Sci-Tech news

• Robots Compete in Response to California Disaster Simulation

  05-06-2015 23:45
  
  With $2M at stake, robots compete, slowly, in response to disaster simulation in California
  
  Read more

• Data on Federal Workers a Priority for Chinese Hackers: Experts

  05-06-2015 23:34 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Chinese intelligence policy has long targeted mass databases for attack and later exploitation, cybersecurity experts say.
  
  Read more

• Google Will Make Monthly Reports on Self-Driving Cars

  05-06-2015 23:29
  Google says it will make monthly reports on self-driving cars, discloses accident summaries
  
  Read more

• Christie Administration Sues to Halt Ocean-Blasting Research

  05-06-2015 23:08
  
  Christie administration seeks court action to halt ocean-blasting research off New Jersey
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Can the Government Protect Itself From Hackers?

  05-06-2015 22:30 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Government networks are sprawling, outdated and require bureaucracy to fix -- and federal agencies are facing attacks from sophisticated adversaries.
  
  Read more

• Google Reveals Details of Its Self-Driving Car Accidents

  05-06-2015 21:49 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  For the first time, Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its autonomous vehicles.
  
  Read more

• Amazon, Google Race to Get Your DNA Into the Cloud

  05-06-2015 21:44 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon is in a race with Google to store human DNA data, seeking both bragging rights and share in a business that may be worth $1bn a year by 2018.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | FNB launches own mobile network

  05-06-2015 20:56
  
  First National Bank is set to become the first financial institution in South Africa to launch a mobile network when it starts selling SIM cards on June 15.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Fusion Ventures Take Small Steps Toward Energy Leap

  05-06-2015 20:54 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Multibillion-dollar projects are slowly moving ahead on the nuclear fusion frontier, but less traditional efforts say they're making progress as well.
  
  Read more

• Yahoo to Shut Down Maps and Other Sections

  05-06-2015 19:44
  Yahoo to shut down its maps page and several overseas pages to focus on search and content
  
  Read more

• Russia's Rocket Launches Successfully Following Failure

  05-06-2015 18:54
  Russia's Soyuz rocket puts satellite in orbit in the 1st successful launch after failure
  
  Read more

• New Species of Horned Dinosaur – Regaliceratops Peterhewsi

  05-06-2015 18:38 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study details the discovery of a new species of horned dinosaur, Regaliceratops peterhewsi. About 10 years ago, Peter Hews stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. Now, scientists describe in the Cell Press journal Current Biology that those bones belonged to a […]
  The post New Species of Horned Dinosaur – Regaliceratops Peterhewsi appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
  Read more

• Sea Lion Impaled With Spear Dies After Rescue Last Week

  05-06-2015 18:27
  Sea lion impaled with spear dies at SeaWorld after rescue last week; animal had infection
  
  Read more

• New Technique Increases Nanofiber Production Rate Fourfold

  05-06-2015 18:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists from MIT have demonstrated a systematic way to produce nanofibers through electrospinning that boosts production while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent. Nanofibers — polymer filaments only a couple of hundred nanometers in diameter — have a huge range of potential applications, from solar cells to water filtration to fuel cells. But so far, […]
  The post New Technique Increases Nanofiber Production Rate Fourfold appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Union threatens to intensify MTN strike

  05-06-2015 18:15
  
  The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is threatening to step up strike action against mobile network MTN.
  
  Read more

• Snowden Celebrates Amidst New NSA Spying Revelations - PC Magazine

  05-06-2015 18:12 via pcmag.com
  
  Christian Science Monitor
  Snowden Celebrates Amidst New NSA Spying Revelations
  PC Magazine
  The National Security Agency has expanded its search for information about cyber attacks to American soil, according to the most recent documents from the Edward Snowden leak. According to The New York Times and ProPublica, the Justice Department in ...
  Edward Snowden: Privacy Remains 'Under Threat'TIME
  Snowden's biggest worry was that nobody would care about NSA leaksMashable
  Who really
  
  Read more

• Chrome SUCKS (battery). But Google's working on it, so that's OK - Computerworld

  05-06-2015 18:11 via computerworld.com
  
  Computerworld
  Chrome SUCKS (battery). But Google's working on it, so that's OK
  Computerworld
  Are you fed up of Google Chrome sucking your battery and heating up your lap when it displays Adobe Flash animations? You're not alone: Google's fed up with it, too. So it's quietly added a new feature, which selectively pauses "unimportant" Flash objects.
  Chrome to 'Intelligently Pause' Non-Essential Flash ContentPC Magazine
  Google Chrome Is About to Make the Inter
  
  Read more

• World's largest telescope coming

  05-06-2015 18:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In the vast expanse of the universe, we are still trying to find our place. Is there anyone else out there? Where do we come from? Are there other habitable planets like our own?
  
  Read more

• Meet 'Hellboy,' the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill - Livemint

  05-06-2015 18:08 via livemint.com
  
  Calgary Herald
  Meet 'Hellboy,' the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill
  Livemint
  An artistic life reconstruction of a new horned dinosaur scientists named Regaliceratops peterhewsi in the paleoenvironment of the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada released on 3 June 2015. Photo: Reuters. Washington: Scientists had a heck of a time ...
  'Hellboy' dinosaur unleashed in Canada, 10 years after it was foundHerald Sun
  Regal 'Hellboy' dinosaur discovered in AlbertaChristian
  
  Read more

• Don't buy a Steam Machine - The Verge

  05-06-2015 18:08 via theverge.com
  
  MyBroadband
  Don't buy a Steam Machine
  The Verge
  The lines are blurring between gaming PCs and traditional consoles. Valve's Steam Machines, gaming PCs designed to express the best of both worlds, are ostensibly the prototype for this awesome future, and they're now available for preorder. Too bad ...
  Steam Machines, Steam Link, and Steam Controller Now Up for Pre-OrdersNDTV
  Steam Controller Now Available To Pre-OrderForbes
  First Steam Machines on sale from Alienware and Cyberpo
  
  Read more

• New Insights into the Evolution of Radio Galaxy 3C 270

  05-06-2015 18:08 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using new and archival radio observations, astronomers reveal that the two lobes of radio galaxy 3C 270 are respectively about twenty-nine and thirty-seven million years old and that the lobes are the result of multiple outbursts of activity from the vicinity of black hole. The longest known highly collimated structures in the universe are the […]
  The post New Insights into the Evolution of Radio Galaxy 3C 270 appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
  Read more

• Check Out the Huawei P8 Lite, Now Available in US - Capitalberg

  05-06-2015 18:06 via capitalberg.com
  
  Capitalberg
  Check Out the Huawei P8 Lite, Now Available in US
  Capitalberg
  The new Huawei P8 Lite has been recently made available in the tech market of the United States. The new smartphone has surprised the tech experts and the tech enthusiasts alike, since it was designed not as a hit gadget to attract the interest of a large part ...
  Huawei P8 Lite Now Available in US: Above-Average Specs for a Mid-Range ...Yibada (English Edition)
  Huawei Debuts New P8 Lite Handset in AmericaMirror Dail
  
  Read more

• What to expect at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference - CBS News

  05-06-2015 18:04 via cbsnews.com
  
  CBS News
  What to expect at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference
  CBS News
  Apple's 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday. WWDC will be held in San Francisco from June 8 to 12, hosting developers for a look ahead at what's to come for iPhones, iPads and computers. The company always stays pretty tight lipped ...
  What to expect from Apple's big event next weekWashington Post (blog)
  What To Expect From Apple's WWDC 2015TechCrunch
  Something Apple This Way C
  
  Read more

• Now You Can Use Skype Right in a Web Browser - TIME

  05-06-2015 17:52 via time.com
  
  TechCrunch
  Now You Can Use Skype Right in a Web Browser
  TIME
  The Microsoft-owned Skype announced Friday that Skype for Web, which puts the popular video chat service in a web browser, is now available in beta mode to users in the United States and United Kingdom. “Now, anyone going to Skype.com (or ...
  Microsoft opens Skype for Web beta to all in US, UKZDNet
  Skype For Web Beta Now Open To All U.S. And U.K. UsersTechCrunch
  Skype for Web rolls out to all users in the US and UK, launching w
  
  Read more

• New HiRISE Image of a “Fresh” Crater Near Sirenum Fossae

  05-06-2015 17:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This new image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 1-kilometer wide impact crater in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” (on a geological scale, though quite old on a human scale) impact crater in […]
  The post New HiRISE Image of a “Fresh” Crater Near Sirenum Fossae appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
  Read more

• Tiniest frog ever, just 0.4 inches long, stuns researchers in Brazilian rainforest - Fox News Latino

  05-06-2015 17:16 via latino.foxnews.com
  
  Fox News Latino
  Tiniest frog ever, just 0.4 inches long, stuns researchers in Brazilian rainforest
  Fox News Latino
  Researchers in Brazil have come across seven new species of colorful, miniature frogs deep in the country's rain forest. The frogs, part of the genus Brachycephalus, rarely exceed one centimeter (0.4 inches) in length and are believed to be some of the ...
  frogs no sooner found then likely goneThe Australian
  7 New Species of Tiny Poisonous Frogs in Brazil Detailed in Study
  
  Read more

• New Fed data shows global warming not stopping or slowing - CBS News

  05-06-2015 16:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  CBS News
  New Fed data shows global warming not stopping or slowing
  CBS News
  Global warming has not stopped or even slowed in the past 18 years, according to a new federal study that rebuts doubters who've claimed that that heating trends have paused. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration readjusted ...
  Climate scientists warm to new brawlThe Australian
  4 myths climate deniers can turn to now that it turns out there is no global ...Salon
  The Global Warming Ji
  
  Read more

• Facebook Lite App Launched to Tap Emerging Markets - NBCNews.com

  05-06-2015 15:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Wall Street Journal
  Facebook Lite App Launched to Tap Emerging Markets
  NBCNews.com
  Facebook has launched a stripped-down version of its app aimed at the huge potential user base in emerging markets. The social media giant confirmed to CNBC that it was testing the Android app in January, and was now rolling it out across countries in ...
  Facebook rolls out 'Lite' versionUSA TODAY
  Facebook's 'stripped-down' Lite app finally lands in AsiaFinancial Express
  Facebook Has Just
  
  Read more

• Facebook Lite App Launched to Tap Emerging Markets

  05-06-2015 15:57 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Facebook has launched a stripped-down version of its app aimed at the huge potential user base in emerging markets.
  
  Read more

• Apple Watch Challenges Developers to Make Mini-Games

  05-06-2015 15:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Designers are optimistic about the possibilities of the new watch, but many are finding that designing for tiny screens requires a new approach.
  
  Read more

• California's Drought Spurring Water Recycling at Home

  05-06-2015 15:34
  More California families look at in-home water recycling to save gardens, yards in drought
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Uncapped LTE: Telkom defends fair use policy

  05-06-2015 15:26
  
  Telecoms network Telkom has responded to criticism of its acceptable usage policy regarding its soon-to-be-launched uncapped LTE promotion.
  
  Read more

• Robots Gather in California to Compete for DARPA Prize

  05-06-2015 15:20 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Teams from all over the world convened in Pomona, California, on Friday to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Limits on Telkom’s uncapped R599 LTE offer

  05-06-2015 14:38
  
  Telecom network Telkom’s launch of uncapped LTE products in Gauteng comes with limitations in usage, according to terms and conditions for these services.
  
  Read more

• China Blasts 'Irresponsible' U.S. Over Data Breach Accusations

  05-06-2015 13:38 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  China accused the U.S. of making "groundless accusations" and being "irresponsible" Friday in blaming Chinese hackers for a vast data breach.
  
  Read more

• Watch: Apple Watch Will Soon Be Available for Purchase In Stores

  05-06-2015 12:55
  
  Apple is planning June in-store availability for Apple Watch launch.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Fin24 tests FNB mobile network

  05-06-2015 12:41
  
  Fin24's technology editor has tried out FNB's mobile network over the last 24 hours and has put together this review.
  
  Read more

• British Charity Complains About Baby Video on Facebook

  05-06-2015 12:32
  British charity complains about video on Facebook that shows baby being swung upside down
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Warning over Cell C debt doesn't worry FNB

  05-06-2015 10:14
  
  Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warning over Cell C’s R2bn unsecured debt is no cause for concern to the head of First National Bank’s new mobile network.
  
  Read more

• Wind, Waves and Gadgets Don't Mix: Here's How to Summer-Proof Your Tech

  05-06-2015 08:51 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Taking your phone or tablet to the pool? There are easy ways to keep your device safe. NBC's Chris Clackum and Julianne Pepitone report.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Here are the porn stars that broke the internet

  05-06-2015 08:33
  
  Despite what critics think, online porn continues to demonstrate its popularity - even if it's behind closed doors.
  
  Read more

• Fin24.com | Apple Watch to hit retail stores

  05-06-2015 07:54
  
  Apple said it would start selling some models of its watch at its retail stores, and also roll out the gadget in seven more countries.
  
  Read more

• News24.com | Chinese hackers suspected in 'massive' US data breach

  05-06-2015 06:08
  
  China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the US government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers.
  
  Read more

• Officials: China Suspected of Massive U.S. Data Breach

  05-06-2015 03:15 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. is assessing the impact of a massive data breach, blamed by China, involving the agency that handles security clearances and federal records.
  
  Read more

• China Suspected of Massive U.S. Data Breach

  05-06-2015 03:15 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. is assessing the impact of a massive data breach, blamed by China, involving the agency that handles security clearances and federal records.
  
  Read more

Follow @NewslockSciTech on Twitter!