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NASA, IBM Team For Worldwide Space App Hackathon

One team from the university hackathon came up with a creative idea for an alarm clock that adjusts your wake-up time automatically based on weather and traffic data. So if there were snow or ice forecast or an event that was causing traffic, the alarm ...

Capital Playbook: De Blasio's 2016 push; BerlinRosen's pull

It is that level of access that alarms government watchdogs. 'We have real COMING ATTRACTIONS -- “Staten Island Ferry to Add More Early Morning Trips,” by Times' Emma G. Fitzsimmons: “The Staten Island Ferry is a step closer to running every half ...

Sending Kris Bryant to minors a bad call by Cubs

Baseball has made some changes to try to speed up the game, but held off on implementing a pitch clock to fix what many observers view as the biggest drag. Here's a look at the hurlers in 2014 . Dellin Betances, RHP, Yankees — Cause for alarm at ...

Time to fire up smoke alarms

Commander of Community Safety and Resilience at the Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS), Greg Howard said smoke alarm batteries should be changed every year so they had the power needed to do their job. "When changing your clocks back it's traditionally ...

1st female 4-star admiral in line to run Navy

That's what people close to Adm. Michelle Howard, who visited San Diego this week, say about the first woman to hold the Navy's No. 2 job. But Howard's career has spanned a nearly four-decade sea change in how women can serve in uniform. Now she's ...

Thomas Piketty Calls Out Republican 'Hypocrisy' On Income Inequality

is the defining issue of our time,” Bush said in a speech last month. “More Americans are stuck at their income levels than ever before. It's very hard for people to go from the bottom rungs of the economy to the top or even the middle. This should ...

We Know Why You're Always Late

Chronically late people can be frustrating and baffling to anyone stuck waiting for them. One main explanation for their behavior is deceptively simple, psychologists say: People simply underestimate how long a task will take. That's a little-known ...