iPhone 6 Pre-Orders Break Record

A new iPhone, a new record.Apple said Monday that it sold more than 4 million new iPhones 6s in the first 24 hours they were on sale, breaking the previous record for pre-order sales.The news is hardly surprising. Each time a new iPhone model has come out, it has broken sales records. Apple last week announced two new iPhones, both with bigger screens than their predecessors: a 4.7-inch model called the iPhone 6, and a bigger, 5.5-inch model dubbed the iPhone 6 Plus.Analysts expect the new iPhones will be Apple's best-selling iPhones ever, garnering marketshare from rival Samsung, which has made a smartphone with a larger screen for years.Apple did not -- and likely will not -- break out how many of each model it sold.The iPhone 6 Plus, the 5.5-inch "phablet" (nicknamed because it's so large that it's part phone, part tablet) was listed as out of stock on Apple's website just hours after it went on sale Sept. 12.Two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 were placed when that phone was announced in 2012.The phone will be available in stores starting Friday.

Google Earth to help predict malari on maps

Scientists are developing an online platform,using data on Google Earth Engine, that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted. The goal is to enable rescue poor countries to wage more targeted drives against the mosquito-bore disease, most of them children, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco said.

Panipat teen develops a device that converts breath signals into speech

Arsh Shah Dilbagi is also the participant from Asia to enter this year's Google Global Science Fair.

Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old from Panipat, has been selected for this year Google's Global Science Fair. The teenager will be showing a device that enables people with developing disabilities to communicate using only their breath. Arsh is the only finalist from Asia to participate in the Google Science Fair.

Arsh will showing a device called 'Talk', which features a sensor that picks up person's breath via Morse code, and then translates into speech. According to Arsh,  the device will help speech impaired and paralysed people to communicate. The teenage points out that his Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device is world's fastest and cheapest.
"AAC devices available in the market are very expensive, slow, bulky and not generic. I decided to find a better solution — an AAC device which is faster, portable and generic and costs only $80 (Rs 5000), making it affordable to the large population," he explains.

He adds, "In future, I would like to add auto-predictions to my computing engine and integrate TALK with modern technology like Google Glass to make it easier for people with development disabilities."

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