SAN FRANCISCO — With only modest expectations, Robert Leitao of Santa Clarita made a decision in 1994 that would change his...
Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space
Label: Technology To a geologist, glaciers are among the most exciting features on Earth. Though they seem to creep along at impossibly slow speeds, in geologic time glaciers are relatively fast, powerful landscape artists that can carve out valleys and fjords in just a few thousand years.Glaciers also provide an environmental record by trapping air bubbles in ice that reveal atmospheric conditions in the past....
Amanda Bynes enters settlement in hit-and-run case
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes has resolved a misdemeanor hit-and-run case after entering into a civil settlement with other drivers.Court records show Bynes entered a civil compromise to end the case and her attorney informed a Los Angeles court on Thursday. Bynes was charged with leaving the scene of accidents in April and August without providing the proper information.Defendants in certain...
The Neediest Cases: Disabled Young Man and His Protective Mother Deal With Life’s Challenges
Label: HealthThough he would prefer to put his socks on without his mother’s help, Zaquan West, 25, does not have a choice. Michelle V. Agins/The New York TimesJoann West is a constant caretaker for her son, Zaquan. Though Ms. West works as a receptionist, the family fell behind on rent. For the past 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct...
Microsoft Battles Google by Hiring Political Brawler Mark Penn
Label: BusinessSEATTLE — Mark Penn made a name for himself in Washington by bulldozing enemies of the Clintons. Now he spends his days trying to do the same to Google, on behalf of its archrival Microsoft. Since Mr. Penn was put in charge of “strategic and special projects” at Microsoft in August, much of his job has involved efforts to trip up Google, which Microsoft has failed to dislodge from its...
GoPro Cameras Help Athletes Train Smarter
Label: Technology When gold medalist Lindsey Vonn hits the slopes to do some training, she clamps on her boots, clips into her bindings, straps on her helmet and slaps a GoPro on her chest. Go-anywhere, do-anything POV cameras, long used by “extreme” athletes to chronicle their insane stunts, have become an invaluable training tool for everyone from skiers and snowboarders to cyclists and sailors. The tiny...
Tolkien class at Wis. university proves popular
Label: LifestyleMILWAUKEE (AP) — The vast collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts initially sold senior Joe Kirchoff on Marquette University, so when the school offered its first course devoted exclusively to the English author, Kirchoff wanted in. The only problem: It was full and he wasn’t on the literature track.Undaunted, the 22-year-old political science and history major lobbied the English department and...
The New Old Age Blog: Hospital Alarms Fail to Prevent Injury, Study Finds
Label: HealthWhen it comes to protecting older people from falls, it can take a long time to figure out what helps and sometimes an even longer time to take action against things that were supposed to help but don’t.A case in point: the so-called safety rails on hospital and nursing home beds. Their hazards, as The New Old Age reported more than two years ago, are well documented. They are intended to keep sick,...
Dec
13
Fed to tie interest rate to job gains
Label: World WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said it will continue aggressive measures to stimulate the economy and made a major policy...
Pentagon Warns: 'Pervasive' Industrial Spying Targets U.S. Space Tech
Label: Technology In 2011, two Chinese nationals were convicted in federal court on charges of conspiring to violate the Arms Control Export Act after attempting to buy thousands of radiation-hardened microchips and sell them to China. The day the pair were sentenced to two years in prison for the plot, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Neil MacBride, called it an example of how “the line...
“The Voice” finale taps Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars and the Killers
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The season finale of “The Voice” has enlisted some high-profile talent to help send the show’s third cycle off with a bang.Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars and The Killers have been tapped to perform on the two-hour extravaganza, which will culminate with the crowning of a new champion, NBC said Wednesday.An additional special guest will be named at a later date, the...
Another Look at a Drink Ingredient, Brominated Vegetable Oil
Label: HealthJames Edward Bates for The New York TimesSarah Kavanagh, 15, of Hattiesburg, Miss., started an online petition asking PepsiCo to change Gatorade’s formula. Sarah Kavanagh and her little brother were looking forward to the bottles of Gatorade they had put in the refrigerator after playing outdoors one hot, humid afternoon last month in Hattiesburg, Miss. But before she took a sip, Sarah, a...
Talks on Telecommunications Treaty Falter
Label: BusinessDUBAI — Once-in-a-generation talks on a global telecommunications treaty were perched on the verge of collapse Thursday, with delegates seemingly unable to break an impasse over the most sensitive issue: whether to include the Internet in the document. The United States was poised to withdraw support for the negotiations, being carried out under the auspices of a U.N. agency called the...
Dec
12
Ravi Shankar, sitar master, dies at 92
Label: World Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most...
A Eulogy for #Occupy
Label: Technology [Editor's Note: In the fall of 2011, Wired hired writer Quinn Norton to embed with the activists in the Occupy Wall Street movement and report back on what she witnessed. Throughout the past year, Norton filed a number of stories about the people behind the movement, the cops sent out to police them, and the clashes that ensued as a result. Now, Norton looks back on the year of Occupy.]“Should...
Anthony Jeselnik, Amy Schumer, Nick Kroll Shows get Comedy Central premiere dates
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Comedy Central has set premiere dates for new series starring comedians Anthony Jeselnik, Amy Schumer, Nick Kroll, Ben Hoffman and Nathan Fielder.The biting Jeselnik and Schumer are familiar to fans of Comedy Centrals celebrity roasts: They reliably deliver some of the most scathing and best-assembled insults. Nick Kroll stars on FX’s “The League.” And Hoffman and Fielder...
The New Old Age Blog: The Gift of Reading
Label: HealthThis is the year of the tablet, David Pogue of The Times has told us, and that may be good news for seniors who open holiday wrappings to find one tucked inside. They see better with tablets’ adjustable type size, new research shows. Reading becomes easier again.This may seem obvious — find me someone over 40 who doesn’t see better when fonts are larger — but it’s the business of science to test...
Deal Professor: In Netflix Case, a Chance to Re-examine Old Rules
Label: BusinessNetflix is in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s sights over a post on Facebook by Reed Hastings, its chief executive, saying that the video streaming company’s monthly viewing had reached a billion hours. Yet, the case is more convincing as an illustration of how the regulator clings to outdated notions of how markets work.In July, Mr. Hastings posted three lines stating that “Netflix monthly...
Dec
11
Eastern Congo rebels thrive on fear, chaos
Label: World Los Angeles TimesRUTSHURU, Democratic Republic of Congo — The rebels materialized out of the moist, heavy air, startling the...
How Two Hardware Geeks Leveraged Kickstarter for Serial Success
Label: Technology Brad Leong and Sam Gordon have a 3-0 record for crowdfunding projects, something they’ve done by bringing an app store-like model to platforms like Kickstarter that could herald a new way of launching a multi-product hardware startup.The pair have raised $1,054,666 since June 2011 crowdsourcing their Oona iPhone stand, Brydge keyboard and iPhone ReadyCase. It’s especially impressive considering...
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