The latest contender in the battle for your dashboard is Sprint’s Velocity, the telecommunications company’s first comprehensive in-car infotainment and telematics architecture aimed at automakers.Sprint is unveiling Velocity this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, which is billing itself as the place for hot new automotive tech introductions. Sprint’s lined up Chrysler as its first partner,...
Judge bows out of ‘pink slime’ suit over ABC ties
Label: LifestyleSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge has recused himself from presiding over a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on one of the network’s morning shows.Judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on...
Amid Hurricane Sandy, a Race to Get a Liver Transplant
Label: HealthIt was the best possible news, at the worst possible time. The phone call from the hospital brought the message that Dolores and Vin Dreeland had long hoped for, ever since their daughter Natalia, 4, had been put on the waiting list for a liver transplant. The time had come. They bundled her into the car for the 50-mile trip from their home in Long Valley, N.J., to NewYork-Presbyterian...
California Shows Signs of Resurgence
Label: BusinessSam Hodgson/Bloomberg NewsProsperous coastal places like La Jolla, here, are better off than the state as a whole; many inland areas still have high jobless rates. LOS ANGELES — After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound. There is evidence of job growth, economic stability,...
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Congress returns as 'fiscal cliff' talks slow
Label: World WASHINGTON – Congress returned in a lame duck session with no signs of quick compromise to prevent a tax hike for most Americans...
Elon Musk Wants to Build 80,000-Person Mars Colony
Label: Technology Elon Musk doesn’t just want to send a person to Mars — he wants to send 80,000. According to Space.com, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX spilled details about his hopes for a future Mars colony during a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Nov. 16.Earlier this year, SpaceX became the first private U.S. company to deliver cargo to...
Berry’s ex says he was threatened before fight
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Halle Berry‘s ex-boyfriend claims the actress’s fiance threatened to kill him during a Thanksgiving confrontation that left him with a broken rib, bruised face and under arrest.Gabriel Aubry‘s claims are included in court filings that led a judge Monday to grant a restraining order against actor Olivier Martinez, who is engaged to the Oscar-winning actress.Aubry, 37, was arrested...
Panel Lukewarm on Hepatitis C Screening for Baby Boomers
Label: HealthAn influential advisory committee has given only lukewarm support to a government recommendation that all baby boomers be tested for hepatitis C. In a draft opinion Monday, the United States Preventive Services Task Force said that clinicians may “consider offering” hepatitis C screening to adults born between 1945 and 1965. That falls short of the recommendation made in August by...
DealBook: Lehman Estate to Sell Archstone for $6.5 Billion
Label: BusinessIt was the deal that helped sink Lehman Brothers. Now, it will play an important role in paying off the failed investment bank’s creditors.The Lehman estate agreed on Monday to sell Archstone, a sprawling apartment complex company, to its two biggest real estate rivals — Equity Residential, a company run by the investor Samuel Zell, and AvalonBay Communities — for about $6.5 billion in cash and stock.The...
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