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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal law enforcement official says one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings was allowed to return to the United States this year despite not having a valid student visa. Authorities say that after the explosions he helped remove a laptop and backpack from the bombing suspect's dormitory room before the FBI searched it.
The official says Azamat Tazhayakov (AHZ'-maht tuh-ZAYE'-uh-kov) left the U.S. in December. Tazhayakov's student-visa status was terminated in early January after he was academically dismissed from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the official says. Despite not having a valid student visa, Tazhayakov was allowed to re-enter the U.S. on Jan. 20.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss details of Tazhayakov's immigration status.
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Accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have been in touch with suspected militants before and during his visit last year to southern Russia, according to a U.S. official and sources in the region.
American officials are investigating whether Tsarnaev had been in contact over the internet with a man named William Plotnikov, a Russian-Canadian and a fellow boxer, who had converted to Islam and joined the militant insurgency in the North Caucasus. Authorities also want to know what Tsarnaev was doing with a known militant recruiter in the region named Mansur Mukhamed Nidal with whom Tsarnaev was repeatedly seen leaving a controversial mosque in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.
The new leads come as the FBI's investigation into the deadly April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon continues to expand and follows the discovery of female DNA on one of the bombs, according to government sources. The sources said it is unclear whether the DNA was from a victim of the attack, from someone who handled components of the bomb before it was assembled or from a possible co-conspirator of the suspected Tsarnaev brothers.
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In addition to identifying the woman in question, people briefed on the case said the FBI reportedly is now seeking information on almost a dozen persons of interest.
"Some may have been involved in helping build the bombs. Others may have been involved in helping radicalize the brothers," Seth Jones, counter-terrorism expert at the RAND Corporation, said on "Good Morning America" today.
Officials said Monday the FBI is seeking DNA samples from Tamerlan's wife, Katherine Russell, and investigators were seen leaving her home with a set of evidence bags.
Three people were killed and another 170 injured when a pair of bombs ripped through the crowd near the finish line at the Boston Marathon earlier this month. After investigators identified Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as suspects based on surveillance footage from the event, Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was injured and later captured.
As he recovered from his injuries, Dzhokhar reportedly told investigators the deadly plot had been hatched using the internet as a guide and said he and his brother were not directed or funded by any foreign government or rogue group. He has since stopped cooperating with investigators, officials said.
READ: Feds Make Miranda Rights Exception for Marathon Bombing Suspect
Still, U.S. officials are closely reviewing Tamerlan's 2012 visit to Dagestan, which his parents said he undertook ostensibly to visit family and to pick up a Russian passport. A family member told ABC News earlier this month that during his stay in Russia, Tamerlan was kicked out of the house after expressing his increasingly extremist views on religion.
Then, in July, he vanished, leaving that new passport behind and left Russia to return to the U.S. His sudden departure is now raising eyebrows as it came after a flurry of police raids in Russia that left both Plotnikov and Nidal dead.
According to a source in Dagestan, Tsarnaev and Plotnikov are believed to have communicated via VKontake, a Russian social networking website similar to Facebook. The source said after Plotnikov was killed on July 13, Tsarnaev removed him and others from his contact list on the site.
Tsarnaev's parents have denied their son was involved with any militant or extremist groups, insisting Tamerlan and Dzhokhar are being framed by the U.S. government.
In late 2011, the CIA requested that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother be placed in a U.S. terrorism database after it received information from the Russian government that the pair could be potential Islamic militants. By that time the FBI had already looked into Tamerlan and determined he did not have ties to terrorism. U.S. officials recently learned that Russian forces had wiretapped conversations between Tamerlan and his mother.
America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has called for an intelligence community review of how information on Tamerlan was handled prior to the Boston attack ? a move President Obama said today was "standard procedure around here."
"We want to leave no stone unturned," Obama said.
Overnight new video emerged from a boxing documentary that featured Tamerlan Tsarnaev from his days as a fighter trying to make the U.S. Olympic team.
In a short clip of the 2010 video, obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Tamerlan is seen wearing his boxing gear and says his name while smiling broadly for the camera.
ABC News' Megan Chuchmach and Luis Martinez contributed to this report.
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Apr. 29, 2013 ? Does checking Twitter and Facebook to see what your friends are up to make you feel like you are missing out on all the fun? Researchers have come up with a way of measuring the modern day concept of the "fear of missing out" (FoMO).
The rise in social media, where we can keep up-to-date with each other's every movements like never before, has led to the hidden curse of the "fear of missing out."
A relatively new concept, FoMO is a concern people have that others may be having more fun and rewarding experiences than them and is characterised as the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing.
Now, researchers at the University of Essex have devised a way of measuring FoMO for the first time, providing a reliable measure of what people are experiencing.
The research, to be published in the July issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior, is the first study to delve deeper into the fear of missing out phenomenon, which only came to light about three years ago as social media become ever-more accessible with the increase in smart phones.
As lead researcher and psychologist Dr Andy Przybylski explained, the fear of missing out is not new, but the rise is social media offers a window into other people's lives like never before. The problem for people with a high level of FoMO is they may become so involved is seeing what their friends are doing and they are not, they often ignore what they are actually enjoying themselves.
"I find Facebook rewarding to use, but how we are using social media is changing," explained Dr Przybylski. "It is no longer something we have to sit at a computer and log into as we have access all the time on our phones. It is easier to get into the rhythm of other people's lives that ever before as we get alerts and texts.
"We have to learn new skills to control our usage and enjoy social media in moderation. Until we do, it creates a double-edged sword aspect to social media."
The research team, which included academics from the University of California and University of Rochester in the United States, devised a way of measuring an individual's level of FoMO. Take a version of the test yourself to see what your level of FoMO is compared to the people taking part in the study at www.ratemyfomo.com.
The research found that people aged under 30 were more affected than others from the fear of missing out. This group saw social media as an important tool for them and they were more dependent on social media as part of their social development.
Dr Przybylski explained that social factors are also important. The research also found if people's "psychological needs were deprived" they were more likely to seek out social media and FoMO bridged that gap, explaining why people were using social media more than others.
To see what effect FoMO had on people's lives, the researchers found that those with a high level of fear of missing out were more likely to give into the temptation of composing and checking text messages and e-mails whilst driving, were more likely to get distracted by social media during university lectures, and had more mixed feelings about their social media use.
The researchers hope this will study will prompt more investigation into the fear of missing out and how it affects on people's wellbeing.
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If the name Pelican Imaging rings a bell, it's possibly because we covered the company's array imaging camera prototype back in 2011. The technology uses multiple lenses that are relatively tiny in terms of how much space they take up in a mobile device, but which work together to capture an image of the same quality as a much larger camera -- just as array telescopes replace the need for one huge telescope. Now, it appears we weren't the only ones taking an interest, because Nokia's investment wing has revealed to Bloomberg that it's been watching the startup since 2008 and is currently planning to invest in it. Bo Ilsoe, of Nokia Growth Partners, describes Pelican's technology as "on the cusp of being commercialized" -- so who knows? One day, a future Lumia might house 41 megapixels, image stabilization and the voodoo known as plenoptics. In the meantime, there's a video after the break which sort of explains how the technology sucks in enough data to allow for focus to be adjusted after a picture is taken -- a trick which also sounds rather familiar.
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