All Stories from October 5, 2013 (Change date)
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Japan, U.S. to adopt cyber-defense guidelinesOct 05, 2013 7:56 am - TOKYO — The Japanese and U.S. governments will incorporate a policy on how to respond to cyberattacks in the Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines, a move aimed at c...
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Review: New Amazon Kindles add help with a human faceOct 05, 2013 7:46 am - Here’s the most important feature of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX color tablets: Operators are standing by. Actually, they’re technical-support people, summonable from t...
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Facebook beefing up Graph Search featureOct 05, 2013 7:14 am - When Facebook announced in January that it was coming out with a search function, people flipped out about the privacy implications. As it turned out, though, Facebook’s...
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Wearable technology raise alarms for privacy advocatesOct 05, 2013 7:04 am - WASHINGTON — Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit U.S. stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregul...
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New GiGi's Playhouse underway; donations still neededOct 05, 2013 7:00 am - With the generosity of donors and the frantic work of more than a dozen construction workers, the new GiGi's Playhouse National Achievement Center is starting to show si...
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Preemies' parents to host dinner to thank St. Alexius doctors, nursesOct 05, 2013 7:00 am - Vivian Prestia of Carpentersville is turning 1 next week — but her parents say it's only because dozens of “lifesavers” at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates ...
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HBO Film puts Muhammad Ali, U.S. high court in the ringOct 05, 2013 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Christopher Plummer may be frozen in some filmgoers' memories as the noble-browed patriarch who made stern parenting and anti-Nazism sexy in “The Sound of ...
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Review: Gear watch has potential, but falls shortOct 05, 2013 7:00 am - NEW YORK — It didn't take long to see how a computerized wristwatch might help manage my digital life — or to see how Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch falls short. F...
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Trade-in options abound for smartphonesOct 05, 2013 6:42 am - NEW YORK — Feeling stuck with your old smartphone? Do you covet new releases like the iPhone 5S that boast niftier features like fingerprint sensors? There’s good news. ...
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With new film, Ja Rule looks ahead after prisonOct 05, 2013 6:00 am - ATLANTA — Ja Rule, who recently spent nearly two years behind bars for illegal gun possession, landed a role in a new movie because screenwriter Galley Molina empathized...