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Casinos in several US states are forbidding gamblers from wearing Google Glass, the smart glasses capable of shooting photos, filming video and surfing the internet. Regulators said the gadgets could be used to cheat at card games. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has issued a directive ordering Atlantic City’s 12 casinos to ban […]

Sitting at her kitchen table, sipping green tea, Yoko Ono looks much the same as she did when I met her 20 years ago. Dressed in black and peering intently over tinted spectacles, her face bears little trace of the passing of time and her diminutive form exudes utter calmness. Having crossed the famous threshold […]

She launched her business two years ago, but Houston teenager Madison Robinson has yet to face something most new entrepreneurs do: rejection. Every store buyer she has approached has placed an order for her Fish Flops for Kids shoe brand. Robinson came up with the idea for her sea-creature-adorned flip-flops with battery-operated lights when she […]

Coca-Cola began bottling its famous soft drink in Myanmar on Tuesday as part of a planned five-year, $200 million investment after having no local production for more than 60 years. The company announced in a press release the ceremonial inauguration of its bottling plant in Hmawbi Township, a suburb of Yangon, the country’s biggest city, […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is donating nearly $US500 million in stock to a Silicon Valley charity with the aim of funding health and education issues. Zuckerberg donated 18 million Facebook shares, valued at $US498.8 million based on their Tuesday closing price. The beneficiary is the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a nonprofit that works […]

“Those jobs aren’t coming back.” That’s what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Barack Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider moving some of its manufacturing from China to the United States. Jobs’ successor, CEO Tim Cook, might have another response for Obama: Yes, we can. Though the metal edges […]

Japanese men hold their virtual girlfriends in high regard. Even among those who eventually find a real girlfriend and get married, there are some men who struggle to abandon their digital partner. Especially after the release of Love Plus, an addictive open-ended dating simulator for the Nintendo DS that went on to sell over 250,000 […]

The Chinese military has successfully landed a fighter jet on the Liaoning, China’s first seaworthy aircraft carrier, according to a report on Sunday by Xinhua, the state news agency. China Central Television showed video of the jet, the J-15, landing on the deck of the carrier, which was put into service in September after years […]

Exclusive location. Close to transport. Lots of room. Unique view. For once all those tired, old real estate cliches are accurate. Luo Baogen and his wife have refused to move out of their five-storey apartment block to make way for a highway in Wenling, in China’s Zhejiang province. So the apartment block now serves as […]

Coca-Cola (Japan) Co Ltd has unveiled new innovative energy-saving vending machines. The machines shift the use of power for cooling from the general daytime “peak demand period” to nighttime, when relatively less strain is placed on power supply. In summer, these machines can provide cooled products for 16 hours while reducing daytime power consumption by […]