en-gh-hotdailynews: 2015-01-28 Ghana Sci/Tech

Facebook denies outage was caused by hackers
The Australian Financial Review
Facebook has denied that it was taken down by hackers after it went offline on Tuesday along with Instagram. Photo: Reuters. Sophie Nicholson. Facebook and its Instagram photo-sharing site were interrupted temporarily on Tuesday, provoking panic, ...

Facebook outage 'was self-inflicted'   Irish Examiner
FB blames internal glitch for outage   Times of India
Facebook outage brings jokes   The Durango Herald
KENS 5 TV
NEWS.com.au
The Australian
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Apple reports biggest quarterly profit in history
Deutsche Welle
Technology giant Apple has reported a net profit of $18 billion (15.9 billion euros) in its fiscal first quarter - the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company. Record iPhone sale boosted profit figures. Apple Logo San Francisco. The company's ...

Apple's Blow Out   Forbes
Here's How Apple's $18 Billion IPhone-Fueled Profit Stacks Up   Bloomberg
Apple sells a whopping 74.5 million iPhones in Q1, makes profit of $18 billion   Firstpost
Seeking Alpha (registration)
Sky News
Mirror.co.uk
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Twitter woos users with new group Direct Messages and mobile video features
Firstpost
Twitter on Tuesday began rolling out new group chat and video features as it worked to ramp up use of the one-to-many messaging service. “Private conversations on Twitter are a great complement to the largely public experience on the platform,” product ...

Twitter finally adds video, group messaging   Sydney Morning Herald
Twitter Now Has Video Sharing And Private Group DMs   Forbes
Twitter users can now shoot, edit and post 30-second videos   The Australian
Tech Times
Pioneer News
Gizmodo Australia
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Apple Watch Will Ship in April
Bloomberg
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during an earnings call on Tuesday that the company's much-anticipated Watch will ship in April. This is the first time that Apple has committed to a shipping date. First announced in September, Apple Watch will come in three ...

The time has come for Apple Watch   The Australian
Apple Watch to be shipped starting in April: Tim Cook   TODAYonline
Apple Posts Record Revenue, Profits; Apple Watch 'On Schedule' to Ship in April   Variety
PCWorld
Businessweek
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Fun with Flaming Death
Wired
Satya Nadella's Got a Plan to Make You Care About Microsoft. The First Step? Holograms · Letter From the Editor: Microsoft's Holographic Goggles Are Strange—But Kind of Awesome · Video · WIRED Video · Insider · WIRED Insider · Subscribe · Subscribe to ...

Asteroid that zoomed past Earth has own moon   Mashable
Huge asteroid stuns NASA as it flies by   NEWS.com.au
Asteroid that buzzed Earth has a plus one, NASA says   Reuters
Fox News Latino
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Google super-fast US Internet service spreads
Livemint
Google is meanwhile working on a new generation of applications designed to capitalize on Internet speeds available using Fiber, but did not disclose details. Photo: Bloomberg. San Francisco: Google Inc.'s super-fast Internet service—up to 100 times ...

Google's super-fast US broadband expands   Sky News Australia
Google: Building network will be 'disruptive'   Charlotte Observer
Web's Next Chapter 'To Be Written On Gigabit Speeds'   Multichannel News
eWeek
KJZZ
Investor's Business Daily
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Astronomers find oldest known star with Earth-like planets
DAWN.com
MIAMI: International astronomers said on Tuesday they have discovered the oldest known star encircled by five Earth-sized planets, signalling that planets formed throughout the history of the universe. The system is 11.2 billion years old and was born near ...

Astronomers Spot Oldest Known Star   Voice of America
The News Matrix: Wednesday 28 January 2015   The Independent
Australian astronomers help to find oldest known star   The Australian (blog)
Tech Times
Geek Snack
National Monitor
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FTC Seeks to Restrict Internet of Things Data
Wall Street Journal
Internet-connected wearables, cars, door locks, thermostats and such are all the rage in Silicon Valley. But those devices can come with security and privacy holes that leave consumers exposed, regulators warn. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission ...

How Your Connected Devices Could Get You Fired Or Ruin Your Credit   Gizmodo Australia
Internet-of-Things gadgets should safeguard consumer information, FTC says   San Jose Mercury News
FTC Warns of the Huge Security Risks in the Internet of Things   Wired
PC Magazine
The Straits Times
CBS News
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Distant exoplanet hosts giant rings
The Nation
Astronomers say they have discovered a planet with a gigantic ring system that is 200 times larger than that around Saturn. It is the first such structure detected around a planet beyond our Solar System. The researchers say there are probably more than 30 ...

Planet with rings 200 times bigger than Saturn found   Times of India
Gigantic ring system 200 times larger than Saturn discovered (PHOTOS)   RT
Distant Ringed World Dwarfs Those of Saturn   Newstar Media
13WHAM-TV
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Scientists Solve Puzzle on How to Un-Boil a Hard-Boiled Egg — and There's a ...
TheBlaze.com
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have figured out how to un-boil a hard-boiled egg — and they say it has important ramifications. “Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,” Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular ...

Breakthrough in cancer research? Scientists quickly un-boil an egg   RT
Why Scientists Learning How To Unboil An Egg Is Bad News For Cancer   Healthcare Global
UCI researchers discover a way to unboil eggs   National Monitor
KWCH
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