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Google badmouths HTTP behind its back, proposes SPDY as a speedy successor

If there's anything that Google doesn't like, it's things that collect dust. The company is famous for its annual spring cleaning efforts, in which the firm rids itself of redundant and dead-end projects, along with more bullish moves, such as its push to overhaul the internet's DNS system. Now it's looking to replace HTTP with a new protocol known as SPDY, and to that end, it's demonstrating the potential speed gains that one might expect on a mobile network. According to the company's benchmarks, mean page load times on the Galaxy Nexus are 23 percent faster with the new system, and it hypothesizes that further optimizations can be made for 3G and 4G networks. To its credit, Google has already implemented SPDY in Chrome, and the same is true for Firefox and Amazon Silk. Even Microsoft appears to be on-board. As a means to transition, the company proposes an Apache 2.2 module known as mod_spdy, which allows web servers to take advantage of features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. As for HTTP, it's no doubt been a reliable companion, but it seems that it'll need to work a bit harder to earn its keep. Stay weird, Google, the internet wouldn't be the same without you.

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Classical Night on Dancing with the Stars featured the season's very first perfect dance, with Maria Menounos and her partner Derek Hough earning a 30 for their "fangtastic" paso doble. But one of their fellow contestants was not as lucky. 

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Pop-performance artist up for UK's Turner Prize

LONDON (AP) ? A performance artist who has staged works about the Incredible Hulk and Jabba the Hutt is among four finalists for Britain's most influential and most-mocked art award, the Turner Prize

Spartacus Chetwynd, who uses elaborate handmade costumes for anarchic performances inspired by everyone from the "Star Wars" villain to superheroes and Michael Jackson, is a contender for the 25,000-pound ($40,000) prize, awarded annually to a British artist under 50.

The other finalists announced Tuesday are film and video artists Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price and Luke Fowler, who produces drawings.

Past Turner Prize winners include transvestite potter Grayson Perry, dung-daubing painter Chris Ofili and shark pickler Damien Hirst.

The winner will be announced Dec. 3.

Associated Press

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At Least Seven Dead in Bronx Zoo Crash

(REUTERS/Keith Bedford)

ABC News' Richard Esposito reports:

Seven people are dead after a van swerved out of control and plunged 50 to 60 feet into the Bronx Zoo, the New York City Fire Department and Emergency Management officials reported.

The midday road incident? trapped the victims inside their vehicle and they appeared to have died as rescue teams arrived at the scene on a highway the swings by the zoo, a university and one of the nation's most famous botanical gardens.

The victims included three female children and four adults, two of whom were over 79 years old.

No zoo visitors or animals were injured, officials said.

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