Knicks Hire Woodson as Head Coach

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BY MEGAN RICE

Practice makes perfect and what better way to practice becoming a head coach than getting hired after an interim season. New York 1 reports on who the Knicks decided to keep in charge next year.

?And Mike Woodson will stay on as Knicks coach. The team dropped the interim tag from Woodson and gave him a multi-year contract. Woodson coached the Knicks to an 18-6 record and their first playoff win in 11 years after Mike D'antoni left mid-season.?

With any job in the Big Apple comes speculation. But, ESPN?s NBA Analyst Stephen A. Smith says the Knicks made the right choice.

?There haven't been many times when the New York Knicks have done something right. So it's nice to see that they finally did something sensible...?

Woodson beat out some stiff competition in the likes of the NBA record 11-time champion coach Phil Jackson. Fox Sports reports he will be there as long as some of the Knicks? star players.

?Sources indicated Jackson was interested -- and Jerry Sloan may have been, too. But they'll have to wait as Woodson gets what's believed to be a three-year deal, the length of service left on the pacts of Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and Amar'e Stoudemire.?

If being a head coach in a major city doesn?t bring enough pressure, having NBA coaching legend Phil Jackson in your rear-view certainly will. A Yahoo! Sports columnist wrote earlier this month the iconic coach was actually the better choice.

?Mike Woodson is a solid NBA coach, but he doesn?t have the clout to make this work the way that Jackson can... The Knicks don?t need Jackson for the sake of his r?sum?, his stature, but for his ability to get talent ? especially talent at odds like ?Melo and Amar?e ? to play together.?

Regardless of what the critics think, Woodson has the job, so it?s time for him to roll up his sleeves and get to work. According to a New York Times writer, Woodson?s job includes some tall tasks.

?It is now up to Woodson, who once coached the Atlanta Hawks, to find a way to blend the scoring talents of Anthony and Amar?e Stoudemire?s, a goal that has eluded the Knicks the past two seasons.

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3-D isn't big selling point for HDTV buyers, but smart TVs may get hot

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Wilson Rothman

I love to say "I told you so," but this one was so super obvious it?doesn't even feel good: 3-D isn't a big motivator for HDTV buyers.

Despite a dramatic?rise in sales of 3-D HDTVs, only?14 percent of consumers interested in, or expecting to purchase, a flat-panel TV in the next 6 months call 3-D a ?must have? feature, according to the NPD Group.

Here's the thing: HDTVs are awesome, and the technology that gives a TV the power to show 3-D imagery?only makes a TV's picture more awesome (as we discussed in the video below). It's just that actual?3-D viewing will remain a limited attraction due to gear requirements ??special glasses, Blu-ray players and cable service add-ons ? a generally underwhelming lineup of 3-D?movies and, let's face it, no clear reason why we need to see things in 3-D in the first place.

"I'm not ready to call 3-D a gimmick," said Ben Arnold,?director of industry analysis for the NPD Group, in a phone interview.?"But?how much it adds to the viewing experience is debatable."

What about smart TV?
Explicit demand for Internet connectivity is not currently?much greater?than demand for 3-D.?According to a separate 2011?survey by NPD Consumer Tracker, connectivity was cited as "important" in about?20?percent of?TV?purchases.?But the perceived need for an Internet-enabled TV is likely to rise.

"Anything that expands content options has more of a future than something that's simply a feature," Arnold told me. Besides, connectivity doesn't necessarily come with the same kind of baggage 3-D requires. "You don't have to buy glasses, you don't have to have special content from your TV provider," said Arnold.?"The cost of entry is much lower than it is for 3-D, I suppose."

My?contention, one that Arnold agrees with, is that we're only at the beginning of the smart TV revolution. Meanwhile, this whole 3-D may well just blow over.

Try to remember smartphones before the iPhone. Think back hard. Interfaces were clunky, functionality was limited, we weren't totally sure what to do with these things, but we knew they were "better" than our old dumbphones.?

That's essentially?the current state of connected TV: Top hardware companies that have no track record for designing user interfaces are pushing out TVs that make sense on paper, but in the living room fall flat. (And not "flat" in a good way.)

"There's a lot of fragmentation in connected TVs," Arnold told me,?"but if iOS or Android comes along on three or four manufacturer's TVs, then you have the next step in that industry's evolution." Is this all a precursor to an iOS-powered Apple iTV? Perhaps a worthy Android competitor to it? The rise of truly great smart TVs is far?more likely than smart TVs merely?fading back into the woodwork ? as I imagine 3-D soon will.

In the meantime, connected, 3-D capable TVs are selling like mad, even if the people buying them don't buy them for either.

"Sales of 3-D TVs are on the rise in the U.S.," reports the?NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service.?"3-D TVs accounted for 11 percent of all flat-panel TV sales in Q1, nearly double that of last year, and 22 percent of all 40+ inch sets sold were 3-D."

Get 'em while they're hot!

Catch up with Wilson on Twitter at @wjrothman, or on Google+. And join our conversation on Facebook.

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Umbrellas Are Not Just For Rain ? The Avanti Reader

Two things are true: April showers bring May flowers and lawsuits are expensive. ?But, while it is obvious to use an umbrella in the rain, it is not quite as obvious to use an umbrella to protect your financial assets. ?Consider the following worst case scenario: you have a good driving record and carry insurance with above average limits. ?The problem is that you are involved in an accident resulting in significant injury to multiple people in the other car. Your limits aren?t going to go very far and once your policy limits are gone then you are personally responsible for the rest. If you don?t think you might get sued, then think again. ?The cost of medical care is on the rise and litigation is costly.

An umbrella policy is literally what it sounds like ? a policy that steps in to provide high limits above your auto or homeowners policy. ?In some cases the umbrella will drop down to provide liability coverage for things that may be excluded on other liability policies. ?How big should your umbrella be? ?Well that depends. ?Typical limits are $1,000,000 and the cost is very reasonable.

Although specific terms and conditions vary, an umbrella policy provides an extra layer of protection for a wide array of liability scenarios. ?Remember that it?s not just an auto accident that can get you into trouble. ?Imported Spanish tile looks great on the patio?that is until someone slips and falls.

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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces cloud-based, virtualized Kepler GPU technology and GeForce GRID gaming platform

We're here at NVIDIA's GPU technology conference here in San Jose, California and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just let loose that his company plans to put Kepler in the cloud. To make it happen, the company has created a virtualized Kepler GPU tech, called VGX, so that no physical connections are needed to render and stream graphics to remote locations. So, as Citrix brought CPU virtualization to put your work desktop on the device of your choosing, NVIDIA has put the power of Kepler into everything from iPads to netbooks and mobile phones.

While the virtualized GPU has application in an enterprise setting, it also, naturally, can put some serious gaming power in the cloud, too. Fear not, for Jen-Hsun's crew has created GeForce GRID technology that leverages Kepler's cloud capabilities to augment online gaming services like Gaikai by greatly reducing input latency by up to 30ms. Naturally, NVIDIA's not spilling the secret sauce that makes it happen, but you can read all about the new technology at the PR and source below.

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FXI Cotton Candy ICS-in-a-USB-Thumb Drive Almost Ready for Worldwide Primetime, Android on Any PC for Only $199

We have covered the FXI Cotton Candy before, the Android thumb drive that allows you to virtualize our favorite OS on any computer that you want. Since we have heard from them, they?ve been getting their ducks in order, and now the little USB-drive-that-could is ready to launch by the end of this month, in?Scandinavia. And while FXI is promising Android 4.0 pre-installed on this device by launch, the demo that Engadget was shown was still running Gingerbread. Either way, the stick has enough specs to run either smoothly.

This little thumb drive is more than meets the eye, packing a?1.2GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor alongside a monster quad-core?Mali-400MP GPU. There is 1GB of RAM inside but for other storage than that you will have to turn to use the microSD card slot on the side. On one end of the stick a USB 2.0 connector lets you connect to your PC of choice but the other end features a full HDMI connector that is ready for 1080p output. All in all, this little thumb drive is pretty snazzy, let?s hope that it comes to the States soon enough. At the price of $199, what would you use this for?

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'Monster sunspot' may foretell powerful solar flares, says NASA

A huge sunspot spanning more than 60,000 miles could erupt, sending high energy radiation into space.

An enormous sunspot group has taken shape on the surface of the sun, hinting that our star may soon start spouting off some powerful storms.

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The huge sunspot complex, known as AR 1476, rotated into Earth's view over the weekend. It measures more than 60,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) across, researchers said. Scientists with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, a space-based telescope watching the sun, dubbed the solar structure a "monster sunspot" in a Twitter announcement.

AR 1476 is big enough for amateur astronomers with decent equipment to spot from their backyards, weather permitting. (Warning:?Never look at the sun directly with telescopes or the unaided eye. Special filters are required for safe solar viewing to avoid serious eye damage.)?

"With at least four dark cores larger than Earth, AR 1476 sprawls more than 100,000 km from end to end, and makes an easy target for backyard solar telescopes," the website Spaceweather.com reported Monday (May 7).

Sunspots are temporary dark patches on the surface of the sun that are caused by intense magnetic activity. These structures sometimes erupt into?solar flares, which send high-energy radiation streaming into space.

Solar physicists classify flares into three main categories: C, M and X, with C being the least powerful and X the strongest. X-class flares can cause long-lasting radiation storms in Earth's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts. M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts in the polar regions and occasional minor radiation storms, while C flares have few noticeable consequences.

AR 1476 has already proven quite active, firing off a number of C flares?over the past few days. And another sunspot group, AR 1471, erupted Monday evening with one that seems?to be an M1, one of the least powerful M flares, according to Spaceweather.com.

Big solar flares are often associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), massive clouds of solar plasma that streak through space at 3 million mph (5 million kph) or more.?If these clouds hit Earth, they can wreak havoc, spawning geomagnetic storms that can disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids. CMEs also often super-charge the northern and southern lights, providing dazzling shows for skywatchers at high latitudes.

Monday evening's eruption from AR 1471 apparently generated an Earth-directed CME, which should hit Earth sometime Wednesday morning (May 9) Eastern time, researchers said.?

After remaining surprisingly quiet from 2005 through 2010, our star began waking up last year, spouting off numerous powerful flares and CMEs.

Most experts expect such outbursts to continue over the next year or so. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, and scientists think the current one ? known as Solar Cycle 24 ? will peak in 2013.

You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom?and on Facebook.

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