Snapchat funds 'Real Life' internet magazine examining tech and modern life and other top stories.

• Snapchat funds 'Real Life' internet magazine examining tech and modern life

  

  If you’ve been aching for some high-minded chatter on the topic of how we, as social animals living in a postmodern society, interact with and are affected by social media and technology, you’re in luck. Snapchat is funding a site called “Real Life” on which just such chatter will be published. The site, headed by “social media theorist” and Snapchat researcher Nathan Jurgenson, will be posting one article a day on various topics, but not app reviews or hot takes on the latest web drama. “Popu..

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• UK astronaut Tim Peake's capsule has separated from ISS

  

  Media captionTim Peake enters the Soyuz TMA-19M before separating from the ISS Tim Peake is now on his way back to Earth after the spacecraft he is in undocked from the International Space Station (ISS).The Soyuz capsule carrying Major Peake and two other crew members will land in Kazakhstan at 10:15 BST on Saturday.During his stay, he made the first spacewalk by a UK astronaut and remotely steered a robot on Earth.He is the first person to visit space under the UK banner since Helen Sharma..

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• NASA Unveils Plans for Electric-Powered Plane

  

  Photo An artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft showing the plane’s specially designed wings and 14 electric motors. Credit NASA Langley/Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc. A new experimental airplane being built by NASA could help push electric-powered aviation from a technical curiosity and pipe dream into something that might become commercially viable for small aircraft.At a conference on Friday of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Was..

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• 6 counterfeit iPhones from Chinese manufacturers

  

  Apple is one of the biggest targets when it comes to Chinese smartphone knockoffs — it's not uncommon to hear about a device being sold overseas that looks strikingly similar to the iPhone.  So it came as a surprise on Friday when a battle between Apple and China over an iPhone patent entered the public eye, calling Apple a copycat manufacturer.  Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Baili alleges the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus designs infringe upon its own 100C smartphone intellectual property, according to ..

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• Nintendo talks mobile gaming, VR and its future at E3

  

  Nintendo has never been afraid to go against the grain of prevailing industry trends. In fact, the refusal to follow the pack has become a defining aspect of the gaming giant’s business strategy during the ascendance of chief console competitors Sony and Microsoft. So it comes as no surprise, really, that it did something markedly different at this year’s E3 show. But just how different came as a bit of a surprise to many who follow the industry closely. Even as rumblings about a new console t..

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• Why You Can't Have A Rifle Emoji

  

  You might only be able to acquire somebody's gun when you pry it from their cold, dead hands, as the NRA's slogan often goes, but it takes a lot less work to remove someone's gun emoji. According to BuzzFeed, the rifle emoji had a chance of making it on the list of new emoji that Unicode, the organization in charge of them, was creating for 2016. However, that was not to be, and Apple was one of the larger voices rallying against its inclusion. Though a rifle was scheduled to be coded up for the..

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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Will Webcast Rocket Launch Live On Sunday

  

  A New Shepard suborbital vehicle, built by the commercial spaceflight company Blue Origin, ascends skyward. The company will attempt to launch and land the same vehicle for a fourth consecutive time this Sunday (June 19). Credit: Blue Origin The commercial spaceflight company Blue Origin will attempt to launch a New Shepard vehicle for the fourth consecutive time this Sunday (June 19), and the event will be webcast live, a first for the typically secretive company. The reusable New S..

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