Red carpet kinder to 'Thrones' stars than that Red Wedding

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"Game of Thrones" has its dragons, giants and White Walkers that require special effects and prosthetics to transform into small-screen creatures, but often, it's the humans who have the most amazing metamorphoses with little more than a costume change and makeup.

Take the cast when they hit the red carpet in New York the show's fourth season premiere, for example. Wildlings turned into glamazons. A spider turned into a dashing gentleman. A simple giant of a man turned into a ... well, a snazzily dressed giant of a man.

Replace their elaborate costumes, and the cast are sometimes unrecognizable at first glance. See how different these "GoT" stars look from their small-screen characters, and what some had to say about their on-screen action this season.

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Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth.

Gwendoline Christie, the actress behind the not-very-lady-like Brienne of Tarth, doesn't much look like her tough warrior maiden save for the height. As for what's in store for Lady Brienne this year, Christie told reporters, "As you can imagine, the idea of King's Landing is a war of words, it's a war of intellect, of treachery and secrets. And Brienne is a woman of action and physicality, and I would imagine it would be quite difficult to see her place in that environment."

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Red Sox-Brewers Live: Milwaukee Outlasts Boston 7-6 In 11 Innings

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Final, Brewers 7-6: Francisco Rodriguez sat the Red Sox down in order in the 11th inning.

Mike Napoli, Xander Bogaerts and Jonny Gomes couldnt get anything going against the Brewers closer. All three hitters struck out swinging.

Back-to-back doubles from Khris Davis and Logan Schafer off Burke Badenhop in the 11th inning were the difference in this one.

The Brewers racked up 19 hits in the 7-6 victory, including 13 against Clay Buchholz, who simply didnt have his best stuff. Buchholz gave up six runs on a career-high 13 hits over 4 1/3 innings in a disappointing season debut for the right-hander.

The Red Sox and Brewers will close out their three-game series Sunday afternoon. Jon Lester and Yovani Gallardo are scheduled to square off in a matine tilt scheduled for 1:35 p.m.

Mid 11th, Brewers 7-6: Burke Badenhop, who spent the 2013 season with Milwaukee, surrendered a run to his former teammates in the 11th inning.

Khris Davis dropped a flair just inside the right field line with one out. The ball kicked up into the stands for a ground rule double.

Logan Schafer followed with a well-placed double into the left-center field gap that allowed Davis to score the go-ahead run.

Badenhop struck out Mark Reynolds for the second out of the 11th inning, at which point John Farrell turned to lefty Andrew Miller to face the left-handed-hitting Scooter Gennett. Miller fired a wild pitch before striking out Gennett.

Mike Napoli, Xander Bogaerts and Jonny Gomes are due up for Boston in the bottom of the 11th. Theyll face Brewers closer Francisco Rodriguez aka K-Rod.

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Review of anomalies and UFO near the Sun on satellite images NASA SOHO STEREO for April 1, 2014 – Video

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NASA suspends Russian collaborations, Enceladus’s oceans, "El Gordo" galaxy cluster weighed. SFN 132 – Video

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NASA suspends Russia ties, except on ISS

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NASA has cut ties with Russia except for co-operation aboard the International Space Station due to the crisis in Ukraine, the US space agency says.

'Given Russia's ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, NASA is suspending the majority of its ongoing engagements with the Russian Federation,' said a NASA statement on Wednesday.

'NASA and Roscosmos will, however, continue to work together to maintain safe and continuous operation of the International Space Station.'

The story was first reported by news site The Verge, which obtained an internal memo describing the policy change.

A copy of the memo posted online described a halt to travel to Russia by NASA employees and of visits by Russians to NASA facilities, and a freeze on exchange of email, teleconferences and video conferences.

The new policy does not apply to 'operational International Space Station activities' or 'multilateral meetings held outside of Russia that may include Russian participation,' said the memo.

Russia's Soyuz spacecraft are the sole means of transport to the ISS for the world's astronauts. The United States pays Russia an average of $70.7 million per seat.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told politicians on March 27 that he was aware of no threat that would jeopardise the Russian-US partnership at the space station.

Earlier Wednesday, NATO warned that Russia's military presence on the flashpoint border - estimated at about 40,000 troops - with Ukraine was of 'grave concern.'

NATO on Tuesday announced the alliance was suspending all practical cooperation with Russia, military and civilian, and that there was no confirmation that Russian troops were pulling back from the border.

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Discovery Center celebrates "NanoDays"

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The Amarillo Animal Control and the Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society are adding additional weekend hours.

The Amarillo Animal Control and the Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society are adding additional weekend hours.

Several groups of volunteers spent part of their day cleaning up trash along the sides of several highways in Amarillo.

Several groups of volunteers spent part of their day cleaning up trash along the sides of several highways in Amarillo.

An area 12 year old boy is helping better the lives of residents in Dalhart, one penny at a time.

An area 12 year old boy is helping better the lives of residents in Dalhart, one penny at a time.

Amarillo students looking to join a U.S. Service Academy had a chance Saturday to learn more about achieving their goals.

Amarillo students looking to join a U.S. Service Academy had a chance Saturday to learn more about achieving their goals.

A benefit rodeo to support a local boy who recently broke his back and has a brain abnormality was held Saturday afternoon in Clarendon College Texas Arena.

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As Moores Law Slows, Open Hardware Rises

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At 8-years old, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang appreciated the fact that his Apple II came with schematics and source code because it allowed him to figure out how it worked.

"I was wondering what all these little black things on the board were and I would take the chips out and put them in backwards, even though my dad told me not to," said Huang during his EE Live! 2014 keynote on open-source hardware and the future of embedded systems. "He was right; you don't put the chips in backwards."

Today that information is guarded and protected in the hardware industry and Huang, now a research affiliate at MIT who holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the school, realized this change wasn't because hardware became too complex, but because it was too easy to improve, and Moore's Law was tough to keep up with.

If Moore's Law saw technology doubled every 18 months, that meant someone working on a linear improvement, like optimizing a process node, could be getting 80% performance improvement per year, and Moore's Law would be shipping something better by year two.

"So the problem has been that sitting and waiting has actually been a viable strategy versus innovation," said Huang. "This problem is particularly acute in hardware."

"Distribution is really the killer," said Huang. "In software, when you want to push a patch you copy to the server and you're done. But if you want to get your [hardware] out there, it can take months to years -- an eternity in software."

That means the software innovation cycle is well within a generation of Moore's Law, but for hardware the cycle can take longer than a single generation of Moore's Law, so the system has favored really big businesses.

"You can't just design a product and be a successful business, you design a series of products all at the same time," said Huang. "You have a pipeline with two to three products in the pipe, or else someone is going to beat you to the punch. So you need multiple teams of people and a lot of money to fund them."

Huang believes this has led to a veil of secrecy in the industry, because even though the details of hardware can't be hidden, reverse engineering takes time and companies use that to their advantage.

"The fact is it does take a few months to do the reverse engineering. If you're not shipping schematics and source code and you delay your competitor by a few months, you've actually bought a significant competitive advantage in the Moore's Law domain," said Huang.

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