May 21, 2013
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Chuck La Tournous shows a capacitance glove made by Marmot, which for $30 allows you to use the touch screens on portable devices while wearing gloves. La Tournous brought a collection of high-tech survival gadgets to display Jan. 31 at MacWorld in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Tech vs. wild
SAN FRANCISCO SEmD Chuck La Tournous was about two minutes into his presentation this week at Macworld 2013, “Tech vs. Wild,” when a Boy Scoutish-looking kid in the audience shot up his hand. “I...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Craig Lane (from left) sits with daughter Rebecca, 10, wife Jagoda and son Nathen, 15, on Jan. 24 in his Buffalo Grove, Ill., home. Nathen foiled a robbery attempt by texting his father while Nathen and the rest of the family were being held captive in the bathroom of a coffee shop.
Text makes teenager a hero
CHICAGO SEmD Nathen Lane huddled in the bathroom of a Chicago restaurant with his mom and sister as an angry, possibly armed robber terrorized a waitress in the dining room because there wasn’t eno...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: I’m planning a vacation to Naples, Italy, in the near future and would like to use my Apple iPad 2 while I’m there. Is this possible? Do I need any special instructions? —Angelo Dinorc...
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Associated Press Dr. Nick Goldman of EMBL-EBI examines synthesized DNA in an Eppendorf vial. Researchers said Wednesday that as a demonstration project, they had stored in DNA all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream'' speech. That all fit in a barely visible bit of DNA in a test tube.
Digital info can be stored in DNA
NEW YORK — It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries. Is this some new electronic gadget? Nope. It’s DNA....
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Associated Press A section of the "Difference Engine," the first computer ever made, designed by Charles Babbage appeared between 1823 and 1842. From textile machines to the horseless carriage to email, technology has upended industries and wiped out jobs for centuries. It also has created millions of jobs, though usually not for the people who lost them.
Is technology a job killer?
NEW YORK — To workers being pushed out of jobs by today’s technology, history has a message: You’re not the first. From textile machines to the horseless carriage to email, technology has upende...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: My old HP LaserJet IIIP printer from 1992 works fine, but when I bought a new Dell computer I couldn’t connect the two. The printer uses a 25-pin parallel connector to connect to a PC, bu...
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Tech Q&A
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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