Thursday, May 5, 2016

Ranking the Innovation of Every iPhone and other top stories.

  • Ranking the Innovation of Every iPhone

    Ranking the Innovation of Every iPhone
    Every year we get some new iPhones—and by now, they’re usually pretty solid. However, there’s no doubt that certain years have had more innovation than others.Sometimes, the iPhone is pushing forward in innovation and other times it is catching up—so here’s our ranking of the innovation of every iPhone ever made.
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  • Reported Breakthrough in Growing Embryos in Vitro Could Raise Ethical Issues for Research

    Reported Breakthrough in Growing Embryos in Vitro Could Raise Ethical Issues for Research
    Photo taken in 2008 shows a scientific researcher handling frozen embryonic stem cells in a laboratory, at the Univesity of Sao Paulo's human genome research center. Scientists reported on May 4, 2016 they had grown human embryos in the lab for nearly ...
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  • Roost's new smoke detectors will alert your phone if they sense danger

    Roost's new smoke detectors will alert your phone if they sense danger
    Roost's smart smoke alarm connects to Wi-Fi, comes with a companion app, and lets you know when it's low on battery. The alarm also alerts you and your loved ones when it detects smoke, just to make sure everyone is good and worried. It relies on Roost's smart battery, which connects to Wi-Fi. The alarm itself isn't connected until the battery is in place. Roost also sells the battery by itself, which home owners can use to make their not-smart smoke detector a connected one. The $60 version of..
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  • The makers of Siri are back with a new super-smart AI called Viv

    The makers of Siri are back with a new super-smart AI called Viv
    Siri, the velvet-voiced iOS assistant that can give you directions, beatbox, do math and chat with you about Game of Thrones, is usually associated with Apple. But Siri was not originally made by Apple; it was launched in 2007 by Stanford Research Institute as a spin-off company, led by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Tom Gruber, and was sold to Apple in 2010. Six years later, Cheyer and Kittlaus are back with a new product called Viv which, according to the Washington Post, will be publicly demo..
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  • Periscope CEO stays cool on Facebook threat as service tweaks features

    Periscope CEO stays cool on Facebook threat as service tweaks features
    Periscope Co-Founder Kayvon Beykpour sits down with USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham to discuss how it started the company and how he feels about new competition from Facebook. Martin E. KlimekPeriscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour is photographed at Twitter HQ in San Francisco on April 14, 2016. -- Photo by Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY contract photographer ORG XMIT: MK 134743 Periscope 04/14/2016 [Via MerlinFTP Drop](Photo: Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY)SAN FRANCISCO — For a tech execut..
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  • Google adds Q&A and laser pointer features to Slides apps

    Google adds Q&A and laser pointer features to Slides apps
    Google is making its presentation tool more interactive. The company introduced a new Q&A feature for Slides Wednesday, which allows audience members to ask questions while they watch presentations.  The new Q&A feature, now live on Slides' website, iOS and Android app, allows people to ask questions in real-time during presentations.  To use the new tool, presenters must choose to enable questions from within the presenter mode. Once enabled, viewers can submit questions via a URL and vote on ..
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  • Researchers nab millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, banking

    Researchers nab millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, banking
    What’s the going rate for usernames and passwords of 272.3 million stolen accounts, many of which are email accounts? A young Russian hacker wanted 50 rubles, which is less than $1, but ended up handing over the data after researchers posted positive comments about him in social media.Many of the “hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites,” were for Russia’s Mail.ru, according to Reuters, but some “Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users” w..
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  • IBM invites users to test its quantum computer

    IBM invites users to test its quantum computer
    IBM on Wednesday opened its quantum computer processor to anyone who wants to try what is expected to be a new kind of computing with enormously improved power and speed. The cloud-based computing system will allow users to explore the ...
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  • First global analysis indicates leopards have lost nearly 75 percent of their historic range

    First global analysis indicates leopards have lost nearly 75 percent of their historic range
    A leopard pauses in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, deciding between pursuing impala or warthog. Credit: Rebecca Schoonover. The leopard (Panthera pardus), one of the world's most iconic big cats, has lost as much as 75 percent of its historic ...
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  • Taking the 600hp 2017 Bentley Bentayga to the track

    Taking the 600hp 2017 Bentley Bentayga to the track
    The racetrack is not the natural place for an SUV, but then the Bentley Bentayga is not your typical truck. For a start it's luxurious in an Black Amex-melting way - it starts just shy of $230,000 but only the most ascetic of buyers resists the Bentley options list, and they've no reason to be in the showroom in the first place. Then, though, you have Bentley's boasts of extensive Nürburgring testing, in among the extremes of temperature, all-weather driving, and off-road mischief any credi..
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