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iOS 7 will bring huge redesign ??but is behind schedule ??rumors suggest

Rosa Golijan , NBC News ? ? ? 11 hrs.

Word is that iOS 7 will bring a significant design overhaul to Apple's mobile operating system. That's potentially good news, but there's also some bad: The new software might be behind schedule.

According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber? who has a decent track record when it comes to Apple rumors ? "iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it."

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This isn't the first time we've heard about Apple making a move like this, Gruber reminds. In April 2007, the Cupertino-based company issued a statement revealing that OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, was delayed because the company had to "borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from [its] Mac OS X team." (The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007 and began shipping in late June2007, you might recall.)

Gruber writes that he's been hearing that "iOS engineers with carry privileges all have some sort of polarizing filter on their iPhone displays, such that it greatly decreases viewing angles, thus making it difficult for observers to see the apparently rather significant system-wide UI overhaul."

iMore's Rene Ritchie, another well-informed Apple blogger, previously suggested that the next version of iOS will "make rich-texture-loving designers sad." Gruber write that he's been hearing the same whispers. In plain terms? This means that the next version of iOS could be more "flat" and modern-looking. (Perhaps we can finally wave goodbye to all the skeuomorphism on iOS?)

It's not difficult to believe these latest rumors. After all, who could blame Apple for needing more time to revamp its mobile operating system? And it certainly does need to revamp its mobile operating system. This summer (and fall), all eyes won't be on Apple's hardware. They'll be on its software ? because that's where all the magic needs to happen. Enhanced functionality and a more polished user experience is what we need to see.

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Matt Lauer: Too Soft on Chris Brown?

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/matt-lauer-too-soft-on-chris-brown/

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Why South Carolina special election is no big deal

With a quirky cast of characters, the special election in South Carolina for a seat in the US House is more idiosyncratic than most ? but it's still likely to go Republican.

By David Grant,?Staff writer / April 2, 2013

Former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic and his wife, Jenny, greet voters at a polling place in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday. Mr. Bostic faced former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday in the Republican primary runoff for South Carolina's vacant First Congressional District seat.

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In South Carolina?s First Congressional District on Tuesday, voters will decide which Republican ? former Gov. Mark Sanford or local city council leader Curtis Bostic ? will survive to face Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election next month.

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Could the seat shift power in Congress? No, as Republicans hold an advantage of better than 20 seats in the House.

Will the quirky race for the Palmetto State?s First Congressional District prove a harbinger of the 2014 electoral climate?

Recent history has shown special elections are not clear heralds of the full contests to come. In 2011, Democrats crowed that Kathy Hochul?s victory in a conservative, upstate New York district proved that the budget from Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin would spell political doom for the GOP House majority.

Republicans likewise swore that the win by Rep. Mark Amodei (R) of Nevada in a separate special election that year proved the GOP could withstand a barrage of attacks regarding the Ryan budget.

What turned out in 2012? Murkiness.

First, Ms. Hochul lost her seat, even as Democrats cut into the GOP House advantage. Yet Democrats made very few gains in the sort of solidly red territory where Mr. Amodei was elected.

In the South Carolina special election, the particular characters at play may make the race even more idiosyncratic than most. Ms. Colbert Busch hails from James Island, a particularly distinct suburb of Charleston, and plays up her bona fides as a pragmatic businesswoman. She also has the star power of her brother, comedian Stephen Colbert, at hand.

On the other side are Mr. Sanford, the disgraced former governor who made ?walking the Appalachian Trail? an epithet for less modest behavior when he disappeared to Argentina with his mistress; and Mr. Bostic, a lawyer and former US Marine who is a both a champion of the tea party?s fiscal message and a warrior for the homeschooling, evangelical Christian movement.

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83% of U.S. Adults Drink Coffee - Food Product Design

SAN FRANCISCO?No doubt about it, Americans love their coffee. According to the National Coffee Association?s (NCA) National Coffee Drinking Trends (NCDT) market research study, coffee consumption rose 5% this year with 83% of the U.S. adults reporting they drink coffee. At the same time, daily consumption remained steady at 63%, while those who drink coffee at least once per week was up slightly to 75%.

Past-day coffee consumption among Hispanic-Americans again outpaced that of other Americans, further affirming data identified last year when NCA began tracking ethnic consumption. Seventy-six percent of adult Hispanic-Americans said they drank coffee yesterday, 13 percentage points ahead of the total population. By comparison, 47% of black Americans and 64% of Caucasians said they drank coffee yesterday.

Data reveal 13% of the U.S. population drank a coffee made in a single-cup brewer yesterday, up from just 4% in 2010. By contrast, past-day consumption of a coffee made in a drip coffee maker has dropped to 37% from 43% over the same period. Awareness of single-cup brewers reached 82%, up by 11 points from last year, while ownership has grown to 12% from 10% last year.

Consumption of gourmet coffee beverages remained strong and steady, with 31% of the population partaking each day. At the same time, consumption of traditional coffee was off by seven percentage points to 49% versus 56% in 2012.

Among Hispanics, past-day consumption of gourmet coffee beverages towered above that of other groups at 44% versus 30% for Caucasians and 25% among blacks. The differential carried through when gourmet coffee beverages were broken out into its components: for espresso-based beverages the corresponding breakout was 24% among Hispanics, 10% among Caucasians and 12% among blacks, while for gourmet varieties of traditional coffee, 23% among Hispanics, 20% among Caucasians and 13% among blacks.

Younger consumers also showed more affinity for espresso-based beverages, with 16% of those aged 18 to 39 years drinking them in the past day compared with just 6% of those over age 60. However, overall daily consumption of coffee by younger consumers appears to have dropped. Among those aged 18 to 24 years, daily overall coffee consumption fell to 41% from 50% last year, and for those aged 25 to 39 years to 59% from 63%. However, the 2013 figures are more consistent with levels in earlier years, suggesting that this year's decline indicates volatility in these segments rather than softening. Conversely, overall daily consumption of coffee among those over age 60 rose to 76% from 71% last year, and for those aged 40 to 59 years to 69% from 65% in 2012.

Interestingly, the 60-plus age group favors gourmet varieties of traditional coffee, with daily consumption up to 24% from 19% last year. For those aged 25 to 39, conversely, the corresponding figures dropped to 18% from 26% last year. For non-gourmet traditional coffee, daily consumption remained essentially steady for those 60-plus, but fell among those aged 18 to 24, moving from 27% to 17% this year.

Source: http://www.foodproductdesign.com/news/2013/04/83-of-us-adults-drink-coffee.aspx

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Police: DUI suspect drove 127 mph with three small children in car

By Brian Hamacher, NBCMiami.com

A Homestead, Fla., man is facing DUI and reckless driving charges after authorities said he was clocked driving 127 mph with three small children in his car Saturday night in the Florida Keys.

Robert Rioseco, 46, is facing three counts of DUI with someone under 18 in the car, three counts of cruelty toward a child, one count of reckless driving and refusing to submit to a DUI test, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.

Rioseco's maroon Mitsubishi was first spotted by a deputy driving 87 mph in a 55 mph zone near Mile Marker 7 of the Overseas Highway around 11 p.m., the MCSO said.

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The car reached 127 mph as the deputy radioed ahead for deputies south of him to keep an eye out for it. The vehicle was finally stopped at the 5.5 Mile Marker on Stock Island, authorities said.

When Rioseco got out of the car, he seemed impaired, smelled of alcohol and his behavior was "extremely erratic," the MCSO said. He was calm at times and at other times became agitated.

Rioseco was arrested and taken to jail. Once he got there, he appeared to have trouble walking and loudly refused to participate in sobriety exercises, swearing at the officers, the MCSO said.

Rioseco was being held without bond Sunday and it was unknown whether he has an attorney. The children were turned over to their mother, the MCSO said.

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Jonas Brothers Throw 'Pom Poms' Up For Summer Tour

Brothers tease new album, talk Miley Cyrus and Frank Ocean while officially debuting new single.
By Jocelyn Vena

Jonas Brothers' "Pom Poms"
Photo: Jonas Brothers Recording

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704807/jonas-brothers-pom-poms-summer-tour.jhtml

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Pandora update adds lockscreen controls and a few visual tweaks

Pandora Lockscreen controls

Startup times also improved, along with the requisite 'bugfixes'

The latest update to Pandora brings a couple of new features that users have been wanting for some time now -- lockscreen controls and improved playback display. The former is a very simple (and standard by now) set of controls consisting of play/pause and next track buttons, along with a background of the current song's album art. Inside the app proper, you also now get time elapsed and time remaining for the track along with the progress bar, which is nice.

On the performance side, Pandora claims the latest update improved startup times (something the app has struggled with before) and fixed some random bugs. You can grab a download of the latest update from the Play Store link at the top of this post.