2015年1月26日 星期一

2015-01-27 Ghana Sci/Tech


Full-Time Whistle
   
Mountain-sized asteroid that flew past earth had own moon   
Business Standard
NASA has released radar observations of the 325 meter-wide asteroid that flew safely past Earth, showing that the asteroid had its own moon. Asteroid 2004 BL86 was over 3 times the Earth-moon distance i.e. 1.2 million kilometers, Discovery News reported.
Keep your eyes on the sky for asteroid appearance   CTV News
Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth   The Nation
asteroid comes unusually close to Earth   Stuff.co.nz
Christian Science Monitor   
Forbes   
Discovery News   
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Moneycontrol.com
   
Microsoft's core goes soft with focus on cloud transition   
Moneycontrol.com
Shares of the world's largest software company fell more than 4 percent after hours on Monday, as it forecast a slight sequential dip in commercial licensing sales this quarter, and only a modest increase in cloud-based revenue over the quarter just ended.
Sluggish Windows sales still hurting Microsoft profit   The Age
Why Microsoft Is Making Less Money From Windows   TIME
Microsoft Profit Falls on Sluggish Windows, Currency Pressure   NDTV
The Seattle Times (blog)   
Variety   
TechCrunch   
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Engadget
   
I just saw the first movie from Oculus, and it is the future   
The Verge
You'll have to excuse me. I'm going to sound a little excited now. Earlier today Oculus announced Story Studio, its in-house production team dedicated to producing virtual reality movies. We've been seeing VR narrative experiences for years at this point, and ...

Oculus Launches Story Studio to Promote Virtual Reality Filmmaking   Variety
Facebook's Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio   Reuters
Oculus decamps OC for NorCal   OCRegister
TechCrunch   
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Firstpost
   
WikiLeaks blasts Google for quietly handing emails to government   
Daily News & Analysis
WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, landed in the public spotlight in 2010 when it published a trove of classified government information, including leaked US diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks criticized Google Inc on Monday, alleging that the company waited ...

Wikileaks says Google attacked journalism for handing over staffer mails to US ...   Firstpost
WikiLeaks Assails Google and the US   New York Times
WikiLeaks questions Google over private-staff data   MarketWatch
Irish Examiner   
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Fortune
   
Can wifi replace your cellphone plan?   
Fortune
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Victor Luckerson, TIME. The wireless industry has seen its fair share of changes over the last two years, many sparked by T-Mobile's disruptive “uncarrier” policies ...

Cablevision to release Wi-Fi-only cell phone service   FOX CT
Cablevision to offer mobile phone service through WiFi   Android Community
Cablevision announces new Wi-Fi mobile phone service in development   SMN Weekly
InformationWeek   
AdAge.com   
Techlicious (blog)   
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Financial Market News
   
China Purchasing More Apple iPhones Than the U.S.   
Financial Market News
It is expected that Apple will announce this week that it sold more of its iPhones in China that it did at home in the U.S. in 2014. This highlights the shift in power balance of the smartphone world market. Analysts predict that the tech giant based in the U.S. ...

China Could Overtake U.S. as Top iPhone Market, Analysts Says   Eastern Morning Herald
Apple likely sold more iPhones in China than in the U.S.   GeekWire
Apples sells more iPhones in China than the U.S says analysts   National Column
Fast Company   
Business Insider   
InformationWeek   
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Latin American Herald Tribune
   
Ocean Warming Melting One of the Largest Glaciers of Antarctica   
Latin American Herald Tribune
SYDNEY – One of the largest glaciers on the planet, Totten, is melting due to ocean warming, a phenomenon that demonstrates the vulnerability of East Antarctica and its role in increasing the level of the oceans. The Totten glacier, 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) ...

Warm ocean melting East Antarctica's largest glacier   Rappler

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The News International
   
Facebook Releases Lite Android App For Emerging Markets   
Forbes
Facebook is working on an app called Facebook Lite, which is optimized for low-end Android devices in emerging markets. Facebook Lite launched in a limited number of countries across Asia and Africa over the weekend, according to TechCrunch.
Facebook testing a spare 'Lite' service for Android   Computerworld
Facebook unveils 'lite' app for emerging markets   The Straits Times
Facebook quietly rolled out a bare-bones app in emerging markets   Mashable
Pocket-lint.com   
AndroidGuys   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
What is comet dust made of? Rosetta finds out.   
Christian Science Monitor
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, currently in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, is examining the dust being shed by the comet as it hurtles toward the sun. By Kulvinder Singh, Sen January 26, 2015. close. Rosetta's ...

Rosetta spacecraft deepens mystery of comet's origin   The Star Online
Is Rosetta's 67P Comet Breaking Apart?   Design & Trend
Rosetta watches closely as comet sheds its dust   Sen (subscription)
Space Daily   
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Daily Times
   
Climate change to cause twice as many severe floods in Australia   
The Australian
AUSTRALIA and its region will probably be hit by almost twice as many severe floods this century like the ones that devastated southeast Queensland four years ago, according to new research. An international team of scientists led by Wenju Cai, of the ...

CSIRO forecasting La Nina weather patterns to double   ABC Online
La Nina turning nasty says study   News24
Climate change to turn up heat   The Land Newspaper
Reuters   
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