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Target buys Pa. shopping technology firm
Target Corp. has acquired a Pittsburgh company that says its software platform brings “an Amazon-like shopping experience” to ...
10 years ago
Facebook again tries to simplify privacy policy
One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy and explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion us ...
10 years ago
Startup working to turn hoverboards into reality
Skateboarding is going airborne soon with the first real commercially marketed hoverboard. The 90-pound Hendo Hoverboard allows us ...
10 years ago
Comcast opposes Obama plan to reclassify Internet service as public utility
President Barack Obama has jumped into the debate on network neutrality, siding with ...
10 years ago
ListenEarth watery from birth – A geological study of meteorites and asteroids indicates that surface water was here at ...
Air Date: November 11, 2014
Investigators wrap site work in spaceship crash
Federal investigators who have been in the Mojave Desert trying to find out why an experimental spaceship crashed are wrapping up their w ...
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Chinese spacecraft Change’e 5T1 launched last Wednesday, did a swing around the moon and is now on its way back t ...
Air Date: November 3, 2014
ListenRussians deliver space station cargo after US rocket explosion
Just hours after an American cargo run to the International Space Station ended in flames, a Russian supply ship has arrived at the stati ...
10 years ago
Preparing for the next hurricane requires making tough decisions
Two years after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, many of New Jersey’s coastal communities continue to struggle with reco ...
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Tricks on terra-firma, treats overhead
Halloween and cross-quarter day comes this Friday with a first quarter moon, followed by All Saints Day November ...
Air Date: October 28, 2014
ListenConsult your travel agent for 8/21/17 hotel special rates!
A partial solar eclipse will begin just as the sun is setting Thursday afternoon. Derrick offers tips for safe viewing. ...
Air Date: October 20, 2014
ListenBlinking red light means: Stop and look aloft
Mars and its red twin Antares cozy up to each other in the night sky. A small nearby galaxy intrigues astronomers focus ...
Air Date: October 14, 2014
ListenFAA, flight attendants square off over electronics
The nation’s largest flight attendants union is arguing that aviation officials flew in the face of a federal law last year when th ...
10 years ago
“Hey Joe – Where You Goin’ . . .” To Outer Space
ISSpresso anyone? Espresso supplier Lavazza has teamed up with an Italian engineering company to produce a zero-gravity ...
Air Date: October 6, 2014
ListenWhy do we drink tomato juice on planes?
Ever get the urge to drink a glass of tomato juice on a flight? You aren’t alone, and there’s a scientific explanation why. ...
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