Apple supposedly met with Valve to talk about motion, voice and touch-capable TV

Last week Tim Cook visited Valve, one of the biggest influencers in PC gaming, to talk about a work-in-progress TV set Apple is working on, according to anonymous sources.

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The Root Beer Making Kit Is Your Mixin'-Up-A-Batch-Of-Sassafrass Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

It's really depressing that some parts of the world have completely missed out on root beer. Ok, you went for cola and orange pop, but skipped right over root beer? What's the problem? I really don't get it. It's got so much more to offer. If I could have a constant supply of root beer on hand for all of life's greatest moments, I would. Oh, how I would. And I can. For less than a slab of root beer, I can be the brewmaster of my house with the Mr. Root Beer Home Root-Beer-Making Kit. Included are all the necessities for mixing up 2 gallons of your favorite concoction, produced exactly as you like it. Here's to a little extra sassafras.

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What?s In A Name? Australia Wants Apple To ?Change The Name? Of The iPad Over 4G Incompatibility

Looks like we may see another development today in Apple's ongoing iPad/4G controversy in Australia. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission is meeting with Apple in court again today to try to get Apple to officially change the name of the device when it is sold in Australia. Although many people know it as "the new iPad" since launching the product in March, Apple has also been marketing the product as the new iPad with 'Wi-Fi +4G' in the country. But Apple quickly ran into trouble when the ACCC said Apple was misleading consumers: in fact, the tablet is not actually compatible with Australia's 4G network. Since then, Apple has agreed to refund consumers who bought the device thinking they were getting 4G; and the company has also been putting up notices wherever the iPad is sold warning them that it didn't work with Australia's 4G. But the ACCC, it seems, does not think that this goes far enough.

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Commemorate All Famous Shipwrecks With This Sinking Shower Curtain [Wtf]

We're not sure if it will ever not be 'too soon' to make light of the Titanic tragedy. But for just $16 this novelty shower curtain will serve as a daily reminder of any shipwreck, from the Lusitania, to the Edmund Fitzgerald. More »

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Rome cracks down on marauding centurions

The city has given a deadline of April 6 for the tourist terrors to clear away from the Colosseum area.

By Adam L. Freeman,?Contributor / April 2, 2012

Rome has given the centurions a deadline to clear out. The solders in question aren't from the ranks of an ancient legion, but are modern-day performers who pose for tourist?photos at the Colosseum.

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Men and women decked out in chest plates and helmets eke out a?tax-free living at Rome?s most popular attraction, posing for photos with foreign?visitors for 5 or 10 euros. Disoriented, jet lagged, or simply scared,?tourists have been known to pay up to 50 euros ($67). Some have been roughed?up when they refuse.

Arrests were made last summer in an undercover operation with police?in tunics and sandals handcuffing centurions and gladiators for?ripping off tourists. A recent Italian media report cited a policeman?as saying the centurions are all ex-convicts, ?every last one of?them.?

Now the city government says ?basta!? and wants them to pack up their?swords, shields, and ensigns and clear out by April 6.

?This will end badly. We?ll wage a revolution. We?ll burn down the?Coliseum rather than move from here,? a 21st-century centurion?recently told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Along with the fake ancient Roman soldiers, the city aims to rid?itself of the vast illegal industry of food and souvenir vendors that?feeds off the 6 million people who every year visit the site where?Russell Crowe avenged his family?s murder in the 2000 sword-and-sandal blockbuster "Gladiator."

City and national officials say they are defending?Rome-the-living-museum from an image akin to theme parks where?visitors feast on fast food and ham it up for the camera with?fairytale characters.

But the Italian economy is in recession and its prisons overcrowded so government bureaucrats should be vigilant for unrest?in the legionary ranks. They might want to reconsider a plan that puts?ex-cons out of work.

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Canonical's AWSOME API bridges OpenStack and Amazon clouds, Ubuntu has its head in both

New features and services that improve Canonical's latest version of Ubuntu seem to keep rolling in. The latest addition being the announcement of its AWSOME proxy service. No, that's not us getting over excited about it, that stands for Any Web Service Over Me, and it includes APIs that smooth the transition to OpenStack for those currently using Amazon's cloud services. Although not open source, Amazon's Web Service has such a large market share, that Canonical clearly wants to make integrating with it as smooth as possible. The AWSOME proxy will only provide basic functionality for the AWS side of things, with users still encouraged to adopt the OpenStack infrastructure for deeper capabilities. Still, if you're currently working with Bezos' platform, and this was the last barrier to hopping aboard the Precise Pangolin ship, you're in luck.

Canonical's AWSOME API bridges OpenStack and Amazon clouds, Ubuntu has its head in both originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lucite Lamps Made of Bricks and Springs Are Big Design in a Little Box [Design]

Netherlands-based Studio Mango has designed a clever collection of lamps made to ship in a super flatpack, using lucite coil springs and Lego-like bricks. More »

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Why an Italian lawmaker's phone call trumps Obama's speech

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's decision to take a call from an Italian lawmaker during President Barack Obama's speech highlights the tentativeness of his claim to authority.

When Barack Obama praised Italian?Prime Minister Mario Monti's?work fighting his country's debt crisis, Italy's leader wasn't there to listen. He was talking on his cell phone.

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According to leaks from Mr. Monti's staff, he had to take an ?urgent call? from Fabrizio Cicchitto, a senior lawmaker from former leader Silvio Berlusconi's Freedom Party, just as the United States president began his speech during yesterday's nuclear energy summit in Seoul. The prime minister's?staff refused to disclose the topic of such an urgent conversation.?

While the world was well-acquainted with Mr. Berlusconi's gaffes (such has his description of Obama as a ?young man with a nice tan?), the new prime minister's faux-pas was quite unexpected.?Of the 52 world leaders at the summit, he was the only one who skipped Obama's speech.?He was also the only leader openly mentioned in the same speech ? a move widely interpreted as a demonstration of Mr. Obama's esteem.

Monti ? a former university headmaster and European commissioner with an understated, professorial manner ? seemed to fit in better than Berlusconi at international summits, making Monti well-suited to the task of restoring Italy's image abroad. It's one of the reasons Monti was chosen by the Italian Parliament to lead a transitional government when Berlusconi resigned last year.?

But while Monti has a better international reputation than his predecessor, at home he is much less respected.

As a crisis-time leader who was appointed, not elected, some view Monti as a lame duck hostage to a Parliament still controlled by Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, and to them the fact that he put a Freedom party lawmaker over Obama confirms this view.

The anecdote became a hit on the Italian blogosphere and reached Twitter's top trends, with many cracking jokes on the newly-acquired status of Mr. Cicchitto, a medium-profile politician.

Among the jokes: ?Pope Benedict had to postpone his meeting with Fidel Castro. He had to take a call from Cicchitto.?

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German court upholds ban on iCloud and MobileMe push emails

It's been well over a month now since Apple suspended push email from its iCloud and MobileMe services, and it doesn't look like it will be switching them back on any time soon. According to the Wall Street Journal, a German regional court has backed the ban, upholding Motorola Mobility's claims of patent infringements. The court agreed that Apple must also pay damages to Motorola, but has yet to agree on an amount. So, for now, users will need to stick to manually fetching updates, and hope a final agreement can be met further down the line.

German court upholds ban on iCloud and MobileMe push emails originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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