Always Tech News: October 2014

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reportedly crashes after launch

Virgin Galactic's latest plane/rocket, dubbed "SpaceShipTwo", reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff this morning above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Director Stu Witt told Bakersfield, California's KGET that the plane crashed east...

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Has Crashed, Possible Casualties

Virgin Galactic is reporting that there has been an "in-flight anomaly" aboard SpaceShip Two. There are unconfirmed reports that one of the two pilots is dead. The suborbital flight took off at 9:19am PDT from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in New Mexico.

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HP's Gaudy Smartwatch Will Be Surprisingly Affordable

NASA Carves Pumpkins Better Than You Ever Could

Put a man on the Moon? Sure. Establish a continuously orbiting zero-gravity laboratory? Easy. Parachute a rover onto Mars? Ain't no thang. Okay, fine NASA, but can you carve a pumpkin?

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Roku Now Has Google Play, Is Pretty Much Unstoppable

Shelters ban black cat adoption on Halloween to prevent animal torture

A black cat crossing your path is supposed to be bad luck, but around Halloween, many animal shelters try to hide black cats from peoples' paths to keep the animals safe from people, not the other way around.

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If You Got The New PS4 Update, Don't Use Rest Mode

Earlier this week, Sony released a new patch for the PlayStation 4, and if you've downloaded it, here's my advice: be very, very careful.

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Not really into the iPhone 6? Sprint lets you rent the Galaxy S5, too

If you prefer to carry Samsung's most recent handset instead of that newfangled iPhone 6, Sprint is now offering the Android option for lease. Until now, the carrier allowed customers to rent Apple's phone for $20 a month for two years. After that,...

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Sky could be preparing to launch an MVNO on Vodafone's network

When BT finally gets round to launching its own-brand mobile network running on EE's 4G infrastructure, it'll join Virgin Media and TalkTalk as a provider of all four main telecoms services: TV, internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile. This would...

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Microsoft releases new Outlook for Mac to Office 365 subscribers

Already using Office 365 on your Mac? Well, if you fancy Microsoft's email software too, you're in luck. The new version of Outlook for Mac is now available to the aforementioned subscribers, and it carries a smattering of new features. Aside from...

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Virginia court says fingerprint-locked smartphones are fair game

Here's some trivia for your next trip to the pub. Did you know that, in Virginia, you don't have to tell the cops your phone's unlock code, but you're obliged to open it if you use a fingerprint based passcode? It's a quirky piece of legal precedent...

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Starbucks' new app will let you skip the line and sort delivery

Love your morning coffee break, but hate having to wait in line amongst the masses? Well, Starbucks will allow you to skip the line entirely with its new app. Just place your order via that trusty smartphone, and you'll be able to walk in and pick it...

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Oh, the irony: Facebook works on the world's biggest anonymity network

Facebook, the site where people share their entire personal lives for everyone to gawp at, is now available on the anonymity network that's designed to do precisely the opposite. Follow this link in your Tor browser and you'll be able to tell friends...

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