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By Nick Carey BEVERLY, Mass. (Reuters) – United Parcel Service Inc said it began testing the use of drones for emergency deliveries of medical supplies this week with a flight in rural Massachusetts, which the company hopes will eventually lead to federal approval of drones as a regular delivery option. The test flight on Thursday was handled by CyPhy, a Danvers, Massachusetts-based drone maker in which UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, owns a […]
(AFP) Yahoo said Thursday a massive attack on its network in 2014 allowed hackers to steal data from half a billion users and may have been “state sponsored.” https://youtu.be/wh-Lz7nXhQE Marian Henbest Sabrina Blanchard / AFP Videographics / AFP
Miami, United States (AFP) by Kerry SHERIDAN There’s something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teased a “surprising” announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean, even possibly some form of life. The US space agency has already proclaimed that Europa has “strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its crust and […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) by Jung Ha-Won Exploding batteries and an embarrassing recall of a flagship gadget during a controversial, closely-watched leadership transition — it’s been a bad year for Samsung, and analysts warn the trouble isn’t over yet. With ever-fiercer competition in the saturated smartphone market, South Korea’s biggest firm is desperate to avoid a full-blown disaster that could cost billions, hammer its reputation and taint its new leadership. Just weeks after the early […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Guy JACKSON Laurence BENHAMOU Yahoo’s claim that it is the victim of a gigantic state-sponsored hack raises the question of whether it is the latest target for hackers with the backing of Russia, China or even North Korea, experts say. The US internet giant was under pressure Friday to explain how it sustained such a massive breach in 2014, which possibly affected 500 million accounts. Yahoo said the stolen information […]
By Deborah M. Todd SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Wednesday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime.” Speaking through tears at a San Francisco event to announce the initiative, Chan said she hoped to spare parents the pain she had seen while delivering difficult news as a pediatrician. “In those moments and in […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Marlowe HOOD A protein unique to a miniscule creature called a water bear, reputedly the most indestructible animal on Earth, protects human DNA from X-ray damage, stunned researchers reported Monday. Human cells cultivated with the newly-discovered protein, dubbed “Dsup” for “damage suppressor”, experienced half as much decay as normal cells when blasted with radiation. “We were really surprised,” said lead author Takuma Hashimoto, a biologist at the University of Tokyo […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – Samsung rolled out replacements for Galaxy Note 7s plagued by exploding batteries in South Korea on Monday, but only a handful of customers appeared to have taken the opportunity to swap their handsets. The world’s largest maker of mobile phones recalled 2.5-million units of its top-of-the-range model more than two weeks ago, after batteries began catching fire while charging. But users snubbed the South Korean electronics giant’s offer of a […]
REDWOOD CITY, California (Reuters) — You might not recognize it – but this is what 3D printing now looks like, incredibly sophisticated shapes seemingly growing out of a pool of goo. This is a demonstration of California start-up Carbon’s CLIP printer. “One of the interesting side benefits of controlling both light and oxygen together is instead of going step by step by step and printing really slowly, these parts emerge of from liquid almost as […]
Designers from London’s Royal College of Art have created a skinsuit which allows the user to go from the physical to the virtual world by ‘feeling’ invisible objects. Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – by Glenn CHAPMAN with Rob Lever in Washington Apple delivered its new iPhones on Friday in a global launch marked by long queues at its retail stores but also frustration over the sellout of some models. The scenes in Apple stores around the world were reminiscent of earlier launches, generating both anticipation and disappointment, but it was unclear if the shortages were the result of strong demand or limited […]
Apple fans in Asia get their hands on the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus as the latest models hit the market. (Agence France Presse)
