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• Hands-on: Protect your Apple Watch with the Speck CandyShell Fit cover

  06-06-2015 20:03 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  People have voiced concerns about scatches on the sides and display of the Apple Watch. Speck Products has developed a simple, attractive, and effective solution.
  
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• Surveillance laws are being rewritten post-Snowden, but what will really change?

  06-06-2015 20:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The ripples from the revelations of NSA surveillance can be felt around the world – but intelligence and law-enforcement agencies will carry on regardlessFor anyone still in doubt about the impact of Edward Snowden’s revelations, it might be instructive to review what has been going on in the US Congress over the last few months, with legislators grappling with bills aimed at curbing the surveillance capabilities of the NSA and other federal agencies. In the end, in a classic congressional f
  
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• Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor'

  06-06-2015 17:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  At an event that combines the feel of a trade fair with a Mythbusters episode, robots compete in navigating simulation of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plantRobots are terrible drivers.The one that had just navigated a smooth stretch of road a few hundred feet long had taken 15 minutes to do so, and it didn’t really fit behind the wheel of the little red chrome four-wheeler, a sort of all-terrain golf cart called a Polaris Ranger. Instead, the robot had wedged itself across two seats and had to
  
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• Those 4-inch iPhone 6C rumours are refusing to go away

  06-06-2015 16:07
  
  With the launch of the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, Apple moved away from the 4-inch handset screen size - though it does still sell the smaller iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C through its website.One of the big questions surrounding Apple's 2015 iPhone line-up is whether the Cupertino company will introduce a new phone at the 4-inch size, offering a cheaper (and smaller) alternative to the main flagships.The answer is yes, according to the most recent reports out of China. Apparently supplier AU
  
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• Humanoid robots – in pictures

  06-06-2015 12:46 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Humanoid robots go diode-to-diode in a disaster response competition during the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Robotics Challenge finals in Pomona, California Continue reading...
  
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• This teaser shot means the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active is almost here

  06-06-2015 12:40
  
  Only a few days ago, Samsung leaked pretty much everything we wanted to know about the Galaxy S6 Active, so all we're waiting to hear now is when we can actually get our hands on it.Thanks to a teaser tweet from AT&T, the US carrier expected to sell the new handset, it looks like that day is now very close. "Only one thing is missing from your workout," reads the tweet. "It's almost time to activate your full power."That's right: if teaser trailers for Hollywood blockbust
  
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• Innovators: Great tech innovators: Susan Wojcicki

  06-06-2015 12:01
  
  Age: 46Known for: Google, YouTubeQuote: "Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters."It seems that every great technology story starts off in a garage. For Google, that garage belonged to Susan Wojcicki. It was 1998 when Larry Page and Sergei Brin set up office in Wojcicki's garage. At the time she was working as a marketing manager for Intel but by 1999 Wojcicki was working as marketing manager for Google. One of the
  
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• 40 Father's Day gift ideas for your hard-to-please dad

  06-06-2015 11:45
  
  IntroductionOur Father's Day gift ideas are designed to give the tech-loving father in your life something to enjoy on his special day. You should also make sure he gets a nice lie-in and some coffee too.The big day, in case you didn't realise, is on 21st June this year.Our gift ideas are intended to celebrate the man who has perfected the art of being both moody and joyful. The man who has perfected the eye rolling - no one rolls their eyes with more gusto than a man asked to empty the recyclin
  
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• Week in Gaming: Why I don't think The Witcher 3 is sexist

  06-06-2015 11:01
  
  Please stand by. Your weekly gaming column will appear in 3, 2, 1…HELLO! This is much less exciting than that Fallout 4 reveal, isn't it? Despite being around for quite some time, I don't really trigger the same kind of nostalgia or excitement in people as a well-loved game franchise - unless I have a box of donuts in my hands. I don't. Sorry.This week, some people on the internet proposed a theory that I want to respond to - that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is sexist. According to Feminist Frequ
  
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• You'd be surprised just how big 'e-sports' is getting

  06-06-2015 10:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Valve Software’s marquee computer game, Dota 2, will have a record $US 11 million (and counting) in prize money on offer for those competing in its fifth annual world championship event in Seattle, and is expected to be viewed by more than 20 million people worldwideSet to take place in a sold-out Key Arena, the fifth edition of ‘The International’ broke its own record this week when its prize-pool bubbled above the $US 11 million dollar mark after another surge in funding support from fan
  
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• Running Man of Tech: The long run into the final week

  06-06-2015 09:30
  
  It's so nearly over...I'm approaching my final week of training, and the standard gloom is starting to set in. The feeling of 'I've not trained enough. I'm not good enough. I've let myself down in some way' just won't quit – whether that be through not getting my nutrition right, not dedicating enough time to cycling, or just not practicing my transitions enough.After doing the full Olympic distance in training last Sunday, I realised something though: I'm not going to enjoy this. I know the p
  
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• In depth: How graphene could revolutionise the tech industry

  06-06-2015 09:30
  
  Introduction and the flexible futureLike most good ideas, it all started with a pencil. Derived from the graphite that's been used to make the lead in your pencil for over 500 years, graphene has been hailed as the miracle material of the twenty-first century. It's the world's strongest, thinnest and most conductive material, but what is graphene and why is it so important? Theoretically possible since the 1940s, graphene was discovered and produced by Konstantin Novoselow and Andre Geim at the
  
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• On the road: Infiniti Q70 – car review

  06-06-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘This car is always beeping. It’s like being attached to a heart monitor’People were queueing up to diss this Infiniti Q70. The mister was unimpressed by the dieselly pullback, especially as you pull out: “I don’t even think it’s got turbo!” he thundered. “It’s not even as good as the Passat.” My mother thought the front passenger seat way too hot, and the white ash wood dash the ugliest she’d seen.I felt oppressed by its mighty size – a 1,896kg kerb weight – and the fa
  
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• Updated: Apple Music: what we know so far about the new streaming service

  06-06-2015 05:09
  
  Apple music streaming serviceUpdate: Mere days before WWDC 2015, a new report indicated the new music service will be called Apple Music.Word from the Financial Times (via AppleInsider) is the new service will, not surprisingly, be based on Beats Music, with users able to pick their favorite genres of music. Like Spotify, Apple Music would also serve up recommendations, according to the report.Sources said the new service would feature exclusives as well as a radio stations curated and hosted by
  
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• The next big PC game may come from ... Amazon?

  06-06-2015 01:25
  
  Amazon Game Studios is assembling a crack team of developers to work on what it's calling an "ambitious new PC game project."This unknown PC title will be Amazon's first entry into the genre. The studio's primary focus until this point has been publishing high-quality, pay-to-play mobile games. Its latest release, a horror game called Til Morning's Light, stands as a particularly impressive example in mobile gaming.Amazon detailed the high-profile development team it's putting together
  
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• The HTC Vive is shipping to developer hands right now

  06-06-2015 00:13
  
  Just as excitement over the Oculus Rift is buzzing right before E3, it looks like the HTC Vive headsets are being shipped out to developers right now. However Steam notes that only "major movie studios, triple A developers, to small indie teams working on their first title" will get the Vive while shipping will continue throughout the year to more devs. In addition to the head mounted display, the fortunate few will receive two Lighthouse base stations, two wireless Steam VR controller
  
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