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These are the stories you couldn't find anywhere else. From Apple's security slips to Facebook's prolific profile breach, check out Gizmodo's best Exclusives from 2010.
1. This Is Apple's Next iPhone - April 19th
You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details.
2. A Cellphone Exploded In My Face - May 14th
Reader Corey relays his explosive tale, filled with luxury coupes, detonating phones and chemicals in the eye.
3. The Ultimate Black Friday Gadget Cheat Sheet - November 26th
It's the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals-and not-really-deals-out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. We're always updating, so make sure to keep checking back.
4. Why Apple Couldn't Get the Lost iPhone Back - April 20th
It's such an obvious question: Why couldn't Apple track this phone down? As it turns out, they may have had two chances to get it back-and blown them both.
5. Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell - April 24th
During last week's iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It's a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even vindictive. It also sheds some light on the story of Gray Powell, an Apple engineer whose breach of secrecy was at once less intentional, more severe and infinitely more public-until now.
6. Microsoft Cancels Innovative Courier Tablet Project - April 29th
According to sources familiar with the matter, Microsoft has cancelled Courier, the folding, two-screen prototype tablet that was first uncovered by Gizmodo.
7. Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung - October 28th
The Nexus Two is real. It's made by Samsung, and a friend of ours got to play with it. It's not going rock your face like the Nexus One did. But it will record it with a front-facing camera.
8. Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent - July 29th
Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.
9. Why Is Tom Cruise Sitting On Top of the World's Tallest Building? - November 18th
We got photographs and video of Tom Cruise jumping off the mid-section of the tallest skyscraper in the world. But this is him on the very top of the Burj Khalifa, filmed by an helicopter, taken around 1AM New York time.
10. Exclusive: The Plans For Steve Jobs' New House
You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion. You didn't know what he was building in its place. Until now.
Been under a rock? See what else happened this year in our Best of 2010 series.


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OTTAWA — Canadians across the country clambered from their beds early Friday morning to join billions worldwide in watching the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The viewings ranged from extravagant parties, with guests dressed in their wedding best, to simple family get-togethers with blankets and pyjamas.
Jane Ann Thompson, of Napanee Ont., said her guests were all in costume, even at the early hour.
"We have a lady here dressed as the Countess of Victoria Avenue and the Lady Tea Pot," she said.
Thompson said all of the 63 guests she was expecting would be receiving souvenir plastic champagne glasses.
"The Queen has probably got Waterford Crystal, but I can't afford that so I'm offering Waterfront Crystal," she said of the souvenirs.
Clive Greenstock and his wife, Glen, had tea, champagne and orange juice and a royal breakfast all ready for the early-morning wedding watchers.
Greenstock said he was dressed as a butler for the morning.
"I'm being eclipsed by all the ladies," he said. "They have their very fancy hats on."
Kusam Kohil-Talwar, donning a plastic silver tiara, remembers watching the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles from home in her pyjamas. When she heard about Prince William's engagement to Kate Middleton, she said she knew she wanted to celebrate the wedding a bit differently.
"I'm here to attend a wedding and because we all need a happily ever after," Kohil-Talwar said. She said she endured a lot of teasing from her co-workers for taking the day off to attend the viewing party at Toronto's King Edward Hotel.
Kohil-Talwar, who grew up in the U.K., said the young couple are reigniting interest in the British monarchy.
"They represent a move from old traditional ways to more elegant ways," she said.
The general manager of the King Edward, Tim Reardon, said guests, the women dressed in fancy hats and the men in suits and kilts, were still glued to the television an hour after the wedding began.
"Everyone was happy and joyous when they got into the room and then when the wedding started you could almost hear a pin drop, because everyone was just so focused on the event," Reardon said.
Ryan Hinds of Toronto was gathered around the television with his family, all five of them in their pyjamas, champagne on ice.
Dace Berg, 66, drove in from Embro, Ont., Thursday night to attend the party.
"This is the event of the century," said Berg, a retired dentist.
"The world would be grey without the royals. They bring so much colour to it."
In Victoria, the Fairmont Empress hotel held a Rise & Shine with the Royals event which sold out in advance, with more than 300 people paying $39 to watch the nuptials while enjoying a full English breakfast buffet.
A crowd also gathered to watch the wedding at Edmonton's Chateau Louis. The reception was a fundraiser organized by local wedding and event planner Milena Santoro for the Stollery Children's Hospital and the Edmonton Food Bank.
"You look around and you see all these hats — you feel like you're just about at the wedding," Danin Bodnar said. "I just think it's wonderful to be able to be a part — at a distance — of an event that's this spectacular."
"It was just lovely," summed up Wendy Everitt, eyes still glued to the big screen. "I think the children singing was really nice. That's when I felt a knot in my throat."
With files from Kim Westad, Victoria Times Colonist, Linda Nguyen, Postmedia News and Jennifer Fong, Edmonton Journal.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass.
Most weeks, the Patriots fan's checklist of things that can go wrong whenever Tom Brady drops back to pass is only five items long. In order of alarming, from unfortunate to catastrophic:
Offensive penalty.
Strip sack.
You can add a sixth potential pothole for the next game, against the AFC-leading Texans on "Monday Night Football" at Gillette Stadium. Courtesy of J.J. Watt, Houston's destructive defensive end, Brady just might see a few of his passes swatted right back at him. It's a play that Watt is quickly becoming known for, and quarterbacks facing the Texans are having to plan for. That means some unusual props will be featured at Patriots practice.
Taking a page from a basketball team preparing for an extra-tall center, the Patriots will utilize everything in their arsenal to get Brady ready for Watt and his defensive linemates, all of whom are capable of knocking passes down at the line of scrimmage.
This week, that means brooms and rackets.
"I know coach (Bill) Belichick likes to bring guys with racquetball paddles and stick those up in the air," said Brady Wednesday morning, before practice. "I'm sure there will be a whole bunch this week, which doesn't always make me very happy.
"That's probably a good way to prepare for it. It's like throwing over 'this wall,'" motioning to the backdrop behind him. "It's hard, you just got to try to find an area."
Watt & Co. don't make that easy, either. Their ability to disrupt the passing game is a big reason they're 11-1, two games up on New England, Denver and Baltimore in the race for the conference's top seed, which brings home-field advantage until the Super Bowl.
On the season, Watt has a team-high 15 passes defensed, almost all on knockdowns. His 15 1/2 sacks lead the Texans, too, and put him second in the league, two behind San Francisco's Aldon Smith.
A second-year pro from Wisconsin, Watt was a firstround draft pick in 2011, and has needed very little time working his way into the conversation of best defensive player in the league.
He might already have Belichick's vote.
"He's the most disruptive player in the league, certainly that we've seen," Belichick said. "That looks like the Defensive Player of the Year to me."
Watt is 6-5 and is surrounded by similarly sized pass rushers in Antonio Smith (6- 4), Shaun Cody (6-4), Connor Barwin (6-4), and rookie Whitney Mercilus (6-4). All are proving to be hard to throw over, but at least Brady (6-4) won't be at a size disadvantage.
That doesn't make his task any easier, though. Especially with Watt leading the way.
"He's an incredible player, and the way that he gets after the quarterback, stops the run, I think he does both those things well, as well as defending the passing lane, so he's as impressive a player as you're going to see on film," Brady said. "His agility, his quickness, his length, his instinctiveness in getting his hands up in the air and get ready to jump and bat balls down.
"He's a great player for that defense. They really rely on him."
Other defensive linemen in the NFL knock passes down at the line of scrimmage, but Watt has turned it into an art, averaging about one per game, some of which have been tipped by him and then intercepted by others.
Appearing on ESPN Radio Tuesday morning, Watt described how he reads a pass play, and whether to continue with his rush, or retreat and attempt to knock the ball down.
"As I pass rush, I always have my eyes on the quarterback, no matter what," he said. "Pretty early in your pass rush, you know whether or not you're going to get there. You have to win pretty clean in this league to get a sack, so early in my pass rush I can tell if I'm going to get there or not. You can kind of get a feel for if it's going to be a three-step drop or a five-step drop, so all those things play a factor.
"The three-step drops are obviously the easier ones to bat down. When I get kind of stoned at the line of scrimmage, and I see the quarterback take his front hand off the ball and go to cock his arm back, that's when I put my hands up, jump and try to get in his way. A lot of times I'll miss, but the times I get lucky are obviously big plays in the game. We're very happy to have those, and everyone else is joining in on it."
It'll be up to Brady — and the Patriots offensive line — to make sure Watt and the Texans don't get their hands on too many balls. All it takes is one for a big play to be made and momentum changed.
"There's no special formula to blocking a good defensive lineman," said Brady. "You just have to stand up and try to go out and play a great game. That's what makes it so hard for an offense to stop a guy like that, who's so capable of winning his matchups.
"We've played other big Dlines before, tall guys that are rangy and are really instinctive. The Giants did a great job of that last year, and this is another team that really challenges you to do that."
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WisdomTree, the firm behind an already robust suite of international fixed income ETFs, announced on Thursday the launch of another first-to-market fund that expands the universe of bonds available to U.S. investors. The new Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund (EMCB) will be an actively-managed ETF that offers exposure to dollar-denominated corporate bonds from issuers in the developing world. The new ETF will be actively managed, with Western Asset Management serving as the sub-advisor and the JPMorgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index Broad serving as the benchmark. EMCB will utilize a top down macro analysis combined with fundamental credit research.
Unique Opportunity In Emerging Markets
EMCB is the first U.S.-listed ETF to exclusively target debt of emerging market corporations; the existing ETF lineup included products such as the PowerShares International Corporate Bond Portfolio (PICB) and the SPDR Barclays Capital International Corporate Bond ETF (IBND), both of which hold exclusively debt of developed markets outside the U.S. That puts EMCB in a unique position to help investors round out their exposure to emerging markets, potentially complementing equity positions and investments in sovereign debt of emerging markets issuers.
The yields offered by emerging markets corporate debt generally represents a meaningful upgrade from both emerging markets sovereign debt and corporate bonds from U.S. issuers. With interest rates at record lows throughout much of the developed world, EMCB represents a potentially useful tool for enhancing current returns. Moreover, corporate debt represents a new way to tap into the compelling long-term growth potential for emerging markets; as the middle class of the developing world continues to grow at a rapid pace, the credit quality of issuers will improve along with demand for the debt.
"WisdomTree is pleased to offer the first Corporate Bond ETF that offers access to a rapidly growing asset class, the debt of a broad array of quality corporate issuers in the emerging markets. These bonds are supported by the same favorable growth rates, attractive demographics, and improving fundamentals which have driven strong relative returns in emerging market assets in general," said Bruce Lavine, President & COO, WisdomTree.
Under The Hood
The benchmark for EMCB includes more than 300 individual debt securities from 35 different countries; the new ETF will generally hold between 35 and 70 bonds from about 15 different countries. At launch, the largest individual holdings of the portfolio included debt of Petroleos Mexica (7%), Petrobras (6.8%), Hutch Whampoa (5.5%), and Vale Overseas 4.2%). Though EMCB spreads exposure around the globe, there is a meaningful tilt towards Latin America in the portfolio.
About 23% of the portfolio is rated A or higher, with the bulk of EMCB rated between BB or BBB.
Dollar Denominated & Actively Managed
Many of WisdomTree's existing fixed income products, such as the Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD) and Asia Local Debt Fund (ALD), focus on individual bonds that are denominated in the local currency of the issuers. EMCB, however, will target dollar-denominated debt, thereby removing the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on returns. That feature results largely from the current state of the debt markets in emerging economies; many corporations continue to issue bonds primarily in U.S. dollars, and in many cases there is not yet a liquid market for securities denominated in the local currency. The development of local currency denominated sovereign debt in many emerging markets is still a relatively recent phenomenon, so it could be several more years before it's realistic to access local currency corporate bonds through an ETF [see Emerging & Frontier Markets ETFdb Portfolio].
EMCB's status as an actively-managed ETF might be appealing to investors hesitant to utilize an index-based approach in certain emerging market asset classes. Besides the difficulty in replicating a benchmark of emerging market corporate bonds–the benchmark includes more than 300 issuers in almost three dozen different countries–there are the potential drawbacks of cap weighting in many bond indexes. Moreover, there should be some appeal in the ability to tap into the expertise of an experienced manager familiar with the local trading environments and nuances of credit analysis.
EMCB represents the first partnership in the ETF space between WisdomTree and Western Asset Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason. EMCB will charge an expense ratio of 0.60%, which falls in the range of existing products in the Emerging Markets Bonds ETFdb Category.
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KFed Jr left his wife for the Spelling fortune. He thought he would have it easy. And now his wife is giving interviews to PEOPLE talking about how they're so short on cash money, they can't even afford to buy him a vasectomy. Really? After 5 minutes of research on Google it says it costs between $500 and $1500 for a vasectomy in the US. In Canada, it's probably half that, and only if you're not covered under a provincial health plan. So you're telling me they're too broke to pay a grand, tops, to get it taken care of? As IF. But she does have a new book coming out and she's claiming that she's had to change her lifestyle.
"I haven't bought a purse in three years. And it's fine. I look back on that girl who shopped at Gucci in my 20s and I can't even relate. I can't believe I thought it was important. It's no mystery why I have money problems. I grew up rich beyond anyone's dreams. I never knew anything else. Even when I try to embrace a simpler lifestyle I can't seem to let go of my expensive tastes. And then there's my shopping problem. I've bought ridiculous amounts of stuff for the kids, clothing, toys, crafts. We've travelled and done crazy things like upgrading hotels at my instigation. I can't afford to live like this anymore."
Oh rigggggght. Because her mother cut her off. And now all they do is hustle. She shows up at fan expos and signs autographs for 20 bucks a pop. They're offering their lives up for reality television. They were up in cottage country in Ontario this summer for a new show for HGTV called Cabin Fever. They take whatever scraps they can get.
Was this the life KFed Jr was hoping for when he cheated on his wife and abandoned their newborn adopted daughter?
Whatever. The real reason I wanted to write about Tori & KFed Jr today is because it gave me an excuse to repost this. Remember this?


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By RI General Secretary John Hewko
From the time I came aboard as general secretary of Rotary International in July 2011, one of my top priorities has been to help ensure that Rotary receives the credit it deserves for its leadership role in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as we move ever closer to a polio-free world.
I'm happy to report that 2012 has been a good year in terms of keeping Rotary "in the story" as the news media have covered a series of major developments in polio eradication. Of course, we can do more, but we are making significant progress in increasing the recognition of Rotary.
World Polio Day
We have many great examples from coverage surrounding World Polio Day on 24 October, including The Business Standard (India), CNN.com, NPR, Die Welt (Germany), the Huffington Post, and numerous regional and local media outlets.
The Huffington Post also published an op-ed I co-authored with Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Another op-ed I wrote appeared in Biotech-Now, the website operated by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotech trade group.
The Chicago Sun-Times, PR Week, and other media also reported on our new World's Biggest Commercial public outreach campaign at endpolionow.org
Last month, Rotary also enjoyed high visibility in the coverage of the special session on polio eradication during the UN General Assembly. The event was covered by TIME MAGAZINE, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, and UN News Centre, among others.
Right after the UN event, Rotary got great exposure through our participation in the Global Citizen Festival concert in Central Park. More than 60,000 people were there, and thousands more watched the live stream. Just before rock legend and polio survivor Neil Young closed the concert, I was on-stage to drive home the End Polio Now message, joined by actress Archie Panjabi, a Rotary "This Close" campaign celebrity; Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari; and Ramesh Ferris, a Canadian Rotarian and polio survivor. Each of us emphasized the key role that Rotary has played in the global effort to fight polio.
In June, Rotary received a nice mention in a Washington Post editorial, and in January and February we also figured prominently in coverage of India's removal from the polio-endemic list after a full year of no new polio cases. Stories were carried by The Economist, Reuters, and the BBC, among others.
Morale boost
As we move forward, all of this media coverage not only accurately recognizes Rotary's leadership role in polio eradication – a wonderful morale booster for Rotarians who have worked so hard for so long to end polio – it raises awareness and support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative itself at this crucial point in the campaign.
Media successes like this don't just happen. It takes a lot of hard work requiring a solid media strategy; tight coordination between Rotarians in the field, RI staff, and our polio eradication partners; and the resources to pull it all together.
Editor's note: On 17 November, Hewko and his wife, Marga, will join Rotarians in the Tucson, Arizona, area to raise money for Rotary's PolioPlus Program at El Tour de Tucson. Find out how you can support the effort.
- Be part of the effort to make the World's Biggest Commercial at www.endpolionow.org
- Purchase End Polio Now, an album of songs performed by Rotary polio ambassadors, available as a digital download through iTunes and soon as a CD from shop.rotary.org.
- Contribute now to end polio


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