This machine dispenses Kraft’s new dessert Temptations Jell-O and uses face recognition software.
Big Brother not only watches you he will be sizing you up via a new product sampling machine that will determine whether you’re the right age — or even the right sex — to receive a sample of a company’s product.
There will be more repossessions next year and tougher criteria banks are now imposing on potential borrowers.
The development of multi-family units – a category made up of apartments and townhouses – jumped 25.3 percent last month to an annual rate of 238,000, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. That helped drive overall construction on new homes up 9.3 percent to an annual pace of 685,000, the strongest since the spring of 2010.
iPhones account for over 70% of all stolen cellphones on subways and buses.
New York iPhone users beware. The city is in the midst of a crime wave, and police say the problem could get worse, according to recent media reports.
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Have you seen the Apple commercial showing Santa asking the iPhone’s Siri for guidance? Well, it’s not far off the mark. Seventy-five percent of cellphone users around the globe use their phones for text messaging, in wealthy countries as well as poor ones, according to a new study.
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The arrests are for everything from underage drinking and petty theft to violent crime.
Almost one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23 in the U.S., suggests a new study that finds more of them are being booked now than in the 1960s.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: very exciting year ahead. 2012 is a year where many competing trends will collide, and through those collisions we will see new pathways emerge.
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Everything’s going digital these days — even cheating.
Educators are on the lookout for new kinds of cheating as students gain access to sophisticated gadgets both at school and at home. Kids are finding new ways to get ahead when they haven’t studied, from digitally inserting answers into soft drink labels to texting each other test answers and photos of exams.
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Rapid economic development and a smaller supply of young migrant workers are pushing up labor costs in China.
What is one of the things that’s showing up in Christmas stockings this year: higher prices, courtesy of China.
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Google Chrome
Google’s Chrome browser just become the globe’s most popular according to what StatCounter is reporting.
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More travelers are splurging in the air and scrimping on the ground.
A new study by American Express Business Insights finds that spending on first- and business-class airline tickets increased by 9.1% and 5.4%, respectively, in the third quarter. But on the ground, travelers spent more of their dollars — an additional 10.5% — on economy lodging vs. only 2.2% more on luxury hotel accommodations in that time.
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“The reality is that prospects for the poor and the near poor are dismal.”
A record number of Americans are being squeezed by rising living costs. Nearly 1 in 2 have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
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