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By Stephen NellisCUPERTINO: Apple Inc on Monday announced it would more deeply integrate its software into the core driving systems of cars, while the iPhone maker rolled out a slew of features for payments and business collaboration and a pair of new laptops.The announcements at Apple's annual developer conference showed a company that was once an outsider working its way firmly into the mainstream of nearly every screen in day-to-day life.The company whose late 1990s turnaround meant branding itself for rebels and…

What’s new this week? How about a psychological horror film that’s so twisted it’s destined to divide audiences and have some viewers headed for the exits, along with a hilarious buddy comedy that confronts issues about racism in America. Both are worth checking out at theaters this week. On the tube, we recommend a fascinating PBS documentary on the bubonic plague in 1900s San Francisco. Here’s our weekly roundup. “Emergency”: All the buddy-comedy tropes typically associated with the stoner comedies of Seth Rogen and…

MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa is the author of the new book, “Syntax in the Treetops,” published today by the MIT Press. Credit: MIT Press. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT. If you are in Bucharest and impatiently waiting for, say, your children to head off to school in the morning, you might hear yourself saying something like, "Haideţi caţi întârziat, ce mai!" Or: "Obviously, you are late!"…