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...noticed a screen and window had been broken, and when he looked in, saw a white male inside," she said...
Best of all, the Prius dash boasts a large LCD screen that enables drivers to monitor gas consumption and see how much they have recharged the electric battery just by tooling around town. "It was so much fun looking at the screen because I felt like I was playing a computer game," Morrissey says. "But then I ran too many stop signs, so I had to turn...
Years before a hero appears on the big screen at a star-infested movie premiere, a writer sat down alone and started to write. This writer labored for months or years, creating the characters, tweaking the dialogue, researching the setting, lining up an agent—all in anticipation of the moment when the screenplay is sold and the writer is left behind, usually without any creative say over how the movie is changed and the script is rewritten. By the time the film premieres, the writer is usually forgotten—the anonymity of writers at the Academy Awards...
Once the firewall was up, I promptly forgot about it. By the end of the day, I hadn't got a single ping. So much for the great home-hacking threat. But the next morning there was a pop-up on my screen. A "remote procedure call" had come in overnight from an anonymous computer with an 11-digit IP address. The firewall blocked it. Since then, hardly a day has gone by without one and sometimes 10 or more attempts by outsiders to get into my hard drive...
...LIVING CALLER We love our cell phones (except when we hate them), but nobody likes squinting at those murky little gray-and-black screens. Now we don't have to. Sanyo's new SCP-5000 phone ($500, available only from Sprint PCS) is the first in the U.S. with a screen that displays colors--256 of them, to be exact. Download tiny digital photos of your pals, and when they call, the SCP-5000 will show you their smiling faces. It also surfs the Web, stores 500 phone numbers and 300 e-mail addresses, and plays an incomprehensible game called...