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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Matthew Dear- Her Fantasy - Music Reviews On Refinery29

As his career has progressed, Matthew Dear has moved from a brooding, behind-the-scenes techno architect to a pompadour-sporting rockstar who can command an audience of any size. With his new single ?Her Fantasy? from the upcoming Beams, Dear comes closer to bottling the electricity of his exhilarating full-band live experience than he?s ever done on record. The track takes the dark pop landscape of 2010?s Black City to new levels of intensity, using live instrumentation and lush electronic textures to explosive, ecstatic effect. ?Her Fantasy? is six minutes of Dear?s most visceral music to date, hurtling through the gloom toward an unseen synth-pop apex.

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Monday, June 4, 2012

ASUS outs Tablets 600 and 810, Transformer-like slates running Windows 8

How many times have we posted a review of an ASUS Transformer tablet only to read comments that say, "Put Win8 on it and I'll buy it." Well, folks, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. ASUS just announced the Tablet 600 and the Tablet 810, two Transformer-like slates running Windows 8. The difference? The 600 is an ARM-based tablet running Windows RT, while the 810 is a full-fledged Intel-powered model with full Windows 8 installed.

Like any Android-powered Transformer, the 600 packs a quad-core Tegra 3 chip, except it has twice the RAM (2GB). At the center of it all is a 10.1-inch, 600-nit, 1366 x 768 Super IPS+ display with viewing angles similar to what you'll find on current Transformer tablets. Around back, it has an auto-focusing 8-megapixel camera with an LED flash, complemented by a 2-megapixel shooter up front. Other specs include WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and your usual array of sensors, including GPS, a gyroscope, e-compass and, last but not least, NFC.

Gallery: ASUS Tablet 600 hands-on

Moving on, the 810 features an unspecified Intel Medfield CPU with 2GB of RAM. Like the 600, it has a Super IPS+ display with 1366 x 768 resolution, only the panel here is a bit larger, measuring 11.6 inches. What's more, this guy makes use of a Wacom dual digitizer, allowing for both pen and finger input.

Gallery: ASUS Tablet 810 hands-on

And that's not all: we've got video demos of both devices -- head past the break to see 'em in action.

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Movie Awards Host Russell Brand Tackles Bieber, Katy Perry, Fassbender's Penis

'The last time I did an MTV awards show, I did end up marrying someone that was there,' Brand jokes in opening monologue.
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UNIVERSAL CITY, California — " 'Twilight'! 'Hunger Games'! These words generate goodwill."Indeed they do, Mr. Brand! Proving he knows the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2012/">MTV Movie Awards</a> audience well, this year's host frequently retreated into the phrases "Twilight!" and "Hunger Games!" to liven up the audience, but he didn't need to. His opening monologue simply killed as the motormouthed English comedian launched into a rapid-fire set playfully attacking a wide variety of targets including Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, MTV, his own short-lived "celebrity marriage" to Katy Perry and ... Michael Fassbender's penis.<div class="player-placeholder right" title="Welcome To The 2012 MTV Movie Awards!" id="vid:787215.id:1686010" width="415" height="255"></div>"Tonight is an important ceremony because according to the Mayans, the world will end in December this year," he pointed out. "If Earth hurtles into the sun and humanity is destroyed, we will all say as one: 'We had the MTV Movie Awards 2012 and it was worth it!' But let's not worry about the impending doom of our planet now. We have vital issues to discuss. One, Justin Bieber beat up a paparazzi. Well done, Justin!"Brand called Bieber "so pretty" that "even if he was attacking me, I think I would do a little orgasm." He imagined that even if he has to go to jail, that "as the horror of incarceration closes in on him and the nightly gang beatings in the shower tangle that beautiful body," some part of him will think, 'Hey, at least I got away from them bloody screaming girls!' "Brand also pointed out that while it may be hypocritical of him to make fun of someone for tangling with the paps, "wait till you hear what I've got to say about short-lived celebrity marriages!"Newly minted couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (or "Can-Ye," as he repeatedly pronounced it) were his next target. "I admire Kanye a lot. His drunken stage invasion at the last MTV award show I hosted took a lot of pressure off me, like watching someone else get in trouble at school."Brand said Kim took a lot of pressure off of him with her "world record quick marriage. Thanks Kim!" He then wished openly that the pair would release a sex tape, which earned hoots and cheers from the crowd. "I think of Kim Kardashian as the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/86791/personmain.jhtml">Stanley Kubrick</a> of sex tapes. They're always brilliant but he only does one a decade." He did have some specific performance advice for West: "Don't drink before the sex tape. Learn the lessons of the VMAs!"Since Kanye wasn't at the Movie Awards on Sunday, Brand turned to Charlie Sheen to distract the audience with crazy antics should he start to say anything that might endanger his green card. "I've taped a bottle of Hennessey and a gram of coke under your chair. In case I start going crazy, just nick it and do a couple of lines. Release the 'tiger blood' hero!"Then it was Fassbender's turn. "I think Fassbender should be roundly condemned for profiting from sex addiction," he said of the "Shame" star. "I did literally go to school with Michael Fassbender and I'm embarrassed to admit that at the time I didn't notice his huge, engorged talent as I was too busy staring at his massive co--. I deliberately removed all erotic content from this monologue 'cause he's only there in the second row and if I get him too aroused, I may lose an eye. Fassbender's pink pipe of acting wonder! That's a good skill for an X-Man." Fassbender laughed along during the whole bit."Hunger Games! Twilight!" These crowd inciting phrases continued to surface." 'Hunger Games' is a story about a dystopia where poor people are humiliated for the amusement of an elite class. That will obviously never happen! Do stay tuned after the show for the new season of 'Teen Mom,' where pregnant women are laughed at for money!"Brand took a few minutes to shill for his upcoming "Rock of Ages," but managed to keep the below-the-belt theme going by talking about his costar Alec Baldwin, "a man so macho he actually has hair on the shaft of his penis." He called the movie the best musical since "Grease" and said to honor that movie, he prepared for the Movie Awards by giving John Travolta a massage. "He needed it, man. He was so stiff, I'm telling ya!"The monologue wrapped with the animated and smiling host taking a few shots at himself. "The last time I did an MTV awards show, I did end up marrying someone that was there. So tonight I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for my next wife. ...""Fassbender! I'm going to go get some massage oil off Travolta. Michael, meet me in my dressing room."The 2012 <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2012/">MTV Movie Awards</a> are officially under way! Stick with MTV News for minute-by-minute coverage, and don't forget to go to <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2012/">MovieAwards.MTV.com</a> to cast your vote for Best Movie!

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Afghanistan: Aid workers saved after death threat

This undated family photo released by the family of British aid worker Helen Johnston Saturday June 2, 2012 shows British aid worker Helen Johnston in London. Two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues were rescued in a pre-dawn raid Saturday June 2, 2012 after being held by militants for 11 days in a cave in northern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led military coalition said. The women, Helen Johnston and Moragwe Oirere, and the two Afghans were kidnapped on May 22 in Badakhshan province. The four work for Medair, a humanitarian non-governmental organization based near Lausanne, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Family Handout via Foreign Office) .

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? NATO and Afghan forces launched a daring operation to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues after learning the Taliban planned to kill one of the hostages, an intelligence official said Sunday.

The troops carried out the successful mission before dawn Saturday, swooping in on helicopters to pluck the aid workers from a cave in a mountainous area of northern Badakhshan province. They killed the eight militants holding them captive as well, said Afghan intelligence spokesman Shafiqullah Tahiri.

The militants hoped killing one of the hostages would pressure negotiators to accept their demands of a $1 million ransom and the release of five of their colleagues imprisoned in Kabul, said Tahiri. The insurgents initially asked for at least $4 million before reducing their demand, he said.

Helen Johnston, 28, from Britain, and Moragwa Oirere, 26, from Kenya, and their two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped on May 22 while traveling on horseback in Badakhshan. The four work for Medair, a humanitarian non-governmental organization based near Lausanne, Switzerland.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday that he approved the operation after becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of the hostages. He said militants should know that Britain does not pay ransoms or trade prisoners, and anyone who kidnaps British citizens "can expect a swift and brutal end."

Troops were able to launch the rescue operation after receiving precise information from Afghan intelligence agents about the hostages' location in Shahri Buzurg district, said Tahiri. The kidnappers were planning to move the hostages to another remote, mountainous location in neighboring Tajikistan, he said.

The militants were armed with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles, but were overwhelmed by British troops operating alongside other NATO and Afghan forces. The hostages were safely rescued, and none of the NATO or Afghan forces were harmed, said the coalition.

Past rescue attempts in Afghanistan have not always gone so well.

In 2009, Sultan Munadi, an Afghan translator kidnapped alongside New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, was killed in a hail of bullets during a rescue attempt by British commandos. In 2010, the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team 6 tried to rescue Linda Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker, from her Taliban captors in Afghanistan. She was killed by a grenade thrown in haste by one of the American commandos.

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Associated Press writer Sebastian Abbot contributed to this report.

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