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San Francisco Bay Area College Road Trip: Stanford University 09/22/2015 08:00pm • An estimated 13,000 bikes can be seen on Stanford University's campus each day, helping students stay active and manage their usually packed schedules at the private university near Palo Alto, one of the most selective undergraduate institutions in the country. Just over 5 percent of applicants ear How to Invest in Streaming Media 09/22/2015 08:00pm • You watch streaming media. Does that mean you should buy streaming media stocks? Consumer eyeballs are mesmerized by streaming video. And there's plenty of it to watch, produced by everyone from celebrities to the neighborhood geek. For the first half of 2015, YouTube consumption vaulted ahead by 5 strategies to make money when selling stuff online 09/22/2015 10:00am • One of the most tried-and-true strategies for starting a financial turnaround is the old "clean out your closet" method. Basically, you just go through the items in your closet, on your shelves and in other places where you've tucked things over the years and evaluate whether or not you want to hold Arab Universities Prep Physics Students for Business, Research 09/21/2015 08:00pm • How did the universe begin? What are the basic building blocks of matter? These are questions pondered not only by world-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking but young physics majors like Mounir Elgharabawy, an Egyptian who is pursuing his bachelor's at New York University Abu Dhabi in the How to Personalize Your Job-Search Communications 09/16/2015 08:00pm • The simple answer to "when do I need to personalize my job-search communications?" is always. The hard part is knowing what communications need to be personalized and how to make them so. Frankly, there's no excuse anymore for not addressing emails and cover letters to an actual person. Gone are t The Top 10 Networking Mistakes 09/15/2015 08:00pm • There is a right way and a wrong way to network. If you are one of those people who hate to network and view it as phony or pretentious, then you are doing it all wrong. Networking is not about building a mammoth list of contacts or passing out business cards like you're dealing poker. Networking 12 Tips to Outsmart Financial Spies 09/15/2015 08:00pm • People are scared of identity theft, and for good reason. If a bad guy gets his hands on your credit card information or Social Security number, he can set up accounts in your name, launder thousands of dollars and ruin your credit. It can take years -- and countless amounts of time and energy -- t Porn app secretly snaps photos of users, demands ransom 09/10/2015 10:21am • WASHINGTON -- A pornography app for Android is extorting money from users by secretly taking pictures of the person watching the nudity. The malicious app, called Adult Player, uses the front-facing camera to snap a photo of the user. The ransomware posts a warning message that locks the phone, u Possible cemetery site at planned fire station sparks controversy in Va. 09/07/2015 12:09pm • WASHINGTON — Prince William County is once again feeling the heat.  This time, it’s because the county wants to move another small cemetery, this one from the 1800s, to build a new firehouse. The county got lambasted by the community in 2013 after moving remains at an unmarked gravey Column: Tips for freeing up smartphone storage space 09/03/2015 04:52am • Q: There’s got to be a better way to keep me from constantly running out of room on my smartphone.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated! A: Storage on any electronic device is like a refrigerator; no matter how big it is, it always seems to fill up. Android users have much more flexibil Skateboard artists run riot in nation's capital 09/03/2015 03:04am • WASHINGTON — No, you're not imagining things. There are actually jazz musicians skateboarding at the Kennedy Center and film crews shooting skaters in your backyard swimming pool. Both efforts are coming to the surface this week in our nation's capital, thanks to a special two-week How to Use Facebook to Land a Job 09/01/2015 08:00pm • Last week, Facebook hit 1 billion users in a single day. That's one reason recruiters have turned to this network to share job leads and research candidates. It isn't just the volume of users that makes Facebook an attractive source of hiring and research -- it's also the fact that 70 percent of F Windows 10 privacy settings worth checking 09/01/2015 06:36am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's new Windows 10 system offers more personalization than before, but it also collects more data than people might be used to on PCs, from contacts and appointments to their physical location and even Wi-Fi passwords. The information is used by Cortana, Microsoft's Should You Trust Apps That Access Your Credit Card Information? 08/31/2015 08:00pm • Mobile payments are hot. In fact, Forrester Research predicts that U.S. mobile payments will reach $142 billion by 2019. At the same time, though, recent data hacks have made consumers increasingly aware of how vulnerable their personal and financial information really is. So, when it comes to smar 6 Travel Apps Every Globetrotter Needs 08/30/2015 08:00pm • For globetrotters, quenching wanderlust is a simple task thanks to the slew of travel apps at their disposal. With these tools, researching new destinations, checking reviews and comparing prices on the fly is easier (and more popular) than ever before. According to Statista, an online statistics p