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Salma Hayek Planning to Re-team with Penelope Cruz

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Italy quake kills five, damages historic buildings

SANT' AGOSTINO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake in northern Italy killed five people, injured dozens and damaged historic buildings including a famed mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens and sending thousands running into the streets.

Facebook stock limps into Monday

Market trackers say people are much more likely to click on ads at Google than at FacebookFacebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.


NATO leaders map strategy for Afghanistan exit

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gathered in Chicago on Sunday to chart a path out of Afghanistan as war-weary Western nations seek to fend off dissent in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.

Sean Penn opens wallets for Haiti at Cannes gala

CANNES (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival took time out from the movies to raise money for Haiti on Friday night, with Sean Penn at the helm pleading the humanitarian cause at a celebrity gala.

Danish child abuse film shocks Cannes crowds

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Danish director Thomas Vinterberg burst on to the scene in Cannes in 1998 with the acclaimed "Festen", and critics say he is close to his best again this year with "The Hunt", a shocking take on child abuse and its impact on a small community.

Tough times for small U.S. films despite bumper Cannes

CANNES, France (Reuters) - In a bumper year for U.S. productions in Cannes, director John Hillcoat, presenting prohibition-era drama "Lawless" at the film festival on Saturday, said the state of smaller-budget American movies was "distressing".

A great-sounding pocket recorder: Zoom H2n

Zoom's H2n Handy Recorder has built-in microphones and records MP3 files and 96-kHz/24-bit high-resolution audio. [Read more]

ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up

An anonymous reader writes "Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are facing off as they both push into the other's market space. 'It's going to be quite hard for Intel to be much more than just one of several players,' ARMs CEO said of Intel."

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Pakistan blocks Twitter over ‘blasphemous’ images, report says

The country implements the ban over concerns about a promotion involving posting images of the prophet Muhammad. Facebook has taken a more conciliatory approach. [Read more]

PHOTOS: Vanity Fair Bash At Cannes

Naomi Watts, Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Connelly glam up for the Vanity Fair and Gucci party held at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (May 19) in Antibes, France.

A former pony-tailed student communist leading a rag-tag band of ex-Trotskyists, Maoists, champagne socialists and greens

*Given the state of things, it's a wonder that European "extremists" aren't a whole lot extremer than the likes of this guy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras "I don't believe in heroes or saviours," says Alexis Tsipras, "but I do believe in fighting for rights ? no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of ...

Apple, Samsung CEOs head to court-ordered play date

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation. A joint court filing in April said that "as directed by the Court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate" in the discussions. ...

Identity Of Second John Travolta Accuser Revealed

The second man who filed a now-retracted $2 million sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta has been unmasked.

BOX OFFICE: THE AVENGERS Takes #1 Spot Again; BATTLESHIP Bombs With $25M

Reports from Exhibitor Relations are estimating that Peter Berg and Universal's Battleship has bombed at the box office with only $25.3 Million, in second place. While, Marvel's The Avengers is still going strong at the #1 spot with an estimated $55 Million in it's third weekend. The film has now made $457.1M domestic and over $1 Billion worldwide. You sunk my BATTLESHIP! Universal's wannabe blockbuster set sail in 2nd place with just $25.3M. #boredgames— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) May 20, 2012 Box office behemoth! Marvel's THE AVENGERS officially scored $55M this weekend, for a jaw-dropping total of $457M--#6 all-time domestic!— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) May 20, 2012 #Avengers #1 again w/ $55.1M wknd, -47%, & $457.1M in just 17 days. Leaps to #6 alltime dom. bit.ly/oVD1ug— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya) May 20, 2012 The question now is, will The Avengers stay at the #1 spot with Men in Black 3 hitting cinemas next week? Both Battleship and The Avengers

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday.

Video: Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Gets Coffee

Researchers hope to build an arm that could help people with more complex tasks, such as brushing your teeth.

Modern Love: Reorienting After a Relationship’s End

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Jill Robinson: Good Grief: The House

This guy talks first. He's got the build of an armchair a few generations of guys have sat in to watch football. He's talking about Mother's Day, taking flowers to the grave and then all the kids and their mate's and the grandkids went back to the house to eat and hang out.

The house. Those words rise high and grand, swing up in the air.

"Over to the house."

"Let's go back to the house."

"Come around the house." The House. Iconic words. The big house we dream we'll have when we have kids. Mom will have the baby, and you'll drive her up to "The House." You'll see your kids learn to ride their bikes in the driveway, and then you'll watch your kids going out for their own first drive.

The house is the achievement, the place you'll raise the kids and it will be passed on down with all your stories. The house is the first storybook. Each room a chapter, a character, in fact, growing, changing, inhabited by dreams, phobias, demons, and visions. You can track every step you ever took in the house and what it meant to you: the light under the door in your mom's room at night -- was she reading or hugging with dad? Grandma's gentle cough, could you hear the sound of the knitting needles or did you imagine that? You can still hear the soft slip/slap/bob of her slippers on the carpet.

The house, the apex of the dream to own a piece of land, to have the house where family meets, where you have Christmas, Passover and Thanksgiving. There are also chairs; Grandpa's chair will be his forever -- even when he's long gone. The love seat in the sitting room is where you saw your older cousin kissing his girlfriend with his hand -- what? Really? Not there! That room in the house will come up every time you get close.

The house is substantial; it will be there forever. As long as the house remains, the ghosts we are here to reference will find comfort, even as we also find that comfort on our own visits.

Another guy, a slender sweet-faced man, who lost his wife a while ago, is already having dates. Friends (and even his kids) tell him about nice women who will take care of him. I am not that nice woman. Not any nice woman. It is coming on stronger to me that I am meant to be doing what I am, and that if I continue to do it well I will not be lonely.

But there is no The House. We did have one growing up in LA. I never dreamed it would not be there. When I hear "the house," I see the Tudor mansion on the ivy-covered crest on Marlboro Street.

The house is the classic American symbol for security, for mom's arms, for dad's firm grasp as he lifts you down off that high branch on the olive tree in the back yard, easier to climb than the one in the center of the small flagstone circle set in the courtyard. That was a cherished place to watch famous people arrive, or to sit and imagine this was our Mayflower, the great branches sail, billowing high above us in the wind.

The house is the refuge -- opening its arms to the grieving. How I missed the house we had. I wanted to be taking you back there, unable to tell you we no longer had the house. Easier to tell you your heart was gone. Your legs no longer worked, you could barely speak, but you kept on breathing, until you understood and you stopped asking me to take you home.

Our own house on Wimpole Street, like Scarlett's Tara, has become a legendary house. So too, the house in Little Women, and dozens of ranch houses raw and lean as Clint Eastwood's jaw. After grief group, I drive past Arts and Craft bungalows and Grand Victorian realms for sagas to play out; we always need a place for the big emotions to gather, hold each other, filled with all the bustle and lust of family secrets, burdens, charms and follies, of envies and thwarted dreams, trusts fulfilled and betrayed. The house holds it all in wonderfully for each new generation to gather, to feel the tribal pulse; a unique treasure, this place for the campfire gatherings to celebrate the latest lost soul.

The house. I sat in grief even more for our own family's loss of the central arena than for you, for your family. I wanted somewhere to go, to gather, to say, "come over to the house and we'll talk." We do not have the house. But we do have the stories to tell, the memories of each room, each particularly interesting cigarette holder or sherry decanter, the photographs and my mother's paintings. Perhaps not having the house makes it bigger, more real, and gives it the resonance of history to be studied and characterized by the next generation of our family's writers or artists.

I am, in fact, the house. I can serve you the brisket, the artichokes, the roast potatoes, the ice cream and crunchy apple pies, and tell you who was sitting there, why the garnet silk cord on that striped Empire chair is frayed on the left side. You'll learn who did that. Come over.

Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright

An anonymous reader writes "The United States has pursued Bradley Manning with full force for his role in supplying classified documents to WikiLeaks, in part because of the substantial difficulty in going after the organization directly. Criminal statutes generally deployed against those who leak classified government documents--such as the Espionage Act of 1917--are ill-equipped to prosecute third-party international distribution organizations like WikiLeaks. One potential tool that could be used to prosecute WikiLeaks is copyright law. The use of copyright law in this context has rarely been mentioned, and when it has, the approach has been largely derided by experts, who decry it as contrary to the purposes of copyright. But a paper just published in the Stanford Journal of International Law describes one novel way the U.S. could use copyright to go after WikiLeaks and similar leaking organizations directly--by bringing suit in foreign jurisdictions."

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Samsung Galaxy Note LTE Vs Galaxy Nexus LTE: Who Wins 4G LTE Battle?

A detailed features comparison of LTE version of Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus.

Nuance Salma Hayek line has an additional seven new products

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Pakistan blocks Twitter over Prophet cartoons

Twitters has been Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.


Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Surprise Weekend Wedding

Mark Zuckerberg's Big Surprise Weekend WeddingMark Zuckerberg got married, everyone! A day after taking Facebook public, Zuck tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan and announced it the only way he knows how: through his Facebook timeline. 


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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

Fisker leak shows Atlantic production delayed to mid-2014, 0-60 in 6.5 seconds

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Our hopes of taking the Fisker Atlantic for a spin next year just got dampened considerably: a big document leak has revealed that the more reasonably-priced alternative to the Karma won't be rolling off the production lines en masse until mid-2014, a year later than we'd expected. Thanks in part to a factory overhaul, the only Atlantics rolling on their hybrid-powered wheels in mid-2013 will be prototypes. On the upside, we've learned more about the car itself, including a fairly brisk 0-60 time of 6.5 seconds courtesy of a 300HP-equivalent motor. Green drivers who thought that the promised lower price would put it into entry-level luxury will nonetheless get a reality check with that $50,000 to $60,000 target, even if it's still a big savings over the six-digit Karma. There's still a huge amount of leeway for things to change, but with our compatriots at Autoblog having confirmed that the documents were real and "highly confidential," they may be a sign that the Tesla Model S will have free rein in the green luxury sedan world for a good year or more.

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Tim Lihoreau: 11 People You Don’t Want To Be Friends With

To paraphrase a very old joke, I still don't quite know why my mother didn't make me a mornuntiaphiliac. Perhaps she didn't have enough wool, so I got a purple tank top instead.

To explain, my mum always used to be an inveterate mornuntiaphiliac - that is, someone who delights in announcing a death. Passing on news of a passing on, you might say. Indeed, she was a supreme mistress of this particularly dark art. Her skill with the extended, tortuously tantalizing, almost labyrinthine lead in, sometimes lasting several minutes and always culminating in the, by then, totally expected but somehow nevertheless shocking revelation of a friend's mortality, was second to none. As a party piece, it wasn't quite up there with playing underwater accordion or telling gags in Swedish, but, nevertheless, it formed a crucial part of my growing-up years.

So I got to wondering: Why didn't she pass this trait down to me? Perhaps, then, we all have our own Schadenfreude palette (that is, the desire to gloat and find happiness in the misfortunes of others).

Having thought about it, I instantly began to notice the said traits amongst friends, relatives and, indeed, total strangers.

So I decided to collect them. To admit to some of them, yes, possibly, but mainly to collate and christen them - each ambrosial bliss, each nectarious relish, each ravishing indulgence.
While in my youth there may certainly have been some self-preserving resistance to mornuntiaphilia, (see above) I am pretty sure that one of my earliest childhood recollections is of a turpaphiliac neighbor (the one who delights in the less than beautiful nature of a friends offspring) who took one look at me - despite being the shape of a space hopper now, back then I think I was already lanky while still in a cot - and said, "Lovely pram. Is that the Silver Cross Viceroy?" It may be a trick of the memory.

Going out only at night, then, I began to work at the local opera house and quickly became a benedixophiliac (one who delights in baiting a posh person). I will certainly admit to eboracophilia (see below) since birth. Now? Now I am but a verophiliac, (one who delights in being right) libresophile (one who delights in taking the free trial product and canceling within the period) with petrusophiliac (delight in namedropping) tendencies - but my deepest darkest joy, my most schaden of freudes, has got to be nothesohilia (delight in using new technology).

Here, however, are a bunch of philial friends to beware of:

Tim Lihoreau is the author of Schadenfreude: The Little Book of Black Delights [Elliott & Thompson, $14.95].

Reports: Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence officer convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, has died in Libya, according to media reports.

He died at home after a battle with cancer, his brother told Reuters news agency.

Al Megrahi was freed from a prison in Scotland in 2009 after serving eight years of a life sentence for blowing up the Pan Am 747, killing all 259 on board and 11 in the town of Lockerbie below.

Doctors who had been treating him for prostate cancer gave him just three months to live, and he was released on compassionate grounds.

He received a hero's welcome upon his return to Libya, enraging many in the United States and Britain.

The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 was the world's deadliest act of air terrorism until the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, according to the FBI.

Al Megrahi was the only person convicted in the case.

As rebels swept into Tripoli two years after al Megrahi's release, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic called for him to be extradited, with the Americans demanding a trial in the United States, and British lawmakers saying he should return to prison in Scotland.

CNN's Nic Robertson tracked al Megrahi down at the palatial villa Moammar Gadhafi had built for him, apparently in a coma and near death. Al Megrahi's family said his son and mother were trying to care for him with oxygen and an intravenous drip, but with no medical advice.

Al Megrahi's death may make it impossible ever to get the full story behind the Lockerbie bombing.

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CNN's Nic Robertson addresses media reports Lockerbie bomber Abdul Al Megrahi is dead.

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Phil Black charts the story of the Lockerbie bombing from the crash of the flight to the release of the convicted bomber.

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In a CNN exclusive, Nic Robertson finds Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in Tripoli.

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Cannes director Haneke faces death in moving "Love"

CANNES, France (Reuters) - It is a subject rarely tackled in cinema, but Austria's Michael Haneke forces us to confront the reality that will befall us all - the end of life - in "Love", his beautiful and devastating film at Cannes.

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Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married"

theodp writes "A day after taking Facebook public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his Facebook status to 'married' after wedding longtime girlfriend and recent med school grad Priscilla Chan on Saturday. No word if Zuckerberg heeded Donald Trump's prenup advice."

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Miley Cyrus: "I had my biggest heartbreak at 14"

Miley Cyrus reveals that she thought Nick Jonas was "perfect" and "amazing".

20th Anniversary of the Vows Column

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The Premiere Of Philip Glass’ Astronomy Opera

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Philip Glass to commemorate his 75th birthday and his long relationship with the internationally known arts festival.

The Charleston festival is staging the American premiere of "Kepler," about the famed German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Only the score has previously been performed in this country.

"We had been talking about various different things and this seemed the most appropriate," said festival General Director Nigel Redden, who first met the composer 40 years ago. "It's the American stage premiere but it's also the premiere of a new version and it's in English. Philip, I think, was anxious to have it done in English to make it more accessible."

Glass has had a long relationship with Spoleto. Among other performances over the years, the first American production of his "Book of Longing," based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen was performed in 2007. A year earlier, a minimalist fanfare by Glass was performed at the opening ceremonies on a so-called car-illon. The car-illon consisted of a line of BMWs, each with a speaker on the roof and a license plate displaying the note it played.

"This festival was founded by a composer and we feel increasingly it's desirable to have composers here," Redden said.

The Spoleto Festival USA was founded here in 1977 by composer Gian Carlo Menotti as a companion to his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. He left the Charleston festival in 1993 in a dispute over his successor and died five years ago at age 95, still estranged from the festival he started here.

The festival's opening ceremonies are Friday and during the following two weeks there will be more than 140 shows by 60 groups and performing artists on stages across the city.

A second Spoleto opera is the American premiere of "The Phoenix Pavilion" by Guo Wenjing, a contemporary Chinese composer. It features an orchestra of four traditional Chinese instruments blended with Western instruments.

The visual arts offering is the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art's show by Motoi Yamamoto, who uses salt to create large-scale art installations that resemble – depending on how you view it – lace, waves or mazes.

The Charleston installation won't be completed until the night before the festival opens, because Yamamoto works painstakingly sitting on the floor to create patterns for the installation. But Yamamoto sees his work as a form of meditation.

The Japanese artist estimates it will take 120 hours to complete using about 400 pounds of salt.

Clemson University architecture students designed a stairway and an overlook so patrons can get a better look at the salt design that Yamamoto creates to match the floor space available. Yamamoto began working with salt to keep alive the memory of his sister who died of brain cancer at age 24.

The show at the Halsey runs through July 7th when the public is invited to come and scrape the sand off the floor and then spread it into the Cooper River near the South Carolina Aquarium.

But for Yamamoto, that's all part of the art.

"I am happy, not sad," at the end of a show, he said. "At the ceremony, people go to the sea and I can imagine the cycle of the salt is like the cycle of life."

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Pakistan blocks Twitter over anti-Islamic material

Government cuts access to website after Twitter refuses to remove material considered blasphemous

Bollywood Star Ends Mystery Over Granddaughter’s Name

NEW DELHI — Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says his superstar son and daughter-in-law have named their baby girl Aaradhya.

Speculation about the baby's name had swirled since she was born Nov. 16 to actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a L'Oreal spokeswoman and former Miss World.

The proud 69-year-old grandfather – referred to in Bollywood as "The Big B" – had been calling the baby "Beti B," using the Hindi word for "daughter."

On Sunday, he confirmed rumors that "Her name is Aaradhya," following a question from a fan on social networking site Twitter.

India's boisterous media have been unusually respectful of the couple's privacy during the birth of their first child, after an industry group issued guidelines for restraint.

Kelly Brook’s dress causes a stir: Twitter highlights from Cannes

@lemontwittor's pic of Kelly BrookThe appearance of actress Kelly Brook at Cannes causes a buzz on Twitter due to her "figure-hugging dress". Reactions to Kelly Brook's dress can be found below in this latest article from Relaxnews examining social media reaction to the Cannes Film Festival.


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Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Contentious Material

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication's Authority. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.

Yaseen said Facebook agreed to address Pakistan's concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same.

"We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it," said Yaseen.

Instructions to block the site came from Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology, said Yaseen.

"The ministry officials are still trying to make them (Twitter) agree, and once they remove that stuff, the site will be unblocked," said Yaseen.

Officials from Twitter and Facebook were not immediately available for comment.

A top court in Pakistan ordered a ban on Facebook in 2010 amid anger over a similar competition. The ban was lifted about two weeks later, after Facebook blocked the particular page in Pakistan.

The Pakistani government said at the time that it would continue to monitor other major websites for anti-Islamic links and content.

The 2010 Facebook controversy sparked a handful of protests across Pakistan, many by student members of radical Islamic groups. Some of the protesters carried signs advocating holy war against the website for allowing the page.

It also sparked a good deal of soul-searching, especially among commentators, who questioned why Pakistanis could not be entrusted to decide for themselves whether or not to look at a website. Some observers noted that Pakistan had gone further than several other Muslim countries by banning Facebook, and said it showed the rise of conservative Islam in the country.

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WATCH: SNL’s Emotional Goodbye To Kristen Wiig

NEW YORK -- Kristen Wiig got a musical sendoff on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" as the popular and versatile cast member made her exit after seven years.

In the show's final sketch, guest host Mick Jagger played the principal at a high school graduation and brought up Wiig, in cap and gown, as "one particular student who is leaving this summer."

She danced in turn with Jagger, cast members and executive producer Lorne Michaels to the tune of the Rolling Stones classic "She's a Rainbow." Then the ensemble sang another Stones hit, "Ruby Tuesday," with its line, "still I'm gonna miss you."

Wiig appeared to be holding back tears.

Though NBC had made no prior announcement of her departure, it comes as no surprise. She starred in and co-wrote the hit comedy "Bridesmaids," and even before that had notable roles in "Friends With Kids," "Paul," "Adventureland" and "Knocked Up," among other films. She has six more in various stages of development.

Wiig's almost limitless range of characters on "SNL" has included neurotic attention-seeker Penelope; Kat, half of the musical duo Garth and Kat (alongside Fred Armisen); and such real-life notables as Bjork, Kathie Lee Gifford and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis have also been reported to be leaving "SNL," though Michaels recently said any decision on cast changes will wait until the summer.

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Pakistan blocks Twitter access over "blasphemous content"

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to "blasphemous" material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said. "This has been done under the directions of the Ministry of Information Technology. It's because of blasphemous content," said Mohammed Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). "They (the ministry) have been discussing with them (Twitter) for some time now, requesting them to remove some particular content," he said. ...

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Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers

An anonymous reader writes "More than 5000 people die each year as a result of being distracted while driving, and a new study indicates that teens and cell phones make for the most volatile combination. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that of all drivers under 20 involved in fatal crashes, 16 percent were distracted — the highest proportion of any age group. 'Shockingly, texting drivers took their eyes off the road for each text an average of 4.6 seconds — which at 55 mph, means they were driving the length of a football field without looking,' said David Hosansky."

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Gadgets: Illuminating Speaker Dock

ABC News' gadget roundup this week features an illuminating speaker, carbon fiber ThinkPad ultrabook, and a new Sony camera. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.

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Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory

Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory

Does the word ReRAM ring a bell? No? Well, the key point is that it's much faster than NAND memory, and it's making its way into chips from Elpida, Sharp and Panasonic. Further proof that ReRAM is on the up and up? Researchers at University College London have used this technology to make a chip that operates at 100 times the speed of standard Flash memory. The device is composed completely of silicon oxide, which improves the chip's resistance, and it doesn't require a vacuum to work (which makes it cheaper to produce). But this new chip is more than just a faster alternative to Flash; its ability to move between different states of conductivity means it can be configured as a memristor, or a device that handles both data-processing and storage tasks. In the long term, researchers hope this technology can pave the way for silicon oxide CPUs -- and UCL is already using this design to help develop transparent memory chips for mobile devices. Need to know more? Feast your heart on the gritty details via the link below.

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Exclusive: Actor James Woods Will Direct A.M. Homes Novel

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SciTechTalk: Google to reign in Android

By JIM ALGAR United Press International Google's recent decision to take a more active role in how its Android mobile operating system is used is seen as an attempt to address the single most vexing problem in the Android world -- the fragmentation of the one, "pure" Android into hundred of slightly different versions through its modification by smartphone and tablet makers.

‘Terminator’ actor Stahl reportedly entering rehab

Actor Nick Stahl, who played John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and was reported missing by his wife last week, has told friends he is entering a rehab facility, his wife tells PEOPLE.com.

Rose Stahl said she was "relieved" but also "skeptical" that the actor was actually entering rehab, according to the PEOPLE report.

Stahl's wife had reported him missing last Monday.

Police said Stahl had been frequenting Los Angeles' skid row and officers on that beat had been told to be on the alert for him, according to a Los Angeles Times report.


Pakistan blocks Twitter over material considered offensive to Islam

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam.

Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant falls short of title

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old woman who forced Donald Trump and his Miss Universe Canada pageant to end its ban on transgender contestants, fell short of the national title Saturday night at the pageant in Toronto.

The crown went to Sahar Biniaz, an Indian-born, Iranian-raised actress from Vancouver. Biniaz, 26, will represent Canada at the Miss Universe pageant in December, according to the Miss Universe Canada website.

Talackova didn't walk away from the pageant empty-handed. In addition to finishing among the top 12 semi-finalists, Talackova tied with three other contestants for the title of Miss Congeniality.


SNL’s ‘Lazy Sunday 2′ Hits the Web


“Lazy Sunday,” the Saturday Night Live digital short credited with popularizing YouTube in late 2005, got a sequel Saturday night.

“Lazy Sunday 2″ once again follows nerds Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg as they rap about mundane weekend activities. While in 2005, the day centered around seeing The Chronicles of Narnia, this time it’s the Broadway version of Sister Act.

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The sequel dropped as Samberg, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis are reportedly leaving the show.

For comparison’s sake, below is the original version. What do you think of the new one? Let us know in the comments.

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Status update: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gets married

(Reuters) - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.

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The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator.

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Which Talent Show Could Will Judge Next?

The Voice coach Will.i.am's best friend and fellow Black Eyes Peas member Apl.de.Ap has revealed his plans to follow in Will's footsteps and become a TV talent show judge.

Speaking at a fundraiser for his We Can Be Anything campaign, the Filipino-American rapper told The Huffington Post UK of his plans to launch a talent contest in the Philippines.

"I've been working myself up to do it because I'm not used to being on TV everyday... I've been offered a show for next year," he revealed.

Talking about the judging line-up he said: "It's probably going to be other Fillipino artists - definitely Arnel Pineda the lead singer of Journey, Cherise and Bruno Mars. It will be funny if Will does it with me, right? He won't understand a bunch of the songs."

However, Apl's inspiration for launching a show is by no means superficial, it's all part of his vision to bring hope, opportunity and aspiration to the children of the Phillipines who are - as he once was - living in poverty.

Apl was adopted at the age of 14 by an American sponsor named Joe Ben Hudgens who he met through a dollar-a-day programme and was brought to LA, which is where he met his best friend - Will.

"We're like best friends, brothers. When I was a adopted from the Philippines and brought to the US it felt like God had an angel waiting for me and that was him," said Apl.

Despite not being able to speak English, Apl formed an instand bond with Will over their mutual love of dancing and rapping: "He was from LA in a poor neighbourhood but when we met we had that same dream, we stuck together."

The pair went on to form the Grammy Award-winning group The Black Eyes Peas, who have now sold over 56 million records worldwide.

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Will, who rushed over from filming Saturday night's episode of The Voice to support his best friend and give a surprise performance at the fundraiser, held at The Westbury hotel in Mayfair, told us: "I come from a very bad neighbourhood and Apl saved my life.

"If I'd never met Apl, I probably would still be in that same ghetto and who knows what life would be like. I know there would be no Black Eyed Peas if I hadn't met Apl... it all started the day Apl landed in LA."

And he added: "I went to his graduation, not mine, because I wanted to see him walk the stage. Because when he came he didn't speak English and then he graduated with flying colours."

Apl's We Can Be Anything campaign - complete with a music video (below) - aims to build 10,000 new classrooms in Philippines in the next two years, so more schoolchildren will one day reach graduation.

China keeps up pressure on Chen’s family, supporters

BEIJING (Reuters) - While the blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng on Sunday enjoyed his first hours in New York after years of jail and detention, relatives and supporters back home remained locked down by security authorities.

NATO summit opens against backdrop of protests, foiled terror plot

The road map out of the war in Afghanistan is expected to be drawn up by U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders when they gather Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Against a backdrop of massive protests - and a foiled, homegrown terror plot that targeted Obama and others - the summit will open with NATO countries trying to figure out how to meet a 2014 withdrawal from an unpopular war while shoring up Afghanistan's security forces.

Security is expected to be tight at the summit following the arrest of three men, described by authorities as anarchists who plotted to attack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters and lob Molotov cocktails at police during the summit.

Police insist there are no imminent threats to the leaders of more than 50 nations gathering at the summit.


Iran finance minister: ‘Rest assured’ record oil prices over nuclear sanctions

Iran's finance minister believes oil prices could rise as high as $160 a barrel thanks to sanctions over its nuclear program, a prediction that comes just as the chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency headed to Tehran on Sunday for high-level talks.

"We must pay close attention when we speak of oil revenues and sanctions against oil sales, who are the winners and the losers of such sanctions?" Shamseddin Hosseini told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an interview that airs Sunday.

"Indeed, it is difficult. But not just for Iran. And we can all rest assured that there will be a considerable increase in international oil market prices. Now, is this the best approach?"

The comments came as the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a carefully worded statement that its director-general, Yukiya Amano, was headed to Iran for talks on what it described only as "issues of mutual interest with high Iranian officials."


Birth of new Greek drachma would be pained, rushed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If or when policymakers finally decide Greece should leave the euro, the exit could happen so quickly that "new drachma" currency notes might not be printed in time.

Nokia uses Lumia 900 as a hammer in a torture test, makes us wince (video)

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As much as we're familiar with mobile device torture tests, they're normally inflicted by us or otherwise not-so-voluntary. Nokia, however, has stepped up to the plate and doled out the abuse to the Lumia 900 itself with a hammer and nail, all based on a wager that the Windows Phone's use of Gorilla Glass would hold up to Sonim-level punishment. The company's Chris Ruble and Mike Meyers (not that Mike Myers) used a Lumia 710 as a dry run before an on-camera demo that not only saw the 900 assaulted with the hammer, but used as a blunt instrument itself -- all without a crack or scratch. We imagine that other toughened-glass phones would survive the hit, and there's every possibility that smacking the polycarbonate plastic would leave more than a scuff mark. Nokia's test still proves that its pride and joy can withstand more than just a casual roughing up, and you can see the slightly cringe-inducing test in the video below.

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg changes status, weds Chan

Mark Zuckerberg has wed Priscilla Chan just a day after his company went public, he announcedFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped the week of a lifetime, changing his own status to married after wedding Priscilla Chan just a day after his company went public, he announced.


‘First Base’ In Greek Courts For ISP-Level Blocking

arisvega writes "At a first level (the lowest court level in the Greek judiciary system) an order has been issued (article in Greek, Google translation is fair enough) for a 'plan on behalf of Internet Service Providers regarding he implementation of technological measures to deny access to internet users for webpages through which illegal copies of copyrighted work are being distributed.' The order seems to be general and descriptive, and is a manifestation of the implementation process for an even more general and vague larger-scale EU directive, which is the common source that caused the rulings recently posted on slashdot regarding the UK, the Netherlands and Finland. This appears to be one of the reasons that prompted Anonymous to launch defacing attacks on Greek government websites some three months back."

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Samsung’s mobile chief says has options to settle war with Apple

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in SeoulSEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' mobile division chief JK Shin said on Sunday the South Korean technology giant was still seeking to resolve differences in its international patent war with Apple Inc.. "There is still a big gap in the patent war with Apple but we still have several negotiation options including cross-licensing," Shin told reporters at Seoul airport shortly before his departure for the United States. Asked about the prospects for Samsung's memory chip business, Shin said the 4G chip shortage was expected to continue until early in the fourth quarter of this year. ...


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Day after historic IPO, Facebook’s Zuckerberg weds

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week — from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.


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SNL’s ‘Lazy Sunday 2′ Hits the Web

"Lazy Sunday," the Saturday Night Live digital short credited with popularizing YouTube in late 2005, got a sequel Saturday night.

Alternative Wii U controller design makes brief appearance on Twitter, goes into hiding

Alternative Wii U controller design makes brief Twitter appearance, goes into hiding

Excited for Nintendo's new tablet-esque controller? So are the kids in TT Games' QA department. An over-excited tester tweeted out an image of a slightly different Wii U slab than the one we laid hands on at E3 2011, teasing "look we what we have at work!" Answering the call does indeed reveal something worth looking at -- a somewhat wider looking Wii U slate featuring two full-sized analog sticks (as opposed to 3DS-like circle pads), a pair of unmarked button-like squares, and a new starboard home for the controller's plus and minus buttons.

The tweet was summarily pulled, of course, but not before our friends at Joystiq nabbed a screenshot. Naturally, the rumor mill started right up, churning out speculation of developer specific slabs, early prototypes and late redesigns. The truth? We'll probably need to wait until E3 to find out, but we reached out to Nintendo for a comment all the same. We'll let you know if we hear anything more than the usual "Nintendo doesn't comment on rumors and speculation" line.

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From opening bells to wedding bells: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg weds after IPO

SAN FRANCISCO - A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."

Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police trying to keep the peace during the NATO summit may face their biggest test on Sunday when thousands of demonstrators were expected to march near the site where leaders of the military alliance begin a two-day meeting.

Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries.

China Approves Google Motorola Mobility Merger

symbolset writes "CNET is reporting that China has approved Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Previously approved by regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe, China was the last holdout. The deal will now reportedly close 'within days.'" I wonder what conditions Google may have faced from the regulators, and whether they include any exceptions to the "don't be evil" guideline.

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Science Fact or Fiction: We Can Jump Between Parallel Universes

One minute everything is normal, the next everything is just a little off. Parallel universes!

Miley Cyrus: "I had my biggest heartbreak at 14"

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Quake kills 3, knocks down church bell in northern Italy

A strong earthquake struck early Sunday in northern Italy, killing at least three people and knocking down a church bell in the region, authorities said.

Two people were killed in a ceramic factory in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara, and one person died when a workshed collapsed in Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno, according to Elisabetta Maffani, spokeswoman for Italy's civil protection agency.

The 6.0-magnitude quake occurred just after 4 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Saturday), 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) outside Camposanto, northwest of Bologna, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The Italian civil protection agency said it anticipates more injuries as rescue workers make their way to remote villages in the mountainous area.


A man named Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in a concentration camp.

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar. Born January 8, 1894 as Rajmund Kolbe, he was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1982 for taking a stranger’s place in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Neuroscientists develop game for stroke rehabilitation, give the Wii a run for its money

Neuroscientists develop game for stroke rehabilitation, give Wii run for its money

Think the Wii has the market cornered on gaming rehab? Think again -- neuroscientists at New Castle University are developing a series of motion controlled video games to make stroke rehab more fun and accessible. The team's first title, dubbed Circus Challenge, lets patients digitally throw pies, tame lions and juggle to help them build strength and regain motor skills. As players progress, the game ratchets up its difficulty, presumably to match pace with their recovery.

Although Limbs Alive, the game's publisher, has only described their motion controller as "next-generation," it affirms that the game will be playable on PCs, laptops and tablets later this year. In an effort to lower costs and provide at-home therapy, the team hopes to leverage a

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Status update: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gets married

Facebook co-founder and CEO Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are seen in this wedding photo(Reuters) - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire's wedding took place a day after Facebook's initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. More than 280,000 people "liked" Zuckerberg's status change, which was accompanied by a photo of the smiling couple in wedding attire in a small, verdant outdoor setting with a string of lights behind them. ...


UPDATE 3-Status update: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gets married

* Bride is longtime girlfriend, Harvard classmate (Adds reactions and ceremony details)

Major league teams working on social media message

Graphic lists the top 10 major league baseball teams with facebook likes and twitter followersBridget Houlihan rifled through her gift bag and pulled out a gray T-shirt with a circular Chicago Cubs emblem on the front and FOLLOWER emblazoned across the back, resting on a row of logos from the top social media websites. "This is awesome," she said.


Former Chattanoogan does special effects for blockbuster films

A couple of weeks ago, moviegoers put "The Avengers" into the record books with a $207 million opening weekend, the biggest ever. Worldwide, the Marvel superhero blockbuster is well on its way to raking in a billion dollars.

With video: Cosplay at Motor City Comic Con

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."


A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 20

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For Arab Lesbians, a Place to Dance Freely

After the success of the gay Arab dance event Habibi, an inaugural version for women is making its debut in New York.

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