SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for...
Forget JavaScript, It's Time for Browsers to Speed Up Images
Label: Technology The average webpage is now 1.2 megabytes and around 60 percent of that rather large payload comes from images. That’s a lot of data, whether you’re handling images responsively or just trying to speed up a desktop site.You might think, if images are the bulk of what your browser is downloading, that browsers would be working hard to speed up the image downloads, perhaps trying alternate,...
“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” “Bully” first theatrical releases to win duPont awards
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Two documentary films were among the 14 winners of the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, making them the first theatrical releases to be honored with the prize. USA Today also won its first duPont award.“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” Alison Klayman‘s profile of the Chinese artist-activist, and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch‘s tale of schoolyard torment, “Bully,”...
F.D.A. and States Meet About Regulation of Drug Compounders
Label: HealthMary Calvert/ReutersMargaret Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, testified on the fungal meningitis outbreak before Congress in November. Dr. Hamburg addressed the need for greater federal oversight of large compounding pharmacies, which mix up batches of drugs on their own, often for much lower prices than major manufacturers charge. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Food and Drug Administration conferred with...
State of the Art: AndroidCameras From Nikon and Samsung Go Beyond Cellphones - Review
Label: Business“Android camera.” Wow, that has a weird ring, doesn’t it? You just don’t think of a camera as having an operating system. It’s like saying “Windows toaster” or “Unix jump rope.” But yes, that’s what it has come to. Ever since cellphone cameras got good enough for everyday snapshots, camera sales have been dropping. For millions of people, the ability to share a fresh photo wirelessly — Facebook,...
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Philippine Congress OKs bill to offer birth control to poor women
Label: World MANILA — Ignoring the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' warning that "contraception corrupts the soul," the Philippine...
Why I Quit Instagram
Label: Technology I quit Instagram today. Not only that, I nuked my account. It’s gone; deleted. Can’t get it back. No more.I signed up for Instagram a month after it launched, in November of 2010. I was hooked from the giddy-up. My first photo? A pretty boring beach scene: gone now, but you can still see it above. Photos of food and beer and nights out on the town followed – banalities and burritos and bad...
CBS dominates week in TV ratings
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — CBS had little competition for dominance last week in the television ratings.The network had 17 of the 25 most-watched programs on the air last week, according to the Nielsen company. It beat second-place NBC by an average of nearly four million viewers a night last week, and also took the 18-to-49-year-old demographic that advertisers seek.“60 Minutes” and “NCIS” were the most popular...
Attackers in Pakistan Kill Anti-Polio Workers
Label: HealthRizwan Tabassum/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA Pakistani mother mourned her daughter, who was killed on Tuesday in an attack on health workers participating in a drive to eradicate polio from Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Five Pakistani women and a man were killed on Tuesday in separate attacks on health workers participating in a national drive to eradicate polio from Pakistan. ...
More Young Americans Are Homeless
Label: BusinessSEATTLE — Duane Taylor was studying the humanities in community college and living in his own place when he lost his job in a round of layoffs. Then he found, and lost, a second job. And a third. Now, with what he calls “lowered standards” and a tenuous new position at a Jack in the Box restaurant, Mr. Taylor, 24, does not make enough to rent an apartment or share one. He sleeps on a mat...
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