A high-res video of Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” for tablets ended up leaked to the internet. With all this talk of tablets at CES, it will be interesting to see where (and on what) this is used on.
Online dating site Match.com is facing a class action lawsuit filed by former customers who allege the Dallas-based firm is misleading clients by having them pay for access to dating profiles that are often expired or false profiles created by spammers.
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation’s most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word.
Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.”
Microsoft also announced at CES that it has sold over 8 million Kinects in just two months and now has some 30 million Xbox Live users. Wow.
Microsoft Corp. has shipped more than 8 million Kinect sensors for its Xbox device, topping the company’s forecasts, and now has 30 million users for the related Xbox Live online service. The company also plans to add the Hulu Plus online- television service to Xbox Live and Kinect in the U.S. this spring.
Mass animal deaths reported around the world in the last week have been causing world-wide alarm and speculation.
In the United States, the animal deaths gained media attention when up to 5,000 blackbirds in Arkansas mysteriously fell out of the sky, 360 miles south of Beebe, Ark.
A few days later an estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found dead in Louisiana- a short distance away from where the other 5,000 plummeted to their deaths. More animal deaths were reported in Tennessee.
Signs of the “Aflockalypse,” as some are calling it, are popping up all over the globe.
Residents at Sorrento Woods in Venice, Florida have a new neighbor: an orange alligator!
Sylvia Mythen first saw the alligator on Wednesday on her way to work. “I thought, this is great. I’m going to snap a picture and send it to my grandkids so they think I’m the coolest grandma in Florida,” she told WWSB in this video (via CNN).
