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  • Tech innovations that caught our eye at CES 2024

    January 11, 2024 - 4:24 PM

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week. The best of it aimed to solve big real-world problems. Some of it aimed to make your life more fun. And some of it was just a little out there.

  • What's streaming now: The Rolling Stones, John le Carré, 'Living for the Dead' and Harry Bosch

    October 20, 2023 - 11:04 AM

    A fresh Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary on spy novelist John le Carré and “Living for the Dead,” a new Hulu series that’s like “Queer Eye” meets “Ghost Hunters” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you

  • Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis

    September 26, 2022 - 10:57 AM

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. Statues and historic buildings are going dark. Bakers who can't afford to heat their ovens are talking about giving up, while fruit and vegetable growers face letting greenhouses stand idle.

  • TV show 'Johnson' takes glimpse into Black male perspective

    July 30, 2021 - 10:13 AM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deji LaRay remembered when television shows like “Sex in the City” and “Insecure” captured the essence of friendships among women, but then realized there was hardly any male-driven stories being told in the same manner.

  • Kitchens get smarter at CES tech show, not yet in many homes

    January 08, 2020 - 1:26 PM

    LAS VEGAS - Tell your refrigerator about your dietary preferences and it’ll concoct a recipe plan for the coming week, sending a shopping list to your smartphone when it notices you’ve run out of the right ingredients.

  • From closets to cooktops, tech aims to bring efficiency home

    March 06, 2019 - 10:10 AM

    LAS VEGAS - Closets that freshen clothes, cooktops that won't let pots boil over, faucets told to dispense just enough water to fill the coffee maker. Wherever one looked at the annual Design and Construction Week, there was a new way to make our lives more efficient.

  • Where's my robot lawn mower? Roomba-maker now has an answer

    January 30, 2019 - 6:06 AM

    BEDFORD, Mass. - Robot vacuums have now been around long enough that you might watch one bump around a living room and think, why isn't there a robot that could mow my lawn? Turns out, it's not for lack of trying.

  • CES 2019: TV set maker LG makes its sets disappear

    January 08, 2019 - 6:23 AM

    LAS VEGAS - The CES 2019 gadget show is revving up in Las Vegas. Here are the latest findings and observations from Associated Press reporters on the ground as technology's biggest trade event gets underway.

  • RIGHT AT HOME: Black walls make a quiet comeback

    January 02, 2019 - 7:34 AM

    There was a time when black walls were mostly the purview of goth teens and indie movie theatres. But the colour has been quietly cultivating a broader following among designers and homeowners who want a cozy, enveloping ambiance that's still got theatrical flair.

  • Autos overshadow the small gadgets at CES tech show in Vegas

    January 09, 2018 - 5:26 AM

    LAS VEGAS - The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely, automobiles.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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