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Aereo Files For Bankruptcy Protection

Aereo Files For Bankruptcy Protection

January 11, 2015

By Tracey Lien Los Angeles Times (TNS) Aereo Inc., the online video streaming service backed by businessman and Television Hall of Fame member Barry Diller, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday...

Michele Rohe puts her face lovingly up to a calf at her dairy farm near Freeport, Minn. The farms open pens give heifer calves a chance to move around, feed when they want and interact with other calves and humans.

High-Tech Feeders Free Dairy Farmers

November 21, 2014

By Tom Meersman Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) FREEPORT, Minn. — The calves at Rohe Dairy don’t bawl when they’re hungry. They live together in small groups in a tall, well-ventilated barn...

A Battle Between The Newest Movie-Editing Programs

A Battle Between The Newest Movie-Editing Programs

November 5, 2014

By Harold Glicken McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) Well, that was fast. A week ago I was singing the praises of Pinnacle Studio 18, the latest version of one of the premiere budget movie-editing...

Yik Yak, The New Social Media

Yik Yak, The New Social Media

Jackson Miller, Assistant Editor-in-Chief October 16, 2014

Yik Yak has come to Norfolk and to the phones of some Northeast Community College students.  The year old, anonymous Twitter-like social media smart phone app has steadily gained in popularity and caused...

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Vandalproof by Originally first uploaded by Bottesini of the English Wikipedia,

October 15, 2014

Troy Wolverton: With breaches on the rise, time to protect your data By Troy Wolverton San Jose Mercury News (MCT) One of the things that has become crystal clear in recent months is that consumers’...

Law enforcement grapples with iPhone’s enhanced encryption

Law enforcement grapples with iPhone’s enhanced encryption

October 1, 2014

By Julia Love and Robert Salonga San Jose Mercury News (MCT) Apple is no stranger to disruption, having upended the music business with iTunes and the mobile industry with the iPhone. But now, some...

John Murdy, executive producer of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, with one of many werewolves during a tour of the mazes that are being set up around the theme of the horror movie An American Werewolf in London in Universal City, Calif.

Theme parks’ Halloween scare tactics becoming frightfully high-tech

October 1, 2014

By Hugo Martín Los Angeles Times (MCT) To re-create a bloody scene from the 1981 horror flick “American Werewolf in London,” crews at Universal Studios Hollywood installed computer-controlled strobe...

Bash bug on Apple, Linux computers leading to attacks, experts say

Bash bug on Apple, Linux computers leading to attacks, experts say

September 29, 2014

By Paresh Dave Los Angeles Times (MCT) A program that comes pre-installed on Apple’s Mac and MacBook as well as millions of other computers has a flaw that could let hackers take control of the computer,...

Apple Watch, Apple Pay Unveiled

Apple Watch, Apple Pay Unveiled

September 9, 2014

By Andrea Chang Los Angeles Times (MCT) At the Apple event underway in Cupertino, Calif., Chief Executive Tim Cook unveiled Apple Watch, “the most personal device we’ve ever created,” he said. It’s...

Google Project Wing

Google Testing Project Wing, Its Drone Delivery Project

September 2, 2014

By Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times (MCT) Google X — the lab responsible for Google Glass, Google’s self-driving cars and Google’s smart contact lenses — has announced its latest endeavor:...

Microsoft warns of major Internet Explorer bug; no fix for Windows XP

June 6, 2014

By Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times (MCT) Windows XP users are getting their first taste of life without security updates after the discovery of a major flaw within the Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft...

4.5 Million Smartphones Were Lost Or Stolen In US In 2013

4.5 Million Smartphones Were Lost Or Stolen In US In 2013

April 17, 2014

By Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times (MCT) A report released Thursday said 4.5 million smartphones were lost or stolen in the U.S. last year, up from 2.8 million in 2012. Thefts were largely...

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