Apple macOS Sierra and other top stories.

• Apple macOS Sierra

  

  When you upgrade your Apple computer to macOS Sierra, the hardest thing you'll have to learn is its name. With the advent of Sierra as a free download from the App Store, OS X is no more. Now the newly renamed macOS joins iOS, tvOS, and watchOS in the tightly interconnected Apple ecosystem. If you've been using OS X for years, everything except the name in macOS Sierra will look familiar, though with notable improvements throughout. The biggest change is the addition of Siri, Apple's voice-activ..

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• Survival secret of 'earth's hardiest animal' revealed

  

  Media captionMeet the planet's hardiest animal - the tardigrade - that has just revealed a genetic secret that could help protect human cells. Researchers have discovered a genetic survival secret of Earth's "hardiest animal". A gene that scientists identified in these strange, aquatic creatures - called tardigrades - helps them survive boiling, freezing and radiation. In future, it could be used to protect human cells, the researchers say.It was already known that tardigrades, also known ..

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• Up the mountain with GoPro

  

  “Demand for GoPro is better than it’s ever been,” Nick Woodman explained to a rapt audience at GoPro’s mountain press conference yesterday. “Demand is kicking tail,” he said as the crowd cheered loudly. That’s how it went pretty much all day. Enthusiastic uniformed GoPro employees as far as the eye can see, beginning with a morning press conference that featured the enthusiastic C-level executive dropping to his knees on stage to pull the company’s new drone from its custom backpack to audience..

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