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• Review: Mini review: Cambridge Audio TV5 Soundbase

  20-03-2015 23:45
  
  Sound bases are great. Unlike their entertainment center-sharing cousin, the soundbar, sound bases lift your TV experience to new heights both figuratively and literally with a larger, low-profile cabinet that leaves plenty of room for drivers and woofers to do their thing.The Cambridge Audio TV5, the successor to the more petite, single-subwoofer TV2, is a mid-range base for A/V enthusiasts with screens less than 55 inches. It's solidly built and offers surprisingly balanced sound for $399 (£2
  
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• Luxury brands hedge their bets with smartwatches

  20-03-2015 23:39
  
  By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS (Reuters) - The flurry of technology deals luxury watchmakers announced this week to tackle the Apple Watch threat are more a way to hedge their bets in case the smartwatch market takes off than a strategic U-turn. On Thursday, LVMH's Tag Heuer and Bulgari, and Kering's Gucci were among the more than dozen or so watch brands that announced partnerships with technology companies. Regarding Tag Heuer's alliance with U.S. chip maker Intel and Google unveiled
  
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• The secret sauce behind Apple Watch's fitness tracking

  20-03-2015 20:31
  
  One of the main concerns for anyone looking to strap a fitness-tracking Apple Watch to their wrist is how accurate the device is at measuring your health, and Apple has tackled the problem head on.The company's engineers, managers, developers and other employees have been working for a year in a high-tech Apple gym to help ensure the Apple Watch gets every point right, reports ABC News.The iPad Pro: still a thing?The employees have been doing yoga, rowing, running, lifting, stair-climbing and mo
  
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• PC Gaming Week: Take on TechRadar at Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike: Source!

  20-03-2015 18:54
  
  We're pretty keen gamers here at TechRadar – and competitive ones at that. As such, we've got ourselves a gaming server to give you – the readers – the chance to test your trigger finger against us in the online arena.On Wednesday March 25 and Thursday March 26 we will be hosting gaming nights where you can take on editors from not only TechRadar, but also those from various gaming titles owned by our parent company, Future.Put 'em upFor the Wednesday event TechRadar's UK-based editors wil
  
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• Can't remember your password? Here are 2 new ways to log in

  20-03-2015 18:47
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Tired of trying to remember a different password for each of your online accounts? Or worried about re-using the same password too many times? You're not alone. Tech experts agree that traditional passwords are annoying, outmoded and too easily hacked.
  
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• McCann 'troll' suicide conclusion

  20-03-2015 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A coroner concludes McCann Twitter 'troll' Brenda Leyland killed herself.
  
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• Updated: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge release date: where can I get it?

  20-03-2015 18:20
  
  The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge may be tempting you towards a Samsung, and away from its less curvaceous brother the Galaxy S6, but when and where will you be able to get one?Pre-orders are now open, and Samsung has confirmed the Galaxy S6 Edge will go on sale in 20 countries on April 10, so we thankfully don't have too long to wait to get our hands on its additional curved displays.You have the choice of 32GB, 64GB or 128GB of internal storage, plus a variety of colours, but it's certainly not cheap
  
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• Gfinity UK eSports arena: Pictures from inside Britain's first pro gaming venue

  20-03-2015 18:04
  
  This weekend (20-22 March 2015) hundreds will travel to London to watch the first live competitive gaming event at the UK's first ever eSports arena. Leading eSports company Gfinity has teamed with Vue Cinemas to turn the chain's Fulham Broadway branch into a 600+ seat venue, and IBTimes UK was invited along to take a look.
  
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• Gfinity UK eSports arena: Pictures from Britain's first pro gaming venue

  20-03-2015 18:04
  
  This weekend (20-22 March 2015) hundreds will travel to London to watch the first live competitive gaming event at the UK's first ever eSports arena. Leading eSports company Gfinity has teamed with Vue Cinemas to turn the chain's Fulham Broadway branch into a 600+ seat venue, and IBTimes UK was invited along to take a look.
  
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• Apple TV 2 release date, price, news and rumors

  20-03-2015 17:58
  What will Apple TV 2 look like?In the battle royale of set-top boxes that has erupted over the last few years, there's always been one contender who's not afraid to quietly sit on the sidelines and garner attention by being inclusive, sleek and to-the-point, and that's Apple TV. Now, before you go down into the comments and leave a nasty retort, we know that Apple TV 2 - technically a moniker for the second version of Apple TV - has come and gone. But Apple bows to no numerical and/or logic syst
  
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• Scores charged in paedophile inquiry

  20-03-2015 17:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 260 people are charged with offences following a National Crime Agency operation targeting suspected paedophiles.
  
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• Rumours suggest new apps and Siri could come to Apple TV this summer

  20-03-2015 17:10
  
  You might own Apple TV, you might not, but one thing that remains certain is that Apple could use this modestly-priced box to change the world of home entertainment forever. Right now, it's a bit latent.The rumblings from the US seem to be that, along with the already announced HBO Now, there will be more services coming this summer. Now we're hearing, according to sources speaking to Buzzfeed, that Apple will announce some significant changes at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this
  
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• Download of the Day: Start Menu 8

  20-03-2015 16:00
  Microsoft's decision to get rid of the start menu in Windows 7 still affects millions of users across the world and Start Menu 8 addresses that with a program that is much more than just a way to get the menu back.Why you need itWhilst Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 may have brought back the start menu there are still plenty that use Windows 7 and 8 or simply want to harp back to the days of the original start menu. Lucky for them Start Menu 8 brings it back with a level of personalisation unmatched
  
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• With 'Dead Rising,' a new approach for a game adaptation

  20-03-2015 13:50
  
  When a pair of filmmakers first approached video game publisher Capcom about crafting a live-action movie based on their popular zombie series "Dead Rising," they were asked to prove themselves ...
  
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• Review: Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 M1

  20-03-2015 13:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and specServers based on Intel's Haswell-based Xeon processors are fast becoming commonplace with all the big vendors (and most of the small ones) having now refreshed their product lines with the new silicon. Not least Fujitsu, which added the RX2540 M1 to its Primergy line-up at the start of the year to better meet the needs of businesses looking to host demanding compute-hungry applications.DesignBuilt to the usual high standard expected of a Fujitsu Primergy server, the RX2540 M
  
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• Google thwarts legal threat in US

  20-03-2015 13:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google narrowly escaped being prosecuted by the US government in 2012 over its dominance of the search market, reports the Wall Street Journal.
  
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• Facebook hoax suicide ends in arrest

  20-03-2015 12:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who posted a fake suicide threat on Facebook ends up being arrested and put in a psychiatric institution for nearly three days.
  
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• Battlefield Hardline review: Multiplayer verdict – Great ideas undermined by execution

  20-03-2015 12:57
  
  While only released in the UK today (20 March 2015) Battlefield's servers have been live for over a week and have been thoroughly tested by the larger North American release on 17 March. Battlefield is all about the multiplayer. The single player portion of Hardline – despite its many flaws – is the series' best and most interesting in years. Focus has been given to five new game modes – Blood Money, Hotwire, Crosshair, Heist and Rescue - which sit alongside the requisite Team D
  
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• FAA grants Amazon experimental certificate to test out drone delivery service in the US

  20-03-2015 11:44
  
  The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally approved Amazon's request to begin testing out its Prime Air drone delivery service, eight months after Amazon asked the regulator for approval. According to the experimental airworthiness certificate issued to Amazon, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) must be flown at a maximum height of 400 feet and must remain within the line of sight of the pilot. The terms of the certificate also require Amazon to provide monthly data to the FA
  
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• Founder Wang takes over as CEO as Taiwan's HTC seeks turnaround

  20-03-2015 11:37
  
  By J.R. Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC Corp on Friday named Cher Wang as chief executive, giving its founder and chairwoman a bigger role in leading a potential turnaround of the Taiwanese smartphone maker. The return of Wang, a scion of one of Taiwan's most prominent families, comes as HTC's phones have often struggled to translate positive early reviews into strong sales, and the former contract manufacturer has found it tough to build a strong consumer brand in a competitive market. HTC
  
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• Online farm payment system ditched

  20-03-2015 11:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A multi-million pound government IT system to process EU subsidy payments for farmers in England has been largely abandoned following "performance problems".
  
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• Magic Leap augmented reality demo gives glimpse of Google's $500m investment

  20-03-2015 11:18
  
  A video released by Magic Leap on YouTube demonstrates how apps and desktop icons can be brought out from a screen and controlled by a user's hand to check things like email in 3D. "Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to TED, but we wanted to share one of the things that we'd planned to share at the talk," the YouTube video's caption reads. This is the first time Magic Leap has publicly released a demonstration of its technology since Google led a $542m series B fund
  
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• The computers that will help scientists step closer to the Big Bang

  20-03-2015 11:18 via zdnet.com
  
  IBM has shown off some of the novel computer systems that could help the world's largest radio telescope to peer 13 billion years back in time.
  
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• Online farm subsidies claim system suspended after IT problems

  20-03-2015 10:46
  
  Deadline for applications extended and farmers told to revert to traditional paper forms after glitches with switchover to online-only system
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• Chinese anti-censorship group Greatfire.org suffers massive hack

  20-03-2015 10:42
  
  Group that helps Chinese internet users get around censorship barriers to access sites such as Google targeted by denial-of-service attackAn advocacy group that helps internet users inside China bypass blocks on censored content says it is suffering a denial-of-service attack disrupting its operations.US-subsidised Greatfire.org says the attack started two days ago and traffic is 2,500 times above normal. It has affected “mirror”, or duplicate, websites that it has set up via encrypted web s
  
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• Amazon Wins Approval To Test Delivery Drones

  20-03-2015 10:29
  
  Amazon has won approval from US federal regulators to test a delivery drone outdoors. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an experimental airworthiness certificate allowing test flights over private, rural land in Washington state. Amazon must also provide monthly data to the FAA on the number of flights conducted, pilot duty time per flight, unusual hardware or software malfunctions and other information. The approval is a win for Seattle-based Amazon, and advances its plans to deliv
  
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• Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking

  20-03-2015 10:20
  
  China's Defence Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military's involvement. "The relevant criticism that China's military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless," the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response to a question about the story. It is not clear what the C
  
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• Microsoft unveils the $70 Lumia 430, aimed at emerging markets

  20-03-2015 10:12 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft has released yet another low-end device that it hopes will charm smartphone buyers who might otherwise have opted for a budget Android handset.
  
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• VIDEO: 3D printing 'builds' Sagrada Familia

  20-03-2015 10:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How 3D printing is helping with the completion of the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona
  
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• Bookmaker Ladbrokes names digital boss Mullen as new CEO

  20-03-2015 09:49
  
  By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) - British bookmaker Ladbrokes promoted the head of its digital business Jim Mullen to the chief executive's job on Friday, reflecting the need to compete harder in the growing online market. The firm, Britain's second-biggest bookmaker, has struggled to keep pace with market leader William Hill and take advantage of an increasingly popular online betting sector, with investment in marketing and products lagging others. "The board has set me some v
  
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• VIDEO: The robot that 'plays' dodgeball

  20-03-2015 09:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Spencer Kelly looks at some of the best of the week's technology news
  
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• The new rise of biometric banking

  20-03-2015 09:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The rise of biometric banking
  
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• Google Chromebook Pixel review: beautiful, powerful – but still just Chrome

  20-03-2015 09:00
  
  With an all-aluminium body, powerful processor and 12-hour-plus battery life the Pixel is the best Chromebook going, but at a priceThe Chromebook Pixel is Google’s vision of what a computer should be like – with a high-resolution screen, excellent battery life and solid aluminium body, with apps and data stored in the cloud.But the Pixel is a contradiction – at £799 it’s an expensive machine that uses an operating system designed for cheap computers.Pros: fast, aluminium body, fant
  
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• HTC founder Wang takes over as CEO, predecessor Chou to lead product development

  20-03-2015 08:38
  
  TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp has appointed its founder Cher Wang as chief executive, the company said in a statement on Friday. HTC said Peter Chou, formerly the CEO, will focus on identifying future growth opportunities for the former contract electronics maker, which has struggled to create a strong consumer brand. Chou will lead product development at the company under the HTC Future Development Lab, it said. ...
  
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• Ladbrokes names digital boss Mullen as new CEO

  20-03-2015 08:27
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - British bookmaker Ladbrokes named the boss of its digital arm Jim Mullen as its new chief executive on Friday, reflecting its focus on better competing in a growing online market. Mullen, a former chief operating officer of rival William Hill's online business, joined Ladbrokes in November 2013 and has led an overhaul of its digital arm, delivering new products and systems to improve its position against better performing rivals. He will take over on April 1 from Richard
  
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• SpaceX frees more than a hundred photos into public domain

  20-03-2015 08:00
  
  Elon Musk’s spaceflight firm has licensed a tranche of more than 100 photos for reuse, after calls for it to adopt public domain licensingElon Musk’s private spaceflight company SpaceX has conceded to pressure to free its images, and released a batch of more than 100 photos under the “copyleft” Creative Commons license.As the first private spaceflight firm to win a contract to resupply the International Space Station, SpaceX is a trailblazer for capitalism in space. While national spacef
  
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• Reuters websites become inaccessible in China

  20-03-2015 06:11
  
  The news websites of Reuters, including those in English and Chinese, were inaccessible in China on Friday, after users first experienced difficulties accessing them late on Thursday. The websites of Bloomberg News, the New York Times and News Corp's Wall Street Journal have all been inaccessible in China for some time. The websites of some major news organisations, including Reuters, have at times become inaccessible in China in whole or part, often after the publication of stories on issu
  
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• ​Global device shipments to grow, but PC spend to decline: Gartner

  20-03-2015 05:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Even though Gartner has predicted that worldwide computing device market spend will decline by 7.2 percent in 2015, worldwide combined shipment levels will not be affected.
  
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• Sharp says not considering LCD spin-off as banks seek overhaul

  20-03-2015 05:30
  
  Loss-making Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp said it's not considering spinning off its liquid crystal display business as part of a bailout plan under discussion with lenders seeking restructuring moves in return for extending support. "This is not something we announced, nor is it something we are considering," Sharp said in a statement on Friday. Sankei's report followed other media coverage on expected changes at Sharp, including a possible exit from North American TV
  
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• ATO to retire e-tax system in reinvention drive

  20-03-2015 05:19 via zdnet.com
  
  ​The ATO is planning to retire its e-tax application by tax time 2016, and broaden the functionality of its newer online myTax return lodgement system as part of its Reinventing the ATO Blueprint released on Thursday.
  
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• Standard General's bid is RadioShack's sole hope of survival - WSJ

  20-03-2015 05:13
  
  (Reuters) - Standard General LP's reduced buyout offer of $145.5 million (99 million pounds) is RadioShack Corp's only hope of surviving bankruptcy and staving off liquidation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the hedge fund's lawyers. The offer is less than the earlier estimate of $200 million made by the hedge fund because the lead bidder is leaving hundreds of RadioShack stores behind, the Journal reported. The deal with Standard is the only proposal that could save 9,0
  
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• Telstra takes multimillion-dollar stake in Gorilla Technology Group

  20-03-2015 04:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Telstra has made a multimillion-dollar equity investment in Taiwanese video big data and analytics company Gorilla Technology Group, which will have its software integrated into the Australian telco's network.
  
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• China Mobile profit slump highest in 16 years

  20-03-2015 01:28 via zdnet.com
  
  The world's biggest carrier by subscribers is also busy preparing to launch its RCS-based smartphones in a bid to combat OTT players like WeChat in China.
  
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• Confidential U.S. FTC report found Google anticompetitive tactics -WSJ

  20-03-2015 01:03
  
  Key staff members at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission were in favour of suing Google Inc for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The report by the staff of the FTC's competition bureau argued that the owner of the world's No. 1 Internet search engine illegally took information from rival websites to improve its own search results and placed restrictions on websites
  
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• U.S. regulators give Amazon go-ahead for drone tests

  20-03-2015 01:03
  
  By Alwyn Scott SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has won approval from U.S. federal regulators to test a delivery drone outdoors, as the e-commerce company pursues its goal of sending packages to customers by air, even as it faces public concern about safety and privacy. The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it issued an experimental airworthiness certificate to an Amazon business unit and its prototype drone, allowing test flights over private, rural land in Washington state. Th
  
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