Is a pro version of the Optimus G2 on tap?(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)A newer and beefier version of LG's Optimus G could be coming to town, at least to someone's town.A leaked slide sent to blog site Engadget teased a host of details about the Optimus G Pro. If the slide is on the money, the new smartphone would sport a 5-inch 1,920 x 1,080 pixel display and tap into a 1.7Ghz Qualcomm quad-core Snapdragon...
Opinion: Lance One of Many Tour de France Cheaters
Label: Health Editor's note: England-based writer and photographer Roff Smith rides around 10,000 miles a year through the lanes of Sussex and Kent and writes a cycling blog at: www.my-bicycle-and-I.co.ukAnd so, the television correspondent said to the former Tour de France champion, a man who had been lionised for years, feted as the greatest cyclist of his day, did you ever use drugs in the course...
Manti Te'o's Fake Girlfriend May Have Duped Others
Label: Business Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend "Lennay Kekua" may have hoaxed other unsuspecting suitors."Catfish" movie director and actor Ariel Schulman told "Good Morning America" today that he believes there may have been "a few other people duped by the fake Lennay character."Schulman and his brother Nev Schulman have been looking into the elaborate scam and claim...
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Battle of the bottle: How to curb overindulgers
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Airbus lost top spot to Boeing in 2012
Label: Technology TOULOUSE, France - European group Airbus lost its top spot as the world's biggest maker of airliners to the US giant Boeing last year, but did better than expected and sees big sales this year, it said on Thursday.Publishing results just as Boeing is hit by a crisis of confidence in its Dreamliner plane after a series of incidents, Airbus said that last year it delivered 588 aircraft to...
Playboy hit with $160,000 fine over child restrictions
Label: LifestylePlayboy has been hit with a hefty fine for allegedly making it too easy for children to access pornographic material on its Web sites.Ofcom, the U.K.'s communications regulator and competition authority, announced yesterday that it has fined Playboy 100,000 British pounds ($160,200) for failing to include "acceptable controls" ensuring a person viewing pornographic material on Playboy TV and Demand...
6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You
Label: HealthPhotograph by AP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezThe planet keeps getting hotter, new data showed this week. Especially in America, where 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded, by far. Every few years, the U.S. federal government engages hundreds of experts to assess the impacts of climate change, now and in the future. From agriculture (pictured) to infrastructure to how humans consume energy, the National...
Notre Dame: Football Star Was 'Catfished' in Hoax
Label: Business Notre Dame's athletic director and the star of its near-championship football team said the widely-reported death of the star's girlfriend from leukemia during the 2012 football season was apparently a hoax, and the player said he was duped by it as well.Manti Te'o, who led the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship game this year and finished second for the Heisman Trophy,...
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Why trees can't grow taller than 100 metres
Label: World TYPICALLY, the taller the tree, the smaller its leaves. The mathematical explanation for this phenomenon, it turns out, also sets a limit on how tall trees can grow. Kaare Jensen of Harvard University and Maciej Zwieniecki of the...
Panel makes recommendations to raise quality of financial advisory industry
Label: Technology SINGAPORE : Singaporeans planning to buy insurance products can look forward to paying lower costs. This comes after the Financial Advisory Industry Review Panel made a slew of recommendations to raise the quality and efficiency of the financial advisory industry.They include proposals aimed at lowering the distribution costs of insurance products. The panel reviewing the financial advisory...
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