en-gh-hotdailynews: 2015-10-10 Ghana Sci/Tech

VW may compensate owners of diesel cars for loss of value
Kansas City Star
Volkswagen could compensate owners of diesel-powered cars that emit high levels of pollutants, possibly by paying them for the lost value of their vehicles, the company's top U.S. executive said. Speaking to lawmakers investigating the emissions ...
US House slams regulators for not catching VW for years   Daily Times
VW executives still haven't come clean on emissions scandal   Minneapolis Star Tribune
Volkswagen's pollution-cheating device: How it works and how to fix it   CTV News
Bloomberg
NBCNews.com
New York Daily News
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Only in Japan: the robot that's a smartphone that's a robot
Engadget
RoboHon ("Robot Phone") is the cutest smartphone ever: a (familiar looking) robot frame that fits in your pocket. It can take calls, dance, project photos, display maps and more. It's a 'bot with a smartphone inside. Yes, some will snort at the idea of ...
Video: RoBoHon - Sharp's 'robot' phone to be released soon   GhanaWeb
RoBoHoN : A Unique Robotic Smartphone Releasing in 2016   Herald Current
Sharp Corporation To Introduce “RoBoHon” in 2016   Lid Time - Weird News, Entertainment, News Headlines (blog)
Gizmag
iDigitalTimes.com
Latin Post
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Mobile phones 'transforming' Africa but growth to slow: stud......
New Vision
The rapid spread of mobile phones across Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming the region, but record levels of growth are due to slow sharply, an industry report said this week. The industry contributed more than $100 billion to the region's economy last ...
Mobile phones 'transforming' Africa but growth to slow: study   Bangkok Post
IT News Africa: Top Tech Stories of the Week   IT News Africa

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Mergers: Airtel and Tigo partner to create improved mobile money systems
Pulse.com.gh
This collaboration will allow Airtel Money and Tigo Cash subscribers to send and receive money directly into their mobile wallets without use of vouchers. Published: 16.42 , Refreshed: 16.51; Emmanuel Quist. Print; eMail ...

Rwanda Introduces Mobile Money Interoperability   AllAfrica.com

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Google Docs is down, what are we going to do, you guys (Update: it's back)
VentureBeat
Update at 2:30 p.m. Pacific: Google Docs should be back for everyone. See below for details. Google Docs is throwing error messages for us here at VentureBeat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. We first noticed problems at 11:47 a.m. Pacific. In the activity section of my ...
The Dog Ate Our Homework, Google Drive Is Down (UPDATED)   TechCrunch
Google Apps users in a tizzy as Docs, Drive go into a tailspin   ZDNet
Google Drive is back online after brief outage   Mashable
Wall Street Journal (blog)
THE BUSINESS TIMES
azcentral.com
Google
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Amazon Launches Platform to Build Apps for Internet of Things
NDTV
Amazon.com Inc's cloud business, Amazon Web Services, has launched a service to help customers build applications to connect devices through the cloud, the so-called "Internet of Things". The service, called "AWS IoT", will allow factory floors ...
New AWS tools give developers high-powered instances, better container support ...   PCWorld
Ocedo unveils cloud networking offering at AWS re:Invent   Dispatch Times
Amazon's Jump Start for the IoT   EDN.com (blog)
EE Times
ZDNet
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Another popular ad-blocker disappears from Apple's app store.
Mashable
Update Thursday October 8, 8:30 p.m. PT: Apple has pulled the Been Choice ad blocker from the App Store as of Thursday night, developer David Yoon told Mashable. According to Yoon, Apple told the developers that unpacking the data stream necessary to ...

Apple removes ad-blocking apps from store to 'protect privacy'   New York Post
Apple pulls adblocker that worked on apps such as Facebook   Irish Times
Apple Took Down An Ad Blocker For Apps Over Privacy Concerns   Fast Company
Macworld
PC Magazine
Bangkok Post
Apple Support
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk: 'I don't hate Apple'
USA TODAY
Yo, let's just be clear: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says he doesn't hate Apple. But given earlier comments in which he referred to the tech giant as a "Tesla graveyard," you've got to wonder. Sounding more like he's a native of South Philly than South ...
Tesla chief Elon Musk takes a dig at Apple, calls company a 'Tesla Graveyard'   Economic Times
Elon Musk clarifies earlier remarks, says he doesn't hate Apple   VentureBeat
Elon Musk doesn't hate Apple, but he's not (yet) a fan of the Apple Watch   The Verge
ecomento.com
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Stocks end slightly higher; Starbucks adds Apple Pay; computer shipments ...
cleveland.com
Apple Pay In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, Eddy Cue, Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, demonstrates the new Apple Pay mobile payment system at a Whole Foods store in Cupertino, Calif. Starbucks has officially ...
Biz Break: Apple Pay coming to Starbucks, Chili's, KFC   San Jose Mercury News
Apple Pay Coming to Starbucks, KFC, Chili's   PC Magazine
Tap into the Future: Chili's Guests Can Soon Pay Check Using Apple Pay   MarketWatch
Reuters
Re/code
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After discovering water, NASA now plans to manufacture oxygen on Mars
The Indian Express
nasa, mars, nasa mars, mars water, mars oxygen, water on mars Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The imaging and topographical information in ...

We could be living on Mars 'within decades': Nasa   Times of India
Nasa unveils missing pieces in journey to Mars   The Nation
Nasa plans Mars colonies by 2030s   Irish Independent
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AsiaOne
BBC News
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