Google indoor maps comes to the UK, helps commuter meet pasty in record time

If you're forever getting lost looking for Barratts, or feeling faint hunting down a Greggs to fill your mall-explorer's belly, then Google Maps to the rescue. Mountain View's already made it clear it doesn't want walls to get between you and its mapping of the world, and now those hungry Android-using indoor Britons can get in on the action. There's only a hair over 40 venues covered right now -- a mix of museums, stations, malls and airports in the main -- and most of them in London. With building owners being able to upload their own maps, however, this should / could expand quickly. Good news either way, though if you can get lost at London Bridge Station, then no amount of maps will likely help.

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The list of key winners at the BET Awards

Best group: Kanye West and Jay-Z

Best actor: Kevin Hart

Sportswoman of the year: Serena Williams

Sportsman of the year: Kevin Durant

Best new artist: Big Sean

Best male R&B artist: Chris Brown

Best collaboration: Wale featuring Miguel "Lotus Flower Bomb"

Best gospel: Yolanda Adams

Best female R&B artist: Beyonce

Best female hip-hop artist: Nicki Minaj

Video of the Year: Jay-Z and Kanye West, "Otis"

Lifetime Achievement: Frankie Beverly featuring Maze

Humanitarian Award: Rev. Al Sharpton

Viewer's Choice Award: Mindless Behavior

Video Director of the Year: Beyonce and Alan Ferguson

Fandemonium Award: Chris Brown

Centric award: Common

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Associated Press intern found dead in Mexico City

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Armando Montano, 22, poses for an ID photo at the Associated Press office in Mexico City on June 4.

By msnbc.com staff and wire reports

Police in Mexico City are investigating the death of an Associated Press summer intern whose body was found early Saturday in an elevator shaft.

Armando "Mando" Montano, 22, was working as a news intern for the AP in the Mexican capital. His body was found in the elevator shaft of an apartment building near where he was living in the city?s Condesa neighborhood, AP reported.

Montano had been in Mexico City since early June after graduating from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. He was not on assignment at the time of his death, according to the AP. The U.S. Embassy is monitoring Mexican authorities as they investigate the circumstances of his death.

Montano, a native of Colorado Springs, Colo., earned a bachelor?s degree in Spanish and a concentration in Latin American studies from Grinnell. During his time with the Associated Press, he covered stories including the saga of nine young elephants from Namibia who wound up on animal reserve in Mexico?s Puebla state, and the shooting of three federal policemen at the Mexico City airport, the AP said.

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?Armando was a smart, joyful, hardworking and talented young man,? said Marjorie Miller, AP?s Latin America editor based in Mexico City. ?In his short time with the AP, he won his way into everyone?s hearts with his hard work, his effervescence and his love of the profession.?

Montano had said he planned to pursue a master?s degree in journalism at the University of Barcelona in the fall. ?

Montano?s other journalism experience includes reporting for The New York Times, The Colorado Independent, The Seattle Times, and the Scarlet & Black, Grinnell?s College student newspaper.

?Mando was a standout young journalist, with a rare passion and exuberance for life and for people,? Richard Berke, an assistant managing editor at The New York Times, told the AP. ?He accomplished so much and touched so many in a short time, and his potential was truly limitless.?

Montano was the recipient of an Ellen Masin Persina Scholarship from the National Press Club in 2008, a Newhouse Scholar with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2008 and a Chips Quinn Scholar from the Freedom Forum for Diversity in 2011, according to the AP. He belonged to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

He was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Colorado, but he lived for two years as a child in Costa Rica and spent time in Argentina and on the U.S.-Mexico border with his family.

Montano is survived by his parents, Diane Alters and Mario Montano, of Colorado Springs, who both teach at Colorado College.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.?

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Google's 'Party Mode' may lead to some regrets

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Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor

It's a party! And parties are a good thing, right?

That's what the good folk at Google seem to think, and may be why they've built a feature into their new Google+ Events software called "Party Mode" that automatically uploads all photos taken at a party to the Internet.

On the face of it, it's a great idea. Everyone invited to a party through Google+ Events, or at least everyone with an Android phone and a Google+ account, can see all the smartphone photos being taken at the party, as they're being taken ? and then all the photos can be collected in an online photo album for posterity.

However, as the B-52s warned, parties tend to go out of bounds, and people tend to do things at 2 a.m. Sunday they'd rather not remember at 10 a.m. Monday.

Would you really want your boss, your co-workers or your grandmother to jump onto Google+ and see you drunkenly making out with provocatively dressed strangers?

With Party Mode, it's all too easy for such embarrassing photos to end up online, as Androinica's Andrew Kameka noted in a blog posting July 2.

"I accepted a bunch of Google+ Event invitations the day it launched [last week], including the uber-popular one associated with the Google I/O after party," wrote Kameka.

"But the next day, I suddenly realized that Google+ keeps accepting photos until the time that event creator sets it to end," he said. "So if someone fails to exit party mode when leaving a party at 10:00 p.m., photos you take will continue to be added until the event closes at 11:00 p.m."

To be sure, Google+ has smartphone controls that can stop automatic uploading of photos, and also exit Party Mode.

"It's easy to turn off Party Mode at any time," notes the Google promotional video?(shared below), which shows the same kind of smiling, pretty, multicultural twenty-somethings as appear in Apple and Facebook ads, right down to the upbeat indie-folk soundtrack.

However, everyone knows that when a party really starts raging, such cautions can be easily forgotten. That's how random pictures of the birthday boy in the closet with a girl ? or boy ? who's not his girlfriend are going to end up online.

"I've already seen a couple of guys taking some shirtless pics, and I can?t help but wonder if they intended to do that (possible that they did)," Kameka said.?

"I'm definitely sure that another guy taking bathroom pics did not intend to share his junk with the world. (I sure as hell wish he didn't.)"

If you're going to Google+ Event that might get wild, play it safe: Take photos, but don't put your phone into Party Mode. Make sure your friends don't either.

Save the uploading for the next morning, when the clear light of day will tell you which images are fit for public consumption.

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Colombia volcano erupts, prompts evacuations

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Report: Ex-PSU president OK'd not reporting abuse

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? A news organization says it has seen emails showing Penn State's former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to authorities but worried university officials would be "vulnerable" for failing to report it.

CNN says the emails, first reported by NBC, followed a graduate assistant's 2001 report of seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a team locker room shower.

The emails show athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz intended to report the allegation, then reconsidered. Spanier responded that he was "supportive" of their plan, but he worried they might "become vulnerable for not having reported it."

Sandusky was convicted this month of 45 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys. The scandal led to the ouster of Spanier and revered coach Joe Paterno and charges against Curley and Schultz, who are accused of perjury for their grand jury testimony and failing to properly report suspected child abuse. Spanier hasn't been charged.

The CNN report cites an email from Schultz to Curley on Feb. 26, 2001, 16 days after graduate assistant Mike McQueary told veteran coach Joe Paterno about the shower assault. Schultz suggests bringing the allegation to the attention of Sandusky, Sandusky's charity and the Department of Welfare, which investigates suspected child abuse, according to the report.

But the next night, Curley sent an email to Spanier, saying that after thinking about it more and talking to Paterno, he was "uncomfortable" with that plan and wanted to work with Sandusky before contacting authorities, the report said.

If Sandusky is cooperative, Curley's email said, "we would work with him. .... If not, we do not have a choice and will inform the two groups," according to the report.

Spanier wrote back and agreed with that approach, calling it "humane and a reasonable way to proceed," according to the report. But he also worried about the consequences.

"The only downside for us is if message isn't 'heard' and acted upon and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it, but that can be assessed down the road," the email said, according to CNN.

Spanier's attorney didn't immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Saturday.

Schultz and Curley's lawyers on Saturday echoed recent comments by Gov. Tom Corbett about the need for a solid case before charging Sandusky. Corbett began the investigation in 2009 when he was attorney general.

"For Curley, Schultz, Spanier and Paterno, the responsible and 'humane' thing to do was, like Governor Corbett, to carefully and responsibly assess the best way to handle vague, but troubling allegations," the lawyers said. "Faced with tough situations, good people try to do their best to make the right decisions."

Paterno, ousted by the school's board of trustees for what was called his "failure of leadership" surrounding allegations against Sandusky, died of lung cancer in January. After Sandusky's arrest, Paterno said through a spokesman that he reported the allegation to the head of his department and "that was the last time the matter was brought to my attention until this investigation and I assumed that the men I referred it to handled the matter appropriately."

Schultz, 62, and Curley, 58, deny the allegations and have asked a judge to dismiss the charges. A status conference for their case is scheduled for July 11.

Spanier sued Penn State in May to try to get copies of his email traffic from 1998 to 2004, citing the pending investigation being conducted on the university by former FBI director Louis Freeh. Two weeks ago, lawyers for Penn State asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit and said the attorney general's office, which is prosecuting Curley and Schultz, had asked them not to provide Spanier with the emails.

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