Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn: Latest News

Though it won't come out until November 18, the buzz generating around the final film in the Twlight Saga: Breaking Dawn, is already so big, it's palpable. If you're a Twihard who must have all the latest, breaking news about Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Breaking Dawn, then you've come to the right place.

To begin with: what do the stars of the film think about the final chapter in the Twilight saga? Across the board, they all seem to be incredibly excited to see the thing make its splash into theaters, despite the fact that they know it's bringing closure to a series of films they've put so much love and effort into.

In Breaking Dawn, Kristen Stewart's character, Bella, turns into a vampire. Because of this, she got to film a lot of scenes that everyone on set enjoyed. Take Kellan Lutz for example, who had this to say to MTV about his favorite scene: "I would have to say the arm-wrestling scene with Bella," he said, referring to a scene in which he and a newly-strong, vampire Bella battle it out with their muscles.

For his part, Robert Pattinson had this to say back in January: "It's like she wanted to do it the entire time," he said, the "it" referring to Stewart being a vampire. "It's really funny: It's like a completely different environment onset when she's a vampire and when she's not."

If it was a completely different and fun environment on set, then we can only imagine how fun and different Breaking Dawn will be.

Supergroup Goes Superheavy: Mick, Joss, Dave, Damian & A.R. Talk

Dave Stewart first enlisted Mick Jagger.

Then he wanted Joss Stone to hear what they’d come up with.



And then, rather than turn to the English rock, American blues and R&B at the core of their respective sounds, Stewart hipped Stone to a group she’d never heard of: the Andrews Sisters.


The idea of discovery, of crossing into unfamiliar terrain — like the 1930s hitmakers — was the driving concept behind SuperHeavy: What would happen if a band of musicians from different cultures composed and recorded together? Jagger, Stewart, Stone, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman, five musicians from different backgrounds, experiment with one another’s sounds on the group’s album, due Sept. 20 on Universal Republic in the United States and A&M in the rest of the world.



Mick Jagger’s SuperHeavy Supergroup to Drop Album in September



Marley, son of Bob, says, “For me, it was a great experience to get together and experiment with other musicians. I wasn’t familiar with everyone else’s music before the project.” Rahman, Stewart recalls, “was a bit taken aback when I called.” He’d never worked with rock bands or a reggae artist. Neither Jagger nor Stone were ever in vocal groups.



“Normally I do everything — which I’m happy to do,” Jagger says at Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles where seven of the album’s songs were premiered. “It was kind of fun. You pick your part and then get to harmonize. Joss and I would do a harmony together and then Damian comes in with his toasting thing. It was very much a group vocal. I never really worked with a vocal group before so that was a new experience.” What they created has no true connection with the Andrews Sisters, but Stone says that listening to their music “created a common ground.”



Mick Jagger’s New Group SuperHeavy Unveils Music



About a year was spent crafting an album after an initial series of jams and songwriting sessions produced more than 35 hours of music. Stewart and his engineer reviewed the recordings, which occurred in Los Angeles, looking for moments that could be shaped into songs. Jagger says they entered the first session with “ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics. Most everyone I have worked with has something [prepared], so it’s not my usual sort of way of working. You always want to leave some room for improvisation, but you need to have something, some songs, when you walk into the studio.

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Apple wants its 3G MacBook prototype back

Apple wants a North Carolina man to return a prototype notebook computer he purchased on Craigslist earlier this year, CNET has learned.

Three weeks ago, photos of the device emerged in an eBay listing by Carl Frega, a North Carolina resident who had purchased the machine from someone on Craigslist for parts to fuel his repair business. Upon opening it up, he discovered that the machine was unlike any Apple had ever released to the public.

Beneath the notebook's metal frame was a slot for a SIM card and on the lid was an external antenna, suggesting Apple was testing built-in cellular networking in its notebook computers right around the time the first iPhones were hitting store shelves.

The device, which is still in Frega's hands, was of big interest to CNET readers after cropping up on eBay for a little less than a day before being pulled down at the request of Apple, though not before bidding hit $70,000 from interested buyers. Apple pulled the plug on the sale (which had actually been listed by a friend of Frega's), citing infringement on copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights.

Frega said he was contacted by Apple this afternoon to have someone from the company pick it up.

Perhaps just as interesting as the machine itself is what happened to it before it ended up on eBay, a story that includes a trip to small claims court, a potential TV appearance, and a trip to an Apple Genius Bar where it was denied service after being identified as a Frankenstein-like machine containing third-party parts.

The machine matches up with a 2007 MacBook Pro, though differs with an unusual, magnetically-attached antenna on the top lid, along with a slot for a SIM card right where users would normally change out the battery. That design and functionality never made it into a device Apple has shipped, but matches up with a 2008 Apple patent application for a notebook computer that would be able to tap into 3G wireless networks, giving users connectivity on the go.
3G-equipped MacBook prototype on eBay (photos)


The Mac's innards were a big tip-off that the machine was likely a prototype, due to the use of a red circuit board. Such boards were used in a prototype MacBook Air that ended up on eBay in 2008, and an unreleased Mac Pro posted on the auction site in 2009. By comparison, Apple typically uses green circuit boards in its final products. Other hints are the hand-soldered wires, which could be seen in those other listings, as well as a lack of any EMC number--the unique identifier for different Apple computer models.

Frega says he originally bought the machine off someone from Craigslist for spare parts, something he started doing in high school, and later college. "I'd make extra money by buying broken CRT monitors and other things at (North Carolina) State University and NC government surplus sales and then repair and resell them from my dorm room," Frega told CNET. After that, he branched out to start fixing servers, networking equipment, TVs, and laser printers. The hobby led to a part-time job at Best Buy, then eventually a full-time gig doing repairs and refurbishing.

As it turns out, this month's eBay listing wasn't the first time pictures of the mystery device were posted to the Web. Shortly after purchasing it for parts on Craigslist, Frega went to the forums of tech site Anandtech to show others the device and chronicle his attempts to get it working again. In the end, the device was glossed over.

"Few people were really interested, and the thread turned into a discussion about tethering rates and wireless carriers," Frega said. "(It's) part of why I figured the machine wasn't anything particularly special (except to a tech geek like me) and not worth the trouble of selling as a collector's piece."

As a result, Frega installed a new hard drive, and a copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the machine, then re-sold it on Craigslist. That's when things got interesting once again.

Days after buying the machine, the new buyer ended up taking it to the Genius Bar at the Crabtree Valley Mall Apple Store in Raleigh, N.C., citing "random issues." The Genius Bar staff denied service of the machine, since the inside was deemed to be full of non-Apple parts