August 2013

Subjects: Mobile phones (36) Consumer electronics (84) Technology (842)   NEW YORK — Motorola’s new Moto X phone doesn’t cost more to make simply because it’s assembled in Texas, research firm IHS said Wednesday. The Moto X is the first smartphone to carry the “Made in the U.S.A.” designation. Labor costs are higher in […]

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NEW YORK — The poster boy for the movement that opposes a major increase in the minimum wage is a burger-flipping fraud. A Japanese “robotic chef” that was held up Thursday as a hassle-free alternative for restaurant owners sick of dealing with human line cooks would simply not be able to do the job, the […]

NEW YORK — The poster boy for the movement that opposes a major increase in the minimum wage is a burger-flipping fraud. A Japanese “robotic chef” that was held up Thursday as a hassle-free alternative for restaurant owners sick of dealing with human line cooks would simply not be able to do the job, the […]

Strong Turnout for – Rio Grande Sun

by admin on August 30, 2013

When Miguel Medina looks out over the field during practice, he can’t help but smile remembering when he first started as Española Valley football coach in 2012 and what he sees now. “When I first got here, we had eight kids show up,” Medina said. “Now, we got over 50 kids.” Recruiting freshmen and connecting […]

On 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad’s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly […]

SEOUL — More than six decades ago, a U.S. servicemember came home from the Korean War with a rare – and valuable – souvenir: a dollar bill-sized bronze plate lifted from one […]

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AP This Aug. 28, 2013, photo, shows a general view of Iran’s parliament in Tehran. See Also WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has concluded that nearly half of Iran’s monthly earnings from crude oil exports are accumulating in accounts overseas because of sanctions that restrict Tehran’s access to the money. The estimates, provided […]