Sony has joined the tablet PC arms race and announced two new slate computers code-named the S1 and S2 which will run on the Android 30 Honeycomb operating system and offer PlayStation games and multimedia
The S1 is 94-inch wedge-shaped widescreen model optimized for media entertainment while the clamshell S2 which
Yes you read the news right there is going to be a 2012 presidential debate this evening Five Republicans are getting together in Greenville South Carolina to kick off the long process of burying their party as a mainstream political force for the next decade or so
I can’t remember a
The Daily Show takes on the Bin Laden photo question to show or not to show? Stewart's in the "show" camp Too gory for Americans? ("Have you met us?") Too inflammatory for Muslims? They're already plenty inflamed But seriously
"The best reason in my mind for releasing those pictures
Library members will soon be able to rent digital books for the Kindle eReader thanks to Amazon
Launching later this year for Kindle hardware and free Kindle app users the Kindle Lending Library will let you borrow eBooks from more than 11000 US libraries It will be compatible with all Kindle
Osama take three Now with fewer bullets (Plus No photos for you)
The chronicle of Osama bin Laden's death has gone through rewrite again with the administration now conceding that the firefight at the Bin Laden compound was brief and one-sided with only Bin Laden's courier getting
Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke recently sat down with John Mellencamp at New York's 92nd Street Y for a wide-ranging conversation about the Indiana singer/songwriter's career The discussion touched upon Mellencamp's new stripped-down album No Better Than This which was partially recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis He explained
Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev stopped by Peter Travers' office recently to chat about playing both the human ingenue Elena Gilbert and the evil vampire Katherine Pierce on the hit CW series Dobrev is at turns silly and playful in this conversation with Peter who happens
Yesterday was a good day for Big Coal
At a meeting yesterday with activists in Washington an EPA official announced that although the agency is working “very hard” on new rules - already about 30 years overdue - for toxic coal ash disposal those rules won't be completed
Notorious coal baron Don Blankenship was supposed to be long gone now partying with his pals on the French Riviera or according to a lawyer friend of mine in West Virginia making himself comfortable in a new $35 million house on a lake in Tennessee
But apparently the Blankenship
More than 123 million online connected TVs are expected to ship in 2014 according to a new study by market researcher DisplaySearch It also found that over 20 percent of all TVs shipped last year featured Internet connections allowing users to stream digital music and movies or run downloadable apps
He lived half a mile from a military academy in a giant walled compound eight times the size of adjacent properties He burned his trash instead of putting it out like everyone else When local kids kicked their ball over his wall a guy would come out to give them
Video game publisher Nintendo has confirmed that a Wii 2 will be coming in 2012
The successor to the company’s popular motion-sensing Wii console which has sold 86 million systems since its November 2006 launch will be unveiled at video game tradeshow E3 2011 this June in Los Angeles
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Obama gets a bump
Obama's poll numbers get a 9 point boost -- to 56 percent approval -- in the first major poll since bin Laden killing Just 17 percent of Republicans believe President deserves "a great deal" of credit for taking down al Qaeda's leader
David Weigel on how anti-war members of Congress hope to turn Bin Laden's death to their advantage [Slate]
Daniel Byman says Al Qaeda was never quite what Americans thought it was and Bin Laden's death doesn't mean it's finished [Foreign Policy]
Lawrence F Kaplan says "Bin Laden was
Online streaming video and movie rental service Netflix now has 228 million subscribers in the US which is as many as leading cable provider Comcast
Illustrating technology’s growing impact on the TV and film business the company’s subscriber base which tops 236 million worldwide continues to grow even as Comcast’s audience
In her initial Facebook reaction to Bin Laden's killing Sarah Palin couldn't bring herself to mention the president's name much less give him props Then last night in Colorado she did a little better – she managed to get out a "president" – but went an entire speech without saying the
People are raising a number of questions and understandably soabout whether or not there was some type of support that was provided by the Pakistani government
That's the assessment of President Obama's counterterrorism czar John Brennan who briefed reporters Monday Brennan added "It’s inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support
Bin Laden dead time to leave Afghanistan?
Many Americans already impatient with the war in Afghanistan may take bin Laden's death as a sign that the US should declare victory and come home This would allow Obama to deliver on his promise to begin drawing down forces there (while keeping
The Commodore 64 and other classic Commodore home computers are back roughly 30 years after becoming a watershed in the evolution of desktop entertainment and productivity Under the aegis of new management brand-new PCs with retro styling and modern-day hardware will begin rolling off assembly lines in late May
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The Raid
William Saletan has eight questions about how the killing went down
Anne Applebaum calls the operation a model of smart intelligence work
Marc Ambinder on the secretive team that carried out the raid
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Rolling Stone's photographers will be documenting the 42nd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival all week long Keep up with the latest images by checking out our extensive Jazz Fest 2011 photo gallery featuring amazing shots from all the hottest sets including Wilco Arcade Fire Jimmy Buffett Dr John
Good news on Osama bin Laden and a good day for the families of 9/11 victims Speaking personally I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been held up in a long line at an airport and dreamed of the day OBL would be made to pay for every shoe
Cartoon Network sub-channel Adult Swim plans to release a spate of new mobile video games for the iPhone as well as for various Android and iOS devices
The company's VP of digital and games Jeff Olson recently told gaming blog Joystiq that Adult Swim known for mature-themed animated shows including Aqua
"That was too dark for Jazz Fest" Colin Meloy proclaimed after singing "The Rake's Song" Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Perhaps a tale of infanticide would have been too grim if performed by Arlo Guthrie or John Mellencamp both of whom were performing
Full Bin Laden coverage from Rolling Stone and around the web (Check back for frequent updates)
Video Jon Stewart Pakistan 'could've caught Bin Laden with a rod and reel'
Bin Laden kill gives Obama poll boost
Must Reads The best of the web on the death of Bin Laden (May 3)
The Evidence Pakistan
Late last night President Obama announced that US forces had found and killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan Below early word from likely 2012 Republicans The comments – quite telling in their small way – fall into distinct categories
• Classy Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty (who credit Obama)
• Heavy-metal Mike
Interest in cloud file storage and sharing solution Dropbox is booming The online service has grown from 4 million users in 2010 to 25 million users and 200 million files now saved daily More than 1 million files – which can include documents photos videos music movies and more – are presently
August 7 1998 Simultaneous bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killing 12 Americans lead FBI to put Osama bin Laden on the bureau's 10 Most Wanted List
August 20 1998 President Clinton launches cruise missile strike "Operation Infinite Reach" at al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan Bin Laden had left
What does the death of Osama bin Laden mean for Al Qaeda? A sampling of early reactions
NYU terrorism expert Paul Cruikshank "The threat of al Qaeda won't go away anytime soon as the thwarting of a serious al Qaeda plot against Germany last week demonstrated Bin Laden's ideology has been spread
Osama bin Laden's $1 million purpose-built compound (reportedly point B on the map below) is located just one mile from the West Point of Pakistan PMA Kakul (point A) The Pakistani government has a lot of explaining to do
