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While iOS has continued to tout its lead in native tablet apps over other platforms, there are a few cases where it lags and now Foursquare is one of them. A new update to the Android app features a new map browsing experience for tablets and large screen phones, plus improvements to the Explore feature. On the other hand, iPad users still have to deal with a stretched out version of the iPhone app for their check ins and discovery, although a fresh update there tweaks search suggestions and spellcheck in Explore. This isn't the first go round for a tablet optimized Foursquare experience on Android as the Sony Tablet S had its own app, although that was built by a third party and not fully featured.
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A pair of bag-carrying spectators at the Boston Marathon who were identified on the cover of the New York Post as possible suspects in the wake of the bombings have filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper, the Boston Globe reports.
A surveillance photo of Salaheddin Barhoum, a teenage student at Revere High School, and Yassine Zaimi, 24, appeared on the Post's front page on April 18 under the headline "Bag Men," hours before the FBI released photographs of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers suspected of carrying out the April 15 terror attack.
The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday, accuses the News Corp.-owned tabloid of "libel, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy," reports the Globe. The pair are seeking unspecified damages.
?The front page would lead a reasonable reader to believe that plaintiffs had bombs in their bags, that they were involved in causing the Boston Marathon bombing,? the complaint reads.
When the photo landed on the cover of the Post, Zaimi was called into his boss' office, where the office manager showed him a copy of the paper.
?He immediately started shaking, his mouth went dry, and he felt as though he was having a panic attack,? the complaint said.
When Barhoum was shown the paper, he "began to shake and sweat, and felt dizzy and nauseous.?
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"It's the worst feeling that I can possibly feel," Barhoum told ABC News on April 18.
Barhoum, a track athlete, said he wanted to run the marathon but couldn't, so he decided to watch the April 15 race instead.
The day before the Post cover came out, photos of Barhoum and Zaimi were circulated by online message boards in the frenzy to help the FBI identify the bombing suspects. Friends alerted them to the cyberhunt, and they decided to go to police to clear their names. "Authorities questioned both men, then told them they were not suspects," the Globe said.
According to ABC News, federal authorities did pass "around images of Barhoum, attempting to learn more information about him." But it's unclear whether that was before or after the Post ran with the story.
The paper was widely criticized for putting out an erroneous all points bulletin, but Post editor Col Allan was unapologetic.
"We stand by our story," Allan said in a statement. "The image was emailed to law enforcement agencies yesterday afternoon seeking information about these men, as our story reported. We did not identify them as suspects."
The Post subsequently published a separate online story reporting that Barhoum and his friend had been cleared: "The two men whose photos were being circulated internally among police have been cleared as authorities determined that neither man had any role in the Boston Marathon bombings."
El Houssein Barhoum, Salah's father, told the Washington Post last month that his family was considering a lawsuit.
?We were just scared to go outside,? he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bag-men-sue-york-post-154133149.html
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Fans of HBO's "Game of Thrones" are still reeling from last week's Red Wedding shocker, in which the often unlucky Stark clan got a bit unluckier (and smaller), but they shouldn't look to author George R.R. Martin for sympathy.
The man behind the "Song of Ice and Fire" tales simply laughed when late night host Conan O'Brien showed a video clip jam-packed with extreme fan reactions that were captured as the episode aired.
"Of course, all of those clips were set up by people who had read the books 13 years ago and knew what was coming and wanted their friends and relatives and loved ones to do that," a clearly amused Martin said of the roundup. "I saw one of them saying, in a comment, 'Now you know why your nerdy friends were really depressed 13 years ago.'"
But what about the ones who are depressed today? As O'Brien pointed out, Martin has a way of getting "us to really care about characters, love them, think that they're central to everything" before brutally killing them. And it's tough stuff to watch.
The writer, who pens those murderous moments because that's just what he likes in a story, saves his sympathy for the actors on the show.
"There was one actress -- I won't say her name -- who, at (the season premiere) party, said 'Oh, please don't kill me! Please don't kill me! I don't want to die. I love doing this show.' And I know she does die, so? ."
Ouch.
"I felt very, very, very guilty," he admitted. "It's one thing to kill these characters when they're just people on paper. But when you actually meet the actors who portray them, and you know you're making people unemployed, it does bring up a certain amount of guilt feelings."
Find out if the author has anything else to feel guilty about when the season finale of "Game of Thrones" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/game-thrones-author-laughs-fan-reactions-red-wedding-6C10225159
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June 4, 2013 ? The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique "living fossil," without close relatives among other living frogs.
The Hula painted frog was catalogued within the Discoglossus group when it was first discovered in the Hula Valley of Israel in the early 1940s. The frog was thought to have disappeared following the drying up of the Hula Lake at the end of the 1950s, and was declared extinct by the IUCN in 1996. As a result, the opportunity to discover more about this species' history, biology and ecology was thought to have disappeared.
However, a team of Israeli, German and French researchers now report in the scientific journal Nature Communications on an in-depth scientific analysis of this enigmatic amphibian.
Based on new genetic analyses of rediscovered individuals and the morphologic analyses of extant and fossil bones, the conclusion is that the Hula frog differs strongly from its other living relatives, the painted frogs from northern and western Africa. Instead, the Hula frog is related to a genus of fossil frogs, Latonia, which were found over much of Europe dating back to prehistoric periods and has been considered extinct for about a million years,
The results imply that the Hula painted frog is not merely another rare species of frog, but is actually the sole representative of an ancient clade of frogs (a group with a single common ancestor).
Plans to reflood parts of the Hula Valley and restore the original swamp habitat are in place, which may allow expansion in population size and a secure future for the Hula painted frog.
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