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A type of DNA test the Apple CEO hoped might save his life is becoming widely available. If you need proof of how information technology is influencing biotech, take a look at Foundation Medicine, the Boston-area diagnostics company that went public on Wednesday. Its stock price quickly doubled after the IPO. And one reason is surely its links to stratospheric tech names from the West Coast. The company is backed by both Google and Bill Gates, and the core idea behind its technology was once tried out on Apple founder Steve Jobs. Foundation sells a $5,800 test that looks in detail at the DNA of a person with cancer. The concept is that a comprehensive catalogue of genetic mutations in a person’s tumor will show exactly what’s driving the cancer and help doctors choose what drug will work best (see “Foundation Medicine: Personalizing Cancer Drugs.”) It turns out that Jobs was one of the first people—and certainly the best-known—to try this kind of all-in genetic strategy

Apple today updated iMac to bring numerous high-performance enhancements to the world’s leading all-in-one desktop. iMac now features fourth-generation Intel Core processors, new graphics, and next-generation Wi-Fi. In addition, it now supports PCIe-based flash storage, making its Fusion Drive and all-flash storage options up to 50 percent faster than the previous generation. “iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

If you’ve started to feel like Google understands you a little better, the company says that’s because it has quietly rolled out the biggest revamp of its search engine technology in years. Today, Google’s senior vice president of search, Amit Singhal, announced the overhaul, called Hummingbird, from the garage in Silicon Valley that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin used as the company’s first office. He described Hummingbird as the next leap forward in the search technology that debuted a decade and a half ago. This isn’t a new search interface. This isn’t something you can see and navigate inside your browser. It’s a new way for Google to determine what you’re looking for — behind the scenes — and send it your way. According to Singhal, Hummingbird gives Google a much greater ability to understand searches not just as words but as real-world concepts. “As (users) have become more comfortable with search, they have started asking more complex questions of Google,” he s

A senior US senator believes the fingerprint recognition technology featured in Apple's new iPhone 5S raises "substantial privacy questions". Senator Al Franken, chairman of the influential Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, has written to Apple boss Tim Cook explaining his security concerns. After stealing someone's thumbprint, hackers could "impersonate you for the rest of your life,"he wrote. Apple has yet to comment on the letter. Mr Franken wants answers to a number of questions, such as: whether the fingerprint data stored locally on the mobile phone chip in encrypted form could ever be stolen and converted into digital or visual form that would be usable by hackers or fraudsters whether the iPhone 5S transmits any diagnostic information about the Touch ID system back to Apple or any third parties how well customer fingerprint data will be protected and kept private the exact legal status of such finger

The first iPhone and iOS 7 reviews are in from news organizations including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New York Times: Walter S. Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal recommends iPhone 5s “for anyone looking for a premium, advanced smartphone.” He calls the phone’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor “a potentially game-changing hardware feature” and iOS 7 “a radically new operating system.” Ed Baig of USA Today looks at both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. On the iPhone 5s, he writes, “Taken in totality, the features new to the iPhone 5s make what I consider to be the best smartphone on the market even better.” He concludes, “I can strongly recommend either new iPhone but especially the 5s.” David Pogue of The New York Times posts two stories. In his iOS review he writes, “The structure, layout and features represent some of Apple’s best work.” In his iPhone review, he calls iPhone 5c “a terrific phone,” noting, “The price is right. It will sell like hot cakes.” On iPhone 5s,

I will be very happy if, by the end of it all,  Tim Cook  does not have blood on his hands. But, by the looks of it, Apple CEO may be assiduously murdering the legacy of legendary Steve Jobs. Can someone like Cook spoil the broth that he himself helped cook so successfully for so many years? But then knowing Jobs, we also know how most decision-making happened at Apple while he was at the helm.

The new iPhone 5S has the same design as the   iPhone 5 (which is discontinued) but has a completely new feature set. In addition to the white and black (space grey) variants, there is also a new gold and white version. iPhone 5S processor and graphics There's a 64-bit Apple A7 chip on board with over a billion transistors (32-bit and 64-bit apps are supported) That's an incredible 56 times as fast as the original iPhone. The first-of-its-kind chip packs twice as many transistors in a piece of silicon roughly the same size as the A6 - 102mm squared. iOS 7  will obviously support the 64-bit chip too. A native 64-bit kernel, libraries and drivers are all part of the package. The graphics, featuring OpenGL ES 3.0, are also twice as fast and Apple was keen to demonstrate the gaming prowess of the handset with Infinity Blade 3. iPhone 5S battery life As for battery life, the iPhone 5S will allow for 10 hours of 3G talk time, and 10 hours of LTE browsing. Indeed,