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Wednesday 2 May 2012

Jessica Simpson Welcomes Daughter Maxwell Drew

"Eric and I are elated to announce the birth of our baby girl, Maxwell Drew Johnson," the Fashion Star mentor writes.

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Restaurant Reservation Service LaFourchette Sticks Its Fork Into $10.5M

The European online restaurant reservation service LaFourchette announced that it has raised ?8 million ($10.5 million) from Serena Capital and Partech at a valuation of more than ?50 million ($65.8 million). This funding will be used to consolidate its leading position in Europe. New country-specific websites are said to launch soon.

Restaurant reservations online are still new in Europe. ?There is significant room for improvement because only 2% of restaurant reservations happen online ? against 40% to 50% for hotel reservations for example,? said Bertrand Jelensperger co-founder and CEO in a Les ?chos interview.

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Hudson's sister to 911: 'Please help my mama'

By Gina Serpe and Claudia Rosenbaum, E! Online

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Julia Hudson's 911 call was released Monday.

The dramatic and heartbreaking 911 call placed by Jennifer Hudson's sister upon finding the body of her mother has been released.

And it's exactly as gut-wrenchingly devastating and emotional as you would imagine.

More from E: Jennifer Hudson's sister testifies in family murder trial

The call was released this morning on the ruling of Judge Charles Burns, and against the plea by the prosecution not to do so.

"Help, please," Jennifer's sister Julia Hudson is heard telling the 911 operator. "Oh, God. Somebody's killed my moth er, somebody's killed my mother...Please help me. Oh my God, oh my God."

When asked by the dispatcher if she needed an ambulance, a near-hysterical Hudson replied, "I don't know. I'm scared...please...please...can you please send an ambulance, please. Oh my God.

More from E: Jennifer Hudson, sister draw strength ahead of murder trial

"She's on the floor and I see blood coming from her head...I just came home from work and there's a bullet hole in our front door...she's 57 years old. Please help my mama. Please just send an ambulance," Julia says.

Toward the end of the three-minute call, while still on hold with the dispatcher, Julia can be heard speaking again, ostensibly to a neighbor.

"Where's my brother? What happened? She's on the floor...I'm here by myself."

More from E: Jennifer Hudson breaks down on stand

The call then cuts off. (Listen to the call on E! Online.)

The prosecution was oppo sed to the call being released, arguing on Friday that it had not yet been fully placed into evidence.

"To ensure the state's right to a fair trial and the defendant's right to a fair trial, we object at this time to releasing the 911 call," state attorney Jennifer Bagby argued Friday.

To no avail, as it turned out.

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W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length (The Arizona Republic)

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Take your Bluetooth speaker power to the extreme with Jawbone?s BIG JAMBOX

Did you ever look at a Jawbone JAMBOX and wish that it was bigger? If so, your wishes have been answered with the BIG JAMBOX, everything you loved about the original but at a much larger size.

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Robots Win Battle For Attention At Science Fair

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Budding scientists, engineers and doctors lined up to try surgical robots from Intuitive Surgical at a science festival in Washington, D.C., over the weekend.

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Budding scientists, engineers and doctors lined up to try surgical robots from Intuitive Surgical at a science festival in Washington, D.C., over the weekend.

Kids love robots.

A family visit to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington this weekend drove that point home again and again.

There were robots everywhere. We saw robots designed by high-schoolers to shoot baskets. There was a wheeled R2-D2 robot at the CIA's booth, complete with the agency's logo on the wheels. And there were da Vinci surgical robots from Intuitive Surgical that let future doctors ? and patients ? try their hand at tasks requiring pinpoint accuracy.

Technology can be cool. And there's no denying that whiz-bang gizmos appeal to young minds brought up on video games.

But there's more to science than that. I didn't see a booth for a simple scalpel ? or one for watchful waiting.

And that seemed like a shame. Yes, the festival's stated purpose is to "re-invigorate the interest of our nation's youth in science, technology, engineering and math" pretty much by any means possible. But often that favored the gaudiest gem.

To be sure, the National Academi es took a crack at getting kids (and their parents) to think scientifically at Decisiontown, a make-believe place where people make logical choices about food, health and the environment. And the American Statistical Association got a lot of mileage out of a simple stepladder and toy parachutes. The closer your drop came to a bull's-eye on the floor, the bigger prize you could win.

But the lines were a lot longer at the booths with robots.

Less can be more in science. At the recent TEDMED meeting in Washington, Dr. Ivan Oransky (disclosure: a friend of mine) compared the practice of medicine to Moneyball, the book and movie about how the right stats can make all the difference in putting together a winning baseball team.

Doctors and patients shouldn't be expecting a home run from every test or treatment. Sometimes it's better to let a medical pitch go by witho ut swinging.

But you need to know some stats to improve the odds of making the right choice. And I didn't hear any robots talking about that.

Now I succumb to dancing robots.

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Romney: 'Even Jimmy Carter' would have ordered Bin Laden raid (Los Angeles Times)

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Researchers make an RGB laser with a regular laser and quantum dots

The problem with lasers is, they tend to generate just a single color or light.To get more than one hue requires actually combining more than one type of laser to produce red, green and blue. But researchers at Brown University have figured out a solution to creating small RGB lasers by using colloidal quantum dots, or CQDs. The idea of leveraging the properties of the thin film isn't new, but past attempts to use CQDs in semiconductor lasers have failed because the necessary energy tends to wind up as heat instead of light. The work around scientists found was to excite the various dot sizes with a laser then filter out original light source. Unfortunately, the solution is far from practical for use in commercial products, but it does represent a milestone in the march towards a single-material multi-wavelength laser. For more details check out the source link.

Researchers make an RGB laser with a regular laser and quantum dots originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 06:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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