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Stephen Shankland/CNET Instead of cutting off all old-style browser plug-ins at the end of 2014, Google has given a temporary break to people who rely on plug-ins that extend the abilities of its Chrome browser. The company is gradually banning plug-ins that hook into the browser using a mechanism called NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) that’s more than a …

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I let a bone

Snoozing with the DreamPad and a podcast. Amanda Kooser/CNET I have developed a bedtime habit of downloading all three hours of the Dan Patrick sports talk radio show, queuing it up on my iPad 2 and letting it play at low volume while I fall asleep. My husband, however, couldn’t care less about why the Bears are having a crummy …

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