Monday, April 7, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 08/04/2014





Hunt for Malaysia jetliner moved to area where signals detected
Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 is pictured during a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, in the south Indian OceanSome planes and ships searching for Flight MH370 are diverted.



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NASA training humanoid robot to perform surgery
NASA RobonautRobonaut 2, NASA's humanoid robot currently inhabiting the International Space Station, hasn't done much exciting work up there since its arrival three years ago. But according to officials, the plan is for the robot to eventually perform surgery.



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Ortiz-Obama selfie sparks White House controversy
A controversial selfie with President Barack Obama taken by David Ortiz during a visit to the White House by the Boston Red Sox last week may be the last, senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said on Sunday.



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APNewsBreak: Obama actions test workplace ideas
In this April 3, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama listens on stage before speaking about the shooting at Fort Hood, during an event welcoming members of the U.S. teams from the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia in the East Room of White House in Washington. The roller coaster of health care enrollment behind him, Obama is using a lull between foreign travel to refocus on his economic agenda, using executive actions to push for greater gender pay equality and to promote better technical skills for U.S. students.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lacking congressional support to raise wages or end gender pay disparities, President Barack Obama is again imposing his policies on federal contractors, in keeping with presidents' tradition of exerting their powers on a fraction of the economy they directly control.



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Jeb Bush says he'll make decision on bid this year
This Jan. 29, 2014 photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gestures as he speaks at the Inside ITFs Conference at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Fla. Bush says he’s all the speculation about whether he’ll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he had already entered the race. The former Republican governor of Florida says that’s not by design, and that he’ll make his decision before year’s end. He tells Fox News Channel that the state of politics is ``crazy right now.” (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeb Bush says all the speculation about whether he'll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he had already entered the race.



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Near Fort Hood, church service honors fallen
Kathy Abad, a military wife, prays for the victims and families affected by the Fort Hood shooting during a memorial service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Killeen, Texas. On April 2, 2014, three people were killed and 16 were wounded when a gunman opened fire before taking his own life at the Fort Hood military base. (AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa)KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — The church program pictured an empty road being enveloped by the dark clouds of a sweeping thunderstorm, and the service's lesson was from Isaiah 35:4, "Be strong, fear not." The preacher implored those gathered Sunday that they would find hope in God, but also acknowledged the question on everyone's mind: Why Fort Hood — again?



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Ex-Palestinian prisoner teaches Hebrew, tolerance
In this Thursday, April 3, 2014 photo, Palestinian Esmat Mansour, a former prisoner who was released after 20 years in Israeli jail, teaches Hebrew to students at a school in the village of Taybeh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mansour was 16 when, in October 1993, he helped three older teens stab to death an Israeli man. Mansour said the time in Israeli prison changed him. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)DEIR JARIR, West Bank (AP) — Facing a classroom of Palestinian 10th graders, Hebrew teacher Esmat Mansour asks his students who is for and against learning the language. A few raise their hands in favor, others against and he asks both sides to explain.



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Strait wins entertainer of the year at ACM Awards
George Strait accepts the award for entertainer of the year at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)George Strait won his second entertainer of the year — 25 years after he won his first — and Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban teamed up to earn top honors Sunday night at a jam-packed Academy of Country Music Awards that had a little something for everyone.



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NYC police, fire brawl during charity hockey match
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A large brawl broke out during an annual charity hockey match between New York City police and firefighters on Long Island.

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US soccer fires women's coach Tom Sermanni
In this Sept. 3, 2013, photo, U.S. women's national soccer team coach Tom Sermanni waits for an international friendly against Mexico in Washington. U.S. Soccer says Sermanni has been fired as coach. The Americans beat China 2-0 in an exhibition game Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Commerce City, Colo. Hours later, the U.S. soccer announced the move in a news release. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)CHICAGO (AP) — On Sunday afternoon, Tom Sermanni coached the U.S. women's team to a 2-0 win over China in Colorado.



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Ships race to investigate signals in jet search
People offer prayers during a mass prayer for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, April 6, 2014. The head of the multinational search for the missing Malaysia airlines jet says that electronic pulses reportedly picked up by a Chinese ship are an encouraging sign but stresses they are not yet verified. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)PERTH, Australia (AP) — A British navy ship with sophisticated sound-locating equipment arrived Monday in a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether underwater sounds picked up by a Chinese ship crew using a hand-held device came from the missing Malaysia Airlines black boxes.



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Sick baby's parents defend sailing trip with kids
In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, sailors from Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 49) assist in the rescue of a family with a sick infant via the ship's small boat as part of a joint U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescue effort, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Eric and Charlotte Kaufman said their daughter Lyra's medical condition continued to improve after they boarded the San Diego-bound Vandegrift hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast so the girl could get to a medical facility. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California parents of a 1-year-old girl who fell ill on a sailing trip around the world thanked military crews who rescued them from their stalled vessel on Sunday and defended their decision to sail with young children.



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Lambert leads, Shelton, Bryan excel at ACM Awards
Keith Urban arrives at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP)Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert were tied for the most trophies at the Academy of Country Music Awards with three, but it was Lambert's husband, Blake Shelton, and co-host Luke Bryan who were on a winning streak on Sunday night.



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Urban, Lambert early winners at rockin ACM Awards
Keith Urban arrives at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP)The Academy of Country Music Awards showed off its rock edges on Sunday night in a show that was as heavy on performances as it was guitar riffs, from genre-mixing performances with Blake Shelton and Shakira to high-voltage sets by the Band Perry, Florida Georgia Line and Brad Paisley.



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Rwanda genocide: Man and victim now friends
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, right, who during the 1994 Rwandan genocide cut off with a machete the hand of Alice Mukarurinda, left, in the swamp where she was hiding and killed her baby girl, but who are now friends, pose for a photograph outside Alice's house in Nyamata, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NYAMATA, Rwanda (AP) — She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both.



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Keith Urban early leader at ACM Awards with 3
Keith Urban arrives at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP)The Band Perry opened The Academy of Country Music Awards a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll with a sexy version of their hit "Chainsaw," but it was Keith Urban who was ripping through the awards as they opened.



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Pelosi: Cheney 'proud' CIA misled
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, following her lunch with President Barack Obama. Pelosi was asked several questions about the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Ahead of the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report that is expected to say the CIA misled the government and the American people about its interrogation techniques, Nancy Pelosi is placing the blame squarely on the former vice president.



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