Steve Jobs respected his competition, spurring him onwards to create products and services with Apple that would become some of the most popular smartphones, desktops and media devices available today. One thing he might not have been too happy to see was Android running on his iOS devices, something that developers have been fighting to do for a number of years, certainly not Android applications running within the iOS platform....

Alien-human hybrids are unlikely but not impossible, scientists say Why we aren’t likely to see alien-human hybrids anytime soon — Sorry, Mr. Spock! What makes a species? It is intuitive for us to classify individuals based on their appearance. That’s how we differentiate a dog from a tree. But not all lookalike organisms belong to the same species. One example is the African fish eagle and the bald eagle. They look quite similar but they belong to different species....

AliPay, Alibaba’s online payment platform, has updated its mobile app to bring the ‘mobile wallet’ technology to China, allowing customers to make transactions via theAliPay mobileapp, even on non-NFC enabled phones, reportsPenn-Olson. AliPay just released an update to itsiPhone,AndroidandNokiaapps today that enables a new mobile barcode payment system. The app creates a unique, disposable barcode where the transaction details and user’s account information are encrypted. This can then be used to make payments that are either deductible from a user’s AliPay funds, or from debit/credit cards associated with one’s account....

As wereportedon yesterday, a number of volunteers have been working on translating the Arabic voice messages left by Egyptian protesters on Google’sSay Nowservice (which were then, with the help of Twitter, pushed out as tweets on the@Speak2Tweetaccount) into English. As we followed the developing story yesterday – including capturing afive minute videothe rapid fire Google Doc spreadsheet that was be used by the volunteers to collaborate – we wondered (and asked directly on the spreadsheet’s chat function) what would happen to the translations beyond the document....

All I want for Christmas is a length-based search option on Netflix Please Netflix, I’ve been a good boy The conundrum You and I both know why a search option for how long it takes to watch the content is so important, but let me lay out the situation for the stuffy Netflix execs reading this. Most of Netflix’s recommendation tricks — autoplaying, top trending, etc. — seem to revolve around getting us to start watching as fast as humanly possible to fight today’s viewer’s staunchest foe: FOMO....