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Alt-week 9.1.12: growing bones, repairing voices, and a pair of satellites Sep 1st 2012, 21:00 Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. There's definitely more than a touch of a biological theme to proceedings this week. In fact, so much so that we thought we might well end up with enough ingredients to make our own cyborg. Or rather, a light-responding canine cyborg with a really cool voice. Yep, science and technology is working hard to make all of these things possible -- albeit independently. If science ever does do the right thing, and pool its resources on such a project, you can thanks us for the tip off. This is Alt-week. Continue reading Alt-week 9.1.12: growing bones, repairing voices, and a pair of satellites Filed under: Misc, Science, Internet, Alt Alt-week 9.1.12: growing bones, repairing voices, and a pair of satellites originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Mozilla pulls Firefox Home from the iOS App Store, posts source code to GitHub Sep 1st 2012, 19:44 iOS users keen on Mozilla's Firefox Home will have to find another browser syncing solution: the application has been retired. The app worked in conjunction with Firefox Sync, and was designed to give users access to their desktop history, open tabs and bookmarks on the go. Mozilla says the project "provided valuable insight and experience with the platform," but ultimately decided its resources were better focused elsewhere. All isn't lost, however -- the company is making the source available on GitHub, encouraging users to tinker with the iOS Sync client Firefox Home was built on. Feel free to swim in the code yourself at the source link below. Filed under: Software, Mobile Mozilla pulls Firefox Home from the iOS App Store, posts source code to GitHub originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Mozilla, GitHub  | Email this | Comments

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