Anderson Cooper Puts Wolf Blitzer's New Glasses On The 'Ridiculist'

Anderson Cooper was shocked ?shocked!?to find on Monday that Wolf Blitzer had apparently appropriated the hipster-glasses look that he has been sporting for years.

Blitzer sent ripples throughout MediaLand when he debuted his trendy new black plastic specs. (Certain sites dubbed him "Wolf Hipster," for instance.) But Cooper, presumably feeling protective of the nerd-cool image he's been pushing since at least 2010, put Blitzer on his "Ridiculist" on Monday night.

"I wonder where he could have possibly gotten that idea," he said of Blitzer's frames. "I don't want to accuse Wolf Blitzer going all 'Single White Female' on me, but these glasses kind of my thing. No one, I mean no one else has them, except, of course, for Elvis Costello, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., or even Snooki."

Cooper also noted that, before Blitzer blitzed the world, a Google search for "Wolf glasses" mostly yielded pictures of ... glasses with wolves on them. Which makes sense.

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We're live from IDF 2012 in San Francisco

We're live from IDF 2012 in San Francisco

Are you ready for a smorgasbord of news on Ultrabooks, Clover Trail-equipped tablets, Windows 8 hybrid devices and maybe even Medfield-based smartphones? Well you're come to the right place because we're live at Intel's Developer Forum 2012 here in beautiful San Francisco, where over the next few days we'll bring you the latest news on all things Intel.

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A.M.O., A Mecha Space Opera

Note that this may be subject to because I'm open to suggestions and it's something I wrote up in only the course of a morning.

In the year 2074, in a desperate attempt to reverse the effects of climate change, the UN had resorted to what was known as Project Pinatubo. This consisted of a naval effort of shooting aerosol filled artillery shells into the atmosphere in order to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight in a manner emulating sulfur dioxide shrouds of a volcano. The effort was pyrrhic success in that there was significant drop in temperature, though not enough, and yet the sudden rapid cooling affected the hydrological cycle in a way that caused a severe drought.

Sensing they were too far gone, the remainders of Japan, the United States, and Europe cerated the Haruna-Ark Program, led by eccentric scientist Michiyo Hiraga. This robotic space ship, possessing the most advanced ai and English/Swiss Thorium reactors, was designed to search for a habitable planet and terraform it, though it had no human passengers. Instead, it carried genetic samples of not only the human race, but enough of flora and fauna to hopefully create a suitable ecosystem, as well as a breadth of archived information of Earth for the revived humans. However, before the ship was launched, Hiraga was able to the creator of the ship?s ai to do something though impossible, to copy her mind into part of the Haruna Ark?s program.

It was only a couple years before the Haruna Ark?s communication with Nasa and the European Space Union was cut completely, a split second compared to how long it took for the Haruna Ark to complete the mission. Hiraga was arguably driven insane from a lack of human contact, keeping her brain occupied with media loaded onto the computer, and the ship partially cannibalizing itself to stay running. However, she experienced the greatest joy of her life when a suitable planet was found. However, before reaching the planet, the ship suffered a tragic accident in the form of being hit by an asteroid that effectively split it in half.

One half, which possessed the data from Hiraga?s brain, was able to stay course and reach the intended planet, which Hiraga named Shin Kansei, after the Kansei region of Japan where she was born and raised. Shin Kansei was perfectly habitable even had a thorium reserve nearly as plentiful as Earth?s, which gave Hiraga the potential of almost unlimited fuel. The one problem was that Hiraga?s half of the ship contained none of the genetic samples, no Earth life to inhabit the new world. Hiraga heavily considered shutting herself down before finally some life of her own creation for the planet, androids, using her program as a base, and declared herself Mother to them. Although she gave the androids free will, both loyalist, who call themselves The Children, and heavily armed puppet robots mostly kept the population in check to Mother?s wishes until the end of a civil war. A parliament was eventually formed, but has always kept a sizable amount of The Children in its ranks, leading to the nickname of ?The Children?s Council.?

The half with the main computer and genetic samples crashed on a planet that was far from ideal, a water world farther from the sun. With limited power from being split, this half of the Haruna only created a single underwater settlement out of itself, Haruna City, which quickly became crowded. However, it provided a way for the new human race to prosper on the new planet. It did this with large piloted robots called Automaton Mining Operatives, or A.M.O, allowed people to venture into hazardous underwater areas of the planet and harvest its resources. As the A.M.O pilots explored more of the planet, they found traces of underwater life, particularly large, hostile sea serpent like creatures which forced the pilots to arm the A.M.O. While an easy life was to be had for those of the aristocracy that began to form, the majority of citizens of Haruna City do the best they can through the underwater mining and other often dangerous forms of labor. Despite, or perhaps in spite of, these difficulties, Haruna City outfitted their A.M.O for space travel. These were primarily used in creating satellites in hopes of contacting Earth in hopes that civilization there still existed. Instead, they contacted Shin Kansei.

Although immigration from Haruna City to Shin Kansei was initially welcome, a decade long policy of isolation and hostility was put in place when Shin Kansei discovered that Haruna City still used uranium/plutonium fission, and thus had the capability to create nuclear weapons. This lead to the torture and imprisonment of hundreds of humans, as there was heavy suspicion of spies. However, this was eventually stopped due in large part due to Mother?s pressure on The Children. Human members have been added to the parliament, though not an amount proportionate to the actual amount of humans on Shin Kansei; plenty of the androids see humans as inferior, or still suspect a human attack, including some of The Children despite Mother?s stance.

Shortly afterwards, Haruka City had a real invasion to death with. The force approached in enormous battle ships, which released swarms of A.M.O looking soldiers towards the city. The A.M.O themselves couldbarely hold them off, and enough came though that thye were able to break through the shields and flood Section 6, a whole tenth of the city. But when all seem lost, a satellite known as the Orion Buster fired a laser power by a focused nuclear blast, destroying several battle ships. Although a squad of the invading soldiers ended up severely damaging the Orion Buster, the invading force ultimately retreated.

With both prisoners of war and corpses, a bit has been learned about the invading force. They were not in fact robots, but a giant humanoid species wearing armored space suits. Removing the armor revealed that their bodies were feminine and that they all had reptilian traits such as a tail and a pair of horns, as well as yellow, read, and orange scales. Although work has been done on trying to translate their language, there has been no success as of yet.

Although scared, most of the android population of Shin Kansei wanted little to do with the conflict until their intelligence confirmed that the alien forces built bases on two of Shin Kansei?s moons in order to recooperate. This lead to the forging of an alliance in preparation of another alien attack. Shin Kansei not only are gathering their own army, but have overhauled the development of Haruna City?s A.M.O for both Haruna City and now their own use, the designs of which seem to be influenced by at least partially influenced by various old earth media. They have even provided aid in trying to repair Haruna city. However, the mysteries of the attackers and whether or not Haruna City and Shin Kansei?s efforts are enough to stop a second attack are still to be seen.

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UK?s First 4G LTE Service, EE, Will Feature New Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Huawei Devices. Orange, T-Mobile Brands To Gradually Fade Away

EE logoToday Everything Everywhere, the JV between Orange and T-Mobile UK, unveiled some more details about its new 4G network -- the first commercial LTE service for the UK market. It is going to be branded EE -- a shorter name for a "faster" brand -- it will be launched by Christmas, and will initially cover 20 million people, or 30% of the population of the country, with the aim for that to extend to 98% by the end of 2014. It also noted that it will be launching a new fiber broadband service, offering users connections ten times faster than the speeds of typical UK broadband today, initially to cover 11 million people. In a presentation in London today, company noted that it will be putting a lot of marketing muscle behind EE, including converting an existing 700 Orange and T-Mobile stores to EE shops, and today it also revealed the first new handsets for the service. Among them is an exclusive for the new Lumia 920, one of the new devices unveiled by Nokia and Microsoft last week, built on the Windows Phone 8 operating system.

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Drop in Foreclosures Pushes SoCal Real Estate Prices Higher ...

There has a been a big drop in the number of foreclosed homes in Southern California, and this has homeowners breathing a big sigh of relief.?? The significant decrease is helping to drive the median home price higher.

Reports indicate that sales are up 7.5 percent in the Southland.? The median home price for the same area is also up 5.3 percent from the same month last year.

Record low interest rates and low home prices are encouraging would-be homebuyers to enter the market.? The lack of homes available for sale has contributed to bidding wars for desirable properties.? But even more importantly, the decrease in foreclosures is stimulating the market as most foreclosures sell cheaply, which drives overall prices down.

Foreclosures accounted for 24.5 percent of the resale market last month.? This was the lowest percentage the area has seen since December 2007.? While still a relatively high rate, it doesn?t even compare to the 56.7 percent rate the area saw in February 2009.? Experts are optimistic that the market will continue to see fewer foreclosures.

California has systems in place that help the state deal with foreclosures in an efficient manner.? The state requires no court order for a home to be foreclosed by a lender.? This helps California recover faster from the downturn than other states, such as Florida, that do not have the same system in place.

Lenders are also beginning to explore other options for homeowners who are in trouble, such as home loan modifications or short sales.? Banks are facing stronger scrutiny and tighter restrictions from government officials about foreclosure practices.

Local officials are getting creative in how they are dealing with borrowers who are having trouble making payments.? In San Bernardino County, for example, officials are using the practice of eminent domain to take control of mortgages that are problematic.? In Los Angeles, where foreclosed homes are magnets for criminal activity, and many homes stand vacant, the city is suing U.S. Bank for the neglect of homes it has repossessed.

Reports indicate that foreclosures in California remained flat in June, with a decrease of 0.9 percent from the month prior and down 3.1 percent from this time last year.

Investors looking to purchase foreclosed homes are finding a shortage in the market in Southern California.? This is helping the housing market recover, but over time could hinder the market.

Experts predict that home sales could fall in the next year if something in the market doesn?t shift.? While there is record low inventory of distressed properties owned by banks that are for sale, by this time next year we?ll have half that amount inventory.? Since these types of sales make up a big percentage of overall sales, unless that inventory is made up for somewhere else the market could suffer.

An additional factor that is helping Southern California see an increase in prices is that more expensive homes in coastal regions are seeing a boom in sales.

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Photonics: First all-optical nanowire switch

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2012) ? Computers may be getting faster every year, but those advances in computer speed could be dwarfed if their 1's and 0's were represented by bursts of light, instead of electricity.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have made an important advance in this frontier of photonics, fashioning the first all-optical photonic switch out of cadmium sulfide nanowires. Moreover, they combined these photonic switches into a logic gate, a fundamental component of computer chips that process information.

The research was conducted by associate professor Ritesh Agarwal and graduate student Brian Piccione of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Post-doctoral fellows Chang-Hee Cho and Lambert van Vugt, also of the Materials Science Department, contributed to the study.

It was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

The research team's innovation built upon their earlier research, which showed that their cadmium sulfide nanowires exhibited extremely strong light-matter coupling, making them especially efficient at manipulating light. This quality is crucial for the development of nanoscale photonic circuits, as existing mechanisms for controlling the flow of light are bulkier and require more energy than their electronic analogs.

"The biggest challenge for photonic structures on the nanoscale is getting the light in, manipulating it once it's there and then getting it out," Agarwal said. "Our major innovation was how we solved the first problem, in that it allowed us to use the nanowires themselves for an on-chip light source."

The research team began by precisely cutting a gap into a nanowire. They then pumped enough energy into the first nanowire segment that it began to emit laser light from its end and through the gap. Because the researchers started with a single nanowire, the two segment ends were perfectly matched, allowing the second segment to efficiently absorb and transmit the light down its length.

"Once we have the light in the second segment, we shine another light through the structure and turn off what is being transported through that wire," Agarwal said. "That's what makes it a switch."

The researchers were able to measure the intensity of the light coming out of the end of the second nanowire and to show that the switch could effectively represent the binary states used in logic devices.

"Putting switches together lets you make logic gates, and assembling logic gates allows you to do computation," Piccione said. "We used these optical switches to construct a NAND gate, which is a fundamental building block of modern computer processing."

A NAND gate, which stands for "not and," returns a "0" output when all its inputs are "1." It was constructed by the researchers by combining two nanowire switches into a Y-shaped configuration. NAND gates are important for computation because they are "functionally complete," which means that, when put in the right sequence, they can do any kind of logical operation and thus form the basis for general-purpose computer processors.

"We see a future where 'consumer electronics' become 'consumer photonics'," Agarwal said. "And this study shows that is possible."

The research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award Program.

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TIFF Review Roundup: 'Much Ado,' 'Pines,' And 'Passion'

FROM FILM.COM The folks from Film.com are back with more reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival. Today, we have opinions on Joss Whedon's Shakespeare adaptation, "Much Ado About Nothing," the divisive Ryan Gosling drama, "The Place Beyond the Pines," and the latest from Brian De Palma, "Passion," with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace. "The [...]

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