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Even before Tesla Motors named Texas as a finalist for its planned battery plant, local leaders began brainstorming ways to lure the Silicon Valley-based electric carmaker to San Antonio. The company announced on Wednesday that it is eyeing sites in Texas, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico for a so-called “Gigafactory” that would employ about 6,500 people. Tesla didn’t list cities that it had considered in each state but plans to break ground on the project - expected to cost as much as $5 billion - this year. The factory could start production in 2017. On Thursday, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry declined to comment on potentially ongoing negotiations” between the state and Tesla. But Mario Hernandez, president of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, confirmed that Tesla had submitted…

At an annual shareholders meeting Friday that was almost completely devoid of drama, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook still managed to stun the audience for a moment and bring the room to complete silence. Sitting on a chair onstage, holding an ¡Pad and some notes, about halfway through a Q&A session, Cook suddenly said something unthinkable for a company that never says a peep about its future plans: “And now I’m going to unveil some new products here onstage to show you what we’ve been working on.” The audience was stunned. Mouths hung open. People looked at one another, wondering the same thing: “Did he just say what I thought he said?” Then came the applause and cheers. Cook quickly brought it to a halt. “Of course, anyone who knows…

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We’re in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively ^ cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to remind you to floss. Basketball jerseys detect impending heart failure and call the ambulance for you. At least that’s the vision presented this past week at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain. The four-day conference highlighted what the tech industry has loosely termed “the Internet of things.” Some ofthat wisdom is already available or promised by the end of the year. Fitness devices from Sony and Samsung connect with your smartphones to provide digital records of your daily lives. French startup Cityzen Sciences has embedded fabric with…

And the winner for best tweet: Ellen DeGeneres, who struck social-media gold for the Oscars and sponsor Samsung with the best selfie of the night. The celebrity-filled selfie on a Samsung phone was the Twitter star of Oscar night. DeGeneres never mentioned Samsung, a major Oscars advertiser, but appeared to use the company’s Galaxy Note 3 for the selfie, which was actually taken by Bradley Cooper. It was epic product placement for the Apple competitor. Samsung, however, still has some mighty competition from the ¡Phone in becoming the smartphone to the stars. DeGeneres -- or at least her Twitter account -- tweeted backstage with an ¡Phone. The selfie now holds the record as the most popular tweet ever, making the picture worth every dollar Samsung spent on the sponsorship. DeGeneres’…

THAT SELFIE, A FALLING JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND ENDLESS GLORY On March 2, 2014, the leading lights of Hollywood convened at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California for the yearly bash celebrating the finest things in film... with, of course, a couple of formal accolades also being handed out. There was even a bit of history being made at this year’s ceremony, hosted with aplomb for the second time by Ellen DeGeneres. But more on that later... What about the headline figures? Who and which films were nominated for an award, and of those, who and which films were the ones to convert their nominations into victory? Certainly, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of great flicks to thrill Hollywood over the last year, as was clear for anyone who…

THE DEBATE RUMBLES ON Are you looking forward to the ¡Phone 6? We certainly are, not least as reports suggest that the Cupertino firm’s venerable handset could be set for a more significant overhaul than we have seen for many years. Whetting our appetites just in the last few days, for example, has been a concept video by ConceptsiPhone showing a smartphone much thinner than we have grown used to seeing from the Apple stable - a mere 6.1mm, in fact. What else interested us about the phone shown in the concept video? Well, there was also the Lightning 2 port, stereo sound, mini AUX and... oh yes. A 10MP camera with 4K video. Of all of the features that could possibly show up on the ¡Phone 6 - or…

12 Years a Slave The winner of no less than three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this Steve McQueen-directed historical drama film is an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s mid-19th century memoir of the same name. Co-produced by Brad Pitt, based on a John Ridley screenplay and starring Pitt alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender, the film tells the story of an African American man born free in New York State, but later kidnapped and sold into slavery. FIVE FACTS: 1. The sub-title of the original memoir by Northupwas Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana. 2. The memoir had been adapted previously, for the 1984 PBS television movie Solomon Northup’s…

Apple announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use i Phone in the car. CarPlay gives ¡Phone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor…

BEIJING - China’s government promised sweeping reforms Wednesday to promote sustainable growth in its slowing economy by opening statedominated industries to private investment, making its banks more market-oriented and encouraging consumer spending. In his first annual policy speech as China’s top economic official, Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will encourage competition, ease exchange rate controls and improve access to credit for productive businesses. Li’s pledges were in line with Communist Party plans issued in November that call for promoting market forces and domestic consumption to replace a model based on exports and investment that delivered three decades of explosive growth but has run out of steam. “We need to make sure the market plays a decisive role,” said Li in a nationally televised speech to China’s ceremonial legislature. He promised…

U.S. researchers say they’ve developed in Internet search engine specifically for schools designed to deliver content matched to a student’s learning level. The software created by two University of Alabama in Huntsville professors is being tested as a way to increase reading abilities in challenged students while helping motivate intellectual development in gifted students, the university reported Friday in a release. It uses a sophisticated algorithm to search websites for content and delivers free, customized and age-appropriate reading materials to a user’s computer, they said. “What we’re developing is a way to get through the nonsense and junk online and get to the learning material,” education Professor Philip Kovacs said. The software, dubbed the Complexity Engine, could also save schools money on textbooks, the researchers said, while offering a less…

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Gravity (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Steven Price With the acclaimed space drama Gravity collecting no less than seven awards on Oscars night - more than twice as many as its nearest competitor - what better way could there be to celebrate than by listening to the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Score? Perhaps such glory for the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack should have been seen as inevitable, given that it was written and conducted by the man who scored The World’s End, British composer Steven Price. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film features songs by the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Juaaka Lyberth, 922 and Charles Scott. 2. As well as an Oscar, the soundtrack won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and a Satellite Award for…

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Apple’s longtime Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire in September and he’ll be replaced by the company’s corporate controller. The announcement Tuesday comes one day after Goldman Sachs named Oppenheimer as one of its 13 board members. Oppenheimer, who has been CFO for the past decade, will begin transferring responsibilities to Luca Maestri in June. Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company knew Maestri would ultimately succeed Oppenheimer when it recruited him as corporate controller a year ago. Maestri has more than 25 years of experience in senior financial management. He has served as CFO at both Nokia Siemens Networks and Xerox. Oppenheimer joined Apple in 1996 as controller for the Americas.…