- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Do You Sleep Beside Your Baby? Is It Safe? Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
- The Guilt Factor After the birth of my first child, I began to experience guilt more than I ever had: when I didn’t pick her up right away because I was in the middle of doing something, when I popped in a DVD for her so I could finish making dinner, or when I let her cry [...]
- Disney Unveils New “The Princess And The Frog” Toy Line
On Monday Disney unveiled the highly anticipated “The Princess And The Frog” toy line. If you’ll remember there were a few hiccups early on in the movies production but Disney has attempted to iron out any wrinkles and has pressed on.
Tony Award-winning actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana, unveiled the line [...]
- Encouraging Your Little Star To Shine Yesterday I was having a conversation with an actor that had a reoccruing role on a HBO drama. He explained how he’s been in the business since he was 8 years old. He started out as a hip-hop dancer, won the Apollo 5 times and has been pushing to make his dream come true ever [...]
- Gratitude I didn’t make any resolutions this year, but I have reinstituted a gratitude journal, in an effort to remind myself how blessed I am. At the end of the day, I take a few minutes to write down five things for which I am grateful. Most days the list is very simple: [...]
- The Real Stories Behind The Muppets
Ever wonder how the Muppet characters came to be in the first place? Well check out this article over on cnn.com that gives you the lowdown on some of your favorite characters. Here are a few examples:
Cookie Monster: Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. The commercial [...]
- CNN: Is My Peanut Butter Safe?
With all of the concern and media attention given to the Salmonella outbreak that occured recently your kids may not have had a good, down home PB&J in weeks. Well CNN is here to help with a recent article they did on, “Is my peanut butter safe”? Here’s some of the info they provide below:
1. [...]
- What are the Top Toys to Say I Love You With?
Each Valentine’s Day parents try to think of a little something extra to show their kids just how much they mean to them. Toy Wishes Magazine has a list of top 10 “red” toys that are the perfect solution to make sure you get the “I love you” message across to your [...]
- Yes, My Child is a Genius Admit it, at one time or another, when your children were very young and they were learning words and repeating things you were saying, you thought he or she was brilliant. I fall into the same category of parents who thinks his child is a bona fide baby genius, based on the “big” words [...]
- Fascinated With The Fitted
For someone like me (Lamar) who can hardly seem to “stay in the moment” as they say because my mind is always racing ahead anywhere from 2 days to 2 years at any given time there is always one simple thing that stops me in my tracks. The fascination that any of my three girls [...]
- TV Fab: Sanaa Lathan Snags Role In Starz Series, ‘Boss’ According to the entertainment blogs Deadline and Shadow & Act, Sanaa Lathan just snagged a recurring role in the Lions Gate-produced,...
- Just In Time For Black History Month, Arizona Lawmaker Su... After Arizona State Rep.Richard Miranda voiced his support for “Latino Appreciation Day” in the state, his...
- Eddie Long Apologizes to the Jewish Community For ‘King... Ever since the video of embattled megachurch pastor Eddie Long being anointed “king” by a Jewish rabbi hit the web, people have...
- True Life: I No Longer Hate Mondays, How About You? I used to hate them. My hate for Monday would start on Sunday evening, really, as I had to mentally prepare myself for another week in my...
- Dear Republicans: Racist Ads Will Not Get You Elected Sunday night, while many gathered around the TV and tuned into the Super Bowl, advertisers shelled out major cash to capture the attention...
- Love Stinks With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, 8 days to be exact…but who’s counting, I thought it fitting to share with you a story one...
- Listen: Amber Rose Flaunts Her Cash On ‘Loaded,’ Will... Whether you like Amber Rose or not, you can’t really knock her hustle. The Philly native was once best-known as Kanye West’s...
- Could Being Fat Ruin Your Sex Life? From Frugivore – Time and time again, there’s been a debate between fitness experts and fat-positive activists on whether or not...
- Werk! Viola Davis Gets Fierce for LA Times Magazine Viola Davis is having the best year ever. Not only is she the frontrunner for an Oscar, but after years of working in the biz as a character...
- Did M.I.A.’s Superbowl Middle Finger Go Too Far? Madonna’s Superbowl halftime show was a spectacle of Roman soldiers, special guests like Cee-Lo and Nicki Minaj, and was supposed to...
- Beyonce Steps Out In Red For The First Time Since Giving ... Helloooooo Beyonce! Queen Bey hit the streets for the first time since giving birth to lil Baby Blue tonight for Jay-z’s big concert at Brooklyn’s Carnegie Hall. She was glowing as she rocked an Alice Temperly red dress, Alexander...
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- New Music: Monica & Brandy – ‘It All Belongs To Me’ If you thought that Brandy & Monica was about to come with a powerful love ballad in 2012, you better think again. The R&B divas, who were fussing over a man on the 1998 track ‘The Boy Is Mine’, are kicking that man to the curb...
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- Amar’e Stoudemire’s Brother Dies in Crash It’s a sad day for New York Knicks center Amar’e Stoudemire after he learned that his older brother Hazell died this morning. According to reports, Hazell Stoudemire was involved in a car accident in Florida on Route 27, and officers say...
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- New Music: Nicki Minaj – “Marilyn Monroe” M.I.A wasn’t the only one that decided to capitalize off of her upcoming Superbowl appearance by dropping new material. A new Nicki Minaj track surfaced online yesterday just hours before she took to the stage to perform during half-time with...
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- Viola Davis Gets Styled Up for LA Times Even though it seems like Viola Davis recently burst on the scene because of the overwhelming success of ‘The Help’ (Can we say 4 Oscar nods, 3 SAG and 1 Golden Globe awards?), the actress has been in the game for over 23-years. Now that...
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- Rihanna, Chris Brown & Drake Party At Greystones When you live in the same city as your ex, it’s kind of hard not to run into them at the same night spots right? Especially in Hollywood… Rihanna and Chris Brown were spotted partying under the same roof again last night as they hit up...
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- Terrell Owens Dishes On Split With Kita & Mo: ‘Friends ... Terrell Owens seems to have a laundry list of bad karma; broke, unemployed, no friends and tons of baby mama drama. According to an interview that was published in GQ last week, he delivered the shocking news that he has lost at least 80 million...
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- [Video] Madonna’s Superbowl Half-Time Show (featuring L... Does Madonna still have it? She attempted to reclaim her throne as the Queen of Pop tonight while putting on a 12-minute-plus performance during this year’s Superbowl half-time show. Her half-time set featured her hit songs...
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- Bitchie Or Not: Jennifer Williams In A Sexy Mark Fast Cut... Basketball Wives star Jennifer Williams took a break from Miami this past weekend to return to Jersey for some philanthropy and partying. She was spotted in a sexy black Mark Fast Cut Out Dress while attending Marty Small’s ball in Atlantic...
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- New Video: Miguel – “Adorn” Everybody knows Miguel can sing, but who knew he was so into art? His new video “Adorn” mixes his love of heartfelt love songs with his love of art. Much like the “Girls Like You” video, which he co-directed, Miguel uses...
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- Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, ...
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures — The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV.
- Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV (Globe and Mail)
Globe and Mail:
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV — Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. — Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners …
- Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking (Dan Go...
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking — Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.
- Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code priva...
Steven Musil / CNET:
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private — Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. — An e-mail exchange revealing …
- Third-gen iPad's 'window of opportunity' expected to driv...
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Third-gen iPad's ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains — Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous “window of opportunity,” in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase …
- Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit ...
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit — On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives at an even more astounding number …
- Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupma...
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year — Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupman.
- Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey (Nathan Hu...
Nathan Hurst / Gadget Lab:
Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey — The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it's hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.
- Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth...
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service — On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …
- Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankin...
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings — Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee. According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots …
- Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS
Hugh Pickens writes "Joshua Phillips writes that something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams as browsing isles is no more and the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country. Future generations may know little of the days when buying a movie meant you owned it even if the Internet went down and when getting a movie meant you had to scour aisles of boxes in search of one whose cover art called back a story that echoed your interests. Josh Johnson, one of the filmmakers behind the upcoming documentary 'Rewind This!' hopes to tell the story of how and why home video came about, and how it changed our culture giving B movies and films that didn't make the silver screen their own chance to shine. 'Essentially, the rental market expanded, because of voracious consumer demand, into non-blockbuster, off-Hollywood video content which would never have had a theatrical life otherwise,' says Palmer. While researching the documentary Palmer found something interesting: there is a resurgence taking place of people going back to VHS because a massive number of films are 'trapped on VHS' with 30 and 40 percent of films released on VHS never to be seen again on any other format. 'Most of the true VHS fanatics are children of the 1980s,' says Palmer. 'Whether they are motivated by a sense of nostalgia or prefer the format for the grainy aesthetic qualities of magnetic tape or some other reason entirely unknown, each tapehead is unique like a snowflake.'"
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- Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun
vikingpower writes "The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions and increased sunlight reflection by increasing sea ice, the so-called Albedo effect. ... The University of Boulder has a press release with maps and photographs. Bette Otto-Bliesner, one of the scientists behind the 'volcano + sea ice' thesis, fields an earnest warning against drawing conclusions too quickly from this research: 'I think people might look at the Little Ice Age and think that all we need to save us from rising temperatures are some volcanic eruptions or the geo-engineering equivalent [...] But when you see what happened when global temperatures dropped by just one degree and you look at current predictions of six or seven degree increases for the future, you realize how precarious things are for life as we know it.'"
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- Hacking the NES With Lisp
Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details
redletterdave writes "In the weeks leading up to Facebook's massive $100 billion initial public offering, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the other banks involved in the IPO to stop leaking information to the media. Zuckerberg was reportedly unhappy that the banks leaked details about his company's Wall Street debut, including the Feb. 1 date it chose to file its S-1 paperwork with the SEC. Facebook execs are also miffed about the subtle rivalry between Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, which were jockeying to become the lead underwriter for the IPO, the largest since Google's $1.7 billion offering in 2004. The banks are heeding Zuckerberg's warning, urging their employees to keep quiet about Facebook's filing, because disobeying Zuckerberg's wishes could mean getting dropped from one of the most lucrative IPOs in recent memory. The banks stand to make $40 million from their deals with Facebook."
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- Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax'
angry tapir writes with an excerpt from an article over at TechWorld: "A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want. The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want, according to French campaign group No More Racketware."
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- Google 'Solve For X' Website Goes Live
alphadogg writes "Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is 'a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems.' It's got a TED-like think tank feel to it, but possibly with oodles of Google resources behind it. It appears related to Google's up-to-now largely secretive Google X research lab that the New York Times recently shed some light on."
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- Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk Wit...
New submitter albinobee writes "The Kinect for Xbox 360 isn't only about gaming; it can also be used to help compensate for impaired vision, as a team of Indian engineers is working to prove. A device called viSparsh, still in its nascent stage, is a motion sensing belt that can help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path."
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- New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller
crookedvulture writes "Intel continues to partner with third-party controller makers for high-end SSDs. Its new 520 Series drives pair the latest SandForce controller with Intel's own firmware and 25-nm NAND. HotHardware, Tech Report, and PC Perspective all have reviews of the drive, and the verdict is pretty consistent. While the Intel 520 Series offers slightly better performance than competing SandForce solutions, it also costs 30-40% more. That's a steep margin even considering the Intel SSD's five-year warranty."
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- A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4)
Hugh Pickens writes "Anna Leach reports that Siri support has been a contentious issue for owners of earlier iPhones, but a recent filing from Audience shows that Siri won't run on the iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it. Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group cracked one of the secrets of the new iPhone's A5 chip after working out that it packs some serious audio cleaning power not available on the iPhone 4's A4 chip. Audience has developed technology that removes most or all of the background noise when someone places a cell-phone call from a restaurant, airport, or other noisy location. The iPhone 4S integrates Audience's 'EarSmart' technology directly into the A5 processor, improving its technology to handle 'far-field speech,' which means holding the device at arm's length rather than directly in front of the mouth. Apple has also licensed the Audience technology for a 'new generation of processor IP,' which may mean that the forthcoming A6 processor will appear in the iPad 3 and iPhone 5. 'Why Apple has not simply purchased Audience is unclear. An acquisition would prevent Audience's other major customer, Samsung, from using the technology to compete with Apple,' says Gwennap. 'The company may be hedging its bets, as it could switch to Qualcomm's Fluence noise-reduction technology in the future.'"
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- Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox
Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe, which has spent the last few years trying to dig out of a deep hole of vulnerabilities and buggy code, is making a major change to Flash, adding a sandbox to the version of the player that runs in Firefox. The sandbox is designed to prevent many common exploit techniques against Flash. The move by Adobe comes roughly a year after the company added a sandbox to Flash for Google Chrome. Flash, which is perhaps the most widely deployed piece of software on the Internet, has been a common attack vector for several years now, and the attacks in some cases have been used to get around exploit mitigations added by the browser vendors. The sandbox is designed to prevent many of these attacks by not allowing exploits against Flash to break out into the browser itself."
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- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Zoe Saldana Reportedly Single After 11 Years Guess who’s not coming to dinner! Action film star Zoe Saldana split with her fiancé, Keith Britton. According to her rep, the pair...
- Jay-Z Pulls “Occupy All Street” T-Shirt Under Occupy ... Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns RocaWear, and Jay-Z decided to pull their controversial “Occupy All Streets” t-shirt amid...
- Five Reasons to Leave Your Girlfriends at Home We are notorious for going out in groups. We have good reason. Safety. Camaraderie. But if you want to add a spark to your nightlife,...
- Viola Davis is right: stop calling black actresses ‘dig... Thank you Viola Davis. The accomplished actress and star of the acclaimed film “The Help” recently took the opportunity to make...
- All Things Mary R & B darling Mary J Blige sure knows how to get attention. Her new album My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act I) will make its...
- 50 Cent Lands TV Role Rapper 50 cent has now joined the BIG TIME club, thanks to his new guest staring role on The Finder, a spin off of FOX’s Bones. David...
- Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?!: Does Your Mom Still Put You I... As adults we would all like to think that we can do and say whatever we want to whomever we want to. We’re proud to exclaim “I’m...
- Watch: Herman Jokes About Anita Hill, Asks ‘Is She Goin... Everyday something new happens to show us that Herman Cain just isn’t the man for the job of President of the United States. As...
- Don’t Do That! Beauty Mistakes We Hate, What’s On You... We’ve all seen them. The pretty girl who would be absolutely stunning if she just didn’t do that one little thing that’s jacking up...
- 5 Questions for New Media Innovator & Upcoming Black In A... A highly accomplished New Media expert, founder of Black Web Media and the NewMEAccelerator, Angela Benton is also a dear friend of Clutch....
- Do You Sleep Beside Your Baby? Is It Safe? Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
- The Guilt Factor After the birth of my first child, I began to experience guilt more than I ever had: when I didn’t pick her up right away because I was in the middle of doing something, when I popped in a DVD for her so I could finish making dinner, or when I let her cry [...]
- Disney Unveils New “The Princess And The Frog” Toy Line
On Monday Disney unveiled the highly anticipated “The Princess And The Frog” toy line. If you’ll remember there were a few hiccups early on in the movies production but Disney has attempted to iron out any wrinkles and has pressed on.
Tony Award-winning actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana, unveiled the line [...]
- Encouraging Your Little Star To Shine Yesterday I was having a conversation with an actor that had a reoccruing role on a HBO drama. He explained how he’s been in the business since he was 8 years old. He started out as a hip-hop dancer, won the Apollo 5 times and has been pushing to make his dream come true ever [...]
- Gratitude I didn’t make any resolutions this year, but I have reinstituted a gratitude journal, in an effort to remind myself how blessed I am. At the end of the day, I take a few minutes to write down five things for which I am grateful. Most days the list is very simple: [...]
- The Real Stories Behind The Muppets
Ever wonder how the Muppet characters came to be in the first place? Well check out this article over on cnn.com that gives you the lowdown on some of your favorite characters. Here are a few examples:
Cookie Monster: Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. The commercial [...]
- CNN: Is My Peanut Butter Safe?
With all of the concern and media attention given to the Salmonella outbreak that occured recently your kids may not have had a good, down home PB&J in weeks. Well CNN is here to help with a recent article they did on, “Is my peanut butter safe”? Here’s some of the info they provide below:
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- What are the Top Toys to Say I Love You With?
Each Valentine’s Day parents try to think of a little something extra to show their kids just how much they mean to them. Toy Wishes Magazine has a list of top 10 “red” toys that are the perfect solution to make sure you get the “I love you” message across to your [...]
- Yes, My Child is a Genius Admit it, at one time or another, when your children were very young and they were learning words and repeating things you were saying, you thought he or she was brilliant. I fall into the same category of parents who thinks his child is a bona fide baby genius, based on the “big” words [...]
- Fascinated With The Fitted
For someone like me (Lamar) who can hardly seem to “stay in the moment” as they say because my mind is always racing ahead anywhere from 2 days to 2 years at any given time there is always one simple thing that stops me in my tracks. The fascination that any of my three girls [...]
- TV Fab: Sanaa Lathan Snags Role In Starz Series, ‘Boss’ According to the entertainment blogs Deadline and Shadow & Act, Sanaa Lathan just snagged a recurring role in the Lions Gate-produced,...
- Just In Time For Black History Month, Arizona Lawmaker Su... After Arizona State Rep.Richard Miranda voiced his support for “Latino Appreciation Day” in the state, his...
- Eddie Long Apologizes to the Jewish Community For ‘King... Ever since the video of embattled megachurch pastor Eddie Long being anointed “king” by a Jewish rabbi hit the web, people have...
- True Life: I No Longer Hate Mondays, How About You? I used to hate them. My hate for Monday would start on Sunday evening, really, as I had to mentally prepare myself for another week in my...
- Dear Republicans: Racist Ads Will Not Get You Elected Sunday night, while many gathered around the TV and tuned into the Super Bowl, advertisers shelled out major cash to capture the attention...
- Love Stinks With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, 8 days to be exact…but who’s counting, I thought it fitting to share with you a story one...
- Listen: Amber Rose Flaunts Her Cash On ‘Loaded,’ Will... Whether you like Amber Rose or not, you can’t really knock her hustle. The Philly native was once best-known as Kanye West’s...
- Could Being Fat Ruin Your Sex Life? From Frugivore – Time and time again, there’s been a debate between fitness experts and fat-positive activists on whether or not...
- Werk! Viola Davis Gets Fierce for LA Times Magazine Viola Davis is having the best year ever. Not only is she the frontrunner for an Oscar, but after years of working in the biz as a character...
- Did M.I.A.’s Superbowl Middle Finger Go Too Far? Madonna’s Superbowl halftime show was a spectacle of Roman soldiers, special guests like Cee-Lo and Nicki Minaj, and was supposed to...
- Beyonce Steps Out In Red For The First Time Since Giving ... Helloooooo Beyonce! Queen Bey hit the streets for the first time since giving birth to lil Baby Blue tonight for Jay-z’s big concert at Brooklyn’s Carnegie Hall. She was glowing as she rocked an Alice Temperly red dress, Alexander...
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- New Music: Monica & Brandy – ‘It All Belongs To Me’ If you thought that Brandy & Monica was about to come with a powerful love ballad in 2012, you better think again. The R&B divas, who were fussing over a man on the 1998 track ‘The Boy Is Mine’, are kicking that man to the curb...
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- Amar’e Stoudemire’s Brother Dies in Crash It’s a sad day for New York Knicks center Amar’e Stoudemire after he learned that his older brother Hazell died this morning. According to reports, Hazell Stoudemire was involved in a car accident in Florida on Route 27, and officers say...
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- New Music: Nicki Minaj – “Marilyn Monroe” M.I.A wasn’t the only one that decided to capitalize off of her upcoming Superbowl appearance by dropping new material. A new Nicki Minaj track surfaced online yesterday just hours before she took to the stage to perform during half-time with...
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- Viola Davis Gets Styled Up for LA Times Even though it seems like Viola Davis recently burst on the scene because of the overwhelming success of ‘The Help’ (Can we say 4 Oscar nods, 3 SAG and 1 Golden Globe awards?), the actress has been in the game for over 23-years. Now that...
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- Rihanna, Chris Brown & Drake Party At Greystones When you live in the same city as your ex, it’s kind of hard not to run into them at the same night spots right? Especially in Hollywood… Rihanna and Chris Brown were spotted partying under the same roof again last night as they hit up...
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- Terrell Owens Dishes On Split With Kita & Mo: ‘Friends ... Terrell Owens seems to have a laundry list of bad karma; broke, unemployed, no friends and tons of baby mama drama. According to an interview that was published in GQ last week, he delivered the shocking news that he has lost at least 80 million...
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- [Video] Madonna’s Superbowl Half-Time Show (featuring L... Does Madonna still have it? She attempted to reclaim her throne as the Queen of Pop tonight while putting on a 12-minute-plus performance during this year’s Superbowl half-time show. Her half-time set featured her hit songs...
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- Bitchie Or Not: Jennifer Williams In A Sexy Mark Fast Cut... Basketball Wives star Jennifer Williams took a break from Miami this past weekend to return to Jersey for some philanthropy and partying. She was spotted in a sexy black Mark Fast Cut Out Dress while attending Marty Small’s ball in Atlantic...
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- New Video: Miguel – “Adorn” Everybody knows Miguel can sing, but who knew he was so into art? His new video “Adorn” mixes his love of heartfelt love songs with his love of art. Much like the “Girls Like You” video, which he co-directed, Miguel uses...
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- Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, ...
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures — The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV.
- Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV (Globe and Mail)
Globe and Mail:
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV — Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. — Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners …
- Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking (Dan Go...
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking — Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.
- Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code priva...
Steven Musil / CNET:
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private — Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. — An e-mail exchange revealing …
- Third-gen iPad's 'window of opportunity' expected to driv...
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Third-gen iPad's ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains — Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous “window of opportunity,” in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase …
- Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit ...
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit — On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives at an even more astounding number …
- Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupma...
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year — Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupman.
- Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey (Nathan Hu...
Nathan Hurst / Gadget Lab:
Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey — The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it's hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.
- Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth...
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service — On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …
- Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankin...
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings — Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee. According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots …
- Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS
Hugh Pickens writes "Joshua Phillips writes that something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams as browsing isles is no more and the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country. Future generations may know little of the days when buying a movie meant you owned it even if the Internet went down and when getting a movie meant you had to scour aisles of boxes in search of one whose cover art called back a story that echoed your interests. Josh Johnson, one of the filmmakers behind the upcoming documentary 'Rewind This!' hopes to tell the story of how and why home video came about, and how it changed our culture giving B movies and films that didn't make the silver screen their own chance to shine. 'Essentially, the rental market expanded, because of voracious consumer demand, into non-blockbuster, off-Hollywood video content which would never have had a theatrical life otherwise,' says Palmer. While researching the documentary Palmer found something interesting: there is a resurgence taking place of people going back to VHS because a massive number of films are 'trapped on VHS' with 30 and 40 percent of films released on VHS never to be seen again on any other format. 'Most of the true VHS fanatics are children of the 1980s,' says Palmer. 'Whether they are motivated by a sense of nostalgia or prefer the format for the grainy aesthetic qualities of magnetic tape or some other reason entirely unknown, each tapehead is unique like a snowflake.'"
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- Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun
vikingpower writes "The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions and increased sunlight reflection by increasing sea ice, the so-called Albedo effect. ... The University of Boulder has a press release with maps and photographs. Bette Otto-Bliesner, one of the scientists behind the 'volcano + sea ice' thesis, fields an earnest warning against drawing conclusions too quickly from this research: 'I think people might look at the Little Ice Age and think that all we need to save us from rising temperatures are some volcanic eruptions or the geo-engineering equivalent [...] But when you see what happened when global temperatures dropped by just one degree and you look at current predictions of six or seven degree increases for the future, you realize how precarious things are for life as we know it.'"
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- Hacking the NES With Lisp
Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).
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- Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details
redletterdave writes "In the weeks leading up to Facebook's massive $100 billion initial public offering, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the other banks involved in the IPO to stop leaking information to the media. Zuckerberg was reportedly unhappy that the banks leaked details about his company's Wall Street debut, including the Feb. 1 date it chose to file its S-1 paperwork with the SEC. Facebook execs are also miffed about the subtle rivalry between Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, which were jockeying to become the lead underwriter for the IPO, the largest since Google's $1.7 billion offering in 2004. The banks are heeding Zuckerberg's warning, urging their employees to keep quiet about Facebook's filing, because disobeying Zuckerberg's wishes could mean getting dropped from one of the most lucrative IPOs in recent memory. The banks stand to make $40 million from their deals with Facebook."
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- Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax'
angry tapir writes with an excerpt from an article over at TechWorld: "A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want. The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want, according to French campaign group No More Racketware."
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- Google 'Solve For X' Website Goes Live
alphadogg writes "Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is 'a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems.' It's got a TED-like think tank feel to it, but possibly with oodles of Google resources behind it. It appears related to Google's up-to-now largely secretive Google X research lab that the New York Times recently shed some light on."
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- Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk Wit...
New submitter albinobee writes "The Kinect for Xbox 360 isn't only about gaming; it can also be used to help compensate for impaired vision, as a team of Indian engineers is working to prove. A device called viSparsh, still in its nascent stage, is a motion sensing belt that can help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path."
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- New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller
crookedvulture writes "Intel continues to partner with third-party controller makers for high-end SSDs. Its new 520 Series drives pair the latest SandForce controller with Intel's own firmware and 25-nm NAND. HotHardware, Tech Report, and PC Perspective all have reviews of the drive, and the verdict is pretty consistent. While the Intel 520 Series offers slightly better performance than competing SandForce solutions, it also costs 30-40% more. That's a steep margin even considering the Intel SSD's five-year warranty."
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- A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4)
Hugh Pickens writes "Anna Leach reports that Siri support has been a contentious issue for owners of earlier iPhones, but a recent filing from Audience shows that Siri won't run on the iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it. Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group cracked one of the secrets of the new iPhone's A5 chip after working out that it packs some serious audio cleaning power not available on the iPhone 4's A4 chip. Audience has developed technology that removes most or all of the background noise when someone places a cell-phone call from a restaurant, airport, or other noisy location. The iPhone 4S integrates Audience's 'EarSmart' technology directly into the A5 processor, improving its technology to handle 'far-field speech,' which means holding the device at arm's length rather than directly in front of the mouth. Apple has also licensed the Audience technology for a 'new generation of processor IP,' which may mean that the forthcoming A6 processor will appear in the iPad 3 and iPhone 5. 'Why Apple has not simply purchased Audience is unclear. An acquisition would prevent Audience's other major customer, Samsung, from using the technology to compete with Apple,' says Gwennap. 'The company may be hedging its bets, as it could switch to Qualcomm's Fluence noise-reduction technology in the future.'"
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- Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox
Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe, which has spent the last few years trying to dig out of a deep hole of vulnerabilities and buggy code, is making a major change to Flash, adding a sandbox to the version of the player that runs in Firefox. The sandbox is designed to prevent many common exploit techniques against Flash. The move by Adobe comes roughly a year after the company added a sandbox to Flash for Google Chrome. Flash, which is perhaps the most widely deployed piece of software on the Internet, has been a common attack vector for several years now, and the attacks in some cases have been used to get around exploit mitigations added by the browser vendors. The sandbox is designed to prevent many of these attacks by not allowing exploits against Flash to break out into the browser itself."
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