NEW YORK (AP) — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. Internet-connected “smarts” are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. CES 2019, the gadget show opening Tuesday in Las Vegas, will […]
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'Decentralized Surveillance:' Home items are getting smarter and creepier
NEW YORK (AP) — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. Internet-connected “smarts” are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. CES 2019, the gadget show opening Tuesday in Las Vegas, will […]
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'Decentralized Surveillance:' Home items are getting smarter and creepier
NEW YORK (AP) — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. Internet-connected “smarts” are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. CES 2019, the gadget show opening Tuesday in Las Vegas, will […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Patricia Smith Ranzoni, poet laureate of Bucksport. THE SWAMP’S FROZEN SOLID By Patricia Smith Ranzoni But the raven yells to me all the more from atop the pointed evergreens. “What did you bring,” he wants to know. He and the eagle will vie […]
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It's time to try something different on Internet privacy
Since the dawn of the Internet, American regulators and companies have pursued two goals to protect our privacy: that people should be in control of their data and that companies should be transparent about what they do with our data. We can see these goals detailed in the privacy policies and terms of service that […]
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A dangerous intersection
It was interesting to read the article (Jan. 9) about Gail Shelley’s experience with her surveillance camera at the stop sign at the intersection of Park Avenue, Lake Street and Gamage Avenue. My husband and I began our married life in an apartment at the same corner. We were amazed at the number of accidents […]
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It's time for Congress to curb the powers of the president
NEW YORK — Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall, I am struck by the way in which, in one sense, Donald Trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze the government and perhaps even […]
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Right wing cranks up the hate machine
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Certainly, there is a sense of deja vu all over again as one watches the right wing hyperventilate over a certain freshman congresswoman from New York. The attacks on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been frequent and furious, but also petty, silly and (in the mental-health sense) hysterical. Just days ago, […]
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Bills need to be paid
Before Gov. Janet Mills approves expansion of Medicaid, she should find out if medical facilities accept patients on Medicaid. I found out that my dentist does not. Evidently, many dentists want payment before a procedure is done because they cannot rely on the state to pay the bill. Workers are needed to pay into the […]
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'Decentralized Surveillance:' Home items are getting smarter and creepier
NEW YORK (AP) — One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels. Internet-connected “smarts” are creeping into cars, refrigerators, thermostats, toys and just about everything else in your home. CES 2019, the gadget show opening Tuesday in Las Vegas, will […]