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• Motorola Solutions teams with Wynyard Group for crime analytics

  10-06-2015 23:40 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Partnership aims to enhance the big data capabilities of Motorola's PublicEngines software, acquired earlier this year.
  
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• Reddit bans five subforums over harassment concerns

  10-06-2015 23:20 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Five subreddits – including r/fatpeoplehate and r/hamplanethatred – removed from social news site as site chiefs say: ‘We’re banning behavior, not ideas’The “front page of the internet” now has less hate. Social news site Reddit announced on Wednesday that the company would be banning subreddits – areas of the site dedicated to a single topic – “that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action.”“We�
  
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• Millennials founding tech startups: calculated risk with enduring reward

  10-06-2015 22:14 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Abandoning a six-figure Silicon Valley job to start from scratch could be a pipe dream. Or it could be a rare opportunity in a ‘place where they reward failure’“This might be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made in my life,” said Thomas So. On the other hand, it could be a risk that pays off big time, the 24-year-old calculates. Last month, So walked away from a programming job at a Silicon Valley startup paying him a six-figure salary, leaving behind stock options worth (he calcu
  
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• The new Moto X could miss out on one key feature

  10-06-2015 21:22
  
  A new set of leaked photos for the next Moto X have hit the web, and the leaker hints that Motorola's next flagship may not include a fingerprint sensor, diverging from competitors Apple and Samsung. Leaker HelloMotoHK took to Facebook and shared 3 images of the upcoming handset, revealing its inner workings. According to the source, previous leaks were old engineering models and that the final product will look similar to the device he or she posted - one without a fingerprint sensor. From one
  
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• Review: HP EliteBook Folio 1020 G1

  10-06-2015 21:00
  
  Introduction and designIf you think business notebooks have to be boring and boxy, think again. HP designed its premium EliteBook Folio 1020 G1 ($1,249, £820, AU$1,640) to look as sleek as a consumer-class Ultrabook without sacrificing durability, security and manageability. With a 12.5-inch display, the EliteBook Folio G1 competes in the same space as the boxier enterprise-class HP EliteBook 820 G2 ($1,290, £845, AU$1,695), Lenovo ThinkPad X250 ($800, £525, AU$1,050), and Dell Latitude 12 70
  
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• Uber loses bid to stop US drivers' lawsuit

  10-06-2015 20:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Judge’s ruling allows background checks cases to continue in federal court Taxi app company said Wednesday it would appeal arbitration rulingUber lost a bid to force arbitration in a lawsuit brought by its drivers, as a US judge ruled the smartphone-based taxi service’s 2013 and 2014 employment contracts dealing with arbitration from were “unconscionable, and therefore unenforceable”.The ruling, from US district judge Edward Chen in San Francisco on Tuesday, allows the lawsuits over driv
  
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• Buying Guide: 10 best Bluetooth speakers available today

  10-06-2015 20:10
  
  Best Bluetooth speakersYour phone cut the cord, now it's time for you to set your music free and buy a Bluetooth speaker. Thankfully, there's one suited for everyone out there. Some Bluetooth speakers excel at packing in as much functionality as the unit can handle while keeping the price down. Other speakers shuck excess functionality in favor of premium build materials instead. Whatever path you choose to go down, you'll be greeted with many options to suit your personal tastes.The only thing
  
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• Review: Updated: Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500

  10-06-2015 19:26
  
  Introduction and designThe Netgear Nighthawk X4 is a quad-stream 802.11ac router promising faster wireless speeds than we've seen so far from triple-stream routers. Technically, 802.11ac allows for up to eight separate 5GHz wireless streams, each of which can send data at 433Mb/sec. With three antennas, a router can offer a theoretical maximum of 1300Mb/sec, as long as a connected client similarly has a triple-stream 802.11ac receiver. This speed is already far superior to the maximum transfer r
  
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• Emergency network plans questioned

  10-06-2015 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans to move the emergency services on to a commercial mobile network are questioned, as O2 withdraws from the process.
  
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• Has Oculus accidentally revealed the Rift two days ahead of launch?

  10-06-2015 19:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Oculus CEO dismisses leaked images as “old placeholders”, but do they hint at the first consumer release of the Rift headset?Virtual reality headset company Oculus has responded to the accidental leaking of what looked like images of the final version of its Rift headset on its website on Tuesday, with Palmer Luckey, chief executive of the Facebook-owned firm, explaining the images were actually “placeholder concepts”.Luckey spoke out to the Reddit community on the same day as the images
  
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• Updated: 16 best PC games: the must-play titles you can't afford to miss

  10-06-2015 18:44
  
  IntroductionThe PC is either making a comeback or never went away in the first place, depending on who you ask. Whichever camp you're in, a deluge of triple-A titles, virtual reality and (whisper it) decent console ports make picking the PC over the Xbox One or PS4 a no-brainer.Whether you're a mouse-and-keyboard diehard who mutters "boom, headshot!" in their sleep, or a joypad-wielding adrenaline junkie, the PC has no shortage of blockbuster and indie titles to help you waste away th
  
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• Kaspersky reveals 'almost invisible' hacking attack on its systems

  10-06-2015 18:03 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Security company found malware, related to Duqu, when testing a new antivirus tool.
  
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• Buying Guide: 5 best UHD 4K TVs of 2015

  10-06-2015 18:00
  
  5 best UHD 4K TVs of 2015If you're buying a new television this year then chances are you're after an Ultra HD TV. It's the new buzzword in TV tech and it can deliver sharper, crisper, high-fidelity visuals than possible at a measly 1080p.Every manufacturer is now lining up to offer you a 4K TV. But where it was once almost a content-less gimmick, limited to showfloor showreels, there is starting to become more and more UHD movies and TV shows on offer from all over.Ultra HD Blu-rays will be on
  
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• E3 special: Tech weekly podcast

  10-06-2015 17:54 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The world's biggest gaming expo takes place next week in Los Angeles – what can we expect to see?Every year, over 40,000 developers, publishers, distributors and journalists descend on the vast LA Convention Centre to check out the latest releases from the world's biggest gaming companies. Ahead of next week's gaming headlines, Guardian games editor Keith Stuart talks to industry experts about what to expect: superstar indie game developer Mike Bithell; game writer Will Porter, co-creator of P
  
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• This device will make your music sound better - and protect your ears

  10-06-2015 16:59
  
  Tailor-made audio sounds like a strange concept, but with services like Tidal using high bitrates it starts to make sense. People's ears are different - some are more sensitive than others - and Aumeo wants to solve this problem by tuning your earphones to match the sensitivity of your ears.Aumeo is just a small box that lives between your music device and your headphones. After performing a simple test to see how good your ears are at detecting certain frequencies, Aumeo will alter the audio ou
  
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• Innovators: Great tech innovators: Claude Zellweger

  10-06-2015 16:54
  
  Known for: HTCQuote: "The Porsche 911 hasevolved over a generation. It's incremental. Really, what we focused on,is making things that are already good about the One even better." Born and raised in Switzerland, a country well known for the art of watch making, it's not a big surprise Claude Zellweger has dedicated his life to the intricacies of design.Zellweger left Switzerland for the US and spent his younger years earning a degree in industrial design from the Art Centre College of
  
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• Review: Updated: Microsoft Lumia 435

  10-06-2015 16:40
  
  Introduction and designThe Microsoft Lumia 435 is an odd little phone. Immediately recognisable as a Lumia, given its bold colours and polycarbonate body, yet boasting sharper lines, a more boxy design and a Microsoft logo, this is a different breed of Windows Phone.As the first 400-class device in the Lumia family, the Lumia 435 is designed to appeal to a different audience from its older siblings. It's for those graduating from their first feature phone, those looking for a device to hand thei
  
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• Russian cybersecurity firm hacked

  10-06-2015 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A leading cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, says an infamous hacking group breached its systems in an attempt to steal sensitive information.
  
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• Xbox One v PS4: this time it's about hard drives

  10-06-2015 16:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Microsoft and Sony both set to tweak their consoles as gamers tire of running out of storage spaceBarring big announcements about virtual or augmented reality headsets at this year’s vast E3 games conference in Los Angeles, hardware is unlikely to be the big story. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are now more than a year old and the focus has shifted to games. Meanwhile, Nintendo says it is far too early to talk about its NX console, revealed in March and rumoured to be based on Google’s Andr
  
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• Lepow Poki, Moonstone and Virtue external chargers: Style and staying power

  10-06-2015 16:12 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  I road tested three portable power banks from Lepow: The Poki, Moonstone and Virtue. I was impressed with their style and staying power.
  
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• Review: Updated: Microsoft Lumia 640 XL

  10-06-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IntroductionWhile we wait for Windows 10 Mobile to show up later this year here's another affordable, decent-looking, unfussy Windows Phone 8.1 model to tide us over. Since Microsoft bought Nokia's phone division at the end of 2013, we've seen quite a few perfectly adequate handsets that aren't going to burn too big a hole in your pocket or get your pulse racing all that quickly.And so to the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL, the bigger brother to the Lumia 640, which was also announced at MWC 2015. Overa
  
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• Review: PC Format: Mesh Elite Game Changer 980

  10-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and performanceDo it yourself. Or pay someone else to sort it all out for you. This, dear readers, is the perennial problem for any well-heeled purchaser of PCs.If you're monied, of course, the default option at the higher end of the market is to buy a pre-built PC. You'll typically pay more than if you knock the thing together yourself from parts – but if you can afford it, that's a whole lot easier from day one and far more convenient in the long run.After all, if a pre-built PC
  
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• Joyce Carol Oates and that picture of Steven Spielberg with a 'dead' dinosaur

  10-06-2015 15:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  A photograph of the director with an animatronic dinosaur, posted online as a joke, prompted choice comments from Oates. The internet is bamboozledJoyce Carol Oates: prolific author, National Book award winner, Pulitzer nominee. And … dinosaur conservationist?Oates has a Twitter feed which has come in for a fair amount of criticism in the past. “Here is the problem with your Twitter feed, Joyce Carol Oates: It is, as we like to say on the internet, the worst,” wrote our own Michelle Dean f
  
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• China’s Baidu could beat Google to self-driving car with BMW

  10-06-2015 15:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Chinese technology firm partners with BMW to launch new self-driving prototypes on to public roads in race with GoogleBaidu – the search engine and technology company often called China’s Google –plans to release a self-driving car with BMW by the end of the year.The Chinese firm has been working on autonomous vehicles for the past couple of years, recently partnering with car makers including BMW.Continue reading...
  
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• Opening up a can of worms: Why won't Conficker just die, die, die?

  10-06-2015 15:38 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Conficker worm is now nearly seven years old but remains the most detected piece of malware on the internet. Despite a massive effort to squash it, why does it keep popping up again?
  
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• Why Facebook won't make the same mistake twice with web apps

  10-06-2015 15:10 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  How Facebook is betting that its React Native framework will give it the best of web and native app development on iOS and Android devices.
  
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• Plane crash link to data-wipe error

  10-06-2015 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A military plane crash was probably caused by computer files being accidentally wiped from three of its engines, according to investigators.
  
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• Review: Leica Q (Typ 116)

  10-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and featuresIt's not too long ago that the vast majority of photographs were taken using 35mm film. Since the advent of digital photography, technical and cost limitations have meant that full-frame sensors, those that are the same size as a 35mm film frame, have been restricted to a few high-end SLRs, rangefinders and compact system cameras, and until now just two compact cameras – the Sony RX1 and Sony RX1R. Now these rare beasts are joined by the Leica Q.The advantage of a full
  
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• Fake mobile towers 'snoop on public'

  10-06-2015 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fake mobile towers that scoop up data from passing phones are routinely being used in London, an investigation by Sky News suggests.
  
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• Apple and White House in new push for HTTPS connections

  10-06-2015 14:26 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Encryption everywhere takes a step forward after twin support from US president and world’s biggest tech companyBoth Apple and the White House have announced new policies aimed at boosting the use of encrypted connections on the internet, suggesting that the days of insecure internet connections could be numbered.On Monday, Apple revealed the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference.Continue reading...
  
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• Vodafone to launch home broadband service

  10-06-2015 14:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Mobile company to enter crowded marketplace with an offering that includes parental controls and a feature to prioritise certain devices on the networkVodafone has entered the UK’s fiercely competitive home broadband market, with a service that lets parents turn off Wi-Fi for enforced screen breaks and which supercharges the signal to certain household devices.The mobile operator already has broadband and pay-TV customers in continental Europe, and has been building its own British broadband n
  
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• Vodafone gives broadband and fixed-line a second chance with UK launch

  10-06-2015 13:17 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Vodafone is adding the UK to its list of broadband countries, rejoining a difficult market.
  
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• Spotify responds to Apple Music by revealing it now has 75m active users

  10-06-2015 13:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  And 20m of them are paying for the streaming service as its conversion rate creeps upwards at a time of intense debate about ‘freemium’ musicMusic streaming service Spotify has upped its public numbers, announcing that it now has 75 million active users, with 20 million of them paying for its premium subscription tier.That’s a rise from the previous figures – 60 million active users and 15 million subscribers – announced by the company in January. The announcement’s timing is no coin
  
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• Storage company Tegile wants to make a splash with flash

  10-06-2015 13:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Does the storage market still have room for innovative challengers? Tegile CEO Rohit Kshetrapal thinks so.
  
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• Dodocool rechargeable Bluetooth 3.0 mini water resistant speaker review

  10-06-2015 13:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A splash proof mini Bluetooth speaker with hands free phone connectivity for productivity in the shower
  
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• VIDEO: The car that can detect potholes

  10-06-2015 12:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a car fitted with sensors might help stop cars being damaged by potholes
  
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• Obama warned over threat to weaken online security

  10-06-2015 12:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Open letter to US President lobbies against policy that could see US government given access to user data through softening encryptionThe technology industry has sent President Obama a new open letter urging him to stop attempting to weaken encryption, compromise security and destroy consumer trust.
  The Information Technology Industry Council and the Software and Information Industry Association, which represent hundreds of technology companies across the globe including Microsoft, Apple, Samsun
  
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• Wood 2.0 reaches for the skies as digital techniques give it a new lease of life

  10-06-2015 11:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  From skyscrapers to houses and furniture, plywood is ideal for all kinds of designIn March, when Austrian architects announced they were going to build an 84-metre skyscraper out of wood, there were mutterings about whether this was the right material for the job. The reservations were not about its strength, but that the material doesn’t embody modernity, and so these wooden skyscrapers might seem anachronistic. Wood suffered this bias throughout the 20th century as new materials such as meta
  
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• Vodafone joins home broadband market

  10-06-2015 11:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mobile firm Vodafone is entering the home broadband market in the UK with a £10 superfast broadband offer.
  
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• FBI seizes computers in hunt for celebrity photo hackers

  10-06-2015 11:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The ongoing investigation to find out who was behind the leaked nude photos of stars including Jennifer Lawrence has focused in on two houses in ChicagoThe search for the hackers behind last year’s leaked celebrity photos has led the FBI to Chicago, where a raid saw two residences searched, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Related: Jennifer Lawrence denounces nude photos hack as 'sex crime'Continue reading...
  
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• Myki was poorly planned and overly ambitious: Auditor-general

  10-06-2015 08:25 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Victorian auditor-general's office has tabled a report into the state transport's Myki ticketing system, with the auditor-general left less than impressed.
  
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• ​University of Sydney launches Artemis supercomputer

  10-06-2015 08:01 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The University of Sydney has worked with Dell Australia to deploy its first high-performance computer to give researchers unified access to research data and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  
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• NBN switches to performance-based contracts

  10-06-2015 07:47 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A new contract model initially signed with five contractors to roll the NBN out to 4 million premises will place greater emphasis on contractor performance.
  
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• Revenge porn law 'needs to be stronger'

  10-06-2015 06:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Victim says law 'needs strengthening'
  
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• Samsung shows off 55-inch transparent and mirror OLEDs

  10-06-2015 05:57 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Samsung has unveiled the 'world's first' 55-inch transparent and mirror OLED displays in Hong Kong.
  
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• Vodafone New Zealand buys WorldxChange

  10-06-2015 05:49 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Vodafone grabs converged services specialist to boost enterprise services and customer base.
  
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• Melbourne IT sinks AU$21.7m into Outware Mobile acquisition

  10-06-2015 04:17 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The domain registrar has announced an investment in and two-year plan to wholly own software development company Outware Mobile by 2017.
  
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• Cisco denies global reputation hit from NSA revelations

  10-06-2015 02:26 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Cisco's outgoing CEO John Chambers has said that the company's reputation is stronger than ever, despite claims that the NSA was tapping Cisco devices.
  
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• Baidu admits cheating in international supercomputer competition

  10-06-2015 02:15 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Baidu recently apologised for violating the rules of an international supercomputer test in May, when the Chinese search engine giant claimed to beat both Google and Microsoft on the ImageNet image-recognition test.
  
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• TV signals tested as radar alternative

  10-06-2015 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Research carried out by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) and partners suggests that TV signals are as useful for tracking aircraft as traditional radar.
  
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