The Logitech Harmony 650 can control up to five home-theater devices. (Credit: Ice Monkey) This is an update of a post from many moons ago. Mo’ gadgets often means mo’ problems–or, at least, mo’ remotes. That’s why I continue to champion Logitech’s Harmony series of universal remotes, which not only take the place of multiple [...]
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Study Links Cadmium Exposure to Learning Disabilities in Kids Jan. 27, 2012 — Children with high levels of the heavy metal cadmium in their urine may be more likely to have learning disabilities and/or need special education, a new study shows. Cadmium occurs naturally in some soils. Children are most likely to be exposed to [...]
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Taxing the wealthy is not going to solve the national debt, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) told CNSNews.com after President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union Address. Before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening Obama said, “Tax reform should follow the ‘Buffett Rule.’ If [...]
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“Short sms-style messages are not the way to go here, and neither are long, drawn out diatribes about how much you have in common with each other.“ Derek Cajun works for Love systems as a dating coach, and is a freelance writer actor on the side. This is an excerpt from his new book, The [...]
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“Short sms-style messages are not the way to go here, and neither are long, drawn out diatribes about how much you have in common with each other.“ Derek Cajun works for Love systems as a dating coach, and is a freelance writer actor on the side. This is an excerpt from his new book, The [...]
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By Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals. The South Korean firm, the world’s top technology firm by revenue, [...]
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The Mac SuperBundle, Winter 2012 Edition. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida) Interested in buying Parallels Desktop 7, the impossibly cool tool that lets you run Windows right on your Mac? That’ll be $79.99, please. Or, if you spring for the Mac SuperBundle, you can get Parallels Desktop 7 for $49–along with nine other handy Mac [...]
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Avastin May Help Fight Early Breast Cancer Jan. 25, 2012 — Don’t count out the drug Avastin as a breast cancer treatment just yet. But don’t count it in, either. In November, the FDA took the unusual step of nixing Avastin’s approval for advanced breast cancer, saying that the serious risks of using the drug [...]
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President Barack Obama, left, and investor Warren Buffett. (AP Photo (CNSNews.com) – The White House did not respond to multiple requests to disclose exactly how it knows what Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and his secretary , Debbie Bosanek, pay in taxes. President Barack Obama referenced both Buffett and Bosanek during his State of the [...]
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LONDON (AP) — World stock markets rose on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country’s stubbornly slow economic recovery. The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008 during the financial crisis, and has held them there ever since. The announcement that [...]
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