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Electronic Frontier Foundation and other information privacy advocates have created Canary Watch, a database of common online companies' acknowledgments that they have not been ordered by government entities to release private user information.

Olympus has announced the follow-up to its OM-D E-M5 mirrorless camera, the E-M5 II. The new camera is said to boast the world's most powerful image stabilization, can take 40-megapixel stills by shifting its 16-megapixel sensor, and features vastly-improved video options.

The BMW M6 GT3 has taken to the track for the first time in Germany. The car was put through its paces at the BMW plant in Dingolfing. Having been announced last year, this marks the start of its testing period.

DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program is developing a system to launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit using an expendable rocket dropped from a conventional aircraft.

Jet turbine blades need to drilled with tiny cooling holes in an operation that can ruin them. To prevent this from happening, GE is combining the heat of the laser beam with the cooling of the water jet to drill holes without weakening the blades.

As anyone who has ever used medicinal eyedrops will know, it's hard to get the things into your own eye. Soon, however, they could be replaced by tiny drug-containing polymer "nanowafers" that are applied to the eye like a contact lens.

The UK's Tibo Electronics has announced the launch of the all-in-one Urban 500 DJ station, which sits a media controller atop a 500 W speaker tower with wheels on the bottom to help you trundle to your next gig.

The ESA has successfully tested its Fluorescence Explorer mission (FLEX). The mission, which aims to create global maps of photosynthetic activity, will allow for the identification of vegetation suffering degrees of stress that simply aren’t visible to the human eye.

NASA's venerated Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of the larger galaxy NGC 7714 colliding with its smaller companion NGC 7715. A similar cataclysmic collision is due to take place between our own galaxy and our closest neighbor the Andromeda galaxy in around four billion years.

The US Navy and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) released details of demonstration exercises conducted by their Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) aboard the fire training ship USS Shadwell last November.

Energizer has announced a new line of high-performance AA and AAA alkaline batteries that are in part made by recycling old cells, with plans to eventually use recycled materials in all of the company's future cells.

To cut time and costs involved in developing new drugs, scientists have built Eve, an artificially-intelligent "robot scientist" that is not only faster and cheaper than its human counterparts, but has already identified a compound that could be used to fight malaria.