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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 -
BY KIMBERLY PIERCEALL Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Driverless cars of the future. Every imaginable (and unimaginable) kind of smartphone case. The latest laundry technology, even. Acres of Las Vegas convention center floor packed…
January 08, 2015 -
By SUE MANNING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Laura Fritz’s felines play with her iPad, her fat cat loses the urge to eat, her scaredy-cat loses his fear and her youngest just loses…
January 07, 2015 -
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — One of the biggest changes in television this year will be more channels available online with no separate cable or satellite subscription. But for would-be…
January 06, 2015 -
The same program that funded high-profile flops like Solyndra, the California-based solar company that filed for bankruptcy, is now showing some success stories.
December 30, 2014 -
By MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Sony’s “The Interview” has been a hacking target, a punchline and a political lightning rod. Now, with its release online at the same time it debuts…
December 29, 2014 -
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer ATLANTA (AP) — As the holiday shopping season winds down, FedEx, UPS and online retailers are using the last few days to try to avoid the problems that occurred…
December 24, 2014 -
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Republican investigation faults senior IRS officials in the mistreatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, but could find no link to the White…
December 24, 2014 -
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea experienced sweeping Internet outages for hours before coming back online late Monday. One computer expert said the country’s online access was “totally down.” The White…
December 23, 2014 -
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ready! Set! Hut, hut: This holiday season’s blitz of college football bowl games will feature a reshuffled roster of corporate sponsors spending millions to thrust…
December 23, 2014 -
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how…
December 22, 2014 -
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The…
December 19, 2014