The next version of iOS arrives on 19 September 2012 for the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S, plus the iPad 2 and third-generation iPad, and the fourth-generation iPod touch.

 

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En ny art av markatta har upptäckts i regnskogarna i Centralafrika.

Köparen av en häst har stämt säljaren vid Varbergs tingsrätt, och kräver pengarna tillbaka.

En man har hittats död på en rastplats längs riksväg 26 i Vansbro.

Esther Schindler writes "When Star Trek hit the air waves, talking computers were just a pipe dream. While teleportation remains elusive, several once-fictional technologies are changing the way people live and work. Here are some ways in which we're approaching the gizmos that Star Trek demonstrated. Speech recognition? Check. Holodeck? Sort of. Replicator? Workin' on it."

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puddingebola sends this excerpt from an article at ScienceNow: "Scientists have enabled deaf gerbils to hear again — with the help of transplanted cells that develop into nerves that can transmit auditory information from the ears to the brain. The advance, reported today in Nature, could be the basis for a therapy to treat various kinds of hearing loss. ... Rivolta and his colleagues knew that during embryonic development, a handful of proteins, including fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 3 and 10, are required for ears to form. So they exposed human embryonic stem cells to FGF3 and FGF10. Multiple types of cells formed, including precursor inner-ear hair cells, but they were also able to identify and isolate the cells beginning to differentiate into the desired spiral ganglion neurons. Then, they implanted the neuron precursor cells into the ears of gerbils with damaged ear neurons and followed the animals for 10 weeks. The function of the neurons was restored.'"

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EU-parlamentet godkände i dag sanktioner mot Island och Färöarna efter deras höjda fiskekvoter.

De 200 medlemmarna i Libyens nationalkongress valde i dag teknokraten Mustafa Abu Shagur till landets nye premiärminister.

Lokföraren missade en station. De drabbade resenärerna fick hjälp.

En man blev knivhuggen i halsen i Hallsberg i kväll.

Sedan en obemannad båt i kväll setts på sjön Råneträsk hittades en avliden 60-årig man på onsdagskvällen i vattnet av stugägare, rapporterar Norrbottenspolisen.

An anonymous reader writes "A Wired article discusses the relative decline of Dell, HP, and IBM in the server market over the past few years. Whereas those three companies once provided 75% of Intel's server chip revenue, those revenues are now split between the big three and five other companies as well. Google is fifth on the list. 'It's the big web players that are moving away from the HPs and the Dells, and most of these same companies offer large "cloud" services that let other businesses run their operations without purchasing servers in the first place. To be sure, as the market shifts, HP, Dell, and IBM are working to reinvent themselves. Dell, for instance, launched a new business unit dedicated to building custom gear for the big web players — Dell Data Center Services — and all these outfits are now offering their own cloud services. But the tide is against them.'"

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