RIM and AT&T have officially unveiled the new iPhone-like BlackBerry smartphone. The device–dubbed the BlackBerry Torch–provides a hybrid experience combining the familiar BlackBerry keyboard with the next-generation features of the iPhone and Android platforms.

The BlackBerry Torch–which will be available August 12 from AT&T for the apparently industry standard smartphone deal of $199.99 with a two-year contract–is the first device from RIM built on the new BlackBerry 6 OS. The Torch joins the Android-based Samsung Captivate to offer businesses tied to AT&T alternative smartphones roughly equivalent to the Apple iPhone.

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An early morning shooting at Hartford Distributors in Manchester, Connecticut left a minimum of nine folks dead and a number of more injured.

The gunman was reportedly a warehouse worker named Omar Tornton. The Hartford Courant reports that the shooter killed himself with his personal gun when police approached the scene.

Hartford Distributors Inc. can be a family owned beer and wine distributor that is roughly 10 miles east of Hartford, Connecticut. Searches for information concerning the tragedy swiftly created the Google trends on Tuesday.

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John Scannella and Jack Horner, researchers at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, say that the triceratops may be the exact same dinosaur as another one known as the torosaurus.

Triceratops had 3 facial horns and a quick, thick neck-frill having a saw-toothed edge. Torosaurus also had 3 horns, though at various angles, and a a lot longer, thinner, smooth-edged frill with two big holes in it.

Now Scannella and Horner say that triceratops is merely the juvenile form of torosaurus. As the animal aged, its horns changed shape and orientation and its frill became longer, thinner and less jagged. Finally it became fenestrated, producing the classic torosaurus form [...]

This extreme shape-shifting was possible because the bone tissue in the frill and horns stayed immature, spongy and riddled with blood vessels, never fully hardening into solid bone as happens in most animals during early adulthood. The only modern animal known to do anything similar is the cassowary, descended from the dinosaurs, which develops a large spongy crest when its skull is about 80 per cent fully grown.

The torosaurus will now be abolished as a separate species and remains from it reclassified as triceratops.

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