There’s no time to wash away the smell of sour milk from the baby’s skin, so the mother wipes the dozing infant’s face with the filthy bib hanging from his neck. “WIC cares about me,” it reads, a ...

Computer-generated phone calls may be an effective, low-cost way to encourage sedentary adults to exercise, according to a recent study. What most surprised researchers was that the computer calls ...

''St-riiike! ... Inside of inside corners.'' Eric Byrnes sat behind the large monitor some 90 feet from home plate watching the screen as the computer told him exactly what to announce for the ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) -- "St-riike! ... And we're talking outside of outside corners." "Ball!" "St-riiike! ... Inside of inside corners." Eric Byrnes sat behind the large monitor some 90 feet from ...

A few days ago, I received a video call from my 6-year-old granddaughter. Confined to home like the rest of us, she had taken an iPad to her bedroom to call relatives and friends. That call lifted my ...

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Can you recommend any easy-to-use products for video calling? I live in a different state from my mother, who’s now 78, and would like to see her more often. But mom doesn’t have a computer or a ...

I’ve written before about how talking on the phone to a telemarketer or customer-service agent is often more like dealing with a computer than a human being. Even though the person on the other end is ...

You know what's absurd? When you're sitting at your computer, decide you want to text a friend, and abandon your full keyboard to send that text on your phone. Or how about when you're at your ...

Seth was weary of the calls from bogus Windows support technicians, and decided to, if not get even, at least give them a taste of their own medicine. “I was really tired [of the calls], and I really ...

The Department of Justice has issued a call for evidence as it examines the role of computer evidence in the criminal justice system to prevent another Post Office scandal. Computer evidence was used ...

Computer-generated phone calls may be an effective, low-cost way to encourage sedentary adults to exercise, according to a recent study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.