Microsoft announces seven version of Windows 10, Google updates Fit with more features & Wolfram claims they can identify any picture, so we put it to the test!

Plus Bill Nye the Science guy is also the Planetary Guy. We discuss his ambitious new Kickstarter.

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Wolfram has created a website that will identify any image you throw at it | The Verge

“It won’t always get it right, but most of the time I think it does remarkably well,” Wolfram writes. “And to me what’s particularly fascinating is that when it does get something wrong, the mistakes it makes mostly seem remarkably human.” In some brief testing, that’s a pretty fair assessment. I plugged in things like Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome and was told it was “elevation,” while a photo of a gecko was identified as a “night lizard.” Remarkably though, it identified a picture of a cow as “black angus,” and two cups of ice cream as “frozen yogurt.” Close enough.

Official Android Blog: Google Fit: Make every step count

Google Fit now estimates distance and calories burned. Simply update your profile to include gender, height and weight and we’ll let you know how far you’ve gone and estimated calories you’ve burned off throughout the day and during your workouts.

Introducing Windows 10 Editions

As in the past, we will offer different Windows editions that are tailored for various device families and uses. These different editions address specific needs of our various customers, from consumers to small businesses to the largest enterprises.

US Government Gets Impatient, Wants Cars to Talk To Each Other Now

In the future every car will talk with other cars on the road through vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V). But the government doesn’t think that tech is coming soon enough. The US Department of Transportation announced yesterday that it will accelerate efforts to mandate V2V on American roads.

As The Verge notes, the NTSHA already has plans to deliver a proposal for regulations and standards for V2V technology by 2016. But the USDOT wants them sooner.

LightSail: A Revolutionary Solar Sailing Spacecraft by Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society — Kickstarter

Unlimited free energy from the sun will provide CubeSat propulsion and revolutionize access to space for low-cost citizen projects.

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We meta-cover the iPhone 6 reviews & discuss the pros and cons of large format mobiles. Then the updates coming to almost all Android phones, Microsoft’s bad news, Docker’s great news & hacking your Amazon account via an ebook exploit!

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iPhone 6 Plus review | The Verge

I can’t see myself ever using my iPad mini again after having the 6 Plus, and it’s getting harder and harder to justify pulling out my iPad Air. With the right software changes, I could basically use an iPhone 6 Plus all day long, for everything from sending messages to editing documents to watching videos. A do-everything phone like the 6 Plus would eventually allow Apple to push the iPad even further towards becoming the true laptop replacement it was always meant to be.

We’re going to need bigger hands.

• First iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Reviews: ‘Thin and Sexy’, ‘Bigger and Better’, Impressive Battery Life Up to 2 Days

• Daring Fireball: The iPhones 6

t I have no desire to use an iPhone 6 Plus as my personal phone. I ordered an iPhone 6 for my own use. And if the iPhone 6 Plus were the only new iPhone this year, I probably would have stuck with the iPhone 5S.

Google Play Services Updated for Testing Google Fit Apps

oogle has begun rolling out Google Play services 6.1 with a set of new APIs for developers. The new features include an Enhanced Ecommerce extension for analytics, improvements to Drive support, and testing capabilities for the upcoming Google Fit platform.

Enhanced Ecommerce provides “richer insights into pre-purchase shopping behavior and into product performance.”

Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources | ZDNet

Microsoft cut 13,000 employees total in the first wave back in July. That wave included some, but not all, of the former Nokia employees, my contacts say. It also included employees in the Operating Systems Group and just about every other group across the company. Microsoft also is planning to reduce its dependency on “contingent” (non full-time) employees by 20 percent as part of its realignment.

I am not sure how many will be cut in this week’s round, which I’ve heard will be announced internally this Thursday, September 18. But I do hear that the second round of cuts will span across almost every group at the company. I’ve also heard there still will be more cuts happening as part of the original 18,000 total at further dates in the future.

Docker Raises $40M, Plans New Enterprise Tool for 2015

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker container technology, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding. The new round of funding comes on the heels of the Docker 1.0 release and the emergence of a commercial ecosystem around the container virtualization technology.

The Series C round of funding is the second funding event for Docker in 2014. In January, Docker announced a $15 million funding round.

The latest funding round brings Dockers’ total funding since its founding to $66 million, CEO Ben Golub said, adding that Docker has only now just begun spending the Series A funding money and is starting to tap into the Series B funds. “We closed the Series C pre-emptively, so we would have a full powder keg to go after the market opportunity,” G

Amazon Kindle vulnerability lets hackers take over your account – The Inquirer

AMAZON’S KINDLE has been found to be vulnerable to a type of malware that is triggered by downloading an ebook with a booby-trap.

Security researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler has demonstrated a proof of concept attack the uses cross-site scripting (XSS) to infect a computer opening a sideloaded title containing code.

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