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Police search for infant's body
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | US
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Police searched trash dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania yesterday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital during the last two weeks. -
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TV's Ferguson, art dealer wed
Denver Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
You couldn't miss the wedding band on Craig Ferguson's ring finger when he returned to CBS's "The Late Late Show" from his holiday break. -
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Di Fi Comes to Burris' Aid
HolyCoast.com (subscribe) | 5 minutes ago | US
Senator Dianne Feinstein is breaking ranks from her fellow Democrats and is calling for Roland Burris to be seated : A key Democrat broke with her Senate colleagues Tuesday to support Roland Burris in his controversial bid to assume Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee that soon could take up Burris' case, said Illinois Gov. Rod... -
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so long and you’re welcome for all the fish
Knowledge is Power (subscribe) | 34 minutes ago | Politics
President Bush hasn’t won much praise from environmentalists over the past eight years, but he may have won over some critics with his plan to designate three remote Pacific island chains as national monuments in what combined with other actions has become the largest marine conservation effort in history . ~ * ~ It will be the second time Bush has used the law to protect marine resources. Two years... -
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Logitech to lay off 15% of workforce
San Fransisco Chronicle (subscribe) | 59 minutes ago | Technology
Logitech will lay off 15 percent of its global salaried workforce, the company said Monday after the stock markets closed. It also withdrew some of its latest fiscal 2009 growth targets, which it already had cut back in October. Although Logitech is still... -
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Democratic Opposition to Seating Burris Cracks
ABC News (subscribe) | 41 minutes ago | Politics
Burris fight for Obama's Senate seat drags on, but maybe not much longer
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New push for truce after a deadly strike
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | World
GAZA CITY, Gaza - France and Egypt announced an initiative late yesterday to stop the fighting in Gaza, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas extremists. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood. -
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NFL: Brees named top offensive player
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | Sports
After surpassing 5,000 passing yards, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was named NFL offensive player of the year by the Associated Press yesterday. -
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It's the American way
Denver Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
Nevermind the recession. Or the war against terrorism. Unemployment? Forget about it. After all, there's a big football game looming. Thursday's championship game between Florida and Oklahoma is a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so. Stearns, a Republican from Ocala, Fla., wrote to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to move votes scheduled for Thursday... -
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Online benefits service speedy
Denver Post (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
The Social Security Administration has put together a new online service that will allow people to get their benefits without ever traveling to a Social Security field office. -
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Milky Way bigger and faster than once thought
DV Hardware (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sciences
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, US, claim the Milky Way is bigger, faster and more massive than previously thought. By using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists discovered our galaxy has about 50 percent more mass than earlier productions, is about 15 percent wider than previously thought, and that it is moving 15 percent faster than earlier... -
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Saints' Brees voted AP Offensive Player of the Year
Canal Street Chronicles (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
Saints' Brees voted AP Offensive Player of the Year "I don't come out from week to week and say I have to throw for 300 (yards)," Brees said. "I don't think about that. It's really about what I can do to help this team win. "Certainly in this offense, being the quarterback, you're in the driver's seat. You have the opportunity to control every play and have it in your hands. Every play is about me... - see all breaking news
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Cue the complaints: 17-inch MacBook Pro without a removable battery? » VentureBeat
Chuqui 3.0 (subscribe) | 01/05/2009 | Technology
Cue the complaints: 17-inch MacBook Pro without a removable battery? » VentureBeat: One of the biggest complaints about Apple’s iPhone is that you cannot remove and replace the battery yourself. On the eve of its final Macworld Expo, it appears Apple is willing to live with that complaint for the newest version of its MacBook Pro line of computers as well. And here's why: this is a non-issue. Here's... -
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Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports : President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial... -
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Oh, look at that, it’s Sony’s VAIO P
CrunchGear (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Technology
Engadget believes this to be the VAIO P. No one can verify or deny this claim because AOL didn't pay for us to be the 'official blog of CES' or whatever it is they are. So, we're not privy to the hallowed grounds of the LVCC until tomorrow. That double wide trailer would be nice, though. -
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SanDisk shipping Mobile Ultra 16GB microSDHC / M2 cards
Engadget (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Technology
SanDisk got official (after some fighting) with its 16GB microSDHC and M2 cards way back in September, but now we're being formally introduced to the Mobile Ultra line. Both cards remain topped out at 16GB, and it's also bundling a MobileMate Micro Reader along with each. They ought to be hitting shelves this month for $119.99 (microSDHC) / $129.99 (M2), and you can catch the full release just after... -
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Exclusive Movie Trailer: The World's Best Gadget Designers Speak in Objectified...
Gizmodo (subscribe) | 01/05/2009 | Technology
newVideoPlayer("/objectified_trailer_2.flv", 596, 356,""); As he did for Helvetica's namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world's top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified,... -
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Engadget's new double-wide HQ rolls in to Vegas
Engadget (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Oh hells yes. We've arrived at CES in full nerd style. We sent Moms to Atlantic City so us kids could hijack the trailer all the way to Vegas baby, Las Vegas. And in true Kojak style we parked right in front of the central hall just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center. What better base to provide the best CES 2009 coverage on the Net? Check our first pass on the show floor after the break. With...
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They Did Talk to Wyden
Talking Points Memo (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
We were trying to nail down whether the Obama transition really did brief Sen. Wyden and not Feinstein. Or was it that Wyden just got tipped off informally, perhaps even from Panetta. Turns out no. Wyden's office tells us they... -
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CES 2009 News: 6.5mm Samsung LCD TV
Product Reviews Net (subscribe) | 01/05/2009 | Technology
Not long to go until CES 2009, and there have already been a number of articles about what we are likely to see at the Consumer Electronics Show. We can always count on Samsung to bring something sexy to the show, and their new range of 6.5mm LCD TV’s is no exception. This new line of [...] -
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Logitech introduces G-series peripherals for gamers who need lots of buttons
Engadget (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Flush with the success of its G13 gameboard , Logitech is now creating a whole series of peripherals that will all work together to celebrate the seventh letter of the alphabet. The G-series line includes a new $199 G19 keyboard, offering a 320 x 240 color LCD mounted on top and 12 "G-keys" that can have up to three macros assigned to each. Next up is the $129 G35, a 7.1 surround-sound headset with... -
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Apple Confirms $179 Battery Swap Cost for 17" MacBook Pro [Macworld 2009]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
We just confirmed with Apple that swapping out the 17" MacBook Pro's non-removable battery will cost $179 including labor. Fortunately, says Apple, the swap might not be needed for a long time: From a spokesperson at Apple: It will likely be years before you need to replace it (1000 cycles at 200 cycles/year = 5 years). You can have the battery replaced at any Apple Store or Apple-authorized reseller.... -
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Komrade Obama names Leon Panetta as CIA director
Return of the Conservatives (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
Don't be surprised when 9/11 is seen as but an opening act. Stop the ACLU Debbie Schlussel Patterico's Pontifications NY Times -
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Eee PC T91 convertible tablet lives
Engadget (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Technology
It's been expected for months , now Asus has announced its Eee PC T91 convertible tablet ripe for a fresh Windows 7 tossing. The 2-pound (right, two!), 1-inch thick tablet features an 8.9-inch LED backlit touch panel riding atop Intel's Z520 Atom processor. It also features a TV-tuner and built-in GPS . No other details yet but it won't be long. Filed under: Laptops Eee PC T91 convertible tablet lives... - see all discussions
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