Facebook's Latest Assault On Snapchat Is Lifestage: An App For Teens, By A Teen
Facing increasing pressure from rival social networking service Snapchat, Facebook has launched yet another app in order to convince youngsters that its products are where it's at. The new app in question is Lifestage, which is essentially a video diary where users answer biographical questions about themselves. Rather than filling in answers with text, users record a small video snippet that others can view on the uploader's profile. There's one catch though: only people under the age of 21 ca..>> view originalWe finally know what Ötzi the iceman was wearing when he died 5300 years ago
Ötzi the iceman is a scientific celebrity, and we finally know what he was wearing when he died 5,300 years ago. Using complex DNA techniques, researchers identified the material in everything from his hat to his shoelaces and learned a little more about life in the Copper Age. Hikers discovered Ötzi’s frozen body in the Alps in September 1991. The ice had preserved his body remarkably well, turning him into a natural mummy and making him a rich source of information about life in the Copper Ag..>> view originalHow to fight global poverty from space
Satellites are best known for helping smartphones map driving routes or televisions deliver programs. But now, data from some of the thousands of satellites orbiting Earth are helping track things like crop conditions on rural farms, illegal deforestation, and increasingly, poverty in the hard-to-reach places around the globe.As much as that data has the potential to provide invaluable information to humanitarian organizations, watchdog groups, and policymakers, there is too much of it to sift ..>> view originalThis tree might be the oldest living thing in Europe
Adonis, a Bosnian pine, more than 1,075 years old, living in the alpine forests of the Pindos mountains in northern Greece. (Oliver Konter, Mainz) More than a thousand years ago, in the 940s, Europe was a very different place. The Byzantine Empire was at its peak and Vikings sailed the seas. In the midst of it all sat a little sapling, one that would grow into a tree that still thrives today. According to scientists, a Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing in the highlands of northern Gre..>> view originalChina's new quantum satellite will try to teleport data outside the bounds of space and time
This week, China launched the world’s first quantum satellite. So what exactly does this mean? “[T]he satellite is designed to establish ultra-secure quantum communications by transmitting uncrackable keys from space to the ground,” Xinhua, China’s state news agency, wrote after the equipment was launched on a rocket from the Gobi desert. “It could also conduct experiments on the bizarre features of quantum theories, such as entanglement.” Uncrackable keys? Bizarre features? Both true. This sat..>> view originalLyft Is Seeking a Buyer, but Apple, Uber, GM and Others Aren't Interested
The company, which is the second-largest ride-hailing firm in the United States, has apparently approached Apple, Amazon, General Motors, Google, Uber, and Didi Chuxing concerning a potential sale, “sources familiar with the situation” told The New York Times (via AppleInsider). But, despite all that searching, the company was apparently unable to find a buyer. Lyft’s discussions were most serious with G.M., which is one of the ride-hailing company’s largest investors. Still, G.M. never made a..>> view originalSamsung Galaxy Note 7 Reviews Show Apple Has Work To Do
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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