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Donald Trump blames Mexico and China for stealing millions of jobs from the United States. He might want to bash the robots instead. Despite the Republican presidential nominee’s charge that “we don’t make anything anymore,” manufacturing is still flourishing in America. Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work. America has lost more than 7 million factory jobs since manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. Yet American factory production, minus raw materials and some other costs, more than doubled over the same span to $1.91 trillion last year, according to the Commerce Department, which uses 2009 dollars to adjust for inflation. That’s a notch below the record set on the eve of the Great Recession in 2007. And…

New research suggests oil drilling decades ago may have triggered earthquakes in the Los Angeles region, including the 1933 quake that killed more than 100 people. If confirmed, it would be the first time oil operations have been linked to a deadly quake in the United States. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey combed through historical records and identified several quakes in the 1920s and 1930s that were potentially caused by industry activities, including the 1933 magnitude 6.4 jolt that struck the port city of Long Beach. Until now, “we pretty much assumed that earthquakes in the LA area are natural and that induced earthquakes are either not happening or not significant,” said USGS seismologist Sue Hough, who led the study. Drilling techniques have changed through the decades so the…

A REDESIGNED MACBOOK PRO TAKES CENTRE STAGE “The next thing we’d like to talk about is something dear to all of us at Apple, and that is the Mac.” As Apple CEO Tim Cook uttered these words at Apple’s media event on October 27, the feverish excitement among the audience was clearly audible. After all, Apple’s invite graphic for the event used the slogan “hello again”, surely an indicator that major changes were in store for the oldest of the Cupertino company’s current product lines. So, what did Apple go on to announce? A COMPUTER WITH CONSIDERABLE HISTORICAL INFLUENCE It was befitting that, before taking the veil off a single new Mac, Cook pointed out the huge influence that the Mac has exerted – both through the decades and in an…

A group calling itself “Shadow Brokers” says it’s releasing another tranche of information from its trove of top secret hacking data stolen from the U.S.’s National Security Agency. Shadow Brokers has been closely followed by intelligence watchers and cybersecurity specialists since the group released a set of NSA hacking tools into the wild in August, purportedly the opening act in an implausible money-raising stunt. The Intercept, an investigative publication with access to NSA material leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, confirmed Shadow Brokers’ tools were real by cross-referencing the leaked data with information held in a previously unpublished top secret manual. The authenticity of the latest batch of material could not immediately be established. The Shadow Brokers did not return messages seeking comment Monday. The NSA declined to comment.…

Terrible reviews and a seven-year gap since the previous installment helped extinguish “Inferno,” the third film in the “Da Vinci Code” franchise,” at the North American box office. The film, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, flopped with $14.9 million domestically, according to final box office figures Monday. That was well below the $46.1 million “Angels & Demons” opened with in 2009. Sony Pictures said this one, however, cost $75 million, about half the cost of the previous two films. The unexpected swoon for “Inferno” allowed Tyler Perry’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” to lead the box office for the second straight week. The Lionsgate release earned $17.2 million to bring its two-week total to $52.6 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday,…

As Indians awoke Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi’s worst season for air pollution began - with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says about a third of the 2 billion children in the world who are breathing toxic air live in northern India and neighboring countries, risking serious health effects including damage to their lungs, brains and other organs. Of that global total, 300 million kids are exposed to pollution levels more than six times higher than standards set by the World Health Organization, including 220 million in South Asia. For the Indian capital, the alarming numbers are hardly a surprise. New Delhi’s air pollution, among the world’s worst, spikes every winter because of the season’s weak winds and countless garbage fires…

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Whoever owns donaldtrumpsucks.com must really hate Donald Trump, right? Wrong! It’s the Donald himself. The same goes for no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen other web addresses that sound like they’re bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee, his business interests or his political aspirations. What would Trump want with such insulting domains? Easy. To make sure his critics and rivals can’t have them. He and his Trump Organization own more than 3,600 web addresses, according to the research firm DomainIQ. The vast majority bear the names of his properties, products and progeny. There are 274 domains alone featuring the name of Trump’s daughter Ivanka. And then there are the ones that seem better suited for the anti-Trump crowd: eight domains ending in “scheme,” eight ending in “fraud” and eight ending in…

When Doctor Strange was introduced into the Marvel comics in 1963, it was considered quite a departure from his wildly popular and comparatively conventional predecessors like Thor, Captain America and Spider-Man. Doctor Strange was psychedelic, hallucinogenic, weird and, most importantly, a bold step in a new and freeing direction for the comics. It’s not unlike the environment from which the new “Doctor Strange “ film, out Friday, is emerging. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the arrogant neurosurgeon turned mystical sorcerer, Disney, Marvel and everyone involved hopes that it’s as mind-bending and disruptive as the Steve Ditko-imagined comic was at the time. There have been 13 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date, but instead of going into autopilot for No. 14, “Doctor Strange” not only kicks the engine into hyper…

Apple isn’t the first to add GPS functionality to a smartwatch, but it’s the first to make something that feels like a running watch. And the company is doubling down on that with a Nike edition out Friday, while Nike is bringing features from its phone app directly to all models of Apple Watch. I’ve found devices without GPS typically awful at measuring how fast and how far I’m running. And those with GPS typically do little more than measure how fast and how far I’m running. The basics are great for casual runners, but anyone who becomes a serious runner needs much more. I’ve logged more than 400 miles over the past six weeks with the GPS edition of Apple Watch, known as Series 2. I’ve also run 34…

Political style yard-signs with the giant word “NO” over the image of a wind turbine pop up on roads leading into the southern Vermont town of Grafton, evidence that yet another community in the state is debating whether to become home to an industrial wind farm. But added to an already emotional debate in Grafton and neighboring Windham is the developer’s promise of direct payments to residents of the two towns if voters approve the project Nov. 8. Some are calling that offer, first made public this month, an outright bribe. The Vermont attorney general’s office has found nothing improper about the proposed payments and nothing that would violate state election laws, but the ruling has done little to quiet the critics. Representatives of the developer, Iberdrola Renewables, say the…

Microsoft says a newly discovered flaw in its Windows software was used by a hacking group that other researchers have linked to Russia’s government and computer intrusions at the Democratic National Committee. The flaw was detected by researchers at Google, who recently alerted software makers Microsoft and Adobe Systems about vulnerabilities in their programs. Adobe issued a fix for its software last week. Microsoft says it’s testing a patch and will release it next week. Microsoft acknowledged the problem Tuesday, saying only that it affected older versions of Windows and was used by a group called Strontium to target “a specific set of customers.” The security firm Crowdstrike and others have linked Strontium, also known as “Fancy Bear,” to recent attacks on government, media and political targets in several countries.…

Sausage Party Grocery items in a supermarket yearn to be picked and taken home by a customer, but when they realize that they will eventually be butchered and turned into meals, they plan an escape from their human captors. FIVE FACTS: 1. Seth Rogen attempted to pitch Sausage Party to different studios for eight years, with many studios turning it down due to its risqué content. 2. The uncensored trailer for Sausage Party was accidentally shown before a screening of the PG-rated Finding Dory in a California multiplex, which forgot to switch the adult trailers for child-friendly ones. 3. Puff Daddy was originally slated to lend his voice for one of the characters, but lost interest in the project when he learned that the film wasn’t going to be live-action.…

Get this haters: Miranda Sings has her own TV show on Netflix - and it’s appropriately titled, “Haters Back Off!” Miranda is the quirky, overly confident wannabe celebrity who wears red lipstick drawn outside her lips. She started uploading videos of herself on YouTube in 2008, and she unabashedly believes that she’s extremely talented and destined for stardom. The character of Miranda is played by 29-year-old actress and comedian Colleen Ballinger. Ballinger believes the original interest in Miranda came from viewers trying to figure out if she is a real person. “The videos were getting passed around because people were trying to figure out if I was a real person, if I was an actress,” Ballinger said in a recent interview. “They loved to hate me. ... I got a…

Rhode Island is suing Hewlett Packard Enterprise over a long-delayed project to build a new computer system for the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in state Superior Court seeks a temporary restraining order requiring the Palo Alto, California-based company to keep working on the project. It says the state has already paid more than $13 million for a DMV system that hasn’t been fully delivered. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo (ray-MAHN’- doh) says the company is unfairly demanding more money to complete an 8-year-old upgrade. She cites a 2013 pledge made by CEO Meg Whitman to get it done. HP Enterprise says it met its contractual obligations and tried to reach a resolution. The company was one of two formed last year by the breakup of Hewlett-Packard…

The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, and the former uniformed leader of the Air Force were viewed as “great leaders but weak on strategic thinking,” according to a Pentagon official detailed to the National Security Council. Stolen emails released by WikiLeaks on Sunday (30) revealed a March 30, 2015, email from Christopher Kirchhoff to top Clinton campaign aide John Podesta that offered stark opinions about the nation’s top military leaders. At the time President Barack Obama was considering which officer to nominate as Joint Chiefs chairman. In the hacked exchange, Kirchhoff uses his government email account to update Podesta on the pros and cons of the four finalists. Kirchhoff says Adm. James “Winnefeld is seen as the clearest thinker” but is “often too abrasive…

Viacom has named Robert Bakish as acting president and chief executive to succeed interim CEO Tom Dooley, who is leaving the media conglomerate. Bakish also takes on the new title of president and CEO of Viacom’s Global Entertainment Group. He joined Viacom in 1997 and takes the helm on Nov. 15. The New York company owns the Paramount Pictures movie studio and pay TV channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET. Earlier this year, longtime Viacom CEO Phillipe Dauman was pushed out following a legal battle with media mogul Sumner Redstone’s daughter, Shari Redstone, over control of the company. The fight ended with Shari Redstone as a Viacom director and president of National Amusements, which has a controlling stake in CBS and Viacom.…

Chinese authorities could freeze assets and take other actions against foreign hackers threatening the country’s infrastructure under a revised draft of a new cybersecurity law. The law has been submitted for its third and final reading by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua says the draft would allow police and other agencies to freeze assets and apply “other necessary punishment” against foreign hackers, while also requiring expanded security measures for industries including public communications, energy and finance. Monday’s report provided no details. The legislation is expected to be passed in the coming weeks. Cybersecurity has been a top source of friction between China and the United States, which both say they suffer hacking attacks originating from the other. Chinese…

Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1: Friends A$AP Mob A collection of new, smoky beats from the Harlem-based hip-hop collective, featuring A$AP Rocky, Nast and a range of big-name featuring artists like Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J. FIVE FACTS: 1. Although not a founding member, A$AP Rocky is one of the most successful members of the A$AP collective, finding great success with his debut mixtape, Live. Love. A$AP. 2. Among the investments made from Rocky’s $3 million record deal with RCA Records was an A$AP line of clothing. 3. Rocky has admitted an interest in taking on more acting roles, even though he finds the acting business to be boring. 4. A$AP actually stands for ‘Always Strive And Prosper. 5. According to Rocky, his music career started in his kitchen, when his…

Nations from around the world last Friday (28) reached an historic agreement to preserve an area of ocean near Antarctica that’s about twice the size of Texas. Here are some questions and answers about the deal: Q: WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT THE AREA? A: The marine protected area will be in the Ross Sea, considered to be one of the most pristine environments in the world. New Zealand officials say that at different times, the area is home to about one-third of the world’s Adelie penguins and 26 percent of the world’s emperor penguins. It also boasts thriving colonies of seabirds, seals and whales. Researchers say the region is important to study because it is almost untouched by humans, and should remain that way. Several countries fish in the region for…

Facebook and Twitter have months to improve their response to online hate speech in Germany or face legal measures, the country’s justice minister said Tuesday. Heiko Maas said checks show that social networking sites have a patchy record of deleting posts that are considered illegal in Germany. A two-month test conducted over the summer found that Facebook removed 46 percent of posts flagged by users, while Twitter removed just 1 percent. The figures increased to 91 percent for Facebook and 82 percent for Twitter when the companies were contacted directly or flagged by so-called privileged users. Maas said the checks will continue until March. “If it turns out that the removal rate remains so low, then we’ll take legislative measures,” he said. Twitter declined to respond directly to Maas’ comments,…

The next president of the United States will start with a huge following on Twitter but a clean slate of tweets. It’s all part of the peaceful transition of power in the social media age. The White House said Monday that Obama’s official @POTUS account will be taken over by the next president. Obama’s tweets will move over to a new handle, @POTUS44, maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration. Similar changes will take place with Obama’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, along with other Twitter accounts, including Michelle Obama’s @FLOTUS and Joe Biden’s @VP accounts. The White House said it has three goals for the digital transition: First, all the material published online during Obama’s presidency will be preserved with the National Archives and Records Administration, just as previous…