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Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone?
Gizmodo - 6 Sep 2014 21:28
Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone? Motorola will give you up to $300 on a cash card when you trade in your old smartphone. Hypothetically, that means you could buy a subsidized Moto and make money, if you...
FBI says it located the Silk Road by exploiting an error with the server's login page
Engadget - 6 Sep 2014 05:52Watch the clouds run away from this volcano eruption
Gizmodo - 6 Sep 2014 04:02
Here's a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What's cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the peop...
You Need 3D Glasses to Fully Experience These Clothes
Mashable - 6 Sep 2014 00:38
NEW YORK, New York — American fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff debuted garments that featured stereoscopic 3D fabric Friday at New York Fashion Week. Show attendees were each provided a pair of 3D glasses to view the f...
Imagining a Marc Newson iWatch
Slash Gear - 6 Sep 2014 04:01
Earlier today, it was revealed that none other than industrial designer Marc Newson was added to Apple design head Jony Ive's design team. The most under-wraps design project at Apple today is the iWatch - the most secre...
Space Station Defies Humans, Launches Satellites Without Permission
Gizmodo - 6 Sep 2014 21:00
The International Space Station has a cannon that launches tiny CubeSat microsatellites into orbit. Most of the time, those launches are triggered by human scientists on board or back on Earth. But this week, the ISS lau...
U.S. Launches Ebola Vaccine Trial
MedicineNet - 6 Sep 2014 09:00
Title: U.S. Launches Ebola Vaccine TrialCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/4/2014 12:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 9/5/2014 12:00:00 AM
Third U.S. Aid Worker Infected With Ebola Arrives in Nebraska
MedicineNet - 6 Sep 2014 09:00
Title: Third U.S. Aid Worker Infected With Ebola Arrives in NebraskaCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/5/2014 9:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 9/5/2014 12:00:00 AM
Keytruda Approved for Advanced Melanoma
MedicineNet - 6 Sep 2014 09:00
Title: Keytruda Approved for Advanced MelanomaCategory: Health NewsCreated: 9/4/2014 5:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 9/5/2014 12:00:00 AM
Western Digital launches My Passport Wireless hard drive with built-in SD card reader
DP Review - 6 Sep 2014 07:01
Western Digital has launched a new wireless-enabled hard drive that uniquely features a built-in SD card reader. The My Passport Wireless might be coming to the market after other wireless options like the LaCie Fuel dri...
ALS Wikipedia Page Views Up 18-Fold Since Ice Bucket Challenge
Mashable - 6 Sep 2014 06:15
The Ice Bucket Challenge, which has dominated Facebook News Feeds with videos of people dumping ice water on themselves in support of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, has raised more than $100 million for th...
Alibaba's US IPO Could Top $20 Billion
Slashdot - 6 Sep 2014 06:03
mpicpp writes with a snippet from Businessweek: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is seeking to raise as much as $21.1 billion in its initial public offering, in what could be the largest sale of new stock in the U.S. ever. The...
Hawaii Volcano Flow Could Hit Rural Area in About a Week
Mashable - 6 Sep 2014 05:40
If the lava flow from Kilauea, the world's most active volcano, continues on its path, it could impact a rural subdivision on Hawaii's Big Island in about a week, scientists warn As it moves through a thick forest, the f...
Facebook Zuckerberg bets on WhatsApp reaching nearly half the world population: How scary!
Tech Times - 6 Sep 2014 05:30
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network's acquisition will allow WhatsApp to increase its number of users to as much as three billion, aided by the company's Internet.org initiative.
Marc Newson to Join Apple's design team
The Loop - 6 Sep 2014 05:28
Vanity Fair: Designer Marc Newson is joining Apple as part of senior vice president of design Jonathan Ive's team, the company told VF Daily on Friday. Newson, who will continue to be based in the United Kingdom, will be...
MAVEN Mars Orbiter Ideally Poised to Uniquely Map Comet Siding Spring Composition - Exclusive Interview with Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky
Universe Today - 6 Sep 2014 04:43
NASA's MAVEN Mars Orbiter is "ideally" instrumented to uniquely "map the composition of Comet Siding Spring" in great detail when it streaks past the Red Planet during an extremely close flyby on Oct. 19, 2014 – thereb...
Apple Again Dominating Shipping Capacity Out of China Ahead of iPhone 6 Launch
Mac Rumors - 6 Sep 2014 04:42
As Apple prepares to unveil the iPhone 6 and its much-rumored iWatch at its September 9 event, TechCrunch reports that the Cupertino company has once again booked a high amount of shipping space out of China. The company...
Toshiba Encore Mini 7 may ignite battle for budget-conscious tablet users
Tech Times - 6 Sep 2014 03:46
Toshiba announced a number of new products, including the Encore Mini 7 tablet. This is one of the cheapest Windows 8.1 tablets on the market and should cause new tablet buyers to think twice before buying something else...
The ulterior motive behind Facebook's new privacy feature
Tech Times - 6 Sep 2014 03:46
Facebook offers users a privacy checkup and moves to protect those new to the site from unwittingly sharing personal information with the world. With users more confident in their posts' visibility, Facebook's new featur...
Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola
Slashdot - 6 Sep 2014 03:09
The Associated Press reports (here, as carried by the Washington Times) that The White House is asking Congress for $58 million above current levels to speed the production of promising drugs to fight Ebola and additiona...
Is this a working iPhone 6?
Slash Gear - 6 Sep 2014 19:54
Apple's big iPhone 6 event is almost upon us, but a new leak could've spoiled what surprise is remaining, seemingly showing not only a functional handset but perhaps confirming mobile payments support too. The phone, sha...
Behind the watch: the Moto 360 story
Engadget - 6 Sep 2014 17:58
"It's not a smartwatch," said Iqbal Arshad, Motorola's Senior VP of Global Product, to a roomful of journalists in Motorola's Chicago headquarters. Instead he, and by extension the rest of Motorola, prefer to think of th...