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• Review: Altec Lifejacket

  19-05-2015 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the outdoorsy types, sound quality might not be the main selling point of a Bluetooth speaker. A rugged build, for example, is likely a more important feature when considering options.If your outdoor activities don't demand a good sounding speaker, but an extremely durable one, the $150 (about £133, AU$188) Altec LifeJacket couldn't be more up your alley. But for those of us who aren't adventurers, or even occasional campers, the subpar sound quality and clunky design leave a lot to be desi
  
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• Anti-Muslim film that sparked violence goes back up on YouTube

  19-05-2015 22:25 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Innocence of Muslims reposted a day after a federal appeals court ruled the website should not have been forced to take it down Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Timelapse videos from holiday snaps

  19-05-2015 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers develop a method to sort photographs uploaded onto the website and stitch them together to create time-lapse videos.
  
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• Pakistani company accused of mass-selling fake degrees raided by police

  19-05-2015 21:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Officials raided offices belonging to Axact following report alleging it makes millions of dollars selling bogus qualifications from universities such as ‘Barkley’ Continue reading...
  
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• Woman jailed for Google boss overdose

  19-05-2015 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A California prostitute has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a Google executive with an overdose of heroin.
  
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• OpenStack Foundation opens the doors on community sharing tool

  19-05-2015 18:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  From scripts to images and templates, OpenStack's app catalog is designed to enable users to upload and share their work for the benefit of others on the open-source cloud platform.
  
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• Vodafone prepares to launch its home broadband and pay-TV offerings

  19-05-2015 17:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Telecoms giant is entering fiercely competitive mobile, home phone, broadband and TV market dominated by Sky and Virgin Media Continue reading...
  
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• Facebook criticised for creating 'two tier internet' with Internet.org programme

  19-05-2015 17:21 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Letter from digital rights groups to Mark Zuckerberg says they believe Facebook is building a walled garden and not doing enough to promote net neutralityInternet.org, Facebook’s initiative to expand internet access to the “next billion” people across the developing world, has come under attack from 67 digital rights groups worldwide for not doing enough to promote net neutrality alongside expanding access.The signatories, which include America’s 18MillionRising.org and Europe’s Free P
  
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• Complaints about YouTube Kids app

  19-05-2015 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Child safety groups have filed a complaint to the FTC about "inappropriate" content on a child-friendly YouTube app.
  
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• Protests grow against Internet.org

  19-05-2015 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sixty seven digital rights campaign groups sign a letter calling on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to rethink his "free mobile data" Internet.org initiative.
  
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• Review: Dell Latitude 12 5000 (E5250)

  19-05-2015 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designDell's latest portable is a business machine designed for productivity and mobile power – it's got one of Intel's latest Broadwell processors inside a chassis that's light and slim enough to sling into a bag.That's not the end to this machine's versatility, either. Numerous specifications are available, the internals can be accessed, and it's littered with ports and sockets.DesignThis is a pure business machine, so it won't win many style points. The lid is coated with d
  
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• Supermarket giant shuts Walmart.horse website after joke has bolted

  19-05-2015 14:54 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Era of free rein over equine internet is no more: cartoonist Jeph Jacques’s .horse website goes offline after he is contacted by corporationThe greatest horse-based web domain in history is no more: Walmart.horse has disappeared from the internet following a complaint from the American megastore chain.Registered in late February by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Jeph Jacques, author of webcomic Questionable Content, Walmart.horse was a simple website containing nothing but a picture of a horse
  
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• If AWS, Azure, and Google Compute Engine are winning IaaS, what does that mean for everyone else?

  19-05-2015 14:52 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  There's a shakeout on the horizon as smaller players are forced to rethink their plans - which means cloud customers need to beware.
  
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• L'Oreal to start 3D-printing skin

  19-05-2015 14:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cosmetics firm L'Oreal is teaming up with a bio-engineering start-up to 3D-print skin for product testing.
  
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• Aviation experts dispute hacker’s claim he seized control of airliner mid-flight

  19-05-2015 14:10 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Chris Roberts’s claim he accessed in-flight entertainment and flight systems from his seat is rubbished by Boeing and aviation expertsSecurity and aviation experts have rubbished claims that a hacker gained access to a plane’s flight controls through the in-flight entertainment system.
  Hacker Chris Roberts claimed he was able to break into the in-flight entertainment system up to 20 times on separate flights and that on one flight he was able to make the plane “climb” and “move sideway
  
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• ​Canonical claims LXD crushes KVM

  19-05-2015 14:02 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, claims its container-based hypervisor LXD is much better than KVM, Linux's built-in virtual machine hypervisor.
  
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• Microsoft Surface 3 review: The Pro 3's Atom-hearted brother

  19-05-2015 14:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Microsoft's relatively affordable Atom x7-powered Surface 3 can 'work like a laptop when you need it', so long as you stick to mainstream workloads and remember that a keyboard is an extra-cost option.
  
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• Streaming music service Deezer adds 20,000 podcasts and radio shows

  19-05-2015 12:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  New CEO hints at further move into sports and says Deezer can survive against well-funded competition from Apple and SpotifyStreaming music service Deezer is beefing up its spoken-word content, adding more than 20,000 podcasts and radio shows to its catalogue.The shows will be streamable on-demand alongside the 35m songs available through Deezer, initially from today in the UK, France and Sweden with other countries to follow. Partners in the expansion include the Financial Times, Slate, Monocle
  
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• ​Uber and Baidu looking to buy Nokia's Here unit together

  19-05-2015 12:43 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Uber has teamed up with Baidu to bid for Nokia's Here mapping unit as some believe it could fetch $4bn.
  
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• Anti-Islam film ban lifted for Google

  19-05-2015 12:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An appeals court in San Francisco rule a US-produced film called Innocence of Muslims, which sparked global riots after its release in 2012, should not be banned from YouTube.
  
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• Foul-mouthed Bert and Ernie take center stage in YouTube's app battle

  19-05-2015 12:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Children’s advocates point to video of duo performing Scorsese dialogue as they argue for a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on internet content for kids
  A foul-mouthed Bert and Ernie are giving YouTube Kids an image problem. A video of the Sesame Street duo swearing is a key exhibit in a petition sent to US regulators on Tuesday calling for censure of the Google-owned app.In an update to a recent complaint against YouTube filed with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, the watchdog grou
  
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• OpenStack and Linux Foundations plan OpenStack skills certification

  19-05-2015 11:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  OpenStack professional skills certification is due next year, thanks to a collaboration with the Linux Foundation and its testing providers.
  
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• World of Warcraft movie: Duncan Jones tweets first image

  19-05-2015 11:20 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Shot of orc chieftain Orgrim Doomhammer fuses features of English actor Robert Kazinsky with CGI work from Hulk creators Industrial Light and Magic Continue reading...
  
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• ​LG unveils 5.7-inch and 5-inch budget siblings for the G4

  19-05-2015 11:10 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  LG has released smaller and larger options for consumers without the budget to splurge on the G4.
  
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• Excuse me, do you speak emoji?

  19-05-2015 11:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK and evolving faster than ancient languages.
  
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• Apple and Google sign letter urging Obama to support encryption

  19-05-2015 10:47 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Cryptologists join call for US president to resist pressure from FBI and surveillance agencies to build back doors in operating systems Apple, Google, other tech giants and a number of noted cryptologists have signed a letter to the Obama administration urging the US government to preserve strong encryption against pressure from law enforcement and surveillance agencies.The letter argues that “strong encryption is the cornerstone of the modern information economy’s security,” and that the
  
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• Starbucks making its baristas the DJ

  19-05-2015 08:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Months after ditching the sale of CDs in its stores, Starbucks announces a partnership with Spotify.
  
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• Telstra contract not easing Centrelink call centre wait times

  19-05-2015 08:23 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A 2012 deal to contract out call centre services to Telstra has yet to reduce the wait time for the Centrelink call centre, the Australian Auditor-General has found.
  
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• Can an app really persuade children to go to sleep?

  19-05-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Rob Tong created SleepHero after too many caffeine-fuelled nights trying to comfort his sleepless son. But does it work?Continue reading...
  
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• Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet review: the thin tablet that's also an Android laptop

  19-05-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Lighter than an iPad, waterproof and with an excellent keyboard accessory, the Xperia Z4 Tablet is Sony’s best yetSony’s Xperia Z4 Tablet is the Japanese firm’s best yet, with small bezels, a bright screen and a waterproof body – but it’s when you add a full keyboard that things start to get interesting.
  Sony has a solid heritage in tablets with two excellent entries into the Z series before now. While they have failed to sell particularly well, they have been some of the best Android
  
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• CDC spend on datacentres to reach AU$400m by end of 2015

  19-05-2015 06:56 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Canberra Datacentre (CDC) plans to open another datacentre by the end of the year, after recently opening its 18 MW datacentre at its second campus.
  
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• From the archive, 19 May 1994: World wide web is the road to knowledge

  19-05-2015 06:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The world’s computers are talking to each other. As the web spreads, calling someone a geek may yet become a compliment Continue reading...
  
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• iiNet founder Michael Malone joins Yatango board

  19-05-2015 06:12 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Ahead of its debut on the Australian Securities Exchange, Yatango has beefed up its board with the addition of iiNet founder Michael Malone, Virgin Mobile UK founder Tom Alexander, and ActewAGL founder John Mackay.
  
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• ​Death threat, FBI complaint greet launch of intelligence community database

  19-05-2015 05:07 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  As Wikileaks prepares to merge its data with a new transparency tool, some are not happy at having their LinkedIn CVs harvested.
  
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• Queensland govt bought wrong IBM product for Health IT: Bligh

  19-05-2015 04:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has acknowledged that when the state government partnered with IBM to roll out its new health payroll system in 2010, it bought the wrong one.
  
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• iiNet to offer pro-bono services to Dallas Buyers Club infringers

  19-05-2015 03:22 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  iiNet has said it will alert the customers who have had their names and details handed over to Voltage Pictures for alleged online copyright infringement and will work to provide pro-bono legal services to customers.
  
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• Global Kinetics closes AU$1.5m funding round

  19-05-2015 03:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Global Kinetics Corporation has sourced an addition AU$1.5 million in its latest funding round from 55 investors globally.
  
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• Apple's 4K TV plans abandoned

  19-05-2015 02:58
  
  Remember when the Apple iTV was going to be your next television panel? Well, the fate of Cupertino's long-rumoured televisual ambitions has been revealed in a report from the Wall Street Journal.According to the report, Apple shelved its plans over a year ago. After a decade of research, the company decided it couldn't find a compelling way to differentiate its product. It considered a number of features to set the panel apart from the competition. These included a FaceTime video chat function
  
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• Photo gallery: Ogle at the weird and wonderful from Maker Faire 2015

  19-05-2015 02:56
  
  Maker Faire 2015Another Maker Faire has come and gone with this year marking the fair's tenth event. With an emphasis on science and education, attendees arrive in droves to experience the fun and importance of making. Dancing robots, drones, pyrotechnics, crafting, electric cars and more are just a few of the weird and wonderful attractions to ogle. We joined the gathering of geeks yet again and compiled a collection of the best Maker Faire 2015 had to offer. Check out our Maker Faire video fro
  
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• Microsoft turns on Clutter to keep your inbox clean

  19-05-2015 02:21
  
  This June, Microsoft will turn on Clutter by default for Outlook users. The Office 365 email inbox management feature will clean up your inbox so that it displays important messages. "It uses machine learning to de-clutter your inbox by moving lower priority messages out of your way and into a new Clutter folder," Microsoft said of the feature in a statement. "Ultimately, Clutter removes distractions so you can focus on what matters most."Clutter is similar to rival Google's
  
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• The brave new world of office computing

  19-05-2015 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The brave new world of office computing
  
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• US President Obama joins Twitter

  19-05-2015 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama has just launched his own Twitter feed, the White House has confirmed.
  
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• Thanks to Spotify, Starbucks baristas will serve up piping hot playlists

  19-05-2015 01:43
  
  It's hard to beat a good cup of coffee, but it's harder to beat a good cup of coffee accompanied by a great song. Spotify has teamed up with Starbucks to change the way playlists are made in the workplace. Starting in the US, all 150,000-plus employees of Starbucks will get a premium Spotify membership and have the chance to air their favorite tunes in the coffee shop. After the US plan is functional, the business partners will roll on to Canada and the UK.While you sip your Americano to your ba
  
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• VIDEO: The art lightshow inspired by Cern

  19-05-2015 01:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Exploring Ryoji Ikeda's Supersymmetry - the art installation inspired by the work taking place at Cern
  
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• 'Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art

  19-05-2015 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A project is underway that uses tourist photos to make 3D digital reconstructions of artworks destroyed by IS in Iraq.
  
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• VIDEO: Net neutrality: Whose side are you on?

  19-05-2015 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What does it mean?
  
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• The Quiet Zone: Where mobile phones are banned

  19-05-2015 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Where mobile phones are banned for 13,000 square miles
  
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• You could be crushing candies on Facebook Messenger soon

  19-05-2015 00:25
  
  Brace yourselves, even more Candy Crush invites are coming. Facebook is looking to include games in its Messenger chat platform, a new report by The Information revealed. The plan to bring games to the Messenger mix was formulated around the idea that good games will continuously draw interest, therefore drawing more people to Messenger. This isn't the first addition intended to attract and keep people in Messenger, though. I'm sure almost everyone has THAT friend who has a GIF for every moment,
  
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