“Smart, or stylish?” That’s the question facing casual watch aficionados looking for a new, high-tech addition to their collection.On one hand (er, wrist), you’ve got the Pebble and other smartwatch upstarts, which come with built-in smartphone connectivity, customizable screens, and burgeoning developer communities eager to feed their app ecosystems. They also, by and large, look like uninspired...
Oscars expand social media outreach for 85th show
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.The film organization has expanded its digital outreach for the 85th Academy Awards with a new feature that lets stars to snap photos of themselves backstage during Sunday’s ceremony and instantly post them online.What Twitter calls a “Magic Mirror” will take photo-booth-style pictures...
Drone Pilots Found to Get Stress Disorders Much as Those in Combat Do
Label: HealthU.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Steve HortonCapt. Richard Koll, left, and Airman First Class Mike Eulo monitored a drone aircraft after launching it in Iraq. The study affirms a growing body of research finding health hazards even for those piloting machines from bases far from actual combat zones. “Though it might be thousands of miles from the battlefield, this work still involves tough stressors...
BP and Gulf Coast States Jockey Over Settlement on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Label: BusinessJohn Moore/Getty ImagesA BP cleanup crew removing oil from a beach in May 2010 in Port Fourchon, La., after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. With a major civil trial scheduled to start Monday in New Orleans against BP over damages related to the explosion of an offshore drilling rig in 2010, federal officials and those from the five affected Gulf Coast states are trying to pull together to strike an...
Feb
22
Gunfire and deadly crash rattle the Las Vegas Strip
Label: World LAS VEGAS — A spectacular predawn crash on the Strip — triggered when bullets fired from a black Range Rover peppered a Maserati...
PayPal's New U.K. Card Reader Exposes Inferior U.S. Tech
Label: Technology PayPal has released a new mobile card reader in the U.K., which wouldn’t seem like big news — we already have a bunch of those here in the U.S., including PayPal’s. But there’s a difference: the overseas version crushes anything available stateside.This superiority isn’t because PayPal has come up with some big breakthrough. It’s because the underlying payment technology on which its based,...
Question Mark: Acne Common in Baby Boomers Too
Label: HealthPimples are no surprise on babies and teenagers, but boomers? You no longer have to gaze over a school lunchroom, hoping to find a seat at a socially acceptable table. You don’t rush to get home at night before your junior license driving restrictions kick in. And you men no longer have to worry that your voice will skip an octave without warning. But if adolescence is over, what is that...
Euro Watch: European Commission Offers Grim Forecast for Economy
Label: BusinessBRUSSELS — A top E.U. official warned Friday that the economy of the euro area would shrink for the second year in a row and that countries like France and Spain would miss fiscal targets meant to ensure the stability of the common currency. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, forecast growth across the 27-nation European Union of just 0.1 percent this...
Feb
21
RIAA Says Google's Anti-Piracy Search Algorithm Is Bogus
Label: Technology The Recording Industry Association of American said Thursday that Google’s algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with “high numbers” of copyright-infringing removal notices has had no “demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy.”“The sites we analyzed, all of which were serial infringers per Google’s Copyright Transparency Report, were not demoted in any significant...
How to host an Oscar party, and still enjoy the show
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – It goes without saying — but we will say it, anyway — that the key to hosting an Oscar party is to make sure that you do not spend too much time in the kitchen and too little time in front of the TV. Oscar night is all about serving everything buffet-style, and with a little planning, you can enjoy the fun. Here’s how.DRINKS This is no time to play bartender. Stick with a good white wine...
Living With Cancer: Arrivals and Departures
Label: HealthAfter being nursed and handed over, the baby’s wails rise to a tremolo, but I am determined to give my exhausted daughter and son-in-law a respite on this wintry evening. Commiserating with the little guy’s discomfort — gas, indigestion, colic, ontological insecurity — I swaddle, burp, bink, then cradle him in my arms. I begin walking around the house, swinging and swaying while cooing in soothing...
Via Video, a Front-Row Seat to a Fashion Show
Label: BusinessAs the Belstaff runway show began in New York City last week, buyers, designers and bloggers crowded into their seats, jotted notes and took smartphone photos as the models strutted by. But it was another crowd, outside the tents, that Belstaff executives were particularly interested in this season. For the second time, it was live streaming its fashion show. And the Web viewers were...
Homebrew Hardware Intersects With Sweet Sounds at Music Hack Day San Francisco
Label: Technology Music Hack Day San Francisco took over the offices of tokbox this past weekend for two days of getting creative with digital music. The results, as always with Music Hack Days, were a mix of the practical and the absurd.Every Music Hack Day — part of an ongoing series of events around the world — offers participants 24 hours to conjure up inventive new ways of interacting...
Oscar “losers” to go home with $45,000 gift bags
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar nominees who don’t end up with a coveted gold statuette at the Academy Awards on Sunday won’t go home empty handed after all.Los Angeles-based marketing firm Distinctive Assets will be handing out its annual “Everyone Wins at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag”, valued at more than $ 45,000, to the talented and well-dressed “losers,” the company said on Tuesday.Among the items...
Global Update: New Polio Strains That Protect Vaccine Factory Workers
Label: HealthScientists have created new strains of polio intended to protect workers in factories that make polio vaccine. The new strains have the same ability to invoke an immune reaction as the live viruses now used to make vaccine do, but there is virtually no risk anyone will get polio if one of the new strains somehow escapes. The research team, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook,...
DealBook: A Revolving Door in Washington That Gets Less Notice
Label: BusinessObsess all you’d like about President Obama’s nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Who heads the agency is vital, but important fights in Washington are happening in quiet rooms, away from the media gaze.After a widely praised stint as a tough United States attorney, Ms. White spent the last decade serving so many large banks and investment houses that by the...
Feb
19
O.C. shootings: Usually quiet neighborhoods rocked by violence
Label: World Several usually quiet Orange County neighborhoods were rocked Tuesday morning by a series of slayings and violent carjackings...
Ubuntu Linux Primed for Life on Tablets
Label: Technology We all knew it was coming. Once Canonical unveiled the “Unity” interface for Ubuntu — its version of the open source Linux operating system — we could see that the company was taking Ubuntu onto tablets. But now the new is official: A tablet version of the OS will arrive next year.The question is whether developers will actually build applications for it.Linux already has an app deficit, and...
Ask Well: Coaxing Parents to Take Better Care of Themselves
Label: HealthDear Reader,Your dilemma of wanting to get your parents to change their ways to eat better and exercise reminds me of an old joke:How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but the light bulb has to really want to change.Sounds like your parents may be about as motivated as the light bulb right now. Still, there are things you can do to encourage them to move in...
DealBook: Morgan Stanley Strives to Coordinate 2 Departments Often at Odds
Label: BusinessSeveral hundred Morgan Stanley retail branch managers descended on the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes resort in Florida early this month for a retreat. They were greeted by an unlikely colleague, Colm Kelleher, who runs the company’s sales and trading and investment banking departments.Traditionally, traders and investment bankers think of themselves as the elite of Wall Street and look down on...
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