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The uber-trendy Seoul neighborhood made famous by the “Gangnam Style” K-pop hit is known for status-conscious people, plastic surgery clinics and Ivy League prep schools. Now it’s making a name as a bustling center for tech startups. Many young South Koreans, some educated overseas, are going to Gangnam to start mobile or Internet businesses. Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and Japan are opening offices in the area to find promising Korean services or apps to bet their money on. Hardly a day passes in Gangnam without a meeting or event related to startup businesses. As one of the most wired places on earth, Seoul has been a crucible for several startup scenes. The government is even aiming to make a town south of Seoul a Korean Silicon Valley. But it…

Despite all their wealth and brainpower, technology companies realize they need help identifying and recruiting more women, blacks and Latinos who can write computer code, design websites and build mobile applications. Some of the entrepreneurs and activists eager to assist them showed up Wednesday at a diversity summit organized by longtime civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Push organization. They want to build on the momentum Jackson created this year when he got Silicon Valley leaders such as Google, Facebook and Apple to acknowledge that they haven’t been doing enough to make their workforces look more like the overall population. Here’s a look at a few catalysts for change: TECHNOLOGY DRILL SERGEANTS When Gregorio Rojas was interviewing people for engineering jobs at TMZ.com in Los Angeles, he was…

There are several fitness trackers to choose from, varying in what they measure and how easy they are to use. Here are five, ranked from budget to sophisticated, to give you a sense of the range available. By no means are these the only good offerings out there. The basic ones are going to feel more like bracelets the width of a bandage. The last two resemble watches and have larger displays for advanced features, including heart-rate tracking. But they also may feel big on smaller hands BUDGET TRACKER: JAWBONE UP MOVE ($50, OR $65 WITH WRISTBAND, FREE APP FOR iOS, ANDROID): This device feels cheap - because it is. The Move comes with a clip to attach to your waist, but you have to pay extra for a wristband,…

The Maze Runner Special effects artist Wes Ball makes an impressive debut as a director in this riveting adaptation of James Dashner’s dystopian young adult novel. Teenager Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) awakes to find himself trapped in a huge, continually changing maze with various other boys also unable to remember the outside world - making their attempts to escape all the more dangerous. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film will be the first of a wider series. 2. It has grossed $338,100,700 worldwide. 3. Principal photography took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 4. Other members of the cast include Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter and Ki Hong Lee. 5. A sequel, The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, is set for release next September. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles It may be the fifth…

CALIFORNIA GETS FUNDS FOR QUAKE WARNING SYSTEM California has received a spurt of federal funding to expand an earthquake warning system intended to provide enough time for trains to brake, utilities and factories to shut off gas lines, and people to dive under a table until the shaking stops. But the money is far short of what’s need to finish the job statewide. California trails Japan, Mexico and other earthquake-prone areas in developing a public alert system, which ideally would provide several seconds of warning after a fault ruptures. Scientists have tried to make the public alert system now in pilot stages more widely available, but money has been a problem. A joint statement Monday from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, said $5 million had…

A federal jury decided Tuesday that Apple didn’t compete unfairly when it sold music players and songs with copy-protection software that was incompatible with rival devices and music from competing online stores. The eight-member jury in U.S. District Court handed Apple a victory by rejecting a claim from attorneys for consumers and iPod resellers, who were seeking as much as $1 billion in a class-action lawsuit. The plaintiffs argued that Apple was able to overcharge consumers for iPods by making it difficult to switch to a rival music player, as music bought from Apple’s iTunes store wouldn’t work on other players, nor would music from other stores work on iPods. After just three hours of deliberation, the jury accepted Apple’s argument that the software provided necessary security protection and was…

The computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says affordable access to the Internet should be recognized as a human right, as a report showed that billions of people still cannot go online and government surveillance and censorship are increasing. Tim Berners-Lee said Thursday the Internet can help tackle inequality - but only if it comes with the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The Briton, who launched the Web in 1990, made the remarks as he released his World Wide Web Foundation’s latest report tracking the Internet’s global impact. The Web Index found that laws preventing mass online surveillance are weak or nonexistent in more than 84 percent of countries. It also said that almost 40 percent of surveyed countries were blocking sensitive online content to…

One of the “E.T.” Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian. Museum specialist Drew Robarge made the announcement Monday in a blog post. He included a photograph of the crinkled cartridge along with the official serial number assigned to the game by the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico. The game was one of hundreds recovered at the city’s landfill last spring as a team of documentary filmmakers investigated a decades-old urban legend that centered on Atari secretly dumping the cartridges. The “ET.” game had the reputation of being the worst game ever, and it contributed to the demise of the company. Robarge said the Smithsonian has some…

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Black Messiah D’Angelo & The Vanguard The neo-soul icon may not have released a studio album for 14 years - since 2000’s hugely critically acclaimed Voodoo - but this is one follow-up that has been more than worth the wait. Q-Tip and Kendra Foster are among the songwriting collaborators, with James Gadson, Pino Palladino and Questlove coproducing this most masterful of comebacks. FIVE FACTS: 1. Black Messiah was previously rumored to be titled James River. (theboombox.com/dangelo-studio-sessions-new-album/) 2. D’Angelo’s real name is Michael Eugene Archer. 3. His production and songwriting talents have drawn comparisons to his influences, Marvin Gaye and Prince. 4. He hails from Richmond, Virginia. 5. In the 1990s, he dated soul singer Angie Stone, with whom he has a son, Michael. The Pinkprint (Deluxe Version) Nicki Minaj The Queens rapper’s…

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THE FINANCIAL TIMES RECOGNIZES HIM EVEN IF TIME DOESN’T It has been a year of undoubted success for Apple CEO Tim Cook. Not only has 2014 seen a host of product and service launches and unveilings - including the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Pay and Apple Watch - that have put the tech giant’s critics in their place, but Cook also saw his company hit $700 billion market capitalization and, on a personal note, came out as gay. This year was also the one in which Apple completed its $3 billion purchase of Beats and lured Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to head up the firm’s retail channels. But was that enough to make him Time’s Person of the Year, after he was named among such nominees as Taylor…

DIRECTOR SIR PETER JACKSON LOOKS TO END ON A HIGH If there is one man other than J. R. R. Tolkien who is responsible for leaving us intimately acquainted with Middle-earth, it has to be the British director and producer, Sir Peter Jackson. As the main man behind The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003, followed by The Hobbit trilogy - the first movie of which was released in 2012 - it’ll be odd to see his association come to an end with the final installment, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The latest addition to the iconic series of epic fantasy adventure films based on Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit - and serving as George Lucas-style prequels to The Lord of the Rings…

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A Brazilian court says it has fined Google around $200,000 for refusing to intercept emails needed in a corruption investigation at state-run oil company Petrobras. The federal court in the southern state of Parana said in a statement Monday that Google eventually did share the emails with Brazilian police several months ago but had to pay the fine for initially refusing to comply with the judicial order. The Mountain View, California-based company had insisted it could only hand over the messages if the Brazilian and United States governments made a joint request. A spokeswoman for Google confirmed the company “obeys judicial orders in Brazil” but i declined to comment further. The emails in question were sent by a money changer under investigation in a money laundering scheme at Petrobras.…

When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were baffled. When word spread that the explosively popular new smartphone app Waze was sending many of those cars through their neighborhood in a quest to shave five minutes off a daily rush-hour commute, they were angry and ready to fight back. They would outsmart the app, some said, by using it to report phony car crashes and traffic jams on their streets that would keep the shortcut-seekers away Months later, the cars are still there, and the people are still mad. “The traffic is unbearable now You can’t even walk your dog,” said Paula Hamilton, who…