TUNISIA TERRORIST ATTACK

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TUNISIA ATTACK AT LEAST 8 DEAD

At least seven foreigners and a Tunisian national were killed in a shooting attack at the country's leading museum Wednesday, the country's interior ministry said.

Government spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on the private radio station Mosaique FM That only one of the dead was a Tunisian, and did not Shops provide nationalities for the others, the Associated Press reported.

"A terrorist attack [targeted] the Bardo Museum," he Told journalists, according to Functional the BBC. Aroui said "two or blackberries terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs" were Involved, and That most tourists were evacuated but some were still thought to be inside the museum, the broadcaster reported. Aroui said security forces have Entered the museum ..

There were unconfirmed reports That some of the tourists killed may be from Spain.
The Bardo Museum Which is adjacent to the country's parliament in the capital Tunis. Initial reports Had Stated That exchanges of gunfire were heard at the parliament building, Which Has Been evacuated.
Mosaique FM reported earlier That three men dressed in military-style clothing may have taken hostages inside the museum, according to Functional the AP.

Tunisia Has Struggled with violence by Islamic Extremists since mass protests ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
The Bardo museum chronicles Tunisia's history and includes one of the world's largest collections of Roman mosaics.

Non-profit 3-D prints a $100 arm for boy in Sudan

Back around Thanksgiving time in 2013, the Los Angeles-based non-profit was in Sudan to create the first 3-D printer prosthetic laboratory in the world. The odds appeared stacked against them. Electricity was solar powered. There was no running water. And there happened to be a war going on.

"We went to the most extreme place in the world to prove how easy it is to do," recalls Not Impossible co-founder and CEO Mick Ebeling, who is also the inventor of the Eyewriter, a device that helps people who are paralyzed communicate with their eyes.

What Not Impossible did in Sudan was 3-D print a prosthetic arm for a 14-year-old boy named Daniel who had lost both his arms during a bombing attack on his village. With the new prosthetic replacing one arm, Daniel was able to feed himself for the first time in two years.

Ebeling and his fellow Not Impossible co-founder Elliot Kotek are attending SXSW here where Project Daniel is up for an innovation award. They are also carrying around a 3-D printed prosthetic similar to the one Daniel was given, and the two men are presenting at the conference.
Not Impossible has been involved with lots of projects. Don Moir eventually lost his voice after been stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Largely through Not Impossible's efforts, he was able to tell his wife that he loved her for the first time in 15 years, using a digital "letter board," a version of a simple sheet of paper with the alphabet divided into quadrants. The solution made use of a convertible PC from Hewlett-Packard and software from the SpeakYourMindFoundation.

Not Impossible's mantra is "to help one to help many."

"We assume that anytime we make something for one person there are going to be thousands of others who suffer from the same problem," Kotek says. "Everyone's got the newest, latest, quickest, smallest, whatever device on the planet. We look at that and say, how could that be applied to make the world be a better place?"
Not Impossible approaches projects through "crowdsolving," bringing smart people together to uncover something that is innovative or inexpensive. The potential solution may involve repurposing something developed by or for one industry (gaming or entertainment, say) and using it in another (health care).

Corporate partners are encouraged to amplify the story of the chosen individual whom Not Impossible is trying to assist and also to pay so that the solution can be offered to the people who need it for free or at a low cost. Intel teamed up on Project Daniel, for example, HP on Don's Voice.

In Daniel's case, Ebeling says it cost only about $100 to 3-D print the prosthetic arm, well below the $15,000-plus that such a prosthetic would normally cost.

Indeed, in helping to make a difference, anything is possible.

Yahoo's plan for reinventing passwords

Yahoo email users will have a new way to login in to their accounts that will no longer require them to remember a traditional password.

The tech giant introduced on-demand passwords, where users can have new passwords sent to them via text message every time they need to log in and check out their inbox.

The service is optional, so users interested in on-demand passwords go to Settings, then Security to set it up.

Yahoo's password option works similarly to two-factor authentication, a second layer of protection for accounts where users type in a numeric code as well as their password to sign in to accounts. Codes are usually sent as a text message to the user's mobile phone. Services including Google's Gmail, Facebook and Twitter all offer two-factor authentication.
On-demand passwords are available now to Yahoo email users in the U.S.

Apple planning streaming TV service

Fresh off its deal to exclusively launch subscription service HBO Now, Apple is reportedly planning a larger push toward streaming TV.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with broadcasters to offer a TV bundle this fall with 25 channels, including ABC, CBS and Fox. The service would be available through Apple TV.

The small bundle would include channels like FX, ESPN and other bigger channels. The report also says media executives believe the service would cost between $30 and $40 a month.

The report says not included in the bundle as of right now is NBCUniversal, citing a falling-out between Apple and parent company Comcast.

News of Apple's streaming plans follows the company's announcement that its Apple TV set-top box would be the exclusive launch home for HBO Now, the long-awaited standalone subscription of HBO.

Microsoft sends Internet Explorer to tech's scrapheap

SAN FRANCISCO — It's the end of the line for Internet Explorer.

The much maligned browser that battled Netscape to guide people around the World Wide Web was consigned to history this week by Microsoft, joining Palm Pilots, flip phones and Myspace as relics of a distant digital age.

A staple of the Internet for nearly two decades, the Explorer brand will be replaced by a flashier, speedier browser codenamed Project Spartan that will run on phones, tablets and personal computers but is expressly made for a new era of mobile devices.

Junking the Explorer brand is part of a new game plan at Microsoft. CEO Satya Nadella is determined to remake the aging technology giant as an innovator rather than a follower.

Even when it debuted, Explorer was a me-too product. Browser pioneer Netscape Navigator was the world's first commercial Web browser. It ignited the Internet boom and had already transformed how people roamed the Web. Even the Explorer name was derived from Navigator.

"Explorer was never a cool brand," Silicon Valley futurist Paul Saffo says. "It's like one step from AOL."

Nonetheless, bundled with its ubiquitous Windows operating system, Explorer crushed Netscape in the 1990s. The bundling triggered a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit and a settlement with Microsoft.

With the launch of Mozilla's Firefox, Netscape all but faded away. Netscape sold itself to AOL in 1999. In 2007, AOL stopped supporting it.

Yet, despite Microsoft's considerable might, Explorer never managed to win the hearts and minds of consumers, who in recent years defected in droves to a new wave of sleeker browsers.

"In a way, the introduction of Explorer marked the beginning of the downfall of Windows and Microsoft. It was not an attempt to innovate. It was an attempt to stay relevant," Saffo says. "In that era, Microsoft was a fast follower: Let someone else pioneer and then come into the market with muscle and take over. But they didn't succeed with the Internet."

MICROSOFT'S WARNING SHOT

Never one to throw in the towel, Microsoft is now ready to rumble. Cue up the browser wars version 2.0. This time it's all about mobile devices that are populating people's lives and consuming their time and attention.

In retiring the Explorer brand, Microsoft is looking to get its mojo back with consumers, especially those frustrated office workers who loved to hate Microsoft's sluggish browser.

And, in distancing itself from a mainstay of desktop computers and laptops, Microsoft is also firing a warning shot that it plans to compete anew with Google's Chrome, Firefox and Apple's Safari browsers.

"At one point Internet Explorer commanded north of 80% share of the browser market, but with the explosion in mobility, that market share has dwindled to 30%," said S&P Capital analyst Angelo Zino. "The platform isn't cutting it on mobile devices and that's where the focus is today."

Chris Capossela, Microsoft's head of marketing, says Microsoft is researching a new name for the Project Spartan browser, which will be released later this year with Windows 10.

Netanyahu surges past rival in Israeli election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters as he delivers a speech in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday. (Photo: Abir Sultan, epa)

JERUSALEM -- Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud Party held a clear lead over its major opposition party in Israel's elections Tuesday, boosting the prime minister's bid for a fourth term.

Nearly complete results showed Netanyahu's party leading the center-left opposition Zionist Union, which is headed by Isaac Herzog, giving Likud a strong position to try to form a coalition government.

Netanyahu's Likud party appeared on track to win 30 seats in the 120-seat Israeli parliament, to 24 for the Zionist Union, Israeli media including The Jerusalem Post reported early Wednesday.

Netanyahu, who lagged in pre-election polls, declared an early triumph. "Against all odds: a great victory for the Likud, a major victory for the national camp led by the Likud, a major victory for the people of Israel," he tweeted in Hebrew.

With more than 90% of ballots counted, raw vote totals showed Netanyahu's Likud ticket with about 23% of the votes, and Zionist Union at 19%.

Opposition leader Herzog did not concede and said he will try to form a governing coalition.

"I intend to make every effort to put together a true social-welfare-minded government for Israel ... that will seek peace with our neighbors,'' he said.

The results, if upheld when the vote count is complete, will touch off a scramble to build a coalition government.

The outcome could give leverage to Moshe Kahlon, leader of a new centrist party that could deliver support toward a majority. Running in third place in the incomplete results, as well as in TV exit polls of voters, was the United List, a coalition of four small Arab parties that could try to block Netanyahu's return to office.

Exit polls of voters by two Israeli TV outlets showed his party tied with the center-left opposition Zionist Union at 27 seats each in the next Knesset, or parliament. A third station showed Netanyahu narrowly ahead, 28-27. Those polls showed the Arab coalition could win 13 seats.

The exit poll results suggested that Netanyahu's party was doing better than pre-election polls indicated and that a substantial share of voters were willing to give their prime minister another term despite a public feud with President Obama over Iran's nuclear program.

"The atmosphere at the Likud HQ is electrifying," said Avi Hyman, a Likud field coordinator, speaking from Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Voter turnout was 71.8%, up from 67.8% in the 2013 elections.
Opinion polls before the election had shown Herzog with a small lead. The last available poll was published Friday, when a significant number of voters were still undecided, meaning the race was still too close to call.

Under Israel's complicated electoral math, the party with the most seats short of a majority does not necessarily get the prime minister's post, and instead the elections begin a period of negotiations with smaller parties toward building a governing coalition of at least 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

It will be up to the Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin, to decide who to call on to attempt to form the next government. Traditionally that task has gone to the leader of the party that receives the most votes. It could require weeks of political negotiations.

In the closing days of the campaign, Netanyahu moved farther to the right to solidify support among splintered hard-right voters and to galvanize his Likud base.

He pledged to block establishment of a Palestinian state, a reversal from past statements and at odds with much of the international community's support for a two-state solution to the issue. He also tried to rally supporters by warning his leadership was in jeopardy because Israeli Arab voters were turning out "in droves'' to oppose him. Arabs make up 20% of the Israeli population.

But after nine years in the prime minister's job, the election was a referendum on Netanyahu, who angered Obama and jeopardized the bipartisan support Israel has long enjoyed in the United States by speaking to Congress at the invitation of majority Republicans. During his speech, he clashed with Obama over U.S. talks with Iran on curbing that country's nuclear program.

Netanyahu announced his opposition to a Palestinian state Monday and reiterated that pledge early Tuesday after casting his ballot.

His reversal marks a second flash point with the Obama administration, which has been prodding Israel and Palestinians to make progress in peace talks on creation of an independent Palestinian state.
Netanyahu also blamed "foreign funds that flow in vast quantities" to groups supporting the opposition for his party's tough race. It was a veiled reference to the role U.S. donors and a former campaign aide to Obama have played in helping a non-profit group that opposes Netanyahu's policies. His party has been aided by U.S. Republicans.

In a phone interview on the Channel 10 TV, Netanyahu had ruled out forming a coalition government with Herzog saying he would seek an alliance with the ultra-national Jewish Home party, which also opposes Palestinian statehood