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Hands-on review: Hisense Sero 7 tablets
On Thursday, Hisense announced it was releasing not one, but two new 7-inch Android tablets designed to appeal to the budget-conscious consumer. The Sero 7 series was developed as a partnership between Hisense, Wal-mart and Nvidia, and is priced to cut into competitor sales immediately. While the diminutive devices...
techradar.com (1 hour ago)
Bautista ready to move on after four-hit performance
Jose Bautista entered Thursday's contest against the Orioles after one of his best individual performances, but it's not something the veteran slugger wants to dwell on.
mlb.com (1 hour ago)
Abruptly, P.&G. Chief Ends Career of 33 Years
The hedge fund manager William Ackman had criticized Robert A. McDonald, the chief, for the company’s poor stock performance.
nytimes.com (1 hour ago)
Amprius Begins Shipping a Better Smartphone Battery
A company called Amprius is getting closer to delivering salvation from so-so smartphone batteries. As one of several companies trying to fix smartphone battery life, Amprius has begun supplying its first products to phone and tablet makers. The exact improvement in real-world performance is tough to quantify...
time.com (2 hours ago)
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: ABT's Isabella Boylston: Defining Space and Being in the Moment
Written with Ellen Dobbyn-BlackmoreIsabella Boylston in Swan Lake with American Ballet TheatrePhoto by Gene Schiavone American Ballet Theatre soloist Isabella Boylston defines space around her by moving through it. As she moves, whether on stage or in rehearsal, everything seems to shift and realign itself around...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Halfords' boss invests £100m but warns profits will dive
The chief executive of Halfords has launched a stinging attack on the state of its retail business and admitted profits will fall over the next two years as it invests £100m to turn around its performance.
independent.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Leilani Münter: Why We Need to Fight for Tesla
I spent last weekend driving a Tesla Model S from Washington DC to Atlantic City and back. Never before in my life have I driven a car that has started so many conversations. People were gathering around the car as it was parked at the supercharging station in Delaware. "Is this a Tesla? I heard about this car on...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Area schools score well on American Indian performance
Bemidji PioneerBEMIDJI - Multiple Bemidji area schools have been listed as top-performing schools in Minnesota for low-income and American Indian performance, according to statewide nonprofit agency. In Bemidji, Central...
bemidjipioneer.com (4 hours ago)
Beaverton alum gives speech alongside Joe Biden at U.S. Coast Guard graduation
Joe Sullivan-Springhetti was the Coast Guard Academy's distinguished honor graduate this year, meaning he was the top-ranked student when assessed by academic, military and physical performance.
oregonlive.com (4 hours ago)
Goldman says it adopts all 39 initiatives to address conflicts
The bank made managing its reputation a bigger component in measuring employee performance
efinancialnews.com (4 hours ago)
Bob McDonald Out At Procter & Gamble; A.G. Lafley Returning As CEO
Activist investor Bill Ackman said earlier this month that if Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald couldn't improve the company's performance in two to three quarters, he should be replaced. The consumer product giant's board of directors apparently decided that they needed to make a change quicker.
forbes.com (5 hours ago)
Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops
Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their "Ivy Bridge" predecessors, Intel said on Thursday. Haswell chips were designed with laptops and tablets in mind, and the main focus was on lowering power consumption, said Rani Borkar,...
pcworld.com (5 hours ago)
The King of Marvin Gardens – review
American film-maker Bob Rafelson has just celebrated his 80th birthday, and you couldn't give him or yourself a nicer present than to see this marvellous film, now restored and re-released: The King of Marvin Gardens (1972). Like his Five Easy Pieces (1970), it stars Jack Nicholson giving a performance of...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review
It's rare that a new work's performance overshadows the piece itself, but Christian Tetzlaff's account of the violin concerto Jörg Widmann composed for him in 2007 is so astonishingly vivid and secure that Widmann's impressive work at least has to share the spotlight with its dedicatee. With its huge expressive...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Olthuis: Capricho; Villa-Lobos: Ciranda dos Sete Notas; Gubaidulina: Bassoon Concerto, etc – review
Gustavo Núñez is principal bassoon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and on the evidence of the concertante pieces on this disc, he's a player of jaw-dropping agility and effortlessly suave tone. Most of the works here, though, are pleasantly unremarkable – both the Capricho by his former colleague Kees Olthuis...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
El Paso Mayor John Cook says city manager won't get performance review
El Paso Mayor John Cook decided on Thursday not to review City Manager Joyce Wilson's performance after information of her evaluation process was leaked to the media.
elpasotimes.com (7 hours ago)
"Dead Cat Bounce" Or "Pause That Refreshes"
While the off-the-lows mentality of today's market performance was heralded by most as a signal that the BTFD'rs are back, we gently remind them that the Nikkei (futures) did not bounce at all... In fact S&P futures bounced to a rather eerily perfect 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of the overnight plunge and then...
zerohedge.com (7 hours ago)
Virginia beats Georgia Tech 8-2 in ACC tourney
Nick Howard and Kenny Towns each drove in two runs, while Scott Silverstein flirted with a complete-game performance to help Virginia beat Georgia Tech 8-2 on Thursday in pool play at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
miamiherald.com (7 hours ago)
Virginia beats Georgia Tech 8-2 in ACC tourney
Nick Howard and Kenny Towns each drove in two runs, while Scott Silverstein flirted with a complete-game performance to help Virginia beat Georgia Tech 8-2 on Thursday in pool play…Click to Continue »
macon.com (7 hours ago)
Royal Mail CEO In Line For £500,000 Bonus
Moya Greene to receive payout for steering sharp improvement in postal firm’s performance last year, Sky News learns.
sky.com (8 hours ago)
EA CTO: Xbox One and PS4 “are a generation ahead of” PCs
The new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One come with some pretty impressive hardware on the inside. So good, in fact, that Electronic Arts CTO Rajat Teneja believes that the performance and hardware in the Xbox One and PS4 “are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market,” so not just gaming PCs ...
slashgear.com (8 hours ago)
Aphrodisiacs That Are as Stimulating as Decaf
Looking to boost your sex drive? Increase your endurance? Boost your performance? None of these products can do any of that.
discovery.com (8 hours ago)
LOOK: You'll Never Believe What's Inside This Balloon
Most men get ready to propose to their girlfriends by putting on a nice outfit and making sure the ring is tucked into their pocket. Vancouver circus performer Nigel Wakita got ready by by stuffing himself inside a giant balloon! Wakita is the director of recreational education and a performer at the Vancouver...
huffingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)
Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't'
This is Oscar Isaac's fourth Cannes. He was here in 2009 with Agora, then Robin Hood in 2010, then Drive the year after. Actually, he is quite the film fest fixture: at Venice with W.E. and Toronto with 10 Years. So it is testimony to his quicksilver skills – or to a collective forgetfulness – that he was greeted at...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Tata Steel loses £840m as demand drops
India's Tata Steel has plunged into the red with losses of £840m after wiping £1bn off the value of its European arm, which employs 18,500 people in Britain. The overall post-tax figure for the group represents a sharp fall from the previous year's £642m profit, and is largely accounted for by the writedown. Tata...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
With an SSD, backups are more important than ever
Welcome to the dawn of the SSD age. Solid-state drives now offer great performance at affordable prices, which is why more and more users are choosing them in new PCs and adding them to older ones. I'm a big fan myself, but I want to share a cautionary tale. About six months ago, an acquaintance of mine installed...
pcworld.com (8 hours ago)
Hisense Sero 7 Pro Hands On: A Promising Nexus 7 Clone
Contrary to some rumors, Google didn't announce a refreshed Nexus 7 at I/O a little while back, but up-and-comers HiSense just announced a pretty good alternative. Its new Sero 7 Pro-the companies first foray into the tablet space-is basically a Nexus 7, but at only $150. The Sero 7 Pro has all the Nexus 7-y...
gizmodo.com (9 hours ago)
MMA Fighter Waylon Lowe Sues Kama Sutra Gel Co. -- You Wrecked My Penis!
An internationally-known MMA fighter ... claims a gel that is supposed to enhance sexual performance has ruined his ... claiming he now has a bum penis that can't ejaculate.Waylon Lowe claims in a new lawsuit ... he bought a tube of Kama Sutra Pleasure…
tmz.com (9 hours ago)
Marcus Trescothick describes Somerset's performance against Sussex as 'embarrassing'
Sussex (300) bt Somerset (76 & 108) by an innings and 116 run Marcus Trescothick at a loss to explain Somerset's defeat to Sussex inside two days.
telegraph.co.uk (9 hours ago)
Blue is the Warmest Colour installed as frontrunner for Palme d'Or
A hail of enthusiastic tweets followed the Cannes premiere of Blue is the Warmest Colour – elevating it to the status of the critics' favourite of the festival, and not a moment too long at three hours. It also happens to contain the lengthiest, most intimate and most graphic lesbian sex scenes in mainstream cinema...
guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)
