Although Google is scrambling to meet consumers as they flock to mobile devices, the question is whether it is moving fast enough. When Google announced its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, investors were watching closely for positive signals of Google’s progress in the evolution to a mobile world. They received a disappointing sign: The price that advertisers paid Google each time...
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L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
Label: World Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor discussed ways...
Inauguration offers brief pause from TV bickering
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The second inauguration of President Barack Obama gave television networks a chance to bask in the majesty of a Washington event that unites Americans of all beliefs and ideologies — at least for a moment.Then it was back to business as usual: the dissemination of widely divergent views on what people had just seen for themselves.ABC, CBS and NBC, along with the cable news networks,...
Personal Health: A Check on Physicals
Label: Health“Go Beyond Your Father’s Annual Physical. Live Longer, Feel Better”This sales pitch for the Princeton Longevity Center’s “comprehensive exam” promises, for $5,300, to take “your health beyond the annual physical.” But it is far from certain whether this all-day checkup, and others less inclusive, make a meaningful difference to health or merely provide reassurance to the worried well.Among physicians,...
At La Guardia, Delta Uses iPads to Fill the Wait Time
Label: BusinessOn a recent business trip to New York, Joe Pullin of Novi, Mich., did something he would have considered unthinkable not long ago. Rather than rush off the plane and into a cab headed into Manhattan, he lingered at the arrival gate at La Guardia Airport, stopping for a leisurely lunch at Bisoux, a French bistro, and using the iPad mounted on his table to order his meal, check his e-mail...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Soap Bubble Nebula
Label: TechnologyInformally known as the "Soap Bubble Nebula", this planetary nebula (officially known as PN G75.5+1.7) was discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich on July 6th, 2008. It was noted and reported by Keith Quattrocchi and Mel Helm on July 17th, 2008. This image was obtained with the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-meter telescope on June 19th, 2009 in the H-alpha (orange) and [OIII] (blue) narrowband filters....
Katie Couric to interview Te’o, parents about girlfriend hoax
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – Television’s Katie Couric will interview Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o, the linebacker entangled in a girlfriend hoax, and his parents on her daytime talk show, “Katie,” ABC News said on Sunday.The interview will be his first on camera since news broke last week that his story about his girlfriend’s cancer death – and her existence altogether – was exposed as a fraud.The...
Well: Holly the Cat's Incredible Journey
Label: HealthNobody knows how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve — staggering, weak and emaciated — in...
N.T.S.B. Rules Out a Cause for Battery Fire on 787 Dreamliner
Label: BusinessFederal investigations said Sunday that they had ruled out excessive voltage as the cause of a battery fire on a Boeing 787 in Boston this month, widening the mystery into what led to the grounding of the world’s most technologically advanced jet after a second battery-related problem last week. With investigators focused on the plane’s lithium-ion batteries, the National Transportation Safety...
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