Iran Bans Pokemon Go, Cites Security Threat and other top stories.

• Iran Bans Pokemon Go, Cites Security Threat

  

  The Iranian regime apparently has little tolerance for virtual monsters. On Friday, Iran officially became the first nation to ban Pokemon Go, the dizzyingly popular mobile phone app game that has taken the world by storm in recent months. Some countries, like Indonesia, have placed partial bans on the use of Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go uses augmented reality technology. It combines a real world map and superimposes virtual cartoon images in the cameras of mobile phones. Players walk around hunting ..

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• Apple's $200 Million Turi Acquisition To Challenge Google, Amazon And Facebook In Pervasive Computing

  

  Apple puts the pedal to the metal to take over its rivals from Google, Amazon and Facebook in machine learning capabilities, and for that it recently purchased Turi, an AI startup from Seattle. Turi's technologies should help Apple boost its advances in pervasive computing capabilities. For those who skipped that lesson, pervasive computing allows a software (such as a virtual assistant) to make appropriate suggestions to a user on whatever topic they may ask about. For example, the suggestions..

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• Google's Self-Driving Car Leader Exits

  

  The face of the Google self-driving car effort has left the project at a crucial juncture as the company tries to transition its driverless-car technology into a commercial product. Chris Urmson, the project’s chief technology officer and former director, said in a blog post Friday that he was leaving Google parent Alphabet Inc. and was “ready for a fresh challenge.” He gave no clear reason for his departure nor hint of his...

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• New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears

  

  Media captionDisappointment: Cern's Dr Marco Delmastro speaks to Horizon on BBC2 Hopes for the imminent discovery of a particle that might fundamentally change our understanding of the Universe have been put on hold. Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a new particle, has gone away.The discovery of new particles, which could trigger a paradigm shift in physics, may still be years away.All the latest LHC results ar..

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• Snapchat's biggest threat is its own design

  

  With the introduction of Instagram stories this week, the internet had a collective conniption fit over the cloning of one of Snapchat’s most popular features. Now, in addition to posting a pristine filtered photo to your Instagram timeline, you also can snap a rough selfie, doodle over it, and watch it disappear after 24 hours. Instagram didn’t even bother to alter the name, and its CEO doesn’t seem embarrassed about it. "You’re going to see stories pop up in other networks over time, because ..

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• How do sunflowers follow the sun's path? A circadian clock revealed.

  

  True to their name, young sunflowers greet the sun each morning with their heads turned east to catch its rays. Throughout the day, they follow its movement until the sun sets in the west at night, and the cycle begins again.But just how sunflowers can do that has long been a mystery – until now. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the heliotropic sunflower uses both circadian rhythms and heliotropism (bending and turning toward the light) to enhance its performance in th..

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• What to do about toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps

  

  Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political.Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly.Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland ice..

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• How the New iPhone Could Quash Wireless Price Hikes

  

  U.S. wireless carriers are talking about raising prices. But the impending arrival of a new iPhone could be reason to doubt their sincerity. Verizon Communications already raised prices last month, and Sprint and T-Mobile US have stated their willingness to consider the same. AT&T, which hasn’t changed its pricing in almost a year, could also be due for an increase. But price increases in a competitive industry are only...

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