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Apple had more than 4 million advance orders of its new, larger !Phones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply, the company said Monday. The !Phone 6 and !Phone 6 Plus will be delivered to customers starting Friday and throughout September, but many won't be delivered until October, Apple said. Phones will still be available Friday on a walk-in basis at Apple retail stores and from various wireless carriers and authorized Apple resellers. Apple's website had intermittent outages last Friday because of heavy traffic as orders began online. The company said the 4 million orders set a new 24-hour record, beating the 2 million orders in 2012. That was for the !Phone 5, the previous time Apple increased the !Phone's screen size. Last year, Apple sold 9 million…

Vermont's largest city has a new success to add to its list of socially conscious achievements: 100 percent of its electricity now comes from renewable sources such as wind, water and biomass. With little fanfare, the Burlington Electric Department crossed the threshold this month with the purchase of the 7.4-megawatt Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River at the city's edge. When it did, Burlington joined the Washington Electric Co-operative, which has about 11,000 customers across central and northern Vermont, which reached 100 percent earlier this year. "It shows that we're able to do it, and we're able to do it cost effectively in a way that makes Vermonters really positioned well for the future," said Christopher Recchia, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service. It's part…

Computer-driven cars have been testing their skills on California roads for more than four years -but until now, the Department of Motor Vehicles wasn't sure just how many were rolling around. That changed Tuesday, when the agency required self-driving cars to be registered and issued testing permits that let three companies dispatch 29 vehicles onto freeways and into neighborhoods - with a human behind the wheel in case the onboard equipment makes a bad decision. These may be the cars of the future, but for now they represent a tiny fraction of California's approximately 32 million registered vehicles. Google's souped-up Lexus SUVs are the biggest fleet, with 25 vehicles. Mercedes and the Volkswagen Group of America have two vehicles each, said Bernard Soriano, the DMV official overseeing the state's "autonomous…

Think Like a Man Too All of the couples from the first film Think Like a Man, based on Steve Harvey's book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, return for a wedding in Las Vegas - a simple romantic occasion, one might have thought. The big event risks being derailed, however, by the stars' various misadventures that get them into some compromising situations. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film is directed by Tim Story, another returnee from the previous film. 2. Cast members include Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall and Taraji P. Henson. 3. The movie grossed $69,399,336 worldwide. 4. Much of the film was shot in actual locations in Las Vegas, including hotel rooms, club scenes, the strip joint and the jailhouse. 5. According to…

Some iPhone users are not happy that U2's new album, "Songs of Innocence/' was automatically added to their !Tunes music library free of charge. In response, Apple has released a special tool that lets people remove the album from their collections. U2 played at an Apple event last week that included the unveiling of the iPhone maker's new smartwatch and updated iPhone models. In a surprise move, the Irish rock band performed at the event and put out its 11-song release. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the new album would be given to the company's 500 million !Tunes users. The release showed up in users' !Tunes music libraries. The company said Monday that 33 million !Tunes account holders have accessed the free album. But some !Tunes users took to…

The calls to 911 raised an instant alarm: One caller said he shot his co-workers at a Colorado video game company and had hostages. Another in Florida said her father was drunk, wielding a machine gun and threatening their family. A third calieron New York's Long Island claimed to have killed his mother and threatened to shoot first responders. In each case, SWAT teams dispatched to the scene found no violent criminals or wounded victims - only video game players sitting at their computers, the startled victims of a hoax known as "swatting." Authorities say the hoax that initially targeted celebrities has now become a way for players of combat-themed video games to retaliate against opponents while thousands of spectators watch. The perpetrators can watch their hijinks unfold minute by…

Apple wants the plastic credit card to become as rare as the paper check. On Tuesday, the company announced Apple Pay a digital payment system that lets people pay for retail store purchases using their phones rather than cash or credit cards. The service, which will work both with iPhones and Apple's new Watch, is backed by a host of big retailers, along with most major banks and credit card issuers, including Visa, MasterCard and American Express. So-called contactless payment isn't new. Starbucks, McDonald's, PayPal, Google and Square offer their own services, but only a small portion of customers use them. Some experts believe Apple Pay-with its presence on millions of iPhones and its advanced security features- could be the service that leads to widespread adoption of the digital wallet.…

ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON You might have thought that any family film aims to be charming, but it's difficult to think of a family-friendly flick in recent years that has quite so widely enchanted people as Dolphin Tale. The 2011 film, directed by Charles Martin Smith and starring Nathan Gamble, Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and Morgan Freeman, was inspired by an actual bottlenose dolphin called Winter. Winter was born in 2005, resides at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is instantly identifiable by the lack of her original tail, which she lost due to its entanglement with a rope attached to a crab trap. The incident means that she is now fitted with a prosthetic tail in order to swim naturally. The dramatization of…

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Songs of Innocence U2 If there's any release that truly redefines the "surprise album", it's iconic Dublin rockers U2's latest effort, which was made digitally available for free to all iTunes Store customers at the recent Apple keynote event, where it was also announced. As the title suggests, the music itself concerns the group members' youth in Ireland. FIVE FACTS: 1. Apple CEO Tim Cook has described Songs of Innocence as "the largest album release of all time". 2. Bono has called it "the most personal album we've written". 3. Production talents represented on the album include Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney and Flood. 4. Bono has also said: "We're collaborating with Apple on some cool stuff over the next couple of years, innovations that will transform…

Microsoft's decision to spend $2.5 billion for the creator of the hit game "Minecraft" could help the Xbox maker grab attention on mobile phones, a new priority for the company. But the move carries risks, as gamers can be fickle. Although the Lego-like multiplayer game is currently the top paid app for the !Phone and Android devices in the U.S., today's popular hit could be tomorrow's dud. The maker of the much obsessed-over "Candy Crush Saga," for example, rode the game's popularity to go public this year, only to see its stock falter. In addition, the founders of Mojang, the Swedish company behind "Minecraft," aren't staying with Microsoft. That could raise questions about Mojang's ability to create another big hit. Then again, a big hit was not what co-founder Markus…

OUR COMPLETE LOOK AT THE NEW HANDSETS Were you watching the Apple keynote on Tuesday, September 9 when the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus broke cover? If not, why weren't you? After all, it was only one of the most significant events in Apple's history, and certainly the most important major launch since the 2007 emergence of the original iteration of the iconic handset. It was all the more befitting, therefore, that the keynote took place at Cupertino's Flint Center for the Performing Arts, where the late Steve Jobs took the wraps off the first Macintosh in January 1984. But of course, Jobs would have also appreciated as well as anyone that his company could never live in the past, and his baby - now passed into the hands…

Taking a cue from an American TV program, the Chinese city of Chongqing has created a smartphone sidewalk lane, offering a path for those too engrossed in messaging and tweeting to watch where they're going. But the property manager says it's intended to be ironic - to remind people that it's dangerous to tweet while walking the street. "There are lots of elderly people and children in our street, and walking with your cellphone may cause unnecessary collisions here," said Nong Cheng, the marketing official with Meixin Group, which manages the area in the city's entertainment zone. Meixin has marked a 50-meter (165-foot) stretch of pavement with two lanes: one that prohibits cellphone use next to one that allows pedestrians to use them - at their "own risk." Nong said…

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When John Travolta shocked theater fans by mangling the pronunciation of Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars, one person saw a gift in the slip - Damian Bazadona. Bazadona, the president and founder of the advertising and marketing firm Situation Interactive, had been hired by Menzel's new show "If/Then" to create some buzz and here it came, one horrible syllable after another. Bazadona and his team, already assembled in a conference room on Oscar night, instantly won the Internet by creating a graphic - "We Know Her Name - it's Idina Menzel" - and posting it on Facebook and Twitter, along with videos and content. People went nuts. "If/Then" got invaluable exposure. It was a master stroke from Bazadona, whose business stands at the intersection of technology and live events.…

NASA is a giant step closer to launching Americans again from U.S. soil. On Tuesday the space agency picked Boeing and SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station in the next few years. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named the winners of the competition at Kennedy Space Center, next door to where the launches should occur in a few years. The wall behind him was emblazoned with the words "Launch America" and "Commercial crew transportation/The mission is in sight." "I want you to look behind me" Bolden said, pointing both thumbs to the big, bright logos. "I'm giddy today, I will admit." The deal will end NASA's expensive reliance on Russia to ferry astronauts to and from the space station. NASA has set a goal of 2017 for the…