Self-healing computers will change the world: Jeff Hawkins

The Sydney Morning Herald
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Self-healing computers will change the world: Jeff Hawkins

In one man’s vision of the future, we won't have to ask for help to fix our technology.

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Apple developing curved iPhone screens, enhanced sensors: source

The new lower-cost iPhone 5C will debut in a set of lively colors.
Tim Culpan and Adam Satariano 10:47am | Apple is developing new iPhone designs including bigger screens with curved glass and enhanced sensors that can detect different levels of pressure, said a person familiar with the plans.

One-tonne satellite fragments to crash to Earth

The five meter-long GOCE satellite.
12:30am | Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) says.

Is the stylus making a comeback in mobile gadgets?

Samsung
Jenneth Orantia | Once destined to become a relic of the '90s, could the stylus be making a comeback?

Technology no substitute for reading time: Mem Fox

Mem Fox., Australian Childrens author at book Launch at Pages and More book shop in Glenelg South Australia. Mem is worried about children being left to entertain
LUCY BATTERSBY | Leading children's author Mem Fox finds it ''heartbreaking'' to see small children left alone with smartphones and tablets to entertain themselves.

'Completely RUINED': Thousands petition YouTube to change back comments section

YouTube
Salvador Rodriguez 12:30pm | More than 84,000 people are petitioning YouTube to revert the comments section to its original form.

Xbox, can you hear me now? One requires repetition

xbox
Derrik Lang 1:43pm | Like a stubborn family member or insubordinate employee, Xbox One owners might need to tell their fancy new console what to do more than once.

Aussie Catch Up TV comes to Xbox One but no TV guide

Microsoft Xbox One
Adam Turner 12:30pm | The Xbox One definitely won't have launch-day access to the live TV Electronic Program Guide.

'Powerful and here to stay': US firm claims first 3D-printed metal gun

3D printed metal gun.
11:06am | A Californian engineering company says it has produced the first metal gun made on a 3D printer, releasing a video showing the firearm scoring repeated bullseyes in successful tests.

iPad Air v iPad mini with Retina display

ipad
ADAM TURNER | With the new full-sized iPad's dramatic weight loss, you might think twice about purchasing the tiny iPad mini.

Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords: sources

Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency.
Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel | Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources say.

Nokia: a lesson in how high-tech flyers can fall fast

What Nokia had going for it in 2009, two years after the first iPhone: The Nokia 6710
Raine Tiessalo 11:42am | In just five years Nokia fell from dominating the mobile phone industry to abandoning the handset business, a swift fall from grace with lessons for market leaders.

Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop mulling Windows shift: sources

Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
Peter Burrows and Dina Bass 12:45pm | Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s chief executive officer, would consider breaking with decades of tradition by focusing the company’s strategy around making the popular Office software programs like Word, Excel and PowerPoint available on a broad variety of smartphones and tablets, including those made by Apple and Google, said three people with knowledge of his thinking.

Device turns smartphone alerts into smells

Scentee.
Eva Recinos 12:05pm | Your choice of phone alert noise may say something about your personality. But what does it say if you give your notifications specific smells?
 

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