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[embedded content] Twice a year, around the time of the autumnal and veal equinoxes, is the Solar Dynamics Observatory's eclipse season. From its vantage point in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, the SDO's view of the sun is blocked once a day by the Earth. And on the rare occasion, both the Earth and the moon pass between the SDO and the sun -- a rare double eclipse. One of these took place on September 1, when first the Earth, then the moon, were captured blocking out the sun as the SDO filmed the whole thing in hi-res. It's not quite as dramatic as a solar eclipse take from the Earth, but it's still interesting if you know what you'r...

"Endless" is exclusively streaming on Apple Music. Screenshot/Xiomara Blanco The wait for a new Frank Ocean album is over -- kind of.Early Friday moing the artist released a visual album, "Endless," exclusively on Apple Music. Currently, it's only available to stream as a 45-minute long video, not as a typical audio-only album with individual tracks.The project was heavily teased, thanks to a mysterious live stream that unceremoniously debuted two weeks ago. It answers a few questions curious fans have patiently waited for (he really was building some type of staircase), but, it doesn't quite answer the most ...

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Apple's latest iOS update resolves another security flaw. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple's latest update to its iOS software fixes a security hole that could have been exploited to take control of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Released on Thursday, iOS 9.3.4 addresses the problem as one in which an "application may be able to execute arbitrary code with keel privileges," according to an Apple support page. That means an attacker could execute virtually any command, including one that would gain control of your iOS device.iOS 9.3.4 fixes that vulnerability, the latest in a long line of flaws disco...

Enlarge Image Britney Spears/Twitter Spotify has suffered another blow in the ongoing online music-streaming battle: Britney Spears' "Glory", her first album since 2013, will be an Apple Music exclusive.The news was aounced by Spears herself, who said on Twitter that the album would be dropping on August 26.Both Apple Music and Tidal have managed to snag their own share of exclusives this year, but the same can't be said for Spotify. Frank Ocean's "Boys Don't Cry" will be an Apple Music exclusive upon its release this Friday, and Drake's "Views" was exclusive to the service for a week back in April. It'll rem...

Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo showed off an interesting concept: a case that gives smartphones wheels and enables them to roll around on their own. Forget summoning your car; we want to summon our phones. We're also taking a closer look at SymGym, a machine made for working out while playing video games. It doubles as a game controller, so users end up pulling, pushing and otherwise getting resistance reps while they control a video game. Close ...

Enlarge Image Kouichi Okamoto E-book sales are falling, actual book sales are rising. What does that mean? Society is once again in need of a good bookmark. Japanese designer Kouichi Okamoto is looking to shake up the page-holder game with Bookmark Light. It's a regular bookmark by day, but doubles as a reading light at night. You'll need a lithium coin battery, though.The shift from bookmark to nightlight is made by placing said battery into a slot and folding the film-material bookmark over. It works by using a silver conducting and a special type of nanoparticle ink that conducts electricity.The Bookmark ...

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Pokemon Go isn't even available around the entire world yet, and Nintendo's shares have seen an astronomic rise. On July 5, Nintendo's shares were 14,490 Japanese yen. On July 19, they closed out at 31,770 Japanese yen. However, it's not all roses: since the launch of the augmented-reality game, stocks have seen their first significant fall, around 11 percent, from that high to 28,430 Japanese yen at time of writing.However, that's still the highest Nintendo's shares have been since April 2010, when they hit 32,100 Japanese yen. The game has proven insanely popular, and bro...

Katy Perry Katy Perry is the latest artist to forgo Spotify in favor of Apple Music. The singer debuted her new song "Rise" on Apple's streaming service late Thursday night. While the song can also be found on the singer's Vevo YouTube page, it isn't available on either Spotify or Tidal. The song is exclusive to Apple Music subscribers for the time being and can only be purchased through the iTunes store. "This is a song that's been brewing inside me for years, that has finally come to the surface," Perry said about the song during an appearance on the Today Show. "I was inspired to finish it now, rather tha...

Ask Apple's Siri digital assistant if she's evil, and she'll respond curtly, "Not really." Repeat a famous line from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," in which a computer on a spaceship kills nearly all the human crew, and Siri groans. "Oh, not again." And who can blame her? We humans have a morbid fascination with machines rising up to wipe us out or to enslave us as cocooned, flesh-and-blood battery packs. You can see that vision of the future streaming over Netflix whenever you want. Face it. For every lovable R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Star Wars universe, it's the dark side that seems to resonate most: the Cylons, who nearly eradicate human civilization in "Battlestar Galacti...

Enlarge ImageSurface features on Pluto, photographed by New Horizons. NASA/JHU APL/SwRI Data from the New Horizons mission revealed many previously unknown things about Pluto, and hinted at others. One tantalising tidbit was the prospect of an ammonia-rich ocean of water under the surface, a liquid sea beneath the frozen plains."Thanks to the incredible data retued by New Horizons, we were able to observe tectonic features on Pluto's surface, update our thermal evolution model with new data and infer that Pluto most likely has a subsurface ocean today," said lead author Noah Hammond, a graduate student in Bro...

Kelly Nelson/CNET Citizens of Middletown, New Jersey, get ready for a new kind of home Inteet service. AT&T said on Monday that Middletown will join Austin, Texas, as the two locations for using 5G wireless technology as a home broadband service, scheduled for the end of summer. The nation's second largest wireless carrier said early tests with equipment partner Ericsson have yielded speeds of 10 gigabits a second, or 10 times faster than what Google Fiber offers.In comparison, CNET visited Verizon's headquarters and saw its 5G tests run at 3.77 gigabits a second, fast enough to download the entire "Simp...