ERIC RISBERG/AP Bill Parcells is triumphantly carried off field after Super Bowl win as Giants are crowned World Champs. The lingering question after Super Bowl XXI was not how did Phil Simms complete 22 of 25 passes but how in the heck did he end up with three incompletions. Simms turned in the greatest Super Bowl quarterback performance of all ...
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CES: 2014 Chevy Corvette can be equipped with racing camera, output game-like video footage
GoPro cameras have been around for a decade. Thousands are mounted on car dashboards to record breathtaking drives. Hundreds of journalists use them to spice up video reviews. One automaker is now on-board with the GoPro concept: Chevrolet will make a video Performance Data Recorder available on the Corvette Stingray when it goes on sale in September. The unpriced option ...
Read More »AMD finally launches the Kaveri APU, its most important chip launch in years
This launch has been a long time coming. AMD took the wraps off its Kaveri APU today, officially putting the chip on pre-order — for delivery in the next few weeks — and launching a few benchmark results to demonstrate its performance. We’ve written a great deal about Kaveri in the past, so I’ll mostly recap today. This is AMD’s ...
Read More »Novelist Gary Shteyngart’s troubled youth
Gary Shteyngart’s “Little Failure” Think author Gary Shteyngart is a big success? You must only know his novels. The critically acclaimed writer of the best sellers “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” “Absurdistan” and “Super Sad True Love Story” seems to have everything going for him. So why is his memoir called “Little Failure”? Because it’s not fiction, that’s why. Shteyngart, now ...
Read More »Scientists identify hormone that blocks marijuana buzz
Yellowj/Shutterstock.com A steroid hormone identified by French researchers could allow people to take medicinal cannabis without the behavioral effects, and could also help people addicted to marijuana, according to a study published in the journal Science. A naturally occurring hormone acts as spontaneous defense in the brain against the high caused by marijuana and could be useful in preventing addiction, ...
Read More »Camille Grammer obtains three-year restraining order against ex
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Race to Erase M Camille Grammer said the fight with Dimitri Charalambopoulos erupted after he received a phone message from another woman. Camille Grammer has won a three-year restraining order against the ex-boyfriend she claims beat and suffocated her in a Texas hotel room. A judge in Santa Monica, Calif., granted the extension Monday after Dimitri ...
Read More »Shotgun weddings decline as more couples skip the wedding, move in together & raise kids
Eric Gay/AP Amanda Leigh Pulte, 22, and boyfriend Matthew Gage, 29, with their daughter Zoey at their home in Austin. The couple lives together but isn’t married. WASHINGTON — No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America’s couples who become pregnant while dating. Soon-to-be-released government figures show a major cultural shift since the days of ...
Read More »Afghan girl wearing suicide vest detained at border
WATAN YAR/EPA An Afghan security official (left) sits next to an young alleged suicide bomber detained by the Afghan police officials in Helmand, Afghanistan, on Monday. An Afghan girl has been detained by police while wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan, according to reports. The child, believed to be the 8- to 10-year-old sister of a Taliban commander, was ...
Read More »Deron out of Nets lineup vs. Hawks with another sprained ankle
Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Here we go again: Deron Williams suffers his third sprained ankle of the season. Just when he started to find a rhythm and led the Nets to a couple of wins, Deron Williams went down with another ankle injury. The point guard missed Monday’s game against the Hawks with a left ankle sprain, according to Jason Kidd, ...
Read More »CES 2014: Qualcomm unveils new SoCs for the next big growth markets – TVs and cars
Qualcomm is kicking CES off with a brace of announcements targeting new markets for the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Snapdragon 602 is designed to drop into the vehicles of 2014 and beyond, while the Snapdragon 802 targets the next generation of smart TVs and 4K displays. This is part of Qualcomm’s own efforts to win space in the “Internet ...
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