Monday, November 7, 2016

Samsung Electronics delays South Korea re-start of Note 7 sales by three d... and other top stories.

  • Samsung Electronics delays South Korea re-start of Note 7 sales by three d...

    Samsung Electronics delays South Korea re-start of Note 7 sales by three d...
    SEOUL Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it was delaying the start of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sales in South Korea by three days to Oct. 1, a move it says is needed for speedy completion of the ongoing recall in the country. Samsung announced on Sept. 2 a recall of at least 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in 10 markets, including South Korea, due to a faulty battery causing the phones to catch fire, offering refunds or replacement devices using safe batteries. The ..
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  • Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles will work

    Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles will work
    The company formerly known as Snapchat surprised the world last night by unveiling Spectacles, its first hardware product. The sunglasses, which record videos in 10-second increments, are expected to be available for sale sometime "soon." Snap Inc., as the company is now called, says it will be producing the glasses in small quantities. There are still lots of questions about how Spectacles will work — but thanks to some new information from the company, we can now answer some basic questions. ..
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  • Twitter needs to sell now or risk becoming another Yahoo

    Twitter needs to sell now or risk becoming another Yahoo
    Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, center, around the time of the Microsoft talks in 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Twitter, which was once a darling of the tech industry and went public almost three years ago in an eye-popping IPO, appears to be up for sale. We've seen this story with an internet company before. In fact, the parallels between Twitter and Yahoo are rather striking: A rotating cast of CEOs and executives with little direction; a powerful platform once s..
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  • China Begins Operating World's Largest Radio Telescope

    China Begins Operating World's Largest Radio Telescope
    BEIJING — The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in space and its pursuit of international scientific prestige.Beijing has poured billions into such ambitious scientific projects as well as its military-backed space program, which saw the launch of China's second space station earlier this month.Measuring 500 meters in diameter, the radio telescope is ..
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  • Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list - Winston

    Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list - Winston
    PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal wildlife officials have made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumblebee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent of its historic range in just the past 20 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the recommendation Thursday after the Xerces Society, based in Portland, Ore., petitioned the agency on behalf of the bee in 2013 and presented studies showing that it was struggling because of a combination of disease, ..
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  • Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18

    Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18
    At the Minecon conference in Anaheim California, Mojang, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind Minecraft, announced today that on October 18 it will release the Boss Update for Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android and iOS and Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta. The update is notable because it includes Add-Ons, a new way for players to customize the appearance of animals and mobs by tinkering with JSON. Mojang first unveiled the Boss Update with Add-Ons at the E3 event in June. “They let you..
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  • Silicon Valley Money Floods to Hillary After Facebook Fat Cat Revealed as Secret Trumpkin

    Silicon Valley Money Floods to Hillary After Facebook Fat Cat Revealed as Secret Trumpkin
    The Daily Beast revealed Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey as a Trump “shitposting” sugar daddy. Now the Virtual Reality community is coming out hard for Hillary Clinton.Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Oculus Rift developers are donating to Hillary Clinton in direct response to news that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing a political action group pushing “shitposts” on behalf of Donald Trump.Some developers are even pulling support for the Oculus Rift and refusing to continue game developm..
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  • Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night

    Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night
    Nation/World Mystery solved: Melatonin makes these fish sing at night Author: Rachel Feltman, The Washington Post Updated: 6 hours ago Published 6 hours ago Porichthys notatus, also known as the plainfin midshipman fish (U.S. Geological Survey)
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