Microsoft rolls out more new Xbox 360 apps including UFC and Vudu

The Xbox 360's most recent dashboard update changed everything around again, but its ultimate effect will continue to be felt over the next few weeks and months as more apps trickle out and add more functionality. A few more selections just went live today, and include highly anticipated options like UFC's PPV app, and access to Vudu (pictured after the break -- also, there's no HDX support yet, just HD) movie streaming. That's not all however as they're also joined by 4 on Demand (UK), ABC iView (Australia), Dailymotion, Demand 5 (UK), plus M6 and MSN Video (France). Also recently announced are plans to bring Orange TV in France to the Xbox 360 in the spring with live streaming of thirty TV channels and VOD access later. For its part, Vudu is trying to entice new customers with a $4.99 credit towards their first rental or purchase, plus a few other promotional pricing incentives. Check the press release after the break for more details, or just power on your console to see the channels that are available in your neck of the woods.

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Paul Allen plans to replace space shuttle program

Paul Allen is planning on building the world's largest plane intended to offer space travel to paying customers and possibly to the international space station.

Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade.

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Lifelong space enthusiast Allen is hoping to launch unmanned rockets from a massive flying carrier plane to put government and commercial satellites into space and eventually evolve to human space missions.

The initiative comes only months after the United States retired the Space Shuttle program after 30 years, opening the door to private enterprise to supply space vehicles.

Allen's rocket will be launched from what will be the world's biggest plane, a massive carrier aircraft powered by six jumbo jet engines, to be constructed by Scaled Composites, a unit of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp.

Its wingspan will be about 385 feet, bigger than a football field and 70 percent longer than the wings of a Boeing 747.

The rocket itself will be made by private space company SpaceX, created by Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. The rocket and carrier will be integrated by aviation and missile specialists Dynetics.

The first test flight is targeted for 2015 with the first commercial flight the year after.

"I have long dreamed about taking the next big step in private space flight," said Allen. "To offer a flexible, orbital space delivery system."

The new company to manage the project, called Stratolaunch Systems, has the slogan "Any orbit. Any time."

Allen, the sole funding source for development, did not say how much he would spend on the project, but indicated it would be $200 million or more, an "order of magnitude" greater than the $20 million he spent backing the first privately funded, manned space flight in 2004.

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Fifty-eight-year-old Allen - listed by Forbes magazine as the world's 57th-richest person, with a fortune of $13.2 billion - is the latest in a line of tech billionaires with interests in the privatization of space travel.

His space ambitions put him alongside Musk and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin aims to put people into space at an affordable price, rather than the millions of dollars it has cost up to now.

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BP Settles with Another Company in Gulf Oil Spill (ContributorNetwork)

According to a December 16 article by the Associated Press, Cameron International, the maker of the failed blowout preventer in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal settlement. It is the fourth company BP has settled with in lieu of a federal trial over the catastrophic spill that took place in the Gulf of Mexico in April, 2010. Here are the details:

* The April 20, 2010, explosion killed 11 workers and caused more than 200 million gallons of oil to spill off the coast of Louisiana. According to a December 16 report by Nasdaq, Cameron manufactured a critical safety device intended to shut down the Deepwater Horizon well.

* As part of the settlement, BP has agreed to indemnify Cameron from compensatory claims related to the accident, including environmental claims, Nasdaq reported. Settlements have also been reached with BP's Deep Horizon partners, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Mitsui & Co., as well as Weatherford International Ltd, an oil services company. Those settlements, according to an article in the New York Times on December 16, totaled about $5.1 billion.

* BP continues to fight with Transocean, which operated the rig, and Halliburton, which was responsible for cement work. Claims against those companies are in the tens of billions of dollars, the New York Times reported. A December 6 Reuters article states that BP has accused Halliburton of destroying evidence that the company did inadequate cement work. Halliburton has accused BP of fraud and defamation.

* BP said that it would use the $250 from Cameron to pay for the cost of cleaning up the spill and individual claims by people, businesses and entities hurt by the spill, the Associated Press reported. BP says it has already paid about $7.5 billion in claims.

* According to the New York Times, the company has set aside about $41 billion to cover all the costs associated with the spill, including a $20 billion compensation fund.

* A nonjury federal trial over the spill is expected to begin in February 2012.

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Iran demands Afghanistan cancel US drone flights (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran ? The official Iranian news agency says Iran's foreign minister is demanding that Afghanistan stop letting the U.S. launch drone flights over his country.

Iran has displayed a pilotless American aircraft it says was forced to land two weeks ago during a mission over Iran. The U.S. says it went down because of a malfunction.

The Thursday report by official IRNA news agency quotes Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying Tehran has demanded that Kabul not to allow the U.S. use Afghanistan's land and airspace to conduct further intelligence operations.

Salehi says further operations would be seen as "unfriendly act."

The remark by Salehi is seen as a response to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who said Wednesday in Afghanistan that the operations will continue.

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Tame Debate Gives Way To Mitt-Mentum (ABC News)

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Google employee creates the ultimate LAN party house, lives la vita local

You don't see many software engineers over on Cribs, but if you did, then Google employee Kenton Varda would probably be first in line. Some people buy fancy cars and hot tubs, Kenton created the ultimate LAN party room. Getting your crew round for a marathon Counter-Strike session might be a barrel, but tangled cables and weeding out connection problems are not, or at least Kenton clearly doesn't think so. No more cable spaghetti for him though, thanks to a permanent installation that includes machines, monitors, many feet of HDMI and USB leads, rack mounts and networking equipment for up to 12 gaming chums. Spread over two rooms, with six stations in each -- ideal for team games -- bespoke cabinets were made to keep it easy on the eye. Anyone wanting to take on a similar project can expect to put a $40,000 dent in their wallet, or a little more, depending on the size of your LAN.

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Gov. vows to prepare Calif. for climate change (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? The United Nations' top climate official on Thursday lauded California's efforts to help mitigate global warming by reducing greenhouse gases but said the state needs to more quickly adapt to the risks that extreme weather and a rising sea pose to agriculture and the coastline.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, joined scientists, California Gov. Jerry Brown and billionaire Sir Richard Branson at a conference at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also is expected to attend the conference Thursday afternoon.

Brown organized the conference, he said, to urge people to "wake up" to the risks posed by extreme weather caused by manmade global warming, and to start thinking about what California ought to do to prepare.

He said the state needs to gird itself against floods caused by the faster snowmelts that are already happening, putting pressure on aging levees and threatening the state's agriculture industry. Warming climate also means longer and more intense wildfire seasons that will threaten homes and infrastructure such as power lines, and affect air quality.

"The greatest obstacle we face is a deep sense of complacency, a sense that things were this way yesterday and were OK and will continue," Brown told the packed auditorium.

"It's difficult to see what's not completely obvious ... the buildup of greenhouse gases and climate change, we see it, it's pretty clear." he said.

Brown called skeptics of global warming a well-funded "cult" that disagrees with the vast majority of climate scientists.

"Greenhouse gases are building up, and there is a wide consensus among thoughtful people, even though deniers and skeptics have created quite a PR campaign," he said.

Pachauri said UN studies show that 95 percent of human deaths associated with extreme weather events happen in developing countries.

Yet he said the world's large economies, such as California, can make great strides toward helping reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, especially through the simple task of retrofitting existing buildings.

"If one could retrofit buildings to make them more efficient, and if new buildings could be built to current standards, it's really a win-win situation," Pachauri said. "Overall the building sector has the largest potential for the reduction of emissions."

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