Will Pokémon Go suffer the same fate as Groupon? and other top stories.

• Will Pokémon Go suffer the same fate as Groupon?

  

  One is a mobile game app. One is a discount shopping site. For all their differences, Pokémon Go and Groupon may share a similar fate: a rocketlike takeoff that burns through fuel without a plan to keep the company aloft. Pokémon Go and Groupon share other similarities. Both are location-based. Both popularized then-unexplored tech opportunities. Both are built on questionable business models: Apple and Google take a hefty rake of Pokémon Go’s in-app purchases, while Groupon’s daily deals were ..

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• The Apple dream car might not happen

  

  Having mostly perfected computers of various shapes and sizes, it is compelling to imagine Apple’s head of design, Jony Ive, now crafting a minimalist dream car with a revolutionary user experience. But according to several recent reports, Apple’s secret automotive project seems to have some issues. “Dozens of employees” in Apple’s car project “have departed in recent weeks,” the FT reports. The company has had more than 1,000 people working on its so-called “Project Titan,” but “it has struggl..

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• iPhone 7 Butts Heads With Galaxy Note 7 For First Time: Does It Bode Well For Apple?

  

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• SpaceX appeals for help in probe of rocket blast

  

  SpaceX appealed for help from the public and US government agencies on Friday in the investigation of what made a Falcon 9 rocket explode last week during a launch test. No one was hurt in the September 1 blast, which happened as the rocket was being fueled ahead of a standard, pre-launch test known as a static-fire at Cape Canaveral, Florida. "Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter. "Turning out to be the most difficult and complex fai..

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• This Camera Can Read a Book Without Opening It

  

  On Friday, a team of researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech unveiled a new machine imaging technique that allows a computer to determine what is printed on individual sheets of stacked paper without having to flip through them. It’s kind of like if Superman used his X-ray vision for doing nerdy stuff like reading books, except that Superman is a letter-interpretation algorithm and his X-ray vision is terahertz radiation. VIDEO As detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, the system u..

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