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Video: Apple WWDC 2014: What To Expect

June 1, 2014 in Business and Finance by Business

If you use an iPhone, iPad or Mac, Monday is the day everything changes. At 10 a.m. local time, an Apple executive, probably CEO Tim Cook, will trot onstage at San Francisco's Moscone Center to kick off the keynote for the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference to unveil the next generation of software for all its devices. iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 will be shown to the public for the first time, each with plenty of new features.
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Video: Australian Airlines Resume Flights As Ash Cloud Dissipates

June 1, 2014 in Travel by Travel

Australian airlines forced to cancel flights due to a volcanic ash cloud from Indonesia?s Sangeang Api volcano resumed flying on Sunday as the plume cleared. Manager of the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Emile Jansons told Reuters, that ?With the volcano continuing to erupt, we can still see a significant amount of ash around the volcano at the moment.
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Video: Is Jupiter Earth’s Friend Or Foe?

June 1, 2014 in Science & Technology by Science

Is Jupiter a friendly planet, Earth's enemy, or perhaps both? For decades, scientists have talked about how the giant gas planet keeps some asteroids from striking our small world, while others have pointed out that Jupiter's gravity could send some civilization-shattering asteroids our way. While that debate goes on, a subtler question arises about how influential Jupiter was in the early Solar System. Jupiter is by far the heavyweight planet in the Solar System, weighing in at 320 Earth masses. Its gravity not only influences small asteroids that go by, but also tugs on other planets in the solar system ? including our own.??
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