May 19, 2013
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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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Police use Twitter to offer virtual car ridealongs
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Riding side by side as a police officer answers a call for help or investigates a brutal crime during a ridealong gives citizens an up close look at the gritty and sometimes dan...
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‘Paper Mario,’ ‘Professor Layton’ keep 3DS humming
While many kids are hoping to find a Wii U under the Christmas tree next week, some of the season’s most absorbing Nintendo games are available on its other system, the portable 3DS. “Paper Ma...
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Malware just one cause of gibberish
QUESTION: I returned my printer, an HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus, because it sometimes printed in a foreign language. Now a second unit periodically does the same thing. I’ve spent hours talking t...
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Associated Press An Amazon.com employee scans and packs books at a sorting station in December 2008 at their Fernley, Nev., warehouse. So far, no major disruptions to shipping have been reported after winter weather hit much of the Midwest on Thursday.
All I want for Christmas is my gifts on time
NEW YORK — Will Santa’s sleigh be late? A record number of Americans took to the Web to order holiday gifts after retailers flooded their inboxes with offers of extra discounts, free shipping an...
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