BROADCASTERS WORRY ABOUT ‘ZERO TV’ HOMES…
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Hostage-taker at Clinton’s 2007 campaign office escapes
A man who took several hostages in 2007 was reported missing from a halfway house.
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Infographic: 60 Seconds Of Kobe Bryant’s Salary Vs. A School Teacher’s
How much does one of the NBA’s biggest stars make in a minute, compared to someone we trust with our childrens’ future? You don’t even want to know.
Every minute, Kobe Bryant makes $162.55. By comparison, a family doctor–what most of us consider a decent occupation!–makes $1.35. In that same amount of time, an elementary teacher makes $0.43 (yes, forty three cents). And a minimum-wage worker pulls in just over a dime–a mere $0.12.
For CNNMoney, designer BÃ¥rd Edlund created a fantastic animation to visualize this disparity. But rather than turning to stacks of gold or even bar graphs, Edlund rendered the data in circles. Which may not sound all that radical–but in data visualization, the area (or value) of circles can be difficult to compare.
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Microsoft Rumored To Have Google Glass Rival On The Way
Will AR goggles become the new Ray-Bans?
Industry analyst Brian White is the source of a new rumor about Microsoft’s future in wearable tech: White suggests that Microsoft is following Google’s lead and will introduce its own wearable augmented reality goggles in the first half of 2014.
White’s argument is that Google has made such a splash in both hardware and the software apps that will support Glass that Microsoft is going to try to directly compete with Google. Since Microsoft has been moving into smartphone and tablet markets in an effort to rival both Google and Apple, White’s arguments are plausible: Microsoft could easily be keen to tap into the reams of user data that connected AR goggles will generate as Google itself is. The same reason explains why other players including China’s Baidu and a long list of other folks are also reportedly working in the AR headware space.
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A Majority of the Senate Now Supports Gay Marriage
A Democratic senator declaring his or her support for gay marriage just isn’t as thrilling as it was a few weeks ago, but Florida senator Bill Nelson’s switch is still notable as he’s the 51st senator to endorse same-sex marriage. “If we are endowed by our creator with rights, then why shouldn’t those be attainable by gays and lesbians?” Nelson said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times on Thursday, adding, “Simply put, if the Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn’t, and I won’t.†Now there are only six Senate Democrats who haven’t jumped on the marriage equality bandwagon.
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ArtsBeat: New ‘Arrested Development’ Season Coming to Netflix on May 26
Fifteen new episodes of “Arrested Development,†the cult comedy series that starred Jason Bateman as one of the few arguably sane members of a complicated family, will be posted all at once to Netflix on May 26.
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Christopher Abbott Quit Girls
“Page Six” has the report: Christopher Abbott, who plays Marnie’s pushover on-again boyfriend, Charlie, has “abruptly” quit Girls because he “didn’t like the direction things are going in.” (Translation: He didn’t like playing a sad sack.) His rep confirms the report, saying he’s “grateful” but is working on a bunch of other projects and “has decided not to return to the show.” Now seems like a good time to resurface this quote from Abbott’s season two interview with Vulture: “If there was another character I could play on the show, which I think is impossible, I think I would.” Anyway, Christopher Abbott hated the treacly Girls finale as much as you did, apparently.
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Hillary Clinton signs book deal
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has a book deal. She is working on a memoir and policy book about her years as secretary of state, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press.
Explaining the Senate’s Surge in Support for Same-Sex Marriage
While the public’s increase in support for same-sex marriage has been exceptionally linear and steady, the number of senators endorsing it has increased at exponential rates. Can this be explained in a mathematical model?
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Daily Report: Google’s Eroding Lead in Web Search
Though Google is the undisputed king of search, alternative services are chipping into its share of the market, Claire Cain Miller reports in The New York Times.
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