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USA drog hem förhandlare från Pakistan sedan samtal om att öppna Natos leveransvägar in i Afghanistan kollapsat.

For those expecting an exciting new Mac Pro tower, today’s speed-bump isn’t it. A previous build-to-order option of 12 cores is now standard, and runs at a slightly higher clock speed, but the price remains the same.

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Minst sju dödsoffer har krävts under helgen och hundratals hus har bränts ner i oroligheterna i delstaten Rakhines huvudstad Sittwe. På söndagen införde regeringen undantagstillstånd efter de våldsamma kravallerna. Rakhine ligger i västra Burma, nära gränsen till Bangladesh. Där bor ett stort antal medlemmar av den etniska gruppen rohingya, en muslimsk grupp som av FN beskrivs som en av världens mest diskriminerade minoriteter.

alphadogg writes "Google's Vint Cerf and others are spearheading celebrations in Silicon Valley and the UK this month to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. 'The man challenged everyone's thinking,' says Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, in an interview with Network World. 'He was so early in the history of computing, and yet so incredibly visionary about it.' Cerf — who is president-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery and general chair of that organization's effort to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on June 23 — says that it's tough to overstate the importance of Turing's role in shaping the world of modern computing. Turing's accomplishments included his breakthrough Turing machine, cracking German military codes during WWII and designing a digital multiplier called the Automated Computing Machine."

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As a public service for those still confused and concerned by the upcoming MobileMe shutoff, we’re hosting a live online presentation by our own Joe Kissell about how to deal with the loss of MobileMe services, whether that involves switching to iCloud or using services from other companies. Join us live at 12 PM Eastern (9 AM Pacific) on Saturday, June 16th, or tune in later if you can’t watch live.

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När Ola Håkansson gick bakom knuten på sin sommarstuga kom först en älgkalv ut ur skogen i full fart och hoppade i Ängraån.

First time accepted submitter TWToxicity writes " NuSTAR is to be launched from a Pegasus XL rocket carried by an Orbital Science Corp. L-1011 "Stargazer" plane. It will orbit at 550 km above Earth's surface. A week after launch, NuSTAR will deploy its 10 meter boom, which allows the telescope to focus X-rays and capture images that will help scientists survey black holes in other galaxies, study the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and study supernovae to discover hoe atomic elements are formed."

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Apple updated the MacBook Air line with slightly faster processors, USB 3.0, and options for 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage, all while dropping the prices of most configurations by $100.

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USA ger sju länder undantag från nya tuffare sanktioner mot Irans banksektor, meddelade amerikanska myndigheter.

Två personer skadades vid en olycka mellan en traktor med släp och en personbil utanför Eskilstuna vid halv åtta i kväll.

Snirt writes "The Nobel Committee has chosen to lower this year's Nobel prize winnings by two million kronor ($283,030) due to turbulence in the current economic climate. The prize now stands at 8 million kronor, down from the 10 million of 2011. 'The reason behind this decision is that the financial markets are really unstable and there are reasons to suspect that this turbulence will continue for a while still,' said Lars Heikensten, head of the Nobel Committee, to the TT news agency. 'Long term, we aim to raise the figure, even though we think that the Nobel Prize's value should lie in the prize itself and not the prize money,' he said. While Heikensten admits that it was a 'tough decision' to cut the prize money, he told the news agency that it's not the first time the prize sum has been altered, adding that it has been lowered and raised several times over the past few years."