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Associated Press A woman sits on an eCooltra Connected electric scooters at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, Tuesday in Barcelona, Spain. The first wave of the wireless revolution was getting people to talk to each other through cellphones.
Wireless connections creep into everyday things
BARCELONA, Spain — A car that tells your insurance company how you’re driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner when electric...
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First lady highlights child obesity progress
CLINTON, Miss. — Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates, saying its example should inspire the rest of the country....
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun People cheer in front of the new Baptist Health Paducah sign after its unveiling. The hospital officially switched to its new logo and name on Feb. 5.
Brand new brand
It took a year and a half for committees, marketing employees and hospital presidents to settle on the new logo for the Baptist Health system. When the hospital formerly known as Western Baptist...
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Firefox to unveil phones in summer
BARCELONA, Spain — Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox Web browser, is getting into phones. But it’s not stopping at Web browsers — it’s launching an entire phone operatin...
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Blame surrounds pending cuts
WASHINGTON — The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who’s to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week’s end, with the administrati...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday about the sequester, as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington. Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government.
Sides apart as deadline fiscal nears
WASHINGTON — Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they’ve already gotten much of bo...
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Flaws in EPA pollution data
WASHINGTON — Limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production is hindering the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to police the drilling boom, the a...
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Associated Press Janet Falk, public relations professional, rides the Roosevelt Island tramway Thursday with a Manhattan view behind her in New York. Falk applied for a public-relations job at a New York City law firm two years ago, but the recruiter told her she wouldn't be considered because she had been unemployed for more than three months, Falk said.
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NEW YORK — Help wanted. Qualifications: Must already have a job. It’s a frustrating catch for those out of work in an era of high unemployment: looking for a job, only to find that some employer...
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Associated Press Stock traders work at the New York Stock Exchange Feb. 4. The week of strong earnings pushed the Dow Jones average back up.
Dow rebounds from 2-day slide
Strong earnings from big U.S. companies pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a rare triple-digit gain Friday, but the S&P 500 index still posted its first weekly loss of the year. Hewlett-...
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Associated Press About 50 students and four faculty members at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology use pay pads such as this one in place of cash or credit cards to pay for items. The pilot program using Biocryptology -- or one's fingerprint and hemoglobin -- to identify buyers.
College tests fingerprint purchasing technology
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish ...
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