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• Browser makers build bulwarks to stump Spectre attacks

  06-01-2018 21:58
  Most major browser makers responded to concerns about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities by updating their wares to try and fend off any web-based attacks.
  
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• The Definitive Technology D9 speaker's sweet sound tickles your ears - CNET

  06-01-2018 19:17 via cnet.com
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  The Definitive Technology D9 speaker's sweet sound tickles your ears
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  The Definitive Technology Demand Series D9 speakers. Definitive Technology. Sumptuous is a word I've never applied to another $799 per pair bookshelf speakers, but that's exactly what the Definitive Technology Demand Series D9 sounds like to me. The ...
  
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• ASU space experts say better technology leads to more discoveries about asteroids - FOX 10 News Phoenix

  06-01-2018 18:45 via fox10phoenix.com
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  ASU space experts say better technology leads to more discoveries about asteroids
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  PHOENIX, Ariz (KSAZ) - An asteroid nearly missed Earth this past week, coming within about 1.5 million miles of the planet. NASA says anything closer than 4 million miles is cause for concern. Astronomers are discovering more asteroids in our solar ...
  
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• Trial Over Theft of Wind Technology Spotlights US-China Tensions - Wall Street Journal

  06-01-2018 13:00 via wsj.com
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  Trial Over Theft of Wind Technology Spotlights US-China Tensions
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  A dispute over the alleged theft of wind-turbine technology is slated to go to trial in Wisconsin on Monday in a test case for intellectual-property battles between the U.S. and China. Federal prosecutors accuse Chinese wind-turbine maker Sinovel Wind ...
  
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• The future of our technology and our planet depends on one thing: the battery - TechRadar

  06-01-2018 11:31 via techradar.com
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  The future of our technology and our planet depends on one thing: the battery
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  Most of us are running on empty. Since the mobile phone spawned a smartphone-first world, we've all been tending to the needs of batteries. The daily or nightly charge of the smartphone is the most prevalent, but laptops, tablets, drones, wireless ...and more »
  
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• The latest cutting-edge technology changing our landscapes? Trees - The Guardian

  06-01-2018 10:54 via theguardian.com
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  The latest cutting-edge technology changing our landscapes? Trees
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  The UK has been slow to embrace agroforestry, fearing trees compete for valuable space and water. In fact they can increase crop diversity as well as profits, as two pioneering Cambridgeshire farmers have found. Plant pathologist Martin Wolfe has ...
  
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• How sport will change in 2018, part one: video technology in football - Telegraph.co.uk

  06-01-2018 10:08 via telegraph.co.uk
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  How sport will change in 2018, part one: video technology in football
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  The ball hits the net, and the goalscorer runs towards the crowd as goalscorers have always done, but at the back of his mind is the verdict of the man whom no-one can see but everyone knows is watching. What will the video assistant referee say ...
  
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• Jonny Bairstow says technology is 'messing' with players' careers after Mitchell Marsh controversy - Telegraph.co.uk

  06-01-2018 09:42 via telegraph.co.uk
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  Jonny Bairstow says technology is 'messing' with players' careers after Mitchell Marsh controversy
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  What really upset England was the decision by third umpire, S Ravi, to overturn an lbw against Mitchell Marsh for an inside edge. Ravi had mistakenly thought the spike on snickometer was bat against ball when it was bat against pad. The decision would ...
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• How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones - The Guardian

  06-01-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
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  How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones
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  Amazon's Echo, which houses the ever helpful Alexa, is fierce competition with Google's Home. Photograph: AP. Smart speaker. How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones. Amazon and Google believe they've struck gold with their voice-controlled ...and more »
  
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• Our Best Photographs of 2017 - MIT Technology Review

  06-01-2018 06:00 via technologyreview.com
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  Our Best Photographs of 2017
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  Below, a list of our favorite and most eye-catching photo essays published this year. Inside the Far-out Glass Lab Photographs by Rachel Jerome Ferraro. To Feed the World, Improve Photosynthesis Photographs by Whitten Sabbatini. Meet the World's First ...
  
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• U.S. company plans funds that double bitcoin price moves

  06-01-2018 02:58
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund managers are ramping up efforts to tap into the fever surrounding digital assets, and the latest planned bitcoin products could deliver some head-turning and stomach-churning price movements if they come to market.
  
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• Twitter says world leaders like Trump have special status

  06-01-2018 02:03
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Friday reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status on the social media network, pushing back against users who have called on the company to banish U.S. President Donald Trump.
  
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• CES kicks off with no lead women speakers or code of conduct

  06-01-2018 01:52
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The technology industry's premier annual gathering kicks off next week with no women leading the keynote sessions and no code of conduct that might prevent incidents of sexual harassment, despite efforts by organizers to cast the show as a more inclusive event.
  
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