All Stories from October 15, 2011 (Change date)
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HBO Go comes to TV, through Roku playersOct 17, 2011 4:55 pm - NEW YORK — HBO’s Internet streaming service, which gives subscribers access to its shows on PCs, smartphones and tablets, is going back to where it all started: the TV. ...
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Try a homemade Halloween costume for your petOct 17, 2011 6:47 am - LOS ANGELES — Halloween’s coming up and with a little DIY ingenuity, you can turn your dog or cat into a bee, bear or badger. Whether you are planning for a parade, part...
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Cray to upgrade fastest U.S. supercomputerOct 17, 2011 4:55 pm - NEW YORK — Supercomputer builder Cray Inc. will upgrade the Department of Energy’s Jaguar computer so it can run nearly 10 times faster and challenge a Japanese computer...
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Marijuana-shaped candy alarms parents, officialsOct 17, 2011 6:47 am - BUFFALO, N.Y. — Candy shaped like marijuana that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists sa...
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Muslim comic series aims to break through in U.S.Oct 18, 2011 3:06 pm - DETROIT — Comic book fans might call it a great origin story: In the aftermath of 9/11, a Muslim man creates a comic book series, “The 99,” inspired by the principles of...
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PayPal rolls out online shopping login serviceOct 17, 2011 6:10 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal, eBay’s online payment service, announced a new service Wednesday that aims to make it easier to shop online by cutting down on the number of acco...
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A nation outnumbered by gadgetsOct 25, 2011 2:11 pm - The machines ARE taking over At least that’s the case with cellphones and other mobile devices, which for the first time outnumber human beings in the United States, the...
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Chess grandmaster cultivates future competitionOct 15, 2011 5:01 am - WASHINGTON — A good chess match can be hard to find for an international grandmaster, so Maurice Ashley has spent most of his career growing his own competition. Since b...
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As IPO looms, Zynga adding more ways to play gamesOct 17, 2011 6:10 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga is adding more ways for people to play its Web games as it grooms its business for an initial public offering of stock that is aiming to raise $1 b...
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Enough with the pink, some women sayOct 16, 2011 7:43 am - PITTSBURGH — The country is awash in pink for breast cancer awareness month — and some women are sick of it. While no one is questioning the need to fight the deadly dis...