U.S. News
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NEW YORK (AP) — Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger says the measles outbreak is having no discernible impact on attendance at its parks and resorts. In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Iger says…
February 04, 2015 -
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego man has been convicted of running a “revenge porn” website where people posted nude pictures of their ex-lovers, who then had to pay the man to take down…
February 04, 2015 -
By LISA LEFF Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles H. Townes’ inspiration for the predecessor of the laser came to him while sitting on a park bench, waiting for a restaurant to open for…
February 01, 2015 -
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the seventh quarter in a row Facebook beat profit and revenue forecasts, continuing to win more mobile advertising revenue as most users shift to…
January 29, 2015 -
By LISA LEFF Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles H. Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped create the laser that would revolutionize everything from medicine to manufacturing, has died. He was 99. Townes…
January 29, 2015 -
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who pleaded guilty to trying to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon is set to be sentenced. Pedro Leonardo…
January 28, 2015 -
By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As outdoor recreation companies increasingly cater to skiers and snowboarders who like to venture beyond the groomed slopes at ski resorts and tackle backcountry terrain,…
January 26, 2015 -
SEATTLE (AP) — Melinda Gates says she and her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, are most likely going to see their hometown team play in the Super Bowl. Their friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen…
January 23, 2015 -
By SUE MANNING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — From brain-devouring zombies in “The Walking Dead” to crime-scene bloodshed on “CSI,” special-effects wizard Sam Nicholson has delivered gore galore to television viewers. But he says…
January 22, 2015 -
By TERENCE CHEA Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop…
January 20, 2015 -
By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Christopher Lee Cornell showed little direction in his life, spending hours playing video games in his bedroom in his parents’ apartment, rarely going out or working, and…
January 16, 2015 -
By TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The network was crippled. Days before Thanksgiving, Sony Pictures employees had logged onto computers that flashed a grim message from a hacker group calling itself Guardians…
January 13, 2015 -
By DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Climate scientists are gleaning valuable information about snowfall and droughts from errant satellite signals once considered a nuisance. The data comes from GPS receivers, mostly ones used…
January 12, 2015 -
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Self-driving cars garner much of the attention, but in reality, we’re years away from tooling around in something like Knight Rider’s KITT. Coming sooner to a…
January 12, 2015 -
By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — A year ago, pundits were declaring the personal computer dead. Smartphones and tablets were cannibalizing sales, and the once-revolutionary PC seemed unnecessary — and boring.…
January 08, 2015