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• 2degrees buys Snap for fixed line play

  22-03-2015 23:04 via zdnet.com
  
  New Zealand mobile challenger 2degrees is buying its fixed line broadband partner, Christchurch-based Snap
  
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• PC Gaming Week: TechRadar's PC Gaming Week

  22-03-2015 21:42
  
  It wasn't so long ago that the PC was being written off in the face of tumbling shipments, a widespread dislike for Windows 8 and the rising popularity of tablets.Mobile computing has undoubtedly changed how people buy and use PCs, but for gamers it's business as usual. For people who need the latest (and best) hardware to deliver eye-popping visuals and face-melting performance, the PC is king. And if it has been away on royal business in recent years, it's back to rule with an iron fist.While
  
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• New Zealand used NSA's XKeyscore to spy on trade candidates

  22-03-2015 21:41 via zdnet.com
  
  New Zealand was spying on candidates from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and five other countries vying to lead the World Trade Organisation.
  
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• Monica Lewinsky, sadistic robots and secret billionaires: what I learned at TED 2015

  22-03-2015 19:59
  
  What can you learn from talks about slavery, justice, space travel and 3D-printed robots? Lindy West joins the activists, dreamers and mysterious billionaires at this year’s TED conference in Vancouver
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• Downloads: The best free apps for your gaming PC

  22-03-2015 19:00
  
  Update: We've added new kid on the block Raptr to our list. It's one you should check out — especially if you're rocking a modest PC with integrated graphics.Gaming on the PC is still a thriving business, despite the success of consoles such as the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. However, the 3D graphics used in the latest games can put a real strain on your PC.Fortunately, we've got some great free apps that can help you fine-tune your PC's gaming performance. We've also found some useful apps t
  
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• PC Gaming Week: How Minecraft is helping kids learn code one block at a time

  22-03-2015 17:30
  Crafting codeIn turtles, the inability to stop walking in circles can indicate a serious health problem — from partial blindness to irreversible brain damage.It was habitual behaviour for one particular creature in 1969, but its American owners were far from concerned. That's because the turtle was a robot.Created by MIT, the Logo Turtle was a three-wheeled machine used to help teach the Logo Programming Language. Children could direct the Turtle, which resembled a moving dome, by inputting co
  
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• In Depth: Charting the rise of high-definition digital music

  22-03-2015 14:00
  
  The case of the missing soundHow high are your standards when it comes to audio? If you're an average person, the answer is not very. You probably listen to compressed music using cheap headphones in noisy environments like public transport – and think it sounds pretty great. But some people demand more. Audiophiles spend thousands every year on high-end equipment that delivers an experience as close as possible to having Beyoncé there in person belting out "ALL THE SINGLE LADIES.&qu
  
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• 'IS online threat' to US military

  22-03-2015 13:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US military calls for "vigilance" after an online threat was allegedly made by Islamic State to 100 personnel whose details were posted online.
  
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• The top 50 apps for creative minds

  22-03-2015 11:30
  
  Our pick of the best tablet and smartphone tools to enable you to make video, music, art and moreThere’s an ongoing argument in the technology world about whether tablets and smartphones are more focused on consumption than creativity. As time has gone on, though, the number of apps helping us do more than passively read, watch and listen has grown. Many also fall into a longer heritage of technology that democratises activities like film-making, photography and music-making. Video and photogr
  
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• Inflame: Nintendo's mobile move as bad as shaving Mario's face for YouTube likes, says internet

  22-03-2015 11:00
  
  The world's been screaming at Nintendo to make mobile phone games for years, and now it's announced a plan to do just that suddenly no one's quite so excited about it.The reason for the sudden lack of enthusiasm is the name of the partner the gaming giant has chosen for its first wave of mobile titles: freemium specialist DeNA.DeNA is the brain behind such pay-to-win mobile classics as Cupcake Carnival and Military Masters, "free" games entirely assembled around today's proven in-app p
  
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• Opinion: Microsoft's brave new world: Samsung, Android, and third-party software?

  22-03-2015 09:09
  
  Microsoft's mobile ambitions have flitted from being a foreground issue to a background issue and vice versa within the company over the past decade. Windows Mobile, pre-iPhone, was class-leading and enabled a whole swathe of businesses to work on mobile, sending and receiving email in a time when everyone else was chained to their desk.But, after the iPhone was released, that all changed. The industry that Microsoft led changed dramatically, pulling the rug from under their feet and leading to
  
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• When Yanis Varoufakis stepped up, so did Zed Books…

  22-03-2015 08:00
  
  The speed with which a London publisher reacted when one of its authors became the Greek finance minister tells us a lot about the power of digital technology Continue reading...
  
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