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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) As more people reveal their whereabouts on social networks, a new site has sprung up to remind you that letting everyone know where you are — and, by extension, where you’re not — could leave you vulnerable to those with less-than- ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) Will this year mark the death of the joystick? With major video-game publishers adopting camera and motion-controller technologies, the end of the traditional controller — you know, that thing with all those buttons, sticks and pads — could be imminent. Microsoft ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Determined to create the world’s largest digital library, Google Inc. is betting it knows more about U.S. antitrust and copyright laws than the government regulators enforcing them. The Internet search leader took an audacious step toward realizing its book ambitions last ...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Apple Inc. rocked the wireless business by combining the functions of a phone and an iPod. Now, more than two years later, Microsoft Corp. has its comeback: phone software that works a lot like its own Zune media player. The software, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and became a police informant. They sent a warning on Twitter that said: We have ...
NEW YORK (AP) Even as Apple’s iPad will likely energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move e-books between different electronic readers. The slim, 0.7-kg tablet computer unveiled last week ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand sentry over her blackberries. And the ...
In November, more than 100 people met in Yokohama for a daylong “unconference” on technology and the Internet. Attendees addressed each other on topics of their choosing — the roster of speakers determined solely by whoever signed up fastest for time slots on a ...
SEATTLE (AP) Apple has a knack for spotting problems we didn’t know we had. It can leave us wondering how we survived without vast libraries of music in our pockets or the comfort of knowing “there’s an app for that.” Now, speculation is running ...
SEATTLE (AP) Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water-tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in town. “It’s been unbelievable,” said Azaria, a singer who ...
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Iraqi, and possibly Afghan, militants are using commercial software to eavesdrop on U.S. Predators, other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and even ...
If you’re looking for your grandmother in the farming suburb of Iwamizawa, an hour northeast of Sapporo, your best bet may be to phone the municipal call center. In a bid to make senior citizens — and their faraway families — feel safer, elderly ...