Here’s some buzzkill news to get your day started (at least for those of us on the West Coast).
Market intelligence firm IHS iSuppli has published a new report suggesting it is unlikely that Google will deploy Fiber on a nationwide level.
The natural first reaction might be annoyance with this, but when you think about the cost, scope and scalability of such an endeavor, these analysts are likely right — at least for the near-term future.
Certainly, Google Fiber has been on a roll lately. Following up its initial deployment i [...]
Analyst: Google Fiber probably won’t go national
Here’s some buzzkill news to get your day started (at least for those of us on the West Coast).
Market intelligence firm IHS iSuppli has published a new report suggesting it is unlikely that Google will deploy Fiber on a nationwide level.
The natural first reaction might be annoyance with this, but when you think about the cost, scope and scalability of such an endeavor, these analysts are likely right — at least for the near-term future.
Certainly, Google Fiber has been on a roll lately. Following up its initial deployment i [...]
Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO |
Tue May 21, 2013 9:22pm EDT
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on the woman as she tried to flee in a car.
Valeria Munique Tachiquin Alvarado, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen and a mother of five, was shot to death in September outside the Chula Vista apartment of a friend who agents had come [...]
US immigration bill passes hurdle
21 May 2013
Last updated at 21:32 ET
Immigration activists gathered in prayer before the committee began its final work on the bill
A sweeping immigration bill that would offer a chance of citizenship to millions living in the US illegally has taken a stride forward in Congress.
A Senate panel voted 13-5 to back the measure, after a plan to allow people to sponsor same-sex partners for permanent legal status was withdrawn.
The full Senate will now debate the bill next month.
America’s last major immigration reform d [...]
West Ham agree £15m fee for Carroll
Liverpool have accepted a £15m offer from West Ham United for Andy Carroll, a £20m loss on their record signing in 28 months, but face a struggle to convince the striker to sever his Anfield ties for Upton Park.
Carroll enjoyed an impressive yet injury-hit season on loan with Sam Allardyce’s team, who have moved quickly to secure the 24-year-old on a long-term basis following their final Premier League game. West Ham are prepared to pay a club-record transfer fee to sign the striker around whom Allardyce intends to build his team, w [...]
Senate panel passes immigration bill; Obama praises move
By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON |
Tue May 21, 2013 9:05pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next month.
By a vote of 13-5, the panel approved the nearly 900-page bill that would put 11 million illegal residents on a 13-year path to citizenship while further strengthening security along the southweste [...]
Xbox One: Microsoft unveils new console that ‘changes everything’
Microsoft revealed a new Xbox console on Tuesday that not only integrates TV, internet and gaming, but also will measure your heartbeat and recognise your voice.
The company said the Xbox One will revolutionise its users’ lifestyles by integrating the cloud, voice control and gesture technology into a simple, intuitive machine.
“It changes everything,” Marc Whitten, an Xbox executive, told a packed hall of technology journalists at the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington. “This is rocket-science stuff. [...]
Miami-Dade lawmakers approve $1.6 billion sewer-lawsuit deal
By Zachary Fagenson
Tue May 21, 2013 4:49pm EDT
(Reuters) – Florida’s Miami-Dade County on Tuesday promised to spend $1.6 billion on fixes for its dilapidated, accident-prone sewer system in a deal meant to settle a lawsuit with federal and state environmental officials.
County commissioners, many of whom complained about proposed user fee hikes of 33 percent over five years, approved a consent agreement detailing repairs in the county’s 7,500 miles of sewer lines with a vote of 12 to 1.
The agreem [...]
Is a paperless library still a library?
21 May 2013
Last updated at 19:13 ET
By Bill Hicks
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A public library without any printed bo [...]
Phil Neville pitches for the vacant Everton manager’s job
The special one is not bound for Stamford Bridge, according to Phil Neville; he has simply shifted along the M62. It could be bias or the insight from a career played entirely under Sir Alex Ferguson and David Moyes but either way, the former Everton captain is adamant that the Scot, not José Mourinho, is the perfect fit for Manchester United.
Few are better placed to assess Moyes’s credentials as Ferguson’s replacement than Neville, who worked alongside the Everton manager for eight years after leaving Old Trafford at the age [...]
Amag investigates anemia drug after report of death in Switzerland
Tue May 21, 2013 8:43pm EDT
(Reuters) – Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said its marketing partner in Switzerland, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is recalling a batch of Amag’s anemia drug, Rienso, because of a death and several cases of hypersensitivity.
Amag shares were down about 5 percent at $23.75 in after-market trading on Tuesday.
“The batch was only distributed to and sold in Switzerland and the recall is limited to the specific batch and specifically Switzerland,” Lexington, Massachusetts-ba [...]
House panel approves spending cuts, assumes more to come
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON |
Tue May 21, 2013 8:50pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives made clear on Tuesday that automatic spending cuts will be a recurring nightmare for Washington as it passed a measure to sharply reduce funding for government agencies and programs next year.
The Republican-controlled committee approved a $967 billion discretionary spending cap – the lowest in a decade – for the 2014 fiscal year that starts on October [...]
Heinrich Rohrer: 1933–2013
Heinrich Rohrer
The Swiss condensed-matter physicist Heinrich Rohrer who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics died last week at the age of 79.
Rohrer won the Nobel prize for inventing the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) at IBM’s Zürich Research Laboratory. Rohrer shared one half of the prize with his IBM colleague Gerd Binnig, while the other half went to Ernst Ruska for his invention of the electron microscope.
Rohrer was born on 6 June 1933 in the small town of Buchs in the Swiss canton of St Gallen. The family moved to [...]