10 ways Apple re-invented the iPhone

It's been a whole five years since the late Steve Jobs shattered the foundations of the tech world with the Apple iPhone ? and whether you're firmly set in the Apple camp or are a faithful 'droider, there's no denying that the iPhone's release spurred the smartphone industry onto bigger and better things. To mark the occasion, we've taken a look at all the improvements that Apple has lavished upon its iPhone over the years to end up with the mighty iPhone 4S.

iPhone ? Retina Display

The original iPhone had a resolution of 320x400 with 163ppi ? not that anyone was counting ppi back then. Fast forward three years, though, and pixels per inch has become the buzz-phrase for all tech fans ? thanks to the 640x960, 326ppi screen found on the iPhone 4 and 4S. And it's not just phones that are packing Retina Displays now ? they've turned up on the new iPad 3 and new MacBook Pro.

iPhone ? App Store

Those gadgeteers blessed with long memories will remember that the original iPhone actually launched without an App Store ? a notion that seems almost unthinkable today, given the hundreds upon thousands of available apps and over a billion downloads.

From its launch, just over a year after the iPhone was introduced to the world, the App Store has blossomed into a formidable force which has changed how we use our phones, transforming them from mere communication tools to games consoles, instruments and much much more. Apple were by no means the first to introduce an App Store, but they made it a polished, easy to use experience ? which is mirrored in all other app stores today, including Android's Google Play and Amazon App Stores.

iPhone ? 3G

Apple joined the high speed mobile data party with the iPhone 3G's launch in 2008 and paved the way for speedy app downloads, and more recently FaceTime video calling. We've never looked back from our little 3G icon in the status bar. and are forever dreading the drop to the dreaded snail-paced E. Thank you, sporadic London coverage.

iPhone ? iCloud

Things have come a long way since 'the cloud' was still a fresh-faced buzzword that most people associated with bouts of precipitation. Apple's iCloud service lets users automatically backup their music, photos, notes, contacts and appointments to the big fluffy data server in the sky.

iPhone ? Siri

Voice control existed long before Apple's well-spoken digital assistant turned up on the block, but there's no denying that Siri has thrust voice communication into the spotlight. Like it or not, we're set for an influx of posh digital assistants, with the likes of Samsung's S Voice and Google Play's Evi rocking up to the voice-controlled party.

iPhone ? FaceTime

Apple joined the front-facing camera party fashionably late and arrived bearing the gift of FaceTime ? its fancy new name for face-to-face video chat, which also worked between Macs and iPhones. Previously limited to Wi-Fi-only use without a jailbreak, users can now natter away beaming their mugs across the 3G spectrum when out and about as well.

iPhone ? copy and paste

The iPhone was sorely missing this most basic of smartphone features for too long, and Apple was rightly mocked for its absence. As ever though, Cupertino arrived on the scene two years after the original iPhone's launch with one of the slickest implementations around ? an easy-to-use copy and paste system which still bests most other options currently available.

iPhone ? multitasking

The lack of multitasking on iOS was a hair-tearing experience for anyone who wanted to use the iPhone for anything remotely productive. Typing an email then losing it all after double checking information in Safari made even the most hardcore Apple fan lose their cool. Happily, multitasking turned up in iOS 4 ? and with a quick double click of the home button, iPhone users could flick in and out of apps to their heart's content.

iPhone ? AirPlay

Previously known as AirTunes, which streamed music between devices, AirPlay threw in the same easy media flinging ability for photos and videos. That meant you could easily share content on your iPhone with other devices, such as Apple TV and third party docks.

iPhone ? Find My iPhone

This hugely useful feature has saved many a careless or unlucky iPhone owner, enabling them to track their iDevices, lock them and wipe them completely for extra security. It's even helped the police to track down stolen iPhones. We can only imagine the stress and worry gadgeteers had to go through without the power of Find My iPhone. Shudder.

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Contempt of Congress issue may fizzle after vote

FILE - In this June 26, 2012 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Boston. A House vote finding Holder in contempt of Congress would create election-year drama yet might not have much lasting impact. Federal judges asked to step into similar constitutional disputes often sound like frazzled moms, in essence telling Congress and the president ?I don?t care who started it, you two end it.? And time for a court case is limited _ a contempt citation presumably would expire in January when the current Congress ends. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

FILE - In this June 26, 2012 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Boston. A House vote finding Holder in contempt of Congress would create election-year drama yet might not have much lasting impact. Federal judges asked to step into similar constitutional disputes often sound like frazzled moms, in essence telling Congress and the president ?I don?t care who started it, you two end it.? And time for a court case is limited _ a contempt citation presumably would expire in January when the current Congress ends. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A House vote finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Thursday would create election-year fireworks but maybe not much lasting sizzle. Federal judges who've been called into similar disputes often sound like frazzled moms, in essence telling Congress and the president, "I don't care who started it, you two end it."

Time appears to be limited for the House to pursue a criminal contempt case against Holder or a civil case to compel President Barack Obama's administration to turn over subpoenaed documents. A contempt citation against Holder presumably would expire when the current Congress ends in January.

If the courts do end up deciding the case, however, they could shed some light on a foggy patch of constitutional law: What happens when Congress demands that a president turn over documents he says should be kept secret?

Particularly, once the president invokes executive privilege to deny Congress documents it has subpoenaed.

The Supreme Court last took up the constitutional question of executive privilege during Watergate in the 1970s. But beginning with George Washington, presidents have asserted authority to withhold executive branch records from Congress. The bickering over the proper reach and limits on this authority has never stopped. It's "vague and essentially undefined terrain," according to the Congressional Research Service.

This time the argument is whether Obama is within his rights to order Holder to withhold some Justice Department documents subpoenaed by a House committee. The lawmakers are investigating a flawed anti-smuggling investigation in Arizona known as Operation Fast and Furious that tried to track guns ? suspected of being purchased illicitly in the U.S. ? all the way to gun-smuggling kingpins, who long have eluded prosecution. Agents lost track of about 1,400 guns and some have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S.

Formal Justice Department policy forbids using this risky strategy dubbed "gun-walking" and instead calls for agents to arrest people they suspect of buying guns for smugglers or others as soon as they leave gun stores. But that old strategy failed to stop guns from reaching Mexico ? more than 68,000 in the past five years ? and generated wide criticism. So Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents in Arizona, beginning in the administration of President George W. Bush, experimented with versions of the gun-walking tactic.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says because the Justice Department initially denied but later acknowledged that Fast and Furious tried "gun-walking," he needs the documents to determine whether officials intentionally lied to Congress. The White House calls the demands for more and more documents an "election-year fishing expedition."

Claims of executive privilege tend to be viewed through a political lens.

As a Democratic senator in 2007, Obama accused Republican President George W. Bush of hiding behind executive privilege. Mitt Romney, at the time, defended Bush as simply trying to preserve the powers of the presidency.

These days, Obama is claiming the power of executive privilege, and Romney, his Republican presidential rival, accuses him of hiding behind it. Likewise, congressional Democrats and Republicans are trading charges of hypocrisy. That's nothing new.

History tells us a few things about the executive privilege fights:

NIXON'S LEGACY

It wasn't until Watergate that the Supreme Court formally recognized the doctrine of executive privilege, as part of the balancing of power between the president and Congress. The justices said conversations and memos between presidents and their top aides were presumed to be confidential in most cases.

Yet Nixon lost that case, but it dealt with the power of criminal prosecutors, not the power of Congress. The court ruled that in this case, Watergate prosecutors' need for the tapes as evidence in their criminal cases outweighed the president's authority to keep them secret. Congress is not the same as a criminal prosecutor and the court didn't spell out when Congress might be able to overcome executive privilege.

PRESIDENTS KEEP PUSHING FOR MORE

Through history, presidents of both parties have sought to expand executive privilege. And Congress has pushed back.

There are two main types of executive privilege. One privilege, for "presidential communications," only covers the president and the work of top aides preparing advice for the president.

The other, known as "deliberative process privilege," covers a much wider swatch of administration officials, even if they weren't working on something for the president specifically. Presidents are required to have a stronger argument to justify keeping secrets under this broader authority, which can involve documents they never saw or were even intended to see.

WHICH EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IS IT?

Issa and the White House seem to be arguing right past each other when they talk about the president's assertion of executive privilege.

The White House says Obama is claiming "deliberative process privilege" to cover Justice Department documents that don't involve the president or his top aides directly but instead relate to the department's decision-making process. The idea is that officials throughout the executive branch need to discuss policy decisions freely, in private, without worrying that their words or recommendations will be nitpicked by Congress later.

Issa argues, however, that the president can only legitimately claim executive privilege for documents that involve himself or his top advisers. This would be true, if Obama were claiming the communications privilege, but so far he hasn't. He's claimed only "deliberative" privilege.

The potentially bad news for Obama: A federal appeals court has ruled that this broader privilege is easier for Congress to overcome and it "disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct has occurred."

AFTER THE VOTE

The Republican-led House plans a contempt of Congress vote for Holder on Thursday. If approved, the next step would be to send the contempt citation against Holder to the local U.S. attorney for enforcement. Traditionally the Justice Department doesn't pursue criminal contempt of Congress cases against its own administration.

If, as history suggests, the Justice Department won't prosecute a criminal case against Holder, the House could hire its own lawyer and file a civil lawsuit in federal court. Such a case could lead to an order for Holder to turn over the documents. But the federal District Court in Washington has been reluctant to rush into such cases.

TAKE IT OUTSIDE

When a House subcommittee subpoenaed AT&T for documents about President George W. Bush's program of using national security wiretaps on Americans without court approval, the Justice Department objected. The dispute moved to the District Court in Washington, but it declined to jump into the fray quickly. The court said framers of the Constitution expected such disputes between Congress and the president to be resolved in "a spirit of dynamic compromise."

Sound naive? It worked.

The court ? like an annoyed parent ? said the two sides hadn't tried hard enough to work things out and sent them back to talk more. In the end, a compromise allowed subcommittee staff members to review some unedited memos about the wiretaps and tell lawmakers what they had read.

Similarly, in a Reagan administration case, the District Court declined to get involved in a dispute over whether the Environmental Protection Agency could refuse to turn over documents to Congress. The court called for "compromise and cooperation" ? and eventually agreement was reached outside of the courtroom.

TIME'S RUNNING OUT

Judges tend to move slowly and cautiously.

The hopes of the House winning a legal resolution before the November elections are dim. And the authority behind House subpoenas or contempt citations traditionally are considered to expire when that Congress ends, according to the Congressional Research Service. That happens in January 2013.

In any event, if Obama loses his re-election bid the case becomes moot. If Obama wins and Republicans retain control of the House, they could vote to restart the fight. But Holder might no longer be in office.

HOLDER'S FUTURE

A contempt of Congress vote against Holder probably would amplify calls from some Republicans for his resignation. Although the administration's shown no signs of that so far, it's widely believed, even among Holder's close associates, that he doesn't intend to return should Obama win a second term. When asked about it, Holder has been noncommittal.

___

Associated Press writer Pete Yost contributed to this report.

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Home swapping is fun and frugal! | Go Gingham | Stylishly Frugal ...

Today?s guest post is by Shelley Miller, Home Exchange Expert.? Shelley has done many home exchanges and she and I both agree that home swapping makes travel affordable for families.? Shelley has lots of great tips about travel so please check out her site.

Your next vacation could be a home exchange and these 3 practical alternatives make it possible.? Did you realize that there are three ways to save money when you home exchange?? My family has experienced each of them and they all have benefits. Read on to find out which one works best for you.

1.? Simultaneous Home Exchange:? This form of exchange is when you swap houses with your exchange partner on identical travel dates. The home exchange is ?simultaneous? and straightforward. Sometimes you meet your visitors, sometimes you don?t. It?s up to you. One time we did an exchange with a Seattle family; they flew south down the coast to San Diego and we flew north. We literally passed in the air!

Simultaneous home exchange in Windsor, England ? This was the humble abode of my family?s very first home exchange. The mansion was built in 1485!

Bottom line: Choose this one if you like privacy, want your own space, can figure out a new state or country on your own and enjoy being independent.

2.? Non-Simultaneous Home Exchange:? Not all home exchangers swap their homes at the same time. In home exchange lingo, it?s referred to as a ?non-simultaneous? exchange. As the term implies, you live in each others? homes on different dates.

For example, a few years ago my family wanted to do a home exchange over the Christmas season with an American expat family living in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong family had already scheduled a holiday in Thailand, so their house was empty and available during the last two weeks of December.

I e-mailed the homeowner about the idea of a non-simultaneous exchange. She told me they wanted to visit to San Diego the following summer. So that?s what we did. My family visited their 3-story home overlooking the South China Sea in December 2006; their family visited our home overlooking the San Diego Bay in July 2007. Everybody got what they wanted!

View of the South China Sea ? Our Non-Simultaneous home swap in Hong Kong included a car swap, a Mercedes. A 3-story home AND a Mercedes. Sometimes life is really, really good.

Bottom line: This option works well if you?re eager to book an exchange in a particular city. It can be a scheduling challenge to move out of your home six months or a year later when payback time arrives, but perhaps it?s no big deal if you?re planning another trip anyway. If you want to vacation in a city with uber expensive hotel rooms, for example expect to pay about $335 per night in Paris, a non-simultaneous exchange would definitely be worth it.

3.? Hospitality Home Exchange:? This is when you stay in a member?s home while they are living there too. Sometime later, you return the favor and host them in your home.

I?ll admit, when I first heard about a ?hospitality? exchange, it seemed a bit strange. But after trying it a couple times, I found there are clear advantages. Your home swap partners can show you around their community and answer questions. You really feel like a local!

When we did a hospitality exchange in Germany, our hostess Monika baked us a delicious apricot cake; she delivered it to the 2-bedroom apartment they provided to us on the second floor of their home. Monika?s husband, Gerhard, was always helpful with mapping out our day trips.

Prosciutto & Melon Salad Appetizer ? Monkia, our hospitality exchange partner in Germany, prepared a fabulous welcome meal for us.

Bottom line: Hospitality exchange is a good choice if you like getting to know your exchange partners and meeting their friends too. Before finalizing the exchange, be sure you understand the layout of the home so that you and your travel partners are comfortable with the living arrangement. Good communication leads to realistic expectations. This option is particularly beneficial if you?re traveling solo.

So there you have it, three home exchange choices: simultaneous, non-simultaneous and hospitality. All are good options.

Which home swapping method do you want to try first?

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Shelley Miller, a home exchange expert, writes articles and leads workshops that show travelers how to experience the world authentically and affordably with home swap vacations. She and her family have completed 13 home exchanges in 12 years. Visit Shelley at: HomeExchangeExpert.com, Twitter :@HomeExchangeKey and Facebook: Facebook HomeExchangeExpert

Shelley took all of the beautiful photographs in this post.

Thanks, for sharing these tips, Shelley!!

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ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Organisms employ a fascinating array of strategies to identify and restrain invasive pieces of foreign DNA, such as those introduced by viruses. For example, many viruses produce double-stranded (ds)RNA during their life cycle and the RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism is thought to recognize this structural feature to initiate a silencing response.

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A remarkable feature of this RNAi-related phenomenon (referred to as RNA-induced epigenetic silencing, or RNAe), is that the animal carries a memory of previous gene expression. This memory of active genes serves as an "anti-silencing" signal, which protects native genes from RNAe and under some circumstances appears to adopt foreign genes as self. These findings, described in three studies (including a study by Eric Miska and colleagues of the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust, UK) published online June 25 and to appear in the July 6 issue of Cell, provide new insights into how identical organisms can have the same DNA sequence but opposite patterns of gene expression and thus dramatically different phenotypes.

"If a worm modulates gene expression by carrying a memory of the genes it expressed in previous generations, perhaps other organisms (including humans) can as well. If so, mechanisms of this type could have an important impact on evolution," said Craig C. Mello, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and distinguished professor of molecular medicine and cell biology. "The RNAe mechanism could accelerate evolutionary change by increasing heritable phenotypic variation (without the need for DNA mutations). There is growing evidence that many organisms can track and respond epigenetically to gene expression patterns. Our findings provide insight into a whole new level of sophistication in the recognition and memory of gene expression programs."

Dr. Mello and colleagues knew that when a foreign piece of DNA encoding the green fluorescent protein, or GFP, was inserted into the small roundworm C. elegans, some of the worms would silence the newly introduced DNA while others would express the GFP gene. They then explored a role for RNAi in the decision to silence or express GFP. RNAi is a process whereby cells modulate the activity of their genes. In RNAi-related phenomena, Argonaute proteins interact with and use small RNAs as little genetic guides to recognize target nucleic acids through base-pairing interactions.

Based on their findings, Mello and colleagues posit a model composed of three separate Argonaute systems that work together to scan, identify and silence foreign DNA, while protecting the expression of normal genes. In this system, an Argonaute called PRG-1 (Piwi) bound to piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) is responsible for scanning molecules of RNA as they leave the nucleus of the cell and determining if they are indigenous to the organism or foreign. If PRG-1 and its piRNA cofactors identify a foreign sequence, it initiates (or activates) the second Argonaute system, known as WAGO, which turns the genetic material off so it can't be expressed.

Once the DNA is identified as foreign and silenced, an epigenetic memory is created that silences the foreign gene from one generation to the next. While the inheritance of this memory requires further exploration, the authors showed that successive generations of C. elegans are unable to express the foreign DNA even if the corresponding piRNA is absent.

"It appears that piRNAs are responsible for the initial scanning and identification of foreign nucleic acids," said Darryl Conte Jr., PhD, research assistant professor of molecular medicine and one of the co-authors on the Cell papers. "Because the foreign DNA in successive generations is being silenced, even in worms that don't have the piRNA, the information necessary for silencing is being passed on epigenetically and independently of the initial scanning done by the piRNA complex in the previous generations."

Originating from clustered regions of the genome, piRNA are diverse and abundant small non-coding RNA molecules in animals, numbering in the millions in mammals. For the most part, piRNAs in worms -- and many piRNAs in mammals -- lack obvious complementary targets and their function is not clearly understood. It's possible that piRNAs act as a genetic security system, using imperfect base pairing to help identify foreign nucleic acids, said Dr. Conte.

So what prevents piRNAs from recognizing and permanently silencing a gene that the worm identifies as its own? Remarkably, the authors found that such "self" transcripts are somehow protected from entering the WAGO system and that some active genes can actually turn on silent genes. Because the self transcripts are associated with a third Argonaute known as CSR-1, the authors propose that CSR-1 provides an anti-silencing or protective function, which licenses the expression of genes that the worm recognizes as its own.

"This is one of the truly unique findings of these studies," said Conte. "Before, we knew that the RNAi process could be used to regulate genes or to turn them off completely. In this case, what we see is an RNAi mechanism that appears to prevent a gene from being silenced by the piRNA pathway. It works almost as a form of protection that allows the gene to be expressed."

"Taken together, these studies posit a surprisingly complex role for small-RNA systems in epigenetic programming," said Mello. "It shows how piRNAs continuously scan all the genes expressed in the germline, constantly comparing each sequence to a memory of previous gene expression. When foreign genes are recognized and silenced, this new epigenetic knowledge can be passed down to successive generations. On the other hand, occasionally new genes are expressed, apparently stochastically, and this active state too can be passed on as a stable epigenetic memory, thus the organism effectively adopts the foreign gene as self."

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Business Management 101 | Offshore Assistants

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? Everything is practically business. Business management is never likely to get out of trend in the degree programs offered in universities because of the many opportunities it presented. With this, the demand of business management graduates is high. Whether earned in the usual school setup or in the growing online environment, graduates in this program will never likely be jobless.

Online courses in business management offer versatility to aspiring professionals. It opens doors of opportunities to those who want to venture in business but lack the knowledge in the fundamentals of management.

These online courses in business management are designed to prepare students the technicalities and principles in business management. These may include Marketing, Economics, Finance, Business Law, and Employee Management, Information Technology and Administration.

The online courses in business management may vary depending on the curricula of the universities that offer it. Nevertheless, the courses are especially arranged to equip the individuals in dealing with people, business strategies, financial analyses, and business ethics among others.

These degree programs aren?t just for career driven individuals who want greener pastures and achieve the executive positions for some time. These are also for people who wanted to start family business or small personal businesses.

Business Management is a lucrative degree program as it is mostly applicable to most industries. From financial department to human resource, expect to apply the course you learned in your degree.

Business Management doesn?t limit the graduates for as long as there is business, there are business management graduates who comprise the workforce. They are behind brilliant marketing strategies, feasible financial status, happy and contented workforce and successful businesses.

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Self-Support Methods For The Standard Linda Or Joe |

Self improvement is mainly concerned with establishing and achieving goals yourself. While you have overall independence in selecting desired goals, you might want to get readily available assistance into mind when it comes to achieving your goals properly. There is lots of personal development guidance on the market this article will present you with just a few advice on the procedure.

Would you engage in a musical tool as being a pastime? What type of tunes will you get pleasure from playing? Audio may be the sound from the angels and also beneficial to the heart and soul. Playing your best songs or taking part in songs can be quite ?instrumental? with your healing process. Try playing music, and believe that comforting that accompanies it.

Learn to really like yourself ? devote about three minutes of every working day ranking in front of the mirror and practicing good affirmations that one could rely upon for assurance, strength, and support. An positive view is actually a powerful resource that will have considerable advantages for your imagination, system, and also the soul.

It can be in no way too far gone to become a better friend, a better mom, a better sibling or possibly a better particular person in general. There is not any use attacking yourself with guilt from past blunders or blunders. You can always progress. Always keep this in your mind and you will look at it express before your vision.

Volunteer at the nearby location that providers the requirements the neighborhood. By volunteering to aid these less privileged, you have the opportunity to create your own appreciation. You may even end up motivated to discover other way to achieve out and aid other folks. Service effort is a great way to fee your own development system.

Transforming routines can be challenging however really fulfilling within your pursuit to get stability. If you would like to change any routine, it is very important build a goal and a plan to arrive there. You additionally require a means to track your advancement. When you wished to stop ingesting unhealthy food as an example, a great way to get to this objective is always to save up all the cash you preserved on unhealthy food any purchase your nice reward to point out to you of the achievement.

Build an everyday program. Those who are organized and live life having a loosely set up daily regimen are better capable of being successful. By getting in to the habit of carrying out certain things, you may make choices that relate to your life and support your self be more efficient privately and expertly.

In spite of the panoply of probable methods to self improvement, generally speaking the more versatile the personal growth method, the more effective. Ensure that your own targets as well as your plans for achieving them get the flexibility to add advice when it comes along. Even though this information has not altered your techniques, it can be possible the next step you go through just may.

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iRobot Roomba 790 with Wireless Command Center hands-on (video)

What to get the homeowner who has everything? Perhaps a robotic vacuum styled in the fashion of an RC toy will fit the bill. Here at a gdgt event in New York City we happened upon iRobot's Roomba 790, which comes with a touchscreen remote for manually controlling where the bot goes. The controller -- make that the "Wireless Command Center" -- has an interface matching the one on the 790 itself, so there's no second set of menus to master here. In addition to deciding where it moves, you can also schedule daily cleanings or tap a "Clean" button to push the robot into action.Though this isn't the first time iRobot's dabbled in remote-controlled vacuum cleaners, all previous models relied on infrared sensors, meaning you could only control the Roomba if it was in your line of sight. This guy, though, uses a proprietary technology that allows you to program that 4pm scrubbing from up to 25 meters away.

As for battery life, it runs on four AA cells, and is rated for three to six months of runtime, depending on how compulsively you plan on cleaning. Interestingly, despite the change in wireless standards, the 790 is compatible with older 700-series Roombas, though it's not as is the controller would be sold separately. If you happen to be the kind of fabulously wealthy family who can afford (and has a need) for multiple Roomba cleaners, you can only pair the remote with one robot at a time anyway. Don't have the budget for a $700 robotic vacuum kit? We've got hands-on photos below and a demo video after the break.

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The Evolution of the Convertible

Summer is officially here, and with it comes dreams of open-air motoring. Whether it's enjoying a lazy drive on a winding two-lane or cruising to a local drive-in, summer and convertibles go together like lemonade and ice tea.

Today, the market expects the hottest cars to come in a roadster variant, whether you're looking at a fire-breathing Lamborghini Gallardo or a polite Volkswagen Eos. But it wasn't always like this. How did the droptop become the body style of summer? To uncover the answers, we track the evolution of wind-in-your-hair driving back more than a century.

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Justin Bieber: What Comes After Believe?

MTV News has the scoop on Bieber's next single, fall tour and Mark Wahlberg movie.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Now that Justin Bieber has dropped Believe, you might be wondering what's up next for the 18-year-old. Well, between supporting his album and a burgeoning film career, the pop star shows no signs of stopping.

Bieber is still in the deciding process of nailing down just which track off Believe will be the next single, following up his smash hit "Boyfriend." And when MTV News spoke to Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, he noted that there are several candidates from the album that seem like a likely follow-up release.

"We haven't picked the next single," he said. "We're gonna see how different songs react off the album. 'As Long As You Love Me' [with Big Sean] is getting a lot of love, so is 'All Around The World' [with Ludacris]. So is 'Die In Your Arms.' 'Beauty and the Beat' is coming with the album. We're gonna see what the next single is. We're gonna figure that out."

The guys are also in the process of figuring out how the massive, already sold-out world tour will look when it kicks off in September. "The tour starts at the end of September ... by the end of 2013 we're gonna hit the whole world," he explained. "He has been watching a tremendous amount of Michael Jackson concerts from the '80s and '90s. And he has been talking to me about how Michael incorporated magic and pyro and reveals and he wants to bring in that. [But] still do that acoustic thing, but he wants to take it to a whole new level.

"It's just really exciting," he continued. "Nothing makes him happier than being onstage. So it's gonna be fun to get back onto the road. I think he was an amazing performer before, but his level of dance and musicianship and his range [has grown]. He's a veteran now. I think he wants to take it to a completely new level."

Not only will Bieber stay busy in the music world, but Mark Wahlberg notes that things are also chugging along with their long-teased, in-the-works basketball movie. The actor insists they are inching closer to a start date. And, Wahlberg is co-signing Bieber's acting abilities.

"Obviously, [Bieber] is a very good athlete. People have seen him on MTV; he can play. But I also really think he can act," he said. "There's not going to be any shortage of pushing him in getting that kind of strong performance out of him, if we get to make the movie. We're just going to have to make him realize that he's playing a character so he can't have the same hairdo," he joked.

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Montepaschi promotes Banchi to head coach spot

Montepaschi Siena announced on Friday that its new coach will be none other than Luca Banchi, who has already spent a long time on the bench of the Italian powerhouse. Banchi, age 46, had been the assistant of Simone Pianigiani, who resigned the head coaching position earlier this week, for the last six seasons. Together, they helped place Montepaschi in both the 2008 and 2011 Final Fours. Banchi helped the club reach new heights in Italian basketball by winning six consecutive Italian League crowns, a first in the 63-year history of the competition. The team also won 4 Italian Cup titles and lifted 5 Italian Supercup trophies with Banchi as assistant coach. In his six seasons helping Pianigiani, Montepaschi accumulated a 225-28 Italian League record, winning 90.1% of their games and doing even better (59-6, 90.8%) in the playoffs. Banchi has previous head coach experience in teams like Sicc BPA Jesi, Banca Nuova Trapani, Mabo Livorno and Trieste. He has also coached the Italian U20 and "B" national teams.

"It is with great pride that I begin this new adventure with Siena," Banchi said at a press conference Friday. "I know and am happy to continue the path we've been on. The modus operandi of Siena's technical staff is in perfect working condition. Building a staff will be a great consideration. I've always felt a responsibility during the six years I have put in here to do what I do best: coaching! Coach Pianigiani shared everything with us, so it's a change in my role, but the commitment and responsibilities are the same."

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Travolta, lawyer sued for libel by by author

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By Natalie Finn, E! Online

The John Travolta legal web just got stickier.?The recently put-upon actor and attorney Marty Singer have been sued by the author of a self-published book about gay bathhouse culture called "You'll Never Spa in This Town Again," who is accusing the pair of trade libel following Singer's legal threats on behalf of Travolta when Gawker published an article about the parts of Randolph's book concerning the actor's sex life.?

In a statement to E! News, a rep for Travolta called the lawsuit "absurd" and Singer called it "ridiculous."?

So, why does plaintiff Robert Randolph believe that the defendants have sullied his reputation??

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According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in L.A.?Superior Court, Gawker published an article in November 2010 about Randolph's book, entitled "The Secret Sex Life of John Travolta," which detailed alleged encounters between himself and various celebrities, including Travolta.?

Singer threatened legal action against Gawker Media, sending a cease-and-desist letter listing multiple reasons why Randolph couldn't be believed -- among them that he had, according to several people, spent time in mental institutions; his memory was distorted after a 2003 attack at a spa that left him brain damaged; and he returned to the spa where the violent attack at the hands of a fellow patron allegedly took place, only to be attacked again.?

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Gawker, in turn, posted the entire letter online.?

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"This letter exceeded the scope of any pre-litigation communications," Randolph's lawsuit contends.

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Arguing that his memory is "fully operational," the plaintiff states that Singer and Travolta acted with the intent of preventing Randolph's book from selling and any other lucrative deals that could have arisen from the book's success.

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Randolph is asking for unspecified damages for trade libel, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage.?

In addition to calling the lawsuit absurd, Travolta's rep predicted that a judge will promptly throw it out.?

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Singer, meanwhile, tells E! News: "This is a ridiculous lawsuit. It is based on our letter which was completely privileged under the law. We intend to sue the attorneys for malicious prosecution after the court promptly dismisses this baseless lawsuit."

Most recently, Singer vehemently defended Travolta when he was sued by two masseurs who alleged sexual battery. Both have since dropped their lawsuits and are being represented by Gloria Allred, who was in turn sued by their original attorney, who accused Allred of poaching his clients. Allred has denied those claims.?

--Additional reporting by Baker Machado?

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Kardashian for Senate? Fake reporter says so

Playing a fake news reporter, comic Dan Hodapp interviews an unsuspecting New Yorker in Washington Square Park,

By Courtney Garcia, msnbc.com contributor

Proving not only that people will believe anything a reporter says, but also that a lot of folks don?t pay much attention to current events, one fake journalist has fooled New Yorkers into buying some pretty fanciful stories.

?Kim Kardashian has announced her candidacy for the California State Senate, what do you think about that?? supposed reporter Mike Holland, played by comic Dan Hodapp, asks one man.

The man, surprisingly, retorts, ?I?d vote for her if I was in California.?

Holland later informs another man that President Obama has ?fired the U.S. Senate,? and asks for thoughts on the matter.

?Actually, I hadn?t even heard that, embarrassingly enough,? the guy responds.

The show, titled ?Fake News Prank,? is part of a larger series known as ?Prank News Network? on humor site Jest.com. According to editor-in-chief Jeff Rubin, his team came up with the idea to dupe uninformed New Yorkers ?when they saw how little people actually knew about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

"During one of our writing meetings, we were discussing how most people probably have a strong opinion on Occupy Wall Street, even if they've lost track of the story and no longer know what's actually going on,? Rubin told msnbc.com. ?That seemed inherently funny to us. We talked it through for a while, and ultimately ended up with the idea of asking people for their opinions on stories that they couldn't possibly know anything about?-- because they were fake?-- and seeing how they responded."

Subjects on the show range from pop culture nonsense like the Vatican granting football quarterback Tim Tebow sainthood to faux breaking news that Germany invaded Poland. Rubin says a few people were initially skeptical, but became convinced by Holland?s straightforward demeanor.

As evidenced in the final cut, people fall for the fake news often. Some targets even pretended that they were previously up to speed on the invented situations.

?The Germany and Poland thing is still pretty fresh,? a young woman observes. ?I guess we?re going to see how it rides out.?

Rubin says the show isn?t intended to be a criticism of the media, though he realizes people might interpret it that way. More so, it?s an aim to create original and imaginative online entertainment that relates to viewers and the issues being discussed in the social community. The videos provide a quick and witty spin on daily news, and are often produced in less than a day?s time.

?That's about how long you have before people have moved on from that story and onto something else,? Rubin added. "There are so many choices for online entertainment that it's not enough to just be funny, you also have to make sure that your content has a point of view that people relate to and will want to share with friends.?

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