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• Trial date set for Elon Musk's 'pedo guy' tweet

  10-05-2019 22:56
  A U.S. judge on Friday said Elon Musk must face a defamation lawsuit by a British diver who said he was falsely branded a pedophile and child rapist by the chief executive of electric car company Tesla Inc.
  
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• Google updates Android Jetpack, unveils Jetpack Compose

  10-05-2019 21:17
  Android Jetpack development toolkit gains 11 new libraries and a companion toolkit to ease the creation of UIs
  
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• Facebook's Zuckerberg hails French hate speech plan as EU model

  10-05-2019 21:06
  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg hailed France's efforts to regulate hateful content online as a model for the European Union after meeting President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday.
  
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• Coming to Windows 10: more browsers, not fewer

  10-05-2019 20:43
  Microsoft will continue to include Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and the original Edge with Windows 10, according to a company program manager.
  
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• South Korea orders arrest of two Samsung Electronics officials over affiliate's accounting scandal

  10-05-2019 20:37
  A South Korean court said on Saturday it had approved warrants to arrest two senior officials at Samsung Electronics in relation to an alleged accounting fraud at the tech giant's biopharma affiliate.
  
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• New Intel firmware boot verification bypass enables low-level backdoors

  10-05-2019 20:04
  By replacing a PC's SPI flash chip with one that contains rogue code, an attacker can can gain full, persistent access.
  
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• Symantec's CEO exit seen denting turnaround plan sends stock tumbling

  10-05-2019 19:59
  Symantec Corp faces an uphill battle to turn around its business and win investor confidence, analysts said on Friday, after Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark became the fifth top executive in six months to leave the cybersecurity company.
  
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• Walmart Brasil to ditch e-commerce, focus on brick and mortar

  10-05-2019 19:23
  Walmart Brasil will close down its e-commerce operation in Latin America's biggest retail market to focus on brick and mortar locations, converting underperforming hypermarkets into wholesale stores.
  
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• Uber starts trading at $42 a share, 6.7% below IPO price

  10-05-2019 18:19
  Uber Technologies Inc's stock on Friday opened down 6.7 percent in its first trade on the New York Stock Exchange, in the most high-profile U.S. market debut since Facebook Inc seven years ago.
  
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• Lyft hits record low as Uber slumps in Wall Street debut

  10-05-2019 18:13
  Lyft Inc's stock slumped to a record low on Friday as Uber Technologies, another company hemorrhaging billions of dollars, fell in its Wall Street debut.
  
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• EU car wifi plan delayed as countries await legal advice

  10-05-2019 17:59
  The European Commission's plan for a wifi-based standard for cars endorsed by Volkswagen faces a two-month delay as EU countries wait for legal advice on the proposal, giving a glimmer of hope to backers of the rival 5G technology.
  
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• Defiant Uber co-founder Kalanick shows up for stock market premiere

  10-05-2019 17:47
  Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of Uber Technologies Inc who stepped down as CEO in 2017 amid a string of scandals, showed up for the ride-hailing giant's stock market debut on Friday even though Uber had not invited him to join executives on the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell.
  
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• Uber shares likely to fall in stock market debut

  10-05-2019 17:46
  Uber Technologies Inc shares are likely to open below their initial public offering price of $45 in their long-awaited market debut on Friday, early price indications showed.
  
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• Foxconn's Gou to keep board seat as he bids for Taiwan's presidency

  10-05-2019 17:41
  Terry Gou, chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn, will retain a seat on the company's proposed board, a company filing showed on Friday, as he plans to run in Taiwan's 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Putting on the brakes: How technology may be slowed by social norms - Brookings Institution

  10-05-2019 17:22 via brookings.edu
  Putting on the brakes: How technology may be slowed by social norms  Brookings InstitutionMarcus Casey and Sarah Nzau argue that direct transition costs (economics) of automation and the possible unwillingness of consumers to engage (social ...
  
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• Wirecard sees profit potential of Softbank alliance at up to 273 million euros

  10-05-2019 17:09
  Wirecard sees the total five-year profit potential from its alliance with Japan's Softbank Group Corp at between 209 million euros and 273 million euros ($235-$307 million), the German payments company said on Friday.
  
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• Amazon holds talks with workers in Poland as strike threatened

  10-05-2019 17:08
  Amazon said on Friday it was in talks with employees in Poland after unions threatened strike action, seeking higher pay in distribution centres.
  
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• American Airlines using technology to make its people the competitive advantage - ZDNet

  10-05-2019 17:00 via zdnet.com
  American Airlines using technology to make its people the competitive advantage  ZDNetThe airline believes its people will be the differentiation, so that's where the focus of digital transformation has been over the last few years.
  
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• The Future of Vehicle Technology at CES Asia 2019 - Interesting Engineering

  10-05-2019 16:21 via interestingengineering.com
  The Future of Vehicle Technology at CES Asia 2019  Interesting EngineeringAttendees to CES Asia 2019 will see the largest vehicle technology show floor ever.
  
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• Everything Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst would say about the IBM deal

  10-05-2019 15:52
  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses what he can regarding the IBM-Red Hat acquisition, which has just been approved by the US Department of Justice.
  
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• "There was resistance" to Qualtrics acquisition, says SAP founder Hasso Plattner

  10-05-2019 15:41
  SAP founder Dr Hasso Plattner said that there was board-level resistance to the $8 billion acquisition of Utah-based SaaS company Qualtrics last year and that CEO Bill McDermott was the driving force behind the decision.
  
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• Technology reveals previously undetectable protein signaling activity in diabetes, cancer - Phys.org

  10-05-2019 14:58 via phys.org
  Technology reveals previously undetectable protein signaling activity in diabetes, cancer  Phys.orgProteins are the workhorses of the cell. Their activity is often controlled by adding or removing chemicals called phosphates, like switching an electrical current ...
  
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• Apollo Fusion Obtains Hall Thruster Technology from JPL - Space.com

  10-05-2019 13:00 via space.com
  Apollo Fusion Obtains Hall Thruster Technology from JPL  Space.comSatellite electric propulsion startup Apollo Fusion is expanding its product line through an agreement with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, giving it access to ...
  
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• Technology is a bright spot for British economy - Financial Times

  10-05-2019 11:06 via ft.com
  Technology is a bright spot for British economy  Financial TimesSector is the fastest growing since the EU referendum in 2016.
  
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• How one middle school is closing the technology achievement gap - eSchool News

  10-05-2019 09:02 via eschoolnews.com
  How one middle school is closing the technology achievement gap  eSchool NewsThere's a widening technology achievement gap for minorities, despite blacks and Hispanics having more interest in learning computer science.
  
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• Android Q: everything you need to know about Google's update - The Guardian

  10-05-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Android Q: everything you need to know about Google's update  The GuardianGoogle took the wraps off the next version of Android 10 Q at its IO developer conference in California this week, introducing a whole range of new features, ...
  
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• Bankwest works on getting more women into tech roles

  10-05-2019 07:38
  Bankwest has launched a new initiative intended to encourage women to consider tech careers.
  
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• WA government funds ‘ServiceWA’ pilot

  10-05-2019 05:18
  The Western Australian government is funding for a trial of a one-stop-shop for public-facing transactional services, such as licensing and registrar services.
  
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• Telstra to begin transition to ‘Agile at scale’ from July

  10-05-2019 04:13
  From July this year Telstra plans to begin its largescale transition to an “Agile at scale” model, according to the telco’s HR head.
  
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• Uber enters stock market in most anticipated technology share offering of the year - Nine

  10-05-2019 01:54 via finance.nine.com.au
  Uber enters stock market in most anticipated technology share offering of the year  NineGlobal ridesharing *service*, Uber, has for the first time started publicly trading on the US stock market - ...
  
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