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Eight Samsung Galaxy tricks you can't do on any other phone
Popular Science - By David Nield
Make the most of your smartphone. Samsung likes to add its own flourishes to the Android operating system, which means Galaxy phones boast quite a few unique features that you won't find on standard Android
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Stephen Hawking, science's brightest star, dies aged 76
The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first Stephen Hawking There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid
Startups
Honeydue is a money management app for couples
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
Honeydue is a mobile app that aims to reduce money-related arguments between couples by offering tools to share information on respective account balances and spending. The app also lets couples stay top
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Rthm wants to be your comprehensive health AI
TechCrunch - Darrell Etherington
If you’re Toronto-based startup MagniWare, you’ve learned some hard truths about the realities of what people will bear in terms of keeping tabs on their general wellness. MagniWare began life with a on
Theranos
London-based Thriva offers a home finger-prick blood test to quantify your bad self
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
Article updated to address how Thriva is different to U.S.-based Theranos. When the ‘quantified self’ involves stabbing your little finger with a sharp object and collecting the resulting blood, it feels
Google Fit update adds support for strength training, diet and sleep tracking
CNET - by Dan Graziano
Google on Thursday announced an update to its Fit app on Android. The health-tracking software will now provide real-time information on your walks, runs and bike rides. The Google Fit app will record
See parents of social-media fanatics try selfie sticks for the first time
CNET - by Bonnie Burton
Selfie sticks are praised, maligned, overused, banned and sometimes dangerous. But what does the older (relatively speaking) generation feel about this popular tool for selfie fanatics? The Fine Brothers
Ikea designed a better shelter for refugees — here's what it can do
Business Insider - Dave Smith
But these aren't any ordinary shelters. These were designed by Ikea and built by Better Shelter, a social enterprise run by Ikea's non-profit foundation, to help refugees fleeing violence and conflict
Microsoft Windows: 30 Years of Hits and Misses
Fortune - Barb Darrow
For many who live in a MacBook Pro-iPhone bubble, it’s easy to forget just what a phenomenon Microsoft Windows has been for three decades now. It is, …
Machine Learning
An algorithm might save your life: How the Amazon and Netflix method might someday cure cancer
Salon
(Shutterstock/Salon) Algorithms recommend movies, books, dates — even job candidates. In the future, they might cure disease Pedro Domingos October 10, 2015 8:00pm (UTC) Excerpted from “The Master Algorithm:
Maps
How The Internet’s Most Prolific Map Designer Creates His Viral Worlds
Fast Company - By John Brownlee
To mark the publication of his first book, 17-year-old designer Martin Vargic tells us what inspires his maps, and how he works. Where once they were done under the quill of cartographers, maps today made
China Is Genetically Engineering Mini Pigs To Sell As Pets
HuffPost - Carla Herreria
The $1,600 mini pigs are created using gene-editing techniques and cloning. We'd all like our baby pets to stay perpetually tiny, but scientists in China are taking that desire to a whole new level. BGI,
Brain-computer link enables paralyzed California man to walk
Reuters - By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A brain-to-computer technology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become the first such patient
This time it's true: We're out of IPv4 addresses
Fortune - Barb Darrow
North America has run out of Internet addresses, or at least IPv4 internet addresses, according to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), …
Brainwaves
Mind reading may one day be possible, researchers say
Guardian US - Ellen Brait in New York
According to a new study, ‘a non-invasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) can be used to allow one human to guess what is on the mind of another human’ Mind reading might not be as far-fetched as many believe,
Meet the guy who's going to protect your email from prying eyes
Fortune - Laura Lorenzetti
Will Ackerly is a former National Security Agency tech whiz who’s now in the business of protecting your digital information from hackers’–and even …
China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff
The Verge - Tom Warren
China has been trying to move away from relying on Microsoft's Windows software for its government, enterprise, and education industries. The Chinese government originally partnered with Ubuntu maker back
Codecademy teams with Periscope to create a course that’ll teach you SQL
VentureBeat - Ken Yeung
Codecademy is looking to expand its online learning platform and has begun partnering with industry firms to bring new technical languages to its users. The company has partnered with Periscope (no, not
British 'Karma Police' program carries out mass surveillance of the web
The Verge - Russell Brandom
The British government has been running a web surveillance program far more intrusive than anything attempted by the NSA, according to Snowden documents published this morning at The Intercept. Dubbed
These Incredible Saltwater Batteries Are Designed To Store Renewable Energy
fastcoexist.com - About the author Ben Schiller is a New York staff writer for Fast Company. Previously, he edited a European management magazine and was a reporter in San Francisco, Prague, and Brussels. More
Also, we’re currently wasting a lot of renewable power because we don’t use it at the moment it’s produced. Wind turbines are a bit like car …
NASA releases stunning image of a supernova's remnants
Fox News
NASA has released a stunning image of the remnants of a supernova taken by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope. The image reveals a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded
Cuban internet delivered weekly by hand
bbc.co.uk - By Emilio San Pedro
Cuba is a land in many ways cut off from the rest of the world. For one thing, general public use of the internet is restricted and most people don't have access to a connection. But many have found a
Authentication
How to Stop Hackers from Stealing Your Data on Public Wi-Fi
TNW - Arthur Baxter
You enjoy “free internet” through Wi-Fi hotspots libraries, coffee shops, at bars, and other public places. It seems harmless. Little do you know, a stranger could know your birthplace, the schools you
Microsoft's Clippy returns to kill Siri and hack the world
The Verge - Tom Warren
Hi! It looks like you’re creating a music video. Would you like some assistance today? If you activate the maze screensaver, you never know what you might find. Buried deep at the end is Clippy, the Microsoft
How NASA Got New Horizons To Pluto
Forbes - Bruce Dorminey
A century from now, NASA’s successful flyby of Pluto and its five known natural satellites will rank right up there with the moment Apollo 11 first touched down on the lunar surface and the Viking 1 lander
BestTechie Founder Creates KYA Analytics To Provide A Better Understanding Of Your Audience
TechCrunch - Anthony Ha
The K-Y-A in KYA Anlytics stands for “Know Your Audience,” and founder and CEO Jeff Weisbein said that’s exactly what he’s trying to help online publishers do. Weisbein has been in those shoes himself,
Will Human Beings Ever Reach 'Earth 2.0'?
NBC News - by Keith Wagstaff
The Big Questions Kepler-452b is the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, a place with just enough sunlight to possibly support the crops and house plants of life forms like ourselves. But don't pack
A new technology could drastically extend your phone battery — but cellphones companies don’t want to use it
Business Insider - Andy Boxall
The antenna in your phone is more than just a lazy strip of metal. As Apple's infamous Antennagate fiasco taught us, snatching radio waves out of thin air to transmit thousands of messages a second over

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Eight Samsung Galaxy tricks you can't do on any other phone

Stephen Hawking, science's brightest star, dies aged 76

Honeydue is a money management app for couples

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Rthm wants to be your comprehensive health AI

London-based Thriva offers a home finger-prick blood test to quantify your bad self

Google Fit update adds support for strength training, diet and sleep tracking

See parents of social-media fanatics try selfie sticks for the first time

Ikea designed a better shelter for refugees — here's what it can do

Microsoft Windows: 30 Years of Hits and Misses

An algorithm might save your life: How the Amazon and Netflix method might someday cure cancer

How The Internet’s Most Prolific Map Designer Creates His Viral Worlds

China Is Genetically Engineering Mini Pigs To Sell As Pets

Brain-computer link enables paralyzed California man to walk

This time it's true: We're out of IPv4 addresses

Mind reading may one day be possible, researchers say

Meet the guy who's going to protect your email from prying eyes

China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff

Codecademy teams with Periscope to create a course that’ll teach you SQL

British 'Karma Police' program carries out mass surveillance of the web

These Incredible Saltwater Batteries Are Designed To Store Renewable Energy

NASA releases stunning image of a supernova's remnants

Cuban internet delivered weekly by hand

How to Stop Hackers from Stealing Your Data on Public Wi-Fi

Microsoft's Clippy returns to kill Siri and hack the world

How NASA Got New Horizons To Pluto

BestTechie Founder Creates KYA Analytics To Provide A Better Understanding Of Your Audience

Will Human Beings Ever Reach 'Earth 2.0'?

A new technology could drastically extend your phone battery — but cellphones companies don’t want to use it