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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Siri six months later: Community report card
Siri, the iPhone 4S' flagship feature has been on the market now for 6 months. On one hand, Siri is absolutely amazing -- the first real virtual personal assistant with a personality right out of Pixar. On the other hand, Siri is obviously still in beta and often fails or works just enough to frustrate more than any outright failure. That makes it an odd choice for a flagship feature, but given the lack of a physical redesign and the obvious potential for awesome demos, rightly or wrongly, Siri was what Apple had to work with. But does it work for us?
About that new BlackBerry 10 keyboard
If you're interested in smartphone tech, you've surely been peeking at CrackBerry checking out all the BlackBerry World coverage. It's OK, we've been checking it out, too. The folks over there are killing it with the coverage. What seems to have impressed people the most is the new on-screen keyboard we're seeing in BlackBerry 10 devices. It has awesome text prediction, uses gestures, and is a step in the right direction when compared to RIM's previous software keyboard options. Surepress. *shudder*
Well, it should look good, as well as look pretty familiar -- we're certain we've seen it before. I'll come right out and say it. RIM is using technology from SwiftKey in their new keyboard, if not in the physical layout, then at least in the prediction engine. Our scientific testing all but proves it, and yesterday's video confirms our suspicions. But it's a good thing. Of all the software keyboards out there, we think SwiftKey would be the one to use if given a choice. Tie it deep into the OS, and we imagine the fellows from England can work magic with it. Hit the break, and have a look for yourself. And be sure to keep an eye on CrackBerry to find out all there is to know about BlackBerry World 2012.
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Glimpse of Wash. bunker: Candy, beans and blood
King County Sheriff's Sgt. Jesse Anderson peers into a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, Monday, April 30, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
King County Sheriff's Sgt. Jesse Anderson peers into a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, Monday, April 30, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Journalists and officials peer around a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, Monday, April 30, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Journalists and officials peer into the top of a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, Monday, April 30, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Debris left behind can be seen while looking down into the top of a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, Monday, April 30, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
This Monday, April 30, 2012 photo shows the lower exit of a multi-level bunker dug into the side of a remote ridge where murder suspect Peter Keller died days earlier, near North Bend, Wash. Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Police pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, after 22 hours, set off explosives along the top of the bunker Saturday. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) ? Peter Keller had put bullets in his wife and his daughter, his cat and his dog. He didn't want to be found.
But Troy Chaffee knew where to look for him. From photos discovered at Keller's home, King County sheriff's detectives deduced that he probably headed into the Cascade Mountains, to Rattlesnake Ridge, a tall hump of forested rock where he'd spent the past eight years building a remote bunker, an emergency shelter in the event of who knows what.
Chaffee, an experienced tracker and bomb technician with the sheriff's office, figured that just maybe Keller entered the woods near a water tower by North Bend. No trails there, but it seemed a likely spot.
It was last Thursday, four days after Keller's wife, Lynnettee, and 18-year-old daughter, Kaylene, were found shot dead in their burning home. The 41-year-old Keller, a survivalist, hadn't been seen since. He was on the loose, and ? judging by the rifles missing from his home ? heavily armed.
Chaffee had little interest in getting picked off, or in tipping the hand of detectives. He and another deputy, a woman with tracking experience, decided to go incognito. They dressed like any Seattleites out for a day trip. Red backpack, light hiking pants, rain hat. The only differences were the handcuffs and extra ammunition tucked away in the backpack.
Heading into the woods by the water tower, they knew they wouldn't be able to track the way they usually do, on hands and knees, examining every boot print and twig. Somewhere above them was Keller, with a high-powered rifle, scope and binoculars. Instead, they'd observe the ground while walking and standing, and chat as any couple might.
One step into the woods, Chaffee knew someone had been there. Recently. By his fourth step, he knew it was Keller. There were small leaves in the dimpled, muddy earth. They were torn, but the tears were fresh: They hadn't browned or healed. On the leaves were specks of dirt: They hadn't been washed off, so must have been left before the last rain ? sometime overnight or early that morning. The prints appeared to come from military-style boots.
"Four steps in, we're going up a creek, up an area no one else would go up," Chaffee recalled Monday. "It's steep, it's treacherous, the footing is dangerous, there's no trails, it's at night. That's somebody who's hiding, who doesn't want to be seen. Makes sense that it's him."
He relayed the information back to the detectives using his cellphone. Keller probably had a scanner ? can't risk using the radio.
It was the final confirmation the detectives needed. They already had the photo, taken from the bunker, showing the North Bend outlet stores in the distance, and reports from hikers who remembered seeing Keller's faded red pickup truck at the Rattlesnake Ridge trail head. With the tracks, they knew for sure he was somewhere in the area of this creek, swollen with early spring rains.
At daybreak the next morning, dozens of SWAT officers from Seattle and King County swarmed the mountainside, their faces streaked with camouflage paint. They slogged for seven hours, sometimes on hands and knees through steep, muddy terrain, thick with cedars, spruce, ferns and salal. They could smell the smoke from the bunker's woodstove, a converted aluminum trash can, before they could see it.
Keller was inside.
Down below, reporters drove to Rattlesnake Ridge and found the trails closed. Sheriff's officials asked them not to broadcast news of the search: Keller certainly had a radio, and if he knew officers were closing in, he might get out his scope and start shooting. The reporters kept quiet.
The SWAT officers fired in tear gas but failed to flush the 41-year-old Keller.
His bunker ? toured by a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press on Monday ? comprised 2 1/2 levels. Remnants of tear gas, along with bleach used to clean up the blood, stung the throat.
Keller had excavated a giant horseshoe-shaped gash in the side of the ravine, hacking into the bedrock in some places. He downed trees, 15 inches in diameter, that had been growing for half a century, skinned them of bark and split them lengthwise, apparently using a chainsaw. With 18-inch lag screws and 10-inch nails, he fashioned a sort of underground log cabin, surrounded by emerald ferns and whips of spruce trailing their needles overhead.
The bunker's lower level was a long, narrow hall, the width of his wingspan, where he stashed bottles of water and Coke, lined neatly on shelves. There was a clear plastic jug of beans; a sealed bucket of barley, with silicone packets to suck out unwanted moisture; a bucket of candy ? 100 Grand bars were a favorite. There was a generator, PVC pipe for water, and extra Ziploc bags for keeping supplies dry. Boxes of ammo, for example.
A second shift of SWAT officers arrived as night approached. They settled in, confident in knowing they had Keller surrounded but knowing he could start firing any time.
Saturday morning arrived. The first shift, the King County sheriff's officers, came back on duty. Time for action.
They turned once again to Chaffee, this time for his expertise in explosives. He and another bomb tech were hoisted down to the bunker by helicopter, long cords of explosives in a bag between his legs ? like explosive garden hose, he said. Officers had heard a pop during the night, and thought Keller might be dead. They weren't sure.
Chaffee helped calculate how much explosives would be needed to blow the log roof enough to loosen it from the nails and lag bolts, without caving the structure in. As he and his colleagues laid the cord, they worried about how exposed they were. But SWAT officers who snaked a camera into the bunker saw that the danger had passed: Keller was in a pool of blood.
They blew the top, then pried away the logs. The blood evidence told the tale: Keller had shot himself on the top level with a Glock pistol. His body plunged nearly 30 feet down, past his makeshift ladder, and landed on the bottom floor. His hand, under his contorted frame, clutched an AM-FM radio buzzing with white noise.
His blood splattered on a shelf and dripped down, collecting on a June 19, 2010, sports section of The Seattle Times.
Detectives are studying more than 120 pieces of evidence collected from the bunker in hopes of learning what motivated the murders and his survivalist philosophy.
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Johnson can be reached at https://twitter.com/GeneAPseattle.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Justin Bieber's Best Real-Life 'Boyfriend' Moments
Bieber is bringing his 'Boyfriend' video to MTV on Thursday at 7:50 p.m., followed by a live Q&A on MTV.com!
By Jocelyn Vena
Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber at the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar party
Photo: Getty Images
Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" video, premiering Thursday on "MTV First," is going to have to be pretty over-the-top to compete with Bieber's real-life boyfriend skills.
After all, he has a stringent set of rules when it comes to being the perfect boyfriend to fellow superstar Selena Gomez. During their year-plus relationship, Justin has swept Selena off her feet with some pretty elaborate dates.
In anticipation of Thursday's "Boyfriend" premiere, MTV News is rounding up the five best dates Bieber has taken Selena on. In the words of Bieber, #leggo!
St. Lucia
In January 2011, the couple were snapped on vacation in St. Lucia. The vacation was headline-making simply because it was the first major sighting of the couple being romantic. Although they had been rumored to be dating weeks before, the paparazzi shots confirmed to the world that Jelena were alive and well.
2011 Oscars
In February of that year, the couple were shy no more about their relationship. They graced the Vanity Fair Oscar party that year together, walking the carpet arm-in-arm with big smiles.
2011 VMAs
Later in the year at the VMAs, while Gomez was on hand helping MTV News out as the pre-show co-host, Bieber surprised his lady love with a very public kiss on the cheek and his pet snake, Johnson.
Staples Center
What better way to watch "Titanic" than by renting out the entire Staples Center in Los Angeles? After checking out Demi Lovato's show at the Nokia Theatre in September 2011, he went right across the street with Gomez to watch the flick in private.
Movie Theater
The private Staples screening must have worked, because weeks later, Bieber rented out a theater in Canada to check out the less-romantic "Real Steel."
Lakers Game
Earlier this month, when the young couple hit up a Lakers game at the Staples Center, they were caught kissing on the famous . Can you remember who won the game between the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs? Nope, because the couple's PDA made more headlines.
Not enough Bieber for you? Well, the singer will sit down with MTV News' Sway Calloway on Thursday to premiere his "Boyfriend" music video during "MTV First: Justin Bieber" live at 7:50 p.m. ET on MTV. After the video premieres on air, Bieber will chat with Sway for 30 minutes on MTV.com, opening up about the Director X-directed clip, as well as his June 19 album release, Believe. But that's not all: If you have a burning question for Bieber, you can get in on the fun by commenting below or tweeting @MTVNews with the hashtag #MTVFirst or #AskBieber.
Immediately following the premiere, the "Boyfriend" video will be available on MTV.com, so Beliebers can watch it over and over and over again.
Don't miss the "Boyfriend" video premiere Thursday, May 3, at 7:50 p.m. ET/PT on MTV during "MTV First: Justin Bieber," followed by a live Q&A with Justin himself on MTV.com!
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin review
With roughly 98 percent of the desktop and laptop market spoken for, you'd be forgiven for thinking your only choices for powering your computer were Windows or Mac OS X. There is another way, though. Linux may only run on a tiny sliver of consumer PCs, but the number is growing and one of the biggest players propelling its popularity is Ubuntu. Since bursting on the scene eight years ago, the distro has grown to dominate the desktop Linux market and made plenty of fans (and a few detractors) along the way. Truth is, Ubuntu is completely unique and, at least compared to other distros out there, very user-friendly. It also happens to have a very active community of developers and users willing to lend help to those in need, which makes it appealing to Linux vets, enterprise users and *nix n00bs alike.
Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin is part of the company's LTS or Long Term Support series, and is guaranteed for five years of support through Canonical. That means the company is focusing less on cramming new features into this release and more on making it as stable as possible. So, if you're familiar with Ubuntu, you won't find much here that will blow your mind. Of course, the real question is whether or not the aubergine-loving open-source OS is for you, not whether there's enough new tweaks to fill a book. So, without further ado, we present Ubuntu 12.04: the review. Join us after the break, won't you?
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