Science and Tech

iPad retains value longer than Kindle
Technology is not like wine.
Visible from space: Mars rover remnants
Wow! You often hear about big stuff on the ground being "visible from space," right ?
Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine
The kit gives you instant karaoke in the privacy of your own home, or wherever you carry your Apple gadgets.

Ideas into inventions

How to turn your ideas into cold hard cash.
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Looking for work? Get the app for that

Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.
Open-air Wi-Fi network to test security

Final preparations are under way for one of the nation's first open-air, large-scale experimental Wi-Fi networks.
Verizon & Redbox start video streaming

More video streaming options are coming. Verizon says it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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How Apple cuts costs in its gadgets

On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."

Verizon sets up streaming with Redbox

Challenging Netflix, phone company Verizon Communications Inc. says it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
Hackers release FBI call about hackers

The loose organization of hackers known as Anonymous released Friday a recording of a telephone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard that it said it recorded surreptitiously.
Military to get secure Android phones

Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project.
Study: Facebook users get more than give

A new study out Friday found that the average user of the world's biggest online social network gets more than they give. That means more messages, more "likes" and more comments. Yes, even more "pokes."
Biggest complaints about the Apple Store

John Matarese says some people don't like the Apple store for several reasons.
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Recipes great for prison and your home

How about some tuna nachos for your Super Bowl party? It's one of the recipes from women serving time in Texas. Six female convicts have compiled an unusual cookbook "From The Big House to Your House." One of the recipes is for tuna nachos.
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Owners and pets flee to avoid inspection

A crackdown on wild animals in private homes in Louisiana has left one couple so terrified they've fled to Texas with their four Capuchin monkeys.
Daughter's tip leads cops to dad
Official tries to ban pajamas in public
Man gets hospital bill for nearly $45M