{LAS VEGAS (AP) - The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local):
7:45 p.m.
Google and Lenovo said Thursday that they would begin selling a smartphone that can see in distances and can do things like measure the height of your ceiling or the area inside of a room simply by touching a few points on the screen when pointing its cameras up and down.
Mika Ascalson controls a Segway MiniPRO with a phone app at CES International, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas.
(AP Photo/John Locher, File)
An Ampy charging device is displayed by an Ampy representative at CES International Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Las Vegas. The device can charge phones by movement. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
While the sites have opted not to do business in a handful of states, including Washington, where regulators have made clear they're not welcome, they have been up and running in a number of others - like New York - where they're legally dubious. Several states in which the companies are operating have laws similar to New York and Washington, while a few, such as Tennessee, Arkansas and Vermont, have even stricter prohibitions.
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12:00 p.m.
Would you trust Cortana to keep an eye on your housemate, or your kid?
Microsoft is promoting its voice-activated digital assistant, which is built into its Windows 10 software, as a user-friendly controller for Internet-connected appliances and home systems. (Apple has made its Siri program work with home systems in a similar way.) Microsoft showed how Cortana works with Samsung "smart" appliances during an event Thursday at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas.
Mobileye, General Motors and Volkswagen announced deals this week to start gathering the data. GM vehicles with forward-facing cameras will start providing it later this year through the OnStar system, while VW has plans to send data in 2018. Eventually Mobileye hopes to get the rest of the auto industry on board with crowd-sourced data to make the mapping accurate to within a few centimeters.
Intel got into hot water two years ago when it stopped advertising on a computer gaming website that had posted an essay criticizing gaming culture for being misogynistic and dominated by white males. The essay sparked a backlash from some gamers, who organized a campaign to pressure the site's advertisers.
Intel later apologized for pulling its ads, insisting it hadn't meant to take sides in the controversy.
Since then, Krzanich has been outspoken on what many see as a related issue - diversity in the tech industry - by setting ambitious goals for his own company to hire more women and minorities.
The detailed maps rely on car sensors and computers that record the distance from fixed roadside landmarks such as signs.
"The detailed map allows you to see beyond sensing," said Amnon Shashua, chief technical officer and chairman of Mobileye. "Road landmarks resolve ambiguity in sensing."
Eventually the map computers will record the actual speed and behavior of cars to guide autonomous vehicles in traffic, said Alex Mangan, Here's product marketing manager. "Building a map at this scale with this level of detail, it takes time," he said.
The presenter asked how many hours a fictional boy named "Billy" spent watching TV during the afternoon, when he was home alone after school. After showing the answer in a bar graph, Cortana also was able to report how many times "Billy" opened the refrigerator door - and how many minutes the door was left open each time.
The companies also put out a call for developers to apply to an app incubator by mid-February with the promise the apps could come pre-installed in the device when it goes on sale.
- Ryan Nakashima, AP Business Writer, Las Vegas
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6:30 p.m.
A company based in Santa Cruz, California, says it obtained a temporary restraining order against a Chinese firm for copying its Onewheel electric hoverboard.
Future Motion Inc. had U.S. marshals seize the company's assets and marketing materials from the floor of the CES gadget show in Las Vegas on Thursday.
- Kimberly Pierceall, AP Writer, Las Vegas
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9:30 a.m.
No matter how many cameras, lasers and radar sensors a car has, it will still need super-detailed road maps to drive by itself. Here, a German company owned by Audi, BMW and Mercedes, and Mobileye out of Israel are making the maps, and both will rely on data gathered by cameras and other sensors that are showing up in cars today.
Company co-founder and CFO Brian Faust said at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas that the technology is already part of its game "Flinch" where a person can challenge friends and strangers to a staring contest.
- Kimberly Pierceall, AP Writer, Las Vegas
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4:30 p.m.
A famous name in mobile phones is going away. Lenovo, which bought the Motorola phone business from Google in 2014, is phasing out the Motorola brand for its phones.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says the robot could have industrial and commercial uses, including carrying home groceries home from a supermarket run.
- Kimberly Pierceall, AP Writer, Las Vegas
Mika Ascalson rides a Segway MiniPRO at CES International, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, the Kolibree Kids smart toothbrush is on display at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, in Las Vegas. The toothbrush can connect to a mobile device via bluetooth to create games while brushing teeth.Others say she's obeying the will of the people and subverting a military-dictated constitutional clause intended to lock her out of power.
Votes from Sunday's general election have not been fully tallied, but by Thursday afternoon, Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy had nearly clinched the parliamentary majority needed to take over the government early next year. For Suu Kyi, who has tirelessly fought for decades to bring her country democracy, it should be her moment of destiny, but the constitution bars anyone with foreign family members from becoming president.
"They are poor people forced to flee violence, it is a tragedy," Kovac said by a barn in his sleepy hillside village. "But we can no longer stand the sight. Slovenia is choking under the surge."
The Slovenian farmer's message reflects the general mood in the tiny Alpine state of just over 2 million people, confronted with Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War II. The largely Catholic nation fears it could be overwhelmed by mostly Muslim refugees if neighboring Austria and Germany further west decide to stop the massive flow from the Balkans.
But opponents of the measure have said its means of cracking down on the proliferation of daily online gambling don't go far enough.
The Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems organization agrees with Madigan's court opinion, executive director Anita Bedell said, and added that the "massive expansion of gambling" that the proposal would allow could have "huge ramifications."
Speaking on television Wednesday night, influential National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello didn't directly mention the arrests of first lady Cilia Flores' nephews but warned that Washington is trying to destabilize Maduro's government before the elections.
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Despite tough-on-crime talk, Carson profits from friendship with dentist convicted of fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential contender Ben Carson has maintained a business relationship with a close friend convicted of defrauding insurance companies and testified on his behalf, even as the candidate has called for such crimes to be punished harshly.
'We do what we can': French, UK medical volunteers offer improvised care to Calais migrants
CALAIS, France (AP) - Adnan Kurdu has been living in a world of hurt. For months, he has chewed food to the left of his mouth to try to minimize the pain that starts from a right upper molar and seems, sometimes, to shoot down to his feet.
Kurdu finds salvation at one of the improvised clinics that appear from nowhere in Calais' migrant camp, where medical care for an estimated 6,000 souls depends on volunteers from several countries. After five increasingly graphic minutes seated in a plastic chair at the side of a dirt track, the root of Kurdu's torment is removed - and the Syrian is all smiles.
- Kimberly Pierceall, AP Writer, Las Vegas
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2:15 p.m.
A little exercise not only does your body good, it can charge up your smartphone. Evanston, Illinois-based Ampy showed off its Ampy Move, a wearable battery pack that charges with up and down motion that makes a couple of magnets bounce up and down inside coils.
Although Slovenia insists it is not shutting down its borders for migrants - like neighboring Hungary did this summer - the curbing of the surge that has seen some 170,000 enter Slovenia since mid-October is bound to trigger a ripple effect down the so-called Balkan migrant corridor that also includes Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia.
In the past, Zalewski said, he was on the "wrong side of the fight" concerning new technologies, such as ride-sharing company Uber, but now wants to embrace new technologies.
Zalewski noted that SideLeague, a Chicago-based company and member of the fantasy sports association, is in "legal limbo" following Madigan's court opinion.
"Unlike DraftKings and FanDuel we don't have financial backing that would allow us to take on any litigation risk," said SideLeague co-owner Tony Giordano. "We've stopped offering our contests in Illinois as of December."
Hunter M. Park, a 19-year-old sophomore studying computer science at a sister campus in Rolla, was charged Wednesday with making a terrorist threat after his arrest at a residence hall. The school said no weapons were found.
Park, who is enrolled at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, was jailed in Columbia, about 75 miles to the northwest. Because the county courts were closed for Veterans Day, Park was not expected to appear before a judge until at least Thursday.
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Tiny Slovenia tries to stem massive migrant surge across Balkans, but more havoc likely
RIGONCE, Slovenia (AP) - Stanko Kovac felt only sympathy for the thousands of migrants who flow chest-deep across freezing rivers to reach Slovenia from Croatia, trudging day and night by his house right at the border. That is, until they started trampling his crops and scaring his cattle and chicken.That could pose more risk than the companies or their backers - big media companies and professional sports leagues - have let on. Federal law criminalizes gambling businesses that operate in violation of state law, with penalties that can include prison time, fines and seizure of assets.
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"This creates a real vulnerability for the industry," said Daniel Wallach, a sports and gaming lawyer in Florida. "That statute gives the government the power to take it all away. They can shut you down."
By his count, daily fantasy sports sites have been operating on shaky legal ground in about a dozen states.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday ordered DraftKings and FanDuel to stop accepting bets in the state. He said the companies were offering contests of chance - illegal gambling under state law - and he accused the companies of misleading customers about their chances of winning in a barrage of advertisements.
The decision comes amid growing backlash by regulators and investigators, including New York's attorney general, after it was revealed employees often played on competing sites, raising questions about possible insider information being used to win.
Nevada regulators govern the country's main gambling hub in Las Vegas, and their actions could hold sway with regulators elsewhere.
Participants on the unregulated sites can compete in games involving professional or college sports, paying an entry fee that goes into a larger pool. They try to assemble teams that earn the most points based on real-life stats in a given period with a certain percentage of top finishers earning a payout.
The companies have insisted that their contests aren't "gambling" because their customers engage in games that require more skill than chance, and they reiterated that argument in response to Schneiderman's decision. DraftKings said in an emailed statement that the attorney general "did not take any time to understand our business or why daily fantasy sports are clearly a game of skill."
With the European Union estimating that 3 million more migrants will arrive in Europe over the next year, the patience of Slovenians, traditionally known for tolerance, is wearing thin. Their government announced Tuesday that a fence will be put up to control the flow, although not completely to stop it.
That could pose more risk than the companies or their backers - big media companies and professional sports leagues - have let on. Federal law criminalizes gambling businesses that operate in violation of state law, with penalties that can include prison time, fines and seizure of assets.
"More than 2 million people in Illinois participate in fantasy sports contests, and they deserve clarity in the law and the right to play," said organization chairman Peter Schoenke.
Illinois Rep. Mike Zalewski, D-Riverside, announces an Illinois House plan to regulate contested online sports betting during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Springfield, Ill. Online daily sites, the Boston-based DraftKings and New York-based FanDuel and some Illinois-based companies are supporting the proposal.
Neither Manfred nor Silver would say directly if they thought the sites constituted gambling, although Silver drew a comparison to the stock market, which he said is a gamble for many people. He also pointed to state lotteries as evidence that gambling is no longer considered a "moral sin."
The NBA is directly involved with FanDuel while MLB baseball is partnered with DraftKings. The sites have come under intense scrutiny this year including in New York where the attorney general has ordered the sites to shut down.
6.Help you athlete to detach self-esteem from achievement. Too many athletes I work with attach self-worth to the level of performance or outcomes. Help your child understand that they are a person FIRST who happens to be an athlete instead of an athlete who happens to be a person. Success or number of wins should not determine a person