Who's Winning? The Most-Shared Super Bowl Ads So Far (Mashable)

We've just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog. No less than five of the ads featured in Unruly's list of Super Bowl ads with the most traction star dogs, including the early favorite -- Volkswagen's "The Bark Side." It's not hard to figure out why: Just like no stockbroker ever got fired for buying IBM, no chief marketing officer is going to get canned for featuring a pooch in their Super Bowl ad.

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Since this list only encompasses videos that have been released prior to the Super Bowl, the canine count may rise even further. There are still a few holdouts who haven't released the complete versions of their ads yet. However, as of the Monday before the big game, there are several full ads on YouTube. Below are the ads and trailers that are getting the most shares so far.

The list, as computed by Unruly, is updated every five minutes, so this is a snapshot as of Monday afternoon, Eastern Standard Time. As you can see, Matthew Broderick's return as Ferris Bueller is giving Volkswagon's canine chorus a run for its money.

[More from Mashable: 6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition]

1. "The Bark Side" (Vokswagen)

Not surprisingly, the sequel to the most-shared ad of last year's Super Bowl, and of all of 2011 for that matter, is leading the pack this year. Volkswagen released this video last week showing dogs barking to the tune of Star Wars's "The Imperial March." So does that mean there will be dogs in this year's ad? More Star Wars? We'll know soon enough.

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Libyan PM calls for security meeting over weapons (Reuters)

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) ? Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib called on Sunday for a regional security conference to tackle a proliferation of weapons by exiled supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa's Sahel region like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.

"(There is) still a real threat from some of the armed remnants of the former regime who escaped outside the country and still roam freely. This is a threat for us, for neighboring countries and our shared relations," Keib told African Union leaders in Addis Ababa.

"My country calls for a regional security conference in Libya of interior and defense ministers of neighboring countries," he told the summit, the first since Gaddafi's death last year.

A U.N. report said the Libyan civil war may have created a proliferation of small arms, giving militant groups like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches in Africa's Sahel region that straddle the Sahara, including Nigeria, Niger and Chad.

The report said some countries believe weapons have been smuggled into the Sahel by former fighters in Libya - Libyan army regulars and mercenaries who fought on behalf of Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed by rebels.

Links between al Qaeda and Boko Haram have become a growing source of concern for the countries of the region, the U.N. report said.

The Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed at least 935 people since it launched an uprising in Nigeria in 2009, including 250 in the first weeks of this year, Human Rights Watch said last week.

(Reporting by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by James Macharia)

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Good housing legislation could save the economy

Housing is the one area of policy with the greatest potential to actually move the needle on the economy

I don?t know if the President will say much about housing, but there are some important and potential helpful policy choices percolating in the background.

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Before joining the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities as a senior fellow, Jared was chief economist to Vice President Joseph Biden and executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class. He is a contributor to MSNBC and CNBC and has written numerous books, including 'Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?'

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I?ve long held that of all the stuff on the White House?s ?we-can?t-wait? list?things they can do to help the economy and jobs without going through that legislative death trap formerly known as Congress?housing policy is the one with the greatest potential to actually move the needle.

And the most helpful policy in housing is the reduction of mortgage principal for underwater homeowners.?? Research has clearly revealed that owing more than the value on your home is the strongest predictor of foreclosure, and housing finance analysts widely agree that principal reduction is the best medicine to avoid this outcome.

But what does any of this have to do with stuff we could actually do right now?? Good question.? The answer is that the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, could quickly reduce the principal on millions of home loans they own or insure, without going through Congress.

So, why haven?t they done so?? Another fine question.?? First, you need to recall that Fan and Fred are 80% owned by the US gov?t right now, and FHFA, as conservator, wants to protect the taxpayer.? That?s fine?we thank you, FHFA.?

But?and news accounts have been getting this quite wrong?FHFA believes that loan forgiveness (principal reduction) would only save the taxpayers $20 billion while loan forbearance would save $24 billion (the latter modifies the loan, it does not reduce it).??

In other words, the FHFA agrees that both types of loan adjustments would reduce defaults and thus reduce losses to taxpayers, with a slight advantage to forbearance, which, as I?ll argue in a moment, is very likely incorrect.? I think if you did the analysis right, forgiveness would trump forbearance by a long shot.? But given the fact that reduction would clean this mess up a whole lot faster and more reliably than just changing the terms of the loans, and that taxpayers save either way, the path ahead?toward forgiveness, not forbearance?should be clear.

Unfortunately, the FHFA is placing landmines in that path.? Based on a letter reviewing all this by FHFA acting director Ed DeMarco, news accounts like this or this are reporting that if Fan and Fred were to reduce the principal on a subset of the mortgages they own or insure, it would cost?taxpayers $100 billion.

This $100 billion (it?s actually $102bn), however, is a gross number?it is the losses to the agencies, and the taxpayers, from all the mortgage defaults that FHFA expects to occur if they neither forbear nor reduce principal.? The relevant numbers, however, are the difference between the losses under a forbearance program ($78 billion), or a reduction program ($82 billion) and the cost of doing nothing.

The punch line, then, is that by their estimates, forgiveness saves the taxpayer $20 billion; forbearance, $24 billion.

But for a number of reasons, FHFA?s methods make forbearance look better than it really is.? This is some weedy stuff, but it matters:

?they use a state level price index rather than a localized price level.? This approach averages across cities with huge price drops and those with normal price declines, and thus reduces the number of the deeply underwater borrowers.*?? That in turn understates the impact of the policy most helpful to those borrowers: principal reduction.

?they use FICO credit scores and debt-to-income ratios at the time of loan origination rather than where those measures are today.? Obviously, they?re worse today, so this makes the agencies? book look better than it really is, and again, understates the benefits to principal reduction.? In other words, the way they do it artificially lowers their expected default rate, and so the policy that?s most effective against defaults for those with lower FICOs and higher DTIs gets less credit than it should.

?they assume that all of their debt forgiven in their forbearance programs is repaid?100% of it.?? That?s not realistic and it significantly reduces the cost of this option. ? Simply building in a realistic default rate for debt that?s been pushed back to the end of the loan would raise the cost of forbearance relative to principal reduction.

Any one of these changes will sop up the $4 billion difference in an NY minute, showing forgiveness to dominate forbearance.? But even if the FHFA wants to stick with their numbers, reductions will go to work much more quickly and effectively to prevent defaults.?

If they keep coming up with reasons not to do the right thing, the White House should do the right thing and replace DeMarco?a perfect good guy who believes he?s doing the right thing here but isn?t?with someone who gets the urgency of the situation.

*Imagine a) that anyone with a home price decline of 30% is underwater and needs a loan mod, and b) a state has two homeowners in two different cities.? Homeowner A?s price went up 30%, homeowner B?s price went down 30%. Average them together across the state and no one needs a mod; use the local price index, and B should get one.

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Iowa State stuns No. 5 Kansas, 72-64

Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim drives to the basket past Kansas forward Justin Wesley (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim drives to the basket past Kansas forward Justin Wesley (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa State guard Scott Christopherson (11) passes the ball under Kansas center Jeff Withey during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Kansas forward Thomas Robinson (0) is fouled by Iowa State forward Royce White while driving to the basket during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Kansas center Jeff Withey, center, fights for a rebound with Iowa State forward Royce White (30) and guard Chris Allen, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

AMES, Iowa (AP) ? Royce White has been so bad from the free throw line lately that his struggles have literally turned into nightmares.

A few hours after waking up from a dream in which he couldn't hit anything from the line, White sank the two biggest freebies of his career to give Iowa State a landmark win for coach Fred Hoiberg.

White had 18 points and nine rebounds as the Cyclones upset fifth-ranked Kansas 72-64 on Saturday, snapping the Jayhawks' winning streak at 10 games.

White, the versatile big man who entered shooting an abysmal 39 percent from the line in Big 12 games, hit a pair that rattled in to put Iowa State up 64-59 with 1:47 left.

Kansas then threw the ball away and Chris Babb drained a backbreaking 3 to give the Cyclones an eight-point lead with 55.6 seconds left.

"I woke up this morning dreaming about missing free throws. So I was in the gym this morning and shot free throws trying to get it right," White said. "Teammates keep encouraging me and telling me, 'You can make free throws.'"

Tyshawn Taylor led five players in double figures with 16 points and 10 assists for Kansas (17-4, 7-1 Big 12), which hadn't lost since Dec. 19 against Davidson.

Big 12 player of the year favorite Thomas Robinson had 13 points, but he committed five turnovers and the Jayhawks were outrebounded 36-23.

"I thought we got stops, but I didn't think we cleaned up. How many times did they miss a shot and the ball go off of us and us not secure or whatever?" Kansas coach Bill Self said. "Obviously, we didn't do a good last 3 minutes defensively at all."

Melvin Ejim had 15 points and Scott Christopherson added 14 for the Cyclones (15-6, 5-3), who had lost 13 straight to Kansas since their last victory in 2005. Iowa State students celebrated the program's biggest win in years ? and first over Kansas at home since 2004 ? by storming the floor.

"It was a great win for our program. But like I told our guys, you know, you've got to expect to win your home games," Hoiberg said. "I told the guys to enjoy it and get refocused."

This was Kansas' toughest true road test of the year so far ? and it ended with the Jayhawks' first true road loss of the season.

But Kansas caught the Cyclones napping to start the second half and took its biggest lead to that point, 45-39, thanks to an 11-0 run. Big man Anthony Booker brought Iowa State back, sinking a rare 3-pointer to put the Cyclones ahead 50-49 with 12:13 left.

Neither team could get much going over the next 6 minutes, but Tyrus McGee's three-point play gave Iowa State a 56-53 lead with just over 6 minutes left. Robinson then blew an open dunk and White hit two layups ? one a reverse he spun off the glass ? to make it 60-55 Iowa State with 3:42 left.

"This was our first true road game with a good crowd, a good atmosphere. So, we're going to be seeing that from now on," Taylor said. "Our emphasis this week in practice is just going to be taking care of the ball and just rebound and rebound. You can't lose on the boards like that."

Iowa State fed off the energy of its second sellout crowd of the year and jumped on the Jayhawks early.

Booker drilled a 3 and Babb followed with a steal and layup that put Iowa State ahead 19-11, prompting Self to call timeout.

Kansas finally took a 31-29 lead on an impressive scoop through traffic from Taylor with 3:31 left before the break. Iowa State rallied to grab the halftime advantage, 37-33, despite committing 13 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.

The Cyclones led in part because of their defense on Robinson. He was 1-of-6 shooting in the first half and traveled three times trying to free himself up for shots in the paint.

Jeff Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford each scored 10 points for Kansas.

"Just not playing my game. Speeding up the game and not taking my time. I'm just not playing the same right now," Robinson said.

Kansas certainly knew what Iowa State was capable of after the Cyclones threw a scare into the Jayhawks in Lawrence two weeks ago.

Iowa State led at halftime back on Jan. 14 and pushed its lead to as many as 12 points before Kansas stormed back for an 82-73 win. The Cyclones might have been able to pull off that upset had they shot better than 2 of 15 from 3-point range in the second half.

Iowa State didn't let the opportunity pass by this time around ? and it now has a marquee win that will look great on its resume come March.

"It definitely feels good to beat them. We felt like we should have won the first time," said White, who finished 6 of 11 from the line. "We knew that it was basically a must-win for us."

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Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise

According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight into enterprise activation trends among some of the world's biggest businesses. The company found that despite Android's overall market share growth and steady absolute growth among Good's customers, only 35% of all smartphone activations were on Android, compared with iPhone's 65%.

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Sen. Grassley's Twitter account hacked over piracy measure (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley's Twitter account was hacked on Monday with bogus tweets attacking his stance on Internet anti-piracy legislation, his office said.

Grassley, an Iowa Republican and prolific tweeter, had at least eight false tweets posted as he was on a flight heading from Iowa to Washington, spokeswoman Jill Kozeny said.

His staff noticed his Twitter account had been broken into a few minutes after the first false tweet was posted and called Twitter to have the password changed, his office said in a statement.

Kozeny said one of the fake tweets said: "Dear Iowans, vote against ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA, because this man, Chuck Grassley, wants YOUR internet censored and all of that BS."

Grassley is the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the bogus tweets dealt with legislation aimed at halting Internet piracy.

Grassley was among sponsors of the Protect IP Act, or PIPA,

but pulled his support for the anti-piracy measure last week.

The incident has been reported to the Senate Sergeant at Arms, the statement said.

(Reporting By Ian Simpson; Editing by Greg McCune)

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Cardiff beats Palace to reach League Cup final

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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) -Tom Heaton saved two penalties to help Cardiff reach its first League Cup final by beating Crystal Palace 3-1 in a shootout on Tuesday.

Cardiff dominated most of the game but only managed a 1-0 edge after 90 minutes to force extra time, after losing the first leg by the same score.

Palace was down to 10 men by then after captain Paddy McCarthy was dismissed for his second yellow card in the 78th, but Cardiff still couldn't take advantage.

The Welsh club twice hit the bar in extra time, and then looked to be in trouble after Kenny Miller blasted his penalty well high to start the shootout.

But Heaton saved Palace's first two efforts from Jermaine Easter and Sean Scannell, before Jonathan Parr put the decisive spot kick wide.

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AC Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng is hurt again, and his girlfriend says it's because they have sex "7-10 times a week." Oh.

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Archaeopteryx: Birdlike dinosaur wore black plumage of feathers

Archaeopteryx?lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Bavaria in Germany. First unearthed 150 years ago, the fossil of this carnivore, with its blend of avian and reptilian features, seemed an iconic evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

The raven-size creature long thought of as the earliest bird,Archaeopteryx, may have been adorned with black feathers, researchers have found.

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The structures that held the black pigment may have strengthened wing feathers, perhaps helping?Archaeopteryx?fly, scientists added.

Archaeopteryx?lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Bavaria in Germany. First unearthed 150 years ago, the fossil of this carnivore, with its blend of avian and reptilian features, seemed an iconic evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

One recent study has called into question whether?Archaeopteryx?was a true bird?or just one of many birdlike dinosaurs. To learn more about whether birds and birdlike dinosaurs might have evolved flight, and if so, why, researchers often turn to the animals' feathers. Illustrations of the creature are often colorful, but such depictions of its plumage until now had little else but artistic license to draw on.

"Being able to?reconstruct the colors of feathers?can help us gain more knowledge about the organisms and more responsibly reconstruct what they looked like," researcher Ryan Carney, an evolutionary biologist at Brown University, told LiveScience.

Black feathers

An international team of scientists now finds that a well-preserved feather on?Archaeopteryx's wing was black. The color-generating structures within the creature's feather, known as?melanosomes, "would have given the feathers additional structural support," Carney said. "This would have been advantageous during this early evolutionary stage of dinosaur flight." [Images: Dinosaurs That Learned to Fly]

The?Archaeopteryx?feather was discovered in a limestone deposit in Germany in 1861. After two unsuccessful attempts to pinpoint any melanosomes within the feather, the investigators tried a more powerful type of scanning electron microscope.

"The third time was the charm, and we finally found the keys to unlocking the feather's original color, hidden in the rock for the past 150 million years," Carney said.

The group located patches of hundreds of melanosomes encased within the fossil. The sausage-shape melanosomes were about 1 millionth of a meter long and 250 billionths of a meter wide ? that is, about one-hundredth the diameter of a human hair in length and less than a wavelength of visible light in width. To determine the color of these melanosomes, researchers compared the fossilized structures with those found in 87 species of?living birds?that represented four classes of feathers ? black, gray, brown and ones found in?penguins, which have unusually large melanosomes compared with other birds.

"What we found was that the feather was predicted to be black with 95 percent certainty," Carney said.

Did?Archaeopteryxfly?

To better pin down the structure of the feather, they analyzed its barbules ? tiny, riblike appendages that overlap and interlock like zippers to give a feather rigidity and strength. The barbules and the way melanosomes are lined up within them are identical to those found in modern birds, Carney said.

This analysis revealed the feather is a covert, one that covers the primary wing feathers that birds use in flight. Its feather structure is identical to that of living birds, suggesting "that completely modern bird feathers evolved as early as 150 million years ago," Carney said.

Color may serve many functions in modern birds, and it remains unclear what use or uses this pigment had in?Archaeopteryx. Black feathers may have helped the creature absorb sunlight for heat, acted as camouflage, served in?courtship displays?or assisted with flight.

"We can't say it's proof that?Archaeopteryx?was a flier, but what we can say is that in modern bird feathers, these melanosomes provide additional strength and resistance to abrasion from flight, which is why wing feathers and their tips are the most likely areas to be pigmented," Carney said. "With?Archaeopteryx, as with birds today, the melanosomes we found would have provided similar structural advantages, regardless of whether the pigmentation initially evolved for another purpose."

More feathers will need to be tested across?Archaeopteryx?to see how the animal was colored overall, researchers said. Unfortunately, this is the only?Archaeopteryx?feather discovered with the kind of residues one can test for color.

Still, this one feather is enough to leave an indelible mark on Carney. "I got a tattoo of the feather on the 150th anniversary that?Archaeopteryx's scientific name was published," he said.

The scientists detailed their findings online today (Jan. 24) in the journal Nature Communications. Their work was funded by the National Geographic Society and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter?@livescience?and on?Facebook.

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TouchTV comes to LG Smart TV, iPads: catch news clips at home, on the go

If you swing past your local Best Buy and pick up one of those new-fangled LG Smart TVs, you'll find TouchTV's news-clip collection platform available inside. That way you'll be able to watch the trendiest (or at least the most watched) current-affairs clips without having to wait the twenty seconds or so before your rolling news channel of choice displays similar. TouchTV also announced today an iPad app that'll let you grab those newsy clips from your Apple-based slate of choice. The app's available gratis from the store (link below) and we've got the official words and pictures from the company about both products after the interval.

Jose Andrade contributed to this report.

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Report: South Sudan sues Khartoum over oil (AP)

KHARTOUM, Sudan ? South Sudan is suing Sudan for "looting" its oil and will no longer export crude through its northern neighbor, a Sudanese daily reported Sunday, citing officials, in the latest spat between the two governments over the coveted resource in the newly-independent southern nation.

South Sudan Oil Minister Marial Benjamin said the lawsuit was filed in "specialized international tribunals against Sudan and some companies" that bought the crude," Al-Sahafa daily said. Benjamin did not provide additional details on the venue or when the lawsuit was filed.

The case is the latest development in a long-simmering fight between the two governments over the oil they share, but which sits largely within the borders of the newly-independent South Sudan.

On Jan. 17, South Sudan Minister of Petroleum and Mining Stephen Dhieu Dau said Sudan is diverting about 120,000 barrels of oil pumped daily from the south daily, a move the northern government said stemmed from the unpaid transit fees for the oil carried in pipelines from the south to export terminals in its territory. The two sides have been unable to resolve the dispute.

South Sudan's cabinet affairs minister, Deng Alor, said that his country had halted pumping crude through Sudan and would begin building a pipeline across east Africa that would allow them to export the oil from Kenya. The project would take about a year, he told Al-Sahafa.

"Our economy will not be affected by this step," he said, adding that South Sudan had enough in cash reserves to sustain it for five years. Even if the economy was to be affected, it would be preferable to the "looting" taking place by Sudan, he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The Khartoum government downplayed the potential impact of the move by the south, with Sudanese State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Amin Hassan Omar saying that the oil currently held in pipelines would cover a considerable portion of the debts owed by the south.

The suspension of oil production is a "tactical move that will not last long,' he told Al-Sahafa.

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South Carolina GOP primary races to dramatic close

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, reacts as he arrives to campaign at Harmon Tree Farm in Gilbert, S.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, reacts as he arrives to campaign at Harmon Tree Farm in Gilbert, S.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, and his wife Callista sign autographs at a campaign rally aboard the USS Yorktown Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gives thumbs up as Albert Jabs speaks at Hudson's BBQ in Lexington, S.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Carol Paul, wife of Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas., playfully embraces a lifesize cardboard cut out of her husband during a campaign rally in Columbia, S.C., Friday, Jan., 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are not ceding one inch of South Carolina as the unpredictable campaign for the South's first presidential primary concludes ? and certainly not Tommy's Ham House.

Romney is fighting a suddenly surging Gingrich, while rivals Rick Santorum and Ron Paul look to surprise in a four-man race that has spun wildly in its last 48 hours.

Seen as Romney's to lose just days ago, South Carolina's primary has become a close contest between Romney, the former Massachusetts governor portraying himself as the best able to beat President Barack Obama, and Gingrich, the confrontational former House speaker and former Georgia congressman.

Both were scheduled to hold dueling campaign events at Tommy's, in Republican-rich Greenville, late Saturday morning. And neither campaign was stepping back from a primary day showdown.

It's "neck and neck," Romney declared Friday, moving to lower expectations for a race he led by double digits as of midweek.

Even as Romney was touting his electability in November, he continued to try to stoke doubt about Gingrich's ethics.

Gingrich, buoyed by the endorsement of Texas Gov. Rick Perry as he left the race Thursday, called Romney's suggestion that his chief rival release documents relating to an ethics investigation from the 1990s a "panic attack" brought on by sinking poll numbers.

Romney's demand was turnabout from Gingrich's that Romney release his income tax returns before the weekend primary. Gingrich argues that GOP voters need to know whether the wealthy former venture capital executive's records contain anything that could hurt the party's chances against Obama.

The stakes were high for Saturday's vote. The primary winner has gone on to win the Republican nomination in every election since 1980. And voters were faced with stamping Romney, who has led in national polls since December, as the party's front-runner, or reshuffle the contest.

Romney won the New Hampshire primary by a wide marign on Jan. 10, and was thought to have edged Santorum in a photo-finish in Iowa's leadoff caucuses. However, the certified count from Iowa on Thursday showed Santorum had received more votes, although a handful of precincts remained uncertain and no winner was declared.

Romney, Gingrich and Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator vying to be the preferred conservative, all planned to campaign in South Carolina's conservative upstate as the voting got under way. Paul, the Texas congressman who has campaigned lightly here, had no campaign appearances scheduled but was expected to visit campaign volunteers.

Behind the flurry of public events around the state Friday, telephones and televisions crackled with attack messages. Some of South Carolina's notorious 11th-hour devilry ? fake reports in the form of emails targeting Gingrich and his ex-wife Marianne ? emerged in a race known as much for its nastiness as for its late-game twists.

"Unfortunately, we are now living up to our reputation," said South Carolina GOP strategist Chip Felkel.

State Attorney Gen. Alan Wilson ordered a preliminary review of the phony messages to see if any laws had been broken.

Gingrich's ex-wife burst into the campaign this week when she alleged in an ABC News interview that her former husband had asked her for an "open marriage," a potentially damaging claim in a state where the Republican primary electorate includes a potent segment of Christian conservatives. The thrice-married Gingrich, who has admitted to marital infidelities, angrily denied her accusation.

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Q&A: Nokia?s CEO Explains Plan for Smartphone Dominance

LAS VEGAS — Stephen Elop doesn’t have much time. As Nokia’s head honcho, he’s tasked with ushering a once-dominant mobile phone company — a business that built its fortunes on “dumbphones” — into a new era where even the most cost-conscious consumers are looking to buy smartphones.
At Nokia’s CES keynote address last Monday, Elop [...]

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Top 5 Gaming Accessories from CES 2012 | New Technology News ...

The best of the best new mice and keyboards, headsets and console controllers were on display at CES 2012.

Here?s a rundown to help you know what to buy when you shop.

Razer Naga Hex

($80, Available in February) -?Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games like Defense of the Ancients and League of Legends are big these days, which means we?re going to start seeing peripherals designed for the hardcore fans ? and the Razer Naga Hex is the first one we?ve seen so far.

Its design harkens back to the original Razer Naga, an MMORPG mouse that featured a full 12-button keypad where the thumb rests. Instead of a full keypad, the Hex has six larger thumb buttons in a hexagonal shape, which is an ideal layout for MOBA players and is much easier to use than the original Naga. The Hex?s easy-to-use button layout and slick design makes you want to give it a try.

Mad Catz Street Fighter X Tekken FightStick VS

($200, Shipping in July) -?Mad Catz announced its first high-end console arcade stick at CES 2008, so it?s only fitting that it come back three years later with?a new premium stick?for the fighting gamer who already has everything.

The Street Fighter X Tekken FightStick VS is built with a rock-solid metal chassis and arcade-perfect Sanwa Denshi buttons and stick, comes in two designs, and an extra $20 connection kit lets you screw two units together in a side-by-side configuration that mimics the current Vewlix arcade standard dimensions. It also features a modular front panel that owners can unscrew and slide custom images in to personalize their stick further. It could make a nice living room centerpiece.

SteelSeries Flux Headsets

(Price to be announced, shipping, Q2 2012) -?Gaming headsets are all well and good, but even the most dedicated gamers probably won?t want to lug their dedicated PC headset around when they travel.

Enter the SteelSeries Flux, a small, readily foldable headset with a detachable mic that works with PCs as well as iOS and Android?perfect for gaming, listening to music, or watching movies on the go. Perhaps the coolest feature is the second audio port, which lets you daisy-chain another headset so two people can listen to the same tunes or watch a movie together on a laptop or tablet. You can also swap out the faceplates and mesh pads out for differently-colored models to make it look the way you want it to.

Hyperkin Supaboy Game Console

($100, available now) -?If you?re one of the lucky few who was smart enough to keep your old Super Nintendo carts, the Supaboy is for you.

It?s basically a portable SNES designed to accept full-sized Super Nintendo carts, except it also has two SNES controller ports and a TV-out port, so you can go from on-the-go Mario Kart to your home HDTV without even stopping to pause. It?s not small ? the whole unit is probably close to an old Sega Game Gear in size and weight ? but for old-school gamers who refuse to play their childhood favorites on an emulator, the
Supaboy is undoubtedly the way to go.

Roccat Isku Gaming Keyboard and Kone[+] Mouse

($90 and $80, Shipping in February) -?German gaming peripheral manufacturer Roccat is relatively new to gamers in the U.S., but their?Isku gaming?keyboard just might get them in the door this year.

In addition to the standard range of high-end keyboard features like remappable media keys and robust macro recording, the Isku also lets you activate shared features with the Ko ? ? ?ne[+] mouse, like the EasyAim feature that temporarily switches you to a lower DPI so you can easily control your zoomed-in shots. My favorite feature, however, is the three buttons below the space bar that let your thumb do more than mash on the space bar to jump.

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TV One network focuses on missing blacks

FILE - In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Actress S. Epatha Merkerson poses for a portrait in New York. A television show that debuts next week focuses on missing person cases involving black Americans. The series "Find Our Missing" debuts Jan. 18 on TV One. The narrator is actress S. Epatha Merkerson, who is turning to real-life crime stories after 16 years of playing a police lieutenant on NBC's "Law & Order." (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

FILE - In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Actress S. Epatha Merkerson poses for a portrait in New York. A television show that debuts next week focuses on missing person cases involving black Americans. The series "Find Our Missing" debuts Jan. 18 on TV One. The narrator is actress S. Epatha Merkerson, who is turning to real-life crime stories after 16 years of playing a police lieutenant on NBC's "Law & Order." (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? After 16 years playing a police lieutenant on "Law & Order," actress S. Epatha Merkerson is turning to some real-life crime stories.

Merkerson is the narrator for "Find Our Missing," a series that debuts Jan. 18 on the TV One network. It tells stories about black Americans who are missing, hoping to turn up clues that can solve some of the cases.

The series was born out of a pervasive feeling among many blacks that their missing-person cases don't get as much attention as missing-person cases involving whites, particularly attractive young white women.

"The local and regional press does a good job," Wonya Lucas, president and CEO of the cable network aimed at black viewers, said Saturday. "The national press doesn't really cover these stories to the extent that they should, and that's a void that TV One will now fill."

Each hour focuses on two separate cases. Besides Merkerson's narration, producers fill time by re-enacting some scenes with professional actors.

Two people missing since 2009 are featured in the first episode: Pamela Butler, an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency who disappeared from her Washington, D.C., home; and Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy from Oakland, Calif.

"We are painfully aware that these are not just stories," said Donna Wilson, executive producer of the series. "These are people's lives."

Blacks account for 12 percent of the population yet are involved in about a third of the country's missing-persons cases, said Toni Judkins, programming chief at TV One. The network is available in some 56 million homes, or about half the ones that have TV.

Producers are working with the Black and Missing Foundation in helping to bring the cases to light.

The show will encourage tips to law enforcement, hoping to break down some of the attitude that makes people feel like snitches, foundation president Derrica Wilson said. She and the series producer are not related.

Merkerson said she became involved because she realized many of these cases needed the attention.

"It's important for me to give back to the community that has given so much to me," she said.

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For big buys, wait 30 days

Spend the month before a large purchase deciding if you need the item,? doing research, and deciding on a price limit

Yesterday, we talked about the ten second rule, which you can use to protect yourself against impulse buys that are well within the limits of your pocket money. We?re talking about things like a pack of gum, an inexpensive board game, or something like that.

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As I know all too well, though, many of the purchases we make are much larger than that one. I?ll give you an example: our blender.

We use our blender for a lot of things: making smoothies, beating eggs, making pesto, and so on. A while back, one of our beautiful children did something incomprehensible to the blender (as children sometimes do), rendering it very difficult to use. You could still use it, but you had to hold something over the top of it while also holding the entire machine firmly in place.

Our initial instinct was to just rush right out and replace the blender with a similar model. It did a decent job, though it would often leave big chunks in the blender and had other little design issues that we didn?t like. It would also take forever to blend certain things.

Instead, we made the decision to buy a better blender.

Now, we could have easily still ran to the store and bought a better blender, but the decision to buy a better one meant that the cost of the blender likely jumped up into the ?more than pocket money? category. We weren?t going to just buy a $20 blender.

Instead, we gave it a month. During that month, we researched a lot of blenders. We did some evaluations of what features we actually needed and which ones were superfluous. We settled on a few models and did a ton of price comparisons.

In the end, we wound up with a top-notch blender for far less than we ever expected to pay for it (meaning we did not pay anything close to Amazon?s price for that blender).

That month did a lot of things for us.

We had time to figure out if this was something we really wanted to do. Did we really need a nicer blender? Could we just use a simple replacement for the one we already had? Did we need one at all? These questions are often enough to talk you out of an unnecessary purchase. Try doing this with, say, an iPod Touch, and you?ll find yourself not spending $200 or so on a portable music player.

Obviously, this question didn?t fill all of our thoughts for the month, but it was something that we thought about.

We had time to actually identify the specific item we were looking for. We identified all of the specific features we wanted as well as features we deemed unnecessary. We were able to research a lot of models using tools like Consumer Reports and, eventually, we were able to whittle our choices down to a handful.

We had time to carefully shop for the right item. Instead of just charging ahead once we had an item in mind, we spent some time shopping around for that item ? and waiting for the right price. We set up some notifications for prices on the items we were interested in and looked at a lot of different options.

Eventually, the blender we picked up popped up with a large discount, so we pounced.

Give yourself thirty days to go through this process. Most of the time, you?ll talk yourself right out of the purchase, which is a good thing. Even when you don?t, your research and price investigation will often lead you toward getting the best item at a very nice price, rather than just getting whatever item happens to be at your local department store.

You should also set a price threshold for the thirty day rule. What do you consider to be the line between an impulse purchase out of your pocket money and a more significant purchase? For me, it?s usually between $20 and $40, depending on how much of my alloted ?pocket money? for the month that I?ve spent. It?s going to be different for each person depending on their income level, behavior level, and other factors.

This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.?

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Blast in home of Gaza militant leader kills one (Reuters)

GAZA (Reuters) ? A Palestinian man who had been preparing an attack on Israeli targets was killed on Saturday in an explosion at the home of a militant leader in the Gaza Strip, his group said.

The explosion took place at the Rafah home of Zuhair Al-Qaissi, chief commander of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an armed Palestinian faction that often operates independently of Gaza's Hamas rulers.

The PRC confirmed the man killed was a member of the group and that he was preparing an attack on Israelis when the blast occurred. Al-Qaissi himself was not hurt in the explosion.

Al-Qaissi's predecessor, Kamal al-Nairab was killed in an Israeli air strike in August.

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Maayan Lubell)

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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2012 [Video]

Your education doesn't have to stop once you get out of school?being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this spring for the first term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let's get started.

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Orientation: What Is Lifehacker U?

Whether you're in school and getting ready to head back for the spring semester, or you're out of school and just want to keep learning and growing, there are an incredible amount of free, university-level courses that become available on the web every school year, and anyone with a little time and a passion for self-growth can audit, read, and "enroll" in these courses for their own personal benefit. Schools like Yale University, MIT, Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and many more are all offering free online classes that you can audit and participate in from the comfort of your office chair, couch, or computing chair-of-choice.

Some of these classes are available year-round, but many of them are only available during the a specific term or semester, and because we're all about helping you improve your life at Lifehacker, we put together a list of courses available this spring that will inspire you, challenge you, open the door to something new, and give you the tools to improve your life. Grab your pen and paper and make sure your battery is charged?class is in session!

Computer Science and Technology

• UC Berkeley - Computer Science 10 - Professor Dan Garcia - An introduction to computer science and computing in our society, including topics like algorithms and how businesses around the globe use them to predict almost everything, video games and how they're developed, social media and communications, social implications of computing, and what the future of computing holds. Designed for lightly-technical audiences.
• Stanford University - Computer Science 101 - Professor Nick Parlante - Designed primarily for an audience with no prior experience but an interest in computer science and programming, Stanford's CS 101 course will introduce you to programming and writing your own code, as well as offer a primer on basic computer technology, including hardware, software, the internet, and their intersections.
• The Open University - An Introduction to Data and Information - A primer on how computers handle information, how they communicate the data that we provide or that they obtain from the external world into the commands required to operate machinery, perform calculations, and more. Designed for non-technical or lightly-technical audiences.
• MIT - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - Professor Eric Grimson, Professor John Guttag - Targeted to users with some background in technology or basic programming, looking for additional training in programming and the basics of application development. Also includes a crash course in statistics and data analysis, and a primer on computer science and applied mathematics as opposed to strict programming.
• Stanford University - Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Robotics - Professor Oussama Khatib - An introduction to the modeling, design, and control of robotic systems for those interested in AI programming and development. Requires an understanding of the applied mathematics (specifically linear algebra and an understanding of matrices) required for building robotic systems for the nitty gritty, but still an excellent primer to how computer scientists and developers build semi-autonomous robotic systems and control mechanisms.
• Stanford University - Computer Security - Professors Dan Boneh, John Mitchell and Dawn Song - Computer security means more than just keeping your antivirus or anti-malware software up to date. This course will walk you through computer security as a discipline, the tools required for secure and lock down individual computers and computer networks, write secure code and secure applications, identify and defend against threats, and secure mobile platforms.

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Finance and Economics

• CNN - Money 101 - While not a course from an accredited university, CNN's Money 101 series of online courses are an excellent primer for anyone looking to get their hands dirty with their personal finances, start with making a budget and setting your financial priorities, and move to more advanced topics like investing, planning for retirement, managing complicated topics like taxes, insurance, and more.
• The Open University - Debt and Borrowing in a Broader Context - Personal debt like auto-loans, home mortgages, and credit card debt all have serious implications on individuals, communities, and larger economies. This course helps you understand how debt plays a role in the big picture, and how you may be helping?and hurting?yourself and the economy of your region or country by taking on too much or too little debt.
• Extension/Rutgers University - Investing For Your Future - Most of us know we should be investing for our eventual retirement or for our future financial goals. This course walks you through the process of finding places you can trim your budget to find money to save, how to get started with mutual funds, stocks, and retirement investments like 401(k)s and IRAs, how to handle tax-deferred investments and why you shouldn't touch them, and the overall building blocks for succesful financial management.
• UC Berkeley - Economics 1 - Professor Ken Train - An introduction to the core topics required for an understanding of economics, including supply and demand, the differences between macroeconomics and microeconomics, the sessions on the basics of competition and monopoly, and a deep dive into government-style economics and the mechanisms behind how governments raise, spend, and borrow money.
• Yale University - Financial Markets - Professor Robert Shiller - If you're confused why your local economy responds so much to events that take place far away from home, or don't understand why a dropping index overnight in Asia leads to lower market openings in the United States, this is the course for you. The course offers a walkthrough of how financial markets around the world work, work together, and manage collective risk.

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Science and Medicine

• MIT - Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Feynman - Physics in the 20th Century - Prof. David Kaiser - Take it from someone with a degree in the discipline, physics is a science that pulls back the veil and helps you understand the basic forces and workings behind the mechanisms of our natural world. This course focuses on the strides made in physics and our understanding of the physical world during the 20th century throuh the work of some of the century's most famous names in the field. Additionally, the social, political, and cultural impacts of their work and surrounding work are discussed.
• MIT - Hands on Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets - Professor James Elliot - If you've ever wanted to look up to the sky in your backyard and understand exactly what it is you see, how far away the different objects and constellations are, and tell the difference between stars, planets, and other celestial bodies, this is the course for you. Requires no science background, and has several hands-on labs you can conduct with a telescope, pair of binoculars, or your bare eyes in your backyard at night.
• Yale University - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - Professor Charles Bailyn - You've heard about black holes, dark energy, dark matter, earth-like planets elsewhere in the galaxy, and water on Mars and on other planets in our solar system. This course will help you make sense of all of those theories and controversies in a way that allows you to speak intelligently on the matter, learn some of the latest research and observations that support or refute those theories, and how far astronomers have yet to go. The course focuses on what we know as well as what we don't know, and new horizons of astronomical research. No science or math background is required.
• Tufts University - Nutrition and Medicine - Recommended for individuals with some medical understanding or knowledge, this course focuses on developing the ability to make healthy dietary and nutrition based recommendations for individuals based on their medical histories, risk factors, lifestyles, and needs. The course will start with some fundamentals of nutrition, diet, and exercise, and progress into related illnesses and medical conditions, as well as controversies and research in the field, with an emphasis on critical thinking.
• The Open University - Gene Testing - Genetic testing is on the rise, and this course walks you through how genetic testing is performed, why doctors request genetic testing in many cases, and what genetic testing can and cannot tell you about your health, well-being, and risk for disease. The course also breaks down different genetic testing cases, including pre-natal testing, child testing, and adult testing, explaining the goals of each.
• Tufts University - Human Growth and Development - An introduction to the human growth process and human development from a medical perspective. No prior medical knowledge is required, as the course walks you through how human beings are born, grow, learn, and age. Additional emphasis is placed on understanding how disease and illness play a role in human development, and how external conditions can effect normal development processes.
• The Open University - Studying Darwin - A crash course to Darwin's observations and travels that led him to writing his book On the Origin of Species, as well as a guide to the fundamentals of evolution, natural selection, and how Darwin's work influenced and inspired additional research.

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Mathematics

• The Open University - Exploring Data: Graphs and Numerical Summaries - This course, designed for people who have seen representations of data in the past but who have never been required to strictly interpret it, will help develop your ability to determine good representations of numerical information from erroneous ones, and help you build the skills required to dig through piles of information and present it to others in a way that makes sense and conveys your desired message.
• MIT - Street Fighting Mathematics - Professor Sanjoy Mahajan - Some mathematical knowledge is required for this course, but you won't be in too much trouble if you haven't brushed up. The goal of the course is to help you learn to do complex mathematics in your head, make educated guesses based on the information you have available, and is taught in a conversational style that only occasionally moves into the strictly variable and calculation based.
• Stanford University - Cryptography - Professor Dan Boneh - Part information science and part mathematics, cryptography is the discipline of turning normal information into coded information for secure transmissions or the use of another computing system or platform. The class walks you through securing communications, understanding the nature of cryptography and how codes are made and broken, and then moves into technical topics like authentication protocols and key encryption.

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Social Sciences, Classics, and Humanities

• The Rise of Modern Science - Prof. David Jones and Prof. David Kaiser - While the course title sounds scientific, the focus of the class is really on what we consider "science" in modern culture, and the role of scientists and philosphers in recent history that have helped define the discipline as we understand it. The course discusses the rise of science and the evolution of the term through the ages of magic, alchemy, philosophy, folk knowledge, and observation through to experimentation and deduction.
• Yale University - Death - Professor Shelly Kagan - If there's one thing that's sure for all of us, it's that we'll all die someday. But what exactly does that mean for us and the people around us? How do we come to terms with our own mortality, and adjust to the mortality of those around us? This course will introduce you to the concept of mortality and transform it from a fact to something you're aware of, as well as introduce and examine attitudes about death and dying, including suicide, the moral implications of death and dying, and what it means to be "immortal."
• Yale University - The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food - Professor Kelly D. Brownell - This course introduces us to the concepts of individual tastes, dietary preferences, and the impact culture has on our diets and the types of foods we enjoy and seek out. By the end of the course, you'll understand why palates differ so greatly even in places with similar diets, and also dive into topics involving nutrition and the politics around food, like sustainable agriculture, local agriculture and farmer's markets, genetically modified foods, and much more.
• The Open University - Getting Started with Classical Latin - Latin is the foundation of many languages in the western world, and is the language in which much of the knowledge of the western world is archived and translated from. While the language itself is dead, understanding how it has influenced other languages and some basic understanding of the language and how to intertpret it will serve you well.
• Yale University - Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Professor Donald Kagan - This course is a walkthrough of the growth and development of ancient Greece as a political, intellectual, and technological center of the western world. Students in this course will be exposed to classic Greek literature, art, philosophy, history, and language. Documents and resources are presented in both their original form and their translations, so you can get familiar with ancient Greek as well.

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Law

• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania - Understanding Intellectual Property - There's a lot of controversy in the news and on the internet today about what exactly "intellectual property" is, what it means to hold a copyright, what exactly a copyright is, and how you register one and what it means to have intellectual property rights over a non-tangible object. The course also discusses international IP issues and copyright protection issues, and the impact of piracy on policymaking and legal issues.
• MIT - Law and Society - Prof. Susan S. Silbey - We all know that the law is a set of rules that lay out proper behavior and order in our society, but where do they come from? Where did the concept of "the law" originate, and how does it differ from place to place? This course seeks to explain the history of the law, the applicability of the law and how laws are formed, written, and enforced, and offer the student a basic understanding of the legal system and its social implications.
• The Open University - Privacy Rights and the Law - Specifically geared at UK citizens and European citizens, this course form the Open University examines UK privacy laws and the rules laid out by the European Commission on Human Rights. How the different bodies interpret privacy rights is also examined, along with a basic examination of how the rest of the world sees the right to privacy?or whether their citizens have a right to privacy at all.
• MIT - The Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights - Prof. Malick Ghachem - Everyone talks about civil liberties and their personal rights, but few people take the time to investigate them, read up on what rights they do and don't have, and where their personal rights stop and the rights of others begin. This course will help you understand your civil rights and liberties as issued by the constitution and other legal bodies and documents, as well as the powers that those legal bodies (including the Supreme Court) have to put a finer point on those rights and interpret them.

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Cross-Disciplinary Courses and Seminars

• Yale University - Technology Entrepreneurship - Professor Chuck Eesley - Have you ever considered taking your brilliant idea and building a startup? Have you ever written a business plan, only to let it sit on the shelf waiting for the right time to start a business or get your idea off the ground? This class will explain the pitfalls and the perils of starting your own technology company, how you can start your idea inside of a larger firm, and what it takes to build a successful startup company.
• The Open University - Reading - Even though we've discussed some great ways to boost your reading comprehension, this course offers practical exercises and walkthroughs to help you read critically and have more fun with the written word. There's a special focus on critical thinking and building your own ideas based on what you've read, as well.
• Tufts University - Promoting Positive Development Among Youth - Professor Richard M. Lerner - If you're considering giving back in your community, either by volunteering at a church or school, becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister, or otherwise getting involved in a young person's life, this course can help you navigate the sometimes treacherous waters of modern culture and encourage young people to become leaders in their communities.
• UC Berkeley - Search, Google, and Life - Guest Lecturers Sergey Brin, Bradley Horowitz, Jason Schultz, and more - This free course from the University of California at Berkeley gives you an opportunity to sit in on some of the greatest minds in modern technology as they discuss how their products, services, and companies play a major role in shaping the way we obtain information, process it, and view the world. They also discuss how they came to be involved in those technologies, and how search and search engines work and have changed the internet as we know it.

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Extra Credit: How To Find Your Own Online Classes

The cirriculum at Lifehacker U is rich and deep, but it may not reflect all of your areas of interests or expertise. If you're looking for more or more varied course material, here are some resources to help you find great, university-level online classes that you can take from the comfort of your desk, at any time of day.

• Academic Earth curates an amazing list of video seminars and classes from some of the world's smartest minds, innovators, and leaders on a variety of topics including science, mathematics, politics, public policy, art, history, and more.
• TED talks are well known for being thought provoking, interesting, intelligent, and in many cases, inspiring and informative. We've featured TED talks at Lifehacker before, and if you're looking for seminars on the web worth watching, TED is worth perusing.
• Education-Portal.com has a list of universities offering free and for-credit online classes to students and the public at large.
• Open Culture's list of free online courses is broken down by subject matter and includes classes available on YouTube, iTunes U, and direct from the University or School's website.
• The Open Courseware Consortium is a collection of colleges and universities that have all agreed to use a similar platform to offer seminars and full classes?complete with notes, memos, examinations, and other documentation free on the web. They also maintain a great list of member schools around the world, so you can visit universities anywhere in the world and take the online classes they make available.
• The Khan Academy offers free YouTube-based video classes in math, science, technology, the humanities, and test preparation and study skills. If you're looking to augment your education or just take a couple video classes in your spare time, it's a great place to start and has a lot of interesting topics to offer.
• The Lifehacker Night School is our own set of tutorials and classes that help you out with deep and intricate subjects like becoming a better photographer, building your own computer, or getting to know your network, among others.

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The beautiful thing about taking classes online is that you can pick and choose the classes you want to attend, skip lectures and come back to them later, and do examinations and exercises on your own time. You can load up with as many classes as you choose, or take a light course load and come back to some of the classes you meant to take at another time that's more convenient for you.

With Lifehacker U, you're free to take as many or as few classes as you like, and we'll update this course guide every term with a fresh list of courses on new and interesting topics, some of which are only available during that academic term.

If you have online course resources or your university offers classes that are available for free online that you know would be a great fit for Lifehacker U, don't keep them to yourself! Send them in to us at tips+lifehackeru@lifehacker.com so we can include them in the next semester!

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