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• Driverless cars within two years? Not a chance, says Volvo top bod

  06-12-2014 21:35
  
  Launching Volvo's Vision 2020 project, head of R&D Peter Mertens had a few choice words for self-driving automobiles. Actually he had one choice word on the idea that there will be self-driving cars on roads within two years: "Bullshit".In response to a picture of a woman reading a newspaper while her car drove her to her destination, he said: "If you look at the picture of having a person sitting behind a steering wheel, and doing emails and reading whatever, that kind of stu
  
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• In Depth: Up close with the games that will define the PS4 in 2015

  06-12-2014 21:25
  
  Introduction: Tearaway Unfolded and Until DawnHaving just celebrated a year of existence, the PS4 has a lot to be happy about right now. Sony has been shifting consoles by the truckload and sales promise to keep rocketing through the Christmas period. The PS4 certainly has some top titles but it's fair to say it's a bit weak in the AAA exclusives department, somewhere the Xbox One and Wii U are leading the charge. Hopefully, that's set to change in 2015 with a lineup of huge platform-showcasing
  
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• 'I can't breathe': young Twitter poet gives new voice to Eric Garner

  06-12-2014 20:41
  
  Jason Fotso’s poem, Last Words, is a response to the no indictment decisionThe Duke University freshman has also written about FergusonShot in the chest by Cleveland police – then handcuffed and fined $100Opinion: I’m black, British and I just moved to New York. I can’t breathe Continue reading...
  
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• Comics of the week reviewed for 06 December

  06-12-2014 18:47
  
  Having taken over movies, television and
  animation, comics have never been cooler. Now, WIRED.co.uk picks
  out the best and worst of the week's titles for your reading
  pleasure.
  
  This week is one for new beginnings, with Blaxploitation
  legend Shaft getting his first comic series,
  Alan Moore providing a look at the future of the depraved world
  of Crossed, and Vertigo's Wolf
  Moon  delivering a refreshingly horrific take on
  werewolves.
  By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• A three-letter acronym for cloud success: SOA

  06-12-2014 18:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Don't throw away all that knowledge about service oriented architecture that's been painstakingly assembled over the past decade -- it's just what's needed for cloud.
  
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• She said 'yes'! Reddit users help track down mystery couple from snapshot

  06-12-2014 17:40
  
  Photographer creates online buzz in pursuit to find man and woman from hiking trail and within five hours best man vows to send photo to newly engaged pair Continue reading...
  
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• Live from The Logan Symposium: secrecy, surveillance and censorship

  06-12-2014 16:43
  
  From Wikileaks and Edward Snowden to investigative journalism and the future of hacking, day two at the London event Continue reading...
  
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• Ukip MEP ridiculed on Twitter after call for ban on spoof Trumpton account

  06-12-2014 14:59
  
  David Coburn, the party’s sole Scottish MEP, said the account, based in Chippy Minton’s fictional hometown, was fake Continue reading...
  
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• Fans scramble for iPod Classic, the music player Apple killed off

  06-12-2014 14:46
  
  Two months after model discontinued, fans pay up to four times more for last gadgets Continue reading...
  
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• Week in Gaming: Zelda Wii U, Street Fighter 5 and No Man's Sky impress, but they're no Shopper Simulator

  06-12-2014 14:44
  
  The Game Awards, previously The Spike Awards before it lost Spike, has been a massive showcase for future games over the years. But, naturally, there have been some awards given out too. So before we move onto anything else, here's who won what on Friday night...Game of the Year: Dragon Age: InquisitionBest performance: Trey Parker, South Park: The Stick of TruthBest online experience: DestinyBest score: DestinyTrending Gamer: Total BiscuitComposition Award: Martin O'DonnellBest mobile game: Hea
  
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• Zoella Sugg, online queen: followed by millions but ‘cripplingly shy’

  06-12-2014 12:36
  
  Sugg’s videos dispensing beauty and life advice have 307m views, and now she has the fastest selling debut novel ever Continue reading...
  
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• SAP CEO sees company staying independent in long term - paper

  06-12-2014 11:51
  
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software maker SAP will remain an independent company in the long term, its chief executive told a German newspaper. "I believe so, absolutely," Bill McDermott told weekly Euro am Sonntag in an interview published on Saturday. "The best way for a company to stay independent is to grow and to have a good market capitalisation," he added. With a market capitalisation of 70.5 billion euros (55.57 billion pounds), SAP is the fifth-largest company in G
  
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• Industry voice: Why Small Business Saturday is about more than the high street

  06-12-2014 11:15
  
  Small businesses are undoubtedly the lifeblood of our economy. The private sector almost exclusively consists of SMBs. They generate a cumulative turnover of over £1.6 billion each year and they employ over 60% of the UK's work force.Our country's economy would crumble without them. Whilst the government has always appreciated their contribution, the politicians now start to take action to support this vital sector of our economy. Just this week during the Autumn Statement Chancellor George Osb
  
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• Industry voice: Excessive 'privilege' is still a gaping security hole

  06-12-2014 10:00
  
  Brian, for the uninitiated, what exactly are 'admin rights' and privilege management?For most purposes, admin rights can be loosely defined as being the set of rights granted to either a root user (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) or an administrator account (Windows), as opposed to standard user rights.One of the biggest security issues in organisations is that admin rights are given too often and for a couple of common reasons: first, many users want to have control over their own desktops (who wants to
  
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• Opinion: Will the iPad Pro be the next blockbuster enterprise device?

  06-12-2014 09:15
  
  IntroductionIn a move that would have surprised even the most ardent fans of Apple a decade ago, the computing giant has become the darling of the enterprise landscape – and in a big way. Through the iPhone, and then the iPad, Apple has positioned its products as a staple item within the world of companies, from the Fortune 500 to startups, creating software custom-built for the touchscreen and enabling businesses to successfully use tablets for tasks previously assigned to a laptop.And it isn
  
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• On the road: Citroën C1 Airscape – car review

  06-12-2014 07:00
  
  ‘It’s winter. In the north of England. I’ve got a soft top. Will I get to feel the wind in my hair?’ Continue reading...
  
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• Venture capitalist Tim Draper wins part of U.S. bitcoin auction

  06-12-2014 03:43
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venture capitalist Tim Draper won part of the U.S. Marshals Service' auction of 50,000 bitcoins, he said in an email Friday. Draper said he successfully bid on one lot, totaling 2,000 bitcoins, on behalf of Draper Associates. The move helps fulfill his plan to invest 300 bitcoins in every startup that participates in the current session of Boost, a program for bitcoin-related startups founded by his son, Adam Draper. Draper declined to disclose the price he paid. On Thu
  
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• Cortana for Windows 10 makes first public appearance

  06-12-2014 02:59
  
  The latest rumor regarding Cortana in Windows 10 is that the virtual personal assistant might first pop up there in January 2015.With a Windows 10 Technical Preview that includes Cortana supposedly right around the corner, you'd think an example or two of her in action would leak - and as of today you'd be right.Windows news site WinBeta seems to have got its hands on a test version of Windows 10 with a very unfinished Cortana built in, and they published the video below.Looking good"Before
  
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• Sony employees receive email threat claiming to be from hackers

  06-12-2014 02:26
  
  By Lisa Richwine and Jim Finkle LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Employees at Sony Pictures Entertainment received threatening emails on Friday that claimed to be from the group that carried out a massive cyber attack at the Hollywood film studio. The email said it came from GOP, the shorthand for "Guardians of Peace," the group that claimed responsibility for the hacking of Sony that began Nov. 24, a Sony spokesman said. The attack crippled the studio's computer network and exposed sensit
  
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• Updated: Galaxy S6 and LG G4 facing delays thanks to Snapdragon 810 defects?

  06-12-2014 01:54
  
  Update: A Qualcomm spokesperson sent TechRadar a statement to debunk this report, though he wouldn't go into detail."We won't comment on any of the rumor or speculation you referenced but I can tell you that everything with Snapdragon 810 remains on track and we expect commercial devices to be available in 1H 2015," the spokesperson said.With that all we can do is wait and see what the future holds for Qualcomm and the phone makers that rely on it.Original story follows…Planning for
  
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• Mid-range SM-E700H could be part of Samsung's big 2015 restart

  06-12-2014 01:48
  
  We've been hearing for a little while now that Samsung will "press reset," so to speak, on its smartphone lineup in 2015, and now there's a tiny tidbit of new evidence of what that might mean.It comes in the form of a mysterious model number that appears in the page info on Samsungmobile.com, which might mean anything - or nothing at all.But if you click that link and turn your eyes about 15 lines down in the text you'll see "<prf:Model>SM-E700H</prf:Model>" along
  
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• Surge pricing: Uber's $40B valuation. Worth it?

  06-12-2014 01:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Can a company that didn't exist five years ago, an upstart with a knack for angering regulators who could close it down, really be worth $40 billion?
  
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• Is Uber car service really worth $40 billion?

  06-12-2014 00:23
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Can a company that didn't exist five years ago, an upstart with a knack for angering regulators who could close it down, really be worth $40 billion?
  
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• Organisers using social media, networks to plan New York protests

  06-12-2014 00:11
  
  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests in New York over the police chokehold case and fueled by a new probe into the shooting death of an unarmed black man, will stretch into days ahead with the aid of social media and established networks, activists said on Friday. The demonstrations are loosely organized, held together with quick communication, and often planned just hours in advance, the activists said. "Due to social media, it's not very difficult," said Soraya Soi Fr
  
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