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Carlos Condit pulls upset on Nick Diaz to take UFC interim welterweight title, loser says he’s done with fighting

LAS VEGAS -- Nick Diaz is brilliant at playing mind games with his opponents, but it didn't work on any level tonight. Carlos Condit never took the bait before or during the fight, stuck to the gameplan and outsmarted Diaz to get himself a share of the UFC welterweight title. Condit moved beautifully all night and landed 60-plus kicks. He never stood in front of Diaz for more than a few seconds. It all added up to a unanimous decision victory, 48-47, 49-46 and 49-46, in the main event of UFC 143 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It was a difficult fight to score. Judge Cecil Peoples scored it 49-46 (Condit 1, 2, 4, 5), Patricia Morse Jarman had 49-46 (Condit 1, 2, 4, 5) and Junichiro Kamijo 49-46 (Condit 1, 3, 4). Aside the from the fourth round, each round was razor thin. When the decision was read, Diaz was shocked. His behavior is nearly impossible to predict, but he threw everyone for a loop during his postfight discussion with UFC analyst Joe Rogan. He complained about the decision and then said he's had it with the sport. "I'm not going to accept the fact that was a loss.That ain't right. I pushed him back all fight. I walked him down. Carlos is a great guy. I'm happy for him and his family, but I think I'm done with this MMA," said Diaz. Diaz (26-8, 7-5 UFC) appeared to be the aggressor all night, but was it "effective aggression" as the unified rules state in detailing how to score a fight? Condit's constant move stymied Diaz, who was outlanded outlanded 159-117 according to Fight Metric. Compustrike had total strikes 146- 110 in favor of Condit. It also said kicks landed were 104-19 for Condit. The loss ended an 11-fight, four-year win streak. Diaz is just 28 years old and one of the rising stars of the sport. He's got a bright future with massive earning potential. "You guys pay me way too much, but I don't think I'm going to get enough to keep going in this. I don't need this [expletive]," Diaz said. "I pushed him backwards the whole time. I landed the harder shots. He ran the whole time. He kicked me in my leg with little baby leg kicks. I don't want to play this game no more. I'm out of this [expletive]." Condit (28-5, 5-1 UFC) picks up the UFC's interim welterweight belt. After undergoing surgery for a torn ACL, The champion Georges St-Pierre is sidelined until late 2012. Before the fight, UFC president Dana White couldn't say for certain if the winner tonight would sit out 8-9 months until GSP is ready. Coming into tonight's tilt, Condit was sizable underdog at plus-185. A possible Diaz-GSP fight was expected to be one of the biggest UFC fights of 2012. A St-Pierre-Condit fight won't have the same sizzle, but it should be a helluva brawl based on what the new interim champ showed tonight. The judges made the right call. The first round was tough to call with Condit starting out strong and Diaz closing well. Condit ran a little too much in the second and lost the round. He corrected his mistake from there and was simply brilliant over the final three rounds. Diaz stalked him for 15 more minutes eating kick after kick. In most cases, when Diaz tried to settle and throw punches, Condit was nowhere to be found. He scooted out of the way in when it looked like a classic Diaz 10-12 punch flurry was coming. The early work to Diaz's legs really sapped him late. He looked a step slow in the final round. The fight didn't end without drama and that's where Diaz backers may have their biggest complaint. With 1:23 left, Diaz got standing back control, immediately dropped to the ground and quickly got his hooks in. With 1:02 left, Diaz changed his legs to a body lock. He work for the choke, but never got his hands in position. Diaz had his right arm across the face, but Condit did a good job of tucking his chin. With around eight seconds left, Diaz threatened with an armbar attempt, but Condit was too slick and slipped out instantly. Some thought that was enough to take the round. It's hard call after watching Condit make Diaz look desperate and slow for the first three and half minutes of the round.

The Chrome app is far more robust than Android's stock browser. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com To say I’ve been waiting for Chrome to come to Android for some time is an understatement. I’ve wanted a proper Google browser on my phone ever since I chose Android for my mobile platform. Finally, after years of saddling Android users with a generic browser short on performance and features, Google deployed a beta version of Chrome for Android 4.0 devices on Tuesday. The Gadget Lab editors and I have been playing with Chrome on a Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Asus Transformer Prime for the last two days, and can report it’s far better than any Android browser we’ve used thus far. From tabbed browsing to multi-device syncing, it’s a must-download for anyone running the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Google’s mobile OS. Like any modern browser, Chrome for Android boasts tabbed browsing, so you’re not forced to leave pages every time you want to get to another site. This isn’t unique to Chrome’s new app. All of the majors — Firefox, Dolphin, Opera, and even the stock Android browser — include tabbed browsing in some form or another. But Chrome’s tabbed browsing veneer comes with a little extra polish relative to its competitors. In the phone version of Chrome, tapping the tab selection button in the upper right-hand corner spawns a drop-down screen of your open pages, with each site thumbnail appearing like a playing card resting atop a deck. Swipe your finger up and down to skim through the thumbnails, or flick horizontally to get rid of any open pages. Think of it as less Mozilla and more WebOS. This “deck of cards” metaphor isn’t enabled in the tablet version of Chrome, because it’s not necessary; tabs are spread out and easy to manipulate on the tablet version, just as they would be on a desktop. But the feature is essential on the smaller screen real estate of a smartphone. As is the case in Chrome for desktops, you can browse incognito on Chrome for Android. This means your web surfing won’t appear in the browser’s history, and any new cookies you create will be deleted as soon as you close the incognito tab. In the Android app, incognito tabs are separated from non-incognito tabs, so you’re able to keep better track of all the content you’re viewing on the down low (in Android’s generic Browser app, private and public tabs intermingle). And if you somehow forget which “state” you’re in — public or private — the bar at the top of the incognito screen is darkened for differentiation. It’s important to note a significant absence amid all of these features: Adobe Flash support is nowhere to be found. On the one hand, the omission is strange, given Flash support has been one of the trumpeted upsides to using Android devices instead of iPhones. And yet the absence of Flash isn’t wholly unexpected — Adobe killed Flash development for mobile devices last year, after all. Given Google’s resolute backing of HTML5, it’s a bold signal, a shift from one era to the next. The web is far from dead, as Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai would say. Hands down, the star of the Chrome show is the browser’s syncing capability. Pichai’s goal was to take Chrome — the full version of Chrome — and spread it evenly across all devices: desktops, tablets, smartphones, and in the case of Chrome OS, netbooks as well. Pichai and company aimed for a seamless browsing experience when moving from device to device to device. Does it work? Yes. All it takes is signing into your Google account on every device, and you’re able to pick up browsing where you left off on all your sundry hardware. Bookmarks, passwords and browsing history are all synced across devices. It may not sound like much, but it’s a huge time saver when trying to type in the same old URLs and search terms across multiple devices — especially when entering data on tiny, touchscreen keyboards. Damn you, autocorrect! But sync is much more than just bookmark memory. Let’s say you’re looking up a restaurant on your laptop at home. You head out the door, only to forget the exact cross streets of the joint’s location halfway through your drive. With Chrome for Android, you’re able to recall those open tabs from your laptop browser, instantly finding the restaurant’s address on your Galaxy Nexus. The “other devices” menu located within the option bar shows you each separate device you have currently running Chrome, and which tabs you have open in each. Granted, it’s a subtle flourish that could be overlooked by people who only peel through one-off pages at random when browsing on their smartphones. But it’s really so much more than this. As Pichai envisions, synced browsing is a peek into our future as multi-device-carrying, always-connected humans who use different tools for different situations. Indeed, it makes no sense to drag your laptop to the couch — that’s why we have tablets. So instead of revisiting all of your pages through manual searches again and again, synchronicity across devices keeps browsing simple, seamless and interconnected. We want access to everything, everywhere and we want it as fast as possible. Chrome for Android is a major step in that direction. Jon Phillips contributed reporting Tabbed browsing, one of a number of fancy add-ons that come with the new Chrome app. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com