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LOS ANGELES – The fans have voted, and in the millions: Stars of TV, film and music picked up their trophies Wednesday night at the 38th annual People's Choice Awards.

Backstage, Emma Stone, winner of the favorite-movie-actress award, had tongue firmly in cheek when asked how she felt: "It sucked," she joked to reporters. "This is so crappy. No, it's so nice." The star of The Help, wearing a green Gucci jacket and dark trousers, choked up onstage during her acceptance speech. But she recovered enough later to tell reporters her style icon. "Diane Keaton, for sure," she said.

In fact, many stars say the People's Choice Awards are their favorite of the awards season, which is just getting underway. Hosted by Kaley Cuoco of CBS' The Big Bang Theory at the Nokia Theatre, the awards were handed out after a record-breaking 230-million-plus online votes at the website and via Facebook and Twitter. Faith Hilland Demi Lovato provided the musical performances.

• PHOTOS: The People's Choice Awards red carpet and more

• RESULTS: The list of winners

Dressed in a red poufy dress with red spike heels, Cuoco opened the show shouting, "I've always loved this show because you, the fans, are in control of who wins!"

That said, Nathan Fillion, who took home the award for favorite TV drama actor for CBS' Castle, summed up the stakes during his turn on the red carpet: Winning, he noted, "depends on the Internet savvy of your fans." Later, during his acceptance speech, he was explicit: "To the fans, let this giant crystalized tear of victory be a symbol of your excellent taste!"

Social media got some kudos as well. "Love those Twitter fans. Keep it up, guys!" saidNeil Patrick Harris, star of How I Met Your Mother, during his acceptance speech for the favorite-TV-comedy-actor award.

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  Giving her shoutout to the Gleeks: Lea Michele, w
  ho won for favorite TV comedy actress, told the fans that her show "would be nothing without you."

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By Kevin Winter,, Getty Images

Giving her shoutout to the Gleeks: Lea Michele, who won for favorite TV comedy actress, told the fans that her show "would be nothing without you."

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-01-11/peoples-choice-awards/52509610/1

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Amanda Knox thanks supporters, heads for home

Amanda Knox, left, leaves the Perugia court following the verdict overturning her conviction and acquitting her of murdering Meredith Kercher, Oct. 3, 2011. (AP)

Amanda Knox on Tuesday thanked those Italians who supported her throughout her four years of prison, a day after an appeals court cleared the young American of murdering her British room mate and freed her to return home to the United States.

Knox left her prison outside Perugia Monday night, less than two hours after the verdict was read out in a packed court acquitting her and her Italian one-time boyfriend of the brutal murder.

The Italy-US Foundation, which has championed Knox's cause, said the American was at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome boarding a flight to London, where she will catch a connecting flight to the United States.

AP photographers and camera crew at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome saw Knox family members in a terminal. Knox was not immediately seen, and was believed to have been escorted by police through a non-public entrance to the airport.

The freed American thanked those "who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope," in a letter to the foundation, which seeks to promote ties between Italy and the United States.

"Those who wrote, those who defended me, those who were close, those who prayed for me," Knox wrote. "I love you, Amanda."

Timeline of the Amanda Knox case
Video: Italian court frees Amanda Knox
Complete coverage: Amanda Knox murder appeal

Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British student who shared an apartment with Knox in Perugia. Knox was convicted to 26 years, Sollecito to 25.

In a stunning reversal, the appeals court in Perugia overturned those convictions and set the two free. They had been in prison since Nov. 6, 2007, four days after Kercher's body had been found at the apartment.

The prosecutor in the case announced Tuesday morning that he would appeal the acquittal to Italy's highest court, but that process won't begin until the appeals court issues a complete explanation as to how it arrived at Monday's decision.

The 24-year-old Knox dissolved into tears as the verdict was read in a packed courtroom after 11 hours of deliberations, and needed to be propped up by her lawyers on either side. (Click player at left to see Knox's tearful appeal to court)

Two hours later Knox was in a dark limousine that took her out of the Capanne prison just outside Perugia, where she had spent the past four years, and headed to Rome.

"During the trip from Perugia to Rome Amanda was serene," said Corrado Maria Daclon, the secretary general of the Italy-US Foundation, who was with Knox in the car. "She confirmed to me that in the future she intends to come back to our country."

The prosecution's case was blown apart by a court-ordered DNA review that discredited crucial genetic evidence used to convict the two in 2009.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/04/501364/main20115168.shtml

HTC Pyramid Photos Leaked

It appears that the folks at XDA, that vast community of developers and hackers, have gotten their hands on some super secret photos of the HTC Pyramid, a fashionable phone coming down the pipeline toward the public in a 4.3-inch display fashion. According to these most recent photos, this phone will be coming out with a 1.2Ghz processor with no name, 768MB or RAM, and a QHD resolution display. The more we see the more we like!

You already know about the lovely swoop along the back, but now we know for sure that this is a single back battery cover covering a very familiar set of insides. With the details we’re seeing here, we’re feeling like this is set to be a VERY close relative to the HTC EVO 3D, a phone we go to check out very close at CTIA 2011. This phone has, instead of 3D cameras, an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a VGA webcam on the front.

This phone is capable of connecting along Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, rolls out the gate with the new HTC Sense 3.0, and has an ever-so-slightly-different look in its UI than we saw in Sense at CTIA 2011 – something about the tones! Perhaps just a customization done by the owner of the phone. Finally, this phone currently has Android 2.3.2, the same version we’ve been seeing for phones coming out fairly soon, fairly as in within weeks – exciting!

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http://www.slashgear.com/htc-pyramid-photos-leaked-from-htc-confidential-source-30143438/