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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Video Games as Modern Art: MoMA Acquires Pong, Minecraft & First Console
Do video games like Pong and Space Invaders belong in Museum of Modern Art? Or does putting a game console from 1972 on a pedestal constitute an Emperor's New Video Game-style overreach? A debate is raging, and MoMA is at the center of it.
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Firefox OS hands-on: Alcatel OneTouch Fire and ZTE Open (video)
We've crossed paths with Firefox OS before, but today marks the first time we've used handsets running the final build of Mozilla's mobile OS. The Alcatel OneTouch Fire and ZTE Open you see above are the same phones we played with at MWC earlier this year -- in fact, the latter just launched in Spain on Telefónica for €69 ($90) unsubsidized including €30 ($39) of airtime for prepaid customers. We took both devices for a brief spin and immediately noticed a slight improvement in performance. Check out our hands-on gallery below and video after the break.
Note: While the ZTE Open we handled was Movistar branded, it's launching on Telefónica today for €69 (no €63 as mentioned in the our video).
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How Many Apps Does an App Need to Sell to Be in the Top Apps List?
When the App Store was fresh and new, you'd see different apps pop up in the Top Apps list. Those Top Apps lists were actually usable. But ever since Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja and whatever else decided to squat down, it's the same damn apps over and over. So how popular does an app have to be to crack these lists?
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Gorilla taunting: If you want to go to Hogwarts, be nice to zoo animals
Children taunting a zoo gorilla got their just dues when the animal decided to best them at their own game.
A gorilla scared a group of children cruelly taunting it.Children who apparently have never read Harry Potter, and who don?t know that only non-magical kids are mean to zoo animals, were fittingly scared when a gorilla decided it had grown weary of their taunting.
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In the now viral video, a group of children yell ?You?re ugly!? at a gorilla sitting placidly near the glass at a Dallas zoo, beating their chests in an imitation of more enthusiastic gorillas they might have seen on television. The gorilla watches them, calmly accepting their criticism.?
But suddenly the gorilla has had enough. Well-versed in the art of surprise, as well in the benefits of deadpan facial expressions, it lunges toward the glass and presses its hands and face to the window. The kids scream. And the gorilla saunters off, turning back for one last disapproving look at the appropriately terrified kids.
The kids had it better than Harry Potter?s Dudley Dursley, who taps the glass on a bored boa constrictor?s cage and then later gets his due, ending up sealed behind the glass (in the movie version, at least; in the book, the snake just slithers around his ankles).
Harry, the superstar wizard who goes on to save the whole world, is more restrained with the snake: no tapping, just a casual, pleasant conversation with the exasperated animal about how a little privacy would be nice, sometimes.
The apparent moral: people who tap on glass are non-magical. If you want to go to Hogwarts, be good to gorillas.
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Court wins draw big crowds to gay pride parades
Proposition 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry, left, and Sandy Steir ride in San Francisco's 43rd annual gay pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. The couple wed on Friday after a U.S. Supreme Court decision cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Proposition 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry, left, and Sandy Steir ride in San Francisco's 43rd annual gay pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. The couple wed on Friday after a U.S. Supreme Court decision cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Proposition 8 plaintiffs Paul Katami, right, and Jeff Zarrillo kiss while riding in San Francisco's 43rd annual Gay Pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. The couple wed on Friday after a U.S. Supreme Court decision cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Dsiree Chavez bears a sign thanking the U.S. Supreme Court for clearing the way for same-sex marriage in California while marching in San Francisco's 43rd annual Gay Pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. Chavez walked as part of a Mormons for Marriage Equality contingent. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Elizabeth Jay holds a sign championing same-sex marriage during San Francisco's 43rd annual gay pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Wearing a mask of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a reveler marches in San Francisco's 43rd annual gay pride parade Sunday, June 30, 2013. Participants bore signs and clothing celebrating the court's Wednesday ruling that cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Gay rights supporters crowded parade routes in San Francisco, New York and other major U.S. cities Sunday to celebrate what once was unimaginable ? two Supreme Court victories on same-sex marriage.
The high court gave celebrants one more reason to cheer Sunday when Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected a last-ditch effort by opponents to stop gay marriages in California.
Among the thousands at San Francisco's event, now in its 43rd year, were scores of teenage girls, opposite-sex couples and families with children.
"You can feel the smiles," Graham Linn, 42, of Oakland said as he stood on a three-foot-tall building ledge surveying crowds 10-deep on the sidewalks. "All around you there is a release. There is a vindication, and you can feel it."
The biggest applause went up for the two newlywed couples whose legal challenge of Proposition 8 made it possible for Californians to wed.
The couples ? Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank ? waved from convertibles as a group of people carried cartoon-style signs that read, "Prop. 8-Kapow!"
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, who orchestrated the lawsuit, and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Academy Award for the movie about the slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, marched with them.
"It's so historic," Jeff Margolis, 58, said. "So many of us could never imagine this would happen, that people would be able to do what they want for the rest of their lives."
Loud cheers went to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Kamala Harris ? straight politicians who have been vocal advocates of same-sex marriage.
San Francisco's parade lineup illustrated how mainstream support for same-sex marriage has become. Companies such as Facebook and supermarket chain Safeway were represented. Police officers and sheriff's deputies marched while holding hands.
There was also a group that called itself "Mormons for Marriage" that drew enthusiastic applause. The Mormon Church was one of the main sponsors of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage in California.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Proposition 8 and also invalidated part of a 1996 federal law that denied spousal benefits to gay couples. On Sunday morning, Justice Kennedy denied a last-ditch request from the sponsors of Proposition 8, who argued that a lower court on Friday prematurely allowed gay marriages to continue in the nation's most populous state before the high court finalized its ruling.
Ron Prentice, chief executive of the California Family Council, a Proposition 8 sponsor said its legal team will continue to fight to keep marriage between a man and a woman.
"Last week's Supreme Court decision against the federal Defense of Marriage Act has encouraged same-sex 'marriage' supporters across the country who believe it is now 'open season' on marriage in every state," he said in a written statement. "The team continues to work around the clock to identify the best legal strategies to limit same-sex 'marriage' in California, and nationally."
San Francisco City Hall remained open on Sunday so couples who wanted to marry could obtain their licenses. Every other clerk in California's 58 counties will be required to issue same-sex marriage licenses starting Monday.
Parade organizers planned to hold a VIP reception for the newlyweds following the parade.
The parade in New York City, where the first pride march was held 44 years ago to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that kicked off the modern gay rights movement, also was a sort of victory lap for Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old widow who challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act after she was forced to pay $363,053 on the estate of her late wife.
Windsor, who was picked as a grand marshal of New York's parade months before she won her case before the Supreme Court last week, walked up Fifth Avenue during the event and recalled watching it on television in past years with her wife, Thea Spyer, before Spyer died in 2009.
"I love it obviously," she said. "If someone had told me 50 years ago that I would be the marshal of New York City gay pride parade in 2013 at the age of 84, I never would have believed it."
In Seattle, the two women who were the first same-sex couple to be granted a marriage license in Washington state after same-sex marriage became legal there last year, Jane Abbot Lighty and Pete-e Petersen, helped raise a giant marriage equality sign featuring a red equal sign on top of the city's iconic Space Needle for the first time.
In another first, the Seattle Mariners flew a rainbow flag ? the symbol of gay pride first unfurled during San Francisco's parade in 1978 ? during their game Sunday against the Chicago Cubs.
The Supreme Court wins motivated many first-time pride parade spectators, including Michael Pence, 53, and John Moehnke, 46, of North Carolina. The couple, who are engaged and plan to marry in New York in the fall, attended Chicago's annual Pride Parade with a church group, saying they were thrilled about the court decisions and want to see gay marriage extended to Illinois and other states.
"We have such a long way to go but we're ready for the fight," Moehnke said.
Efforts to legalize gay marriage in Illinois have stalled. Advocates started the year with intense momentum and received backing from President Barack Obama and Illinois' top political leaders. The measure cleared the Illinois Senate on Valentine's Day, state Rep. Greg Harris, the bill's sponsor, decided not to call a vote in the House because he didn't have the needed support.
Harris was one of several politicians at the parade Sunday. He said he would bring back the issue in the fall, adding that the Supreme Court's rulings have resonated with his colleagues in the Illinois House.
"Illinois is in a truly second-class status until we pass marriage equality," Harris said.
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Associated Press writers Sophia Tareen in Chicago, AP Radio Correspondent Julie Walker in New York and AP Photographer Elaine Thompson in Seattle contributed to this story.
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EU envoy: Syria on agenda at Gulf talks
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ? The European Union's foreign policy chief says the deepening crisis in Syria is high on the agenda as envoys from the EU hold talks with Gulf Arab states that have led calls to boost weapons supplies for rebels fighting Bashar Assad's regime.
The meeting Sunday in Bahrain also takes place amid fears that political tensions in Egypt could drag the country into further turmoil with massive protests planned against the government of President Mohammed Morsi.
Gulf leaders are likely to press the EU's Catherine Ashton to step up weapons flow to Syrian rebels.
But she faces pressure from rights groups to publicly criticize Gulf leaders for crackdowns including the detention of activists and others in host Bahrain, which has been locked in nonstop Arab Spring-inspired unrest since February 2011.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-envoy-syria-agenda-gulf-talks-090526204.html
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