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• 'Kim Kardashian' game maker Glu creating Katy Perry game

  04-02-2015 23:15
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Glu Mobile, the developer of the popular "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" game, said it will develop a new mobile game with singer Katy Perry.
  
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• Apple Watch and new Macbook Air could star in February event

  04-02-2015 23:14
  
  It seems like Apple's last event was just yesterday, but then again time flies when you're waiting for the next iPhone or Apple Watch rumor.Now Apple will host another event toward the event of February, this time to show off the next Macbook Air and yet more Apple Watch details, reports French site iGen. The iPad Pro is not expected to appear there, however.Looking for a Chromebook? Look no furtherThe site's sources say the next Apple event could take place on February 24.The new Macbook Air is
  
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• Pentax full-frame bombshell: 'reference' camera to go on show at CP+

  04-02-2015 23:08
  
  Pentax is calling this a 'reference' camera and has not yet finalized the specifications or even the product name. It does say, however, that the new camera will have full, 35mm size image sensor and that it will use the company's K-mount interchangeable lens system.CP+ is a major annual photography show. Originally called the Japan Camera Show, it's been taking place since the 1960s.Pentax already makes a range of APS-C format DSLR bodies and lenses, and says that the new camera will be able to
  
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• Seacrest's Typo products fined over BlackBerry injunction

  04-02-2015 22:56
  
  A U.S. district court on Wednesday sanctioned television host Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC for violating an injunction barring it from selling a $99 (65 pounds) iPhone case found to have likely infringed on BlackBerry Ltd patents. U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ordered Typo on Wednesday to pay BlackBerry $860,600 in sanctions, plus attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with Typo's violation of the injunction. BlackBerry had filed a suit in Janu
  
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• Review: mini review: Urbanears Zinken

  04-02-2015 22:50
  
  When it comes to looks, Urbanears headphones are right up my alley. I'm a sucker for their simplistic design and pastel paint jobs. Based on the amount of people I've seen wearing these headphones, it seems that I'm not alone in my admiration of their style.The new $99 (£89, AU$129) Zinken on-ear headphones boast the signature Urbanears vibrancy and have a minimal, but useful set of features. But do the Zinken bring enough comfort and performance to make a mark on the scene, or has it all been
  
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• No fast or slow lanes for Internet? New rules proposed

  04-02-2015 22:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the Internet critical for the nation, a top U.S. regulator on Wednesday proposed an unprecedented expansion of federal power to ensure providers don't block or slow web traffic for America's countless users.
  
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• Sony says studio hack cost $15M, trims loss forecast

  04-02-2015 22:45
  
  Sony Corp. trimmed its forecast of losses and estimates the Sony Pictures hack cost it about $15 million, but expects no significant harm from the cyberattack in the long run. Sony also issued new earnings ...
  
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• Behind the Design: How MSI designed the insane GT80 Titan gaming laptop

  04-02-2015 22:45
  
  A mechanical keyboard is bornWe've seen some massive laptops in our day, from the Alienware 18 to the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro. This year, however, MSI pulled out a new rabbit out of its hat and introduced the GT80 Titan as the first-ever gaming laptop with a built-in mechanical keyboard. Weighing in at 9.9-pound beast and just shy of two-inches thick, it's designed almost like a foldable typewriter.The hardware underneath this massive machine is even more impressive. The list of components includ
  
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• U.S. FCC chief seeks tighter regulation of Internet providers

  04-02-2015 22:33
  
  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator on Wednesday proposed to tighten regulations on Internet service providers by treating them more like public utilities, an approach endorsed by President Barack Obama. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, in an op-ed on Wired.com, said he sought the "strongest open Internet protections ever proposed by the FCC" that would apply, for the first time, to both wireless and wired Internet servic
  
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• Accused Silk Road operator convicted on U.S. drug charges

  04-02-2015 22:03
  
  The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $200 million (131.49 million pounds) of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins. Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely-watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug traffick
  
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• Silk Road trial: Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running drug-dealing website

  04-02-2015 22:02
  
  Ross Ulbricht has been found guilty of creating and running the Silk Road drug-dealing website. The jury of six men and six women took just 3.5 hours to come to the conclusion that Ulbricht, 30, was the man behind the pseudonymous owner of Silk Road, known as Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht was found guilty on all counts, which included narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent IDs and engaging in continuing criminal enterprise. During its two-yea
  
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• Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running Silk Road drug-dealing website

  04-02-2015 22:02
  
  Ross Ulbricht has been found guilty of creating and running the Silk Road drug-dealing website. The jury of six men and six women took just 3.5 hours to come to the conclusion that Ulbricht, 30, was the man behind the pseudonymous owner of Silk Road, known as Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht was found guilty on all counts, which included narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent IDs and engaging in continuing criminal enterprise. During its two-yea
  
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• Australia's DesignCrowd takes AU$6m investment round

  04-02-2015 22:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Australian online design crowdsourcing platform DesignCrowd has scored an AU$6 million Series B capital raising effort led by new tech-focused investment fund AirTree Ventures.
  
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• Twitter shares poised for big move after results

  04-02-2015 21:39
  
  By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter Inc shares are poised for a big move after it reports quarterly results on Thursday, according to options-market data, with user growth at the social media service possibly holding the key to whether shares rise or fall, analysts said. On Wednesday, the cost of a Twitter straddle, in which an investor buys an at-the-money put option and a similar call option, suggests a move of about 12 percent in either direction by Friday. Twitter shares tend t
  
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• In Depth: Home entertainment in 2015: what you need to know

  04-02-2015 21:17
  
  Buzzwords to know in 2015As far as years go, 2014 was one of the best. While we didn't get flying cars or hoverboards, home entertainment enthusiasts like myself got the LG 65EC9700 OLED TV, Tidal music streaming service and Amazon Echo, all in the same year. But having so much cool A/V tech in 2014 presents a problem: What can possibly happen in 2015 that could top last year?If it wasn't for CES 2015 it'd be easy to throw in the towel, buy one of the last plasmas on store shelves and go on livi
  
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• FCC chairman proposes regulating Internet like phone service

  04-02-2015 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring that the Internet must not be taken over by big business interests, a top U.S. regulator on Wednesday proposed dramatically expanding the government's power to oversee Internet service providers and establishing new rules that would prohibit companies from blocking or slowing data.
  
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• Rise of the robots – how long do we have left until they take our jobs?

  04-02-2015 21:09
  
  Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts robots will reach human levels of intelligence by 2029, but this is assuming they can overcome their current limitations Continue reading...
  
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• Exclusive: DonorsChoose.org uses Salesforce's Marketing Cloud to raise millions for underfunded schools

  04-02-2015 20:25
  
  The saying goes: All politics is local. DonorsChoose.org - a non-profit organization devoted to raising money for teacher-led projects at underfunded schools - discovered that the same can be said for charitable giving. In partnership with Salesforce.com and its recent acquisition, ExactTarget, DonorsChoose was able to create a campaign devoted entirely to requesting donations that would go directly to classrooms within the geographic vicinity of the email recipient. In other words: emails were
  
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• Review: iFit Active

  04-02-2015 20:20
  
  Introduction and displayEveryday, electronics constantly evolve by adapting to meet our lifestyles, like health. The last years saw the rise of wearable technology, a market focused on a product designed for active humans, recording their dietary, exercising, and sleeping habits.Besides wearing an old black Casio watch to monitor swim lap time, I've never touched a "wearable." So for an entire week and half I wore the iFit Active, a wearable that could tell the time, automatically reco
  
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• Is Apple working on Street View for its own Maps?

  04-02-2015 20:15
  
  There were plenty of reasons to get upset when Apple replaced Google Maps with its own, inferior Maps app in iOS, one of them being the Apple service's lack of Street View.Now Apple might be working to remedy that - "might" being the operative word.The PlayStation 4 is a strong consolePeople in multiple cities, including around the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York, have reported seeing mysterious camera-equipped vehicles being driven around, and the cars are reportedly being oper
  
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• U.S. must improve defences, cyberattack response - Pentagon nominee

  04-02-2015 19:53
  
  The U.S. government must improve its ability to defend against and respond to escalating cyberattacks on its computer networks, President Barack Obama's nominee for defence secretary Ashton Carter told Congress on Wednesday. "We need to improve our defences but we also need to improve our abilities to respond," Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing. "Those responses can be in cyberspace or in other ways, but certainly they should include
  
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• Concerned about Brexit? Why not become an e-resident of Estonia

  04-02-2015 19:40
  
  By: Ben HammersleyContinue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Man walks with bionic leg brace help

  04-02-2015 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Londoner has become the first man in Britain to walk with the help of a bionic leg brace.
  
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• The Interview revenge hack cost Sony just $15m

  04-02-2015 19:12
  
  The scandalizing hack, provoked by the imminent release of the Kim Jong-un assassination comedy, barely affected Sony’s bottom line Continue reading...
  
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• Investors' appetite for startups fed by stock market gains

  04-02-2015 18:44
  
  Some Entrepreneurs looking for startup funding got a wad of money near the end of last year, but there are concerns the boom may not last. Startup iFunding is a beneficiary of the surge. The website focused ...
  
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• To catch a drone: Govts seek ways to counter tiny fliers

  04-02-2015 18:39
  
  PARIS (AP) — What's the best way to counter an unwelcome drone: a bigger, faster drone, laser guns, sky-high netting or devices that block remote controls?
  
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• Silk Road trial: deliberations begin as alleged operator could face life sentence

  04-02-2015 18:36
  
  Ross Ulbricht faces seven counts including narcotics traffickingBlack market website generated nearly $213.9m in online drug sales Continue reading...
  
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• U.S. FCC chairman reveals latest net neutrality proposal

  04-02-2015 18:29
  
  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator on Wednesday confirmed expectations by proposing new "net neutrality" regulations that would treat Internet service providers more like public utilities, an approach endorsed by President Barack Obama. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, in an op-ed published on Wired.com, said he aims to establish the "strongest open Internet protections ever proposed by the FCC" that would appl
  
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• US watchdog to defend net neutrality

  04-02-2015 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The chairman of the US's communications watchdog intends to defend the principles of net neutrality by treating net providers as utilities.
  
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• The Fine Print: Unlimited data plans have limits

  04-02-2015 17:43
  
  With cellular-data plans, unlimited doesn't really mean unlimited. Some carriers threaten to slow down speeds after heavy use or curb how much you can stray from their own networks. So I wasn't surprised ...
  
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• Staples agrees to buy Office Depot, FTC approval seen likely

  04-02-2015 17:40
  
  Staples Inc, the No. 1 U.S. office supplies retailer, agreed to buy No. 2 Office Depot Inc in a $6.3 billion (4 billion pound) deal designed to help it better compete against Wal-Mart Stores Inc and online rivals such as Amazon.com Inc. The U.S. government's antitrust watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, is likely to approve the deal, experts said, agreeing with the companies that the rise of online retailers and mega stores had changed the competitive landscape since 1997 when the agenc
  
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• 'Awe-inspiring' FCC internet protections could alter landscape for net neutrality

  04-02-2015 17:37
  
  Tom Wheeler pens op-ed in Wired magazine to declare support for ‘strongest open internet protections ever’ in what could be titanic shift on hot-button issue Continue reading...
  
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• WaterField Designs Bolt Briefcase hands-on: High quality functional design for the business traveler

  04-02-2015 16:27 via zdnet.com
  
  WaterField Designs continues to offer well-designed bags for the professional. The soft Bolt Briefcase looks great at meetings, conferences, and in the airport.
  
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• China tightens rules on Internet use, online comments

  04-02-2015 16:15
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China announced Wednesday that users of blogs and chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the Communist political system, further tightening control over Internet use.
  
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• China bans 'vulgar' web pseudonyms

  04-02-2015 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China bans internet users from posting under the names of famous people or Chinese officials, calling it a "vulgar culture".
  
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• Review: Updated: Samsung Gear VR

  04-02-2015 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction, design and featuresIn 1896, a French short film called L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat was screened to the public. As the story goes, some people were so terrified by the realism of the train coming towards them that they fled to the back of the room in fear. Since then, nothing has quite aroused the same reaction in an audience. That is, until virtual reality. It's an experience that can be incredible, immersive and astonishingly real, and, like the Lumière bro
  
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• Alibaba begins drone delivery trials

  04-02-2015 16:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Retail giant Alibaba says it is using quadcopter drones to deliver tea to hundreds of its customers in China as part of a test.
  
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• Micromax overtakes Samsung in India smartphone market - Canalys research

  04-02-2015 15:42
  
  Indian budget smartphone maker Micromax overtook Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in the fourth quarter as the leading supplier in India's booming smartphone market, research firm Canalys said. Samsung disputed the rankings, saying it was still a clear leader in the category with a volume market share of 34.3 percent in the October-December 2014 quarter, citing data from market research firm GfK. Canalys said in its report published on Feb. 3 that Micromax accounted for 22 percent of smartphone s
  
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• Review: Turtle Beach Ear Force Z60 review

  04-02-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you've had the pleasure of trying out Kingston's superlative HyperX Cloud headset and sampled its thunderous bass, you'd say its 53mm driver units were big enough to power any gaming audio kit. The industry, however, apparently disagrees. We've had Asus with its Strix Pro boasting 60mm drivers and now Turtle Beach is getting in on the act with its Z60. The cynic in us wonders if the value in increased driver size isn't more about marketing than consumer benefit; it's a nice number to imply a
  
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• First Lego Jurassic World teaser trailer promises series-spanning adventure

  04-02-2015 15:34
  
  Warner Bros Interactive has released the first teaser trailer for its recently announced video game Lego Jurassic World. Starring the iconic trembling glass of water and a T-Rex, the trailer promises "four Jurassic adventures" in one game - confirming it will be inspired by all films in the Jurassic Park series - dating back to Steven Spielberg's 1993 original. Lego Jurassic World was announced last week alongside another in the long-running Lego franchise based on Marvel's A
  
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• Apple camera car on San Francisco streets leads to 'street view' speculation

  04-02-2015 14:46
  
  Apple vehicles covered in cameras show company could be working on a Google Street View competitor for Apple MapsA car leased to Apple and covered in cameras and scanning equipment has been spotted driving around San Francisco.The people carrier with system of 12 cameras and a lidar sensor, which scans the environment using a spinning laser, attached to its roof was spotted by a Bay Area local blog called Claycord news and talk. Related: Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had w
  
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• Dixons Carphone signs Three deal, aims at Internet of Things

  04-02-2015 14:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Retailer signs MVNO deal to sell mobile service to customers buying hardware.
  
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• Review: Raspberry Pi 2

  04-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around the Raspberry Pi.The latest single-board computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation comes with the spec boost that we were all hoping for. The Raspberry Pi 2 is the latest in a long line of p
  
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• Android adware 'infects millions'

  04-02-2015 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has suspended dozens of seemingly popular apps from its Play store after being warned that they were causing devices to show malicious pop-up ads.
  
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• Ignite flies the flag for first-time founders and startups beyond London

  04-02-2015 13:51
  
  Accelerator’s CEO has faith in unproven tech teams: ‘The biggest gains are going to be made by outliers: the people nobody sees coming’“The brogrammer bullish mentality tells you never to take no for an answer, and never quit. The reality is there are a lot of times you should quit, walk away and do something else – because your idea is terrible!”As chief executive of Ignite, the Newcastle-based startup accelerator programme, delivering a sharp dose of reality to overconfident tech-c
  
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• Five reasons why Grand Theft Auto V has sold 45m copies

  04-02-2015 13:20
  
  Publisher Take-Two has announced impressive earnings for 2014, with its explosive open-world blaster figuring highly. How does Rockstar do it?It is wilfully offensive, nihilistically violent and its view of women is best described as dismissive – but Grand Theft Auto V is now one of the five biggest selling video games of all time. In an earnings statement released by Take-Two, the parent company of GTA publisher Rockstar, it was announced that the game has shipped 45m units since its initial
  
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• Facebook to prompt all UK users to register to vote in general election

  04-02-2015 13:08
  
  The social network will encourage users to register to vote on Thursday, in conjunction with the Electoral CommissionFacebook is to prompt every adult user in the UK to register to vote ahead of the general election in May, in the company’s first intervention into British electoral politics.The social network is joining forces with the Electoral Commission to promote a reminder at the top of newsfeeds on Thursday, which is national voter registration day. Continue reading...
  
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• Instagram introduces infinitely looping video

  04-02-2015 12:58
  
  From today videos on Instagram will play continuously - allowing the platform to bank higher advertising views Continue reading...
  
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• Ford CEO worries cars may get commoditised like mobile handsets

  04-02-2015 12:41
  
  Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Mark Fields said carmakers faced the challenge of avoiding becoming dependent on someone else's business model as companies from new industries increasingly enter the auto trade. He added that most mobile phone makers had become reliant on the business model of telecom providers.
  
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• Death threat hacker is jailed

  04-02-2015 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yusuke Katayama hijacked computers to make death threats that appeared to come from innocent people, during a game of cat and mouse with police.
  
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