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Saturday, May 4, 2013

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Google files patent for smartwatch with Glass-like touchpads and functionality

Starting to get bored with Google Glass already? Well, it seems like Mountain View's trying to patent some of that functionality for a smartwatch, in a substantially different way than it did before. According to an application submitted to the USPTO, such a device would include standard smartwatch functions like a wireless transceiver, display and processor, but could also be equipped with two touchpads located on each side of the bezel. Those could enable "pinch, stretch and scroll on a platform with limited space available for user input," and would also communicate "with the clock line or data line." That means they'd control all the smartwatch functions, of course, but Google may be leaving the door open for it to control other devices as well, judging by the cagey wording -- perhaps sidestepping the need to reach for or yell at your eyewear.

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BAA: Support after attacks at race overwhelming

BOSTON (AP) ? Boston Marathon organizers say they've been overwhelmed by public support after bombs killed three people and injured hundreds more at the finish line of their race.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the April 15 attacks, Boston Athletic Association executive director Tom Grilk said Wednesday the tragedy has spawned a massive outpouring of assistance. Grilk and Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray say the tight-knit running community has come together even more since the bombing at the world's most prestigious marathon.

Grilk says the B.A.A. has not yet decided how to accommodate all the people who say they want to run or volunteer next year to show their support.

Grilk also says the organization has donated $250,000 to The One Fund Boston, the charity set up to help victims of the bombing.

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'Shameless' British fraudster jailed for selling fake bomb detectors

LONDON (Reuters) - A British businessman was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Thursday after a judge described him as having "blood on his hands" for selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq and other countries and endangering lives for profit.

James McCormick, 56, was convicted of fraud last week for selling equipment based on a $20 novelty machine for finding lost golf balls.

McCormick made more than $40 million from sales in Iraq alone, British police say. His customers also included the United Nations.

Judge Richard Hone said at London's Old Bailey court that McCormick had blood on his hands and used a callous confidence trick likely to have contributed to the death of innocent people.

"The device was useless, the profit outrageous and your culpability as a fraudster has to be placed in the highest category. Your profits were obscene. You have neither insight, shame or any sense of remorse," Hone said, quoted by the Press Association.

McCormick had shown a "cavalier disregard of the potentially fatal consequences" of his deception, he added.

The useless devices had promoted a false sense of security which probably contributed to the death and injury of innocent people, the judge said.

The detectors were sold for up to 40,000 pounds ($62,000)each. But they had no working components and lacked any basis in science, the court heard.

McCormick was convicted of fraud last week for manufacturing and selling the hand-held "ADE 651" devices to countries at serious risk from bomb attacks such as Iraq, claiming they could detect explosives, drugs and other substances.

Marketing material claimed items could be detected up to 0.6 miles underground, at up to 3 miles away from the air and 100 feet under water.

During his trial, McCormick said he had sold his detectors to police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and border control in Thailand.

They were also sold in Niger and Georgia and between 2008 and 2010, Iraq bought 6,000 devices.

McCormick, a former policeman and salesman from Somerset in southwestern England, maintained the detectors did work.

"I never had any negative results from customers," he said.

(Reporting By Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shameless-british-fraudster-jailed-selling-fake-bomb-detectors-125616437.html

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9-year-old boy helps nab home invasion suspects

May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...

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