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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- October 18, 2011

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Nanostuff Lets Computers Remake Themselves
Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Triumphs in Hair-Raising Test Flight
The iPhone's It Girl
How Linuxy Is Android?
Find My Friends: Voluntary Stalking Made Simple
New App Aims to Make Energy Use Top of Mind for Facebook Users

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Today's Story Highlights

Nanostuff Lets Computers Remake Themselves
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial
that can reconfigure itself by directing the flow of current. This could
lead to computers that can reconfigure their internal circuitry as
needed. The hybrid material combines different aspects of silicon- and
polymer-based electronics to create nanoparticle-based electronics.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73529.html

Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Triumphs in Hair-Raising Test Flight
A recent test flight of Virgin Galactic's private SpaceShipTwo
spacecraft caused some tense moments for those participating and
observing, but ultimately a new safety feature on the suborbital craft
allowed its three-person crew to regain control and bring it safely back
down to Earth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73524.html

The iPhone's It Girl
The 4 million iPhone 4S devices sold last weekend came complete with a
unique voice-activated personal assistant, Siri. The service is perhaps
the most buzzed-about feature found in Apple's new gadget. Siri allows
the user to ask questions using conversational speech. This is primarily
used to perform search or information requests, but it will also respond
to a variety of more off-the-wall queries.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73528.html

How Linuxy Is Android?
The Kindle Fire, the Android-based tablet Amazon revealed in late
September, could well be the next step in the ongoing metamorphosis of
Google's Linux derivative into a proprietary operating system. Even if
Amazon does not lock down its altered Android platform, it clearly has
created a major fork in the Linux road.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73523.html

Find My Friends: Voluntary Stalking Made Simple
Here's an app so powerful it's apparently broken up a marriage less than
a week after it hit the App Store shelves. OK, fine, what really broke
up the marriage was probably the cheating, or at least the suspicion of
cheating. The app just revealed a little sneaking around. And that's
presuming the whole story's even true at all -- it was first spotted on
a MacRumors forum, where anyone can post almost anything.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73516.html

New App Aims to Make Energy Use Top of Mind for Facebook Users
A new partnership plans to create a Facebook app that will leverage
social networking to improve consumer awareness about energy
consumption. The partnership consists of the social networking giant,
the Natural Resources Defense Council and energy information software
creator Opower. The app will let consumers go on Facebook to compare the
energy usage of their homes against the national average, among other
things.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73522.html

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