The Wii! Known for three things: being insanely popular, having almost no great third-party games and being the justification for hundreds of useless, cheap accessories. And speaking of that third thing, look at this garbage! More »
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Please excuse us while we take a little trip down TMZ lane. Word on the web is we now know who will be replacing Megan Fox in the next scintillating Transformers flick. Shia Labeouf will be locking lips with none other than Rosie Huntington-Whitley. Who is that, exactly? Good question. Huntington-Whiteley has spent the majority of her days prancing down a runway in her unmentionables as a Victoria Secret model. The best part? The 23 year-old model-turned actress doesn’t have a drop of acting experience. The jokes write themselves.
Fox was reportedly kicked out of the story line to give the main character a new love interest, though rumor was that the actress had also spent her off time berating director Michael Bay for any number of perceived character flaws. Our guess is Bay got tired of hearing the insults and told Fox to take a hike. Now back to your regularly scheduled content.
Gallery: Rosie Huntington-Whitley
[Source: The Sun | Images: Getty]
Out Foxed: Meet the new hottie of Transformers 3 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
It was reported last week that Megan Fox, has been dropped from Transformers 3. While it was widely reported that Fox was being dropped in order to take Sam Witwicky’s character into a new direction, Fox’s reps said that it was her decision to leave.
Either way, sources now say that Fox’s replacement will be Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
We’re not complaining at all.
– By: Omar Rana
Source: LA Times
As Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. get ready to begin their latest paywall experiments with the Times of London and the Sunday Times, the company has revealed a few more details, and it looks like this particular paywall will be fairly complete. Unlike the WSJ, this won’t be a “leaky” paywall. The content will be opted out of Google, and there will be no way to get to it, unless you subscribe at the rather hefty price of £1 per day. What’s amazing is that the folks behind this experiment still think it’s going to be a huge success — even as nearly all of the papers’ competitors are remaining steadfastly free.
In looking over the details, it seems pretty clear that it was set up by people with a very old school “print” mindset, even though they’re trying to add some digital elements to it. Basically, they set it up to look just like a print newspaper. It’s very much about “here’s the news, now take it.” There’s little effort to allow the community to actually be a part of things. They do allow comments, but on a limited basis, and then there will be “video and slide shows.” This is all about delivering information. It’s not about engaging or discussing things. It’s entirely “we’re the experts, take the news as we see it.” I’m sure there are some people who still want that kind of thing, but much of the world seems to be moving towards a much more participatory, community-based model.
Amusingly, the “comment editor” for the Times insists that he’ll still Twitter links to stories — it’s just that no one will be able to read them. That seems pretty obnoxious. I know that even when I point to stories here on Techdirt that have a registration or paywall (even if there are easy ways around them, the readers complain). Pointing people to stories they can’t read isn’t particularly nice. On top of that, the comment editor, Danny Finkelstein, seems to have a bit of hubris about this whole paywall thing. He claims that his competitors, who will offer similar news stories for free “won’t go viral, they will go out of business.” I guess we’ll find out.
Finkelstein, by the way, also seems a bit confused about the business of newspapers:
“We are unashamed about this,” said Mr Finkelstein. “We are trying to make people pay for the journalism…. I want my employer to be paid for the intellectual property they are paying me for.”
Except, in almost every case, that’s never been the case. For pretty much all of the modern history of newspapers, the newspapers were not paid for their “intellectual property.” Subscriber fees paid for less than printing and delivery costs. The money was made from selling ads, and the ads were sold because (at the time) the newspapers were the only ones who could bring together a community of local eyeballs that advertisers wanted to buy. But, by blocking that off (in the face of free competition) and limiting how useful the content is (by making it a lot less shareable or worth discussing), basically takes away that value, gives fewer reasons for people to gather, and fewer reasons for advertisers to pay. Perhaps I’m missing something about this plan, but it seems designed to destroy all the reasons why a news publication makes money in the first place, on the confused and wrong belief that newspapers have supported themselves via “journalism” at any time in the past. The journalism brought in the people, and the people brought in the ads. Skipping over those details seems like a pretty big risk.
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Our favorite voluptuous redhead, Christina Hendricks is the cover gal for Esquire Russia’s June 2010 issue. The Mad Men actress has been busy with upcoming films such as Leonie, The Family Tree, and Life as We Know It, all currently in production. Regardless, I’m sure we all can’t wait to see her once again as Joan Holloway when Mad Men returns to AMC in July.
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Toyota
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Toyota vehicles involved in unintended acceleration accidents may be linked to up to 89 deaths since 2000, up from the previously reported figure of 52.
NHTSA said that the deaths occurred in 71 crashes caused by the unintended acceleration defect. More than 43 were reported in March. The department has received 6,200 complaints from drivers that reported unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles from 2,000 to mid-May.
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said that regulators haven’t been able to find any new defects after speaking to 100 car owners who complained about sudden acceleration following repairs that Toyota dealers made to their vehicles.
At a second House hearing on May 20, Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA, said that the company is confident that faulty electronics are not to blame for the recent unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
– By: Omar Rana
Source: Bloomberg
The Illinois House on Wednesday night, with no votes to spare, voted to approve the plan to have the state borrow $3.7 billion needed to make the necessary payment to the state’s employe retirement systems.
The vote was 71-44 to borrow, meaning the rejection of proposals that the state either make the payment from current revenues or take a one-year “pension holiday.”
The City of New York was chosen today by the owners of the teams Americao National Football League (NFL) game to host the 2014 Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl XLVIII will be held at the Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of Giants and Jets in New York, located in the community of East Rutherford, New Jersey, a suburb of New York, whose cost was one thousand six hundred million dollars.
The announcement of the venue was made on Tuesday by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during the spring meeting of the 32 owners of teams in the league.
A slight majority of team owners bowed to New York, after considering other locations like Tampa, Florida.
This is the first time the NFL gives the seat of the “big game” to a stadium without a roof in a cold climate region, which could be an exception to the rule that should be played at not less than 10 degrees Celsius.
The organizers expect the 2014 Super Bowl to generate about 550 million dollars in revenue to the economy of the host city.
The sites identified for the next four “Super Sunday” are now: the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for the year 2010, the Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2011, the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2013, and the Meadowlands Stadium in New York in 2014.
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Apa Sherpa, nicknamed the “super Sherpa” for the apparent ease with which he makes the climb, helping him to break his own record by making a 20th ascent of the world’s highest peak, dedicated his latest climb to raising awareness of the impact of climate change in the Himalayas.
“The snow along the slopes had melted, exposing the bare rocks underneath, which made it very difficult for us to walk up the slope as there was no snow to dig our crampons into,” he told AFP on Tuesday. “This has made the trail very dangerous for all climbers.” (more…)
We still think it’s kind of cheating to want to run an HTC phone without the Sense user interface, but we’re also champions of choice. And so, we bring you instructions on how to turn off the Sense UI on the Sprint Evo 4G. And we ran a couple more benchmarking tests to see if there was any noticeable speed difference once Sense was gone. Our results, after the break.
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2010 Ford Ranger
Ford has issued a recall on certain 2010 Ranger pickups built form June 8, 2009 through February, 2, 2010 equipped with a manual transmission. The recall concerns an issue with the parking brake cable that can become disconnected from the right rear actuator during cold weather.
“This may occur when the parking brake is released if wet parking brake shoes have frozen in the applied position,” NHTSA said in a statement. “If the right rear parking brake cable becomes disconnected, the pedal will have extended travel and may not fully apply the brake.”
To fix the issue, dealers will install a revised right rear parking brake actuator to prevent cable disconnection. Owners can contact Ford at 1-866-436-7332 for more info.
– By: Kap Shah
Joe Jonas’ once warring exes are burying the hatchet.
After learning that the seemingly commitment-phobic JoBro dumped his Camp Rock co-star Demi Lovato last week, Taylor Swift sent her former pal a touching text message lending support and a kind ear as Demi wades through the public shame of being ditched, celebrity snoops spill to ZackTaylor.ca.
After all, Taylor knows all too well the trauma of being jilted by a Jonas. She, too, was kicked to the curb by the lanky heartthrob — in a 37 second voicemail, might we add — just two years ago. The Grammy-winning darling immortialized the heartbreak in a song and has never forgotten how painful it was to be left go by Joe. Taylor wants Demi to know that she has a friend in her, says a pal.
“Taylor sent Demi a quick text message saying that everything happens for a reason, and it will only make her stronger. She told Demi if she ever needed anything, to just ask.”
Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Toyota
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now estimating that 89 deaths may be attributable to unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles here in the United States between the year 2000 and May of 2009. Previously, it was reported that 52 deaths were possibly related to the throttle defect.
This figure has been extrapolated from NHTSA’s database of the roughly 6,200 complaints it has received over that same time period. In addition to the 89 deaths, 57 injuries have also been tallied. Toyota reminds us that these figures are estimates, saying in a statement:
Many complaints in the NHTSA database, for any manufacturer, lack sufficient detail that could help identify the cause of an accident. We will continue to work in close partnership with law enforcement agencies and federal regulators with jurisdiction over accident scenes whenever requested.
According to Toyota, some 1.67 million sticky accelerator pedals and 1.62 million floor mats have so far been fixed under recall, with roughly 120,000 being performed per week on average.
[Source: The Washington Post | Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty]
NHTSA claims Toyota unintended acceleration may have claimed 89 lives originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
by Ashley Braun
ghmss via Flickr Creative Commons
Bus drivers put up with a lot of crap: cranky commuters in the early morning, drunk partiers late at night, and would-be passengers breathlessly demanding that they open-the-doors-right-this-minute-I-didn’t-chase-this-bus-three-blocks-for-nothing. Maybe even witnessing the occasional fight.
But, to my surprise, one of the spit falls of working in mass transit appears to be getting in spats yourself. The kind that requires wiping the saliva off your face afterward.
For example, in 2009 there were 51 New York City bus drivers assaulted with spittle (yes, it counts as assault) who took paid leave after such an “incident.” And it took them, on average, about three months away from the job (with pay) to get over it. Based on these spittin’ images below, it doesn’t seem to be an uncommon weapon of mass disfunction. Has anyone witnessed such an orally corrupt event?
fintbo via Flickr Creative Commons
Spitting is now a crime punishable by CSI-style investigation.
Pete Ashton via Flickr Creative Commons
Your saliva is no good here.
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In case you haven’t heard, there’s a great opportunity for avid BlackBerry users, it’s the BlackBerry Beta Zone. You have the opportunity to test services and applications in Beta, as well as keeping it private. It used to be that only members from the Canada, the U.K., and the U.S., but they have now added more countries to that list.
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How do you make the best factory-built desert-pummeling pickup even better? A bit of retuning and another 101 hp.
In this day and age, even the average sedan is packing some serious heat under the hood, and there was a time when even “sports cars” were listed under 150 horsepower. See how far we’ve come with our latest infographic.
After a three-year hiatus, Formula One is coming back to the States, and Austin, Texas has been chosen to host the party.
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 5.25.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Micro HDMI cables are virtually impossible to find for purchase right now, but Best Buy will be selling a special dock for the Sprint EVO 4G coming soon. The new HDMI 1.4 standard (which established the micro connector Type D) was recently introduced and the EVO is one of the first smartphones to include it.
Devices based on the HDMI 1.4 standard are supposed to be fully backwards-compatible with existing HDMI devices, but users could run into some issues. Early testing done by PCMag revealed mix results and they were “quite disappointed with the HDMI experience on the Sprint EVO 4G.” Select TVs would only recognize the signal as 480p (instead of 1080p) and certain apps like Sprint TV refused to play.
At this point it is unclear if the issues were being caused by software problems, the HDMI cable, or the TV set. Older HDMI (v.1.0 – 1.3) devices cannot be firmware-upgraded to take advantage of the new features introduced in HDMI 1.4 because most require a new HDMI chip to enable them. We do not believe the Sprint EVO includes any new HDMI features (other than the micro connector) so it should work with most existing TVs.
For now we will just have to wait and see. I expect Best Buy will eventually sell the cables, but it could be awhile before we get to try out one of the coolest features of the EVO.
The HTC EVO dock is coming soon to Best Buy.
What do you get when you mix a scantily-clad flash mob, an uptempo beat, and lots of camp and glitter? The latest vid from gay icon Kylie Minogue!
Check out this sneak peek at the Aussie songbird’s new music video for “All The Lovers” — debuting soon.
