By | Associated Press – Thu, Aug 23, 2012
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NEW APP: Facebook Inc. has updated its app for iPhones and iPads. Rather than add a slew of new features, the company rebuilt it to make it speedier and less clunky.
GONE: Facebook says programmers removed some lesser-used features, such as a way to view the app horizontally, to help speed it up.
SIGNIFICANCE: The mobile arena presents Facebook with its biggest challenge —and its biggest opportunity. That's where its user base is growing the most. But Facebook is still figuring out mobile ads.
As part of perhaps the most spectacular walk-of-shame ever, an underwear-clad lover escaped from a third floor bedroom as the returning husband confronted his cheating wife on a balcony.
Eight years after the debut of the Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced the Xbox One.
Nearly four months ago, Oklahoma Senators Tom Coburn and James Inhofe both voted against H.R.152, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act that eventually sent $50.5 billion in relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. And in the flurry of last night's devastation in Moore, Oklahoma. it was impossible not to forget that fact, knowing the federal government would soon rally to the cause.
Amid the devastation of Moore, Okla., TV viewers of a CBS affiliate were able to witness a woman's prayers answered.
It involved a stun gun.
A teenager from Saratoga, California took home one of the top prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair late last week after showing off her invention, which can fully charge a cell phone in 30 seconds or less. Eesha Khare was given the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 prize for being runner-up in the competition, which was won by a 19-year-old who unveiled a new spin on self-driving car technology. Khare’s battery technology requires a new component to be installed inside the phone battery itself, and Intel notes that it also has potential applications for car batteries.
(Corrects billion to million in fourth par) By Iain Rogers MADRID, May 21 (Reuters) - Florentino Perez's record as Real Madrid president was under scrutiny on Tuesday after the construction magnate's latest coaching project ended in disarray with the premature departure of Jose Mourinho. Perez, who is up for reelection next month, announced on Monday Mourinho would be leaving at the end of the season, three years before his contract expires. ...
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — State police in Maine say a body found in the woods likely is that of a 15-year-old girl last seen more than a week ago.
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