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PHILADELPHIA — Less than an hour before the 8 p.m. tipoff, Philadelphia 76ers employees are scurrying around the Wells Fargo Center, hoping this Saturday night unfolds as planned. It's late March, and the team is handing out Allen Iverson bobblehead dolls. Iverson himself is scheduled to attend, a rare public appearance for the 37-year-old former NBA superstar. He'll be introduced during a pregame ceremony and then watch the game from Sixers chief executive Adam Aron's suite.

URBANA, Ill. — A tiny new camera developed at an Illinois university is giving researchers a bug's eye view. The camera created by a research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is about the size of a penny and mimics insects' bulging eyes. It features 180 micro-lenses, giving it a panoramic field of view and the ability to focus simultaneously on objects at different depths. Team leader John Rogers is a professor of material science and chemistry and says he's been...

The documentary " Aroused " features interviews with 16 adult-film actresses, but it's not a story about pornography. That's according to photographer and filmmaker Deborah Anderson, who not only conducts the interviews and narrates the film, but also appears on camera, shooting the subjects for a new coffee-table book of nude portraiture. What's it about then? At least a third of this slight but mildly provocative film is about selling Anderson's book . There's lots of "making-of" footage showing Anderson as she coaxes the women into softening...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Police in Hagerstown say a speed camera contractor will refund more than $27,000 for about 800 speeding tickets because it failed to get its equipment inspected as often as state law requires. Police Chief Mark Holtzman said Wednesday that Brekford Corp. of Hanover will bear the full cost of the refunds. Holtzman says Brekford failed to get the radar units in three of its camera systems tested and certified every 12 months, as required. He says the units...

Ready for the evolution of the selfie? Vine announced it will support videos made using a smartphone's front-facing camera and that the Twitter-owned service will get a tad more social by allowing users to mention one another in their short video posts. The company announced the changes in a blog post , though the news spread more quickly thanks to a front-facing camera Vine post from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey . People can post up to six seconds of video using the app, which lets them switch between the rear- and...

Q: DEAR TIM: I need to do a camera inspection of a concealed space in my home. I know doctors use tiny inspection cameras to see inside a body. Are there inspection cameras made for homeowners? Can I use one to inspect my sewer pipe that clogs periodically? -- Lori L., Tampa, Fla. A: DEAR LORI: Several digital inspection cameras on the market can help you do exactly what you're describing. The technology has been around for several years. Plumbers use inspection cameras to assess the condition of sewer pipes, saving the expense...

THE CONVOLUTED explanations given by the correctional officers in charge of a Prince George's County inmate who died in June have taken another turn toward the implausible. The officers who rushed into the cell of 19-year-old inmate Ronnie L. White were required to record their actions with a hand-held video camera. But, according to confidential reports obtained by The Post, the camera did not record the officers as they entered the cell or in the minutes that followed. Only after Mr. White was removed on a stretcher did the camera start...

Robert C. Broughton, 91, a camera effects artist for Walt Disney productions who worked on almost every Disney motion picture from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937 to "The Black Hole" in 1979, died Jan. 19 at a nursing facility in Rochester, Minn. He had pneumonia. Mr. Broughton's job was to create spectacular effects in a subtle way, according to a profile on the Disney Legends Web site. By using color traveling matte composite cinematography, Broughton helped Dick Van Dyke dance with animated penguins in "Mary Poppins.

An Anne Arundel police officer assigned to a county high school has been suspended after authorities say he installed a hidden camera in a boy's bathroom. Police said a student found the camera on Wednesday in a top corner of the rest room at Glen Burnie High School on Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard. He told administrators that he felt "uncomfortable using the restroom as a result. " An investigation led to the officer, Anne Arundel County police said in a statement. They did not name...

Two visual styles emerge from the disasters in Japan. Flooding the Internet, arriving days after the massive earthquake and lethal tsunami, are immediate visions of horror, inundation, muck and destruction, filmed with a jerky, restless motion, with rapid shifts in focus and detail. A mix of morbid fascination and a strange sense of obligation — that it is our duty to watch— quickly send these videos viral, even as the story shifts to fear of nuclear meltdown and radiation leaks.

NEWARK, Del. — New Castle County police have arrested a Newark man they say hid a camera in the home of two female acquaintances and secretly recorded them. Twenty-seven-year-old Ryan Kalinowski was arrested this week and charged with two counts of violation of privacy. Police say one of the women called them on Monday and said she believed she was being recorded. Police say a second possible victim was identified. Officers say a camera had been hidden in the women's bedroom and bathroom.

NEW YORK — There's no business like small business. Mix the high stakes of running a small business with a dash of family drama and throw in a camera crew and you get hit reality television shows such as "Pawn Stars," ‘'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Duck Dynasty. " Turning small business owners into stars has become a winning formula for television producers, but some businesses featured in them are cashing in, too. Sales explode after just a few episodes air,...

The documentary " Aroused " features interviews with 16 adult-film actresses, but it's not a story about pornography. That's according to photographer and filmmaker Deborah Anderson, who not only conducts the interviews and narrates the film, but also appears on camera, shooting the subjects for a new coffee-table book of nude portraiture. What's it about then? At least a third of this slight but mildly provocative film is about selling Anderson's book . There's lots of "making-of" footage showing Anderson as she coaxes the...

Ready for the evolution of the selfie? Vine announced it will support videos made using a smartphone's front-facing camera and that the Twitter-owned service will get a tad more social by allowing users to mention one another in their short video posts. The company announced the changes in a blog post , though the news spread more quickly thanks to a front-facing camera Vine post from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey . People can post up to six seconds of video using the app, which lets them switch between...

The camera flash went off in front of 14 men and women assembled in a D.C. Superior Court jury box. Some of them had noticed flashes earlier, too, when they were gathered outside Judge Lynn Leibovitz's courtroom waiting to be called for jury service. So when it was time to be sworn in and listen to opening statements in a trial for a 2008 killing, the jurors instead told the judge they were afraid for their safety. The concern, they said, was that friends or relatives of the...

Bottom line:  Infiniti's M-class is an excellent line of midsize luxury automobiles (mostly with rear-wheel drive, the all-wheel-drive M37x and M56x being exceptions) for buyers who want to try something other than a German luxury sports car. But keep in mind that alternatives are often less satisfying than originals, especially if your definition of "prestige" includes "heritage" and "authenticity. " Head-turning quotient: It is as attractive as a well-muscled model, barely clad, strutting his or her stuff...

I was appalled that The Post called on the Supreme Court to allow its proceedings to be televised [ "Ready for its close-up," editorial, Nov. 27]. Is nothing sacred? The Post weakly argued that objections raised against televised proceedings, such as lawyers and justices playing to the camera, or security concerns for justices, amount to an argument against any journalistic coverage of the court. Nonsense. The presence of a journalist to write about the proceedings is no more obtrusive than that of other spectators in the courtroom.

A video camera that Prince George's County jail guards were required to use in June as they rushed into the cell of an unconscious inmate accused of killing a police officer failed to record the crucial minutes when the guards arrived and moved his body, according to confidential jail reports. The reports -- handwritten statements signed by guards, supervisors and jail nurses -- say the camera malfunctioned and did not capture the first five minutes when a team of guards entered Ronnie White's cell, began CPR and called 911. The camera...

Job interviews conducted via Skype, FaceTime or some other form of videoconferencing have become commonplace. So common, in fact, that when people prepare for a virtual interview they often fail to differentiate between it and the face-to-face interview. However, a virtual interview is very different from the traditional face-to-face interview. Knowing how to successfully communicate in this medium will set you apart from others. So who can help you nail your virtual interview?

In the increasingly mechanized war on Washington area speeders, a new weapon has emerged. Speed camera boxes — with sandbags inside. Laurel police this week installed two of the off-white, waist-high cubes on Main Street downtown and on Montgomery Street in front of Laurel Elementary School, hoping their mere presence would slow down fast drivers. The idea is that those who have ever received a $40 ticket from one of the city's six real speed cameras will see the "decoy" box and...