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• I'll stay an MP even if the UK dumps me as PM, David Cameron tells Buzzfeed

  16-03-2015 23:41 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister opens up to news and entertainment website about Isis, the leaders’ debates, smartphones, football and kitchens (he has two too)
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• Uber CFO Brent Callinicos steps down

  16-03-2015 23:39
  
  Uber Technologies Inc's Chief Financial Officer Brent Callinicos is stepping down, the online taxi service's CEO said in an email to investors. The company has not named a replacement to Callinicos, but Gautam Gupta, "Brent's right hand on Strategic Finance" will be the acting head of the finance division, Chief Executive Travis Kalanick said in the email seen by Reuters. Callinicos, a former Google Inc executive, will be an advisor to Uber.
  
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• Hands-on review: Sulon Cortex

  16-03-2015 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Merging augmented and virtual reality together sounds like a dream come true, which is probably why company Sulon Technologies is so excited to show off its device.Pre-orders for the Sulon Cortex developer's kit launched around March 2014 but shipping will take place later this year for a hefty $499 (£337, AU$653). The Sulon Cortex essentially turns your surrounding environment into an augmented or virtual reality experience thanks to the sensors on the headset that are "spatially-aware"
  
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• Uber CFO Brent Callinicos steps down - WSJ

  16-03-2015 23:22
  
  (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's Chief Financial Officer Brent Callinicos is stepping down, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an email from the online taxi service's CEO. Callinicos, a former Google Inc executive, will be an advisor to Uber. No replacement has been named yet, Chief Executive Travis Kalanick told investors in the email, the Journal said. "Brent has done a wonderful job here at Uber but has decided that it is time for his next journey, one where his wife a
  
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• ​Verizon Cloud now live in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore

  16-03-2015 23:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Verizon Cloud has debuted in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong as part of the company's aim to be an end-to-end cloud solutions provider for large, small, and medium-sized corporations.
  
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• West Midlands police to reduce number of officers on the beat

  16-03-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Britain’s second-biggest force to undergo radical changes such as move to ‘digital policing’, owing to budget cuts and rise in domestic and online crime Continue reading...
  
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• Cybercriminals ​boost sales through 'data laundering'

  16-03-2015 22:37 via zdnet.com
  
  A security expert has warned that stolen data is being sold back into legitimate commercial channels.
  
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• Cyber-criminals ​boost sales through 'data laundering'

  16-03-2015 22:37 via zdnet.com
  
  A security expert warns stolen data are being sold back into legitimate commercial channels.
  
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• Pinterest's latest funding round values it at $11 billion - WSJ

  16-03-2015 22:28
  
  (Reuters) - Photo-sharing application company Pinterest has raised $367 million (247 million pounds) in its latest round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The amount raised values the company at $11 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  
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• Review: Razer Blade 2015

  16-03-2015 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designWhere can you go after making one of the most wonderfully crafted and gorgeous gaming laptops? Not very far, if the fourth generation Razer Blade gaming laptop is any indication. Unlike with the 2014 Blade, Razer hasn't changed up much other than swapping out the internals with more memory, a faster processor and the Nvidia's lauded mobile graphics chip, the GTX 970M. Otherwise, the laptop features the same exact chassis and high-resolution QHD+, 14-inch screen. Of course,
  
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• Cablevision to offer HBO NOW to online customers

  16-03-2015 21:32
  
  (Reuters) - Cable TV operator Cablevision Systems Inc said it would offer HBO's standalone streaming service, expected to premiere next month, to its Optimum Online internet customers. Apple Inc said last week that HBO Now would be available on its devices. HBO, Time Warner Inc's pay TV service, is expected to launch the new service in time for the fifth season of "Game of Thrones". Cablevision did not disclose terms of the agreement and said it plans to provide pricing detai
  
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• Third of Americans take precautions to protect web presence, Pew report finds

  16-03-2015 21:24 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The report, titled Americans’ privacy strategies post-Snowden, shows that US citizens are more aware of potential government spying into their lives Continue reading...
  
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• Facebook explains what posts are not allowed on its network

  16-03-2015 20:10
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is trying to clarify what posts, images and other content it allows on its site and why.
  
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• French government orders site block

  16-03-2015 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The French authorities have used new powers to block five websites, which they claim condone terrorism, without a court order.
  
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• Facebook rules: a sign of the times

  16-03-2015 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social networks need rules, whether they like it or not
  
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• Facebook clarifies rules on banned content

  16-03-2015 18:32
  
  Facebook Inc clarified its rules banning certain content from its social network, as the Internet company strives to curb controversial posts such as support for violent militant groups and nudity without damaging its status as a global hub for users to share information. The 1.39 billion-member social network updated its “community standards” late Sunday, providing specific examples of content prohibited under its general rules against direct threats, hate speech and criminal activity. Whil
  
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• Meerkat says Twitter block is just a 'speed bump'

  16-03-2015 18:13 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Live streaming apps’ founder, Ben Rubin, says he has no hard feelings towards the social network despite it blocking access to its social graphDespite being blocked by Twitter from accessing its social graph, the founder of live-streaming service Meerkat, Ben Rubin, says he has no hard feelings towards the social network, and plans to forge ahead with or without them, calling the lockdown “just a speed bump”.Meerkat integrates closely with Twitter, automatically announcing that a users’
  
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• Amanda Palmer helps crowdfunding firm Patreon reach $2m monthly payouts

  16-03-2015 18:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  US firm acquires fellow fan-funding startup Subbable and reveals it has nearly 250,000 ‘patrons’ supporting its creators Continue reading...
  
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• Don't want NSA to spy on your email? 5 things you can do

  16-03-2015 17:49
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than half of Americans are worried about the U.S. government's digital spies prying into their emails, texts, search requests and other online information, but few are trying to thwart the surveillance.
  
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• Tired of forgetting your password? Yahoo says you don't need one any more

  16-03-2015 17:34 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Company rolls out new ‘on-demand’ phone-integrated password service at SXSW festival, and nods to future encryption service Passwords: easily forgotten, but also easily guessed. It’s a bitter irony that minutes can be spent racking brains trying to remember whether a required security question answer is a pet’s name, first school or place of birth – meanwhile a cyber-criminal is merrily typing in a person’s favourite colour and relieving bank accounts of hard-earned wages.Well, now Y
  
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• Apple executive Eddy Cue savages Steve Jobs biopic

  16-03-2015 17:20 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Film showing Apple co-founder as modern-day Citizen Kane causes unusual outburst from company’s upper ranks
  Apple’s head of internet software and services, Eddy Cue, has hit out publicly against the new Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine biopic calling it “inaccurate and mean-spirited”.Documentary-maker Alex Gibney’s unsparing portrait of Apple co-founder Jobs is unlikely to please fans, zeroing in on certain aspects of his life, painting a compelling portrait of a modern-day Citizen Kane
  
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• Tech giant shows off software for buying goods using your face

  16-03-2015 17:04 via zdnet.com
  
  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba predicts facial recognition will be the next big thing in online payments.
  
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• BlackBerry's new tablet: A secure slate for business with a bit of help from Samsung and IBM

  16-03-2015 17:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Four years after the PlayBook, BlackBerry has another go at making a tablet, this time one with with a $2,000+ price tag, hardware from Samsung and software from IBM.
  
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• Trending at SXSW: Mind cloning, off-the-grid messaging

  16-03-2015 16:07
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As a plane with a Grumpy Cat flag flew overhead, courtesy of Friskies, the Technorati flooded into panel discussions and happy hour spots at the annual tech festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.
  
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• Web servers stage Pratchett tribute

  16-03-2015 15:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A long-running tribute to late fantasy author Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web's servers
  
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• Cuba approves first public wi-fi hub

  16-03-2015 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cuba grants approval to the artist Kcho to operate the country's first public wireless hub at his Havana cultural centre.
  
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• Thailand warns women who post 'underboob' photos face five years in jail

  16-03-2015 14:26 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Culture ministry says those posting selfies featuring partially-exposed breasts could face up to five years in jail Continue reading...
  
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• Blackberry firm unveils new tablet

  16-03-2015 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blackberry-owned company Secusmart has shown off a secure tablet in collaboration with Samsung and IBM.
  
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• Rezzed 2015 – our 16 favourite games

  16-03-2015 14:16 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Out of the hundreds of brilliant, idiosyncratic games shown off at this year’s festival, here are the ones we couldn’t leave aloneThis year’s Rezzed festival presented a vast cornucopia of PC, Xbox and smartphone titles over a packed weekend at London’s Tobacco Dock venue. Hundreds of interesting, offbeat indie titles vied for attention, but here are the treasures that really held our gaze. Convoy (Convoy Games) Continue reading...
  
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• ADHD and the relentless internet – is there a connection?

  16-03-2015 14:07 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hyperactivity disorders are now the second most diagnosed childhood conditions in the US behind asthma, with 20% of college students suffferingThe internet might make you feel hyperactive, but do you really have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?Michael Pietrus PsyD, coordinator of the ADHD assessment protocol at the University of Chicago, explains how the internet encourages behaviour that at least mimics ADHD, and can exacerbate the condition in people who have it already. Continue rea
  
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• ​Fujitsu has a cool liquid answer to hot spots in smartphones

  16-03-2015 14:04 via zdnet.com
  
  Fujitsu has developed a less than 1mm thick heat-pipe cooling system that it thinks could solve the problem of hot CPUs in smartphones.
  
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• Roblox hopes Minecraft deal shows potential for user-generated gaming

  16-03-2015 13:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  With more than 4.7m players, all-ages games creation community is focused on growth: ‘Our developers range from eight to 80...’“Some of our top developers are starting to get about a quarter of a million dollars a year. They’re treating it literally as a career, and starting to hire their friends…”David Baszucki is the chief executive of Roblox, the all-ages gaming community whose rise has been lower-profile than that of Minecraft, but just as interesting. Continue reading...
  
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• Silk Road staffer pleads guilty

  16-03-2015 13:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Australian man who worked for the Silk Road pleads guilty to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering in the US
  
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• Former YouTube exec: don't alienate fans by leaving the streaming service

  16-03-2015 13:18 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Patrick Walker, boss of multi-platform network Rightster, sees potential on Facebook, Vessel, Snapchat and other platforms – if creators are careful Continue reading...
  
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• Wired women: the $3tn women powering China's tech boom

  16-03-2015 13:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  China’s 115 million upper middle class women are driving ecommerce and social media in China, outspending their US equivalents by double on the biggest shopping days of the year Continue reading...
  
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• Why do we find it hard to torture robots?

  16-03-2015 13:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Meet DAR-1. He might not look like much, but robots like him are showing startling new ways that humans can interact with machinesIn still pictures, DAR–1 (pronounced ‘Darwin’) doesn’t look like the kind of robot that might encourage empathy.The machine’s six spindly legs lend it an uncanny arachnoid appearance, and with no case for modesty’s sake, the exposed circuitry doesn’t hide its electrical heart. Continue reading...
  
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• ​SAP denies backdoors, defends its software used in government

  16-03-2015 12:27 via zdnet.com
  
  SAP says its government customers around the world can do with its software as they see fit, but that the company doesn't place backdoors in any of its products.
  
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• Smile! Meet the 3D printer churning out teeth, nerves and gums for dentists

  16-03-2015 11:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  3D printing firm Stratasys’ latest device makes realistic models for the dental industry, rather than people’s mouthsWill.i.am thinks we will be 3D printing human beings in the future, although his comments were met with scepticism from biology experts. Perhaps a better starting point would be teeth.That’s the sole purpose of a new device called the Objet260 Dental Selection, unveiled this month by 3D printing firm Stratasys. Continue reading...
  
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• China's Li Ning to team up with Xiaomi on 'smart' running shoes

  16-03-2015 11:20
  
  China's Li Ning Co Ltd is teaming up with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi to produce a new generation of "smart" running shoes this year, in the sports brand's latest effort to revive its waning fortunes. Li Ning, backed by private equity powerhouse TPG Capital and Singapore wealth fund GIC, warned in January that it expects to post its third consecutive full-year loss, as it grapples with a restructuring, bloated inventories and slowing demand following the 2008 Olympics in
  
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• ​Cyanogen OS 12 for OnePlus One and Yu coming in a few weeks

  16-03-2015 11:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Cyanogen's Lollipop version of its OS for commercial partners should be delivered as an over-the-air update within weeks.
  
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• Review: Asus C300M

  16-03-2015 11:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designWho'd have thought it? The Chromebook is all grown-up. Early reviews of these cloud-connected lightweight laptops were a little sniffy, but the Samsung Series 3 in late 2012 silenced much of that criticism. Now a new wave of bigger, better and bolder devices are coming through – still inexpensive, still portable, but with much more power.The Asus C300M is such a device. With its dual-core Intel N2380 CPU, it has low-end specs for a laptop but more processing power than m
  
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• Ex Machina stunt at SXSW has users falling for a robot on Tinder

  16-03-2015 10:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  App-users at the SXSW festival in Austin have been unwittingly mimicking the plot of Alex Garland’s new film, by finding themselves quizzed by a gorgeous robot-in-disguise Continue reading...
  
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• Facebook clarifies policy on nudity, hate speech and other community standards

  16-03-2015 10:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Social network’s updated guidelines also cover self-harm, bullying and harassment, violence and graphic content Facebook has updated its community standards guidelines to provide “more detail and clarity” on the content it allows or bans on its service.The social network stressed in a blog post that its policies are not changing, but that “we have heard from people that it would be helpful to provide more clarity and examples”.“When this is the case, we expect people to clearly indic
  
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• China's TCL Corp to build factories in India, Brazil

  16-03-2015 10:18
  
  By Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) - China's TCL Corp, one of the world's biggest mobile handset and television manufacturers, is seeking to build factories in India and Brazil next year to overcome high import tariffs in these rapidly expanding consumer electronics markets. "We hope to complete factory construction next year and have a better foundation for growth in the future in these two emerging markets," TCL Corp Chief Executive Li Dongsheng told Reuters in an intervie
  
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• Facebook report shows slight rise in government requests for data

  16-03-2015 10:13
  
  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc recorded a slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014, according to its Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal. Requests for account data increased to 35,051 in the second half of 2014 from 34,946 in the first half, with requests from countries such as India rising and those from others including United States and Germany falling, the report by the world's largest Internet social ne
  
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• VIDEO: Light therapy helps blind children

  16-03-2015 09:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new type of therapy- Lightscores - aims to help blind children become more active.
  
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• VIDEO: High tech care at children's hospital

  16-03-2015 09:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tour round San Francisco's new high tech hospital
  
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• Evolve review – survival of the fattest alien

  16-03-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  PS4, Xbox One, 2K Games, cert: 16 Continue reading...
  
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• Abbott agrees to warrants for journalists' metadata access

  16-03-2015 07:26 via zdnet.com
  
  ​Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has agreed to introduce an amendment to the government's proposed data-retention legislation that will require law-enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant for access to journalists' metadata.
  
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• Download of the Day: Docs for Facebook

  16-03-2015 07:13
  
  Create and collaborate on Microsoft documents free of charge with all your Facebook friends by using Docs for Facebook.Why you need itWith so many free ways to create documents out there it's sometimes difficult to pick one out that has everything you need. No need to worry as anything with the Microsoft name attached is classed in the more reliable category and Docs for Facebook more than fits the bill.In its most basic form, Docs for Facebook has been created to let all Facebook users work tog
  
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