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YouTube cat videos can finally play on most Roku devices

Roku has just announced that the YouTube app, once exclusive only to the Roku 3, is now available to all of the company's "current-gen" players. That includes the Roku LT, Roku 1, the Roku 2, the Roku HD, the Roku Streaming Stick... and, well, pretty...

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What's the Strangest Thing You've Done to Get an Internet Connection?

We've all been stranded in an unusual location, desperate for an internet connection but unable to find one that's easy to use. So we wondering: what's the craziest solution you've ever come up with to get online?

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New and updated apps: iMore, Flickr, Bejeweled Blitz, and more!

Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It's impossible to keep up with them all, but it's not impossible to pick out the very best. Here they are! Today we've got the most awesome news app in the universe, social media apps, games and more!

New and updated iOS apps

• iMore 3.1.2: An awesome app that brings you breaking news, helpful how-tos and lots of other awesome content about all things Apple. The update sports more stability and performance enhancements for iOS 7! Free - Download now

• Flickr 3.0: A complete rebuild and redesign of the app for the popular Yahoo-owned photo blogging service. Free - Download now

• Bejeweled Blitz 1.5.0: A new Flower Power rare gem has been added, plus the popular matching game gains "general polishing" in menus and other interface elements. Free - Download now

• Hootsuite 2.5.7: Hootsuite lets you share and schedule posts from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare accounts. The new version includes bug fixes, better Push Notification support, improved Dynamic Type support and more. Free - Download now

• Accuweather 7.0.10: The weather app sports dramatic performance improvements, revised its Daily Forecast list for better readability, made active severe weather warnings more obvious, and added radar support for cities in Spain. Free - Download now

• CloudMagic 1.0.22: This email client integrates well into Salesforce, Zendesk, Trello and MailChimp workflows. Bug fixes in this release along with some interface tweaks. Free - Download now

• Facebook Paper: An alternative to browsing Facebook on your iPhone. Adds supports for birthdays, events, groups, new story buttons, and more. Lots of new tweaks to the interface to make the experience better as long as more article covers. Free - Download Now

• Facebook Messenger: Dedicated messenger app for Facebook messages. Create groups on your iPhone and save them, great for messaging people you typically add to a group. Message forwarding and more. Free - Download Now

New and updated Mac apps

• Tweetbot 1.5.1: Bug fixes for the popular Twitter client for OS X. $19.99 - Download now

More apps and updates?

If you try any of the apps or updates, let me know how they work for you. If you got any new or updated apps today that you loved, but don't see here, let us know about them!

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This Co-Working Table Has Hidden Depths

Co-working can be tough: regular users of a space have their natural sprawl, while those spending just a few hours at a desk would prefer a minimum of clutter. This desk has hidden depths to cater for all.

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A Clever Lamp Without a Bulb That Still Projects a Classic Silhouette

You can buy light bulbs with every kind of color temperature, brightness, and finish you can imagine these days. So the need for a lamp shade to diffuse, soften, and direct their light is all but unnecessary—unless you yearn for that classic lamp silhouette. In that case, this LED lamp from YOY design is a clever compromise.

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Researchers make an infrared-invisible tank that looks from Tron

This is the PL-01 concept tank, a three-crew 35-ton tank that can turn itself invisible to infrared missiles thanks to a mesh of thermal tiles that change their temperature to match the environment. Oh, and it looks straight out of the world of Tron.

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The 200 Top-Scoring Reddit Posts of All Time, Visualized

There have been a mind boggling number of posts on Reddit since it was created, but which ones have done best? This visualization shows the 200 highest-scoring posts of all time from the site.

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Michael Jackson's Doctor Betrays Him with Creepy Interview

It seems that Michael Jackson will never be able to rest in peace. The King of Pop died with his personal physician Conrad Murray by his side in 2009; Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011. Now, the doctor who administered Jackson a lethal dose of the sedative propofol has completed his prison sentence. But rather than move on, Murray is determined to clear his own name -- by spilling Michael Jackson's most intimate secrets to the press.
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BART calls for return to bargaining table

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's contract with its two largest unions appears to be facing uncertainty as the agency called late Friday for a return to the bargaining table, just weeks after the agreement settled a dispute that had caused two strikes.

After a closed-door meeting Friday afternoon to discuss the issue and review its likely costs, BART officials said a family medical leave provision giving its 2,300 union workers up to six weeks of paid time off each year would be too expensive.

On Thursday, BART officials announced that the provision had been "inadvertently" included in the agreement, which was signed off by transit and union negotiators in October. The board, which is set to vote on the contract Nov. 21, has now ordered the agency's general manager to restart talks with representatives from the unions — Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021. A new chief negotiator is expected to be announced.

"We are not comfortable with the potential liability that could result from the adoption of this contract provision," the board said in a statement issued Friday night. It was "never the District's intention to include the disputed Family Medical Leave Act proposal in the contract," it added, indicating the medical leave provision was "erroneously" included in the contract language by an unnamed temporary employee in July.

By BART's accounting, 7.4% of its ATU and SEIU workers have taken leaves for family care, at an average of 4.3 weeks and costing about $1.4 million a year. But in its statement Friday, the agency suggested it is worried up to 33% of the union employees might take six weeks of paid leave under the new provision, costing the agency $10.5 million.

"The Board is disappointed that this error occurred and was not caught earlier," it said.

SEIU Local 1021 Executive Director Peter Castelli said by telephone Friday that it would likely be a few days before his union made a decision on how to respond.

"We're not ruling anything out, but we're not inclined to go back to the bargaining table," Castelli said.

Later, in a statement Friday night, he added: "Make no mistake, there was no confusion or glitch in the agreement. BART's high-priced chief negotiator Thomas Hock, Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier, and Labor Relations Manager Rudy Medina, signed an agreement that would allow BART workers time off to care for their family members with a serious illness."

BART management and its two largest unions agreed to a tentative deal on Oct. 21 after six months of agonizing negotiations and two strikes that caused headaches for hundreds of thousands of commuters.

The disputed proposal would require the agency to provide workers additional paid leave for six of the 12 weeks allowed under the Family Medical Leave Act. Prior contract language required workers to use sick leave and vacation time first.

A BART attorney notified the unions in an email on Nov. 7 that a provision on medical leave was signed by the agency in "error."

"I had assumed that you would recognize this for the error that it clearly is," BART counsel Vicki Nuetzel (cq) wrote. "As I have stated, given the Union's positions, (Management) cannot ratify the contract.

"It is most unfortunate that the efforts made by all parties to reach what we believed to be a fair resolution will be wasted, but there is no choice."

Board Director James Fang called the error unfortunate.

"We're going to discuss the options and one of them is to not to approve the contract," Fang said Thursday. Fang said BART management had known about the issue since last week after conducting a final review of the deal, but that board members didn't find out until Tuesday.

ATU Local 1555 President Antonette Bryant said earlier in the day Friday that the language in the contract was not inadvertent and that the deal is valid. She said the parties signed off in July on the medical leave provision that was executed in August.

"An agreement is an agreement. BART has buyers' remorse," Bryant said Friday. "Now that we have a deal, BART managers think they made a mistake, but they could have and should have identified that long before 2,300 union members voted on the new contract.

"We feel that this is a valid contract," Bryant concluded.

If the board votes down the contract on Nov. 21, the unions may consider going on strike for the third time in three months.

SEIU's Castelli questioned BART officials' competence and good faith.

"It's a further demonstration a combination of incompetence and no real desire to get an agreement," he said. "I've been bargaining union contracts for over 25 years, and I have never seen anything like this happen, ever."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bart-calls-return-bargaining-table-062946226.html
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Dana White predicts Rory MacDonald will leave Tristar gym, fight Georges St-Pierre

LAS VEGAS -- All the players from Montreal's Tristar Gym involved with UFC 167 have held fast to the party line this week: There's no way training partners Georges St-Pierre and Rory MacDonald will fight one another.

But UFC president Dana White isn't buying it.

With St-Pierre running out of challengers he hasn't already beaten in the course of his five-and-a-half-year welterweight title reign, and MacDonald on the fast track up the ranks, wins in their respective fights on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena would put them one step closer to a showdown some feel is inevitable.

Count White among those who believe in the fight's inevitability.

"[MacDonald] will fight Georges St-Pierre," White said at Thursday's UFC 167 media scrum. "I know it, you know it, everybody knows it."

White went so far as to say that if the 15-1 welterweight contender wins his fight against Robbie Lawler on Saturday night, that will mark the turning point at which MacDonald decides to leave Tristar and chart his path toward St-Pierre's title, assuming St-Pierre defeats challenger Johny Hendricks on Saturday night.

"This is my prediction," said White. "I think if he beats Robbie Lawler, he's going to move out of Georges' house, and I think things are going to change. I think this is the fight for him that's going to put him in the direction of fighting GSP. I think if he wins this fight, he's moving out, he's leaving his own place."

White said that despite MacDonad's protestations, as he's been answering the "will you fight GSP?" questions this week with a simple "No," his actions state otherwise.

"You can't see that this kid wants to fight Georges St-Pierre?" White said. "He's living in Georges St-Pierre's house. What you don't do, is you don't say you want to fight this guy. That's like saying I don't want to punch the guy in the face whose house I'm living in."

While there has been well-documented acrimony over the years when it's come time for training partners to fight -- Jon Jones vs Rashad Evans being the most recent, high-profile example -- White said St-Pierre's professionalism will carry the day.

"I know Georges St-Pierre," said White. "I know what a professional he is, and I know, when has GSP ever not fought someone who deserved to be next? GSP has never been one of those champions who says ‘I don't think this guy deserves to be fighting me.' he says ‘Who's next.'

White went so far as to compare GSP favorably to the fighter most consider the ultimate UFC company man.

"Out of all the fighters we've had, including Chuck Liddell, who is considered part of my family, nobody has been easier and more professional to work with than Georges St-Pierre."

On Wednesday, Tristar trainer Firas Zahabi told MMAFighting.com that he can't envision St-Pierre and MacDonald crossing paths in the Octagon.

"People tell me, oh, you should have them fight each other," Zahabi said. "I always tell myself, why would I do that? I spent so much time, for so many years, to work with them, to have this energy. Why would I betray one of them or turn my interest against one of them?"

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/11/14/5106048/dana-white-predicts-rory-macdonald-will-leave-tri-star-fight-georges
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