Friday, September 23, 2016

Curiosity rover sends back striking images of Mars rock formations and other top stories.

  • Curiosity rover sends back striking images of Mars rock formations

    Curiosity rover sends back striking images of Mars rock formations
    NASA has released new color images taken by the Curiosity Mars rover, which it says will help increase understanding of the red planet's landscape. The pictures, taken on Thursday, were taken in the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp, an 18,000ft mountain, where the Rover has been based since 2014. Curiosity is looking into how and when habitable conditions on Mars that were once present evolved into drier conditions less favourable for life on the planet. Curiosity Project scientist A..
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  • The Apple dream car might not happen

    The Apple dream car might not happen
    Having mostly perfected computers of various shapes and sizes, it is compelling to imagine Apple’s head of design, Jony Ive, now crafting a minimalist dream car with a revolutionary user experience. But according to several recent reports, Apple’s secret automotive project seems to have some issues. “Dozens of employees” in Apple’s car project “have departed in recent weeks,” the FT reports. The company has had more than 1,000 people working on its so-called “Project Titan,” but “it has struggl..
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  • MIT, Georgia Tech Researchers Use Terahertz Imaging To Read Books Without Opening Them

    MIT, Georgia Tech Researchers Use Terahertz Imaging To Read Books Without Opening Them
    Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their colleagues over at the Georgia Institute of Technology are devising an imaging system that will allow the reading of closed books. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers detailed the prototype system they have designed, which has so far been tested on a stack of papers. Though still in the prototype stage, New York's Metropolitan Museum has shown interest in the technology, which can b..
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  • Google DeepMind's AI can mimic realistic human speech

    Google DeepMind's AI can mimic realistic human speech
    Currently, developers use one of two methods to create speech programs. One involves using a large collection of words and speech fragments spoken by a single person, which makes sounds and intonations hard to manipulate. The other forms words electronically, depending on how they're supposed to sound. That makes things easier to tweak, but the results sound much more robotic. In order to build a speech program that actually sounds human, the team fed the neural network raw audio waveforms reco..
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  • WAMBUGU: What a buzz the new iPhone has created

    WAMBUGU: What a buzz the new iPhone has created
    By SAM WAMBUGU More by this Author If you are a fan of Apple products, September is usually a month to look forward to. Last Wednesday, Apple, the iPhone maker, released its new flagship, the iPhone 7, and its cousin, iPhone 7 Plus. This has come a month after Apple celebrated selling its billionth phone since iPhones were introduced to the market nine years ago. The question is: Is it worth buying? Or, by extension, is it an innovative product worthy of all the attention it is getting? Th..
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  • Steve Jobs' thoughts on 'courage' help explain why Apple removed the iPhone 7's headphone jack

    Steve Jobs' thoughts on 'courage' help explain why Apple removed the iPhone 7's headphone jack
    During Apple’s iPhone 7 introduction, Apple executive Phil Schiller said that Apple’s decision to remove the tried and true 3.5mm headphone jack could be summed up in one word: courage. “Now some people have asked why we would remove the analog headphone jack from the iPhone,” Schiller said.  “I mean, it’s been with us a really long time… Well the reason to move on, I’m going to give you three of them, but it really comes down to one word: courage. The courage to move on, do something new, that..
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  • Stop Using Galaxy Note 7, As Samsung's Exploding Battery Nightmare Continues

    Stop Using Galaxy Note 7, As Samsung's Exploding Battery Nightmare Continues
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