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Tesla vs. NYT

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-flying-over-a-test-of-teslas-charging-network/#more-180728

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- John Broder of the New York Times wrote a scathing review of the Tesla Model S sedan
- He claimed the electric car’s batteries could not handle cold weather
- Car ended up running out of power and having to be towed
- Tesla stock dropped following the Negative review
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk objected to both the battery claim and questioned whether Broder faked the review results
- Tesla keeps data on its review cars for liability purposes
- Musk said the vehicle logs do not match broder’s accounts
- Says Broder ignored a charging station when car was showing low power, turned up the heat when he claimed he turned it off, speeded, and drove over half a mile in a small parking lot
- Musk also promised to release the data
- Broder released a rebuttal post on the 12th
- Musk released a blog with graphs and and map locations of the car

American Airlines Merger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPTtIOAls4
- New Scheme for American Airlines was announced about a month ago
- Apparently that was a prelude to the merger with USAirways
- Creates largest Airline in the world under the American name
- billion deal
- Under the deal, American Airlines Shareholders would receive 72% of Stock and US Airways shareholders 28%
- Thomas Horton, AA CEO will serve as chairman, USAirways CEO Doug Parker will be CEO
- Board will consist of 3 from AA, 4 from US Air, and 5 from AA’s creditors
- The New American will be headquartered at AA’s HQ in Fort Worth, with some corporate and maintenance functions at USAirways
base in Phoenix
- Deal requires approval from Bankruptcy Court as AA is currently in bankruptcy
- combined Airline will keep all of USAir and AA’s current routes for 6,700 flights, to 336 destinations in 56 countries
-Combined order for 517 new narrowbody (737/A320) and 90 Widebody (787/A350) in a mixed Boeing/Airbus fleet

Six legged Rugby robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YRYKTLV2bxs
- French defence contractor Thales has provided a six-legged simulator robot to the French national rugby team
- Co-developed with CNRS and the French Rugby federation
- Robot is called the Scrum
- Uses a six-action motion system
- responds to player movements via sensors installed in the beams and shoulder pads
- can adapt and register individual player weaknesses real time while players are training on it
- Designed using neuroscience principles
- First training robot of its kind

Robotic Penguins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UDtqvYDM41k
- John Downer Productions, on contract BBC/ Discovery,  is used robots to document species Penguins in the wild
- Focuses on three different species:
* Emperor Penguin in Antarctica
* Rockhoppers in the in the Falkland Islands
* Humboldt Penguins in Peru
- 50 different spy cameras are being used
- cameras range from life size animatronic Penguins to cameras shaped like rocks, snowballs, eggs, and snowballs.  There are even a animatronic chick and and an underwater penguin

iOS 6.1 passcode bypass bug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sVV9S17mZpw
- Wake up your iPhone
- slide to unlock and tap on emergency call in the lower left
- hold power button down until power off prompt comes up
- click cancel. Satus bar will turn blue
- dial 911 and quickly cancel so it doesn’t go through and you don’t go to jail
- hit power button to sleep and turn it on using the home button
- slide to unlock and hold down the power button for 3 seconds
- while still holding the power button, hit the emergency call button
- This will cause an error which causes the iPhone to unlock
- Fix expected by February 20th

Zombie Alert
http://www.krtv.com/news/bogus-emergency-alert-message-transmitted/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nc60XPCXrh8
- Hackers broke into the emergency alert system CBS affiliate KRTV 3.1 and its channel 3.2 CW sub-station
- They broadcast a message that the dead were rising from their graves, they were feeding on the living, and not to approach the zombies as they were considered extremely dangerous
- Hackers were not able to access the switcher, so the message appeared over the scheduled programs
- Great Falls were contacted by multiple citizens to know if the announcement was true
- No group has claimed responsibility, but preliminary reports suggest an overseas origin
- Stations in Marquette, MI and Albuquerque were also affected
- it also triggered the alert system in LaCrosse, WI when radio station Z-93, the alert played the clip.  The station being the primary EAS station for the area accidentally caused the warning to be played on CBS station KWBT-TV

NASA finds newborn blackhole?
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“-Possible black hole found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Contained in Supernova Remnant  W49B
- Product of rare event when matter is ejected from the poles at high speed as the star is exploding
- remnant glows brightly on X-rays and other wavelengths
- 26,000 light years from earth
- said to have been created 1,000 years ago
- Supernova explosions usually end up with a superdense neutron star.  Scientists found no evidence of that
- The lack of a Neutron star suggest a play hole may have formed

Richard III found
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- King Richard III of England died in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
- Last British King to be killed on field of battle during the War of the Roses.
- Also last monarch of York Dynasty.
- Subject of Shakespeare’s play Richard III
- Replaced by his Opponent, Earl Henry Tudor of Richmond who became King Henry VII
- Buried at Greyfriars church in present day Leicester (pronounced like Lester)
- University of Leicester decided to dig up site which had become a parking lot for the City Council
- excavation of 3 trenches resulted in discovery of the church the.
- body was found in position of great importance within in the church site.
- Skeleton was DNA tested and compared to the Canadian descendants of one of the king’s sisters
- DNA proved that body was Richard III
- Body will be reburied at Leicester Cathedral with a monument and a visitors’ center on site

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LinkedIn iPad Minis
-Business-oriented Social Network LinkedIN smashed Q1 estimates by million with 3.6 million in revenue
-  As a reward for all the hard work in 2012, CEO Jeff Weiner purchased an iPad Mini for each of the company’s 3,500 employees
- Model given was 32GB version with a 9 retail price at a .5 million total price.
- No word on choice between black and white
- YouSendIt, run by Brad Garlinghouse who Weiner worked with at Yahoo also give all of their employees Minis

Improved GPS
- Engineers at the Universidad Carlos III de Marid (University of Charles III in Madrid) have created an improved GPS
- Accuracy improved 50-90%
- Available at low cost.
- works by combining sensor types, A GPS radio aided by a Inertial Measurement Unit with 3 gyroscopes and 3 accelerometers
- inputs would be combined in software
- similar system used on cell phones such as the iPhone

Dish Ships Hopper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ML8EFmwd-1k
- Dish Network has shipped its Hopper With Sling
- Product was at center of CES CNET/CBS controversy
- CO-Winner of CES Best of Show Award
- DVR with Slingplayer built in for streaming to internet connected devices at no additional charge
- free Hopper Transfers app allowing customers to download DVR content to their mobile device for offline viewing
- 500 hours of HD recording
- Content providers, like CBS, contend product is illegal and allows customers to strip ads from their TV shows

Comcast buys ALL of NBC
-Comcast acquiring GE’s 49% share to make NBC a wholly owned subsidiary
- Deal is for .7 billion plus an additional .4 billion for 30 Rockefeller plaza and the CNBC building in New Jersey
- GE founded NBC under its then RCA division in 1926 before losing the company to antitrust considerations in 1930 and regained it from RCA in 1986
- NBC has been housed in 30 Rock since 1933
- First time a content provider has been fully owned by a cable or satellite company.
- Comcast had to agree to antitrust conditions for its 51% stake in 2011
“1) Comcast may not retaliate against any broadcast network (or affiliate), cable programmer, production studio or content licensee for licensing content to a competing cable, satellite or telephone company or OVD, or for raising concerns to the department or the FCC;
2) Comcast must relinquish its management rights in Hulu, an OVD. Without such a remedy, Comcast could, through its seats on Hulu’s board of directors, interfere with the management of Hulu, and, in particular, the development of products that compete with Comcast’s video service. Comcast also must continue to make NBCU content available to Hulu that is comparable to the programming Hulu obtains from Disney and News Corp;
3) In accordance with recently established Open Internet requirements, Comcast is prohibited from unreasonably discriminating in the transmission of an OVD’s lawful network traffic to a Comcast broadband customer. Comcast must also maintain the high-speed Internet service it offers to its customers by continuing to offer download speeds of at least 12 megabits per second in markets where it has upgraded its broadband network. Additionally, Comcast is required to give other firms’ content equal treatment under any of its broadband offerings that involve caps, tiers, metering for consumption or other usage-based pricing; and
4) Comcast may not, with certain narrow exceptions, require programmers or video distributors to agree to licensing terms that seek to limit online distributors’ access to content.”
- Could be a rocky road for approval

Geek of the Union
- Science and Technology Featured in 2013 Sate of the Union Address
- Apple was mentioned for decision to make Macs in the US again
- Called for a level of R&D not seen since the space race
- Held up 3D printing as a way to revolutionize how  things are made, lauded efforts for a 3D printing lab in Youngstown, OH
- Wants to create partnerships between companies and education that focuses on Science, technology, Engineering, and Math
- wants to create an X-prize for energy technology
- despite Bobak Ferdowsi, lord of the Mohawk, being invited NASA and space technology was not mentioned

Russian Meteor

- Meteorite(s) exploded over the City of Chelyabinsk (population 1.1 million) in the ural mountain region of Russia
- event occurred at 9:20in the morning local time (9:20pm Dallas time)
- Object weighed an estimated 50 tons when it entered the atmosphere.  10 tons at time of explosion
- Air blast explosion said to be more powerful than recent North Korean Nuclear Test.
- Not radioactive, but as powerful as a small nuclear bomb
- Incident is not said to be related to the DA14 Asteroid
- Estimated 1 million square feet of glass broken
- No confirmed deaths, but 1,200 injuries.  Mostly glass related
- 3,000 building damaged. Local sinc factory was extensively damaged with falls collapsing, hockey area also damaged
- Small by comparison to the Tunguska in Russia event 100 years ago which it was hypothesized a similar airburst from a 300ft object caused a 15 megaton explosion
- Damage estimate at 1 billion rubles ( million USD)

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