Friday, January 17, 2014

PS4 and Xbox One fuel videogame sales

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SAN FRANCISCO — NPD Group reported Thursday that new consoles from Sony and Microsoft powered a winning holiday season for the videogame ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Eye doctors warn of damage from lasers

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NEW YORK - Powerful lasers that are easily purchased online pose a serious danger to vision, according to a new report. Doctors from th...

Award-winning exiled poet-journalist Gelman, who fought Argentine military rule, dies

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MEXICO CITY - Argentine poet Juan Gelman, winner of the Spanish speaking world's top literature prize and a vehement critic of milita...

Pinay caregiver Rose Fostanes does it ‘My Way’, wins ‘X Factor Israel’

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Filipina caregiver Rose Fostanes completed her Cinderella story Tuesday night in Tel Aviv (early Wednesday morning, Manila time), winning...

Al Jefferson stars as Bobcats end Knicks’ win streak

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Bobcats 108, Knicks 98: Al Jefferson exploded for a season-best 35 points as Charlotte ended visiting New York’s five-game winning streak...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

7,000 same-sex couples tied the knot in France last year

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PARIS  - About 7,000 same-sex couples tied the knot in France last year after gay marriage was legalised in May, the national statistics ...

GM wins awards, Ford turns heads at Detroit auto show

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DETROIT — General Motors’ Chevrolet unit swept car and truck of the year honors but Ford’s use of aluminum in its F150 sparked new deb...

Pinay caregiver Rose Fostanes shines spotlight on Israel’s low-paid foreign workers

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TEL AVIV | Once part of a faceless crowd of foreign workers who clean homes and tend to Israel’s sick and elderly, a Filipina caregiver h...

Google buys ‘smart’ thermostat maker Nest for $3.2-billion

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Monday announced that it is buying smart thermostat start-up Nest in a deal valued at $3.2 billion. “They’re ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Apple did not violate Google patent, says US appeals court

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WASHINGTON — Apple Inc does not use patented technology owned by Google unit Motorola Mobility in making its iPhones, an appeals court sa...