The Week in Android News -- CES Recap style

With CES 2012 finally behind us, and a little opportunity to catch up on some sleep we realized you probably couldn't keep up with all the news. Well there was a lot of it, tons of device announcements, hands-on time with tons of greatness and many other things. Check below for some of what you may have missed this past week while we were busy conquering CES.

General News

• Hands-on with the Polaroid SC1630 Android camera
• First look: Gorilla Glass 2 sheds 20% thickness but keeps all the strength
• Just how strong is Gorilla Glass 2? See for yourself...
• Hands-on with the Kogeto iCONIC for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
• Hands-on with the ESI 250 Smartphone for the desktop
• Hands-on with the Android-powered SiriusXM Lynx

Hardware News

• LG Spectrum announced, coming to Verizon Jan. 19
• Sprint Galaxy Nexus is officially official
• Hands on with the Huawei Ascend P1/P1S
• Verizon announces the Motorola Droid 4
• Hands-on with the Sony Xperia Ion / Video hands-on with the Sony Xperia Ion
• Hands-on with the Pantech Burst / Video hands-on with the Pantech Burst
• Hands-on with the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note / Video hands-on with the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note
• Hands-on with the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX
• Motorola Droid 4 hands-on
• Hands-on with the Motorola Motoluxe
• Hands-on with the Sony Xperia S / Video hands-on with the Sony Xperia S
• Hands-on with the Sprint LG Viper
• Hands-on with the LG Spectrum
• Hands-on with the first Intel Android phone, the China-bound Lenovo K800

Tablet News

• ASUS announces Eee Pad MeMO ME171 and new Transformer Prime TF700T
• Hands-on with the Pantech Element / Video - the Pantech Element gets wet
• Samsung Mobile announces the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 for Verizon
• Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 / Video hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7
• NVIDIA announces 7-inch tablet - Tegra 3 and Ice Cream Sandwich for $249 [updated]
• Viewsonic announces $170 ViewPad E70 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet
• Hands-on with Vizio's 10-inch tablet / Video hands-on with Vizio's 10-inch tablet
• Hands-on with the Toshiba Excite X10
• Hands-on with the Acer Iconia Tab A510
• Hands-on with Coby's line of Ice Cream Sandwich tablets

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Hawks C Horford out 3-4 months with shoulder (AP)

ATLANTA ? Atlanta Hawks All-Star center Al Horford will miss at least three months with a shoulder injury, a major blow to a playoff contender in the Eastern Conference.

The team announced Thursday that Horford tore his left pectoral muscle in the first quarter of Wednesday night's game at Indiana. The injury will likely require surgery, stunning a team that has made the playoffs four years in a row and is off to a solid start with wins over Miami and Chicago in the early going.

Horford, a two-time All-Star, could be out as long as four months, which would take his rehab deep into the playoffs ? should the Hawks make it that far. He will get a second opinion before making the final decision to undergo surgery, but even the most optimistic projection would keep him out until mid-April.

The Hawks final regular-season game is April 26.

"We are very disappointed for Al and our team and we wish him the best as he moves forward in the rehabilitation process," Hawks general manager Rick Sund said in a statement. "He has contributed greatly to our success since his arrival in Atlanta, and that's evident by his selection to the NBA's All-League team last season" as a third-team pick.

Horford was injured with 6:08 remaining in the first quarter of Wednesday's game. He was averaging 12.4 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 blocks to go along with the NBA's eighth-best shooting percentage (.553).

The 25-year-old is a bit undersized for the center position (6-foot-10, 245 pounds) but he quickly emerged as perhaps the most valuable Atlanta player after being picked third overall in the 2007 draft. His loss leaves the Hawks with a huge hole on the inside, plus some much-needed leadership in the locker room. Zaza Pachulia and Jason Collins are the other centers on the roster, neither of whom is likely to come close to matching Horford's production.

Horford did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. The banged-up Hawks ? Marvin Williams and Tracy McGrady didn't dress for the Indiana game ? returned home to host Charlotte on Thursday night.

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HBO Announces 'Game Of Thrones' Return Date (omg!)

It might be April Fools Day, but this is no joke! "Game of Thrones" will return for its Season 2 on Sunday, April 1, HBO announced on Friday.

The series will air at 9 PM.

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Once again the show will have a 10-episode run for the upcoming season.

Filmed in Northern Ireland and Iceland among its worldly locales, the series stars Emmy winner Peter Dinklage as Tyrion, Emilia Clarke (Daenerys), Nikolai Coster-Waldau (Jaime), Lena Headey (Ceresei), Kit Harington (Jon), and Michelle Fairley (Catelyn).

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Scientists unveil biggest ever map of universe's dark matter

Even though it cannot be seen directly, dark matter, which represents 98 percent of the mass of the universe, exerts a gravitational pull on normal matter,?including?light. By measuring its tug on starlight, astronomers have mapped the?distribution?of this mysterious substance.?

The hidden side of the universe is now a bit more illuminated thanks to the largest map yet of dark matter, the strange substance thought to inhabit much of space.

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Scientists have created the largest scale rendering of dark matter across the universe, revealing a picture of the invisible stuff thought to represent?98 percent of all matter?in the universe.

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but its presence is felt through its gravitational pull on normal matter. Scientists suspect dark matter is made of some exotic particle that doesn't interact with regular atoms.

"We know very little about the dark universe," said co-leader of the study, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, during a press conference announcing the findings here at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society."We don't know what the dark matter particle is. It's very widely believed that the final understanding of the dark universe is going to have to invoke some new physics."

The new map reveals the distribution of?dark matter?over a larger swath of space than ever before. It covers more than 1 billion light-years. One light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). [See the new giant dark matter map]

Warping light

To trace?invisible dark matter, the researchers searched for signs of its gravitational tug on other matter. They measured an effect called gravitational lensing, which occurs when gravity from a massive body bends space-time, causing light to travel along a curved path through space and appear distorted when it reaches Earth.

The scientists measured warped light from 10 million distant galaxies in four different regions of the sky, caused when those galaxies' light passed by large bundles of dark matter that bent its path.

"It is fascinating to be able to 'see' the dark matter using space-time distortion," another co-author of the study, Ludovic Van Waerbeke of the University of British Columbia, said in a statement. "It gives us privileged access to this mysterious mass in the universe which cannot be observed otherwise. Knowing how dark matter is distributed is the very first step towards understanding its nature and how it fits within our current knowledge of physics."

Scientists hope that by plotting out the distribution of?dark matter throughout space, they will come closer to understanding what it is.

"By analyzing light from the distant universe, we can learn about what it has travelled through on its journey to reach us," Heymans said. "We hope that by mapping more dark matter than has been studied before, we are a step closer to understanding this material and its relationship with the galaxies in our universe."

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Afghan minorities cautiously support peace talks (AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan ? Prominent Afghan opposition leaders say they support possible U.S.-brokered peace negotiations with Taliban militants but want to be part of any talks.

Members of a coalition representing Afghanistan's ethnic minorities spoke Friday as they returned from a conference in Berlin. Most fought in the Northern Alliance against the 1990s Taliban government.

The Taliban recently expressed interest in negotiations with the U.S., but it is so far unclear what other Afghan factions might be involved. The Taliban persist in referring to President Hamid Karzai's government as a puppet.

Prominent Tajik minority leader Ahmad Zia Masood says he supports talks but warns of giving up freedoms gained in the decade since the Taliban were ousted.

Ethnic Hazara leader Mohammad Muhaqiq says minority leaders should participate in any future negotiations.

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