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Amazon is testing a grocery store model in Seattle that works without checkout lines.

Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when they enter the store, and then sensors register items that shoppers pick up and automatically charge them to the Amazon app.

If a shopper puts the item back, they aren't charged.

The store offers ready-to-eat meals, staples like bread and milk and meal-making kits.

The store is in testing and open to Amazon employees in a beta program. It is expected to open to the public in early 2017.

The e-commerce powerhouse has also been dipping its toe into the physical realm. It has opened three bookstores in California, Oregon and Washington with traditional check outs. Two more are in the works in Illinois and Massachusetts.

Cowen & Co. analyst John Blackledge says the new grocery store is just one way that Amazon has been setting its sights on the food and beverage category, a lucrative $795 billion market. It also offers grocery delivery in some markets and Prime Now for last-minute items delivered in one or two hours.

"We are encouraged by Amazon's growing footprint in this category, which we see as ripe for potential disruption given younger demos increasingly purchasing food and beverage grocery items via digital channels," Blackledge said.

Amazon.com Inc. shares rose $18.69, or 2.5 percent, to $759.03 in afternoon trading Monday. Its shares are up almost 13 percent since a year ago.

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Amazon is testing a grocery store model in Seattle that works without checkout lines. Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when they enter the store, and then sensors register items that shoppers pick up and automatically charge them to the Amazon app. If a shopper puts the item back, they aren't charged.

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Airbus's vision for driverless flying taxis is one step closer to becoming a reality in 2020.

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Samsung -- still reeling from its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphone -- is recalling almost 3 million washing machines because they can explode.

Samsung Electronics and federal regulators announced the recall on Friday after reports that the lids of the machines can pop off violently while the laundry is spinning, posing an injury risk.

Samsung said it can happen when bedding, water-resistant or bulky items are washed on high speed. The drum can lose its balance, causing excessive vibrations that dislodge the lid.

Samsung was hit with a class action lawsuit over the machines in August. A customer in Texas said her washer "exploded with such ferocity that it penetrated the interior wall of her garage," according to court documents.

The South Korean company is already dealing with the recall of 1 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, which can burst into flames while charging.

In September, the CPSC told customers to "immediately stop using and power down" the Galaxy Note 7. The FAA told travelers to turn off their phones when flying, and the New York City transit system said to turn them off on trains and buses.

Related: Samsung warns that washing machines could explode

Samsung declined further comment about the washing machines.

The company is offering customers free in-home repair, with a one-year warranty extension, or a rebate to buy a new washer, from Samsung or another company, with free installation and removal of the old one. Customers who stick with Samsung get $150 toward their next washer.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 4, 2016: 9:47 AM ET

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The Shopify Hacker-Powered Security Story
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Hyperloop One, which aims to fulfill the vision of high-speed transportation promoted by Elon Musk, has signed a deal to develop a line between Dubai and UAE capital Abu Dhabi, Dubai reportedly announced this week.

No financial terms have been disclosed, but the project reportedly will have several stations throughout Dubai connecting the hyperloop system to Abu Dhabi.

Pods will carry passengers and cargo between the two.

Dubai's government-backed port operator, DP World, reportedly also has signed an agreement with Hyperloop One to look into using the technology at its industrial Jebel Ali port.

Dubai last month announced a competition inviting participants to present design plans for a hyperloop track between various airports.

Hyperloop Challenges

SpaceX, helmed by Musk, is building a mile-long test track for hyperloop pods in California.

Hyperloop One, which is constructing a test track in the Nevada desert, this spring demonstrated a mag-lev Hyperloop sled that ran for 100 yards or so.

Musk proposed the hyperloop concept as a way to bring high-speed travel to California. A hyperloop journey between Los Angeles and San Francisco would take about 30 minutes.

SpaceX also has a Hyperloop competition under way. An MIT team won the first round in February.

Why the Middle East?

Abu Dhabi and the Emirates "would be a good choice, because the Emirates are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a project like this," said Jim McGregor, a principal analyst at Tirias Research.

"Doing this in the United States would be a political disaster, because the final cost is likely to be exponentially higher than the original optimistic estimates," he told TechNewsWorld.

Investment documents indicate Hyperloop One plans to raise up to US$250 million in its next funding round early next year; it reportedly raised $50 million last month.

The cost of the Hyperloop One projects could exceed Musk's original projections substantially, based on internal estimates in company documents, but Hyperloop One has forecast huge profits for itself and its partners.

When Musk floated the hyperloop concept in 2013, he estimated that a route between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area would cost about $6 billion.

That figure raised doubts from the get-go. Among those opposed to Musk's concept and critical of his estimates are proponents of a $68 billion high-speed rail project that has been years in the making.

Other Problems for Hyperloop

Regulatory and other issues also could have driven the hyperloop project abroad.

"Here in the United States, a project has to be competitive with other forms of transportation -- and there many alternatives," observed Michael Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.

U.S. regulators haven't a clue how to deal with the hyperloop, he told TechNewsWorld.

Further, safety is an issue, because "you've got this thing going at marginal supersonic speeds 20 feet above ground, and if a truck or something ran into one of the supports and damaged or knocked down a tube, you've got a ballistic missile," Jude said. "The liability is going to be unthinkable."

Such projects must be cost-justified in the U.S., which might be difficult, he suggested, and there is also the specter of terrorism.

There are no markets outside the U.S. that would support a hyperloop, Jude maintained.

"This is a solution looking for a problem," he said. It's hideously expensive, and it's a great terrorist target."

Richard Adhikari has written about high-tech for leading industry publications since the 1990s and wonders where it's all leading to. Will implanted RFID chips in humans be the Mark of the Beast? Will nanotech solve our coming food crisis? Does Sturgeon's Law still hold true? You can connect with Richard on Google+.

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Scientists have used a wireless brain implant to bypass the spinal cord injuries of two paralysed rhesus macaques, giving them the ability to walk again.

The system - which wirelessly transmits decoded brain signals to stimulate the muscles responsible for leg movement - represents the first time a neural prosthetic has restored locomotion in a primate.

While the brain-spinal interface has only been tested on macaques so far, the team behind the research says one day the technology could help restore the ability to walk in humans paralysed by spinal cord injuries.

"The system we have developed uses signals recorded from the motor cortex of the brain to trigger coordinated electrical stimulation of nerves in the spine that are responsible for locomotion," says engineer David Borton from Brown University.

"With the system turned on, the animals in our study had nearly normal locomotion."

When we walk, electrical signals that originate in the brain's motor cortex are sent down to the lumbar region in the lower spinal cord. Once there, they activate motor neurons that help us coordinate the movement of leg muscles necessary for walking.

But injuries to the upper spine can sever this communication channel between the brain and the lower spinal cord - meaning the signals can't get through to coordinate our leg movements.

The goal of the team - which involved collaborators in Switzerland and Germany - was to restore this lost movement, by sending the same brain signals wirelessly, bypassing the severed nerves altogether.

In the system, which builds upon previous sensor technology called BrainGate, a pill-sized electrode array is implanted in the brain to capture movement signals generated by the motor cortex.

A wireless sensor then broadcasts the signals to a computer, which decodes them, before sending them wirelessly back to an electrical stimulator implanted in the lumbar spine - below the area of spinal injury.

This stimulation signals to spinal nerves, which activate leg muscles.

To calibrate the system, the researchers implanted the neural interface in healthy macaques, so they could capture the animals' brain signals that correspond to normal leg movement and locomotion.

They then tested the implants on two animals that had temporary paralysis due to spinal cord lesions in their thoracic spine (the upper and middle back).

With the interface and receiver activated, the animals spontaneously began to move their legs and could walk on a treadmill with almost normal motion, as you can see in the video below:

According to the researchers, the ability to restore movement without wires is crucial, as wired brain-sensing systems can restrict freedom of movement.

"Doing this wirelessly enables us to map the neural activity in normal contexts and during natural behaviour," says Borton. "If we truly aim for neuroprosthetics that can someday be deployed to help human patients during activities of daily life, such untethered recording technologies will be critical."

It's a pretty huge accomplishment, but the team cautions that there are a number of limitations with the system so far.

The interface still requires a separate computer capable of decoding the signals, and more significantly, the wireless signals currently only get sent one way: from the brain to the legs.

Of course, in regular walking, our legs and feet also send sensory information back up to the brain, helping inform our balance, pace, and coordination.

Figuring out that puzzle is the next step for the researchers.

"In a full translational study, we would want to do more quantification about how balanced the animal is during walking and measure the forces they're able to apply," says Borton.

The team also stresses that it may be several years before we see this system used in humans, but even so, it's still hugely exciting to get a glimpse of the potential of this wireless device.

Short of using the interface to restore movement when the sensors are activated, the system might also one day be used as a rehabilitation tool, to get people back on their feet and relearn, step by step, how to walk again without assistance.

"There's an adage in neuroscience that circuits that fire together wire together," says Borton.

"The idea here is that by engaging the brain and the spinal cord together, we may be able to enhance the growth of circuits during rehabilitation. That's one of the major goals of this work and a goal of this field in general."

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Scientists have used a wireless brain implant to bypass the spinal cord injuries of two paralysed rhesus macaques, giving them the ability to walk again. The system - which wirelessly transmits decoded brain signals to stimulate the muscles responsible for leg movement - represents the first time a neural prosthetic has restored locomotion in a primate.

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PHOENIX - McDonald's plans to do something that no other restaurant has ever done before by running a entire restaurant by robots named as "McRobots".
The restaurant is set to open by the end of July and will still employee 3 humans to insure all of the robots are working correctly. If the test launch for the store is a success, visitors to the restaurant can soon expect to see these new robots working in harmony at a speed of 50 times faster than the average human employee.

I have worked with the machines in a product development facility in San Francisco for over six months. These robots are great! They get their work done in a fast and orderly manner" says Jay Allen, a new store manager who has been under training for a robotic restaurant.

Mr. Milton Waddam, 42, an unemployed fast food worker, told reporters he is extremely disappointed by the McDonald's decision to employ only robots. He also said :

I completed two job interviews with McDonald's and was scheduled to start working once the new store opens. I need a job, I need money. Then I hear of this new robot McDonald's instead of a regular human one and my dreams are completely shattered. I don't know what I'm going to do. My mom wants me out of the house at the end of the month, so now I'm going to have to find another place to crash I guess. Fuc*king McDonald's. I could set the building on fire.

Experts believe that McDonald's stocks will rise after employee salaries will be eliminated. McDonald's says it is projecting to make a full financial turnaround and see their stock (MCD) return to $105/share which was originally set back in 2014.

McDonald's has been playing with the idea of a restaurant run entirely by robots for years. The high margins of human error, cost of employment, and poor hygiene, as well as the recent advancements in artificial intelligence just make sense to automate fast food. In what McDonald's has been referring to the robots as the "McRobots".

"So a robot is gonna make food and take orders? That's just not right. If anyone should know this, it's me. I'm a people person, I deal with the customer so they don't have to make their own burgers. I have skills people!" - says Former grill cook, David Hatala.

McDonald's spokesman Paul smith said he is excited for automated workforce, hence a more reliable and affordable one.

"Robots are the future of McDonald's in the United States and around the world. Human workers want more pay and this has created giant protests which need our attention now before it is too late. Robots will decrease prices, increase productivity and make for better food." - Paul said.

It is still unclear at this time what the robots look like or how customers will complete transactions as this information is being kept under strict confidentiality.

In the end, it will come down to what is best for the shareholders and the customers. The workers, not so much.

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HONG KONG * A recall of webcams linked to a major cyber attack in the United States last week will involve up to 10,000 of the compromised devices, Chinese manufacturer Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co. told Reuters on Tuesday.

Xiongmai said it would recall some surveillance cameras sold in the U.S. on Monday after security researchers identified they had been targeted in the attack, which rendered Twitter, Spotify and dozens of other major websites unavailable.

Friday's cyber attack alarmed security experts because it represented a new type of threat rooted in the proliferation of simple devices such as webcams which often lack proper security.

Hackers found a way to harness hundreds of thousands of them globally to flood a target with so much traffic that it couldn't cope, cutting access to some of the world's best known websites.

The disruptions come at a time of unprecedented fears about the cyber threat in the United States, where hackers have breached political organizations and election agencies.

Liu Yuexin, Xiongmai's marketing director, told Reuters the company would recall the first few batches of surveillance cameras made in 2014 that monitor rooms or shops for personal, rather than industrial, use.

Xiongmai had now fixed loopholes in earlier products, prompting users to change default passwords and having telnet access blocked, Liu said. He declined to give an exact number of vulnerable devices, but estimated it at less than 10,000.

Devices using the firm's components in China and elsewhere were unlikely to suffer from similar attacks because they were more frequently used for industrial purposes and within more secure intranet networks, he added.

"The reason why there has been such a massive attack in the U.S. and (one) is not likely going to be in China is that most of our products in China are industrial devices used within a closed intranet only," Liu said.

"Those in the U.S. are consumer devices exposed in the public domain," he added.

Liu said surveillance cameras with core modules made by Xiongmai were widely used for banks, shops and housing estate surveillance in China. The firm is a "top three supplier" in China, he said, but declined to name specific clients.

Beyond the recall, Liu added the firm may take measures to enhance the safety of its products by migrating to safer operating systems and adding further encryption.

"Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been subject to cyber attacks because they are mostly based on the Linux open source system," he said. "Our R&D department had been looking to develop products based on other systems since 2015 and plan to do more in the future."

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HONG KONG * A recall of webcams linked to a major cyber attack in the United States last week will involve up to 10,000 of the compromised devices, Chinese manufacturer Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co. told Reuters on Tuesday. Xiongmai said it would recall some surveillance cameras sold in the U.S.

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Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say.

Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday.

Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website.

Security analysts now believe the attack used the "internet of things" - web-connected home devices - to launch the assault.

Dyn is a DNS service - an internet "phone book" which directs users to the internet address where the website is stored. Such services are a crucial part of web infrastructure.

On Friday, it came under attack - a distributed denial of service (DDoS) - which relies on thousands of machines sending co-ordinated messages to overwhelm the service.

The "global event" involved "tens of millions" of internet addresses.

Security firm Flashpoint said it had confirmed that the attack used "botnets" infected with the "Mirai" malware.

Many of the devices involved come from Chinese manufacturers, with easy-to-guess usernames and passwords that cannot be changed by the user - a vulnerability which the malware exploits.

"Mirai scours the Web for IoT (Internet of Things) devices protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords," explained cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, "and then enlists the devices in attacks that hurl junk traffic at an online target until it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors or users."

The owner of the device would generally have no way of knowing that it had been compromised to use in an attack, he wrote.

Mr Krebs is intimately familiar with this type of incident, after his website was targeted by a similar assault in September, in one of the biggest web attacks ever seen.

Have hackers turned my printer into an offensive weapon?

Do smart devices mean dumb security?

Media affected by attack - Leo Kelion, technology desk editor

It has emerged that the BBC's website was also briefly caught up in Friday's attack. The BBC is not a customer of Dyn itself, but it does use third-party services that rely on the domain name system hosting facilities provided by Dyn.

I understand that these include Amazon Web Services - the retail giant's cloud computing division - and Fastly - a San Francisco-based firm that helps optimise page download times.

Both companies have acknowledged being disrupted by the DDoS assault. Only some BBC users, in certain locations, would have experienced problems and they did not last long.

But there are reports that other leading media providers also experienced similar disruption.

It serves as a reminder that despite the internet being a hugely robust communications system, there are still some pinch points that mean a targeted attack can cause widespread damage.

The incidents mark a change in tactics for online attackers.

DDoS attacks are typically aimed at a single website. Friday's attack on Dyn, which acts as a directory service for huge numbers of firms, affected several of the world's most popular websites at once.

The use of internet-connected home devices to send the attacking messages is also a relatively new phenomenon, but may become more common.

The Mirai software used in these attacks was released publicly in September - which means anyone with the skill could build their own attacking botnet.

On social media, many researchers and analysts expressed frustration with the security gap being exploited by attackers.

"Today we answered the question 'what would happen if we connected a vast number of cheap, crummy embedded devices to broadband networks?'" wrote Matthew Green, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.

Jeff Jarmoc, head of security for global business service Salesforce, pointed out that internet infrastructure is supposed to be more robust.

"In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters," he tweeted.

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An Australian says an iPhone 7 that he bought a week ago ruined his car after it caught on fire while he was surfing.

Apple is aware of the incident and is currently investigating, a spokesperson tells Business Insider.

Apparently, the surfer left the phone in his car in his pants pocket while he went out to catch some waves.

When he came back, his car was filled with smoke and its interior had suffered some major damage.

He blames his new iPhone, which he told Australia's 7 News that he never previously dropped.

The news comes shortly after Samsung said that it was discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 phone because it had a tendency to burst into flames. That recall will cost Samsung billions of dollars, and President Barack Obama even made a joke about the device.

That's not to say that an iPhone 7 recall is likely or on the table at this point.

All phones with lithium ion batteries have a chance to go up in flames, because of the chemical composition of the battery. And if the car was hot - it is almost summer in Australia - that could've contributed to the issue, too.

Apple said earlier this year that it has sold 1 billion iPhones, so there are a lot of them out in the wild.

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First, it was flaming smartphones. Now it's exploding washing machines.

That's the situation Samsung found itself in last week when the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning about certain top-load washing machines made by the company between March 2011 and April 2016.

"CPSC is advising consumers to only use the delicate cycle when washing bedding, water-resistant and bulky items," reads a statement at the commission's website. "The lower spin speed in the delicate cycle lessens the risk of impact injuries or property damage due to the washing machine becoming dislodged."

Samsung and the CPSC have been discussing how to address safety issues associated with the washers, Samsung noted in a statement issued last week.

In rare cases, affected units may experience abnormal vibrations that could pose a risk of personal injury or property damage when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant items, the company explained.

However, it is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of millions of loads without incident since 2011, it added.

Class-Action Lawsuit

The CPSC warning comes a month after the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court over problems with the washers, The Washington Post reported.

The lawsuit, filed by three women from Texas, Indiana and Georgia, maintains Samsung has known about the problem with the washers for years but has done little to inform consumers about it.

A vulnerable washing machine may vibrate violently when taxed by a heavy load, the lawsuit points out, which can cause its tub to become unfastened, resulting in a centrifugal explosion that can destroy the machine and anything next to it.

A different brand of washer caused a similar problem for Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

"My wife and I had to jump on it to keep it from destroying the laundry room, and it still punched a big hole in a brand new wall," he told TechNewsWorld.

His washer's problem was caused by a faulty installation, Enderle explained.

"The installer had failed to remove the securing harness for the harmonic balancer, so the tub was massively out of balance," he said.

Brand Damage

Coming as it does on the heels of the Galaxy Note 7 problems, the washing machine issue likely will do massive damage to the Samsung brand, Enderle maintained.

"It showcases Samsung as a vendor that builds unsafe products, accentuates their historically horrid service and support, and resonates across very different product lines -- reflecting more on the parent brand than any one product," he said.

"This makes it look like Samsung is a brand that should be avoided like the plague," Enderle continued. "This is the kind of thing that can destroy a vendor."

It's possible Samsung can weather its recent storms, suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

"Samsung appears to be following proper procedures in regard to working with consumer safety organizations and alerting customers about the problem," he told TechNewsWorld. "I doubt this will have a lasting impact on the company's brand or reputation."

Galaxy Note 7

Samsung last month announced a voluntary recall and exchange program for versions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sold in the United States before Sept. 15.

The devices "can overheat and pose a safety risk," the company said in a statement.

In an update on the recall posted last week to its China website, Samsung reported more than 1 million consumers around the world were using safe Galaxy Note 7s with batteries not in danger of exploding.

"Currently, the brand new Note 7 products that have been swapped in overseas markets are using identical batteries to those that were supplied and used for the Chinese version," the update says.

Meanwhile, Southwest Airlines this week evacuated a plane after one of the "safe" phones reportedly began sparking and smoking.

Another "safe" new phone, purchased by a tech worker in China, reportedly burst into flames after being charged overnight.

John Mello is a freelance technology writer and contributor to Chief Security Officer magazine. You can connect with him on Google+.

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LOS ANGELES - After attacking rival Hillary Clinton on Twitter and Facebook, Donald Trump has turned to communications app Snapchat with a new debate day advertisement that calls his presidential rival "Crooked Hillary."

The Trump campaign bought a national "geofilter" to plug the Monday presidential debate on Snapchat, which has over 100 million, mostly young, users. This is Snapchat's first national, sponsored filter for a U.S. election. In the primary campaign, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders bought regional filters for the areas they were campaigning in, and Clinton's campaign was set to roll out her own Snapchat ads during the debate.

Snapchat's geofilters show up as a way to enhance a photo with text and pictures. After you snap a photo on Snapchat, you swipe and get generic stickers, which usually include the name of the city you live in, the time, different colors, and the lens. Consumers and companies can buy their own lenses to share with others on the communications app. Then, they couple these lenses with geofencing, so a Snapchat user can find the filter in certain areas, usually parks and concert venues. In the Trump filter's case, it will work anywhere in U.S.
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The ad, which goes over a photo, is titled "Debate Day, Donald J. Trump vs. Crooked Hillary," and features fireworks, stars and Trump's "Make America Great Again," slogan at the bottom.

According to a recent study by Pew Research, 24% of Americans get their political news from cable TV. But social media, at 14%, follows at No. 2, tied with local TV. Social media is one percentage point more than news websites for where people get their political news.

Michael Cornfield, a professor at George Washington University, called Trump's move "another example of how social media turns the editing process inside out.

In the old days, mass media guardians filtered out what wasn't documented as fact and what wasn't acceptable in civil society," but now the candidate go direct via social media.

"Trump seems to be ahead of many other politicians, including Hillary Clinton, in adjusting his strategy to this new environment."

The Clinton campaign had nothing good to say of the filter.

"Rather than actually try and persuade people, the Trump campaign is throwing money into a fire pit by spending an estimated $500,000 - more than twice as much as they spent on field offices all last month - on an untargeted national filter featuring a joke that, given Trump's deep unpopularity with young voters, will be used mainly at their own expense," said spokesperson Tyrone Gayle.

The Clinton campaign said it would have Snapchat ads with debate highlights that will appear in battleground states. They'll also have a filter at the campaign event in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday.

About Trump's use of name-calling in the ad, Snapchat says it has political guidelines for advertising and that Trump's words are no different from the language being used in TV ads.

Snapchat says it's guidelines say that ads can't feature content that "harasses, intimidates, threatens, or ridicules."

​The reaction online was heated. "It's impressive that he's managed to turn this entire election into a joke," wrote prominent blogger Justine Ezarik.

Over the weekend, Snapchat announced its first foray into consumer products, with Spectacles, $129 eyewear with a built-in video camera. The product will go on sale later this year.
Follow USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham on Twitter, @jeffersongraham. Contributing: Eliza Collins in Washington, D.C.

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The Spectacles come in thick frames and bright colors, and they'll be sold by Snap Inc.-the new name of the company. Snap's plans are more grandiose than the Snapchat app, and involve extending Snapchat's ethos into the sphere of hardware. As CEO Evan Spiegel explains in the WSJ:

Spiegel refers to it as a toy, to be worn for kicks at a barbecue or an outdoor concert-Spectacles video syncs wirelessly to a smartphone, making it easily shareable. "We're going to take a slow approach to rolling them out," says Spiegel. "It's about us figuring out if it fits into people's lives and seeing how they like it."

Why make this product, with its attendant risks, and why now? "Because it's fun," he says with another laugh.

Fun is certainly not the only reason Snap is getting into wearables. But fun is why they'll be a hit, at least compared to other techie glasses like Glass. Rather than attempting to disguise the wearable as a normal pair of glasses, or position it as a serious product, the company is embracing the sensational side of the concept. It's an approach that sounds a lot like its app: if there's one company that's capable of making you look like an idiot in public for fun-making faces at your own camera and totally not caring that you do-it's Snap.

Just look at those thick frames, presented in an electric robin's egg blue. They're self-assured. Overt. Capable of holding a battery, sure. And not trying to hide the two big cameras in the corners, each highlighted by an LED ring, which is most certainly for lowlight shooting.

Google Glass was garish and cyborgian. We can say that now, right? Can we finally all agree?

It's a design as confident as any millennial on Snapchat, which goes to show that, even though the product is really just a hands-free camera rather than some advanced augmented reality system, Snapchat isn't repeating the mistakes of the ill-fated Google Glass-or even the looming limitations of Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets or Microsoft's Hololens. Google Glass was garish and cyborgian (We can say that now, right? Can we finally all agree?). But it tried so hard not to be. Sure, it put a computer over your ear, but the entire frame of the first model was built as a wireframe, in the hopes that it would disappear on your face. Instead, Glass became a symbol of both our tech-fueled distraction and the invasiveness of the digital age. Not a good look!

But the truth is, wearable cameras freak people out. I learned that firsthand when I wore the Momento camera -which automatically took photos with very similar shoot-on-demand functionality to Spectacles-for a month on my shirt when my son was born. Some of the photos were amazing, irreplaceable, first-person moments I would have never photographed with a real camera. Yet, time and time again, friends and family would visit, take a look at the discrete camera clipped to my shirt, and tense up. They felt spied on, as if they were visiting a surveillance state. It's no wonder that the most ubiquitous wearable camera today is probably the one used by police forces.

And so enters Snap, with a new type of wearable glasses. They're post-hipster-dorky-cool, clunky and brash, and especially given that they'll be available only in a slow rollout while Snap tests the market, sure to sell out for the holiday season. The question to me, at this point, isn't whether Spectacles will be an instant hit-I obviously believe they will be-but where they go from here in terms of technology and UX. Because if there's one company with the technology and mindshare to literally change the way young people see the world, it's Snap. Hopefully they don't block too much of it out in the process.

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Snapchat's New Glasses Are As Silly As Snapchat (And That's Why They'll Be A Hit)

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A group of Chinese hackers have successfully exploited a vulnerability in the software running Tesla's Model S, becoming the first to show that the electric car can be remotely hacked.

The Keen Team have published a blog and video detailing the hack, revealing that an unmodified Tesla Model S running the latest version of the company's firmware could be controlled remotely, allowing the hackers to activate the brakes, unlock doors and hide rear view mirrors.

"With several months of in-depth research on Tesla Cars, we have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities and successfully implemented remote control on Tesla Model S in both Parking and Driving Mode," the group said on its blog. While hackers have previously shown they could hack a Tesla by hooking up a computer to the dashboard, this is the first time a successful remote exploit has been shown off.

Keen Team is the legitimate face of Chinese hacking and since January has been operating in partnership with gaming and social media giant Tencent - which itself has a big interest in electric and driverless cars having backed Chinese company Future Mobility which is aiming to have cars on the road by 2020.

The hack of the Tesla Model S comes as concern grows among the automotive industry that, as cars become ever more connected, the threats from hackers is increasing dramatically. Earlier this year hackers showed how they could remotely hijack a Jeep Cherokee while it was traveling at 70 mph on the highway, disabling it completely.

To counter this most car companies are now focusing more on securing their smart vehicles, and just last week Volkswagen announced that it was creating a company called CyMotive Technologies which is dedicated to automotive security.

The Keen Team hackers reported the flaw to Tesla before making it public and they are urging all Tesla owners to update the firmware on their cars to the latest version to protect themselves against similar attacks.

The group says it will reveal the exact details of how it bypassed Tesla's security once a patch has been issued, though on Twitter they have indicated that it was a browser-based exploit. When asked what information an attacker would need to identify and locate a target car, the researchers said: "Any browser-borne attack vector works, which covers many scenarios only restricted by imagination."

For Tesla the news will come as a further blow to its reputation following the high-profile fatality linked to the company's AutoPilot feature, which gives its cars semi-autonomous driving capabilities. Tesla has so far not commented on the exploit by Keen Team.

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A group of Chinese hackers have successfully exploited a vulnerability in the software running Tesla's Model S, becoming the first to show that the electric car can be remotely hacked.

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Drones Are Writing Tickets For Traffic Police On Highways In China

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It's time to brush up on your photo editing skills. Instagram is rolling out a feature that will let people get a closer, more intimate look at your pictures.

Appropriately called Zoom, the new addition will let people zoom in on photos and videos in their feeds.

The move is a welcomed one for avid Instagram users; one that feels intuitive for those used to zooming in on mobile photos.

Up until now, photos posted on Instagram have stayed in their static squares. The only way to inspect pictures was to take a screenshot of an Instagram post and zoom in outside of the photo-sharing platform.

Related: Instagram Stories is Facebook's latest Snapchat clone

"Finally my mom's stalking dreams have come true! I don't have to worry about her double tapping friends ancient grams anymore," tweeted one woman.

"I can FINALLY stop *accidentally* liking awkward photos in my misguided attempts to zoom in on Insta," tweeted another.

The feature rolls out on Wednesday to iOS users and will arrive on Android devices in the coming weeks.

The news comes on the heels of a series of updates intended to make the app stickier for users. The company recently introduced Instagram Stories earlier this month, a clone of Snapchat Stories that lets people post photos and video to a stream that disappears after 24 hours.

Other changes to Instagram over the past year include freshening up its logo and rolling out Boomberang, a short video feature that loops videos forwards then backwards.

CNNMoney (New York) First published August 31, 2016: 1:06 PM ET

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Appropriately called Zoom, the new addition will let people zoom in on photos and videos in their feeds. The move is a welcomed one for avid Instagram users; one that feels intuitive for those used to zooming in on mobile photos. Up until now, photos posted on Instagram have stayed in their static squares.

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality continue to be on the rise, but will we finally see it make a big splash into the education industry?

With schools like Penn State, Eastern Michigan University, University of Maryland and MIT already experimenting with AR and VR in the classroom, others should prepare for the inevitable impact this technology will have on the industry. Aside from the hardware tech being essential, the real value lies within the software and the student experience. It starts with understanding how the minds of students has changed from traditional learning methods to the technology they learn from everyday.

What Will be the Impact on Education?

Higher learning will shift from a focus on the conveying of knowledge to supporting learners through direction in learning goals, providing criteria for the evaluation of sources, personal feedback and assessment, and collaboration with learners in research.

As reported by MarketBrief.org, Todd Richmond, director of advanced prototype development at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California said that in 15 or 20 years, these technologies will be "like tables and chairs"-infrastructure that is part of the classroom. "Look at computers," he said. "They had a small place in the classroom. Now they're in every classroom." see full article

Bringing this Into the Classroom

Feasible Solutions on Affordable Devices

The game has changed quite a bit with the evolution of many affordable ways to experience the benefits of AR and VR. Building these tools are now becoming more reasonably priced for all types of education. From the user perspective, we have a few different options for how students and teachers can use this tech. For viewing and interacting, software can be built for anyone's smartphone. For displaying, interactive markers can be printed out, and placed anywhere in the classroom. For more advanced experiences with this tech, there are wearables and interactive displays that can push this technology to new levels.

Innovative & Collaborative Learning

Of course, we don't want to completely remove the human interaction in the education system by forcing all of the content and lessons to be passed through a device. What can be accomplished with VR and AR for students and teachers enhances the collaborative experience. When the entire room is viewing, interacting, commenting, and constructing on the same project, the results can be extremely positive.

Interactive Content with Robust Functionality

Learning can be fun. Provide students with interactive books or papers, use marker technology and turn your lessons into some dynamic. When you have marker technology at your disposal, you can

Hardware Dependencies

The game has changed quite a bit with the release of many affordable ways to experience the benefits of AR and VR. From the user perspective, we have a few different options for how students and teachers can use this tech. For viewing and interacting, software can be built for anyone's smartphone. For displaying, interactive markers can be printed out, and placed anywhere in the classroom. For more advanced experiences with this tech, there are wearables and interactive displays that can push this technology to new levels.

Not Only Benefiting the Students

Easy Grading

Spend more time preparing lessons and engaging with the students, while the technology takes care of the mundane tasks. It's all about efficiency. If we built lessons into mobile devices, grading could easily be automated. The teacher can spend time making comments on the project, and planning new content.

Building a Reputation of Innovation

Education as a business is extremely competitive. Stand out from the rest of the schools by investing in student learning. Show the students that they're education is valued by listening to their suggestions and appeal to their modern ways of life. It's time for a shift in education, and your school can be on the forefront of innovative tools for education.

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The FBI has advised everyone to cover up their computers' webcams to stop them being spied on.

Leaving webcams open means that hackers can break into them and watch everything that users are doing, security experts have claimed. The importance of that was revealed earlier this year when pictures showed that Mark Zuckerberg had covered the webcam on his MacBook Pro.

Now those warnings have been backed by FBI director James Comey, who says that it is one of the "sensible things" that people can do.

Though the webcams on laptops might be useful, they're also one of the most valuable things a hacker can get access to. Once they do so, they can easily watch and record things that go on around them - and that information can be used later for blackmail, breaking into other security systems, or worse.

Previous leaks have suggested that governments including the US have likely tapped into webcams as a way of gathering information on citizens.

Mr Comey said that all government offices cover up the cameras and that normal citizens should be doing the same.

"There's some sensible things you should be doing, and that's one of them," Comey said regarding webcam covers. "You go into any government office and we all have the little camera things that sit on top of the screen. They all have a little lid that closes down on them. You do that so that people who don't have authority don't look at you. I think that's a good thing."

Web security company Hide My Ass! recently announced that it had started making special gadgets to sit over the top of people's webcams, in case hackers broke in. Those little bits of plastic also feature a lens that means people can slot in an image and have it show to anyone who broke in.

Others exist for laptops, desktop computers and iPhones, too.

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What do the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones tell us about Apple's future? Let's start this discussion with a simple premise that I think we can all agree on. Apple is not in stasis, it will change. Companies are always in transition, they hope to end up in a better place but in many cases the path of good intentions may eventually lead to a painful end.

The iPhone 7 handsets are pivotal phones for Apple. Tim Cook and his team are taking a number of gambles with the hardware, the software, the distribution, and its corporate attitude. They believe that these changes will help Apple retain its leadership role in the technology space for the second decade of its smartphone (the original iPhone announcement was January 9 2007, so the birthday party is imminent).

The fact that I don't think the iPhone 7 or 7 Plus change a huge amount for the end-user is a point I may return to in a later article, but my thoughts on why can be found in my 'First Impressions' review of the iPhone 7 here on Forbes.

In any case, let's see what road signs are inside the iPhone 7 family and where they point to.

Everyone will have an opinion on the removal of the headphone jack, and while I wouldn't want to go as far as saying that the decision was powered by "courage" it does illustrate that Apple is capable divining a future and has the willingness to proactively push towards it. The move to lightning audio and wireless bluetooth is a 'typically Apple' attitude. There's no point waiting for the combined might of the music industry and various consumer electronics companies to throw away its comfort blanket, even if bluetooth headphones are starting to be in the majority of sales in some markets. Apple has forced the issue.

Assuming the removal of the jack is a success (and a genteel press corps will help smooth the rough edges of the transition), the opportunities in terms of handset design, reliability, lowered build costs and the potential for improved margins on peripheral sales are all positive benefits for Apple. It's hard to see the basic shape of a smartphone changing now, so design is going to be focused on the edges. Losing as many ports as possible will help evolve the smartphone.

Switching the home key to a virtual button is more radical, but less likely to annoy the purists. Again it lowers the count of physical parts on the device which will reduce the bill of materials to Apple, it reduces the number of warranty repairs required, and it will act as another point of difference against the raft of Android smartphones.

Perhaps more importantly, and staying in tune with the approach in audio, it reduces the number of extrusions in the basic chassis and offers far more 'futuristic' design choices for next year's handed. Shorn of the need to prove the lack of a headphone jack or a physical home key, the tenth-anniversary iPhone 8 can bring forward a revolutionary look.

The release of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will also generate a vital data point for Apple's sales team. Last year's launch of the iPhone Upgrade Program allowed consumers to buy an iPhone direct from Apple in return for two years of monthly payments. After one year they have the option of extending the payments by one year and trade up to the latest iPhone model. How many people take up this option will help plan the release of 'the big one' next year.

Apple has laid out the broad brush strokes of how it sees the future - a world with minimal use of wires, with fewer moving parts on the iPhone, and consumers that treat their smartphone as a monthly lease with ongoing payments rather than a huge investment every twenty-four months.

But Cupertino needs to watch out, because the new iPhone handsets also exhibit traits that could easily derail the company.
Next: Bad projectors, keyed iPhones, and cardboard cases...
Apple's brand is built on a number of ideals, and one of them is the quality of the product and making the experience 'magical' for the consumer. For me that halo has slipped with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. While the core experience is still there, there are signs that the laser-like focus on perfection has slipped.

Let's start with the launch event. During the presentation of the new camera software, someone had to apologised that the projector could not show the vivid colours that the iPhone 7 Plus had taken. That unnamed person managed to turn this around with a "you really need to see it on the iPhone's screen" but the former line has stuck with me. Apple apologising about a poor element in a presentation? I hate to say "that would never have happened under Steve Jobs" but that (and 'get something that does show it correctly') was my initial reaction, and it's one that I still hold.

Oh and that camera software? You'll have to wait for it, it's not going to be ready until later in the year. While the decision to 'wait until it works' is a sound one, the decisions and management that meant the project has run late need to be considered... missing the September launch is surely the definition of 'late' in iOS circles.

Before that, the launch event had waxed lyrical about the new Jet Black color. A highly reflective surface, with a fantastic tactile feel that increases the friction between your hand and the iPhone to reduce drops. The audience was also told that it will pick up micro-abrasions over time so you should get a case as well.

Seriously, Apple? You stood there, showed the mystical machines the created this amazing finish, and then said that it was actually a bit rubbish and get ready to have your precious iPhone scratched like a hire car entering the Daytona 500? As the reviews started to come in the genteel press kicked in again... Apple was right, you need a case for the Jet Black iPhone, but that's okay, look how shiny it is!

Alternatively, someone could have decided that releasing a phone that will get scratched within days and look like ploughed field by the time winter falls, was simply not good enough and that the problem needs to be solved, not hand-waved away.

Late software, poor presentational skills, defective hardware and a lack of quality control. This is what Apple is happy to project in 2016. I'm not sure if Apple is simply blind to what it has admitted to, or if it is arrogant enough that it can get away with this attitude. No matter the reason for going down this path, it's a path that will put Apple at odds with its customer base in the future.

Then there's the matter of cutting costs. If I look carefully at the whole package I can see a certain amount of trimming going on. There are questions over the material used for the camera lens - which is terms of toughness is closer to regular glass than that sapphire used in the iPhone 6S, Apple has been asked to clarify the material used but an answer as yet is not forthcoming.

The biggest surprise I had during the unboxing of the iPhone 7 was the lightning headphones. Not that they were present, but they were wrapped around a piece of cardboard. An intricate piece of cardboard, but cardboard nonetheless. In previous years Apple would ship the headphones in a plastic carry case that could be used countless times and protected the headphones when not in use. If you'll excuse the pun, that's not the case with the iPhone 7.

Once more Apple is replacing something that makes life harder for the end-user... but helps Apple's bottom line.

While it is tradition that Apple will 'run out' of stock on the launch day, this year the tradition seemed excessive, with announcements the night before on the lack of certain handsets at Apple stores, and network partners picking up far less stock than they expected. Wait times now stretch out into late October in some cases, and there is a new level of anger in online reports.

Tim Cook built his reputation on stock control, just-in-time manufacturing, and increasing the efficiency of Apple's production lines. To be caught out the day before the handsets go on sale, to not deliver the promised levels of stocks to retail partners, and to offer waiting times that are measured in months is decidedly not the Apple your parents knew. This is compounded by Apple pre-announcing that it would not reveal first-weekend sales because it reflected Apple's ability to move stock rather than demand.

The ability to move stock is what I'm questioning, not the demand.

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be key handsets in Apple's history. They are the transitional iPhones that sit between Steve Jobs' vision and Tim Cook's vision of the smartphone. Between them they show both the good and bad sides of Apple. Which side will win out may not be known for some years. As the iPhone grows up, will Apple progress with it and continue to be seen as a leader in the smartphone space, or will it suffer the same fate as other revolutionary manufacturers who were destroyed by their hubris?

No matter if you agree or disagree, you can choose your own iPhone 7 review...

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The new iPhone 7 handsets are pivotal smartphones for Apple. Tim Cook and his team are taking a number of gambles with the hardware, the software, the distribution, and its corporate attitude. What are the road signs towards Apple's future that can be found inside the iPhone 7 family and where do they point to?

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Friday it aimed to revamp the system that underpins British banking and trading in the City of London by 2020 to boost its defenses against cyber-attacks and widen the number of businesses that can use it.

The BoE's Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) handles transactions worth around 500 billion pounds ($659 billion) a day - equivalent to almost a third of Britain's annual economic output.

It suffered a major outage in October 2014, and in June BoE Governor Mark Carney said he wanted to make it easier for smaller firms to use the system directly rather than via large incumbent banks.

On Friday the BoE set out more detailed proposals and said it planned to fund the changes by temporarily increasing the charges banks pay to use the system.

"The world of payments is changing rapidly, and central banks need to keep pace if we are to deliver our mission of monetary and financial stability ... whilst also enabling innovation and competition where we can," BoE executive director Andrew Hauser said.

Proposed enhancements include running the system continuously, rather than just during normal working hours, and making it easier for smaller banks, brokers and payment processing firms to access the system directly.

"A key enabler for delivering these changes will be a comprehensive rebuild of the RTGS technology platform. The Bank will make decisions on its resilience, including in particular its cyber defenses, in consultation with intelligence partners," the BoE said.

Other goals included allowing forward-dated payments and creating an interface with the 'distributed-ledger' technology that underpins digital currencies such as Bitcoin "if/when they achieve critical mass", it said.

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The maker of a pocket spectrometer, which can scan and identify a variety of objects, says his company is working hard to fulfil outstanding orders.

The Scio device was backed by about 13,000 people in a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014.

However, some have complained they are still waiting for their device to be delivered.

Co-founder Dror Sharon told the BBC that 5,000 devices had been shipped.

Smart scanner

Mr Sharon has previously described Scio as the first cheap, accessible molecular spectrometer.

It takes an electro-magnetic reading of objects, then compares the result with an online database. It can be used, for example, to distinguish between medicines, or summarise the fat content of a slice of cheese.

During the crowdfunding campaign, backers paid between $150 (£115) and $300 for the device, with developer kits costing up to $1,000.

Consumer Physics, the company behind the product, raised $2.7m in the campaign and estimated that devices would be delivered by February 2015.

However, Mr Sharon admitted the firm had experienced delays.

"It has taken more time than we expected," he told the BBC.

"We had to design the technology from the ground up, we had to do some redesigns, and we had some issues with suppliers.

"Each bump in the road took weeks to rectify."

Some backers have expressed concern about the delay on the company's Facebook page, after its crowdfunding page was taken offline.

Visitors are now told the company is facing an "intellectual property dispute", but Mr Sharon said the issue was solely concerning the Scio name.

"It has nothing to do with the intellectual property in the sensor or the optics, it's purely a trademark dispute," he said.

"But Kickstarter has a very careful policy, they took down the page and put up the note - we tried to reason with them, but they have their policy and we respect that."

He said the company was continuing to produce the devices, but had chosen to prioritise deliveries to app developers, to speed up the creation of its app ecosystem.

"We've shipped thousands of these little scanners all over the world," Mr Sharon told the BBC.

"We decided to start shipping to developers first, which has added some delay for Kickstarter backers who were expecting to get the device very early.

"We realise it's late, but we're doing our best to ship as fast as we can. Between a third to a half of our backers have their device."

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An iPhone explodes in a man's pocket in Long Island as he bent over to pick up some keys. The result put him in the hospital for a week where he was treated for second and third-degree burns.

WABC-TV reports that Erik Johnson experienced the nerve-racking incident on Valentine's Day. Johnson said the iPhone exploded in his pocket right after he and his brother attended their cousin's wake. When he moved his body to reach for his keys, the phone made a popping nose.

"... All I heard was pop. Sssssh smoke coming out," Johnson said.

Johnson said he got an "instant burn" from the iPhone exploding. He says that his "leg just starts going on fire" and that he was unable to access the problematic device because his pockets were melted shut.

"... I think the phone melted my pockets shut so I couldn't get into it and I had to rip my pants off and throw the pants to the side. A couple of people actually said they could smell my body burning."

The iPhone owner says getting burned felt like something compared to "branding a bull."

After the iPhone exploded in his pocket, the Long Island man suffered burns to his inner thigh. He had to spend 10 days at the hospital in the burn unit. He got home Tuesday and now has a nurse changing his bandage twice a day.

According to the report, damage on the iPhone 5C is mostly obvious on the front. On the other side, it shows how hot the phone got when it exploded. The metal case is warped and actually attached to the device.

Johnson used an Apple cable to charge up his cell phone.

The Long Island iPhone owner has hired an attorney - Mike Della. He says Apple needs to be more thorough in the safety of their products.

"Even if this only happened this one time, that's one time too many. What if this happened to a child?" Della said.

Johnson said he just wants his leg back. Apple tells WABC-TV that they're looking into the case.

The Inquisitr has written about other Apple iPhones exploding or catching on fire. In October, another man had the same occurrence, but it was an iPhone 6 that exploded in his pocket. Another woman experienced burns on her chest from.

Daily Mail reports that following Johnson's message about what happened to him on social media, others were shocked.

News that an iPhone explodes in someone's pocket is definitely something cell phone users don't want happening to them.

[Photo Credit: WABC-TV News]

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Check out our brand new MV product line and MR84 AP!

To continue with Cisco Meraki's mission of simplifying IT through intuitive cloud-managed products, we're thrilled to announce the launch of an entirely new product line, MV Security Cameras , as well as the debut of our newest wireless access point designed for tough, high-density deployments , the . These new products are the latest in a long line of Meraki devices which can all be easily monitored and controlled from a single web-based dashboard.

Meraki MV Security Cameras

This brand new Meraki product family delivers a simplified design for streamlined deployment and is the only video security solution from an industry cloud leader. In true Meraki fashion, we've eliminated the need to purchase additional on-premise hardware, external recording devices, or standalone software packages. We're able to do this through cutting edge architecture that uses industrial grade, solid state storage on each camera to store weeks' worth of video while simultaneously enabling easy configuration and management from the cloud.

There are two camera models: one designed for indoors (the MV21) and one for harsh, outdoor use (the MV71, which is IK10 rated).
The new Meraki MV21 security camera.
Meraki MR84 Access Point

Built from the ground up with high-density deployments in mind, the MR84 is our most performance-driven AP designed for both demanding indoor or harsh outdoor conditions. Sporting the market's most advanced 802.11ac Wave 2 4×4:4 MU-MIMO architecture and a multigigabit uplink, the MR84 is designed to serve multiple concurrent clients during heavy usage.

The MR84 is the first Meraki AP to be certified for use with one of the best 4×4, dual-band, MIMO antennas on the market: the Cisco "Gillaroo" antenna , also known as Cisco Four-Port Dual-Band Polarization-Diverse Array Antenna (AIR-ANT2513P4M-N=). This antenna is designed for stadiums and arenas, and provides a narrow 30 o beam of coverage.

We will be publishing additional blog posts diving into more detail on both the MV line and the MR84 throughout this week. Additionally, we will be hosting informative customer webinars on both products that will feature a live MV product demo beginning September 20th.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts. Please don't hesitate to drop us a line on social media or to give us a call or make a wish in the Meraki dashboard!

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Armed drones could be used by police in the US state of North Dakota after local lawmakers legalised their use.

While they will be limited to "less than lethal" weapons, tear gas, tasers, rubber bullets and pepper spray could all be used in theory by the remote controlled flying machines.

In a classic case of unintended consequences, the original sponsor, Republican state representative Rick Becker said he was unhappy with the way legislation turned out.

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His original intention was to prevent law enforcement officials from using the unmanned aerial vehicles from conducting surveillance on private property without a warrant.

"In my opinion there should be a nice, red line: Drones should not be weaponised," he said.

The original draft of the House Bill 1328 said: "A state agency may not authorize the use of, including granting a permit to use, an unmanned aircraft armed with any lethal or non-lethal weapons, including firearms, pepper spray, bean bag guns, mace, and sound-based weapons."

However, the state's police union amended the Bill, limiting the ban to only lethal weapons, meaning that sounds cannons or rubber bullets could be used on police drones, according to The Daily Beast.

Mr Becker said that he didn't fight the amendments, telling the Arstehnica website that he wanted "the Bill to pass to at least require warrants."

However, he said that he will aim to change the law in two-years' time when North Dakota's House of Representatives returns to session.

It is unclear whether local police departments will use weaponised drones, even though they are technically legal.

Police officers are subject to local and departmental rules that can substantially limit what tactics are allowed.

However, at least 39 people have been killed by police tasers in 2015, according to The Guardian.

The fact that a suspect could potentially be tasered by an officer sitting hundreds of miles away will likely add to the concerns of those who are worried about the militarisation of US police departments.

Concerns were raised following events in Ferguson, Missouri, where mostly peaceful protests over the killing by a police officer of black man Michael Brown were met over several nights by lines of body-armoured police brandishing automatic weapons, and in some cases riding mine-resistant military-style vehicles.

It prompted President Barack Obama to ordered a comprehensive review of policies that have encouraged police departments across the United States to acquire ever greater quantities of military kit that was once the reserve of professional soldiers last month.

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The U.S. Secret Service is warning banks and ATM owners about a new technological advance in cash machine skimming known as " periscope skimming," which involves a specialized skimming probe that connects directly to the ATM's internal circuit board to steal card data.

According to a non-public alert released to bank industry sources by a financial crimes task force in Connecticut, this is thought to be the first time periscope skimming devices have been detected in the United States. The task force warned that the devices may have the capability to remain powered within the ATM for up to 14 days and can store up to 32,000 card numbers before exhausting the skimmer's battery strength and data storage capacity.

The alert documents the first known case of periscope skimming in the United States, discovered Aug. 19, 2016 at an ATM in Greenwich, Conn. A second periscope skimmer was reportedly found hidden inside a cash machine in Pennsylvania on Sept. 3.

The task force alert notes that in both cases the crooks were able to gain direct access to the insides of the ATMs (referred to as "top-hat" entry) with a key. The suspects then installed two devices connected together by wiring. The first device - the periscope skimming probe - is installed through a pre-existing hole on the frame of the motorized card reader.

The probe is set in place to connect to the circuit board and directly onto the pad that transfers cardholder data stored on the magnetic stripe on the backs of customer payment cards. The probe is then held in place with fast-drying superglue to the card reader frame.

According to the Secret Service, the only visible part of this skimming device once the top-hat is opened will be the wire extending from the periscope probe that leads to the second part of this skimmer - called a "skimming control device." This second device contains the battery source and data storage unit, and looks similar to a small external hard drive.

As I've noted in previous stories in my series All About Skimmers, the emergence of this type of skimming attack is thought to be response to the widespread availability of third party anti-skimming technology which is successful at preventing the operation of a traditional skimmer placed on the outside of the ATM.

The Connecticut task task force notes that authorities there did not find hidden cameras or other methods of capturing customer PINs at the ATMs compromised by periscope skimmers, suggesting these attacks involved mere prototypes and that the thieves responsible are in the process of refining their technology.

Nevertheless, crooks who are serious about this type of crime eventually will want to capture your PIN so they can later drain your debit account at another ATM. So it's important to remember that covering the PIN pad with your hand defeats the hidden camera from capturing your PIN. Occasionally, skimmer thieves will use PIN pad overlays, but these are comparatively rare and quite a bit more expensive; hidden cameras are used on the vast majority of the more than three dozen ATM skimming incidents that I've documented here.

Shockingly, few people bother to take this simple, effective step, as detailed in this skimmer tale from 2012, wherein I obtained hours worth of video seized from two ATM skimming operations and saw customer after customer walk up, insert their cards and punch in their digits - all in the clear.

Many readers have asked whether the incidence of such skimming scams will decrease as more banks begin issuing more secure chip-based payment cards. The answer is probably not. That's because even after most U.S. banks put in place chip-capable ATMs, the magnetic stripe will still be needed because it's an integral part of the way ATMs work: Most ATMs in use today require a magnetic stripe for the card to be accepted into the machine.

The principal reason for this is to ensure that customers are putting the card into the slot correctly, as embossed letters and numbers running across odd spots in the card reader can take their toll on the machines over time. As long as the cardholder's data remains stored on a chip card's magnetic stripe, thieves will continue building and placing these types of skimmers.

Also, the thieves conducting these periscope skimming attacks don't necessarily need a key to access the ATMs. As I've noted in past skimming stories, crooks who specialize in compromising ATMs with malicious software often target stand-alone cash machines that may be easier to access from the top-hat. My advice? Stick to ATMs that are installed in the wall at a bank or otherwise not exposed from the top.

Most importantly, watch out for your own physical safety while using an ATM. Keep your wits about you as you transact in and leave the area, and try to be keenly aware of your immediate surroundings. Use only machines in public, well-lit areas, and avoid ATMs in secluded spots.

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There may be a solution to asthma perched high above a handful of Chicago intersections.

Last week, the city began installing sophisticated computers on traffic poles to track air quality, weather and road data at a block-by-block level.

The project's leaders liken the project to giving an entire city its own Fitbit , which should help it better track and addresseverything from public health risks to congestion on roads.

"Better data means better outcomes," said Brenna Berman, Chicago's chief information officer.

The city is installing 100 of the computers -- called nodes -- this year. The project's leaders plan to have 500 nodes in place by the end of 2018. The devices cost between $1,200 and $1,600 each, and the research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

The nodes gather a range of environmental data including air and surface temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, cloud cover, haze, vibrations, and sound and light intensity. The computers will also track pedestrian and vehicle traffic plus nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide.

Related: Google's artificial intelligence can actually help the environment

The initial rollout includes the neighborhood of Pilsen, which has a highway running through it. Some of the nodes will be placedadjacent to the interstate to gauge how proximity to highways impacts air quality. Some nodes will also be placed near city factories.

Bus routes could potentially be changed to keep children farther from areas with poor air quality. Trees could be planted near trouble spots. Then leaders could check back in a few years to see if planting trees positively impacted air quality and local health. The findings could be used to inform decisions elsewhere in the city and potentially around the world.

"Kids could focus on getting their school work done, rather than making sure they have their asthma medication," said Charlie Catlett, the project's lead investigator and director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data.

Related: Amsterdam birdhouses give free Wi-Fi

Aside from helping the city with its own analyses, a new breed of civic-minded techies can apply their own curiosity to the wealth of new data.

Chicago is open sourcing the data, giving anyone the potential to do a creative analysis. Catlett imagined people looking at an overlay of construction permits and noise in a neighborhood. Or someone might compare air quality with the number of 911 calls in a neighborhood.

Chicago's project, called the Array of Things, exemplifies the new trend of cities gathering data and sharing it to operate more efficiently. Concerned citizens can increasingly analyze data for the common good. Earlier year a Stanford student, Joshua Browder, made headlines when he built a website to help thousands of drivers get out of unwarranted parking tickets.

Leading tech companies have long harnessed the promise of crunching data. In July, Google reduced the power bill at its data centers by using sensors' data to pinpoint inefficiencies in how the huge buildings operate. Now governments are catching on to the potential as well.

"Before you might have a gut feeling that this seems unjust, for the first time you can actually prove it," said Ben Wellington, the editor of IQuantNY and a professor at the Pratt Institute in New York.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published August 29, 2016: 12:01 PM ET

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A 21-year-old Russian man could face up to five years in prison for playing Pokemon Go in a church, authorities announced over the weekend.

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Ruslan Sokolovsky was arrested at his home Friday after investigators reviewed a video he posted to YouTube on Aug. 11 that showed him playing the game on his smartphone at the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg, the Investigation Division of the Kirov district said in statement.

Sokolovsky created the video in protest of the law prohibiting Pokemon Go in temples, he explains in the video, which has garnered more than a million views.

"... Who can ever be offended by you walking around a church with your smartphone," the English subtitles read. "I think this is safe and is not prohibited by law."

In the video, Sokolovsky stands across the street from the church, which he calls one of the "biggest temples in Yekaterinburg, 'Temple on Blood.'" Once inside, Sokolovsky manages to catch a Pokemon as a member of the church, dressed in robes, stands in the background. At the end, he assesses that his mission went "well" and that he caught "several" Pokemon in the church.

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Sokolovsky is a vlogger and has a sizable following on YouTube, with almost 300,000 subscribers to his channel and dozens of videos racking up views in the hundreds of thousands. The hashtag #FreeSokolvsky emerged after the news of his arrest.

Punk rock collective band Pussy Riot tweeted in support of Sokolovsky.

Sokolovsky was charged with incitement of hatred and offending religious sensibilities, police said. Police took several pieces of evidence from Sokolovsky's home, and the investigation is ongoing, they said.

Since his arrest, plans were underway for activists to catch Pokemon in the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, The Guardian reported.

"We want everybody to have a fantastic time exploring while safely playing Pokémon Go," Niantic, Inc., the developer and distributor of Pokemon Go, told ABC News. "Please remember to be safe and alert at all times, abide by local laws and respect the locations you visit and people you meet during your exploration."

It's not clear whether Sokolovsky is represented by a lawyer or has entered a plea to the charges against him.

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This story is part of Apple Event, our full coverage of the latest news from Apple headquarters.

Rumors of a new iPhone without a headphone jack have been swirling for months, and now hearsay about Apple releasing wireless headphones is making the rounds.

The latest gossip surrounds a pair of high-end wireless earbuds. Dubbed the "AirPods," the headphones purportedly have a unique, Bluetooth-like wireless technology, according to an Apple Insider story Tuesday.

A variety of competitively priced Beats-branded headphones are also expected to be announced at Apple's big event on Wednesday, when the company is likely to unveil the next iPhone. Make sure to tune in to CNET's live blog for all the latest news.

Apple did not immediately respond to comment.

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This story is part of Apple Event, our full coverage of the latest news from Apple headquarters. Rumors of a new iPhone without a headphone jack have been swirling for months, and now hearsay about Apple releasing wireless headphones is making the rounds. The latest gossip surrounds a pair of high-end wireless earbuds.

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The Philae lander, which went missing in 2014 after making a historic landing on a comet, was found wedged into a "dark crack" on the comet

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The US added 151,000 jobs in August, down from the 180,000 expected. The unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.9%. "The temperate performance is expected to bolster those within the Federal Reserve who favor a wait-and-see approach" when it comes to an interest rate hike, says the New York Times.

Samsung is recalling its Galaxy Note 7 worldwide due to reports that the battery can explode while charging. Although the issue likely only affects less than 0.1% of devices, the South Korean company will replace more than 2.5 million across the globe. The timing isn't good for Samsung - not only does the recall come right before next week's iPhone announcement, it may also " reverse a recent up-trend " for the company. Samsung just had its most profitable quarter in two years.

Not so fast: China is opening an antitrust investigation into the proposed acquisition of Uber China by local rival Didi Chuxing. China's Ministry of Commerce said the investigation was prompted by local concerns about the deal and that the organization has already had two meetings with Didi. Although the ministry could put the kibosh on the merger, it likely won't because the purchaser is a Chinese company, notes the New York Times. However, "there is little precedent for the merger, and the ministry has held up transactions - sometimes for years - to extract the terms it desires." Those terms could include pricing controls or other measures to slow Didi's expansion.

On the other side of the world, Uber won the right to take Transport for London to court over its new requirements for private-hire drivers, including an English language test for drivers from non-English speaking countries. "The exam looks at proficiency in speaking and listening - something Uber broadly supports - but also reading and writing," says , and Uber argues it goes well beyond the requirements for British citizenship. Uber has 30,000 drivers just in London and says TfL's changes could affect thousands.

Google is reportedly shelving Project Ara, its effort to build a 'modular smartphone' with interchangeable components. It comes as a bit of a surprise: the company had announced a series of partners for Ara in May and planned to ship a developer version this fall, with a consumer version due in 2017. This move is part of Google's unification of hardware development under former Motorola president Rick Osterloh, and the company ultimately license the technology to other partners.
Cover Photo: A woman tests a Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone at a Samsung showroom in Seoul on September 2, 2016. Samsung will suspend sales of its latest high-end smartphone Galaxy Note 7 after reports of exploding batteries, its mobile chief said on September 2. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

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If a great white is swimming near the Cape Cod shoreline this summer, people will just need to check their smartphones to learn about it.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, a nonprofit organization in Chatham that works with state biologists to tag and identify great whites, launched an app Friday, ahead of the holiday weekend, that sends push notifications to beachgoers' phones when there has been a shark sighting nearby.

"Sharktivity," free for download on iPhones, also lets users report their own shark encounters, track the movements of previously tagged apex predators, and view recent visual sightings by experts.

"This app will be yet another tool to raise awareness and provide the public with information on white shark activity across the East Coast," conservancy president Cynthia Wigren said in a statement.

Beach managers and patrols will send out the alerts, as will researchers on the water, if necessary.

Great white season is in full swing. Division of Marine Fisheries biologist Greg Skomal, working with the conservancy, has already tagged two sharks during recent expeditions.

The sharks are generally found feasting on gray seals near the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge off Chatham. But they've also been spotted as far north as Provincetown, and in 2014 near beaches in Duxbury and Plymouth.

The conservancy announced in April that the app was in production well before the sharks returned to the Massachusetts coastline.

The concept was born out of a meeting of the Shark Working Group, which comprises the conservancy, the Division of Marine Fisheries, beach managers from Cape Cod and South Shore towns, and officials from the Cape Cod National Seashore.

In addition, the conservancy opened its new headquarters, at The Chatham Shark Center, to the public in May. The goal of the center is to educate the public about sharks.

Steve Annear can be reached at steve.annear@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @steveannear.

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If a great white is swimming near the Cape Cod shoreline this summer, people will just need to check their smartphones to learn about it. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, a nonprofit organization in Chatham that works with state biologists to tag and identify great whites, launched an app Friday, ahead of the holiday weekend, that sends push notifications to beachgoers' phones when there has been a shark sighting nearby.

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Tesla will roll out "major improvements" to its so-called Autopilot software with new versions of the software that will soon be downloaded to owners' Model S and Model X electric vehicles, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday on Twitter.

The new operating software for the vehicles, version 8.0, will go into "wide release in a few weeks," Musk tweeted. Details of the improvements will be announced in a blog post that will be published later on Wednesday, Musk said.

Critics have been calling for changes to Autopilot since a series of highly publicized crashes, including one fatal one, involving drivers using the feature.

The new software improvements will involve "advanced processing of radar signals," Musk said. Autopilot's various features rely on a combination of radar and cameras.

Related: Is this the Tesla of motorcycles?

Tesla's Autopilot is a suite of different technologies including automatic lane-keeping assistance, automatic emergency braking, and advanced cruise control which automatically maintains a safe distance behind cars ahead on the highway.

Many other car companies offer these features, but Tesla's system is different in some ways. For instance, Autopilot allows drivers to keep their hands off the steering wheel for minutes at a time while most other such systems require the driver to at least touch the steering wheel most of the time.

The not-for-profit Consumer Reports magazine has called on Tesla to alter Autopilot so that drivers will have to keep hands on the steering wheel. The magazine also asked that Tesla change the name of Autopilot since the term could be seen to imply a greater degree of capability than the system actually has. Some Tesla employees also expressed concern that the automaker had pushed the technology out too quickly.

Related: Michigan may son allow self-driving cars

Musk has said that the Autopilot name is appropriate since, on an airplane, a human pilot must still attentively oversee the system just as in the car.

Tesla owner's manuals contain multiple warnings that drivers should always pay close attention while Autopilot is in use and be ready to take over driving at any time. The manual also states that the system is only to be used on limited access highways and not in complex urban driving situations.

Related: Don't trust automatic braking to prevent a crash, says AAA

The new software updates will be delivered "over the air" while the vehicles are parked. Owners will not have to visit a service station to get the updates.

CNNMoney (New York) First published August 31, 2016: 1:23 PM ET

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The new operating software for the vehicles, version 8.0, will go into "wide release in a few weeks," Musk tweeted. Details of the improvements will be announced in a blog post that will be published later on Wednesday, Musk said.

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Dell Inc. Tuesday said it received regulatory clearance from China and intends to complete its merger with EMC Corp. on Sept. 7. The $60 billion deal will be the largest technology merger ever.

Approval from China's Ministry of Commerce was the last remaining hurdle to the deal, which was approved by EMC shareholders on July 19.

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Dell Inc. Tuesday said it received regulatory clearance from China and intends to complete its merger with EMC Corp. on Sept. 7. The $60 billion deal will be the largest technology merger ever. Approval from China's Ministry of Commerce was the last remaining hurdle to the deal, which was approved by EMC shareholders on July 19.

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What do you give the Pope if you're a tech CEO?

Mark Zuckerberg handed over a Facebook drone when he, and his wife Priscilla Chan, met Pope Francis on Monday.

"It was a meeting we'll never forget," Zuckerberg said. "You can feel [the Pope's] warmth and kindness, and how deeply he cares about helping people."

Zuckerberg updated his personal page on Facebook with a photo of himself giving the Pope a model of Aquila, a solar-powered aircraft that Facebook hopes will expand Internet access in developing countries.

"Together they spoke about how to use communications technology to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and to communicate a message of hope, especially to the most disadvantaged," the Vatican Press Office said in a statement.

Zuckerberg announced his trip to Italy last week after the country was struck by a devastating earthquake. He has scheduled a live question and answer session for later on Monday, and said he was "looking forward to spending time with our Italian community."

The tech CEO has said Rome is a special city to him. He honeymooned there with Chan, and says he is a student of Latin and Classical history.

Zuckerberg also posted a photo of himself running by the Colosseum.

"It's great to be back in Rome! We started the day with a run past the Circus Maximus and House of Augustus up to the Colosseum. It's pretty amazing to run on roads in the city that helped invent them," he said.

Over the weekend, Zuckerberg posted an update and photo from the wedding of Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, which was held near Lake Como in northern Italy.

Related: In case of emergency, open Facebook

Usually the act of a politician, visiting a country after a disaster would fit with Zuckerberg's recent push to paint himself as a sort of Silicon Valley statesman. He has been carefully crafting his image through Facebook posts, Q&As and public trips to places like China.

The social network has also taken on an unexpected role in international disasters. After events like earthquakes, hurricanes, or bombings, people let friends and family know they're OK with Facebook's Safety Check feature.

-- Livia Borghese and Heather Kelly contributed reporting.

CNNMoney (New Delhi) First published August 29, 2016: 8:19 AM ET

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to the U.S. on Thursday after spending nearly a year in space.

Now that Kelly is home, his journey is just beginning. Scott Kelly's year in space was part of a NASA twin study involving his brother, Mark Kelly.

While Scott was in space, Mark remained earthbound, which will allow scientists to study the effects of space travel on the human body in preparation for a crewed mission to Mars.

Specifically, researchers are looking at the effects of space radiation, as well as the effect of visual impairment associated with long-duration space flight, according to Graham Scott, chief scientist at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and deputy project scientist for the NASA and NSBRI Twin Study.

So, what can a year in space do to the human body?
Vision
One of the primary things researchers will be focusing on is the effect that being in space for almost a year had on Kelly's vision, according to Scott.

"We will be looking at the eyes to see how much visual acuity has been lost," he said during a phone interview Thursday.

Scott said the majority of astronauts who return from time in space have mild vision loss, but researchers still aren't completely sure why vision is affected while in space.

"The majority of astronauts have to change their eye glasses while in space," he said. "They bring eye glasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission."
Bones and muscles
For almost a year, Scott Kelly did not have to use his legs to walk, but instead floated to different areas of the space station. In the past, astronauts would leave space with brittle bones and weak muscles because of the lack of use while in space, according to Scott.

But today, researchers have helped mitigate the impact on bones and muscles by implementing extensive workout routines that astronauts carry out while in space. Scott said onboard the International Space Station astronauts tie themselves down to a treadmill, strap into a bike and use a resistance device to work out for 2 to 2.5 hours a day.

"The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts' bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape," he said. "But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days."

When the bones breakdown, they release calcium, which can also lead to kidney stone formation and bone fractures. Likewise, the lack of use causes muscles to become weak and shrink, which can leave astronauts less coordinated when they return to Earth, according to NASA.
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Long-term effects of radiation
Radiation is the biggest issue that astronauts will face as they eventually journey to Mars, Scott said.

On the International Space Station, astronauts get 20 times the amount of radiation people on Earth are exposed to, according to Scott.

"If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation," he said.

He said researchers are extremely interested in the effect radiation has on the heart, blood vessels, bones, central nervous system and the brain. As well as the cancer risk.

He notes that Kelly's medical study with NASA will continue long after this year, with yearly physical checkups.
The heart can shrink
While in space, the cardiovascular system does not have to work as hard as it does on Earth.

"Just like the bones and muscles, the heart is designed to work in one gravity here on Earth, so when you put the heart in space it operates differently and changes shape," Scott said.

He notes that one of the transitionary effects of returning to Earth is that astronauts can feel faint. Scott said that's one of the reasons that when astronauts return to Earth, they are placed on custom beds to ensure they don't faint while they are up and walking around.

There is also worry that radiation can accelerate coronary heart disease.
Body
One obvious and temporary change for Kelly was that he came back 2 inches taller than his brother because a lack of gravity causes spinal disks to expand.

When astronauts return to Earth, they must re-adjust to gravity and can have issues with balance and simple tasks like standing up, walking or operating a vehicle.

Scott said astronauts go through a physical reconditioning program and are typically functioning normally within one-to-three weeks unless they've suffered significant bone or muscle loss, which could take months or years to recover from.
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to the U.S. on Thursday after spending nearly a year in space. Now that Kelly is home, his journey is just beginning. Scott Kelly's year in space was part of a NASA twin study involving his brother, Mark Kelly.

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Cameras go where no person is allowed to be in 2016

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