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A Closer Look: Your (online) life after death 09/18/2014 02:30am • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Sure, you have a lot to do today -- laundry, bills, dinner -- but it's never too early to start planning for your digital afterlife, the fate of your numerous online accounts once you shed this mortal coil.Facebook, Google, Twitter and other site Amazon debuts new e-readers, kid-friendly Fire 09/17/2014 10:10pm • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon keeps rolling out the devices.The largest U.S. e-commerce company is introducing two new e-readers and new styles of its Kindle Fire HD tablet as part of a fall lineup of Kindle devices. The new and updated devices come on the heels of Amazon Self-driving cars now need a permit in California 09/17/2014 04:42pm • JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Computer-driven cars have been testing their skills on California roads for more than four years -- but until now, the Department of Motor Vehicles wasn't sure just how many were rolling around.That changed Tuesday, when the agency required self- 5 spring trends from London Fashion Week 09/17/2014 03:28pm • SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- They came, they saw, and now they've jetted off to Milan for another round of catwalk shows.Fashion insiders got a taste of spring style trends at London Fashion Week. Here's a round-up of some of the hottest looks, from girly ballerina skirts to sporty san Alibaba risk: China's rise leaves out investors 09/17/2014 04:18am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- American investors are clamoring to buy a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is launching what may prove the biggest initial public stock offering ever.But history is stacked against them.China's explosive economic rise has delivered Alibaba risk: China's rise leaves out investors 09/17/2014 04:18am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- American investors are clamoring to buy a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is launching what may prove the biggest initial public stock offering ever.But history is stacked against them.China's explosive economic rise has delivered 8 Tacky Job Search Faux Pas 09/17/2014 12:00am • Get some class!There are good, bad and straight-up ugly ways to job search. The last route involves zero tact or self-awareness, and it often rubs both current and prospective employers the wrong way. Job seek with some grace. U.S. News asked career and etiquette experts to reveal tremendously tacky The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store 09/16/2014 04:30pm • The Associated Press App Store Official Charts for the week ending September 15, 2014:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Minecraft - Pocket Edition, Mojang2. Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon3. Goblin Sword, Eleftherios Christodoulatos4. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.5. Afterlight, Afterlight Collective, Inc6. Parking meters may be coming to Friendship Heights 09/16/2014 12:05pm • Curbside parking meters may be coming to three roads in the Friendship Heights section of Chevy Chase. Ken Hartman, Montgomery County government’s point person in Bethesda, outlined a preliminary plan for the meters along Wisconsin Avenue, Friendship Boulevard and Willard Avenue during a m Mixed-Use Development Coming To Grosvenor Metro Station 09/16/2014 11:00am • Metro on Monday selected a developer with a long list of local projects to build about 550 new units and ground-floor retail at its Grosvenor-Strathmore station in North Bethesda. Streetscape Partners, which built the Symphony Park at Strathmore townhomes just north of the station, won the bid to b 10 Major Changes to College Admissions in 30 Years 09/16/2014 12:00am • The Evolution of College Admissions Choosing the right school and applying to college may seem like a complicated process, but it's easier today than it was before U.S. News & World Report released the first Best Colleges rankings in 1983. Today, students can use the college rankings and Google Will Apple's digital wallet kill the card swipe? 09/15/2014 04:52pm • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple wants the plastic credit card to become as rare as the paper check.On Tuesday, the company announced Apple Pay, a digital payment system that lets people pay for retail store purchases using their phones rather than cash or credit cards. The s Hong Kong rethinks rules after Alibaba IPO loss 09/15/2014 11:36am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- Alibaba's choice of New York over Hong Kong for its blockbuster IPO was a blow for the Chinese financial center. Now, the city's stock market is starting to rethink rules that stopped it from accommodating the Chinese e-commerce giant's unique managem 23andMe CEO navigates health regulation 09/15/2014 07:30am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- No Silicon Valley company better embodies the promise and the pitfalls of working in health care than DNA testing firm 23andMe. Launched in 2006 to a flurry of media coverage, the Mountain View, California-based company seemed to have every strateg How to recognize and overcome vaginismus 09/15/2014 12:00am • Tasniya Sultana was beginning to think she was created, she says, "without a hole." The 23-year-old Baltimore native grew up in a traditional Muslim household where sex was never discussed, and even getting her period was a mystery. Sultana couldn't use tampons, and when her husband tried to p