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• Review: Huawei P8 Lite

  23-06-2015 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction, design and displayFrom the iPhone to a $20 Nokia, every smartphone is made in China. Motorola attempted to bring manufacturing back to the US with the launch of the original Moto X, but that ended up only lasting a year. The inescapable truth is that China keeps costs low, and in the quest for more profits, every little bit counts.A number of Chinese brands have tried making a splash in the US and UK from Lenovo to OnePlus. While it would be great to see Xiaomi finally offer its sm
  
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• Triple systems failure grounds flights in New Zealand

  23-06-2015 23:14 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Details emerge of simultaneous failures that halted aircraft departures nationally for nearly two hours yesterday afternoon.
  
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• Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Helix (2015)

  23-06-2015 20:10
  
  Introduction and designAlong with full x86 compatibility, one of the alluring features of Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 over an iPad or Android tablet is its strong performance. You can get a lot done with a dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory and an SSD of up to 256GB – but in a tablet form factor, not a laptop, so it's portable as well as powerful.The ThinkPad Helix takes this one step further, offering even greater performance under the hood. Part of this is down to it using the la
  
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• Updated: Apple Music: release date, price and features

  23-06-2015 19:40
  
  Apple music streaming serviceApple Music, the name of Apple's long-awaited replacement for Beats Audio and iTunes Radio, is official. And while it may sound like a copycat, Apple's controversial approach will sing a different tune from Spotify and other music streaming services.Announced at WWDC 2015, the service looks to integrate on-demand music streaming, a 24/7 radio station called Beats1 and a social network that will help fans connect with artists "on the deepest level, building relat
  
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• Mac Tips: How to repair the Photos library in Mac OS X Yosemite

  23-06-2015 19:24
  
  Photos is Apple's photo-management app that recently replaced iPhoto with the release of OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. It certainly gets the job done, but it can still be prone to errors once in a while. If you're experiencing a crashing app at launch, failed imports, or missing thumbnails or photos, then you may want to try repairing your Photos library to recover from these issues. Before performing a repair, it's best to make a backup of your library via Time Machine or by manually copying it to ano
  
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• Opinion: Apple Music has Spotify beat in every way – here's how

  23-06-2015 19:07
  
  Apple Music vs SpotifyThere's no denying it: Apple Music has a long road ahead of it if it wants to take on - and ultimately outplay - streaming juggernaut Spotify. Apple Music's announcement was met with equal parts skepticism and excitement, while news in recent days hasn't necessarily put it in the best light. Megastar Taylor Swift successfully pushed Apple to pay artists during Music's free, three-month trial, but not before threatening to pull her music - a move that's all-too-familiar to S
  
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• Updated: 50 best Android games 2015: our top picks

  23-06-2015 19:00
  
  Best Android games introduction
  While the 'free-to-play' market has taken a bit of a beating of late due to gamers falling out of love with the use of in-app payments, the world of mobile gaming is still an exciting one.Whether you want games that will last the length of a commute, or want to be lost in a port of GTA where you spend hours mowing down pedestrians and making money out of murder, there is a game on here for you.This constantly updated list is a mixture of free and paid for games, a
  
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• Gmail 'Undo Send' now lets everyone take back those regrettable emails

  23-06-2015 18:30
  
  After six years in the lab, Google is finally ready to let us all have an email redo. The company's Undo Send feature is now an official setting in Gmail. The feature lets users halt a message they have second thoughts about immediately after sending, preventing it from landing in someone else's Inbox.Undo Send was previously available in Gmail Labs as well as the company's Inbox by Gmail app. It now graduates to Gmail, where it's off by default if you're not a Gmail Labs version user. Just head
  
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• Dwayne Johnson set to take on a gorilla, a lizard and a wolf in 80s arcade movie

  23-06-2015 18:23
  
  The San Andreas star will headline video game adaptation Rampage, reuniting him with the producer of the hit earthquake rompEven though he’s only just finished surviving an earthquake in this summer’s disaster hit San Andreas, poor Dwayne Johnson will have to protect America from a gorilla, a lizard and a wolf in an adaptation of 1980s arcade game Rampage.According to Deadline, Johnson will reunite with San Andreas producer Beau Flynn for the action film, set to start production next summer.
  
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• Google launches free radio service, beats Apple Music to the punch

  23-06-2015 18:21
  
  Apple has been dealing with some community uproar ahead of its Apple Music launch (thanks, in part, to Taylor Swift), and now it looks like it's facing competition from rival Google's own radio streaming service.Starting today, users in the US can sign on to a free, ad-supported Google Play Music, with the option, of course, to sign on to its ad-free subscription if so desired. Apple Music will be available from June 30.Given the hot water Apple landed in with disgruntled artists and indie label
  
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• US Navy pays out millions to Microsoft to keep running Windows XP

  23-06-2015 17:47 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Deal with Microsoft will allow the US Navy to continue running the 14-year-old OS.
  
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• Man builds giant computer at home

  23-06-2015 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For many tech companies the race is on to build ever smaller computer processors, but one British man has gone in the opposite direction.
  
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• NSA and GCHQ repeatedly targeted Kaspersky and others

  23-06-2015 17:18
  
  UK and US intelligence services have been relentlessly pursuing Kaspersky Labs and other antivirus software companies to gain detailed information on users.First reported by The Intercept, the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK GCHQ used reverse engineering to gain access to antivirus software and monitored web and email traffic to gain intelligence about users and the antivirus companies themselves.The information, which was contained in documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snow
  
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• ​Cooking with AI? Elementary, says IBM Watson

  23-06-2015 17:13 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  App will allow adventurous cooks to use IBM's cognitive computing system to create new dishes.
  
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• Is broadband responsible for falling teenage pregnancy rates?

  23-06-2015 17:11
  
  Researchers find corresponding decline in STI transmission as high-speed internet access rolls out
  There was a time, about two decades ago, when the rate of teenage pregnancies was one of the hottest of issues. Barely a week would go by without tabloid headlines lamenting their frequent occurrence. Then things quietly began to change.In both Britain and America pregnancy rates for girls and women under 20 began to fall, and they have now been falling almost continuously for more than 20 years, a
  
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• Third-party sellers and Amazon - a double-edged sword in e-commerce

  23-06-2015 15:31
  
  Amazon Marketplace allows smaller businesses access to millions of shoppers but some question whether the benefits outweigh the costsAs the “everything store”, it was never going to stop at books. Founded by Jeff Bezos with the aim of being the one-stop shop for the world, Amazon now sells 120m different items. Alongside the stacks of paperbacks in its warehouses are CDs, DVDs, TVs, iPads, iPods, toys, clothing – but also the less obvious: jewellery, washing machines, garden furniture, win
  
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• ​Jut takes the wraps off its DevOps data analytics hub

  23-06-2015 15:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The free open beta of Jut's operations data hub is designed to combine live-streaming and historical data, structured and unstructured, to create a comprehensive view.
  
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• AI-created recipe app goes live

  23-06-2015 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  IBM's cognitive computer Watson is making its AI-created recipe app live for the public to use.
  
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• Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission

  23-06-2015 14:27
  
  Privacy advocates claim always-listening component was involuntarily activated within Chromium, potentially exposing private conversationsPrivacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
  First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capabl
  
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• Emotional robot Pepper goes on sale, first run sells out

  23-06-2015 14:24 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Rush of orders for robot that can respond to emotions and generate its own from sensor feedback.
  
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• Russia's 'satirical Wikipedia' suspends activity after government pressure

  23-06-2015 14:17
  
  Lurkmore is backing off from its infamous biting humour after a series of clashes with media regulators. The Moscow Times reportsLurkmore, a Russian site described as the “satirical Wikipedia”, is suspending its operations because of increasing censorship, founder Dmitry Khomak has announced.Related: Harassed and shunned, the Russians labelled foreign agents by KremlinContinue reading...
  
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• Hadoop business intelligence firm AtScale seals funding injection for expansion

  23-06-2015 14:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  With software that lets firms use their existing business-intelligence tools on Hadoop, and a $7m investment under its belt, AtScale is planning for growth.
  
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• 'Pregnancy wi-fi' causes controversy

  23-06-2015 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two Chinese tech firms have clashed over a new wireless router with a special setting for pregnant women.
  
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• Microsoft, IBM, ARM back open patent database

  23-06-2015 13:35 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Industry consortium hopes to solve one of the most expensive issues for new businesses - who owns the patents?
  
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• Review: Sony KD-75X9405C

  23-06-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and features If there's one thing the Sony 75X9405C is not, it's shy. For as well as having the chutzpah to stick a 75-inch screen in your living (or, more likely, home cinema) room, it has the cojones to surround that mammoth screen with a good many more inches of speaker-bearing frame.To be fair, it doesn't do any of this unattractively. On the contrary, the gorgeous glassy finish that lies over both the screen and its frame looks and feels beautifully premium - once you've wiped
  
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• NTT Com takes major stake in German data centre company e-shelter

  23-06-2015 12:57 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Deal leaves NTT Com with 92,000 square meters of data centre space in nine European cities.
  
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• North Korea blocks access to Instagram

  23-06-2015 12:40
  
  Pyongyang censors blacklist site popular with journalists and tourists for sharing photographs from inside the DPRK Warnings have started appearing on Instagram accounts in North Korea, with users being told that access to the popular photo-sharing app has been denied.Opening the app using the North Korean carrier Koryolink results in the the following message in English: “Warning! You can’t connect to this website because it’s in blacklist site”. A similar notice in Korean says the site
  
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• 'Organs-on-chips' wins design award

  23-06-2015 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Silicon chips that mimic the function of living human organs win the Design of the Year award from the Design Museum in London.
  
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• Erotic e-books face German curfew

  23-06-2015 12:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Germans will be able to buy adult-themed e-books only between the hours of 22:00 and 06:00, under new rules.
  
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• Getty added to EU Google antitrust investigation

  23-06-2015 12:10
  
  Photography agency complaint over Google Image search could see European Commission antitrust investigation expandedPhoto agency Getty Images has been added as an “interested third person” to the European Commission’s antitrust investigation into Google, according to reports.
  Google is accused of distorting search results in favour of its own services, including Google Shopping, Maps and several others, affecting competitors from travel sites to price comparison companies. Continue reading
  
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• What's next for office printing?

  23-06-2015 11:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  3D printing might steal all the headlines but there are still some interesting developments ahead for the office printer, too.
  
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• What's next for office printing: 3D's got the sex appeal, but inkjets have a bright future

  23-06-2015 11:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  3D printing might steal all the headlines but there are still some interesting developments ahead for the office printer, too.
  
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• VIDEO: Exploring 360 degree game play

  23-06-2015 11:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak puts VR gaming to the test
  
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• Fifa 16: the eight key new features

  23-06-2015 11:22
  
  Senior producer Nick Channon runs through the latest title’s most interesting updates and alterations, including changes to defensive AI and shooting physicsWe’re on the show floor at E3 and somewhere within the hulking Electronic Arts stand, as music and gunfire blares out all around us, EA Sports senior producer Nick Channon and I are preparing to play Fifa 16. Naturally, the game’s demo mode features the two teams of the moment – Barcelona and Real Madrid. Generously, Channon has let
  
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• US military to develop Star Wars-style hoverbikes with British company

  23-06-2015 10:43
  
  The Malloy Aeronautics prototype, powered by four bladed fans, is intended to do many of the jobs of a helicopter but will be safer and cheaperScience fiction-obsessed children of the 1960s might have been disappointed to know that half a century later they would neither live in space nor get their meals in the form of pills. One thing that would have impressed them about 2015, though, is the ability to order your own personal hoverbike. You can now do just that, even if it is currently a reques
  
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• Kaspersky software reverse engineered by NSA, GCHQ: Report

  23-06-2015 10:19 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Reports have said the NSA and GCHQ have been reportedly reverse engineering Kaspersky Lab and other anti-virus security companies since 2008.
  
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• NSW keeps the purse open to fund digital plans

  23-06-2015 10:18 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The NSW government will continue its digital push, with the allocation of sizeable funds from the state budget for technology projects.
  
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• ​Amaysim files for IPO to raise AU$207m

  23-06-2015 10:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Amaysim has lodged paperwork with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as its first step towards becoming a public company.
  
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• No Man’s Sky: how a cult band created the game’s endless musical universe

  23-06-2015 10:00
  
  Armed with an “insane audio system”, Sheffield post-rockers 65daysofstatic have made an infinite soundtrack for the year’s biggest video game Related: No Man's Sky creator: 'We wanted to build a universe' “A soundtrack to infinity” sounds like the sort of thing a hairy bunch of proggers might say about their new album, but Sheffield post-rock outfit 65daysofstatic can actually lay claim to making one, or at least something very close. The band have been chosen to write the soundtrack f
  
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• Vocus gets federal court approval to acquire Amcom

  23-06-2015 09:50 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Vocus' acquisition of Amcom is a step closer to being finalised after the Federal Court of Australia gave approval to the deal.
  
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• Australian government IT spend rises amid public service cuts

  23-06-2015 08:26 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Despite being surrounded by efficiency dividends and other public service spending cuts, the absolute amount spent on IT across the federal government has remained fairly constant.
  
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• Softbank targets India's renewable energy market with Foxconn and Bharti

  23-06-2015 08:13 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Softbank, Foxconn, and Bharti have formed a joint venture to invest in renewable energy plants across India to help the Indian government achieve its 2020 solar energy targets.
  
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• Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2015 review: the sharpest and best yet

  23-06-2015 08:00
  
  The new Paperwhite’s screen has twice the number of pixels and is faster and clearer, making it the best e-reader for the priceAmazon’s latest Kindle is an updated version of its Paperwhite, now with a crisper and easier to read screen with twice the number of pixels.
  The Paperwhite is the midrange Kindle, below the top-of-the-line £170 Voyage that promises every bell and whistle, and above the £50 basic Kindle. But has Amazon eaten into the Voyage’s advantage by giving the new
  
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• Daily Mail, WPP and Snapchat to launch native advertising agency

  23-06-2015 08:00
  
  Sir Martin Sorrell’s marketing services group joins newspaper and tech company in new venture that aims to work across media and ad industry
  The Daily Mail, Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP and Snapchat are to launch an agency to cash in on the rise of native advertising.The agency will launch in the US first with the expectation it will later roll out to international offices. Continue reading...
  
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• Smule: the social music app that lets fans sing karaoke with Jessie J

  23-06-2015 07:00
  
  Apps that let fans create their own versions of their favourite songs - and duet with the likes of Jessie J - have put the US company on the music map Jessie J has performed with a host of musicians in her time: Dizzee Rascal, Ariana Grande, 2 Chainz, Queen, David Guetta, Mary J. Blige, Tom Bleasby… Wait, Tom who?Bleasby is the fan whose video duet with Jessie J went viral last month, notching up nearly 3.6m views on his own YouTube channel and another 10.3m on Facebook after the star shared i
  
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• Court releases Dallas Buyers Club piracy letter

  23-06-2015 06:07 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Despite objections from Voltage Pictures that the release of the draft letter to be sent to alleged infringers might impact future cases, Justice Nye Perram has released the letter and telephone script in full.
  
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• Elastica partners with Telstra and Cisco to tackle Australian cloud security market

  23-06-2015 04:41 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Elastica has partnered with Telstra and Cisco to service the rise of shadow IT and shadow data in Australia with its cloud access security broker solutions.
  
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• CrimTrac to upgrade to new biometric identity system

  23-06-2015 04:32 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  CrimTrac has gone to tender to look for a biometric identification system that would have the potential to not only recognise fingerprints, but also palm prints, footprints, and facial images.
  
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• Test case likely to precede flood of piracy site-blocking cases

  23-06-2015 04:29 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Rights holders are likely to test the waters of new site-blocking laws in Australia with a single test case in the coming months.
  
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• The murky world of online reviews

  23-06-2015 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Navigating the murky world of online reviews
  
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