Schwarzenegger Fathered Child With Employee

Mr. Schwarzenegger issued a statement Tuesday morning acknowledging the events, and said he informed Ms. Shriver of the affair after he finished his term in office in January. The baby was born before Mr. Schwarzenegger was elected in a special election in 2003.

The revelations were first reported Monday night by The Los Angeles Times

?After leaving the Governor?s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago,? he said in a statement. ?I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.?

Mr. Schwarzenegger?s associates said that the employee, who was not identified, moved out of his mansion and that she has since retired with a severance. They said that Mr. Schwarzenegger was paying full child support.

The report comes after Mr. Schwarzenegger and Ms. Shriver, who have four children together, announced that they were separating after 25 years of marriage. They were a couple who commanded widespread attention because of their unusual pedigree: Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is a former movie actor and body builder. Ms. Shriver is a member of the Kennedy family who gave up a career as a television broadcaster in deference to Mr. Schwarzenegger?s desire to enter politics.

In her statement Tuesday, Ms. Shriver asked for privacy.

?As a mother, my concern is for the children,? she said. ?I ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will have no further comment.?

The couple at the time asked friends not to discuss the situation with members of the media, pleading for privacy. Mr. Schwarzenegger ? who since leaving office has announced his plans to go back into the movie industry ? made a similar plea Tuesday morning.

?I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time,? he said. ?While I deserve your attention and criticism my family does not.?

Mr. Schwarzenegger has continued to live in a gated mansion he owns at the end of a long road in Brentwood. Ms. Shriver moved to a hotel.

The Los Angeles Times did not identify the member of the household staff. But the newspaper said she had worked for the family for 20 years before retiring this year. The paper quoted her as saying that she had received a severance payment and that she had ?left on good terms with them.?

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A Virtual View beneath the Skin

Microsoft researchers have developed a handheld device that gives physical-therapy patients a virtual view beneath the skin to see what an injury looks like inside. The hope is that this will make them a little more eager to keep doing their therapies. 

"People are notoriously bad at sticking to their physical therapy regimens," says Amy Karlson, of Microsoft Research's Computational User Experiences Group in Redmond, Washington. Between 30 and 50 percent of patients with chronic conditions fail to comply with their recommended therapies, she says. As a result, conditions can take longer to heal or can get even worse.

Karlson says the more information that patients have about their injuries, the more likely they are to comply with physical therapy regimens. The new tool, called AnatOnMe, aims to give patients that extra bit of information. The device projects an image of the underlying bone structure, muscle tissue, tendons, or nerves onto the skin, giving patients a better understanding of the injury, and of what they need to do to help the healing process, says Karlson.

The prototype device comes in two parts. The first contains a handheld, or pico, projector, an ordinary digital camera, and an infrared camera. The second contains a laser pointer and the control buttons. "The technology is somewhat low-tech," says Karlson, who presented the device this week in Vancouver at CHI 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Instead of using a complicated autocorrection system to map the image of the internal injury precisely onto the patient's exterior, the therapist simply points the projector and lines it up by eye. And with the prototype, the images displayed are not actually taken from scans of the patients but come from stock graphical images used to show one of six different types of injury.

Even so, it appears to be very effective, says Karlson. Controlled experiments of the device carried out by two physical therapists suggest that the device encourages patients to stick to their therapies.

A doctor or therapist could also use AnatOnMe to project images onto a nearby wall. The user interface also works this way, says Karlson, with the menu options projected onto a surface. Options are selected using the laser pointer, which is detected by the infrared camera.

E. Anne Reicherter, a member of the American Physical Therapy Association at the University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Medicine, says physical therapy compliance is a major problem, partly because it usually involves exercise, and partly because it involves changing a habit or forgoing a behavior that may have caused the injury in the first place.

"But most patients are very interested in understanding what's going on in their body, so something like this that can visually assist them in truly understanding would be a real benefit," says Reicherter. Although, she adds, a certain portion of the population, particularly older patients, may find such visceral detail a bit of a turn off.

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An Interview with Lexalytics: Understanding text analytics technology

A few weeks ago I received a pitch saying that Lexalytics, a B2B provider of sentiment and text analytics technology, powering brand and reputation management tools such as Radian6 and Scout Labs, had recently upgraded their Salience product by digesting all of Wikipedia to come up with their patent-pending technology, Concept Matrices. This product, they said, enables us to understand the complex relationships between words and their meaning, which provides valuable analysis to brands.

Thinking this sounded pretty cool, and wanting to brush up on my knowledge of Concept Matrices, I reached out to Jeff Catlin, the CEO of Lexalytics for a short interview.

CBM: In layman?s terms what exactly is sentiment and text analytics technology?

Jeff Catlin: Pick some text, any text. And as if by magic, we?ll tell you who is being discussed, what the conversation is about, and if it?s positive or negative for those involved. This gets used by all kinds of different organizations ? to see what people like, what they don?t, how well a product is working, if they need to put more beef on the hamburger, and, of course, by Big Brother to See If You Are Planning A Terrorist Attack.

On that note ? don?t say anything on Facebook or Twitter or any other place on the Internet that you don?t want your grandmother and the government to read.

CBM: How did you get into this fascinating field?

JC: Having been involved in the search business before now; this is a natural next-step to search. Rather than searching for a word, you can start looking for the concepts you actually mean.

CBM: Salience product? Digesting Wikipedia? What?s going on?! How long did it take you to marinate on all of those web pages?

JC: Salience is our software that is integrated into various other systems. Much like man, we are not an island, and our software goes into other systems, systems with lots of text where someone wants to understand what?s happening without reading all of it and taking notes.

Digesting Wikipedia, well that?s the future. Our next release is all about understanding what people are talking about, and what better source to gain that understanding than the world?s largest encyclopedia? We?ve swallowed all of Wikipedia, so that we can understand that a ?cat? is closely related to a ?lion? and that it?s only very loosely related to a ?walrus? (both animals). This sort of knowledge will help us truly understand what people are looking for when they ask questions.

CBM: Give us a simple man?s metaphor for Concept Matrices? Words, meanings, are we talking poetry here? When I say wave, will it know undertow? When I say valley, will it know mountain?

JC: You hit the nail on the head with your examples. When I think of oil, there are other concepts that go along with ?oil? ? ?petroleum?, ?gasoline? ?natural gas?; and more tenuously related concepts like ?solar power? and ?wind?. Wikipedia has these relationships implicitly and explicitly stated, and we?re using these relationships to associate concepts like ?cereal? to concepts like ?rice? as well as concepts like ?Frosted Flakes?.

CBM: So one day when I?m thinking of healthy food, will my networked refrigerator beep saying that my raw food breakfast is ready? What does the future of this technology look like in every day life? What are its greatest benefits?

JC: A true artificial intelligence requires a number of things ? it requires the ability to understand sound, and know that it?s speech. It requires the ability to see lines and understand that they?re text. It requires the ability to take the words and the meaning of the words and make meaningful, useful connections between the concepts.

There are myriad companies working on each individual chunk of producing an artificial intelligence. Few of them have that as their explicit goal (as there are great intermediate uses for doing something like, say, turning speech into text; or text into meaning).

That?s the grand goal.

But, in the interim, being able to tell your fridge that you want breakfast food when it?s dinner time, have it understand what?s in there, and then suggest that you go out to Denny?s because all you have is ketchup and leftover Chinese food; that?s a very real possibility. In order to get there, your fridge has to understand what ?breakfast? is, what food is generally associated with it, be able to cross match to potential recipes, and then look up on the map local restaurants that have food that could be classified as breakfast.

We?re not so far from that.

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Schwarzenegger Fathered Child With Employee

Mr. Schwarzenegger issued a statement Tuesday morning acknowledging the events, and said he informed Ms. Shriver of the affair after he finished his term in office in January. The baby was born before Mr. Schwarzenegger was elected in a special election in 2003.

The revelations were first reported Monday night by The Los Angeles Times

?After leaving the Governor?s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago,? he said in a statement. ?I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.?

Mr. Schwarzenegger?s associates said that the employee, who was not identified, moved out of his mansion and that she has since retired with a severance. They said that Mr. Schwarzenegger was paying full child support.

The report comes after Mr. Schwarzenegger and Ms. Shriver, who have four children together, announced that they were separating after 25 years of marriage. They were a couple who commanded widespread attention because of their unusual pedigree: Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is a former movie actor and body builder. Ms. Shriver is a member of the Kennedy family who gave up a career as a television broadcaster in deference to Mr. Schwarzenegger?s desire to enter politics.

In her statement Tuesday, Ms. Shriver asked for privacy.

?As a mother, my concern is for the children,? she said. ?I ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will have no further comment.?

The couple at the time asked friends not to discuss the situation with members of the media, pleading for privacy. Mr. Schwarzenegger ? who since leaving office has announced his plans to go back into the movie industry ? made a similar plea Tuesday morning.

?I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time,? he said. ?While I deserve your attention and criticism my family does not.?

Mr. Schwarzenegger has continued to live in a gated mansion he owns at the end of a long road in Brentwood. Ms. Shriver moved to a hotel.

The Los Angeles Times did not identify the member of the household staff. But the newspaper said she had worked for the family for 20 years before retiring this year. The paper quoted her as saying that she had received a severance payment and that she had ?left on good terms with them.?

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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Ever Wanted To Play A Life-Size Angry Birds Game?

Angry Birds creators Rovio teamed up with Deutsche Telekom to promote new services for the German telephone operator by filming a life-size version of the popular smartphone (and now desktop) game.

Filmed at Plaça Nova de Terrassa, the video shows a massive Angry Birds level, an excited crowd, exploding pigs and a funky acoustic version of the Angry Birds theme tune ? I bet you wish you were there.

Now, where can I find the MP3 of that band?

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Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Motherboard Reviewed - Intel Z68's Smart Response Technology Tested

Launched at the beginning of the year, Intel's 32nm Sandy Bridge processors arrived alongside the new socket LGA1155 and two accompanying 6-series chipsets, the P67 and H67. Each platform presented a different value perspective: the pricier P67 supported Intel's unlocked "K" series enthusiast processors with advanced overclocking options, while the cheaper H67 had access to Sandy Bridge's built-in graphics.

Neither chipset offered both features, ultimately forcing users to assess their priorities. However this hasn't been a major deal for the average system builder because someone who wants to overclock heavily probably has a discrete graphics card, while someone who's using Sandy Bridge's integrated graphics chip likely wouldn't want to be bothered with overclocking -- note the word "likely."

There exists a third, smaller group of individuals who want squeeze extra performance out of their processor and memory, but don't require the graphical muscle of a full-blown video card. To fill that void, Intel has released the Z68 chipset, which is somewhat of a hybrid of the P67 and H67: it allows you to overclock while simultaneously using the baked-in graphics engine. But there's more to it...

Along with combining the functionality of its previous chipsets, Intel has infused the Z68 with some impressive new features that should make it more appealing to a broader demographic. By cramming more features into the Z68, the company has effectively created a new enthusiast-grade chipset, while the P67 has been demoted to somewhat of a mid-range offering.

Intel's Smart Response Technology (SRT) is one of the more noteworthy additions as it boosts system performance by using a small solid state drive for caching purposes. SRT is to an extent similar to what the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drives offer, except it's considerably more flexible. This is an attractive feature among hardware buffs, as full-fledged SSDs are still too expensive for widespread adoption. We'll be fully testing this capability on this review.

Intel is also shipping the Z68 with LucidLogix Virtu GPU virtualization software, which offers power savings by allowing your system to toggle between a discrete video card or Sandy Bridge's built-in graphics engine for a specific task -- think of Nvidia's Optimus technology on the desktop. Needless to say, we're eager to examine both features courtesy of Asrock's latest Z68 Extreme4 motherboard, so let's get this show on the road.

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As the Federal Government Hits Its Debt Limit, Lawmakers Spar Over Solution

Mr. Geithner, in a letter to Congressional leaders of both parties, stood by an earlier projection that even with the Treasury?s accounting maneuvers, on Aug. 2 ?the borrowing authority of the United States will be exhausted,? ultimately threatening a government default.

With the House in recess all week, few members of Congress were even in town, and budget talks between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Congressional leaders were suspended. But a bipartisan ?Gang of Six? continued negotiating toward a long-term debt-reduction compromise in what could be their make-or-break week.

The focus of budget attention was in Mr. Obama?s hometown, Chicago, where Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin defended the House Republican budget he wrote, and its Medicare proposals in particular, in a speech to the Chicago Economic Club.

As dozens of protesters marched and chanted outside, Mr. Ryan told his business audience, ?Our budget proposal makes no changes for those in or near retirement, and offers future generations a strengthened Medicare program they can count on, with guaranteed coverage options, less help for the wealthy and more help for the poor and the sick.?

The speech by Mr. Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, was part of a Republican effort to counter intensifying criticism from Democrats, who hope to exploit the Medicare controversy to take back seats in 2012. That would be payback, as Democrats see it, since they lost their House majority in midterm elections last November after Republicans campaigned against Medicare reductions in Mr. Obama?s health care law.

The message on one of the protest signs ? ?Hands Off Medicare? ? was also seen last year at conservatives? protests against Democrats. Yet despite that sentiment, which is also reflected in national polls, Republican and Democratic leaders agree that Medicare and Medicaid must be squeezed for savings because rising health care prices and an aging population make those programs the main drivers of the projected and unsustainable growth of the nation?s debt. But their approaches are far apart.

The House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi, was in New York on Monday, along with the two Democratic leadership lieutenants she named to the Biden budget talks, to meet with financial industry and news outlets about the debt. She told Bloomberg Television that ?we are open to many? suggestions for Medicare savings, adding, ?We cannot take that off the table.?

?But one suggestion we are not open to is the abolishment of Medicare,? she said. ?That is what the Republicans have put forth in their budget.?

While Medicare savings under the Democrats? health care law and pending proposals would come mainly from reduced federal payments to doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, the budget put forth by House Republicans would cut spending by turning Medicare into a system of vouchers for future beneficiaries to buy private insurance, but in amounts that would not keep pace with the projected inflation of health costs.

The Congressional Budget Office has said the Ryan plan would drive up health care costs for older Americans in the future and limit their coverage. But Mr. Ryan framed his proposal as a way to slow the growth in Medicare spending while giving older Americans more control over their care choices.

His plan would ?give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers? while Democrats would ?give government the power to deny care to seniors,? Mr. Ryan said.

Republicans have acknowledged that the two parties will not be able to agree on Medicare and other entitlement programs ? a ?big, grand, global bargain? on debt reduction, as Mr. Ryan put it ? before the August deadline for increasing the debt limit.

Given that, the goal in the budget talks is twofold: to find up to $2 trillion in specific multiyear savings from other programs, including farm subsidies, and to agree on mechanisms in the budget process to force the two parties to find more savings in the future, including in Medicare and other entitlement programs.

?For every dollar the president wants to raise the debt ceiling, we can show him plenty of ways to cut far more than a dollar of spending,? Mr. Ryan said, echoing the position of Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio.

Democrats demand that higher revenues also must be part of the equation, particularly from the wealthiest Americans. Ms. Pelosi signaled one concession: while she repeated Democrats? demand to end the Bush-era tax cuts after 2012 for the richest households, she said she would support making repeal apply to those with taxable income above $1 million instead of $250,000.

Mr. Ryan opposed any tax increases and accused Democrats of ?class warfare? for pitting Americans of different incomes against one another. ?Class warfare may be clever politics, but it is terrible economics,? Mr. Ryan said.

He said he would decide this week whether to seek the Senate seat in Wisconsin that Herb Kohl, a Democrat, is giving up. Mr. Ryan said he wanted to retain an influential role in the fiscal debate, which would seem to weigh in favor of his staying in the House.

Jackie Calmes reported from Washington, and Carl Hulse from Chicago.

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Research suggests 99% of Android handsets vulnerable to ?impersonation attacks?

Researchers from Germany?s University of Ulm have identified processes which could potentially allow attackers to hijack tokens used to access calendars, contacts and a number of other services available within Google?s Android operating system, affecting as many as 99% of mobile phones running the software.

Access to these services revolves around a weakness in how Google?s ClientLogin authentication protocol is implemented, sending authentication tokens in cleartext once a user enters a valid username and password to access a particular service. The implementation, which is unpatched in Android versions 2.3.3 and lower, allows unfettered access for up to 14 days to that same service, potentially providing attackers with a route into a persons account.

The team, comprising of Bastian Könings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub, explains what could be accessed as a result:

For instance, the adversary can gain full access to the calendar, contacts information, or private web albums of the respective Google user. This means that the adversary can view, modify or delete any contacts, calendar events, or private pictures. This is not limited to items currently being synced but affects all items of that user.

The attack utilises a similar process to that of the Firesheep desktop plugin, which allows attackers to steal session cookies (Sidejacking), which helped users of the application to steal login credentials used to authenticate sessions on popular social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter.

For attackers to be able to gain access to Google services, the user would first need to authenticate their device on an unencrypted wireless network, something that is generally frowned upon for these very reasons. For this reason alone, the vulnerability will never be exploited to the maximum capacity.

The good news is that Google are already aware of the vulnerability and have moved to patch the bug in its latest Android 2.3.4 firmware update, although some of its services, including Picasa, are still transmitting sensitive data via unencrypted channels, according to the researchers. Google has confirmed the claim and said that it is working on a fix.

To reduce the impact of the vulnerability, developers that use ClientLogin are encouraged to immediately switch to https connections to secure data and begin utilising OAuth for authentication, which would mitigate the authToken capture issue immediately.

Android handset owners should upgrade to Android 2.3.4 as soon as it is possible to do so, although this is normally an operator issue and customers are asked to wait. However, the researchers can also switch off automatic synchronisation in the settings menu when connecting with open WiFi networks, reducing the chances of an attacker capturing credentials.

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