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• Doctors view technology as largely problematic - Reuters

  25-07-2017 22:43 via reuters.com
  Doctors view technology as largely problematic
  Reuters
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Health) - When an endurance runner with a history of heart failure felt under the weather, he brought his activity tracker data from a workout to his cardiologist. Dr. Michael Blum examined the runner's heart rate readings.and more »
  
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• Your next company computer may be a 2-in-1 laptop

  25-07-2017 21:58
  While consumers and businesses are walking away from tablets, 2-in-1 laptops are finding their way into corporations in a big way;sales are expected to grow by more than 21% a year over the next four years.
  
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• Google Canada head exits, company names interim head

  25-07-2017 21:23
  TORONTO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc said on Tuesday that the head of its Google Canada operations, Sam Sebastian, has left the company.
  
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• Options traders bullish on Facebook ahead of second-quarter results

  25-07-2017 21:15
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Facebook Incgeared up to report second-quarter results on Wednesday, traders in the options market are exhibiting a greater degree of bullishness in more than a year, options data showed.
  
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• Adobe to pull plug on Flash after years of waning popularity - The Guardian

  25-07-2017 21:12 via theguardian.com
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  Adobe to pull plug on Flash after years of waning popularity
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  Adobe is killing off its Flash technology by the end of 2020. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/Associated Press. Adobe. Adobe to pull plug on Flash after years of waning popularity. The media-powering technology was once inescapable – but it began to fall out ...
  Flash loses final appeal: Adobe sentences its web tech to deathCNETall 142 news articles »
  
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• Israeli settles Mobileye insider trading case with U.S. regulators

  25-07-2017 21:09
  (Reuters) - An Israeli professor has agreed to pay more than $850,000 to settle U.S. claims he engaged in insider trading in Jerusalem-based Mobileye NV , a maker of sensors and cameras for self-driving vehicles, ahead of its $15.3 billion takeover by Intel Corp .
  
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• ABC News to target millennials with social video partnership

  25-07-2017 20:47
  (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co'sABC News launched a partnership on Tuesday with ATTN:, a video news site focused on younger audiences, to co-produce videos for social media including Facebook Inc'sInstagram and for Twitter Inc .
  
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• Meadow Springs senior resident uses technology to reconnect with family in Norway - Mandurah Mail

  25-07-2017 20:21 via mandurahmail.com.au
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  Meadow Springs senior resident uses technology to reconnect with family in Norway
  Mandurah Mail
  New age nanna: 81-year-old Meadow Springs resident Lily Deverill enjoys spending her free time chatting with her relatives in Norway over Facetime. Photo: Marta Pascual Juanola. See your ad here ...
  
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• Adobe: Flash Player to reach end-of-life in 2020

  25-07-2017 20:00
  Adobe's proprietary rich Internet plug-in technology is finally stepping aside for HTML5 and other web standards
  
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• Technology company microchips staff so they can clock in without IDs - Telegraph.co.uk

  25-07-2017 18:47 via telegraph.co.uk
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  Technology company microchips staff so they can clock in without IDs
  Telegraph.co.uk
  A technology company has become one of the first in the world to microchip staff so they can clock-in by waving their arm, rather than using swipe cards or ID badges. Staff at Three Square Market in Wisconsin will be able to order food at the cafeteria ...and more »
  
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• Adobe to pull plug on Flash, ending an era

  25-07-2017 18:06
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc's Flash, a once-ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday.
  
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• How the “Gangnam Style” Video Became a Global Pandemic - MIT Technology Review

  25-07-2017 18:01 via technologyreview.com
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  How the “Gangnam Style” Video Became a Global Pandemic
  MIT Technology Review
  The spread of disease has always followed a clear pattern. The outbreak begins at a specific place and time and then spreads in a wavelike pattern away from the source. Recommended for You. A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution · The Tech ...
  
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• House panel wants Google, Facebook, AT&T CEOs to testify on internet rules

  25-07-2017 17:58
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked the chief executives of Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and other companies to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing on the future of net neutrality rules.
  
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• Google enters race for nuclear fusion technology | Environment ... - The Guardian

  25-07-2017 17:38 via theguardian.com
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  Google enters race for nuclear fusion technology | Environment ...
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  The tech giant and a leading US fusion company have developed a new computer algorithm that has significantly speeded up progress towards the goal of ...and more »
  
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• Tesla Model S regains top safety rating after software update: Consumer Reports

  25-07-2017 17:17
  (Reuters) - Tesla Inc's Model S sedan regained Consumer Reports' top safety rating, the magazine said on Tuesday, after the automaker updated the emergency braking system on the vehicle.
  
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• Hollywood studios sued over MOVA Contour facial capture technology - The Australian

  25-07-2017 16:01 via theaustralian.com.au
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  Hollywood studios sued over MOVA Contour facial capture technology
  The Australian
  A visual effects company has filed suit against two Hollywood studios and a video game company, alleging unauthorised use of its technology. Rearden is suing 21st Century Fox's Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom's Paramount Pictures and video game ...
  Deadpool studio 'used stolen technology for CGI effects' | Daily Mail ...Daily Mailall 5 news articles »
  
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• Tap and go technology boosts credit card use - The Australian

  25-07-2017 16:00 via theaustralian.com.au
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  Tap and go technology boosts credit card use
  The Australian
  Paper payments are in decline as “tap and go” technology makes cards the most popular way to pay in Australia. According to the Reserve Bank's triennial consumer payments survey, the use of cards has doubled in little under a decade and the big change ...and more »
  
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• Investors unhappy as Alphabet shells out more to drive traffic

  25-07-2017 15:55
  (Reuters) - There are very few things that make Alphabet Inc'sinvestors unhappy. A rising TAC - the cost of driving traffic to its site - is one of them.
  
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• Maradona backs use of video technology to prevent another 'Hand of God' - SBS

  25-07-2017 15:49 via sbs.com.au
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  Maradona backs use of video technology to prevent another 'Hand of God'
  SBS
  The goal during the 1986 World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and England is one of the most talked about in the history of football, alongside his brilliant solo run past five defenders in the same game that gave his side a 2-1 victory. Source ...
  Maradona Supports VAR Technology, Even Though His “Hand of Goal” Wouldn't Have Counted With ItRemezcla (blog)
  Maradona: VAR would have disallowed my goal
  
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• Nielsen to track Hulu Live TV, YouTube TV viewing in U.S. ratings

  25-07-2017 14:38
  (Reuters) - Nielsen Holdings Plcwill begin including Hulu Live TV and Google's YouTube TV viewing in its TV ratings in the United States in an effort to capture the shift from traditional broadcast to watching shows on laptops or smartphones, the company said on Tuesday.
  
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• EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

  25-07-2017 14:31
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Twitter and Google to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient.
  
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• Seagate Technology's stock plunges after profit and sales miss, CEO change - MarketWatch

  25-07-2017 14:19 via marketwatch.com
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  Seagate Technology's stock plunges after profit and sales miss, CEO change
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  Shares of Seagate Technology PLC STX, -15.61% plummeted 17% in premarket trade Tuesday toward an eight month low, after the data storage products maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that were well below expectations and announced a ...
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• North Korean web users enjoy Amazon, Facebook and YouTube, report claims

  25-07-2017 14:14 via computerweekly.com
  Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future claims that the North Korean elite are as plugged in to the worldwide web as any western citizen
  
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• Developer may scrap controversial chimney stack if new technology gets the green light - Gold Coast Bulletin

  25-07-2017 12:18 via goldcoastbulletin.com.au
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  Developer may scrap controversial chimney stack if new technology gets the green light
  Gold Coast Bulletin
  A CONTROVERSIAL 35m tall chimney stack proposed for the northern Gold Coast may be scrapped thanks to new technology not currently used in Australia. Phoenix Power Recyclers have lodged legal action to have the planning permission to build a ...and more »
  
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• Dubbo Hospital part of largest rapid flu testing program in Southern Hemisphere - Daily Liberal

  25-07-2017 07:55 via dailyliberal.com.au
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  Dubbo Hospital part of largest rapid flu testing program in Southern Hemisphere
  Daily Liberal
  New technology at Dubbo Hospital will diagnose influenza A and B within four hours, preventing unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics and allowing certain patients to benefit from antiviral medication. Dubbo Health Service's director of emergency ...
  
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• For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese - MIT ... - MIT Technology Review

  25-07-2017 06:01 via technologyreview.com
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  For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese - MIT ...
  MIT Technology Review
  Challenging written characters make voice-based computing a natural for China, but computers that can hold a conversation in Chinese are some way off.and more »
  
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• NAB resolves payment processing delays

  25-07-2017 03:39
  NAB has resolved a problem that delayed payment processing for its customers
  
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• NAB hit by payment processing delays

  25-07-2017 03:39
  NAB has confirmed delays to payment processing for its customers, although the bank said that transactions should start appearing in accounts.
  
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• NSW govt unveils $26m fund to back quantum computing research

  25-07-2017 03:13
  The New South Government has established a $26 million fund to support research into quantum computing.
  
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• Don Broco Drop Bonkers Music Video For 'Technology' - Kill Your Stereo

  25-07-2017 03:07 via killyourstereo.com
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  Don Broco Drop Bonkers Music Video For 'Technology'
  Kill Your Stereo
  Up keeping their track record of releasing utterly bonker music videos, England's Don Broco have recently dropped a music video for their new single, 'Technology'. As many will expect from the Bedford rock four-piece at this point in their career, this ...and more »
  
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• One week to go before Optus shuts down its 2G network

  25-07-2017 02:23
  Optus will complete the switch off of 2G GSM services on 1 August.
  
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• DHL Supply Chain launches Australian augmented reality trial

  25-07-2017 01:20
  Logistics company DHL Supply Chain is staging an augmented reality trial with one of its Australian customers as it assesses the productivity benefits that AR can deliver to warehouse operations.
  
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• UAE hotel upgrades wireless network and internet connectivity

  25-07-2017 01:15 via computerweekly.com
  Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies
  
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