Is there any way to keep my kid from roaming around through the videos on my Kindle Fire HD tablet?Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets include built-in parental controls for restricting access to specific apps, functions and content on the device. On the Kindle Fire HD, swipe your finger down on the screen to get to the settings area and tap More. Tap Parental Controls and then tap the On button. Select...
IHT Rendezvous: Women Killed as 'Witches,' in Papua New Guinea, in 2013
Label: WorldBEIJING — “They’re going to cook the sanguma”, or witchcraft, “mama!”This terrifying cry by Papua New Guinean children opens “It’s 2013, and They’re Burning ‘Witches’,” a long and eloquent report in The Global Mail, an Australia-based online news site.It was published last week before news shot around the world on Tuesday that the police in Papua New Guinea, in another case, had charged two people...
Feb
18
Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling
Label: BusinessJim Wilson/The New York TimesCesar Miranda, left, and his brother, Edgar, working on their claw crane game in San Jose, Calif. SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager. At the moment these games...
Well: Health Effects of Smoking for Women
Label: HealthThe title of a recent report on smoking and health might well have paraphrased the popular ad campaign for Virginia Slims, introduced in 1968 by Philip Morris and aimed at young professional women: “You’ve come a long way, baby.”Today that slogan should include: “…toward a shorter life.” Ten years shorter, in fact.The new report is one of two rather shocking analyses of the hazards of smoking and...
Well: Health Effects of Smoking for Women
Label: LifestyleThe title of a recent report on smoking and health might well have paraphrased the popular ad campaign for Virginia Slims, introduced in 1968 by Philip Morris and aimed at young professional women: “You’ve come a long way, baby.”Today that slogan should include: “…toward a shorter life.” Ten years shorter, in fact.The new report is one of two rather shocking analyses of the hazards of smoking and...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Deleting Photos From the iPad
Label: TechnologyHow do I delete photos from the iPad? Some images have a trash can icon I can use to remove them, but others don’t.The iPad’s Photos app stores both the images you have added directly to the tablet (like pictures saved from e-mail, downloaded from the Web or taken with the iPad’s camera) and those you have copied over from the computer through iTunes. The steps for deleting the photos depend on how...
Armenians Vote in Closely Watched Ballot
Label: WorldMOSCOW — Armenians went to the polls on Monday in a presidential election that seemed certain to return President Serzh Sargsyan to office for a second five-year term, and to maintain stability in a country that has become an increasingly important, if uneasy, United States ally in monitoring Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr. Sargsyan, 58, a veteran politician, is generally viewed as having presided...
Feb
17
A First Step on Continent for Google on Use of Content
Label: BusinessPARIS — Publishers in France say they have struck an innovative agreement with Google on the use of their content online. Their counterparts elsewhere in Europe, however, say the French gave in too easily to the Internet giant. The deal was signed this month by President François Hollande of France and Eric E. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, who called it a breakthrough in...
Cuomo Bucks Tide With Bill to Lift Abortion Limits
Label: HealthALBANY — Bucking a trend in which states have been seeking to restrict abortion, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is putting the finishing touches on legislation that would guarantee women in New York the right to late-term abortions when their health is in danger or the fetus is not viable. Mr. Cuomo, seeking to deliver on a promise he made in his recent State of the State address, would rewrite a law...
Cuomo Bucks Tide With Bill to Lift Abortion Limits
Label: LifestyleALBANY — Bucking a trend in which states have been seeking to restrict abortion, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is putting the finishing touches on legislation that would guarantee women in New York the right to late-term abortions when their health is in danger or the fetus is not viable. Mr. Cuomo, seeking to deliver on a promise he made in his recent State of the State address, would rewrite a law...
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