Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

A plane-size asteroid buzzes by Earth undetected – CNET

A big space rock slipped right by us last week and was only spotted as it left our cosmic neighborhood.
Source: CNET

Now that the iPod's dead, let's kill iTunes, too – CNET

Apple just killed off its groundbreaking music player. It’s the perfect opportunity to whack iTunes, too.
Source: CNET

Meteor shower season is here and this is the weekend to watch – CNET

August is normally prime time for shooting stars. This year a full moon and multiple showers mean the time to check out the night sky comes early.
Source: CNET

Twitter can't attract more tweeters to save its life – CNET

Even with all the attention from President Trump and Twitter’s central role in politics, the social network wasn’t able to convince more of us to start tweeting.
Source: CNET

Dropbox is reportedly inching closer to a potential IPO

 Dropbox may be taking another step in its very slow shuffle toward an IPO, and is now working with Goldman Sachs to prepare documents that could be filed as soon as this year, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company is expected to hire Goldman Sachs as the lead advisor of the IPO process, according to the report. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Amazon launches ‘The Hub’, parcel delivery lockers for apartment buildings

 Amazon may be getting ever deeper into a range of virtual products like media content and cloud services, but it is also continuing to add more features to lock down the bread and butter of its business: its e-commerce marketplace and the vast logistics operation that underpins it.
Today, Amazon quietly unveiled a new service called The Hub, lockers designed to be installed in multi-tenant… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Google’s cord cutter app YouTube TV reaches 2 million downloads

 Approximately 2 million people have installed the YouTube TV app, Google’s live TV service aimed at a younger generation of cord cutters, as well as those who never signed up for traditional pay TV in the first place. That download figure comes from app store analytics firms Sensor Tower and App Annie, which both also noted that installs are evenly split between iOS and Android devices. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Scientists Crispr the First Human Embryos in the US (Maybe)

The research was conducted by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the same guy who first cloned embryonic stem cells in humans. And came up with three-parent in-vitro fertilization.
Source: Wired

Su próximo iPhone podría incluir un sensor láser para percibir el mundo

La nueva función podría impulsar los esfuerzos de Apple para desarrollar aplicaciones más realistas de realidad aumentada. Y el coste para la compañía de integrar el nuevo hardware en uno de sus teléfonos no llegaría ni a los dos euros

Source: MIT

Nuevos embriones humanos modificados genéticamente baten todos los récords

La investigación, la primera de su tipo reportada en EEUU, demuestra que es posible editar el ADN de embriones humanos para evitar enfermedades genéticas hereditarias mediante la técnica CRISPR. Por seguridad, los embriones sólo se desarrollaron durante unos días 

Source: MIT