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Monday, June 24, 2013
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This week on gdgt: MOGA Pro, Xbox One, Xperia Tablet Z
Each week, our friends at gdgt go through the latest gadgets and score them to help you decide which ones to buy. Here are some of their most recent picks. Want more? Visit gdgt anytime to catch up on the latest, and subscribe to gdgt's newsletter to get a weekly roundup in your inbox.
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'Project Runway' season 12 changes: more Tim Gunn, added Fan Interaction
By Tim Kenneally
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tim Gunn is going to have more time - and power - to make it work on the upcoming season of "Project Runway."
The Lifetime reality show has tinkered with its format for its 12th season, which premieres July 18. More screen time for the longstanding "Runway" mentor Gunn is part of the new formula.
Gunn will join the judges -- Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Zac Posen - during the runway show to answer questions that the judges have about what occurred in the workroom and give them the opportunity to physically examine the craftsmanship of each design.
Gunn's expanded role will also include the power to "rescue" one designer if he feels the contestant deserves a second chance.
A new feature dubbed Runway Redemption will allow fans to vote online for a past contestant to return, while the Project Runway Superfan Contest will choose seven fans via video submission to appear on "Project Runway" for a fashion makeover.
Also for the first time, fans will be able to interact with other viewers in real time during the episodes via a new interactive onscreen feature dubbed PlayRunway.
Guest judges for the upcoming season include Kate Bosworth, "Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco, Kelly Osbourne and Sigourney Weaver.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/project-runway-season-12-changes-more-tim-gunn-004707344.html
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Southwest cancels 57 flights after computer glitch
CHICAGO (AP) ? Southwest Airlines expects some lingering delays Saturday morning after a system-wide computer failure caused it to ground 250 flights for nearly three hours late Friday night.
Full service was restored just after 2 a.m. EDT Saturday, but the Dallas-based airline is still working to clear a backlog of flights and reposition planes and crew.
The airline ? the country's largest domestic carrier ? canceled 43 flights Friday night and another 14 Saturday morning.
Southwest is the latest airline to ground flights because of a large computer outage. But its problem was minor compared to those experienced by two competitors ? thanks in part to its late-day timing.
In April, American Airlines grounded all of its flights nationwide for several hours due to computer problems. The airline ultimately canceled 970 flights. And last year, United Airlines had two major outages: one in August delayed 580 flights; another in November delayed 636 flights.
The problem was detected around 11 p.m. EDT Friday, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins said. It impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of each aircraft. Some flights were on the taxiway and diverted back to the terminal, Hawkins said. Flights already in the air were unaffected.
Most of Southwest's cancelations Friday night were in the western half of the country, according to airline spokeswoman Michelle Agnew. Saturday's cancelations were scattered across the U.S. They included planes leavings from Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver and San Diego, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Southwest flies an average of 3,400 flights each day.
Agnew said in an email Saturday morning that the airline's technology team is "still working to confirm the source of the issue."
Shortly after 2 a.m., Southwest posted on its Twitter page that "systems are operating and we will begin work to get customers where they need to be. Thanks for your patience tonight."
Agnew said the computer system was "running at full capacity" by early Saturday. Before that, though, officials used a backup system that was much more sluggish.
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AP Airlines Writer Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/southwest-cancels-57-flights-computer-glitch-104716565.html
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Sunday, June 2, 2013
This Terrifying Video Shows How Dangerous It Is to Film Tornadoes
As long as there are storms, there will be storm chasers, and the footage they get is always equal parts soul-chilling and awe-inspiring. Yesterday, chaser Brandon Sullivan and his team got a little too close for comfort with one of the many twisters that have ravaging Oklahoma
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
Regulators told to crack down on predatory payday lenders
By Matt Scuffham
LONDON (Reuters) - The consumer watchdog must get tough on unscrupulous short-term lenders that target the financially vulnerable and lend them money they can't afford to repay, a parliamentary committee said on Friday.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said bad practices by some of these firms were costing already hard-pressed borrowers at least 450 million pounds a year.
So-called payday lenders, which offer loans that are repaid when borrowers get their wages, have grown rapidly in Britain as banks cut back on short-term credit after the 2008 financial crisis. But they have been criticised for charging sky-high interest rates and for shoddy treatment of customers.
The committee's call for a crack-down on some of these firms follows its review of how effectively Britain's 176 billion pound a year consumer lending industry is regulated.
Committee Chairwoman Margaret Hodge said some lenders used predatory techniques to target vulnerable people on low incomes, encouraging them to take out loans which, when rolled over with extra interest, rapidly became out of control debts.
She said the regulator, the Office of Fair Trading, had been ineffective and timid in its handling of the sector. The OFT had never given a fine to any of the 72,000 firms in the market and very rarely revoked a company's license, Hodge said.
The OFT said in response it had taken "strong, targeted action to tackle the areas of greatest risk to consumers." The OFT said its powers were limited and that it was only able to impose fines in very limited circumstances.
In March, the OFT gave Britain's biggest 50 payday lenders 12 weeks to change their business practices or risk losing their licenses after finding evidence of irresponsible lending. The watchdog said on Friday it had since closed down three payday lenders and opened formal investigations into three others.
Wonga, one of the biggest payday lenders in Britain, more than trebled its earnings last year. Its annual percentage interest rate is listed on Wonga.com as 4,214 percent.
The firm has said it makes stringent checks on borrowers and turns down two-thirds of applications. It has called for tighter control and regulation to stamp out the worst practices within the industry.
The parliamentary committee said that annual percentage interest rates were misleading to borrowers and should be replaced by a legally required statement of the total amount that borrowers must repay. It also recommended that the OFT increased the license fees it charges lenders to provide more money for regulating them.
The OFT will cease to exist in 2014 and will hand over regulation of the sector to the newly-created Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The committee recommended that the FCA has better intelligence so it can improve protection of consumers and should apply tougher sanctions when it identifies wrongdoing.
The Citizens Advice Bureau, a charity that helps people with legal and financial issues, on Tuesday accused payday lenders of bullying borrowers into extending loans and harassing those heavily in debt.
(Editing by Jane Merriman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/regulators-told-crack-down-predatory-payday-lenders-230722949.html
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Toshiba Canvio Connect (750GB)
The Toshiba Canvio Connect (750GB) ($109.99 list) is a contender as one of the best drives we've seen at PC Labs. While it is a fast, capacious hard drive that fits in a coat pocket, it's the additional extras that make this drive remarkable. The USB 3.0 drive comes with 10GB of cloud storage and a PogoPlug PC utility that makes your files available on the Internet. If you have a need for backup and file availability, then take a look at this drive. It's a lot easier to setup than a NAS, but lets you get to your files over both the Internet and your local network.
Design and Features
The Canvio Connect is available in a range of colors, including red, white, black, blue, and silver. The 750GB review model seen here is glossy white. It measures about 0.5 by 3.25 by 4.5 inches (HWD), so it fits easily into your pants or coat pocket. The drive is a bit smaller than the LaCie Porsche Design P'9223 Slim ($149) and the G-Technology G-Drive Slim ($109.99), though the Canvio Connect is made of polycarbonate while the G-Drive Slim and LaCie P'9223 are clad in aluminum. The top is adorned by a Toshiba logo and activity LED, and one face on the side has the micro-b USB port for the included USB 3.0 cable. The usual serial/model number sticker is on the bottom, along with four rubbery feet to keep the drive in place on your work surface.
The included 750GB can hold a couple hundred thousand pictures and MP3 files, or a few hundred movie files. This size should also be enough to back up most if not all the files on your laptop's internal hard drive, especially if you have an SSD-powered ultrabook. The drive comes pre-formatted for NTFS (Windows native format), but Mac users aren't left in the lurch.
In addition to possibly reformatting the drive to HFS+, as is standard procedure for most other drives, the Canvio Connect comes with Tuxera's NTFS for Mac utility, so you can natively copy files to the drive. Mac OS X can read NTFS drives, but it can't write to them without a third party utility. Most drives will make you reformat the drive for use with Macs. Other drives that come with NTFS utilities are the Editors' Choice for portable hard drives Seagate Backup Plus ($139.99) and Editors' Choice for wireless media drives Seagate Wireless Plus ($199). Both Seagate drives also have the benefit of a USM interface, which allows users to connect adapters for FireWire, eSATA, and Thunderbolt connectors in addition to USB 3.0.
The included NTI Backup Now EZ is a full backup utility that can save incremental copies of your entire hard drive. This is, of course, provided your internal drive has a capacity of 750GB or less. NTI Backup Now EZ works on Windows PCs, but if you're a Mac user you can simply reformat the drive HFS+ and use Time Machine for the same level of protection.
The Canvio Connect also comes with a copy of PogoPlug PC, which can be used to serve the files on the drive to your other PCs, Mac, and devices on the Internet. PogoPlugPC also comes with 10GB of cloud storage (up from the 5GB in the retail version of PogoPlugPC). You do have to keep the Canvio Connect connected to an online PC or Mac during the signup process to activate the 10GB could storage or if you want to serve files from the drive to your PogoPlug account. Once signed up, you can access the files in your 10GB cloud storage or the files on your online hard drive from other PCs, Macs, and via apps on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android devices.
Performance
The Canvio Connect is a bit slower than other drives we've tested lately, but not overly so. For example the Canvio Connect took 25 seconds to copy our standard 1.2GB test folder, but the G-Drive Slim (20 seconds) and Seagate Backup Plus (15 seconds) were quicker. The story is the mixed on the standardized tests, where the Canvio Connect (5,736 points PCMark 5, 1,467 points PCMark7) lagged behind the Seagate Backup Plus on one test (6,463 PCM5, 1,449 PCM7), though it was a smidge faster than the G-Drive Slim on both tests (5,328 PCM5, 1,322 PCM7). Numbers aside, you'll likely not notice the difference unless you are constantly copying files to the drive, and in that case you'd want a more robust desktop hard drive.
The Toshiba Canvio Connect (750GB) is one of the best pocket drive that we've seen. It's very compact, capacious, and has decent speed. It's also a good buy when you add the included software like the NTI backup and PogoPlus PC service. However, the speed, innovation, and flexibility of the Seagate Backup Plus allow it to hold on to its Editors' Choice for portable hard drives.
COMPARISON TABLE
Compare the Toshiba Canvio Connect (750GB) with several other hard drive side by side.
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