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• State of Technology speakers believe tech sector will be key... - AG Week

  14-08-2019 23:59 via agweek.com
  State of Technology speakers believe tech sector will be key...  AG WeekFARGO — The connections between North Dakota's agricultural sector and its growing technology sector were highlighted at the 2019 State of Technology.
  
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• Buffett's Berkshire boosts Amazon.com bet, attracts Ackman

  14-08-2019 23:35
  Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Incon Wednesday said it boosted its stake in Amazon.com Incby 11% during the second quarter, increasing its bet on the powerful online retailer even as stocks traded near record highs.
  
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• Irish regulator queries Facebook on transcription of users' audio

  14-08-2019 23:10
  The lead regulator of Facebook Incin the European Union is seeking information on how the company handled data during the manual transcription of users' audio recordings, Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday.
  
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• How Festival Technology Has Evolved Since Woodstock - Popular Mechanics

  14-08-2019 22:20 via popularmechanics.com
  How Festival Technology Has Evolved Since Woodstock  Popular MechanicsWoodstock wasn't the first festival, but when 400,000 fans flocked to a dairy farm in Bethel, New York for three days of peace and music back on August 15, 1969 ...
  
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• Drillisch, United Internet, trim guidance as 5G challenge looms

  14-08-2019 21:55
  German telecoms firm 1&1 Drillisch and its parent company United Internet slightly trimmed their profit guidance on Wednesday to account for regulatory effects and the initial costs of a planned 5G network.
  
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• Sierra Nevada chooses ULA's Vulcan to launch space station supply runs

  14-08-2019 21:40
  Sierra Nevada Corp, a privately owned defense contractor with spaceflight ambitions, said on Wednesday it picked United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to launch its Dream Chaser space plane on cargo missions to the International Space Station.
  
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• FCC chairman circulates order to approve Sprint, T-Mobile tie-up

  14-08-2019 21:33
  U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday circulated a draft order that would grant approval to the $26 billion tie-up of T-Mobile Us Inc and Sprint Corp.
  
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• How This Eyewear Retailer Is Transforming Music Festivals With AR Technology - Forbes

  14-08-2019 18:53 via forbes.com
  How This Eyewear Retailer Is Transforming Music Festivals With AR Technology  ForbesEyeconic teamed up with Live Nation and Lollapalooza to bring fans cutting edge experiences.
  
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• How Technology Is Changing The Pet Care Industry - Forbes

  14-08-2019 18:23 via forbes.com
  How Technology Is Changing The Pet Care Industry  ForbesIn 2018, Americans spent $72 billion on their pets, ranging from $80 to $142 per month and about $1300 per year. Regardless of personal and ...
  
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• A calligrapher embraces technology to grow her business - CBS News

  14-08-2019 17:57 via cbsnews.com
  A calligrapher embraces technology to grow her business  CBS NewsAfter falling haphazardly into the art of calligraphy, she succeeds by embracing her unique style and the latest tech.
  
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• Trade tensions and a weaker yuan drive Chinese crypto demand, market players say

  14-08-2019 17:48
  Trade tensions between the United States and China and a weakening yuan are boosting demand for cryptocurrencies among Chinese investors, market players from Asia to New York said.
  
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• Space technology used to spot illegal immigrants in lorries travelling at 100mph - Telegraph.co.uk

  14-08-2019 17:40 via telegraph.co.uk
  Space technology used to spot illegal immigrants in lorries travelling at 100mph  Telegraph.co.ukPeople smuggling scanners which can detect illegal immigrants in lorries even when speeding along at 100mph have been developed by scientists.
  
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• Slack touts ‘announcement channels’ for team update broadcasts

  14-08-2019 17:11
  The company also rolled out new APIs to make it easier for admins to manage and automate some functions in larger deployments.
  
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• Barclays ends partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase: sources

  14-08-2019 17:08
  Barclaysis no longer providing banking services to major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, ending a relationship that started in March last year as the exchange expanded in Europe.
  
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• China's Tencent cautious after surge in quarterly profit

  14-08-2019 16:52
  China's Tencent Holdings , the world's largest gaming company by revenue, warned on Wednesday of a difficult economic environment even as it reported a better-than-expected 35% jump in quarterly profit.
  
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• Teens still like cash, despite the rise of financial technology - CNBC

  14-08-2019 16:37 via cnbc.com
  Teens still like cash, despite the rise of financial technology  CNBCAmerican teenagers may spend a lot of time on their smartphones but when it comes to getting paid and spending their money, they prefer cash. According to a ...
  
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• NBN Co still in the red, but climbs towards profit

  14-08-2019 16:01
  In the 12 months to 30 June NBN Co enjoyed earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of $608 million – if the $2 billion or so in subscriber payments to Telstra and Optus are discounted.
  
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• Qld researchers test Hollywood technology on Parkinson’s disease patients - Courier Mail

  14-08-2019 16:00 via couriermail.com.au
  Qld researchers test Hollywood technology on Parkinson’s disease patients  Courier MailQUEENSLAND researchers are harnessing motion-capture technology used by elite athletes hoping it will help Parkinson's disease patients improve balance ...
  
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• New technology may allow older Aussies to live at home for longer - Herald Sun

  14-08-2019 16:00 via heraldsun.com.au
  New technology may allow older Aussies to live at home for longer  Herald SunAround-the-clock digital monitoring, humanlike avatars providing care and new smartphone apps will be trialled as part of a plan to keep Aussies in their homes ...
  
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• Japanese researchers build robotic tail to keep elderly upright

  14-08-2019 15:35
  Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance.
  
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• China's Meituan Dianping to join maps service battle

  14-08-2019 15:15
  Meituan Dianping, a Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing firm, has started building a mapping service, aiming to enter an area currently dominated by Alibaba's AutoNavi and Baidu Maps.
  
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• WeWork files for IPO amid investor skepticism over deep losses - The Guardian

  14-08-2019 15:10 via theguardian.com
  WeWork files for IPO amid investor skepticism over deep losses  The GuardianOffice rental company filed for initial public offering, publishing statements showing loss of almost $700m in the first half of 2019.
  
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• Managing Technology for the Post-Digital Era - MIT Sloan

  14-08-2019 15:00 via sloanreview.mit.edu
  Managing Technology for the Post-Digital Era  MIT SloanThe post-digital tech wave — a powerful, integrated stack of technologies — is coming next.
  
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• The west needs a positive response to China’s technology challenge - Financial Times

  14-08-2019 13:31 via ft.com
  The west needs a positive response to China’s technology challenge  Financial TimesSilicon Valley is belatedly waking up to the fact that China systematically extracts the most advanced technology from the west, using both legal and nefarious ...
  
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• Russia's Mail.Ru eyes pre-installing software on Huawei devices

  14-08-2019 13:20
  Russian internet group Mail.Ru is in talks with China's Huawei about the possibility of having its software pre-installed on the Chinese tech giant's devices, Mail.Ru told Reuters.
  
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• Shanghai fines Didi, Meituan for using unlicensed vehicles

  14-08-2019 11:31
  Shanghai authorities have fined ride-hailing service providersDidi Chuxing and Meituan Dianping for using unlicensed vehicles and warned their smartphone applications could be suspended if they continue to fail to meet standards.
  
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• Avast upgrades forecast as users protect online privacy

  14-08-2019 11:08
  Cybersecurity company Avast said demand for products that protected users' privacy, such as VPN and AntiTrack, would drive revenue growth for the year to the upper end of its high, single-digit percentage range after a 9% rise in the first half.
  
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• This is how technology and workers can get along - World Economic Forum

  14-08-2019 09:00 via weforum.org
  This is how technology and workers can get along  World Economic ForumCoping with the rapid technology transformation of labor markets, without sacrificing dignity, autonomy, or ambition, will require a combination of economic ...
  
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• Sony WF-1000XM3 review: updated noise-cancelling earbuds sound great - The Guardian

  14-08-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Sony WF-1000XM3 review: updated noise-cancelling earbuds sound great  The GuardianSony's latest true wireless WF-1000XM3 earbuds offer both noise cancelling and top-end sound quality while undercutting premium rivals on price.
  
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• Technology driving the future of auto - The Australian Financial Review

  14-08-2019 07:17 via afr.com
  Technology driving the future of auto  The Australian Financial ReviewThe future of the automotive industry relies heavily on its relationship with technology.
  
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• TV companies ditch effort to sabotage set-top box

  14-08-2019 06:42
  A coalition of three international distributors of TV shows has, at least for now, ditched its efforts to block online services used by the Reelplay set-top box.
  
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• US aviation regulator bans select MacBook Pro laptops from flights

  14-08-2019 05:46
  US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned certain models of Apple's MacBook Pro laptops on flights, after the company recalled select units which had batteries posing fire risks.
  
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• Precise positioning technology worth $6.2b to Australia - Computerworld Australia

  14-08-2019 05:02 via computerworld.com.au
  Precise positioning technology worth $6.2b to Australia  Computerworld AustraliaA project to enhance the accuracy of positioning services that use global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GPS, could deliver $6.2 billion in ...
  
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• Precise positioning technology worth $6.2b to Australia

  14-08-2019 05:02
  A project to enhance the accuracy of positioning services that use global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GPS, could deliver $6.2 billion in economic benefits to Australia over the course of three decades.
  
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• IBM, India's Tata join U.S. tech platform's governing council

  14-08-2019 04:14
  (This August 12 story corrects company to Nomura Holdings in paragraph four and uses its Reuters instrument code.)
  
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• Facebook admits contractors listened to users' recordings without their knowledge - The Guardian

  14-08-2019 03:35 via theguardian.com
  Facebook admits contractors listened to users' recordings without their knowledge  The GuardianFacebook has become the latest company to admit that human contractors listened to recordings of users without their knowledge, a practice the company now ...
  
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• Barracuda integrates bot mitigation technology from InfiSecure - iTWire

  14-08-2019 03:23 via itwire.com
  Barracuda integrates bot mitigation technology from InfiSecure  iTWireCloud security and data protection solutions vendor Barracuda Networks is using advanced bot detection technology from InfiSecure Technologies to expa...
  
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• WaterNSW taps Business Aspect to replace legacy systems with Microsoft

  14-08-2019 02:45
  WaterNSW awarded a contract to Data#3's Business Aspect to replace its legacy systems with Microsoft's cloud trinity: Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365.
  
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• Facebook paid contractors to transcribe users' audio, report says

  14-08-2019 00:44
  Facebook as been paying outside contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Google, Facebook, Amazon to testify in U.S. against French digital tax

  14-08-2019 00:42
  Alphabet's Google unit, Facebook and Amazon.com are among the companies that will testify Monday at a U.S. government hearing on the French government's digital services tax.
  
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