Forget about the iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Pay and even the company’s bold step into wearables. The most important thing Apple announced last week just might be the Apple Watch’s pressure-sensitive screen.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/apple-watchs-pressure-sensitive-screen-bigger-deal-gadget/

MIT’s Cheetah robot is let off its leash, can now run and jump silently across fields MIT’s Cheetah is battery powered, which makes it a lot quieter than other similar gasoline-powered robots

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/190208-mits-cheetah-robot-is-let-off-its-leash-can-now-run-and-jump-silently-across-fields

That’s the aspiration behind IBM’s new big-data play, Watson Analytics, the latest effort to commercialise the company’s artificial intelligence technology as a tool for business intelligence. Watson is best known for beating two world champions on “Jeopardy” a few years ago — and winning the game show’s million-dollar prize. IBM then began trying to turn the technology into a cash cow.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/ibm-to-sell-watson-as-big-data-tool/story-fnay3ubk-1227061012609?nk=b4b3ed3b787a85cb11119504f028b977

Apple iOS 8: Top 11 features

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-ios-8-top-11-features-20140917-10htpm.html

Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent, limited how much iPad time his children used

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?_r=0

APPLE’S proud announcement that its new iPhone could be used to buy goods in a single swipe has left customers nonplussed in Japan, where mobile contactless payments have been normal fare for a decade. A type of Near Field Communication (NFC) chip, known in Japan as FeliCa, was introduced to the Japanese mobile market in June 2004 and has been implanted in almost all phones sold in the country since.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/apple-a-decade-behind-japans-mobile-payment-curve/story-e6frgakx-1227058628042?nk=e8f63a372f0a685e631456d9bc307ab6