While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the search and advertising giant has yet to make its presence felt. Lately, however, Google's expansion has taken a noticeable tack in a more singular direction: eCommerce.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5mnHLm0w98w/
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LAS VEGAS (AP) ? A Las Vegas police officer who was rescuing a hiker stranded in an off-limits area of a mountain northwest of the city died after falling from a helicopter hoist line Monday night.
At an emotional news conference Tuesday, police offered new details about the accident that killed search and rescue officer David Vanbuskirk, 36, at Mount Charleston.
Rescuers responded shortly before 9 p.m. to reports that a hiker was disoriented and stranded on a rocky ledge just above Mary Jane Falls. The area was marked with signs warning hikers to stay out or face fines, according to Jay Nichols, spokesman for Spring Mountains National Recreation Area.
A wildfire now entering its third week has been burning in the area, and park workers have closed some trails in the interest of public safety. The fire is still throwing off smoke and glows at night, Nichols said. Some trails are closed to protect hikers from smoking material, ash pits and falling trees. On Monday night, conditions were breezy with a bright moon, officials said.
After landing, Vanbuskirk attached a safety harness to the stranded man, who was hiking alone. He signaled to the four rescue workers in the helicopter above to hoist them both up from the craggy ledge, but then somehow detached from the line in midair and fell a "non-survivable" distance to the ground below, officials said.
The hiker was safely rescued and is being interviewed, police said.
The mood was somber among officers, who have not lost one of their own in the line of duty since 2009. Officers Tuesday wore black bands over their badges in honor of their fallen comrade.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other agencies are investigating.
"We're a big family, a close family, and this is going to be trying on us for quite a while," Las Vegas police Assistant Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters shortly after the accident. "We will survive it. We'll come back together, and hopefully in my lifetime, it will never happen again."
Vanbuskirk grew up in the Las Vegas area, was married and lived in Henderson. He had worked for the department since 1999, and had served on the search and rescue team since 2007.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Vanbuskirk had performed "dozens" of rescues like the one that killed him Monday. Las Vegas rescue workers have completed 130 helicopter rescues in the past 12 months.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Vanbuskirk's death was "a tragic reminder of the dangers our first responders are exposed to on a daily basis."
"His service to his community, state, and country will not be forgotten," Sandoval said in a statement.
On Twitter, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada called Vanbuskirk a hero.
Others in the police department also praised him.
"He was an exceptionally fine officer," police spokesman Bill Cassell said.
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Associated Press writer Michelle Rindels contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/officer-killed-during-rescue-hiker-nw-vegas-181941487.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Just a week after the Senate hashed out a compromise for approving seven of President Barack Obama's nominees to run government departments, agencies and boards, Republicans on Wednesday signaled their opposition to Obama's plan for filling vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday from law professor and former senior Justice Department official Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, one of three Obama nominees to the D.C. circuit, often viewed as the second most influential court in the country after the Supreme Court.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, said Pillard's nomination wasn't necessary because the D.C. circuit doesn't have enough work to justify filling its three vacancies.
"An objective review of the caseloads reveals that the D.C. circuit is very low," Grassley said. "And it raises serious doubts regarding whether we need more than eight active judges on that court. There is no question in my mind that the statistics make clear that the D.C. circuit does not need any additional judges."
Grassley said he recently sent letters to members of the D.C. circuit asking about their workload and was surprised when one judge told him if there were more appointments, "there wouldn't be enough work to go around."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Republican objections are misleading and politically motivated. He said GOP senators were coming with arguments for denying confirmation for Obama's appeals court nominees that they didn't raise when former Republican President George W. Bush's appellate nominations were at stake.
"I would hope that President Obama is not going to be held to a different standard as if, somehow, he's different than President Bush," Leahy said.
Obama announced Pillard's nomination in a Rose Garden ceremony last month along with nominations for Patricia Millett and U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins to the D.C. Circuit appeal court. "There's no reason, aside from politics, for Republicans to block these individuals from getting an up-or-down vote," he said at the time.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet again on Thursday morning and may vote on whether to send the nomination of Millet for a full Senate vote. At a hearing earlier this month, Republicans voiced similar concerns about the court's workload.
The D.C. circuit has 11 judgeships authorized by Congress. Republicans have proposed moving two of the vacant seats to other circuits with larger caseloads and eliminating the third seat altogether.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-signals-oppose-nominees-key-court-184744623.html
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Qihoo 360 Software is big in China, with nearly a half-billion users, but it's not nearly as well-known in the U.S. That's a bit of a shame, because the company's 360 Internet Security 2013 is an attractive, easy-to-use, free antivirus. Yes, despite the suite-sounding name, it's a standalone antivirus product.
The installer cuts out unnecessary clicks and screens. A single click accepts the license agreement and starts the product installing. It's a quick process. However, the necessary initial antivirus signature update can take quite a while?over 15 minutes on some of my test systems.
360 Internet Security's main window has a modern, flat look and uses cheery pastel colors. The main focus is on three buttons that perform a quick, full, or custom scan. Although the interface is spacious and uncluttered, it actually conveys a lot of information. Small banners in one corner offer statistics on performance and quarantined files. Three icons animate to let you know when each of the three antivirus engines is updating. And you can pull down a high-level set of controls that turn security components on and off.
Minor Installation Bumps
On eight of my twelve malware-infested virtual machines, the antivirus installed with no more than a minor hitch. However, malware on three of the test systems actively terminated the installer every time I tried to launch it. I successfully installed the product in Safe Mode (kudos to Qihoo for allowing Safe Mode installation!). The installation succeeded, but in each case it would not fully update. The final solution involved running a full scan, performing a full uninstall/reinstall, updating malware definitions, and running another full scan.
The remaining system causes problems for every antivirus I test, because ransomware totally covers up the desktop, even in Safe Mode. Qihoo has a bootable rescue CD, but it's strictly Chinese. Given that this rescue CD could have solved the problem, I helped out a bit, working around the ransomware to get the product installed.
A product that breezes through the install process with next to no problems earns five stars for ease of installation. 360 Internet Security did pretty well, enough to earn four stars.
Quite Good Cleanup
This antivirus divides a full scan into five stages: correcting system security settings, checking applications for malware, looking for active threats in memory, evaluating files that launch at startup, and finally scanning all files for malware. It clearly displays which steps have finished, and offers a choice between highest speed and least impact on performance.
On completing a scan it displays a simple list of all malware traces. It doesn't rank them by threat level the way Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 10.5and avast! Free Antivirus 8 do, nor does it aggregate the traces belonging to the same malware the way Comodo Cleaning Essentials 6 and Spybot - Search & Destroy 2.0 do. However, you can get a view of related traces by sorting on the malware type column.
The scanner components in AVG Anti-Virus FREE 2013 and Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition (2014) ?remove malware traces upon finding them, as much as possible. 360 Internet Security waits for your permission to clean up the found traces. On almost all of the test systems, the antivirus requested a quick scan after cleanup finished, to catch any "hidden dangers," and then requested a reboot to remove a "stubborn virus."
360 Internet Security detected 75 percent of the malware samples, the same as avast!, Norman Malware Cleaner 2.08, and several others. Its 5.8 point score also matched avast!'s. Bitdefender Free detected 81 percent and scored 6.2 points. The top score among products tested using my current malware collection, 6.6 points, went to Bitdefender Antivirus Plus (2014).
Tested using my previous malware collection, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.70 earned 7.1 points, the top score among all current products. For details about how I run the malware removal test, please see How We Test Malware Removal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two units at RWE npower's Tilbury biomass power plant in Britain will stop operating early on Wednesday, the utility said on Tuesday following its decision earlier this month to end investment in the converted station.
Units 9 and 10 at the 750-megawatt (MW) station, which was converted from coal to biomass only last year, will cease operations at 0600 BST on Wednesday, RWE npower said in a statement to the wholesale power market.
The plant's third unit is currently offline for work unrelated to the shutdown and could resume output as soon as Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman said.
The unit is still scheduled to shut down fully over the coming weeks, she added.
RWE npower said on July 8 its investment decision was based on low electricity prices and a lack of funding from its German parent company.
The firm added that it was open to other investors taking over the station, which employs around 225 staff.
The Tilbury coal-fired plant was allocated a limited number of operating hours under EU-wide environmental laws. After the conversion, the hours, which expire on Wednesday, were transferred to the biomass plant.
The project was closed for several months last year after a fire broke out in the building where wood pellets are stored.
(Reporting by Karolin Schaps; Editing by David Evans)
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