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This week on VFTQ, we have your weekly five course meal of tech, sci-fi and other news! We have robots who punch humans to make them cry, we have the best troll in history, how Alzheimer’s is infectious (but don’t worry, it’s not bad), we have my thoughts on all the new Apple gear (as well as reporting on a bug that has been found in FaceTime), how banned light-bulbs are being sold as heaters to get around European regulations, and we have an iPhone that was sent into space on a weather balloon and came back to tell the tale. Of course, there is also LOTS more.

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/14/robots-learning-our-pain-threshold-by-punching-humans-and-seeing/ – Robots punching humans for Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_Hoax – Berners Street Hoax

http://www.securityweek.com/google-admits-streetview-cars-collecting-entire-emails-urls-and-passwords – Google admits then done screwed up

http://io9.com/5671054/new-evidence-that-alzheimers-disease-is-infectious - Alzheimer’s Disease is Infectious

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/facetime-for-mac-opens-giant-apple-id-security-hole.ars – Hole in FaceTime security

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101015/od_nm/us_germany_heatballs – Lightbulbs = heaters?

http://www.thejournal.ie/look-son-i-made-a-satellite-2010-10/ – iPhone goes to space