- Clinton says elections key to Haiti stability WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged quake-stricken Haiti on Tuesday to hold legislative elections "as soon as appropriate," saying new polls were key to the stability and legitimacy of the Haitian government.
- Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.
- Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between its Muslim north and Christian south, rights groups and diplomats said.
- Vatican says wrong to single out Church over abuse VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday it was wrong to focus blame for child abuse on the Catholic Church and denied accusations it had sought to cover up pedophilia by its clergymen around Europe.
- Greek public, private sector clash over austerity ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new austerity package has driven a wedge between private and public sector workers, pitting resentful private employees against civil servants seen as privileged over who should pay for the country's debt crisis.
- U.S. apologizes to Libya for dismissive comments WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for "jihad," often translated as "armed struggle," against Switzerland.
- Yemen offers talks with separatists DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen, under international pressure to quiet domestic unrest and focus its sights on al Qaeda, has offered to hold talks with southern separatists and hear their grievances, state media said on Tuesday.
- Family of slain U.S. activist sues Israel JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The family of an American killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza will launch a damages case on Wednesday, stoking controversy over the treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters and angering Israelis frustrated by international criticism.
- Greece says speculation will be on G20 agenda WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece, pressing for curbs on financial speculation it blames for worsening the country's debt crisis, said on Tuesday the idea would be examined by the G20 leading powers at their next meeting.
- Belfast votes in favor of police, justice transfer BELFAST (Reuters) - The Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take control of its own police and justice powers, cementing the latest hard-won agreement between the province's divided communities.
- Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? bjb writes "While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I Googled it with 'malware' and other key words, but nothing turned up, though my suspicion remained (and was somewhat confirmed by WOT.) So my question is, where can you go to find out if something is legitimate? Because the person I'm helping is on a dial-up connection, downloading malware detection applications (and updates) is too heavy consider. And I don't maintain a USB stick with such apps, since I don't do this kind of thing very often. Where can you quickly find information?"
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- Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection.) AT&T said it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100Gbit/sec. data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana."
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- Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells kkleiner writes "For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The results have been stunning, allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years. There's no surgery required, just a needle to extract and then re-inject the cells where they are needed. There has always been a lot of hype around stem cells, but this is the real deal. Real humans are getting real treatment that works, and we should all hope that more companies will begin offering this procedure in other states soon."
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- The Secret Origin of Windows harrymcc writes "Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought being assigned the much-maligned project was Microsoft's fiendish way of trying to get rid of him.) The story involves such still-significant figures as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, and Nathan Myhrvold; Trower left Microsoft only in November of 2009 after 28 years with the company."
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- Open Data Needs Open Source Tools macslocum writes "Nat Torkington begins sketching out an open data process that borrows liberally from open source tools: 'Open source discourages laziness (because everyone can see the corners you've cut), it can get bugs fixed or at least identified much faster (many eyes), it promotes collaboration, and it's a great training ground for skills development. I see no reason why open data shouldn't bring the same opportunities to data projects. And a lot of data projects need these things. From talking to government folks and scientists, it's become obvious that serious problems exist in some datasets. Sometimes corners were cut in gathering the data, or there's a poor chain of provenance for the data so it's impossible to figure out what's trustworthy and what's not. Sometimes the dataset is delivered as a tarball, then immediately forks as all the users add their new records to their own copy and don't share the additions. Sometimes the dataset is delivered as a tarball but nobody has provided a way for users to collaborate even if they want to. So lately I've been asking myself: What if we applied the best thinking and practices from open source to open data? What if we ran an open data project like an open source project? What would this look like?'"
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- HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed Trailrunner7 writes "Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of the more popular handsets right now. A researcher at Panda Software received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it to her PC, found that the phone was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Mariposa has been in the news of late thanks to some arrests connected to the operation of the botnet."
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- Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09 krebsonsecurity writes "Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million in 1,184 bank robberies during that same period, according to an analysis of FBI bank crime statistics by krebsonsecurity.com. From that story: 'The federal government sure publishes a lot more information about physical bank robberies that it makes available about online stick-ups. Indeed, the FBI's bank crime stats are extraordinarily detailed. For example, they can tell you that in the 3rd quarter of last year, bank robbers were more likely to hold up their local branch between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a Wednesday than at any other time or day of the week; they can tell you the number of tear gas and dye packs taken with the loot, the number of security cameras activated, the number of food stamps taken, even what percentage of suspected perpetrators had illegal drug habits at the time of the robberies. About the only thing the stats don't tell you is what brand of jeans the perpetrators were wearing and whether the getaway car had cool vanity plates. What do we get about e-crime statistics from the federal government? One guy from the FDIC giving a speech at the RSA conference."
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- European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA An anonymous reader writes "The European Parliament is preparing to take on ACTA. A joint resolution (DOC) has been tabled by the major EP parties that threatens to go to court unless things change. The EP is calling for public access to negotiation texts and rules out further confidential negotiations. Moreover, the EP wants a ban on imposing a three-strikes model, assurances that ACTA will not result in personal searches at the border, and an ACTA impact assessment on fundamental rights and data protection."
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- Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed nigham writes "The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASA's recent app), Apple reserves the right to kill your app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to 50 bucks. There's also this gem: 'You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise create any Application or other program that would disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software, iPod Touch operating system software, this Apple Software, any services or other Apple software or technology, or enable others to do so.' The entire agreement (PDF) is up at the EFF's site."
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- US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card schwit1 sends this quote from the Wall Street Journal:
"Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal US workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. ... A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next changed jobs, the person said. The card requirement also would be phased in among employers, beginning with industries that typically rely on illegal-immigrant labor."
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- Allen Iverson's Twitter Response to Latest Allegations It's not a good time to be Allen Iverson. His wife has filed for divorce, his daughter is said to be seriously ill, his NBA career has been in a free fall for two years, and -- according to the latest rumors from Stephen A. Smith over the weekend -- he's battling severe drinking and gambling issues, to boot.
- Police Shoot & Kill Barking Labrador in Backyard The owner said he was away when his burglar alarm went off. Officers responded and started to check the back door to see if anyone had broken in. The family dog came running out and was shot in the head by Officer Mark Morales. Morales was not bitten or scratched by the dog and he neither tried to kick the dog away or use a taser or pepper spray.
- WTF Is This Thing? [Pic] *****
- Hard Times Turn Coupon Clipping Into Newest Extreme Sport. Under a futon in her Charleston, S.C., apartment, Stacy Smith has stashed boxes of soy bars, bags of potato chips, bottles of vitamin water, canned vegetables, soup, barbecue sauce and antibacterial wipes. Her bedroom closet is jammed with soda and shampoo, her bookcase with garlic salt and meat marinades.
- Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni 'both having affairs' Rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both having affairs are gaining momentum in France.
- Janitor Faces Prison After Stealing World Series Ring On Monday a janitor who worked at Citizens Bank Ballpark pleaded guilty to stealing a World Series ring he found in a bathroom at the ballpark last summer, and now he's facing up to seven years behind bars.
- Betty White Confirms She'll Appear on Saturday Night Live Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former Golden Girl will appear on Saturday Night Live in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.
- Milk-a-what? Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade for $100M Lohan says the "milkaholic" she-baby in the E-Trade commercial was modeled after her so she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, according to The New York Post. A spokesman for Grey Group, which produced the commercial, told the paper that the spot "just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team.
- World War II, Facebook Version A modern adaptation of world war II for the American teenager
- Quentin Tarantino Sued Over 'Kill Bill' Quentin Tarantino "lost" in the Oscar race -- and now he's being sued by a man who claims Q.T. stole his concept and character to create 'Kill Bill'...
- US Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership Tuesday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck gas pedal was to blame.
- Suspect in Newark airport breach pleads guilty Chinese student Jiang Haisong, who breached security in January at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, on Tuesday accepted the sentence at Newark City Court, which sentenced Jiang 100 hours of community service and US$658 of fine.
- Israel OKs 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem Israel approved the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday - a move that immediately clouded a visit by Vice President Joe Biden aimed at repairing strained ties and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.
- Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new international attention to its secretive nuclear activities.
- Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated .
- New nuclear arms treaty could be ready within weeks: Russ... A new Russia-U.S. treaty on nuclear arms reduction could be signed within two or three weeks, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
- 12 centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks - some of them unusually well-preserved - have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
- Campus shooting kills 1, wounds 2 in Ohio Campus officials said Tuesday a shooting killed one worker in Ohio State University in Columbus. Two people were wounded, including the suspect, who was in custody.
- Turky not to send back ambassador to US before clear results Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that Turkey would not send back its ambassador to US before seeing clear results, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
- Somali pirates seize Spanish fishing boat Somali Pirates hijacked a Spanish fishing boat on Tuesday in the Indian Ocean off Somalia, the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) said.
- Real Hurt Lockers in Iraq: Life is No Movie NASIRIYAH, Iraq, (AP) — American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people understood what they did. Not any more. Now, the U.S. military's explosive experts are basking in their job's newfound
- Ul-Qadri: Terrorists are Enemies of Islam London, Asharq Al-Awsat-Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is the Pakistani Islamic scholar who recently made headlines with the publication of his 600-page fatwa prohibiting suicide bombing. Ul-Qadri is
- Yemen: A Talk with Al-Qaeda Expert Abdul-Ilah Haydar Sanaa, Asharq Al-Awsat- Abdul-Ilah Haydar, a Yemen-based terrorism expert, talks to Asharq al Awsat about his visits to territories where Al-Qaeda elements and its sympathizers are present. Haydar also
- The King's Speech…A Clear Message No wonder that the bulk of Saudi newspaper headlines covering King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz's speech to the Shura Council were similar, and the reason for this is that the King touched upon the priorities
- Saudi Arabia: Arsonists Burn Down Cultural Center in Riyadh Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat - Two youths in their twenties broke into and burned down a cultural center in the Saudi capital of Riyadh yesterday. Fire fighters, Red Crescent teams, and security patrols
- Iraq: Former Prime Minister Warns of Vote Tampering London, Asharq Al-Awsat- While Dr. Iyad Allawi, head of Iraqiya national coalition, criticized the Independent High Elections Commission [IHEC] for what he called "the problems that happened during
- Honour and Change The prominent Saudi Arabian novelist Abdo Khal has won the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (or the Arabic Booker), a prestigious and highly regarded prize for literature. Abdo Khal is an
- International Community's Help Needed to Eliminate Pirate... Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Muhammad Abdirahman, media adviser to the president of the Puntland region in northeast Somalia, which has enjoyed self-rule since 1998, has called on the pirates seizing the
- Biden Pushes Mideast Peace as Indirect Talks Begin JERUSALEM (AFP) – US Vice President Joe Biden was meeting top Israeli officials on Tuesday, throwing his weight behind a renewal of Middle East peace talks more than a year after negotiations shuddered
- Lebanon's Rival Groups Resume National Dialogue .BEIRUT, (AP) – Lebanon's rival political groups have resumed national reconciliation talks and Hezbollah's weapons are a main topic on the agenda. Leaders of more than a dozen factions are meeting
- Abandoned ammunition blast kills three children in Himachal Bodies of three schoolchildren, believed to have been killed in an explosion of abandoned ammunition, were found Tuesday in the forests of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, police said.
- Man to man marking against India, says Argentine coach Argentina coach Pablo Lombi has some special plans for hosts India when the two teams face each other in a play-off for the seventh-eight positions at the Hockey World Cup here Friday.
- Ansari wins praise for handling Rajya Sabha ruckus Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, a relative newcomer to politics, won praise from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others for the manner in which he controlled the ruckus in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday over physical eviction of seven suspended opposition members from the house.
- Haryana speaker calls opposition leaders, suspension revoked Haryana Assembly Speaker Harmohinder Singh Chatha Tuesday evening called up leaders of opposition parties to announce that the suspension of all 35 opposition legislators in the 90-member Haryana assembly has been revoked.
- Sonia regrets MPs misbehaviour towards vice president Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Tuesday expressed regret over the disrespect to Vice President Hamid Ansari in the Rajya Sabha by some parliamentarians opposing the women's reservation bill.
- Congress stages walkout over bus fare hike in Himachal The opposition Congress Tuesday staged a walkout in the Himachal Pradesh assembly to protest a 30 percent fare hike in state-run bus services.
- Argentina beat Canada, to play India for seventh-eighth p... India will clash with Argentina for the seventh-eighth place classification match after the Latin Americans survived a late charge from Canada to prevail 4-2 in the last Pool A game of the Hockey World Cup Tuesday.
- Over 80 children missing from Ghaziabad Over 80 children have been reported missing from Ghaziabad in the last one year, police said Tuesday.
- 'Rani Jhansi would be proud today of her nation' As India took a decisive step towards giving its women one-third representation in legislatures, many women keenly watched history being made on their TV sets, celebrated the moment in their own small ways and said their country has made them proud.
- The Netherlands make the semis despite losing to Korea The Netherlands went down to a determined Asian Champions Korea 1-2 in an engrossing battle, but survived by the skin of their teeth to make it to the semi-finals where they were joined by defending champions Germany who withstood a courageous comeback from New Zealand to beat them 5-2. and top the Pool. .
- Avatar 's Stephen Lang Confirmed for Conan MTV has confirmed a Latino Review scoop that Avatar star Stephen Lang will play the villain Khalar Singh in director Marcus Nispel's Conan .
"I've accepted the role of Khalar Singh," he said. "I have no idea how I'm going to do it. First I'm going to find out how I'm going to sound. I'm going to get back on a Mongolian pony and ride like the wind. I'm going to flash my scimitar. I'm going to cut the nuts off Conan and his father."
A casting breakdown described the character as follows:
Khalar Singh is in his 40s to 50s, Asian or Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Mongol, Turkish, or Persian, open to all ethnicities; commanding in size and manner, a warlord and formidable warrior, brilliant, cruel, weathered and tanned by the many campaigns he has...
- Krasinski Closer to Landing Captain America ? Fox 411 is reporting that John Krasinski is getting closer and closer to landing the title role in Marvel Studios' The First Avenger: Captain America .
According to the site, "The Office" star has appeared in front of producers repeatedly since the start of the new year and since rumors began in February:
"John has read 4 times and is doing screen tests," their source says. "He has screen tested 2 times so far. It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America. He is a favorite among the key decision makers and has been asked to come back for more this week."
The source added: "The big bosses are having him read with multiple actresses up for the female leads. They want to lock down the role and then they will narrow down everyone...
- Viggo Mortensen Joining The Talking Cure Viggo Mortensen ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) is reportedly reteaming with A History of Violence and Eastern Promises director David Cronenberg for The Talking Cure . He'll play Sigmund Freud in the film, which starts shooting on May 17.
Mortensen is replacing Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz ( Inglourious Basterds ), who will star in Water for Elephants instead.
Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, The Talking Cure is about the conflict between Freud and his pupil Jung, to be played by Michael Fassbender.
Keira Knightley will play Sabina, a disturbed young woman brought to see Jung by her father.
- Exclusive: Bong Joon-ho, All About His Mother Despite their rising prominence at festivals and among true cinephiles, Korean films have yet to find the type of success in the United States as imports from other counties, and yet, there are a couple directors whose names are held in the highest esteem among their Western peers. For a long time, Park Chan-Wook was the Korean filmmaker everyone cited, but a few years ago, Bong Joon-ho created a unique take on the monster movie called The Host , which was an enormous hit in Korea and got genre movie fans very excited for what he might do next.
It's been almost three years to the date since director Bong's film opened in the United States and now he's back with Mother , a very different movie that harks back to his earlier film Memories of Murder . It involves an overprotective...
- The Weekend Warrior: March 12 - 14 Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Tune in every Tuesday for the latest look at the upcoming weekend, and then check back on Thursday night for final projections based on actual theatre counts.
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Predictions and Comparisons -
1. Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures) - $42.3 million -64%
2. Green Zone (Universal) - $18.6 million N/A
3. She's Out of My League (Paramount/DreamWorks) - $11.5 million N/A
4. Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight) - $8.3 million N/A
5. Shutter Island (Paramount) - $7.9 million -40%
6. Remember Me (Summit...
- Gabourey Sidibe Joins Showtime's The Big C Oscar-nominee Gabourey Sidibe will make her way from the mean streets of '80s Harlem in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire to the cushy, modern-day Connecticut suburbs in the new Showtime dark comedy series, "The Big C."
Sidibe, who guest starred in the pilot episode, just signed on as a recurring guest star in the half-hour series, which is headlined by Laura Linney as Cathy, a repressed suburban wife and mother who reclaims her life after a terminal cancer diagnosis. Oliver Platt stars as her immature, but well-meaning husband.
Sidibe will play a smart-alecky student in Cathy's class.
"The Big C," which will begin shooting 13 episodes in May for a late summer premiere, is created and written by Darlene Hunt, who will serve as...
- Exclusive: Jay Baruchel on She's Out of My League Before Jay Baruchel turned 20, he was the star of Judd Apatow's short-lived college comedy show "Undeclared" and now, seven years later, he's finally achieving another even bigger breakout helped greatly by Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder , in which the lesser-known comic held his own against Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
In a few weeks, he voices the main role in DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon and over the summer he co-stars with Nicolas Cage in Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's action-fantasy The Sorcerer's Apprentice .
But first, he's got She's Out of My League , a raunchy romantic comedy that has him playing Kirk, a neurotic Pittsburgh TSA Agent who somehow manages to get the time of day from the gorgeous Molly, played by Alice Eve from...
- Tron Legacy Teaser Trailer Now Online! The teaser trailer for Tron Legacy that debuted in front of Alice in Wonderland this weekend is now online and can be watched using the player below! You can also download the trailer in High Definition QuickTime using the following links - 1080p | 720p | 480p .
Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber...
- Liam Hemsworth Cast in Arabian Nights Liam Hemsworth (upcoming The Last Song ) has been cast in director Chuck Russell's action-adventure Arabian Nights .
Written by Russell and Barry P. Ambrose, the 3D period epic centers on a young commander (Hemsworth) who, after his king is murdered in a coup, joins forces with Sinbad and Aladdin to rescue Queen Scheherazade.
Inferno Entertainment's Bill Johnson is producing with Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray of Mayhem Pictures. ROAR also is producing.
Filming is targeted for an end-of-summer start.
Liam's brother is Chris Hemsworth, who is now shooting Marvel Studios' Thor .
- New Iron Man 2 Standees and Photo! Paramount Pictures has provided us with three new standees for Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2 , the first featuring both Iron Man and War Machine, and the other two featuring the full armor for each separately, as well as a new photo. You can click on all four for bigger versions!
Opening in conventional theaters and IMAX on May 7, the Jon Favreau-directed sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg and Olivia Munn.
- Man pleads guilty in Letterman blackmail case Robert "Joe" Halderman, the former CBS News producer accused of trying to blackmail comedian David Letterman, agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to second-degree grand larceny in exchange for six months in jail, five years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
- Biden highlights close U.S.-Israeli ties on Middle East trip U.S. Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the close relationship between the United States and Israel as he met with Israeli leaders Tuesday, a visit that also touched on relations with Palestinians and Iran.
- 6 hot new spring fashion trends Here are some of the hottest new looks for the new season and the best ways to wear them:
- U.S.: Pennsylvania woman tried to recruit terrorists A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
- Double tragedy hits African football African football has been left reeling following the tragic deaths of two players in two days over the weekend, both while appearing for their clubs.
- Missing exec's body found in river, police say The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.
- Rahm Emanuel in the political cross hairs White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is accustomed to working in the shadows, but he now finds himself the subject of newspaper stories.
- 'Hurt Locker' is best picture, wins six Oscars The final score: David 6, Goliath 3.
- Activists picket at health insurance conference Progressive activists ratcheted up the pressure for health care reform Tuesday, picketing in front of a hotel where a group of insurance industry leaders were meeting.
- Same-sex couples in D.C. say 'I do' A lesbian couple together for more than a decade smiled through tears Tuesday as they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the District of Columbia, on the first day such unions are legal in the nation's capital.
- Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
- Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
- Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
- Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
- Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
- Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
- March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
- Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
- Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2 There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
- A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.