Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Jupiter's Wild North Pole, Southern Auroras Photographed for 1st Time and other top stories.

  • Jupiter's Wild North Pole, Southern Auroras Photographed for 1st Time

    NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter’s north pole on Aug. 27, from a distance of 120,000 miles (195,000 kilometers). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS NASA's Juno spacecraft has beamed home the first-ever photos of Jupiter's north pole, and scientists can hardly believe their eyes. Juno captured the images on Aug. 27, when the probe skimmed just 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops during the first of three dozen close flybys of the solar system'..
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  • Google confirms the end of its modular Project Ara smartphone

    Google confirms the end of its modular Project Ara smartphone
    Google has confirmed reports saying its modular Project Ara smartphone project has been suspended. When asked about the status of Ara, a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat the phone would not be coming to market, despite the company saying as recently as May that an Ara phone would ship to developers this fall. The decision was reportedly made by Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh, who's been trying to streamline the company's seemingly disorganized product lineup. News of the suspension was..
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  • Daimler plans at least six electric car models: source

    Daimler plans at least six electric car models: source
    FRANKFURT German carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) plans to roll out at least six, and possibly as many as nine, electric car models as part of its push to compete with Tesla (TSLA.O) and Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) Audi, a person familiar with Daimler's plans told Reuters.The maker of Mercedes-Benz cars remains on track to unveil a new electric car at the Paris motor show next month. In July, the German carmaker said it had accelerated development of premium electric cars, a segment currently dominate..
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  • Android Circuit: Samsung's Note 7 Nightmare, How Apple Squashed Xiaomi, Galaxy S8's Killer Feature

    Android Circuit: Samsung's Note 7 Nightmare, How Apple Squashed Xiaomi, Galaxy S8's Killer Feature
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  • The weird, wild, and occasionally practical PC hardware of IFA 2016

    The weird, wild, and occasionally practical PC hardware of IFA 2016
    Not to be outdone, LG revealed a trio of its own ultrawide monitors at IFA. They might not rock quantum dots, but they’re rife with pretty much every other feature you can think of. (And crappy names.)The $1,500 38UC99 packs a mammoth 38-inch, curved IPS screen with a 3840x1600 resolution and a wide color gamut covering 99 percent of the sRGB color space. This beast is built for image and video editors, in other words, and it includes niceties like integrated speakers with enhanced bass and a ..
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  • I wanted to quit Battlefield games forever until I played Battlefield 1

    I wanted to quit Battlefield games forever until I played Battlefield 1
    Until I played the open beta for Battlefield 1 this week, I thought I was done with the series. And that was a pretty disappointing feeling, since I've played every game in it from 1942 all the way to Battlefield 4 — all in, I'm talking about thousands of hours spent capturing Wake Island, doing flips in helicopters, trolling teammates with vehicle stunts, and all kinds of other things you can only do and see in Battlefield games. But somewhere along the line, I got tired of Battlefield games —..
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  • Climate pact: After years of talk, focus shifts to action

    Climate pact: After years of talk, focus shifts to action
    Eight months after 195 nations concluded a hard-fought climate rescue pact, pressure is mounting to put its carbon-cutting promises into action as world leaders gather at G20 and UN meetings this month. The historic deal reached in Paris in December ...
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  • That Really Scary iOS Security Flaw Also Affects Your Mac

    That Really Scary iOS Security Flaw Also Affects Your Mac
    The same security flaw that could have allowed hackers to steal your iPhone data without you knowing it also exists on the Mac. On Thursday, Apple released a patch for a security flaw that would allow hackers to exploit flaws in its OS X desktop operating system, install spyware on the computer, and steal all kinds of data. The flaws Apple AAPL patches are the same it fixed in iOS 9.3.5 last week. In a security note, Apple was loath to say much, stipulating—as it does with all security u..
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  • Trending in Apple What to expect at Apple's iPhone 7 & Apple Watch 2 event next week

    Trending in Apple What to expect at Apple's iPhone 7 & Apple Watch 2 event next week
    Now less than a week away from Apple’s ‘See you on the 7th’ iPhone 7 event, there’s a lot we know about the device and other product announcements Apple has planned for next week. A dual-camera system for iPhone, a new and improved Apple Watch 2 with GPS, new wireless headphones, and much more. Here’s what we expect to see at Apple’s iPhone event next week… iPhone 7 & 7 Plus | Same design. iPhone 7 will mostly be the same physical design as iPhone 6s apart from repositioned antenna lines. As..
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