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• 'Finding Nemo' to be told in Navajo language

  04-12-2014 23:55
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The story of a clownfish who is encouraged by an energetic but absent-minded friend to "just keep swimming" in the search for his son is being told in Navajo.
  
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• Vectors of engagement in the click-free digital economy

  04-12-2014 23:14 via zdnet.com
  
  The "click" is mortally wounded as an effective measure of engagement in the digital economy...
  
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• #CrimingWhileWhite vs. #AliveWhileBlack: Twitter weighs in on Garner decision

  04-12-2014 22:46
  
  Commenters on social media weigh in on the difference in police attitudes toward white Americans and black Americans Continue reading...
  
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• Review: mini review: Logitech G302 Daedalus Prime

  04-12-2014 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peripheral manufacturers must think that all gamers want expensive mice, chock-full of flashy, but superfluous features. They don't. Sure, what gamers want in a mouse often deviates from the basic two-button mouse packed in with a PC, but not often by much.Logitech took a long, hard look at the peripheral scene, did their homework and came to market with the G302 Daedalus Prime. It's an impressive gaming mouse, more specifically, a MOBA gaming mouse, but you'd never guess it. Maybe that's becaus
  
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• North Korea still a suspect in Sony attack despite denial

  04-12-2014 21:34
  
  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea is a principal suspect in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a U.S. national security source told Reuters on Thursday, while a North Korean diplomat denied Pyongyang was behind the crippling hack. The U.S. government's investigation into the Nov. 24 attack is being led by the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office and the Hollywood studio is cooperating, a law enforcement source said. ...
  
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• PayPal for Android gains Samsung fingerprint reader support in Google Play

  04-12-2014 21:11
  
  The Google Play version of PayPal's Android app has been updated with support for fingerprint recognition on a handful of Samsung gadgets.With the new version users on the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Alpha, and Galaxy Tab S can swipe their fingers for authentication when making PayPal purchases.This capability existed already in the version of Android's PayPal app distributed through Samsung's own app store, but not in the Google Play version.Samsung opened its fingerprint scanner up to thi
  
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• Why was Psy nearly too much for YouTube?

  04-12-2014 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why Gangnam Style was nearly too much for YouTube
  
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• Amazon selling its own diapers, baby wipes

  04-12-2014 20:06
  
  Amazon is launching its own line of diapers and baby wipes exclusively for its Prime members to get more shoppers to sign up for the $99 annual program. The new line is called Amazon Elements. Amazon, ...
  
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• Uber taxi business valued at $40bn

  04-12-2014 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Taxi booking firm Uber has raised another $1.2bn from investors, a deal that values the technology business at $40bn (£25.5bn).
  
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• Twitter continues its efforts to make Instagram irrelevant

  04-12-2014 19:53
  
  Who needs Instagram when you can put cheesy filters over your crappy phone photos from right within Twitter itself?Twitter first began offering photo filters in 2012, and it's continued its efforts to make Instagram irrelevant ever since.Not that it's working - Instagram is still hugely popular - but maybe the set of new photo filters Twitter just added in its iOS and Android apps will help.But why?There is an argument to be made for simply posting to Twitter instead of going through Instagram.Y
  
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• Windows, IE, Exchange and Office to be patched next week

  04-12-2014 19:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Three updates are rated critical. The critical update for Office affects Office for Mac as well.
  
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• Barnes & Noble, Microsoft end Nook deal

  04-12-2014 19:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bookseller Barnes & Noble said Thursday it is ending its commercial agreement with Microsoft for its Nook e-book reader ahead of its planned Nook spinoff.
  
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• Google to create child-friendly versions of Chrome and YouTube

  04-12-2014 18:57
  
  Google is revamping some of its most popular and successful
  products to be suitable for a younger generation.
  
  The company is currently working on adapting products so that
  they would be more safer and more enjoyable for under 12s. The
  likes of Chrome and YouTube will be reexamined to see what can be
  done to make them more child-friendly.
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• Google streamlines seller programs for Work, Education cloud apps

  04-12-2014 18:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Google for Work is also flaunting a "premier" partner track, which includes access to exclusive events and "other financial incentives."
  
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• Emergency call system for new cars

  04-12-2014 18:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Parliament and EU member states have agreed that new cars must be fitted with an automated system to alert emergency services in event of a crash.
  
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• Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British Library

  04-12-2014 18:26
  
  Big data research facility, dedicated to the codebreaker, will be at centre of new Knowledge Quarter in central London Continue reading...
  
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• Readers suggest the 10 best pirates

  04-12-2014 17:54
  
  Last week we brought you our 10 best pirates. Here, we present your thoughts on which swashbucklers should have made the list… Continue reading...
  
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• Dos Santos says seeking key role in Portuguese-speaking telecoms world

  04-12-2014 17:44
  
  By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's president, wants to become a major shareholder in Brazil's Oi to develop a leading telecoms business across the Portuguese-speaking world, Mario Silva, a director of her Terra Peregrin firm said on Thursday. Dos Santos last month made an offer for Portugal Telecom SGPS, owner of a 25.6 percent stake in Oi following the Portugal Telecom merger which Oi is now effectively seeking to unwind. ...
  
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• Buying Guide: Phone of the year 2014: the winners

  04-12-2014 17:36
  
  Phones review of the year: Introduction It has been a funny old year for phones. In some areas it seems as though progress has plateaued, that the improvements we're seeing these days are a case of diminishing returns. Are phones getting boring? Anything but. This year we've seen the capabilities of phones branch out from the phones themselves into other parts of our lives. A while back this sort of stuff was 'the future' but it's fast becoming the norm. We're talking about things like Chromec
  
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• HTC One M8 edges LG G3 and iPhone 6 as TechRadar's Best Flagship Phone

  04-12-2014 17:21
  
  Few would argue that mobile phones have become the most important technological tool we possess. And over the last 12 months, the world's biggest manufacturers have given us the most powerful, best looking and most feature-packed handsets to date.We've spent all year testing and debating all of them, and have arrived at our conclusions forTechRadar's Phones of the Year 2014. We've awarded titles to the top phones in four different categories: Best Flagship Phone, Best Phablet, Best Compact Phone
  
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• 'Giving Stephen Hawking a Voice': A Podcast Special

  04-12-2014 17:16
  
  
  Listen this week for a complete spoken word reading of WIRED's
  exclusive feature with Professor Stephen Hawking, Giving
  Hawking a Voice. In addition, we take a look at the
  most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven
  days.
  
  Episode 200 of the podcast will follow in one week's
  time.
  By: Nate Lanxon, Continue reading...
  
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• Mickey and math? Disney launches education apps

  04-12-2014 17:13
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mickey is getting into math — and science, art, reading and even teaching social skills.
  
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• Reclusive artist turns to emoticon self-portraiture

  04-12-2014 17:13
  
    
  Emoticons are nifty things.
  They've become an extension of our digital selves, allowing us to
  communicate a range of emotions simply and effectively in our texts
  and emails. And given their ubiquity, efforts are even underway to
  make them more diverse -- both in terms of 
  the way they lookand the contexts in which they are
  deployed.
  
  For emerging British artist Matt Brown, who graduated with
  a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in 2003, the emoji,
  how
  
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• Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp app-delivery service to be generally available December 11

  04-12-2014 17:05 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp service -- which will allow users to remotely access corporate applications on a variety of devices -- will be generally available starting on December 11.
  
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• Industry voice: Cloud Comes of Age: Love it or loath it, just don't ignore it

  04-12-2014 17:00
  
  Is it a fad, just a buzzword? While these questions have been debated, the reality is that our children are already enjoying life in an increasingly cloud-enabled world. Gaming with 'friends' on different continents and backing up smartphones online via services like Apple iCloud; major enterprises have been extolling cloud's virtues; and IT departments everywhere have been working away to achieve some of the promised technical and financial benefits of cloud solutions.If it was tempting to see
  
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• IBM strikes Docker deal and rolls out its own Containers beta

  04-12-2014 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  As well as unveiling the beta of its IBM Containers Docker-based service, the enterprise giant is to sell Docker's container management suite, along with new open-source orchestration tools.
  
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• Docker CEO: Why it just got easier to run multi-container apps

  04-12-2014 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The launch of new orchestration tools will simplify things for anyone trying to create and manage distributed apps made of multiple containers, according to Docker CEO Ben Golub.
  
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• Industry voice: A quick guide to going green

  04-12-2014 16:45
  
  All businesses should care about green issues and the environment. However, questions over the cost and benefits to the business get asked when I talk about 'going green'.There are plenty of sobering predictions about energy consumption, so reducing your carbon footprint and improving your image as well as your bottom line may be attractive for a business.Energy reducing methods· Use low-emission materials· Reducing power consumption and improving lighting· Introduction of sustain
  
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• Neil Woodford invests in online-only internet bank Atom

  04-12-2014 16:30
  
  Star fund manager is among investors in new service which aims to launch without branches in second half of 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• Starbucks rolls out Mobile Order & Pay in Portland, still no Windows Phone app

  04-12-2014 16:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Coffee drinkers in Portland can now place a drink and food order on their iPhone, pay, then pick it up all without talking to a single person. Welcome to the future of mobile ordering.
  
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• Driverless cars launch in four UK cities next month

  04-12-2014 15:53
  
  Four UK cities have been chosen to test driverless cars,
  starting in January 2015. Thanks to £10 million of funding from
  Innovate UK, the trials are set to take place in Greenwich, Milton
  Keynes and Bristol.
  
  The formal trials will last between 18 and 36 months and will
  help us to understand the role driverless cars can play in
  real-world environments. Milton Keynes and Coventry are set to work
  together on a single project, with Bristol and Greenwich conducting
  separate trials.
  By: Kat
  
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• New U.S. cyber security prosecutor unit to focus on prevention

  04-12-2014 15:45
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is creating a unit within the criminal division to advise on electronic surveillance in cyber investigations and work with the private sector to prevent online crime, an official said on Thursday. The new unit, housed within the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property section, will work with law enforcement, the private sector, and Congress, said Leslie Caldwell, head of the department's criminal division. ...
  
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• Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer interview: Corporation tax, bitcoin and start-up innovation

  04-12-2014 15:33
  
  It's not often you get to sit down for coffee in London with one of the world's most prominent digital bosses, but IBTimes UK managed to corner the 'coolest person in New York tech' before he jetted back to the US.
  
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• From Star Trek to board games: meet Wil Wheaton, king of the nerds

  04-12-2014 15:30
  
  The actor and TableTop host on geek culture, not being a dick on the internet, and why gaming needs to stop treating women as an anomaly Continue reading...
  
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• Microsoft and Barnes & Noble terminate their Nook Media deal

  04-12-2014 15:29 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft and Barnes & Noble officially are cancelling their Nook Media joint venture, with no new Windows or Windows Phone e-reading apps in sight.
  
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• Spanning adds backup services for Office 365

  04-12-2014 15:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Fresh off its acquisition by EMC, the data backup provider continues to extend its data recovery and backup services beyond Salesforce and Google Apps.
  
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• Barnes & Noble to buy Microsoft's stake in Nook business

  04-12-2014 15:05
  
  (Reuters) - Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc said it would buy Microsoft Corp's 17 percent stake in its Nook business, comprising e-readers, e-books and college bookstores. The company said its total revenue fell 2.6 percent to $1.69 billion (1.07 billion pounds) in the second quarter, hurt mainly by its Nook business. Net income fell to $12.3 million, or 12 cents per share, for the quarter ended Nov. 1 from $13.2 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier. Pearson Plc owns 5 percent o
  
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• Spotting terrorist behaviour online is harder than finding child ​abuse images

  04-12-2014 14:52
  
  The ISC suggests internet companies can detect terrorist communications in the same way as search engines find child abuse images. But these are very different technical undertakings Continue reading...
  
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• Kenya breaks 'cyber crime network'

  04-12-2014 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kenyan police say they have cracked a cyber crime centre run by 77 Chinese nationals from upmarket homes in the capital, Nairobi.
  
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• U.S. begins largest auction of bitcoins seized in Silk Road bust

  04-12-2014 14:41
  
  By Nate Raymond and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday began auctioning off 50,000 bitcoins seized during the prosecution of the alleged owner of Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar where authorities say drugs and other illegal goods could be bought. The six-hour online auction began at 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) for nearly $18.6 million (11.86 million pounds) worth of bitcoins, and the winning bidders will be notified Friday. ...
  
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• Shops ban 'sexually violent' GTA 5

  04-12-2014 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Target and Kmart have removed Grand Theft Auto V from shelves following complaints about its depiction of violence against women.
  
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• UK chipmaker reveals Raspberry Pi rival

  04-12-2014 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chip designer Imagination has produced a barebones computer to compete with the Raspberry Pi.
  
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• What is replacing Google's annoying ReCaptcha test?

  04-12-2014 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What's replacing Google's annoying ReCaptcha test?
  
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• Scotland lays down law on social media crime and revenge porn

  04-12-2014 13:49
  
  The Crown Office in Scotland has today released a set of social
  media prosecution guidelines to provide clarity about what kinds of
  online communication amount to criminal offences. It said that
  online crime would and should be treated as seriously as crimes
  committed in the offline world.
  By: Katie Collins, Continue reading...
  
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• Sphero Ollie review: the remote control car reimagined

  04-12-2014 13:46
  
  Ollie is a little smartphone-controlled rolling robot cylinder that can race, jump and pull mid-air tricks like a cylindrical Tony Hawk Continue reading...
  
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• Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades

  04-12-2014 13:46
  
  Rovio has confirmed that 110 people will lose their jobs as the
  Angry Birds maker also shuts down its game-development studio in
  Tampere. The layoffs, first announced in October, amount to about
  14 percent of the company's workforce.
  By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Can I use an external microphone to make recordings on a smartphone?

  04-12-2014 13:43
  
  Stuart has an HTC Android smartphone and would like to connect an external microphone Continue reading...
  
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• Angry Birds maker Rovio to cut 110 jobs

  04-12-2014 13:28
  
  HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish mobile games maker Rovio, owner of the Angry Birds brand, on Thursday said it would cut about 110 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, and shut down a Finnish studio following talks with employees. Rovio announced a plan to cut up to 130 jobs in October, saying growth had not been as strong as expected. The company said it will also consolidate its Finnish operations at its headquarters in Espoo. ...
  
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• Apple 'wiped' rival music from iPods

  04-12-2014 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A trial looking into whether Apple abused its dominant position in the digital music business hears how it dealt with music from rival stores.
  
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• N Korea 'denies' Sony Pictures hack

  04-12-2014 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A North Korean diplomat in New York says his country is not behind a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, according to reports.
  
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