According to a report by Juniper Networks, mobile malware has grown by 614 percent over the last year. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, 92 percent of it is on Android...
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KAESONG, North Korea -- The remains of a fortress that once surrounded Kaesong, the ancient capital of Korea's Koryo Dynasty, is among sites in North Korea that made it onto UNESCO's World Heritage list on Sunday.
North Korea's bid to have the sites added to the list was approved at a UNESCO meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Kaesong, located just north of the border with South Korea, was the capital of the kingdom that ruled Korea from 918 to 1392. It's also where the two Koreas ran a joint factory park until tensions forced its closure in April.
Twelve sites added include the ruins of the Manwoldae palace; a 1,000-year-old academy that was the top school during that era; relics housed at a museum at the school; and the mausoleum of King Kongmin.
"These valuable cultural relics are the pride of our nation and they are precious cultural relics that show the long history of our nation," Kim Jin Sok, a researcher at Kaesong City Management Office for Preserving National Heritage, told The Associated Press. "Also these relics, some preserved for very long periods, are well known as relics with which we can stand proud in the eyes of the world."
A complex in North Korea of ancient tombs from a previous kingdom won heritage status in 2004.
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Sarah Murnaghan, 10, has woken from a coma after receiving a double lung transplant.
A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who was given a double-lung transplant after a national debate about organ donation has come out of a coma, according to reports late Friday.
Sarah Murnaghan was able to respond to questions, a family spokesperson told NBC10.com.
She received her new lungs on June 12, after spending three months at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with end-stage cystic fibrosis.
Sarah, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, became the subject of national media headlines when her parents sued over national transplant rules that place children behind adolescents and adults on the list for adult lungs.
U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson intervened, ordering that Sarah be put on the adult list, where the urgency of her case led to a match days later.
The transplant isn't a cure for cystic fibrosis, but it can extend her life by years.
Family spokesperson Tracy Simon said Sarah woke from the coma on Friday and was responding to simple questions by nodding to indicate yes or no, The Associated Press reported.
Simon added Sarah was doing well but was frustrated by her inability to speak.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Last week, I spent a little time in Russia talking to smart European startups and getting a feel for what?s happening in Russia?s growing startup scene.
While in Moscow, I also stopped by the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines to get a look back at an alternate gaming history that most Americans (including myself) aren?t familiar with. The museum contains a mix of working and defunct arcade machines, and it?s now the largest public collection of mid-1970s arcade games manufactured in the Soviet Union.
Back in 2007, three friends ? Aleksandr Stakhanov, Maxim Pinigin, and Aleksandr Wugman ? were inspired to find a working unit of Morskoi Boi (Sea Battle), a highly popular submarine arcade game from their childhood. Eventually they found a unit, tried to fix it, and ultimately broke it beyond repair.
?We literally took that first machine to the scrapyard,? Stakhanov told the Moscow Times recently. ?But after that particular experience, we knew if we didn?t collect the arcade machines and put them together in a museum, then they would end up disappearing completely,?
Later, the trio started getting better at restoring these old machines and finding workarounds to replace parts that don?t exist anymore. But it?s still hard to keep these machines in order.
?On average, three-quarters of the machines will be working at any given time,? Stakhanov said. ?They all break down sporadically, and the repair process can often take quite a while. We repair, they break: repair, break, repair, break ? it?s a constant process.?
I tried most of the games at the museum and found myself pleasantly surprised with their quality. These games may not be as advanced as arcade staples like Donkey Kong or Tetris, but they have a soul. If this has been my first arcade when I was a child, I would?ve had a lot of fun.
While one might think these games were designed with U.S.S.R. propaganda in mind, most certainly did not feel like it. None of the games features the U.S.A. on the opposite side. These games were designed for current tastes ? racing, shooting, hockey, basketball, soccer, and other sports are all covered. A few games included submarines and tanks, but it hardly felt like they were instilling any ?values.?
My favorite game was Winter Hunt [above], a game where you attempt to shoot rabbits and other animals in the snow. It felt like a precursor to games like Big Buck Hunter, but it was much more analog. There are dark shapes that look like animals on a large screen. When an animal shape lights up on the screen, you need to shoot it before it ?runs away.?
Another great game was Snake, which reminded me quite a bit of that other Snake. In this version, you play a snake roaming a field trying to eat rabbits (what?s with all this rabbit violence?) and avoid running into crops and your own body. It was surprisingly difficult, with the rabbits often jumping out the way just as you approach.
Take a look at the gallery below to see the many types of Soviet-era arcade games are at the museum.
Photos via Sean Ludwig/VenutureBeat
Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/14/soviet-arcade-machines/
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Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from various U.S. government entities in 2012's second half, involving 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts, the world's largest social network said Friday.
Microsoft Corp said that in the same period it received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 consumer accounts from local, state and federal U.S. governmental entities.
The companies said they released the information after reaching agreements about disclosures with U.S. national security authorities.
Several Internet companies have struck an agreement with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
The agreements underscore the pressure imposed on the U.S. government and Internet companies after news leaked last week of a controversial National Security Agency program involving surveillance of foreigners. The disclosure of that program triggered concern about the scope and extent of the information-gathering exercise.
Other Internet companies are expected to release numbers of government requests without breaking out how many originate from the National Security Agency, the sources said.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have publicly urged the U.S. government to allow them to reveal the number and scope of the surveillance requests they receive, including confidential requests made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Google declined to comment.
Ted Ullyot, Facebook general counsel, wrote on the site's blog late Friday:
Since this story was first reported, we?ve been in discussions with U.S. national security authorities urging them to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to comply with. We?re pleased that as a result of our discussions, we can now include in a transparency report all U.S. national security-related requests (including FISA as well as National Security Letters) ? which until now no company has been permitted to do. As of today, the government will only authorize us to communicate about these numbers in aggregate, and as a range. This is progress, but we?re continuing to push for even more transparency, so that our users around the world can understand how infrequently we are asked to provide user data on national security grounds.
Ullyot wrote that for the six months ending Dec. 31, 2012, the "total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests) ? was between 9,000 and 10,000."
Those requests, he said, "run the gamut ? from things like a local sheriff trying to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to a police department investigating an assault, to a national security official investigating a terrorist threat. The total number of Facebook user accounts for which data was requested pursuant to the entirety of those" 9,000 to 10,000 requests was "between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts."
With more than 1 billion users worldwide, "This means that a tiny fraction of one percent of our user accounts were the subject of any kind of U.S. state, local, or federal U.S. government request (including criminal and national security-related requests) in the past six months," he wrote.
In a blog post on a company website, Microsoft said its agreement with the FBI and the Department of Justice allowed it to report FISA orders and directives, "but only if aggregated with law enforcement requests from all other U.S. local, state and federal law enforcement agencies; only for the six-month period of July 1, 2012 thru December 31, 2012; only if the totals are presented in bands of 1,000; and all Microsoft consumer services had to be reported together."
The post, by vice president and deputy general counsel John Frank, concluded: "Transparency alone may not be enough to restore public confidence, but it?s a great place to start."
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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OS X Mavericks is the first OS X build to be named for something other than a big cat (Apple has run out of feline names, so they're switching to place names). it takes its name from a popular big wave surfing spot in northern California, not too far away from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. And indeed, Mac users will be catching some big waves when Mavericks makes its way into the Mac App Store this fall.
Mavericks' claim to fame (the place, not the OS) is the giant waves it produces - 25 to 80 feet high, the biggest in California. They happen when the wind and the water interact with an unusual rocky reef formation under the surface.
Some of the most important changes to OS X Mavericks are also under the surface, where Apple has emphasized dramatically improved power and memory management. Apple sells more laptops than desktops, so it's no wonder the company wants to make Mavericks as thoroughly optimized as possible for the MacBook Air and Pro experience. But all users will benefit.
Timer Coalescing, App Nap, and Safari Power Saver are all new Mavericks features designed to extend battery life. Timer Coalescing enables the CPU to drop into low power mode more frequently, while App Nap intelligently observes what an app hidden behind other windows is doing. And if the app isn't running background tasks that need to stay active - playing music, for example, or processing data - App Nap slows it down, thus conserving juice. Similarly, Safari Power Saver helps to reduce Safari's power consumption by not loading cycle-sucking plug-in content until you actually want to watch or interact with it.
iTunes HD is another place in Mavericks where power reduction has been emphasized. The new version more efficiently uses the graphics hardware inside the Mac, reduces disk access and makes audio playback more energy-efficient - that adds up to up to 35 percent less waste than before when playing video, says Apple.
It's easy to open a bunch of apps and a bunch of windows without thinking about how that impacts your Mac's available memory. Mavericks introduces Compressed Memory - it compresses data from inactive apps, making more memory available when it's needed.
This reduces the size of swap files that need to be written out to disk when physical memory is short. Smaller swap files mean less disk access, which translates into improved performance. How improved? Apple is estimating that Maverick's responsiveness under load is about 1.4x better than Mountain Lion. Waking from Standby mode sees an even bigger benefit: 1.5x better than Mountain Lion.
Some of these new technologies will require buy-in from developers to get the most benefit, so it's good that Apple's providing developer builds of Mavericks now and giving Mac devs time to optimize before the OS is released this fall. We'll all benefit from the changes once they're here.
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June 11, 2013 ? Scientists have discovered highly asymmetric and branched patterns are the result of physical forces and local instabilities. The research has important implications for understanding biofilms and multicellular systems.
Despite bacterial colonies always forming circular shapes as they grow, their cells form internal divisions which are highly asymmetrical and branched. These fractal (self-similar) patterns are due to the physical forces and local instabilities that are a natural part of bacterial cell growth, a new study reveals. The research, published in the scientific journal ACS Synthetic Biology, has important implications for the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Using a combination of genetic, microscopy and computational tools, Cambridge scientists created a system for examining the development of multicellular bacterial populations. After marking bacteria by inserting genes for different coloured proteins, the researchers used high resolution microscopes to examine the growth of bacterial populations in detail. They discovered that as bacteria grow the cell populations naturally form striking and unexpected branching patterns called fractals. The scientists then used large-scale computer models to explore the patterning process.
They showed that as each bacterium grows in a single direction, lines or files of cells are formed, but these files are unstable to small disturbances. As large numbers of cells push and shove against each other, mechanical instability leads to buckling and folding of cell files. This is repeated as the cells continue to grow and divide, leading to the formation of rafts of aligned cells arranged in self-similar branching patterns, or fractals.
These microscopic fractal patterns emerge spontaneously from physical interactions between the large number of cells within the population. This was tested by looking at the interactions between twin cell populations and a mutant bacterium that has a round shape (where this behaviour is not observed).
Dr Jim Haseloff, from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the study, said: "Vivid biological patterns emerge from even subtle interactions. Similar phenomena are seen in the emergence of order in economic, social and political systems.
"The behaviour of large populations can be hard to predict, but the work has resulted in the validation of fast and accurate computer models that provide a test bed for reprogramming of multicellular systems."
Synthetic Biology is a new field that brings engineering principles to biology to reprogram living systems using DNA. It is has the potential to create a new generation of sustainable technologies, with the prospect of new forms of materials and energy produced by biological feedstocks and recycling of waste. As synthetic biologists are starting to reprogram the behaviour of large populations of cells in order to explore new forms of self-organisation and function, this study will have important implications for their research.
Dr Haseloff added: "This is an experimental system that can capture the physics, cellularity and genetics of growth in a simple system -- and which allows a new type of 'emergence in a test-tube' approach.
"Also, it provides a new insight into the way cell populations may interact during the early formation of medically important bacterial populations or biofilms, and produce irregular boundaries for invasive growth and increased surface contact. This could have important implications for understanding the formation of these biofilms, and for engineering new biofilms in biotechnology."
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/8itTJGWiQ-I/130611084115.htm
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To accommodate newly introduced MacBook Airs that ship with 802.11ac "Gigabit WiFi" capabilities and Apple's forthcoming redesigned Mac Pro, Apple also introduced a new AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule at WWDC this week. This is the first update to the AirPort Extreme in several years and the first complete redesign since Apple moved from the UFO shape of the original to the Mac mini-like beveled rectangle, so it's worth taking a closer look at what makes the new products worthwhile.
First, let's start with the name: "Base Station" has been excised; Apple now calls it simply "AirPort Extreme" (perhaps to simplify and better align with the AirPort Express, which remains unchanged - it's still an 802.11n-capable box that can hook up to a stereo system and stream audio as well as route data for a small wireless network group).
It's been two years since the AirPort Extreme was last revised, and it's undergone some major changes - the flat box style, cribbed from Apple's Mac mini and measuring 6.5 inches on a side, is gone, and replaced with a smaller but taller cuboid design - 3.85 inches on a side and 6.6 inches tall. It's also about half a pound heavier, weighing in at 2.08 pounds.
The biggest difference, outside of the industrial design and name, is the new networking technology that's under the hood: AirPort Extreme supports 802.11ac, backwards compatible with earlier WiFi protocols but on its own capable of transmitting up to 1.3 gigabits per second - almost three times faster than the rating for its predecessor. Inside the box are six antennas, which Apple describes as a "beamforming antenna array."
The antennas can broadcast simultaneous dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands, just as before. And Apple says the AirPort Extreme can support up to 50 users simultaneously, just as before. Also unchanged are the ports on the back of the device: A Gigabit Ethernet WAN port, three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, and one USB 2.0 port, to support a printer or external hard drive.
The price has risen for the new device by $20, to $199.
Just as with the previous generation, the new AirPort Time Capsule uses the same industrial design as the new AirPort Extreme. The Time Capsule is designed for users who want to easily backup data from their Macs over the network using Time Machine, OS X's built-in backup software.
The networking specs and interface port array of the AirPort Time Capsule is identical to the AirPort Extreme; what's different is the hard drive inside. Just as before, the AirPort Time Capsule is available in 2TB and 3TB capacities, but there's been a price realignment: the 2TB model is still $299, but the 3TB model has dropped $100 to $399 - a better value for users looking for maximum Time Machine backup storage capacity.
Even if you haven't put in an order for a new MacBook Air yet, if you haven't jumped on the Time Capsule bandwagon, now's a better time than ever because of the cheaper big version. It'll work with all the older WiFi gear you have in the house, plus you'll be future-proofing yourself a bit for 802.11ac when you're ready.
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Lebanese bread topped with za'atar, a spice mix ubiquitous in the Middle East.
Photostock Israel/Getty ImagesLebanese bread topped with za'atar, a spice mix ubiquitous in the Middle East.
Photostock Israel/Getty ImagesNPR Morning Edition Host Steve Inskeep recently traveled to Damascus for a series of reports on the ongoing war in Syria. He sent this postcard from the road.
Dear Salt:
On my first day in Damascus, I went walking in the ancient bazaar ? narrow stone-paved streets surrounding a great stone mosque. The mosque is so old, it used to be a church during the Roman Empire, and before it was a church, it was a pagan temple. The bazaar is surely as old as the mosque, for Damascus is a historic city of trade.
My colleague Nishant Dahiya directed me toward an incredible aroma he'd detected at the door of a spice shop. I bent down and sniffed the gray stuff. It was oregano. It filled a bag about the size of a 5-gallon gas can. The smell was strong but not hot, rich but sharp. The shopkeeper, noting my appreciation, grabbed a scoop and put a little on my hand to taste.
Some days later, we were exceedingly hungry while driving on a highway outside Homs. Our driver, Neda, pulled over at a roadside stand. "They have za'atar," she said. Nishant knew exactly what she meant. I'd never heard the word.
Three men lounged on plastic chairs at the stand, which was right by the highway median, in a clearing in the bushes. One worked a black baking oven. I never found out what the other two did. A glass case held several of the round, flat Middle Eastern flatbreads called khubz. Some were smeared with cheese, some with a paprika sauce, and some with za'atar. I chose the latter two, and the man shoved them into the hot coal oven with a paddle ? the way an Italian cook might insert a pizza.
The paddle was one of only two special utensils the cook used. The other utensil was a common tree saw, with an orange handle, absolutely identical to the one in my storage closet at home. I presume he used the saw to hack down roadside trees to feed the fire.
When the bread emerged, I smelled an incredible aroma that I knew I had experienced somewhere before. After a moment, the image came to me: Damascus, the bazaar, the great bag of oregano just a few days ago.
"It has other ingredients, too," said Nishant. "Sesame seeds crushed into it." He said it's eaten all over the Middle East.
I immediately wanted to write you about this, Salt, but Nishant discouraged me. He said za'atar is far too common to be interesting. He reacted as if I had proposed to ask you the story behind ketchup. And this made me wonder: What is the story of ketchup?
But I digress. Over the hours that followed, it became apparent that Nishant might just be right. It seemed that I was the only person around who did not know from za'atar. Completely by chance, I heard from a friend in Pakistan who loves it. Then the subject came up over dinner in Damascus, and a friend informed us that when she was growing up, she was urged at school exam time to "Eat your za'atar!" Apparently, some people think it's brain food.
Anyway, the roadside serving of za'atar on bread was an astonishingly simple food, simple enough to love it. The za'atar was just spread over the hot bread like butter on toast. That was it. I'd eat it again. While I wait to encounter it again, Salt, here's what I want to know: Where does za'atar come from? How long has it been around? What, besides oregano, is in it?
And is it brain food?
? Steve
The medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher Maimonides: This famously brainy guy certainly thought za'atar was good for what ails you.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher Maimonides: This famously brainy guy certainly thought za'atar was good for what ails you.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesDear Steve,
Eaten in the Middle East for centuries, za'atar has a fascinating history. The word refers both to the alluring spice mixture that you encountered, and to the wild oregano from which the mix derives (the latter za'atar, by the way, makes several appearances in the Bible).
Just what's in your za'atar depends, in part, on where you are in the Mideast. But generally speaking, it involves some combination of ground dried oregano, thyme or marjoram, ground sumac, toasted sesame seeds and often, salt.
As for za'atar's reputation as health food, that goes way back, too. In the 12th century, the great Spanish Jewish philosopher Maimonides is said to have prescribed it to his patients to treat a variety of ailments.
Modern studies into za'atar confirm that Maimonides was really onto something. Sumac is full of flavonoids, and thyme and oregano are both packed with thymol, an essential oil, and carvacrol, a phenol. Both thymol and carvacrol have antioxidant, antiseptic and fungicide properties. Thymol has also been shown to help control coughing fits in patients with bronchitis (which might explain why Maimonides recommended za'atar to treat colds).
But is za'atar brain food? Well, there's this tantalizing tidbit about carvacrol: At least in mice, it seems to travel from the blood into the brain relatively easily. Researchers are really just beginning to explore what it does once it gets there. For example, a study published this May found that, when administered orally to rats, carvacrol affected levels of the neurotransmitters dopamine ? which plays a key role in the brain's rewards system ? and serotonin, which is important to learning and mood.
But don't use that as an excuse to gorge nonstop on za'atar. We're talking rodents here. As they say in science: More research is needed.
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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions on Tuesday about the company's slumping stock price during the No. 1 social networking company's first shareholder meeting since its rocky initial public offering last May.
Zuckerberg, who has presided over a 37 percent decline in the stock since its debut at $38, said he believed Facebook was on the right path toward long-term success, even though he was disappointed with its performance on Wall Street.
Nothing "has made me really think that the fundamental strategy is wrong or that what we're building isn't valuable," the 29-year-old Facebook co-founder said at the event at a hotel in Millbrae, California.
In what Zuckerberg acknowledged had become a "theme" of the meeting, several Facebook shareholders complained during the question-and-answer session about how they had suffered from the stock's decline. They shared personal anecdotes about buying the stock with high hopes, and sought guidance on whether they might ever recoup their losses.
Facebook, with about 1.1 billion users, became the first U.S. company to debut on stock markets with a value of more than $100 billion. But aside from its first day of trading, its shares have never traded above their offering price.
The company has scrambled to address one of the main concerns weighing on the stock price, by developing mobile ads better suited to small smartphone screens that users increasingly use to access the service.
Mobile ads account for 30 percent of Facebook's ad revenue. But revenue growth remains sharply below that of two years ago, and the popularity of new mobile apps aimed at younger users has raised concerns that Facebook may risk losing its grip on consumers.
Zuckerberg said Facebook would continue to grow alongside newer, rival services.
"None of the trends that we see right now seem like they should get in the way of our success in any meaningful way," he said.
He noted at another point during the event that the amount of "likes" and comments that users post on the service "has gone up per person about 50 percent" during the past year.
Zuckerberg also reiterated previous comments that Facebook does not give the National Security Agency direct access to its servers or user data. This was in response to reports in the Guardian and the Washington Post last week about a secret government program to collect data from leading Internet companies.
"No one has every approached us to do anything like what was reported," Zuckerberg said.
Shares of Facebook closed 1.2 percent lower at $24.03 on Nasdaq amid a broad decline in the market.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-tackles-stock-price-complaints-1st-shareholder-meeting-011414108.html
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We've been hearing mumblings that the next version of Android will get a new Bluetooth stack with v4.0 Low Energy (LE) goodness for a while now. That, at least, explains why the Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus have been re-sent through the Bluetooth SIG in order to gain approval for the newer standard. What's less clear is what the ASUS K008, an apparently new 7-inch slate from the company, is doing supporting v4.0 LE. Our dour belief is that ASUS is merely future-proofing its forthcoming MeMo Pad HD 7, but perhaps "K008" is optimistic latin for "second-generation Nexus 7 with Android 4.3."
Via: Android Community, PocketNow
Source: Bluetooth SIG, (2)
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You shouldn't text and drive, but iOS in the car is aiming to make phone usage on the go a little less deadly.
Powered by Siri?with updates including integration for settings, and (Bing-powered) web searches as well as 3rd party apps like Twitter, and Wikipedia?iOS in the car is about as close to an Apple vehicle as you're going to get.
It seems promising and details are sparse, but the system is probably little more than piping your phone to a custom dashboard display, so all the real heavy lifting will fall on Siri.
You're not going to be able to use it quite yet though; you'll have to wait until 2014 when compatible cars with the right kind of built-in screens start hitting the market, but Apple's already got some heavy hitters on board.
Now if only it'd drive for you too. But no word on that...yet.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/ios-in-the-car-is-putting-apple-behind-the-wheel-512346837
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) ? Court records allege years of turmoil between the parents of the young man who fatally shot five people in Santa Monica, Calif., last week.
Documents obtained Monday quote the mother of John Zawahri (zuh-WAH'-ree) describing his father as "verbally abusive and controlling" during their marriage.
The father sought divorce in 1993, and his mother was working on divorce papers in 1998.
Zawahri's mother also requested a restraining order against her husband in 1998.
After a separation, the mother claimed her husband threatened to take their two young sons to Canada, struck her and stole her divorce papers. She said she was afraid to press charges. Her restraining order request was dismissed when she missed a court hearing.
Zawahri fatally shot his father, brother and three other victims on Friday.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/records-show-past-turmoil-calif-gunmans-home-183039133.html
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Get some high-quality web browsing done this week with today's first app worth downloading, Next Browser. It includes speedy browsing speeds and tons of cool features. Following that is ArtFlow, a tablet drawing app that packs lots of features, especially if you upgrade to the ?pro? version. Finally, there's an update to Minecraft ? Pocket Edition, the survival adventure and creation game.
What?s it about? Next Browser prides itself on speed and ease of use, providing a web experience that's quick, simple and highly convenient.
What?s cool? There are a lot of browser alternatives in the Google Play Store, and it can be hard for any one browser to stand apart from the others. Next Browser tries to make its mark by being easy to use and full of convenient features. It includes a speed dial function that lets user quickly pop open their favorite, most-visited sites, an easy search function that makes finding what you're looking for easy, and even supports voice for firing up your web searches. You also get browser extensions, tabbed browsing, and the ability to sync your bookmarks, among other items.
Who?s it for? Android users in the market for a new browser get a lot of cool options and features with Next Browser.
What?s it like? Check out Opera Browser and Dolphin Browser for a couple of great browsing alternatives on Android.
What?s it about? Tablet sketch and paint app ArtFlow lets you turn your Android device into a drawing pad with a number of cool features.
What?s cool? You've probably seen drawing apps before for your Android devices, but the thing that sets ArtFlow apart is the scope of its features, especially in the paid ?pro? version. The app includes the ability to undo actions, draw and paint on multiple levels, and access to tons of different brushes and other elements to get exactly what you want out of your drawings. The free version of the app includes a fair amount of tools and capabilities, but you'll get way more out of the paid version, including the ability to export your finished works as .PSD files.
Who?s it for? Digital artists will find a lot of utility in ArtFlow, both in the paid and free versions.
What?s it like? Check out SketchBook Ink and Sketch n Draw Photo Pad for more drawing on your Android devices.
What?s it about? Another update to Minecraft ? Pocket Edition adds more features to bring the mobile version of the indie darling more into line with its PC counterpart.
What?s cool? Minecraft has appealed to millions of players because of its two-fold gameplay. It's a game about surviving, with players searching a procedurally generated world, building houses and making tools, in order to survive the night, when deadly monsters begin to roam the world. But it's also a game about creation, and allows players to make detailed creations and even work together with other players in both modes. Minecraft ? Pocket Edition still isn't quite as full-featured as the PC original, but continual updates keep adding more great features. The latest additions are things like buckets and other tools, new textures, bug fixes and more that make the game even more immersive.
Who?s it for? Fans of Minecraft on PC or players who want to explore a deep and interesting game world should check out Pocket Edition.
What?s it like? Try some similar (sometimes even slightly clone-like) titles, such as Block Story and DroidCraft.
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