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1) Dogs may pick up on emotions like you do, science says The report talks about an experiment which was carried out with dogs to come to the conclusion that dogs have the ability to pick emotions in the same way as human beings The experiment was carried out between 11 golden retrievers and 22 human volunteers. The idea was to understand whether dogs behave the same way humans do or not. Interestingly it was found out that the dogs interacted in a very similar way with other dogs when it came to emotions by making distinctive noises.

This helped the scientist to understand why dogs and human being have the best compatibility and understand compared to other pets. 2) Apple snapped up sapphire displays, says Canonical founder Canonical founder stated that he has the information of apple using sapphire displays for its next generation devices. The founder during a hangout stated how apple had used their idea of incorporating sapphire glass displays for their devices. Canonical had the plan of coming up with their ubuntu devices having sapphire glass which was snapped up by Apple as the founder, Mr.

Mark Shuttleworth. Apple had just snapped their deal by acquiring 3 years worth of supply for sapphire screens from the company which was supposed to make them for Canonical. 3) Bye XP, hello Windows 7: Yeah, the change made me nervous This report talks about the reaction of the decision to withdraw Windows XP services from the market and offering services to Windows 7 and 8 only. Windows XP was considered the most user friendly operating system of windows even after the release of Windows 7 and 8.

Till now Microsoft have been offering the support for XP but recently they have announced that they be stopping the support for XP so user should migrate to latest version of windows. The news created a panic among the local masses and the author who were not confident about the change. The author instead of upgrading to windows 8 chose to upgrade to windows 7 which is somewhat similar to XP. 4) Nokias Here Maps to expand to all Windows 8.1 devices It talks about the release of Nokia’s famous Here maps for Windows 8.1. Earlier the Here maps were only available to Nokia’s windows based Lumia devices but after Microsoft acquired the Finnish firm, they have made it possible to release the Here maps for windows 8.

1 operating systems. The applications claims to faster and load the maps are supposed to load four times quicker along with providing the navigation for the destinations. 5) Zuckerberg, Gates lead funding round for education not-for-profit Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates recently joined hands in funding a non-profit organisation through funding from their respective companies. The foundation named EducationSuperHighway raised $ 9 million which was funded by Zuckerberg’s start up known as Education fund and Melinda Gates foundation.

According to the report the organisation will be using the funds to help increase the broadband speeds of the schools suffering due to low internet connectivity. 6) Buy an abandoned amusement park on eBay The report is all about Ebay selling an amusement park online. The amusement park was called Spreepark and it was built in the year 1961. It got closed around a decade back and has been under ruins ever since. Interested buyers can buy it for $ 2.2 million or 1.62 Euros. Although the interested buyers need to aware of the fact that the land as per the law shall remain as an amusement park till the year 2061 so those who plan to turn it into hotels or condos should not be looking forward to this deal.

Citations: 1) http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57619280-76/dogs-may-pick-up-on-emotions-like-you-do-science-says/ 2) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57619171-92/apple-snapped-up-sapphire-displays-says-canonical-founder/ 3) http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57618996-235/bye-xp-hello-windows-7-yeah-the-change-made-me-nervous/ 4) http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57619273-75/nokias-here-maps-to-expand-to-all-windows-8.1-devices/ 5) http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57614476-296/zuckerberg-gates-lead-funding-round-for-education-not-for-profit/ 6) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619304-93/buy-an-abandoned-amusement-park-on-ebay/