AT&T adds four markets to 4G LTE network

The full list of AT&T's 4G LTE markets (click to enlarge).(Credit:AT&T)AT&T announced today that it has added four new markets to its 4G LTE network.Now, customers in Albany, NY; Calhoun and Dalton, Ga.; and Norfolk-Virginia Beach, Va. will be able to experience the carrier's faster network speed.With these four new areas, this brings AT&T's total coverage to 141 markets, which includes...

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Meow! Claws out on Facebook Over Killer Cat Stats

"Good for them, go cats!""Sorry cats but you've gotta go.""Do you get paid to write this?"Well, nobody ever said cat lovers were mellow. But I was taken by surprise to see the number (and intensity) of comments on National Geographic's Facebook page and Daily News website after I wrote a story about a new study on the hunting habits of the domestic cat.To recap: Cats stand accused of killing...

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Boy Rescued in Ala. Standoff 'Laughing, Joking'

The 5-year-old boy held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama is in good spirits and apparently unharmed after being reunited with his family at a hospital, according to his family and law enforcement officials.The boy, identified only as Ethan, was rescued by the FBI Monday afternoon after they rushed the underground bunker where suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, was...

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Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind

Sumit Paul-Choudhury, editorFigurines from the Don river valley (Images: Kirstin Jennings)The world’s oldest portrait, the world’s first fully carved sculpture, the world's oldest ceramic figure, the world’s earliest puppet - there’s no shortage of superlatives in the new exhibition of art from the ice age at the British Museum in LondonBut focus too closely on the exhibits’ record-breaking ages...

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In video message, Malala says she's 'getting better'

LONDON: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, said she was "getting better day by day" in her first public statement released Monday.The 15-year-old said she had been given a "second life" to campaign for girls to have the right to go to school, in a video statement recorded before she underwent surgery to repair...

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The 404 1,201: Where REL comes out of the dungeon (podcast)

REL gets our attention with a press conference that exposes his role-playing days back in high school, but we should probably start today's 404 episode with a few words about how CBS squeezed a football game into the Beyonce concert last night. Justin Yu Justin Yu covers headphones and peripherals for CNET. When he's not wading through Web gulch or challenging colleagues to typing...

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Angry Birds? "Shy" Sparrows Show Aggression With Wings

In the hugely popular video game Angry Birds, frustrated victims of egg theft vent their wrath by turning themselves into living bombs and blowing up their piggie tormentors. Of course, the successively more difficult levels of the game make things a little more complicated than that, as the millions who've been hooked know all too well.Real-life birds don't have quite that kind of firepower,...

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Which Super Bowl Commercial Won the Night?

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Bug protects itself by turning its environment to gold

Mythical King Midas was ultimately doomed because everything he touched turned to gold. Now, the reverse has been found in bacteria that owe their survival to a natural Midas touch. Delftia acidovorans lives in sticky biofilms that...

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S-League go topless to promote 2013 season

SINGAPORE: Topless - that's how some S-League players were spotted at Orchard Road on Sunday.The bare-bodied manoeuvre was a publicity stunt for the 2013 S-League season, which kicks off later this month. The 10 players were not completely naked from the waist up though; their bodies were painted in their respective team strip.Joining them was S-League CEO Lim Chin, who was game enough...

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