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Hurricane Sandy Knocks Out Gawker and Other News Sites
By JENNA WORTHAM
As Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the resulting power failures knocked out several major Web sites, including Gawker and The Huffington Post.
Many of the wireless transmission towers knocked out by the hurricane are not expected back online for several days, the agency said.
Web site managers are learning that backup power generators should not be located where it floods.
As Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the resulting power failures knocked out several major Web sites, including Gawker and The Huffington Post.
Google.org, the company’s nonprofit arm, has published maps showing the storm’s danger zones, live video and evacuation routes and shelters.
The manufacturer of Apple products posted a sharp increase in quarterly net profit, lifted by the introduction of Apple’s new phone and tablet.
Losses ballooned to $8.7 billion for the second quarter as sales plunged in flat-panel TVs, laptops and other products, and restructuring costs were bigger than initially expected.
Norwegian Air Shuttle and Ink Publishing say the plan will finally thrust in-flight media more thoroughly into the digital era.
European newspaper and magazine publishers are pushing for legislation that would require search engines and aggregators to pay to access their content.
The lawyer representing a man claiming to own a substantial stake in Facebook withdrew from the case on Tuesday, just a day after he defended his client in an interview.
Watson, I.B.M.’s question-answering computer, will be a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Graham Weston’s decision to move the headquarters of Rackspace, a Web hosting company he co-founded, to a defunct shopping mall in San Antonio helped transform the site and the surrounding area.
Microsoft is incorporating advanced computing technologies into many of its products, allowing users to comb huge amounts of data and get suggestions based on their habits.
Dr. Neumann, an 80-year-old computer scientist at SRI International, is leading an effort to redesign computers and software from a “clean slate” to make them more secure.
Although most major automakers are working on self-driving systems, Google also has been pushing ahead with the technology.
Let’s devote one column to three big touch-screen products: the Barnes & Noble Nook HD, the iPad Mini and Windows Phone 8.
As the big storm bore down, Twitter got very busy and very, very serious.
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Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, notes a shift in Silicon Valley that goes beyond political contributions. - Damon Darlin
The gear that can get you through a disaster. - Damon Darlin
Of course someone has found a way to turn a jack-o-lantern into a Tetris video game. (video) - Joshua Brustein
.@Time hired five photojournalists to shoot the storm on their smartphones & then share on Instagram. Filters and all. - Nick Bilton
Each new Apple product makes the previous generation look old. How else could the company persuade people into replacing their perfectly fine iPhones, iPads and iPods year after year?
Microsoft’s Windows 8 has two different worlds, one designed primarily for touch screens, the other for mouse and keyboard.
See whether you can answer a series of popular mobile Google queries — without reaching for your phone.
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