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The new portable computers are handy chips off the old block Last summer, when Adam Osborne, former computer columnist turned entrepreneur, put his Osborne 1 computer on the market, small had never seemed so beautiful. Despite its graceless design—a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3—the 24-lb.
With its upcoming PSPgo, Sony is betting that you like “new and shiny” more than you like “money and savings.” That’s not to say that we dislike it. In fact, the PSPgo is attractive, playable and pleasingly compact.
A man using a metal detector in a rural English field has uncovered the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found — an “unprecedented” treasure that sheds new light on history, archaeologists said Thursday.
Federal, state and municipal agencies staged an elaborate drill in the waters off New York City on Tuesday to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear or dirty-bomb attack from the water. “We’re a big city, and there are vulnerabilities,” said Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department