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FAA Considers OK’ing Drones for TV, Movies
New Apple Mac, Mobile Features Coming in Fall
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it is considering giving permission to seven movie and television filming companies to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography, a potentially significant step that could lead to greater relaxation of the government’s ban on commercial use of drones. (AP)
Apple’s Mac operating system will have easier ways to share and search, while the iOS software for iPhones and iPads is getting new features for controlling home devices. The free updates will come this fall and were announced Monday at Apple’s developers conference in San Francisco. (Fun fact: The next Mac system will be called Yosemite.) Here are some highlights for the iPhone and iPad: The new software will sport interactive notifications, so you can respond to a message without having to leave another app. IOS 8 will have a built-in healthmanagement tool to help people track their vital signs, diet and sleeping habits. A new Handoff feature will let you switch devices more easily, so you can start writing an email on a phone and finish on a Mac. (AP)
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U.S.: Hackers Stole $100M A band of hackers implanted viruses on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, seized customer bank information and stole more than $100 million, the Justice Department said Monday as it sought to arrest Evgeniy Bogachev, the Russian man accused of masterminding the effort. (AP)
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a rocky world seven times as heavy as Earth. This suggests that life-friendly rocky planets might be more common than previously thought. Here’s how Kepler-10c, which likely doesn’t harbor life because it is too hot, compares to our home. (THE WASHINGTON POST )
Kepler-10c
Earth
18,000 miles in diameter Orbits its star in the constellation Draco every 45 days Star system: 11 billion years old 560 light-years from Earth
7,918 miles in diameter Orbits the sun every 365.3 days Solar system: 4.6 billion years old
Country Road to Riches: West Virginia lottery players are on a roll this year, with nine Powerball tickets worth at least $1 million sold in the state, making it No. 1 in winning tickets per capita. (It averages one Powerball ticket worth $1 million for every 200,000 of its 1.8 million residents.) Susan Dennis, who was part of a group that won $1 million in February, says the tickets she buys outside the state always seem to come up empty. “I think I just better stick with West Virginia,” she said. (AP)
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