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http://www.patentlymobile.com/2015/0...hic-icons.html

Samsung Invents a Future Smartphone that Could Project Holographic Icons

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http://www.wired.com/2015/08/welcome...-laser-cannon/

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/Welcome To The World, Drone-Killing Laser Cannon

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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...31-gjbppo.html

Police Taser drones authorised in US state

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2343186

NASA isolates 6 recruits in dome to simulate life on Mars

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http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/...wi-fi-network/

Massachusetts parents cite shaky science in lawsuit over Wi-Fi network

Claim their child is harmed due to "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-unveiled.html

World's first truly wireless headphones unveiled

Japanese electronics company Onkyo has announced the W800BT headphones, claiming they are the first with earbuds not connected by wires

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...ast-weeks.html

Apple files new patent for fuel cell battery that could last weeks

iPhone maker renews 2010 patent that would see an energy cell power a 'portable electronic device' likely to be a MacBook

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http://www.blicspy.com/2015/09/darpa...-that-can.html

DARPA Creates A Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel Objects

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http://www.cultofandroid.com/76101/s...s-under-water/

Sony warns users not to take ‘waterproof’ phones under water

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http://developer.sonymobile.com/2015...smarteyeglass/

Prescription lenses available for SmartEyeglass

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/we-need-...ets-1441737868

We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets

People can fight back against planned obsolescence by fixing the tech we already own, but the consumer electronics industry isn’t making it easy

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http://qz.com/501986/porsche-is-show...take-on-tesla/

Porsche is showing off an electric sports car that could take on Tesla

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http://www.morningticker.com/2015/09...rgy-discovery/

Scientists make huge hydrogen energy discovery

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http://www.morningticker.com/2015/06...female-viagra/

Experts shocked as FDA approves ‘female Viagra’

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...ml?icn=puff-11

Sex robots should be banned, say campaigners, as engineers look to add AI to sex toys

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http://insights.venturescanner.com/2...n-six-visuals/

The State of Artificial Intelligence in Six Visuals

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dis...line-anonymity

'Dissent,' a New Type of Security Tool, Could Markedly Improve Online Anonymity

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http://nypost.com/2015/09/15/apples-...free-internet/

Apple’s ad-blocking software could threaten free Internet

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...700181,00.html

Israeli mini-scanner tells what's in food, drink or pills

Start-up launches pocket molecular sensor that can tell you how many calories are in that burger, if that jacket is real leather, how ripe that tomato is, and more.

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http://www.usnews.com/news/world/art...ro-human-sperm

French startup, government lab claim development of in-vitro human sperm

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...-manned-flight

Why NASA is pushing back Orion's first manned flight

Astronauts will get their first spin in the new deep-space capsule by the spring of 2023, two years later than previously anticipated, NASA announced Wednesday.

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Apple customers report devices crashing on iOS 9 update

SAN FRANCISCO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A significant number of Apple Inc customers are reporting their mobile devices have crashed after attempting to upload the new iOS 9 operating system, the latest in a line of launch glitches for the tech giant.

Twitter and other social media were awash with disgruntled customers reporting two distinct faults, with one appearing to be linked specifically to older models of Apple iPhones and iPads.

"It is beyond inconvenient to not be able to use your phone for a day," said student Pip Cordi as staff in the Apple store in central Sydney looked at her phone on Friday. "I have a lot of apps that I use for school - things like language apps and dictionaries and that's all really important for my studies."

Another iPhone user, Zorry Coates, said she had spent three hours in the Apple store and had been left with the option of either returning her phone to factory settings - losing any non-backed-up data - or waiting until Apple technicians announced an update.

"They said they were aware of the problem and their engineers were working on it 24/7, but they couldn't tell me when - or how - I would get a solution," Zorry said.

"I'm very annoyed because it's wasted half my day. They pride themselves on being a company that's flawless."

Apple's headquarters in San Francisco did not respond to a request for comment late Thursday. An Apple spokesman in Sydney said the company had no comment.

Despite any troubles, significant numbers of iOS users had upgraded; more than 16 percent, according to Mixpanel, a San Francisco, California-based analytics company, as of 4 p.m. PDT (2300 GMT) Thursday.


Charlie Brown, a technology expert at Sydney-based Cybershack, said any number of dissatisfied customers was significant in the social media era, particularly following the troubled rollout of iOS 8. Apple released several further updates to iOS8, but some of the bugs were never fully fixed.

"The risk to Apple in terms of having dissatisfied customers is that as their customer base grows, so will the number of those dissatisfied customers," said Brown.

One group of users reported that iOS 9 upgrade would fail after several minutes, requiring them to start the process over. Many posted screen shots of the error message they received: "Software Update Failed".

That problem was likely caused by servers that were overloaded when too many people tried to download the upgrade simultaneously, tech analysts said.

"It's like the Black Friday thing," said Bob O'Donnell of Technalysis Research, referring to the major U.S. shopping sale day after Thanksgiving. "Some websites get creamed on the traffic on Black Friday."

Other users, many of them with older devices, reported their devices seizing up on a "swipe to upgrade" page. The latest upgrade had been deemed by Apple as "friendly" to the older devices after the iOS 8 problems.

"Apple were saying the downloading mechanism doesn't take as much space to download," said Sydney-based Graham McKay, an IT support specialist.

McKay and Brown said they always advised clients to wait several days before downloading any new upgrades from Apple, Google Inc or Microsoft Corp to make sure any glitches had been found and ironed out.

Metering the upgrade, or allowing users to upgrade in waves rather than all at once, would have been a smarter approach, O'Donnell said.

"It's a lot about setting expectations," he said.

Apple did this week delay the release of watch OS 2, its updated operating system for the Apple Watch after it discovered a bug in development.

(Additional reporting by Melissa Redman in SYDNEY; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...917-story.html

Can't believe your eyes? Scientists build tiny invisibility cloak

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/type-2-d...risk-of-death/

Type 2 diabetes pill cuts risk of death

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http://www.eweek.com/mobile/google-b...in-austin.html

Google Begins Pilot Tests of Autonomous Vehicles in Austin

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/tower-p...feet-air-hour/

This Tower Purifies a Million Cubic Feet of Air an Hour

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its an opinion-piece, but Ima share it anyways: http://www.computerworld.com/article...tealth-os.html

Windows 10, the stealth OS

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hey ppl, remember that movie Gattica?: http://www.nature.com/news/uk-scient...mbryos-1.18394

UK scientists apply for licence to edit genes in human embryos


Team from London's Francis Crick Institute wants permit to use CRISPR/Cas9 technology in basic research.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-10511433.html

Scientists release 'complete' tree of life which shows how 2.3 million species are related

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http://news.mit.edu/2015/3-d-printed...s-surgery-0917

Personalized heart models for surgical planning

New system from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers converts MRI scans into 3D-printed heart models (shown here).
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.

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http://makezine.com/2015/09/22/revie...er-the-form-2/

Review: Formlabs’ Brand New 3D Printer, the Form 2

Formlabs has been listening, and their latest 3D printer brings home much-wanted features

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http://www.ibtimes.com/nasa-shows-br...-video-2113925

NASA Shows Off BRUIE, The Drone That Will Look For Life On Europa, In New Arctic Video

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...r-on-internet/

GCHQ tried to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet”

Karma Police program profiled users, tracked "suspicious" Web searches worldwide.

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http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=41413.php

Exploring the structural basis for high-efficiency energy transfer in photosynthetic organisms

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...x-with-it.html

Buyers of robot that simulates emotions must agree not to have sex with it

The popular 'Pepper' robots are soon to be distributed worldwide. However, owners must agree not to do naughty things with them.

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http://www.eraofwisdom.org/us-milita...rough-terrain/

US Military Develops “Insect-like Legs” For Helicopters and Drones to Land on Rough Terrain

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/nat...ain/?tid=sm_tw

Thought process: Building an artificial brain

Paul Allen’s $500 million quest to dissect the mind and code a new one from scratch

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http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/f...t-free-energy/

Freevolt generates power from thin air

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...tion-backdoors

The 'Athens Affair' shows why we need encryption without backdoors

Revelations about the hack that allowed Greek politicians to be spied on in 2004 come at a time when the White House is set to announce its encryption policy

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http://fusion.net/story/204316/darpa...ldiers-brains/

DARPA is testing implanting chips in soldiers’ brains

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/thi...ext-and-speech

This Smart Glove Translates Sign Language to Text and Speech

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http://bgr.com/2015/09/30/photonic-memory-vs-ssd/

New memory chips use light to store and transmit data 100 times faster than SSD

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http://wtkr.com/2015/10/01/styrofoam...e-study-finds/

Styrofoam-eating mealworms might help reduce plastic waste, study finds

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http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/stories/...ally-any-virus

Researchers develop test to detect virtually any virus

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/1...0RW05C20151002

India announces plan to slow rate of greenhouse gas growth

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http://www.cnet.com/pictures/next-ge...n-pictures/10/

Zumwalt-class Navy ship: Next-gen destroyer is a high-tech marvel (pictures)

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0S00ZZ20151007

Nobel prize for solving puzzle of ghostly neutrino particles

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/sc...chemistry.html

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA Studies

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-pr...-set-for-2017/

First private moon mission set for 2017

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