Official MIUI release now available for the Samsung Epic Touch 4G

Been looking for a new ROM for your Samsung Epic Touch 4G on Sprint, well how about a little bit of MIUI love for you? It appears as though an official build has been released for the device, and it is now available for your downloading pleasure. For those unfamiliar, MIUI is a custom ROM that is quite similar in many ways to iOS and provides a rather unique Android experience. Rooted and ready to flash? If so hit the link below for download links and full information about the ROM.

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Internet giants oppose Web control in India court (Reuters)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) ? Internet giants Google and Facebook told an Indian court on Monday that it is not possible for companies to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that has stoked fears about censorship in the world's largest democracy.

Google and Facebook are among 21 companies that have been asked to develop a mechanism to block objectionable material, after a private petitioner took the websites to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

At the heart of the dispute is a law passed last year in the country that makes companies responsible for user content posted on their websites, requiring them to take it down within 36 hours in case of a complaint.

The case was originally filed in a lower court, but the companies have appealed to the Delhi High Court, challenging the lower court's ruling asking them to take down some content.

"The search engine only takes you till the website. What happens after that is beyond a search engine's control," Neeraj Kishan Kaul, a lawyer for Google's Indian unit, told a packed High Court hearing on Monday.

"If you use blocks, which is very easy for people to say, you will inadvertently block other things as well. For example: the word 'sex'. Even a government document like a voter ID list or a passport has the word 'sex'," he added.

Siddharth Luthra, a lawyer for Facebook told the court it was not possible for the social network to "single out" any individual on the basis of religion or views and said the users should be held responsible for content they post.

Less than a tenth of India's 1.2 billion population have access to Internet although its 100-odd million users make it the third biggest Internet market after China and the United States. Internet users in India are seen nearly tripling to 300 million over the next three years.

Despite the new rules to block offensive content, India's Internet access is still largely free unlike the tight controls in neighboring China.

Civil rights groups have opposed the new laws. But politicians say that posting offensive images in the socially conservative country with a history of violence between religious groups presents a danger to the public as Internet use grows.

The high court will resume hearing the case on Thursday, Justice Suresh Kait said. The judge was last week quoted by local media warning the websites of China-style controls if they did not create a means to curb material seen as offensive.

(Writing by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Matthias Williams)

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Venezuela: Consulate officials in US threatened (AP)

CARACAS, Venezuela ? Venezuelan exiles with links to terrorism have threatened officials at the South American country's consulate in Miami, the foreign minister said Sunday.

Nicolas Maduro did not offer evidence of his claims, which came shortly after President Hugo Chavez said his government would close the consulate in response Washington's expulsion of a Venezuelan diplomat.

Maduro told the state-run AVN news agency that "a group of organizations bringing together Venezuelans who fled justice" in their homeland "have threatened not only the consul but the personnel at out consulate."

Maduro singled out a group called Venezuelan Persecution Victims in Exile, which had taken part in public demonstrations against the consul. Maduro said it sought to provoke the diplomatic spat and noted that the group's leader, Jose Antonio Colina, is wanted in Venezuela on terrorism-related charges of attacking the Spanish Embassy and Colombian consulate in 2003.

Colina has denied any role in the bombings, saying many people saw him elsewhere at the time of the attacks. He alleges the government is trying to persecute him for taking part in earlier protests by dissident military officers against Chavez.

Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuela's consul general in Miami, was ordered out of the U.S. last weekend followed an FBI investigation into allegations that she discussed a possible cyber-attack on the U.S. government while she was assigned to the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico. The allegations were detailed in a documentary aired by the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.

The documentary was based on recordings of conversations with her and other officials, and alleged that Cuban and Iranian diplomatic missions were involved. Citing audio and video obtained by the students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Univision alleged Acosta was seeking information about the servers of nuclear power plants on U.S. soil.

Maduro called the documentary "trash" and accused U.S. congressmen including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Rivera, Robert Menendez and Mario Diaz Balart of backing the anti-Chavez organizations.

The diplomat did not provide details of his allegations against U.S. lawmakers.

Chavez said Friday he decided the consulate will shut its doors in response to what he called an unfair action by the U.S. State Department.

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MLK memorial quote to change (Politico)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A quote inscribed in stone on the new Martin Luther King memorial will likely be changed after complaints it didn't accurately reflect the civil rights leader's words.
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The King memorial opened in August with the quote: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness."
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The phrase is modified from a speech King began by saying, "Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice ... "
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Poet Maya Angelou said the truncated version made King sound like "an arrogant twit."
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The Washington Post reported Friday that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar set a deadline in 30 days for the National Park Service to consult with interested parties and make a change.

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With All Eyes on New Hampshire, President Obama Begins to Campaign (ContributorNetwork)

President Obama has begun to take his first steps into more active campaigning with ads designed to bolster his reelection chances making their debut in New Hampshire just as the state ramped up for its primary on Tuesday. The president has also reportedly begun to attend small fundraisers in advance of the more hectic campaign schedule to come, according to the Washington Post.

Here are some of the details emerging from those first campaign ads and fundraisers.

* Obama attended two different fundraisers in Washington on Monday night, one of which featured a small group of participants that paid as much as $45,000 apiece to attend, according to The Hill. The other fundraiser was more modest, with attendees having paid $100 a ticket to hear the president speak.

* On Wednesday the president is scheduled to return to Chicago to speak at a fundraising event to be held at the UIC forum, as well as two other events.

* On Tuesday, campaign ads for the president appeared across the entire front page of the website for the Union Leader, an extremely popular and high-profile source for information about the New Hampshire primary, according to the New York Daily News.

* The president's reelection team, "Obama For America," had also purchased similar ads on the front page of the Des Moines Register ahead of the Iowa Caucus. Obama also filmed a video ad that played in the state.

* Most of the attention being paid at the moment to the New Hampshire primary may be centered around who wins the state's GOP nomination for president, but Obama faces a vote there as well. The New Hampshire primary votes for both the Democratic and Republican nominees each election cycle, according to US News. Theoretically, New Hampshire could ultimately vote for one of the 13 other Democratic nominees for president that appear on the primary ballot rather than Obama.

* Vice President Joe Biden is taking small steps into the reelection campaign arena as well. On Tuesday evening he is scheduled to be on the phone for a conference call with supporters in New Hampshire to encourage them to vote, according to The State.

* First Lady Michelle Obama has begun to hit the reelection campaign trail as well. She is scheduled to appear at four events in Virginia this week. Two of the scheduled events are to be sponsored by the Democratic National Committee.

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New maps of the cosmic dark

Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter

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AUSTIN, Texas ? Astronomers might not know what dark matter is or be able to see it, but at least they know something about where it is. Using telltale distortions in light from distant galaxies, scientists have mapped out clumps and strings of the invisible stuff on a larger scale than ever before.

One set of maps, presented January 9 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, comes from five years of observations made by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii. The work covers an area of sky roughly one billion light years across that?s populated by more than 10 million distant galaxies. Most of the galaxies lie six billion light years from Earth, providing the team with an enormous swath of space to study.

?The dark matter map coming out of this survey has a tremendous cosmological volume,? said Rachel Mandelbaum of Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who was not involved in the research.

Two other teams, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., have also analyzed dark matter?s cosmic abundance in the universe on a large scale. That work, done using images taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey between 2000 and 2009, produced similar results, those scientists reported January 9 at the meeting.

Dark matter, which makes up roughly 25 percent of the physical universe, reveals its presence in part by warping the light from distant galaxies. Dark matter?s gravity tugs at light traveling near it, producing distorted images of galaxies that point scientists toward the location of the otherwise veiled substance. ?You can imagine that dark matter is leaving its signature on the images of very distant galaxies,? said Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the first group.

She and her colleagues deduced where dark matter lurked by looking at the distorted, distant galaxies in the study areas. For years, scientists have suspected that clumps of galaxies and clumps of dark matter coincide. The new maps confirm this pattern. The most massive peaks of dark matter host ?giant monsters, clusters of galaxies,? said team member Ludovic Van Waerbeke of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. ?We are very happy that this is very similar to what we?ve been expecting.?

The maps also reveal the presence of voids, enormous regions of empty space carved into the otherwise complex and knotty web of matter.

Heymans? team?s maps cover 155 square degrees of sky; for comparison, the full moon covers about one-quarter of a square degree. The Berkeley Lab and Fermilab teams studied distorted light in a larger patch, as large as 275 square degrees. But those scientists didn?t look as far away, focusing more on dark matter?s distribution in the local universe.

The results from all three teams are similar, scientists say, which is reassuring when trying to detect something as elusive as dark matter. The Sloan results ?are fantastically complementary to ours,? Heymans notes. ?They?re looking at the very local universe, much closer to our history. We?re looking at dark matter evolving over this long time scale.?

That such detailed work can be done using these lensing techniques ?bodes well for next generation surveys,? said Fermilab physicist and astronomer Huan Lin. ?These future surveys will cover thousands of square degrees.?

The teams will continue studying the mysterious substance and hope to extend the map to cover the entire sky in the next decade or so. Heymans? team is also working on resolving the locations of the lumps and strings in three dimensions, and testing whether Einstein?s theory of gravity holds true in the distant universe.

So far, Einstein seems to be doing OK, Heymans said. ?What we?re finding is some concrete evidence that?s supporting Einstein?s theory of general relativity on these cosmological scales."
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10 Automotive Predictions for 2012

The next generation Corvette, the 2014 C7, won?t debut until early next year. But as 2013 creeps closer, we probably will learn much about the all-new ?Vette?and what we learn probably won?t shock or awe anyone.

Every new generation of Corvette spawns wild rumors of incredible technology and revolutionary powertrains. Since the 1970s, we?ve heard that the next ?new Corvette? will be midengined and perhaps it will use a turbocharged V-6 or a rotary engine. It might also have wild bodywork. And yet, as far back as the 1950s, Corvettes have used a rear-wheel-drive chassis with a V-8 upfront. And for the past 40 years, Corvette styling has evolved consistently, like the Porsche 911?s. There have been no great leaps in styling since 1968.

The new C7 probably won?t be any different. There most likely won?t be any radical split-rear-window as a nod to the ?60s. A V-8 with around 450 hp will probably live under the car?s hood. We expect the new interior to be much upgraded over the current car, perhaps offering GM?s new Cue infotainment system. That might just be the most revolutionary part of the new car: a truly modern Corvette interior.

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Texans win first playoff game, 31-10 over Bengals

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt celebrates his touchdown on an interception of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton during the second quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt celebrates his touchdown on an interception of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton during the second quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson scores a touchdown with Cincinnati Bengals strong safety Chris Crocker (42) in pursuit during the third quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson (80) against the Cincinnati Bengals during the fourth quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster (23) celebrates his touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals during the fourth quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster (23) celebrates his touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals during the fourth quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

HOUSTON (AP) ? Andre Johnson hugged his coach at the end of Houston's first playoff victory ? a moment a decade in the making.

"This is something not just for me, but for the whole organization," the Texans star receiver said. "It's a very special feeling. That's probably the most I've smiled in a long time."

As well he should.

Johnson, the face of this 10-year old franchise, scored on a 40-yard pass that powered the Texans to a 31-10 victory over the bungling Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday in an AFC wild-card game.

Johnson had plenty of help, too, from rookies J.J. Watt and T.J. Yates to running back Arian Foster's two touchdowns and 153 yards.

Watt came through with a leaping interception return for a touchdown late in the first half, Yates threw a pinpoint pass to Johnson in the third quarter and Foster followed with his second touchdown ? a 42-yard run in the fourth quarter ? to finish off the Bengals (9-8).

Houston will play at Baltimore (12-4) next Sunday, a rematch of a regular-season game won by the Ravens.

"I'm just very proud of all the guys, and the job they did," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said. "Hopefully, there are some more to come."

The Bengals were in the playoffs for the third time in seven seasons, but haven't advanced since beating the Houston Oilers following the 1990 season. They were done in this time by mistakes and a lack of pass protection.

"We have to get beyond this," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. "We play in a very difficult division. We have to win games in the division, that is important and it sets up opportunities like this, all the time."

Watt returned the first of rookie Andy Dalton's three interceptions 29 yards for a score that broke a 10-all tie with 52 seconds left in the half. It sent the full house of 71,725 fans at Reliant Stadium into a frenzy, and the Texans into the locker room with all the momentum.

"You can see that they were all so proud of their team," Houston owner Bob McNair said of the team's long-suffering fans. "We want to have a team everybody can be proud of and want to feel an attachment to. I think they have that."

Dalton was 24 of 42 for 257 yards, while Yates was 11 of 20 for 159 yards in the first playoff game in the Super Bowl era matching two rookie quarterbacks. Foster's first TD was an 8-yard run in the first quarter.

The Texans' second-ranked defense had its best performance in several weeks, sacking Dalton a season-high four times. Houston also forced four turnovers.

"We got back to our type of football," Kubiak said, "and that was the key."

Houston used six draft picks on defensive players. The Texans took Watt with the 11th overall pick, a cornerstone for the reconstruction of the defense. He started all 16 games and led the team with 13 tackles for loss.

But he'd never picked off a pass.

Watt saw this one coming, measuring his jump when Dalton dropped back and snatching the ball with both hands. He sprinted to the end zone as the capacity crowd erupted, and he raised both hands after reaching the end zone.

"I was really just trying to put my hands up and get in the way of the passing lane," the 6-foot-5 Watt said. "It happened to kind of stick. I realized I had the ball so I just ran to the end zone just trying not to fall down."

Watt became the sixth defensive linemen to return an interception for a touchdown in postseason history ? excluding the Super Bowl ? and the first rookie to do it.

"It changed the momentum of the game," Houston linebacker Brian Cushing said.

Dalton rolled his eyes and shook his head as he walked to the Cincinnati bench and watched the replay on the giant scoreboard. It was just his second interception in his last seven games.

"We feel like we have a bright future," Dalton said. "It's still unfortunate that it ended this way."

The Bengals outplayed the Texans for most of the first half before that, holding down Houston's offense and controlling time of possession.

Late in the third quarter, Yates got away with a pass that safety Chris Crocker simply dropped. Three plays later, Johnson broke free from cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones and caught Yates' pass down the sideline to put Houston up 24-10.

"It was a touchdown if I would have caught it," Crocker said. "They made those big plays and we didn't and that's why they're moving on."

As Johnson rested on the bench, Foster walked up to him and gave him a bow, the running back's customary celebration after a touchdown. Foster has said that the bow is a Hindu gesture of respect.

The Texans rallied past the Bengals on Dec. 11 in Cincinnati to earn their first playoff berth. But they didn't look like they'd last very long after dropping their last three regular-season games.

Johnson said the losing streak proved to be beneficial.

"Everybody was riding high, the city was going crazy, we were in the playoffs for the first time," Johnson said. "Over those last three weeks, that brought us back down to reality and let us know what we needed to do."

Notes:(at) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell chatted with fans and posed for photographs on the field about 30 minutes before kickoff. ... Actor Dennis Quaid, a Houston native, wore a blue DeMeco Ryans jersey as he mingled on the sideline before the game. Quaid shook hands with former Oilers coach Bum Phillips, who wore his trademark cowboy hat, a black shirt and blue jeans. The 88-year-old Phillips led the Texans out of their tunnel and tipped his hat to the cheering fans.

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A snake named Matilda: New species in Tanzania

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 30, 2011 and released by The Wildlife Conservation Society on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, a Matilda's Horned Viper is photographed in a forest habitat in southwestern Tanzania. The world's newest snake was discovered in a small patch of southwest Tanzania about two years ago and was introduced last month in an issue of Zootaxa as the world's newest known snake species - named after the 7-year-old daughter of Tim Davenport, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania, who was on the three-person team that discovered the viper. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Tim Davenport) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 30, 2011 and released by The Wildlife Conservation Society on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, a Matilda's Horned Viper is photographed in a forest habitat in southwestern Tanzania. The world's newest snake was discovered in a small patch of southwest Tanzania about two years ago and was introduced last month in an issue of Zootaxa as the world's newest known snake species - named after the 7-year-old daughter of Tim Davenport, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania, who was on the three-person team that discovered the viper. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Tim Davenport) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? The world's newest snake has menacing-looking yellow and black scales, dull green eyes and two spiky horns. And it's named after a 7-year-old girl.

Matilda's Horned Viper was discovered in a small patch of southwest Tanzania about two years ago and was introduced last month as the world's newest known snake species in an issue of Zootaxa.

Tim Davenport, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania, was on the three-person team that discovered the viper. Thanks to his daughter, the snake will always carry a family namesake.

"My daughter, who was 5 at the time, became fascinated by it and used to love spending time watching it and helping us look after it," Davenport told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We called it Matilda's Viper at that stage ... and then the name stuck."

Only three new vipers have been discovered across Africa the last three decades, making the find rare and important. The Wildlife Conservation Society is not revealing exactly where the snake lives so that trophy hunters can't hunt it.

Davenport said he is not sure how many live in the wild because snake counts are hard to do. Twelve live in captivity and a breeding plan is being carried out.

Davenport, a Briton who has lived in Tanzania for 12 years, said that while many people fear snakes, most are harmless and help keep rodent numbers down. Matilda's horned viper can grow to 2 feet (65 centimeters) or bigger, he said.

"This particular animal looks fierce and probably is venomous (though bush viper bites are not fatal)," Davenport told AP via an Internet chat. "However, it is actually very calm animal and not at all aggressive. I have handled one on a number of occasions."

The Wildlife Conservation Society runs the Bronx Zoo and the Central Park Zoo in New York, and Davenport said it would be a "great option" to showcase the new horned viper at one of those locations, but that nothing has yet been decided.

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AT&T Cloud Architect: lets devs build their own clouds

We're here at the AT&T Developers keynote and CTO John Donovan just revealed that the network is building AT&T Cloud Architect. It's a developer-centric cloud that will help devs build cloud apps. There's a full API coming soon with a flexible pricing structure: you can pay monthly or hourly depending on your needs. It's also joining the OpenStack architecture, which Ma Bell's gonna rely upon to support the platform -- reportedly the first US telecom provider to do so. The company's planning to optimize APIs to the extent that 10 billion API calls will be made before the end of 2012.

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