May 24, 2013
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QUESTION: My wife communicates regularly with friends in China using QQ (the most popular instant-messaging service in China) on her computer. It has video chat, similar to Skype. But there is some...
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Associated Press Volunteers Daijon Tyes, center, Marnie Williams and Kara Strasser join others trimming rose bushes and cleaning up a small garden in 2012 in the courtyard of the National Divine Spiritual Church during a day of service dedicated to slain civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
App-titude
Volunteer work, encouraged for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday, is easy to find and sign up for using smartphone applications. Sign in to HelpBridge, by Microsoft Corp. for A...
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Associated Press A scene from "DmC: Devil May Cry" appears.
Review: ‘Devil May Cry’ gives an infernal thrill ride
At the beginning of “DmC: Devil May Cry” (Capcom, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), demons run amok through a seaside amusement park. Arcades are yanked from their foundations, rides spin o...
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Associated Press Eric Rudder, chief technical strategy officer of Microsoft, holds a prototype Windows smartphone with a flexible OLED display during Samsung's keynote address Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Gadget watch
LAS VEGAS — By showing off a phone with a flexible screen, Samsung is hinting at a day when we might fold up our large phone or tablet screens as if they were maps. The Korean electronics compan...
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QUESTION: I am having trouble with my HP Mini 311, which is a netbook (a small laptop) that has no DVD drive. Can I load Windows XP from a DVD disk to a USB drive, and then install it on the Mini t...
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Associated Press The Mondo Spider, a mechanical spider powered with hydraulics, is moved around its exhibit space by eatArt creator Ryan Johnston Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Wacky gadgets at CES
LAS VEGAS — Some of the weirdest gadgets at the International CES show are designed to solve problems you never knew you had. Are you eating too fast? A digital fork will let you know. Is your todd...
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Associated Press Fireworks explode as the Waterford crystal ball is raised at the beginning of the Times Square New Year's celebration Monday in New York. At the drop of the ball, many people begin their new year with new resolutions. Now, there are smartphone apps to help with those goals.
Mobile resoulutions
Whoever said “the hardest part of doing something is taking the first step” obviously never made a New Year’s resolution. You start out with the best intentions, but then somewhere down the line, y...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service A 3-dimensional printer creates a plastic object through extrusion from a 3-D model at RapidTech on Dec. 21 at the University of California, Irvine.
3-D printing gives businesses a low-cost option for odd jobs
What does a business do if the vintage aircraft part a customer needs hasn’t been made in decades? For a solution, Airflow Systems of Capistrano Beach, Calif., turned to Rapid Tech at University...
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Associated Press A Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Curating your Facebook news feed, and other practices that can help personalize a user's Facebook activity can be a burdensome process, but the result: less tabloid magazine, more personal messages and cute pictures from people who are actually your friends.
Facebook can be made a warmer, smaller space
NEW YORK — A woman I haven’t spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate likes to rant about politics. A coll...
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Telepresence robots help people ‘beam’ into work
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley. But Goecker isn’t in...
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