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The Power Mac G4 Cube is a personal computer of the Macintosh family sold by Apple from July 2000 to 2001. It was designed by Jonathan Ive and conceived by CEO Steve Jobs as a powerful, miniaturized desktop computer. Apple developed new technologies and manufacturing methods for its 7.7-inch (20 cm) cubic computer housed in clear acrylic glass. The Cube was mid-range, between the consumer iMac G3 and the professional Power Mac G4. It was announced at the Macworld Expo on July 19, 2000. It won awards for its design, but reviews noted the high cost for its power, its limited expandability, and cosmetic defects. It was a commercial failure, selling just 150,000 units before production ended within a year. The Cube was a rare failure for the company under Jobs, after a successful period that brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. However, it influenced future Apple products, from the iPod to the Mac mini. New York's Museum of Modern Art holds a G4 Cube as part of its collection. (Full article... )

• ... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train (example pictured), a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
• ... that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh 's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
• ... that the music hall song "Let's All Go Down the Strand ", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
• ... that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
• ... that the play-by-email game TribeNet , launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to beekeeping?
• ... that Stanton Catlin won a Grammy Award in 1965 for an essay on Mexican art?
• ... that in Die Schneekönigin , an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
• ... that while preparing for War Horse , theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?

• Sidney Poitier (pictured), the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, dies at the age of 94.
• Anti-government protests triggered by an increase in fuel prices result in at least 160 deaths and 5,800 arrests across Kazakhstan.
• Peter Wright wins the PDC World Darts Championship .
• American actress and comedian Betty White dies at the age of 99.

January 9

• 1857 – An earthquake registering 7.9 M_w ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California.
• 1917 – First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-day Rafah.
• 1972 – The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the longest of any team in American professional sports.
• 1992 – Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 (depicted), generally considered the first definitive detection of an exoplanet .
• 2015 – Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.