eldavojohn writes “A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was ‘very sorry’ and the judge chastised her, saying, ‘You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.’”

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Toshiba much rumored SmartPad’s specs are leaked and is running the Android 2.2 Froyo, also supposedly called the Folio 100

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An anonymous reader writes “The US press has been pushing for a (much needed) federal shield law, that would allow reporters to protect their sources. It’s been something of a political struggle for a few years now, and things were getting close when Wikileaks suddenly got a bunch of attention for leaking all those Afghan war documents. Suddenly, the politicians involved started working on an amendment that would specifically carve out an exception (more…)

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Think of the New Theatre as everybody’s big brother. Without question, the Overland Park dinner playhouse enjoys a reputation for doing high-quality work aimed at a mass audience and is among the most successful commercial theater companies in the region — if not the country. And it’s closing out its 2000-2010 season in style.

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jason-za writes with this quote from a Google announcement: “People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean — here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day — mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what (more…)

stevegee58 writes “As if the Klingon opera described recently here at Slashdot weren’t enough, here’s an interesting offering for Shakespeare buffs. The Washington Shakespeare Company (based in Arlington VA) will soon be performing selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in Klingon.”

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An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Medical News Daily, which begins a story of some interesting medical detective work: “After more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus—the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings about the virus, which causes respiratory, eye, and gastrointestinal infections, may lead to more effective (more…)

siliconbits writes “Chinese manufacturer Lenovo will build a video gaming console for the Chinese market and has already spun off a company called Eedoo Technology, including a team of 40 engineers, with the task of developing the platform. It will be called the Ebox, and will be specifically designed to recognize shapes and movement without the need for a dedicated game controller, not unlike Microsoft’s Kinect.”

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TuurlijkNiet writes with this excerpt from Linux for Devices: “Eat your heart out, ‘Retina display.’ A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow creating pixels eight times smaller than the ones on Apple’s iPhone 4, eliminate the need for polarizer layers, and allow screens to make much more efficient use of available light, say University of Michigan researchers. … The pixels in the nanoresonator displays are about ten times smaller than those (more…)