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Associated Press The toy mode of the mobile app "Tamagotchi L.i.f.e." by developer/publisher Bandai Co./Sync Beatz Entertainment is displayed. The app duplicates the egg-shaped Tamagotchi toy that became a must-own sensation after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.
Tamagotchi electronic pet reborn as app
LOS ANGELES — Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for...
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Tracking Lincoln
PITTSBURGH — On the 204th anniversary of his birth, Abraham Lincoln’s youthful proclivity for penning epistles to a weekly newspaper anonymously and under pseudonyms are the stuff of a modern-day c...
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Tech Q&A
Last week, I suggested that Internet connection problems might be causing people to endure long pauses while streaming Netflix movies and TV shows. The video was moving through a home network to a ...
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QUESTION: Our Sony TV keeps pausing during movies and TV shows we stream from Netflix. The icon on the screen says “loading”and the little wheel image keeps spinning. These pauses are annoying. Is ...
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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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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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