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• Hands-on with the mPact Glass Apple iPhone 6 Plus screen protector

  10-01-2015 20:41 via zdnet.com
  
  iPhones are the most expensive smartphones today and we often see broken screens. It makes sense to pay for some peace of mind and the mPact is a worthy option.
  
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• Obama to focus on cybersecurity issues next week

  10-01-2015 18:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Continuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of next week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the upcoming address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and other cyberspace issues, the White House announced Saturday.
  
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• CES 2015: Check out Qualcomm's tricked out car of the not-so-distant future

  10-01-2015 18:06
  
  Introduction, user profiles and clever camerasDon't you hate it when you get in your car and you weren't the last person driving? The seat is in the wrong place, the radio's tuned to an awful station and the air con is on full blast even those it's the middle of winter. Well those issues could soon be the thing of the past as Qualcomm showed off it's new automotive tech at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. The brains behind the operation is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 602a processor - a specially adapted 'automo
  
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• Obama turns focus to Internet security, privacy

  10-01-2015 18:04
  
  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will highlight plans next week to protect American consumers and businesses from cyber threats, a month after the most high-profile hacking attack on a U.S. company. Internet security became a national focus after a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blamed on North Korea. The attack and subsequent threats of violence against theatres prompted Sony to scale back its release of "The Interview", a comedy film that de
  
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• Drone market resembles Silicon Valley's early days

  10-01-2015 14:06
  
  To see the future of drones, head up the hill at the intersection of Industrial Drive and Electronics Avenue. Inside a bland brick office building, the team at CyPhy is working on tethered machines that ...
  
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• Opinion: Slick, capable and connected: it's time to go back to the PowerBook Duo

  10-01-2015 14:00
  
  I'm hugely excited about that laptop from Apple. The one that's breathtakingly light and smaller than anything else on the market, which is pared back to its essentials, and which somehow bypasses the rational part of your brain to lodge itself firmly in the desire centre. You just want it. Nope, I don't mean the rumoured 12-inch MacBook Air, but the PowerBook Duo, which was introduced over 22 years ago. Despite being an ancient relic in technology terms (and despite it really being a bit of a n
  
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• SpaceX Falcon 9: private space company’s floating barge mission fails

  10-01-2015 12:29
  
  Rocket fails to land safely at sea, in mission to slash cost of space travel Continue reading...
  
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• In depth: Will robots like Honda's Asimo steal our jobs

  10-01-2015 11:25
  
  IntroductionEveryone in IT is scared of the same thing – becoming obsolete. Just like those floppy discs, the Windows 98 machines and even those USB thumb drives kicking around the office, everything gets replaced. It gets upgraded. It gets forgotten. Is your job about to be automated, perhaps by an artificially intelligent robot?Our survey saysThe word 'robot' is, of course, rather emotive, and conjures images ranging from the cute Wall-E and NASA's Curiosity rover to evil forces like the Ter
  
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• SpaceX launches for NASA, no luck with rocket landing at sea

  10-01-2015 11:24
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The SpaceX company has successfully launched another fresh load of supplies to the International Space Station. But its revolutionary attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean barge did not fare as well.
  
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• SpaceX launches for NASA, attempts rocket landing at sea

  10-01-2015 11:11
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket blasted off with supplies for the International Space Station on Saturday and then attempted an unprecedented landing of the leftover booster on an ocean barge.
  
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• Week in Gaming: Gaming tech of CES, Nintendo's growing love for mobile, and the return of Tony Hawk

  10-01-2015 11:00
  
  If you're anything like team TechRadar then the first week back at work from Christmas break is always the hardest part of the year. You're about half a stone heavier from all the delicious food you've gorged yourself on and still a little too attached to your onesie to feel comfortable wearing normal clothes. On top of it all though, it's CES week and for (some of) us that means flying out to Las Vegas for a week of tech show madness. It's sort of like a second Christmas – there's food, drink
  
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• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker review

  10-01-2015 07:00
  
  Nintendo, £28.99-£29.99 Continue reading...
  
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• VW Scirocco R-Line 2.0-litre TDI 150 PS manual – car review

  10-01-2015 07:00
  
  ‘It’s so responsive, like (I imagine) teaching a gifted child: the more you ask, the more it can instantly do’ Continue reading...
  
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• Hacker posts client emails from Swiss bank BCGE

  10-01-2015 02:45
  
  ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - A hacker claiming to be behind a cyber attack on Banque Cantonale de Geneve on Friday divulged confidential client information after the Swiss bank failed to meet demands for payment. In the latest case of a breach of customer information at a financial firm, an anonymous person or group using the Twitter moniker Rex Mundi said it had hacked the Genevan cantonal (state) bank's servers and downloaded more than 30,000 emails by Swiss and foreign clients. ...
  
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• Solving squabbles over in-car sounds

  10-01-2015 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Car squabbles over music could finally be over
  
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