Go, go, gadgets: Apple unveiled its latest products, including two new iPhones and a larger iPad, but most of the attention is on its new Apple TV box, which has been boosted to allow it to run games and other apps on your TV, just as your iPhone does. A new Apple TV box, of course, means a new remote.
App programmers, here’s your path to fortune: an app that tracks your remote and tells you whether its under a coach cushion or was carried off by the dog.
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The NFL season literally kicks off tonight at 5:30 on NBC on “Sunday Night Football.”
Yes, it’s Thursday, but NBC calls this “Sunday Night Football.” We didn’t realize that concussions were contagious and had spread to network executives.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1939, Canada declared war against Nazi Germany, entering World War II two years before the U.S.
It was one of the few occasions when the U.S. attempted to be more polite than Canada by telling its neighbor: “No, we insist, after you.”
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