How Siri, Google Now respond to 5 questions

With Google's voice assistant now available on iPhones and iPads, The Associated Press used an iPad Mini to throw five test questions at Google Now and Siri on Monday afternoon in New York. Here's what the two digital assistants had to say for themselves:

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Question: What is the meaning of life?

Siri: "I can't answer that now, but give me some time to write a very long play in which nothing happens." Siri has more than a dozen prepared responses to that question.

Google Now: The voice assistant was silent. Instead, keywords in that question triggered an ad for the Mormons on the top of the search results page. That was followed by links to a Wikipedia entry for "meaning of life" and other sites.

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Question: What is the weather like Friday?

Siri: "It should be nice Friday... up to 61 degrees and sunny." Siri also presented a graphic with day-by-day conditions over the next six days, using information from Yahoo.

Google Now: "Friday's forecast for New York, New York, is 64 degrees and clear." Google then presented a box with day-by-day conditions over the next 10 days, as well as current conditions.

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Question: What movies are showing this weekend?

Siri: "I found five movies playing nearby on Friday." Siri then presented a card with show times, parental ratings and favorability ratings from the Rotten Tomatoes website. Four of the movies were at art-house cinemas, as theater chains hadn't released weekend schedules yet. Links to buy or rent those movies on iTunes were offered when available.

Google Now: "Movies playing in New York on Friday." Google then offered a page with times, descriptions and other information for 13 movies, including six IMAX movies playing at science museums in New York and Jersey City, N.J. As with Siri, most of the rest were at art-house cinemas.

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Question: How did the Mets do?

Siri: "The Mets lost to the Phillies yesterday. The final score was 5 to 1." An inning-by-inning scoreboard was presented.

Google Now: "The Mets lost to the Phillies 5 to 1." An inning-by-inning scoreboard was offered up.

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Question: Please set my alarm for seven.

Siri: "I've set an alarm for 7 a.m." Siri assumed 7 the next morning rather than 7 that evening. Siri then showed a digital clock with a lever at "on," which you can switch to "off."

Google Now: The voice assistant was silent. Instead, search results appeared, including an article on "How to Use Siri's Clock - For Dummies."

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Shazam Brings On Former Yahoo Exec Rich Riley To Position For Growth And IPO

In March last year Yahoo?s SVP of the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region abruptly quit his role in the rejuvenation of Yahoo, supposedly to be closer to family in Sunnyvale. However, after an orderly departure he's now joined Shazam, the mobile music discovery app as CEO. Longtime CEO Andrew Fisher (since 2005) will become executive chairman. The London-based Shazam says it now has 300 million users in 200 countries, with 90 million of them in the U.S. and calls itself a "media engagement company."

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Officials: 2 dead in building collapse in France

PARIS (AP) ? An explosion ripped off the side of a 5-story residential building in France's Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring nine others, officials said. A search for survivors was underway.

More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the gutted building in a subsidized housing complex in the city of Reims, east of Paris, officials said. Early pictures on the Web site of a local newspaper, L'Union L'Ardennais, showed heaps of debris spilling out of the building onto a grassy esplanade below, with two helmeted people perched up on a crane for a look inside.

Reims mayor Adeline Hazan told France's BFM television that "a very powerful explosion" had taken place, blowing out windows of nearby buildings. She said the bodies of the two people killed remained under the rubble. Hazan said the blast had the earmarks of a possible gas explosion but insisted that only a thorough investigation would determine the exact cause.

Michel Bernard, the top government official in Reims, told The Associated Press that one person was seriously injured. He said the building dated to the 1960s, and an official investigation was under way to determine the cause. He said about 10 of the 40 or so apartments in the building were affected. He said a search for possible survivors under the rubble was under way.

The precariousness of some buildings has come to light internationally in recent days following the collapse Wednesday of an 8-story building in a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where at least 362 people have been confirmed to have died. Officials there said three of the floors of that building, which had housed garment factories, had been built illegally.

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The Librarians Have Landed! And They're Coming to Art Center ...

Pasadena plays host to the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 41^st annual meeting April 25?29, 2013, with speakers and attendees from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe and beyond. The conference takes place at the Pasadena Convention Center, with additional programs and activities scheduled at Art Center College of Design.

Art Center?s Betsy Galloway hosts a meeting of fellow library directors from Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) schools. Archetype Press?s Gloria Kondrup conducts a hands-on workshop in letterpress broadside printing. And Art Center Product and Entertainment Design instructor Justine Limpus Parish leads a tour of the Los Angeles Fashion District.

?We?re really excited about introducing librarians from all over the country and around the world to Art Center,? says Galloway, ?and we look forward to participating in many of these activities ourselves.? Though she has worked with books her entire professional life, Galloway has never been on the ?making? side. ?It will be a thrill to have the opportunity, in Gloria Kondrup?s workshop, to touch the type and the presses for the first time,? she says.

Archetype Press zines and chapbooks: ?Bees? by Josh Garcia, and ?Pigeon Hater? by Teresa Kim.

Members of Galloway?s staff are also actively engaged with the conference, with a particular interest in newer areas of collection development. Catalog Librarian Gina Solares presents a poster session on zines and mini comics, a collection she and her colleagues have been developing at Art Center. Meanwhile the Art and Design School Division of ARLIS is sponsoring a session on video games that Lucas Kelly, a library assistant at Art Center for more than 10 years, will attend. Kelly is developing the library?s new video game collection and is eager to hear more ideas on this topic.

In addition to the AICAD library directors lunch in the Library on Saturday, two ARLIS workshops take place in the Library Friday and Monday.

The conference theme, ?Crafting our Future,? is inspired by Pasadena?s renowned Arts and Crafts heritage and emphasizes the importance of building on the past while actively shaping the future of art librarianship. Plenary sessions will examine important new documentation of contemporary art led by Southern California institutions. Other topics being explored include digital humanities, data visualization, open source technologies, social media, information literacy assessment and Resource Description and Access (RDA).

Conference events and activities hosted or led by Art Center:

Fri., April 26

Omeka: Creating and Sharing Collections With an Open Source Web Publishing Tool, led by Jason Miller,?director, Visual Resources Center,?College of Environmental Design,?University of California, Berkeley

Tour of Downtown Los Angeles Fashion District, led by Art Center instructor Justine Limpus Parish, sponsored by the Fashion, Textile and Costume special interest group of ARLIS/NA

Sat., April 27

AICAD Library Directors Meeting and Lunch

Mon., April 29

NACO and RDA: Building Authority Records with the New Cataloging Rules, led by Sherman Clarke,?freelance and itinerant art cataloger

Hands-on Letterpress Broadside Printing Workshop at Archetype Press, led by Gloria Kondrup, professor and director, Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design

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In Search of Textured Stories: An Illustration Student Explores Children?s Books by African-American Illustrators

Student orientation session at Art Center College of Design Library.

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ZTE's 2013 Q1 sees profits of $33 million despite three percent sales slide

ZTE has managed to break a run of two straight quarterly losses by posting a net profit of $33 million in its first 2013 financials. Unfortunately, the extra cash has come from selling a $133 million stake in surveillance firm Shenzhen ZNV, rather than any surge in handset popularity. A three percent fall in sales, project holdups, and squeezed margins have all helped to heap woes onto ZTE's plate -- not to mention the ongoing hostility from the folks in Congress.

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False tweet sinks stock market. Is anyone checking this stuff?

Stock markets tanked briefly (and then recovered) after the AP Twitter account was hacked and falsely announced a White House bombing. An array of new firms verify social media information to make sure clients aren't fooled.

By Gloria Goodale,?Staff writer / April 23, 2013

The White House was not bombed Tuesday, despite a fake tweet from AP to the contrary. These police were part of stepped up security Sunday in the wake of the Boston bombings.

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The AP Twitter feed, it turns out, had been hacked, and stock markets quickly recovered. But the incident highlighted why Storyful exists. In a social media world gone mad, it is one of a handful of new companies trying to fill the growing need for some form of social media information verification.

That need has been abundantly apparent during the past week. While law enforcement in the Boston bombing case called for the community to send photos, videos, and ideas, the response on social media included reams of raw information ? much of it false ? and half-baked theories. The family of a missing Brown University student had to refute false claims that he was involved.

At times, the news media were drawn into the spiral of social media of misinformation, and that is what Storyful hopes to remedy. Billed as the first news agency for the social media age, this global enterprise of some 35 professionals ? many refugees from media such as CNN ? scans social media to alert clients about news before even local wires, TV, or radio have picked it up. It then cross-checks the information to verify sources.

As social media becomes a greater part of the news media landscape, Storyful is just the sort of venture that could help each improve the other.

?We need both social and traditional journalism in our current age ? not one versus the other, not one or the other, but both,? says Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham University in New York and author of ?New New Media,? via e-mail. ?Storyful looks like a significant step forward in bridging this gap.?

Storyful may be the most full-service provider in this growing space, providing not just verification but alerts and help with managing rights and usage. Based in Dublin, Ireland, but with staff in Asia, Europe, and the US, Storyful now boasts a roster of major news outlets from Bloomberg News to The New York Times.

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Telenav Scout for Phones to go 3D, get crowd-sourced traffic reporting in 2013

There are plenty of choices to meet your mobile mapping needs, from feature-rich offerings from big names like Google, Apple and Nokia to crowd-sourced services like Waze. Telenav's Scout app falls somewhere in between, and today the company announced that it'll get both 3D buildings and landmarks and crowd-sourced traffic reporting (backed by TomTom's database) later this year. Graphically, Scout in 3D looks similar to Google Maps and will initially be available for major metro areas in the US.

As for traffic reporting, Telenav will be asking its 34 million subscribers to report accidents and traffic jams, and will update its database in real-time. That means that as road conditions change, Scout'll suggest faster alternate route options to get you from point A to point B hassle-free. No word exactly when these new capabilities will make it to users, but when they do arrive later this year, both premium and free users will get 'em. In the meantime, check out the video of the new 3D maps in action after the break.

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Bad decisions arise from faulty information, not faulty brain circuits

Apr. 15, 2013 ? Making decisions involves a gradual accumulation of facts that support one choice or another. A person choosing a college might weigh factors such as course selection, institutional reputation and the quality of future job prospects.

But if the wrong choice is made, Princeton University researchers have found that it might be the information rather than the brain's decision-making process that is to blame. The researchers report in the journal Science that erroneous decisions tend to arise from errors, or "noise," in the information coming into the brain rather than errors in how the brain accumulates information.

These findings address a fundamental question among neuroscientists about whether bad decisions result from noise in the external information -- or sensory input -- or because the brain made mistakes when tallying that information. In the example of choosing a college, the question might be whether a person made a poor choice because of misleading or confusing course descriptions, or because the brain failed to remember which college had the best ratings.

Previous measurements of brain neurons have indicated that brain functions are inherently noisy. The Princeton research, however, separated sensory inputs from the internal mental process to show that the former can be noisy while the latter is remarkably reliable, said senior investigator Carlos Brody, a Princeton associate professor of molecular biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

"To our great surprise, the internal mental process was perfectly noiseless. All of the imperfections came from noise in the sensory processes," Brody said. Brody worked with first author Bingni Brunton, now a postdoctoral research associate in the departments of biology and applied mathematics at the University of Washington; and Matthew Botvinick, a Princeton associate professor of psychology and PNI.

The research subjects -- four college-age volunteers and 19 laboratory rats -- listened to streams of randomly timed clicks coming into both the left ear and the right ear. After listening to a stream, the subjects had to choose the side from which more clicks originated. The rats had been trained to turn their noses in the direction from which more clicks originated.

The test subjects mostly chose the correct side but occasionally made errors. By comparing various patterns of clicks with the volunteers' responses, researchers found that all of the errors arose when two clicks overlapped, and not from any observable noise in the brain system that tallied the clicks. This was true in experiment after experiment utilizing different click patterns, in humans and rats.

The researchers used the timing of the clicks and the decision-making behavior of the test subjects to create computer models that can be used to indicate what happens in the brain during decision-making. The models provide a clear window into the brain during the "mulling over" period of decision-making, the time when a person is accumulating information but has yet to choose, Brody said.

"Before we conducted this study, we did not have a way of looking at this process without inserting electrodes into the brain," Brody said. "Now thanks to our model, we have an estimation of what is going on at each moment in time during the formation of the decision."

The study suggests that information represented and processed in the brain's neurons must be robust to noise, Brody said. "In other words, the 'neural code' may have a mechanism for inherent error correction," he said.

"The new work from the Brody lab is important for a few reasons," said Anne Churchland, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies decision-making and was not involved in the study. "First, the work was very innovative because the researchers were able to study carefully controlled decision-making behavior in rodents. This is surprising in that one might have guessed rodents were incapable of producing stable, reliable decisions that are based on complex sensory stimuli.

"This work exposed some unexpected features of why animals, including humans, sometimes make incorrect decisions," Churchland said. "Specifically, the researchers found that errors are mostly driven by the inability to accurately encode sensory information. Alternative possibilities, which the authors ruled out, included noise associated with holding the stimulus in mind, or memory noise, and noise associated with a bias toward one alternative or the other."

The work was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University and National Institutes of Health training grants.

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3 teens arrested for assault after girl's suicide

This undated photo provided by her family via attorney Robert Allard shows Audrey Pott. A Northern California sheriff's office has arrested three 16-year-old boys on accusations that they sexually battered the 15-year-old girl who hanged herself eight days after the attack last fall. Santa Clara County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jose Cardoza says the teens were arrested Thursday, April 11, 2013, two at Saratoga High School and a third at Christopher High School in Gilroy. (AP Photo/Family photo provided by attorney Robert Allard) NO SALES MAGS OUT FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

This undated photo provided by her family via attorney Robert Allard shows Audrey Pott. A Northern California sheriff's office has arrested three 16-year-old boys on accusations that they sexually battered the 15-year-old girl who hanged herself eight days after the attack last fall. Santa Clara County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jose Cardoza says the teens were arrested Thursday, April 11, 2013, two at Saratoga High School and a third at Christopher High School in Gilroy. (AP Photo/Family photo provided by attorney Robert Allard) NO SALES MAGS OUT FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, "worst day ever," and hanged herself.

For the next eight months, her family struggled to figure out what happened to their soccer loving, artistic, horse crazy daughter, whose gentle smile, long dark hair and shining eyes did not bely a struggling soul.

And then on Thursday, seven months after the tragedy, a Northern California sheriff's office arrested three 16-year-old boys on charges of sexual battery.

"The family has been trying to understand why their loving daughter would have taken her life at such a young age and to make sure that those responsible would be held accountable," said family attorney Robert Allard.

"After an extensive investigation that we have conducted on behalf of the family, there is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15 years old, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious."

Allard said students used cell phones to share photos of the attack, and that the images went viral.

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Lt. Jose Cardoza said it arrested two of the teens at Saratoga High School and the third, a former Saratoga High student, at Christopher High School in Gilroy on Thursday. The names of the suspects were not released because they are minors.

Cardoza said the suspects were booked into juvenile hall and face two felonies and one misdemeanor each, all related to sexual battery that allegedly occurred at a Saratoga house party.

The lieutenant said the arrests were the result of information gathered by his agency's Saratoga High School resource officers. He said the investigation is ongoing, and Los Gatos police also continue looking into the girl's September suicide.

The Associated Press does not, as a rule, identify victims of sexual assault. But in this case, Pott's family wanted her name and case known, Allard said. The family also provided a photo to the AP.

The girl's family members did not comment and have requested privacy until a planned news conference Tuesday. Her father and step-mother Lawrence and Lisa Pott, along with her mother Sheila Pott, have started the Audrie Pott Foundation (audriepottfoundation.com) to provide music and art scholarships and offer youth counseling and support.

The foundation website alludes to the teen's struggles, but until now neither law enforcement, school officials nor family have discussed the sexual battery.

"She was compassionate about life, her friends, her family, and would never do anything to harm anyone," the site says. "She was in the process of developing the ability to cope with the cruelty of this world but had not quite figured it all out.

"Ultimately, she had not yet acquired the antibiotics to deal with the challenges present for teens in today's society."

On the day Pott died, Saratoga High School principal Paul Robinson announced her death, stunning classmates. Two days later other students and staff wore her favorite color, teal, in her honor.

Robinson wasn't immediately available for comment Thursday.

The Pott family is not alone.

In Canada on Thursday, authorities said they are looking further into the case of a teenage girl who hanged herself Sunday after an alleged rape and months of bullying. A photo said to be of the 2011 assault on 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was shared online.

No charges initially were filed against four teenage boys being investigated. But after an outcry, Nova Scotia's justice minister appointed four government departments to look into Parsons' case.

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Ellen Bravo: What's Behind the Momentum for Paid Sick Days?

In just two weeks, the movement for paid sick days has seen three victories -- in Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, and most recently, New York City. Local coalitions in each place encountered fierce opposition, and yet the wave of wins continues.

Why now?

Because people need it, demanded it, and built the capacity to win.

Yes, hardball politics played a role. But what carries the day is strong and smart organizing by coalitions deeply rooted in their local city or state while linked to a growing national movement.

The need for paid sick days has become greater during the recent recession. During the recent flu outbreak, many of the 44 million without paid sick days had to watch public officials on TV telling them to stay home if they had flu symptoms, knowing if they followed these instructions they might not be able to keep the lights on or buy their child a needed inhaler.

Hard times are the worst time to lose a job for being a good parent or safeguarding public health.

A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the need -- and coalitions have shared that research, while putting faces to the statistics by collecting stories that show the consequences of having to work sick or being punished for refusing to abandon an ill loved one.

Among the documentation disseminated by our coalitions is research showing that earned sick time boosts the economy by helping workers stay employed and have money to spend. Small business owners cite lack of sales as the greatest obstacle to recovery. As employers like Freddy Castiblanco, owner of Terraza 7 Live Music in Elmhurst, N.Y., put it, "Lack of paid sick days has consequence for business as well as workers, in my community. Those workers are my customers."

Each coalition has identified local economists who say policies like earned sick time help stop job loss and strengthen the economy. It also helps lower turnover, boost productivity and lessen health care costs.

And the flu season also reminded those who have sick days how many people they come in contact with do not.

Given the need and the benefits, it's not surprising that support for such policies is enormous. Polls have demonstrated the overwhelming popularity of earned sick days across all demographics and throughout the political spectrum.

Broad, Deep Coalitions

Above all, local activists have brought together a wide range of groups who have a stake in making sure that no one has to jeopardize their health or the health of a loved one in order to stay employed. They've built coalitions made up of groups that care about seniors, women, children, labor, chronic diseases and public health; groups that want to end violence and end poverty; business owners and experts in economic development; those who fight for racial justice and equality for the LGBT community; faith groups and those who care about democracy.

Key to success has been engaging workers who know all too well what it means to lack paid sick days -- people like Shayna, a therapeutic activities worker at a nursing home in Philadelphia who had to go work with an injured hip, or Tamara in New York, who after caring for her sick daughter had to decide whether the lost pay meant going without a metro card or without a phone.

Local business partners are also important, because they help shatter the identity theft of corporate lobbyists who claim to speak for all employers. Small business owners like Leni Juca, owner of Oxium Print and Copy in Queens, N.Y., say their employees already earn paid sick days because it's the smart as well as the right thing to do. "With a small business like this one," Juca said, "we can't afford to get each other sick."

In each city, coalition partners have reached out to their constituencies, bringing their voices to decision-makers and the media -- and keeping the heat on.

Which Side Are You On?

These community leaders have had a clear message for political leaders: standing up for earned sick time means valuing families and standing with all of these groups. Opposing it means standing with lobbyists for multi-billion dollar corporations like Comcast in Philly. As The New York Times put it, the win in New York "represents a raw display of political muscle by a coalition of labor unions and liberal activists who overcame fierce objections from New York's business-minded mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and his allies in the corporate world."

And more and more, politicians are getting the message.

We're proud of what we've accomplished. And we'll stay organized until every single person is able to care for themselves and their loved ones without risking a paycheck or a job.

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