldo Canyon Fire, which has scorched 28 square miles, killed two and destroyed almost 350 homes. Firefighters predicted full containment of the fire by Sunday, with more rain, cooler temperatures and higher humidity predicted through the weekend.
The forecast wasn't as kind in eastern Montana, where a mammoth 380-square-mile in Custer National Forest was gobbling up pine, juniper and sage with help from gusty winds. The fire has burned 16 homes.
Firefighters gave the blaze "extreme" growth potential, with wind gusts up to 45 mph predicted. Temperatures were expected to reach the 100s.
As firefighting efforts continued, holiday fireworks were canceled across the region. Colorado officials were calling off holiday displays from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, while law enforcement was warning of hefty fines for people caught violating personal fireworks bans across the region.
Residents in some parched areas were joining police. In one Colorado Springs neighborhood, a homemade sign read, "FAIR WARNING: Anyone using or allowing use of fireworks in this neighborhood will be dealt with harshly! And that doesn't mean just by the police!"
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, which coordinates wildfire-fighting efforts nationwide, said 45 large fires were burning Wednesday, including 36 fires in nine Western states. In Colorado alone, three fires have destroyed more than 600 homes and killed six residents.
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AP survey: Next president faces high unemployment
FILE-In this Thursday, June 28, 2012, file photo, The White House is seen in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will exceed its ?normal? range of 5 to 6 percent until 2015 or later. The presidential winner in November will serve through 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE-In this Thursday, June 28, 2012, file photo, The White House is seen in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will exceed its ?normal? range of 5 to 6 percent until 2015 or later. The presidential winner in November will serve through 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE- In this Saturday, June 30, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will exceed its ?normal? range of 5 to 6 percent until 2015 or later. The presidential winner in November will serve through 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses while speaking about the Supreme Court's health care ruling in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will exceed its ?normal? range of 5 to 6 percent until 2015 or later. The presidential winner in November will serve through 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
In this Tuesday, June 26, 2012, file photo, Ashley Perkins, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., stands in line at a job fair in Detroit. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. According to 32 economists surveyed by the Associated Press, the unemployment rate, now 8.2 percent, will exceed its ?normal? range of 5 to 6 percent until 2015 or later. The presidential winner in November will serve through 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Graphic shows results of the AP Economy Survey and the U.S. unemployment rate since
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A majority of economists in the latest Associated Press Economy Survey expect the national unemployment rate to stay above 6 percent ? the upper bounds of what's considered healthy ? for at least four more years.
If the economists are correct, the job market will still be unhealthy seven years after the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. That would be the longest stretch of high unemployment since the end of World War II.
And it means the job market and the economy ? President Barack Obama's main political threats ? would remain big challenges in either a second Obama term or President Mitt Romney's first term.
"The election isn't going to be a miracle cure for the unemployment rate ? that's for sure," says Sean Snaith, an economics professor at the University of Central Florida. He thinks unemployment, which is 8.2 percent now, won't drop back to 6 percent until after 2016.
Economists consider a "normal" level to be between 5 percent and 6 percent.
The economists surveyed by the AP foresee an unemployment rate of 8 percent on Election Day. That would be the highest rate any postwar president running for re-election has faced.
The survey results come before the government reports Friday on hiring during June. Fears about the economy escalated after U.S. employers added just 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year and the third straight month of weak job growth.
The AP survey collected the views late last month from 32 private, corporate and academic economists on a range of issues. Among their views:
? The economy will continue to grow only slowly. The average forecast for the April-June period is that GDP grew at an annual rate of 2 percent. That's down from a 2.4 percent forecast in April. The economists think the rate in the final six months of the year will be just 2.3 percent. That's too weak to bring the unemployment rate down.
? Monthly job gains will average 139,000 the rest of this year ? barely enough to keep up with population growth and prevent unemployment from worsening. In their forecast in April, the economists predicted average monthly job gains of 189,000.
? The one step Europe could take that would boost confidence in its financial system quickly would be a bailout program like the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, that Congress approved in 2008 to rescue U.S. banks after the financial crisis hit.
? The biggest threat to the U.S. economy is the tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect Jan. 1 unless Congress reaches an agreement. Many economists and the International Monetary Fund have warned that these measures would push the economy off a "fiscal cliff" and back into recession.
An unemployment rate of 5 percent to 6 percent is typical of a healthy economy. The rate usually doesn't fall much lower, in part because many people who leave a job or start looking for one after finishing school don't get one right away.
Most economists also say that if the Federal Reserve sought to lower unemployment much further, the economy could overheat and ignite inflation.
Unemployment has fallen below 5 percent, most recently in 2000 and 2007. But hiring during those periods was swollen by bubbles in technology (2000) and real estate (2007) that ended in crashes that sent unemployment back up.
U.S. policymakers are supposed to strive for "full employment" under the Employment Act of 1946. That law defined it as an unemployment rate of 4 percent. Today, most economists, including Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, define full employment as between 5 percent and 6 percent.
Fifty-fix percent of the economists surveyed by the AP said the unemployment rate wouldn't return to 6 percent until 2016 or later. Thirty-one percent said it would take until 2015.
The economists said high unemployment remains a persistent problem for several reasons. The biggest factor: The economy isn't growing fast enough to cause employers to expand and hire much.
Beth Ann Bovino, deputy chief economist at Standard & Poor's, forecasts growth of about 2 percent this year and next. She doesn't think it will get much better before 2015.
"You need something closer to 4 percent to make a dent in unemployment," she said.
Consumers, businesses and governments are all cutting back on spending to reduce debts, Bovino said. That creates a vicious cycle: Less spending by consumers results in less revenue for companies. Businesses then reduce hiring. And that means fewer people with paychecks to spend.
And even if hiring does pick up, several economists said the unemployment rate will be hard to bring down. That's because millions of Americans have given up looking for work and are no longer counted as unemployed.
Many of those "discouraged workers" will likely resume their job searches as employers start hiring more. But because most won't be hired immediately, the unemployment rate will stay elevated.
Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, said presidents find themselves under pressure almost immediately after taking office to improve the economy and job market.
If elected, Romney will likely point out that he inherited a weak economy, Kohut said. Obama has tried the same approach. But voters "still want to know, what have you done for us lately?"
Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics, said the United States is in a squeeze: It needs to stimulate growth. Yet it also needs to rein in government spending and budget deficits over the long run.
"I don't envy the next president, whoever he is," Sinai said. "He is going to have one heck of a problem to fix."
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Barclays boss Diamond bows to pressure and quits
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 file photo Bob Diamond, Chief Executive of Barclays, listens during a plenary session on the first day of the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland. Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond has resigned with immediate effect, the latest scalp of a financial markets scandal that has also cost the job of the chairman. The bank said Tuesday July 3, 2012, that outgoing-chairman Marcus Agius would lead the search for Diamond's replacement. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron, file)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 file photo Bob Diamond, Chief Executive of Barclays, listens during a plenary session on the first day of the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland. Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond has resigned with immediate effect, the latest scalp of a financial markets scandal that has also cost the job of the chairman. The bank said Tuesday July 3, 2012, that outgoing-chairman Marcus Agius would lead the search for Diamond's replacement. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron, file)
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 file photo Bob Diamond, Chief Executive of Barclays, listens during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond has resigned with immediate effect, the latest scalp of a financial markets scandal that has also cost the job of the chairman. The bank said Tuesday July 3, 2012, that outgoing-chairman Marcus Agius would lead the search for Diamond's replacement. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, file)
LONDON (AP) ? Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond has quit his job, the latest scalp in a financial markets scandal that has also seen the bank's chairman announce his intention to resign and sown the seeds for another investigation into Britain's banking sector.
The bank said Tuesday that Chairman Marcus Agius would lead the search for a successor to Diamond, who has resigned with immediate effect. Agius still intends to stand down once a new chairman has been chosen, a spokesperson at Barclays said.
Barclays' management has come under fire since the bank was fined $453 million last week by U.S. and British regulators for submitting false reports on interbank borrowing rates between 2005 and 2009. Much of that activity originated from traders in Barclays Capital, the investment banking division which Diamond headed at the time.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office said Monday that it would decide within a month whether to pursue criminal charges in the case. The government, which has come under pressure to initiate a judge-led inquiry into the sector, has announced a parliamentary committee to investigate what went on and report by the end of the year.
"The external pressure placed on Barclays has reached a level that risks damaging the franchise ? I cannot let that happen," Diamond said. "I am deeply disappointed that the impression created by the events announced last week about what Barclays and its people stand for could not be further from the truth."
Barclays' share price was up 2.2 percent at 172 pence in midmorning London trading.
As well as facing intense media pressure over the past few days, Diamond has seen growing calls for his resignation from the political world. Both Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband called for Diamond, a 60-year-old American, to stand down.
George Osborne, Britain's Treasury chief, said Diamond had decided to go Monday night. Osborne said he was told by Agius that "the board had come to view that that was the right decision and Mr. Diamond had come to that view."
"I think it is the right decision for Barclays, I think it is the right decision for the country," Osborne said.
The bank said Agius, 65, would become full-time chairman and would chair the executive committee until a new CEO is appointed.
"Clearly there's a lot more to come from this story right across the sector, but that's a significant scalp to be taken at this stage and now leaves a looming succession issue for the bank," said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at Interactive Investor.
Some analysts had thought Diamond's position was secure because there was no obvious successor in the wings.
Diamond said he still intended to face the House of Commons Treasury Committee on Wednesday to give the bank's explanation for the false interest rate reports.
Barclays is one of a number of banks which regularly submit estimates of what it will cost them to borrow from other banks. These estimates feed into a calculation of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) which is used to determine payments from a range of financial contracts.
The London rate, and the related European interbank offered rate, are the benchmarks for over $500 trillion in global contracts, including loans and mortgages.
Barclays admitted that it had submitted lower than actual figures on its interbank borrowing during the credit crisis in 2007 and 2008. Several other global banks are being investigated in other countries for similar actions.
Last week, Diamond announced that he and three other senior executives were waiving any bonuses for 2012 because of the rate scandal.
The financial terms of his departure were not immediately disclosed.
His departure came as a surprise.
On Monday, Diamond sounded like a man determined to keep his job. In a memo to staff, he said he was disappointed by the misbehavior which led to the massive fines, but said: "It is my responsibility to make sure that it cannot happen again."
Diamond built up Barclays Capital into a profit-spinning powerhouse, and scored an important coup during the financial crisis by buying the remains of Lehman Brothers U.S. operations in a $1.35 billion deal.
Barclays survived the credit crisis without resorting to the kind of taxpayer bailout which saved Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, relying instead on an injection of capital from Qatar Holding, the government-backed investment fund.
In January last year, Diamond memorably told a House of Commons committee: "There was a period of remorse and apology for banks. I think that period is over."
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How to restore your address book after Facebook messed it up
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Recently, Facebook changed everyone's email to an @facebook.com address. Even if you fixed the problem, you may find that Facebook changed all of the contacts in your phone, too. Here's how to fix it.
A lot of us sync our Facebook accounts with our address books on our smartphones, so we always have up-to-date phone numbers, email addresses, and pictures for all of our friends. However, with Facebook changing everyone's email to @facebook.com last week, blogger Rachel Luxemburg (and a lot of other people) found that those changes were synced down to their phone?meaning they don't have any of their friends' actual email addresses anymore. Just the facebook.com ones.
None of us at Lifehacker have noticed this problem, but we do have a few ideas about how to fix it. In fact, this will fix any similar problem you have where your contacts get messed up. Here's what you need to do.
Step one: Restore your contacts to a previous state
Some services?particularly Google?regularly back up your contacts so if something goes wrong, you can restore them. And, since nearly all Android users sync their contacts with Google?as well as many iPhone users?this is a good way to fix the contacts on your phone. To do so, just follow these instructions:
- Before you do anything else, go to your phone and turn off Facebook syncing for your contact list. On Android, this is in the Facebook app under Settings > Sync Contacts. Just set it to "Don't Sync". On the iPhone, go to the Facebook app, click the menu button, scroll down to "Friends", then hit the share button in the upper right-hand corner. Tap "Sync Contacts" and turn syncing off. Note that depending on your platform, you may have a "Remove Facebook Data" button on the contact syncing screen?tapping this will also turn off syncing.
- Go to your Gmail inbox, and click on the "Gmail" label under the Google logo. Go to Contacts. Remember, this trick only works if you were syncing your phone with your Google contacts.
- Click the "More" button and go to "Restore Contacts". We don't know exactly when the Facebook change happened, but you'll probably want to set it to restore your contacts from a day before June 22, 2012, so set it to whatever you need to go back that far.
- Click the Restore button. When it finishes, you should hopefully find that all of your contacts' correct email addresses have been restored! As long as you don't sync with Facebook again, they should stay that way.
If you don't sync your contacts with Google, check to see if your desktop address book has any alternatives. For example, if you're on a Mac and you back it up with Time Machine, you can just open up Address Book, invoke Time Machine from the menu bar, then restore it to a date before the Facebook ridiculousness happened. Then when you re-sync your iPhone, you should be good to go. Check your address book app's documentation for more info on whether it has an automatic backup feature.
Step two: Remind your friends to change their Facebook profile
If you can't restore your address book?or if you still want to be able to sync your Facebook?the only thing you can do is get all your friends to change their Facebook profile back to the way it was. That way, Facebook will sync their correct email address back to your phone. We've shown you how to do this before, so if you haven't already, spread the word to all your friends and family so they don't run into problems later on.
We couldn't test these instructions ourselves, because none of us have experienced the issue, but this should help you get your contacts back to the way they were (or at least closer). If you'ved this issue, let us know how these instructions work for you in the comments below.
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