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• White House says Facebook, Microsoft blocked North Korean cyber threats

  19-12-2017 23:25
  Facebook and Microsoft disabled a number of North Korean cyber threats last week, a White House official said on Tuesday, as the United States publicly blamed Pyongyang for a May cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies.
  
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• What is a hypervisor?

  19-12-2017 21:18
  A hypervisor is a process that separates a computer’s operating system and applications from the underlying physical hardware. Usually done as software, the hypervisor drives the concept of virtualization, allowing the physical host machine to operate multiple virtual machines as guests to help maximize computing resources.
  
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• UPS reserves 125 Tesla semi-trucks, largest public pre-order yet

  19-12-2017 21:18
  DETROIT (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Incsaid on Tuesday it is buying 125 Tesla Incall-electric semi-trucks, the largest known order for the big rig so far, as the package delivery company expands its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles.
  
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• Be careful of lithium ion batteries, Europe warns Christmas air travellers

  19-12-2017 19:42
  BERLIN (Reuters) - European aviation safety authorities have urged airlines to remind passengers about how best to transport electronic devices containing lithium ion batteries over the busy Christmas travel period.
  
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• Facebook makes German marketing push as hate speech law bites

  19-12-2017 19:34
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Facebookis making a big marketing drive in Germany just as the country starts to implement tough regulations designed to clamp down on online hate speech.
  
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• Facebook to notify users when photos of them are uploaded

  19-12-2017 19:12
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial template on file.
  
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• U.S. says Facebook, Microsoft disabled North Korean cyber threats

  19-12-2017 18:34
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp disabled a number of North Korean cyber threats last week, a White House official said on Tuesday, as the United States publicly blamed Pyongyang for a May cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies.
  
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• SEC halts trading in crypto firm after eye-popping rise

  19-12-2017 18:20
  (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday temporarily suspended trading in the shares of Crypto Company, a small firm that saw its stock rise more than 2,700 percent this month after signing a deal to buy a cryptocurrency data platform.
  
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• Union and taxi drivers' group can participate in Uber's London appeal

  19-12-2017 17:38
  LONDON (Reuters) - A British trade union and a taxi drivers' trade body can take part in Uber's appeal case against the decision by London's transport regulator to strip the taxi app of its operating licence, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
  
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• Estonia's tech guru outlines ideas for digital 'estcoin'

  19-12-2017 13:04
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Estonia could become the first country in Europe to launch its own digital means of exchange -- the "estcoin" -- under plans outlined by the manager of its pioneering e-residency scheme, in place since 2014.
  
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• Top 10 data center predictions: IDC

  19-12-2017 12:00
  The global data center market will transform over the next few years as companies modernize their data center facilities, shift to more software-defined infrastructure, and adopt more autonomous IT infrastructure.
  
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• Compiler to convert Go language to JavaScript

  19-12-2017 12:00
  The beta open source Joy compiler takes on the same task as GopherJS: to bring Go language approaches to JavaScript development
  
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• China's Didi, rival to Uber, looks to break into Taiwan market

  19-12-2017 10:10
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Didi Chuxing on Tuesday said it was looking to bring its ride-hailing service to Taiwan via a local franchise partner, potentially marking its first expansion across waters as it looks to take on U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL].
  
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• South Korea financial regulator says 'virtual currencies' are not currencies

  19-12-2017 07:52
  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service said on Tuesday it does not consider bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be currencies of any kind and would not seek to regulate their trade beyond rules announced last week.
  
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• Drupal, cloud power Boral’s new digital presence

  19-12-2017 06:01
  International building products and construction materials group Boral has launched refreshed versions of its local and global corporate sites, shifting to cloud-hosted Drupal 8 to power its web presence.
  
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• Taylor takes on cyber security in ministerial reshuffle

  19-12-2017 04:20
  Angus Taylor will take over responsibility for the cyber security portfolio as part of a ministerial reshuffle.
  
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• Power key challenge in race to exascale computing

  19-12-2017 03:28
  Addressing the enormous power demands of exascale computing remains the biggest challenge in the race to push the boundaries of supercomputing, according to Joao Almeida, CTO at Lenovo ANZ’s Data Centre Group.
  
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• US blames North Korea for WannaCry ransomware wave

  19-12-2017 03:06
  The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.
  
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• New Colorado chairlift technology tells you how miserable I-70 is right now - Denverite

  19-12-2017 01:47 via denverite.com
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  New Colorado chairlift technology tells you how miserable I-70 is right now
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  Winter Park ski resort is installing “first of its kind” digital technology on one of its chairlifts. Certain chairs on the resort's Super Gauge Express lift will now feature several digital screens on their safety bars. The five upgraded chairs will ...
  
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