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11/24/2024 03:19:30 am

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A customer purchases an iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow

Launch of iPhone 6 Draws Crowds

Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus was released Friday in more than 20 countries, resulting in fans waiting in long lines to get their hands on the latest handsets by the tech giant.

Apple's OS X Yosemite

Apple Says Most OS X Users are Safe From Bash Bug

Apple Inc. has issued a public statement Friday in response to the Bash bug, assuring consumers using the OS X operating system that they're mostly safe from potential cyber attacks.

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha

Samsung Galaxy Alpha Launches in US with AT&T

AT&T announced Friday on its website that the Samsung Galaxy Alpha would be available to subscribers through the mobile service provider's website and retail outlets.

Cattle eating

GMO Livestock Feed Caused No Nutrition, Health Problems

University of California, Davis animal scientist Alison Van Eenennaam examined almost 30 years of livestock-feeding studies that represent over 100 billion animals and found that the health and performance of food-producing animals eating genetically engineered feed has been comparable to that of animals non-GE feed.

The Massachusettes Institute of Technology

Deep-Learning Algorithm Assesses Environment Better Than Humans

The team used deep-learning techniques to help the program teach itself.

Sun in X-Ray

Harvesting Hydrogen Fuel with Solar Energy

Michael Grätzel and his team at the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Sweden have developed dye solar cells that imitate the photosynthesis in plants and techniques for making fuels, such as hydrogen, through solar water splitting.

Nimble

Nimble Launches Android Contacts App to Build, Nurture Social Selling Relationships

Pioneer in social selling relationship intelligence for business professionals Nimble Inc. announced Thursday the launch of the company's new Smart Contact Android app, which collects contact details, social conversations, signals, insights and emails into a mobile app to build and nurture business relationships easily.

A binary black hole sucking in a star

Researcher's Math Deems Black Holes Impossible

Black holes? They could be non-existent, after all. By combining two contradictory theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton, a physics professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the College of Arts and Sciences, has mathematically proven that there has never been, and there will never be, any black holes in outer space.

A Nexus One AMOLED screen, a variation of the OLED display

Blue LED Makes Electronics More Efficient

Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering Stephen Forrest and his colleagues from the University of Michigan have lengthened the functional lifetime of blue organic light-emitting diodes by a factor of 10, potentially leading to lower power consumption of big-screen televisions and longer battery lives of smartphones.

Murata Electronics' Cheerleaders

Japanese Robot Cheerleaders Could Become Traffic Enforcers in the Future

Japanese company Murata Manufacturing has revealed the Murata Cheerleaders, the company's third android model, to showcase the firm's ability in creating technological devices.

A Steam user's Music Player

Valve Launches Steam Music Player with Free Half-Life, Portal Soundtracks

Valve is expanding the functionality of its Steam client farther than just offering games to Linux, Mac and PC gamers, as it launched the Steam Music Player on Wednesday. The music player, which can be found inside the desktop client, makes it easier to play the music while gaming.

The Sun

Solar Explosions Modeled in Computers

Researchers examined what happens when explosions occur on the surface of the Sun.

G-Shock

Latest Casio G-Shock is All About Music

The wearer can use the G-Shock to identify music playing in the environment.

Air pollution

U.S. Plan of Switching to Natural Gas Won't Reduce its CO2 Emissions

Abundant natural gas does not significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Tailings pond

Solar Powered Process Could Transform Oil Sands Tailings Reclamation

Since the process is powered by solar energy, the cost will be minimal compared to existing methods currently being used in the field.

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