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Los Angeles school district officials have postponed plans to provide iPads to all teachers and administrators but still want to use the tablets for new standardized tests this spring. The scaled-back proposal was described by LA. schools Supt. John Deasy in a meeting Monday with Times reporters and editors. The Board of Education was set to vote on the next phase of a $l-billion effort to provide iPads to every student, teacher and school administrator in the nation's secondlargest school system. Forty-seven schools were part of an initial fall roll-out that ran into problems and fell behind schedule. The latest delay is not as much about logistics as about taking into account concerns of the school board and of a separate committee that oversees school bond spending, Deasy said. The…

TREATING Men as Objects It's staggering to think that it wasn't so long ago that online dating was at least seen as, if not actually the exclusive preserve of desperate, fat middle-aged men too shy to at least go and meet a woman in a bar or club. You only need to look back perhaps ten to fifteen years for that to have been the case, but between those days and the proliferation of Internet 2.0 and social media, we've come to take a radically different stance. Internet dating is very firmly chic now, with even the loveliest of lovely young things happy to embrace it. It doesn't even happen exclusively on dedicated dating sites, with our favorite social media platforms - such as Facebook and Twitter - also helping…

Artifact Jared Leto directs this documentary under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins, known to Dr. Seuss fans as one of his recurring characters. The film follows behind the scenes of the making of Leto’s band Thirty Seconds to Mars’album This Is War, as well as their fight with record label EMI. The film is picking up additional interest now with Leto’s costarring role in Dallas Buyer’s Club. FIVE FACTS: 1.30 Seconds to Mars discovered they were being sued by their label for $30 million for breach of contract just when they began shooting a documentary following the making of their third album. 2. The film won the People’s Choice Award for Documentary at the Toronto Film Festival. 3. Leto wasn’t looking to share such a personal story but realized they“had…

Even as Silicon Valley's technolog\ . companies speak out against the U.S. government's surveillance methods, they are turning a handsome profit by mining personal data and peering into people's online habits. The industry's profit machine has become", tarnished by revelations that the National Security Agency digs deep into the everyday lives of Web surfers. As a result, companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are becoming more aggressive in their attempts to counter any perception that they voluntarily give the government access to users' email and other sensitive information. Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, said in a blog post last week that the U.S. government's online surveillance efforts "threaten to seriously undermine confidence in the security and privacy of online communications." "Indeed, government snooping potentially now constitutes an "advanced…

"Mobile platforms are a new frontier for engaging with your favorite characters and worlds/' said Rick Phillips, SVP at Fox Digital Entertainment. "With more than a decade on the air, FAMILY GUY has built a world like no other with some of the most beloved characters in entertainment today. This game will bring the best of the FAMILY GUY experience to mobile gamers all over the world." The game will feature an all-new, original story influenced by the show's 212-episode catalogue as well as current events. "It's really fun!" said FAMILY GUY star Peter Griffin. "Plus, if you play it for more than three hours it counts as going outside!" In the game, players will be able to adventure throughout Quahog, recruiting (and sometimes confronting) their favorite FAMILY GUY characters…

There are apps for kids so young they've no idea what an app is. Still, even a one-year-old can savor an iPad storytelling session on Mom's lap while Grandma in Omaha joins them through an in-application video chat. And any threeyear-old can start learning her numbers by putting five fingers on the screen and magically conjuring up the cutest little animated numeral she's ever seen. With an endless cavalcade of new apps for the Apple iPad and its Android rivals, we decided to poke around for five great apps that could benefits kids aged from one to five years. With the help of pediatricians, app reviewers, schoolteachers and parents, we struck gold. FOR THE ONE-YEAR-OLD: Storytime (Kindoma; iOS, free). Mom creates an account on her iPad. So does Grandma or…

iOS #01 - Clumsy Ninja By NaturalMotion Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Skee Ball Arcade By Scopely - Top Free Apps and Games LLC Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Quizllp: The biggest trivia game in the world! By Plain Vanilla Corp Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Snapchat BySnapchat, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), iPad mini, iPod touch (4th gen), and…

A Mary Christmas iTunes Preview Genre: Holiday Released: Oct 15, 2013 12 Songs Price: $7.99 300 Ratings Mary J. Blige Mary J Blige takes on the holiday classics in her eleventh studio album. Despite a long career, it’s the first time for her to collaborate with producer David Foster, who she refers to as “a singer’s dream.” Mary doesn’t like it when “people take the nostalgia out of the classics.” She didn’t want to mess up with these classic holiday tunes. Joining her in her efforts are Barbra Streisand, Chris Botti, Jessie J, The Clark Sisters, and Marc Anthony. FIVE FACTS: 1. Mary explains that to her Christmas “is about love, joy, peace, respect, kindness, family, and great food - but mostly love and celebrating the birth of Christ.” 2.…

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A patent granted to Apple on Tuesday might be the latest sign that the tech giant is making a curved-screen i Phone, following in the footsteps of South Korean rivals Samsung and LG The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple the patent, which details a method for manufacturing curved touchscreens. Apple and other tech giants have countless patents that they never actually turn into products, but the latest one comes shortly after the release of the Samsung Galaxy Round and the LG G Flex, the first two consumer smartphones to feature curved displays. Recently, there was also a Bloomberg report that said Apple was developing smartphones with "glass that curves downward at the edges." There isn't a clear-cut benefit to curved touchscreens at this point, but LG boasts that…

iOS #01-Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Hatch By Impending Category: Games/ Price: $1.99 Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition ByMojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Backflip Madness By Gamesoul Studio Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Duck DynastyR: Battle of the Beards By A&E…

Sphero 2.0 Is All These Things and More How can a plastic ball about the size of a baseball be a robot? How can it be safe enough to be used as a child's toy? And how can this simple round ball be a video game? Because Sphero 2.0 is amazingly adaptable. It's so much more than it looks like from first glance. Sphero 2.0 may seem like just a simple plastic ball, but it's not. There are mechanisms inside it that make it sound like a small animal running around inside. When you pick it up you can feel the weight of the mechanisms moving around. It's these mechanisms used in conjunction with your iOS device that make it so versatile. If you've ever driven a radio-controlled helicopter or…

It takes a long time to recover from a bad hangover, especially when you party like it's 1999. The Nasdaq Composite is up 35 percent this year, but while other major indexes like the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 have celebrated all-time highs again and again, the Nasdaq remains 20 percent below its dot-com peak of 5,048.62. That's a good thing because the biggest beneficiary of the late 90s internet mania was also its biggest victim. After cresting on March 10, 2000, the index lost nearly 80 percent of its value over the next two years, touching bottom on Oct. 9, 2002 at 1,114.11. The DoW fell 27 percent over the same period, and the S&P 500 dropped 44 percent. Even as it soars faster than…