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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Jessica Simpson Gives Birth! See Her Road to Motherhood
The singer and fiance Eric Johnson welcomed baby Maxwell Drew Johnson on May 1! See her journey through pregnancy
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Google Wins $35 Million U.S. Government Contract Over Microsoft
Google and its partner Onix Networking just won a $35 million contract to run the U.S. Department of the Interior's new cloud-based email and collaboration system. This wasn't always a sure bet for Google. In 2010, the Department of the Interior awarded Microsoft a $59.3 million contract to run its email and collaboration system. Google and its Ohio-based partner Onix Networking quickly filed a suit to block this contract. In Google's view, the Interior Department's procurement process unfairly favored Microsoft and never gave it a fair chance. Google finally withdrew its lawsuit last September after the Department scrapped its plans to use Microsoft's solution because its original decision was "now stale in light of new developments in technology and entrants into the market."chimpanzee chimpanzee the lucky one pittsburgh pirates mariners mets shades of grey
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Female panda recovering after artificial insemination
The "black-and-white rock star" of the Smithsonian's National Zoo, female panda Mei Xiang, is recovering Monday after being artificially inseminated with up to 800 million sperm.
This was the Washington, D.C.-based zoo's second try at inseminating the 13-year-old panda, after a first attempt on Sunday when scientists determined the semen they had collected from the male Tian Tian wasn't high enough quality for artificial insemination.
The scientists decided to try this technological intervention in the first place after a natural attempt fell flat.
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"Veterinarians performed an artificial insemination Sunday night after they determined no competent natural breeding had occurred between Mei Xiang and male giant panda, Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN)," zoo officials wrote in a statement. [Video: Panda Mating Dance]
And the zookeepers and experts live-tweeted the personal panda event.
"Mei did great and there's a sense of celebration and accomplishment in the air here! pandaAI," tweeted the National Zoo's Twitter account, @NationalZoo, Monday evening after the insemination was completed.
The two pandas have successfully bred before ? Mei Xiang gave birth to cub Tai Shan in 2005 ? but they aren't so good at getting it on themselves (Tai Shan was conceived via artificial insemination).
Furthermore, female pandas are fertile only one to two days a year, so zookeepers had to seize the rare opportunity.
(National Zoo research scientist research scientist Jon Ballou told The Washington Post he thinks both pandas are too old to be successful ? while Mei Xiang is 13; Tian Tian is 14. "Get a couple of young pandas, (of) reproductive ages," he said.)
For Monday's artificial insemination, zookeepers used sperm from Tian Tian harvested back when Tai Shan was born.
Just carrying Mei Xiang into the surgery room was a feat. "The keepers and vets are carrying Mei on a tarp now with handles. It takes 8 people ? she weighs about 230 lbs.," the zoo tweeted.
"While under general anesthesia, Mei Xiang was inseminated with thawed semen collected from Tian Tian in 2005," zoo officials wrote.
They added, "Zoo staff will continue to monitor Mei Xiang's hormone levels in the coming months and conduct ultrasounds to see if she is pregnant." (But even figuring out if a female panda is pregnant can be tricky; it is often difficult to identify a panda fetus through an ultrasound. And female giant pandas, inlcuding Mei Xiang, regularly undergo pseudo-pregnancies, which mimic the real thing to a tee, sans the developing infant.)
Captive breeding programs like this one serve as a chief part of scientists' efforts to study and conserve the species; giant pandas, native to southeastern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam, are now endangered with only 1,600 left in the wild.
Plus, baby pandas are oh-so-cute, and present a big draw for any zoo. The National Zoo had to send Tai Shan back to China in 2010, because all pandas, regardless of where they are born, officially belong to China under international law. Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are on loan to the United States until 2015.
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.
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'Voice' Recap: Tony Lucca Makes His Case For The Finals
Juliet Simms and Jermaine Paul also pull out all the stops for their mentors and America.
By John Mitchell
Tony Lucca on "The Voice"
Photo: NBC
With a trip to the finals on the line, Monday night's (April 30) "Voice" semifinals saw the remaining two artists from each team take the stage to sing their hearts out for America's votes and high scores from the coaches, which, combined, determine who moves on to next week's finals.
First up was Mouseketeer-turned-rocker Tony Lucca, who ditched his guitar for the first time in the competition to show off a different side of himself, singing "How You Like Me Now." Lucca upped his game last week with his rocking rendition of Britney Spears' " ... Baby One More Time" and knew he had a lot to prove.
Without his guitar to hide behind, Lucca delivered plenty of pop-star swagger. Blake summed it up most succinctly, saying Lucca's swinging performance was reminiscent of similarly suited-up Robert Palmer in his prime. Even Christina, who has often been Lucca's harshest critic, went on and on with praise for so long that host Carson Daly cut her off. (Didn't he notice her tiara? Who cuts off a pop diva in fishnets and a bejeweled crown?)
Erin Willett entered the ring with a "special song choice": a rearranged take on David Guetta and Usher's dance thumper "Without You." It was a risk, but that's what Erin, who said during rehearsals she felt like she's "never had a moment" on the show, was after. She was expectedly powerful, earned a thumbs-up from the judges and got very emotional onstage when she finished singing, but we're not sure everything came together just right to make the performance memorable for the right reasons.
Throughout the competition, Christina has pushed classically trained Chris Mann into pop and rock territory to prove — both to himself and the voting public — that he could do more than sing opera (as he did during the blind auditions). However, as the contest winds down, Aguilera was keen to show off what attracted her to Mann in the first place (his perfect voice) and gave the singer one of the most well-known classical songs ever, "Ave Maria." He nailed it, so much so that Aguilera caught Cee Lo tearing up. Aguilera was so moved by Mann's performance that she jumped from her chair and joined him onstage to give him a hug.
Fan favorite Jamar Rogers from Team Cee Lo was next to the stage with the classic "If You Don't Know Me by Now." A born entertainer with a penchant for high-energy performances, Rogers reeled it in this time, hoping to showcase his voice, and the judges took notice.
"Forget the competition for a minute," Adam said. "I'm just a fan of what you do."
Though they are ostensibly competitors, there's always a good bit of camaraderie among the contestants on "The Voice," and that showed through when the teams joined forces for group performances of the Killers "All These Things That I've Done" (Teams Cee Lo and Adam) and Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" (Teams Christina and Blake). Similarly, though they may bicker in their judges' chairs, Christina was bobbing her head (a task given how much that jeweled tiara must weigh) along to Blake's performance of his new single "Over."
Hoping to show that Mann isn't the only true powerhouse male vocalist in the competition, Blake paired former Alicia Keys backup singer Jermaine Paul with Journey's massive ballad "Open Arms." Jermaine rose to the challenge, digging deep into the song's emotion and tackling the song's runs with aplomb.
The judges were not shy about praising Paul's performance. "You came in and you murdered that song," Christina said. "Jermaine, I would like to congratulate you, because you are no longer a background singer, my friend," Adam added. But his own coach made the most crucial point, given how close Paul is to the finals, saying, "You're peaking at the right time."
Katrina Parker also opted to change things up, singing "Killing Me Softly" in the style of the Fugees' remake. Outside her usual Adele-like belting, she showed off a new vocal personality — more sultry and raspy than ever. Noting that later in the night the judges would be forced to award percentages to the contestants and that Tony Lucca and Adam are maybe a more natural mentoring fit, Christina championed Parker, telling Levine to "take a look at Katrina Parker because she's a star."
Having saved her from elimination twice in the competition, we think he gets it, Christina.
While many singers opted to show off a different side of themselves, being in the bottom two last week chased Lindsay Pavao right back into her hipster-indie wheelhouse, where she found Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" waiting for her. The performance was very Florence and the Machine-lite, with Pavao looking ethereal while strumming a guitar and sounding as unique as ever. Even Blake complimented Christina's strategy of returning her contestants to their roots (Mann with opera and Pavao with light indie rock).
The final contestant to hit the stage was rocker Juliet Simms, singing James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." She earned a standing ovation from her coach Cee Lo and fawning praise from the rest of the judges (Adam said she was "the one to beat" tonight), but Aguilera's words of support — saying that Simms sings for herself and that often leads to the most gut wrenching performances — were perhaps the most important, as she tore the roof off the 2007 Grammys with her take on this song.
At the very end of the show, the coaches were given 100 points to divide between their two contestants, the results of which will be tabulated alongside America's vote and revealed Tuesday to determine who moves on to the finals.
Who are your picks for the finals? Let us know in the comments below!
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RIM's BlackBerry World keynote roundup: the OS, the hardware, everything else (video)
So, if all of the news about BlackBerry 10 got a little too overwhelming for you then this is the place to be. There's detailed impressions of the company's new development device, cool new software features and we've even found out how to DJ using a PlayBook. If you want to catch up on everything that went down today, head on past the break and don't forget, you can always relive it blow-by-blow with our liveblog.
RIM's BlackBerry World keynote roundup: the OS, the hardware, everything else (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 10:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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