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• PayPal appears to suspend donations to group in 'Dylann Roof manifesto'

  27-06-2015 21:42 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Attempts to donate to Council of Conservative Citizens, labeled hate group by activists, are rejected after organization allegedly gets nod from shooting suspect Related: Leader of group cited in 'Dylann Roof manifesto' donated to top Republicans The online payment company PayPal appeared on Saturday to have disabled the account of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), a rightwing organization that was cited in a manifesto linked to the South Carolina shooting suspect Dylann Roof and has
  
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• Updated: Netflix introduces its pay-as-you-go gift card

  27-06-2015 13:30
  
  Netflix has just announced it's own Netflix Card, offering a pay-as-you-go-a-like service for any of its three tier subscriptions.Coming in three flavours - £15, £25 and £50 - you can get your binge-viewing on without needing either a credit/debit card or a PayPal account. Just scratch and sniff the code on the back of the card and add it to your existing account or start afresh.You can use it on any of Netflix's streaming plans; so if you want to get a quick fix of 4K fun for your brand new
  
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• Headphones are the new walls for people in open-plan offices

  27-06-2015 12:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Open-plan offices are killing productivity among programmers and other knowledge workers, and making them ill. But tech companies - including Facebook and Google - are spending fortunes to build even bigger open-plan offices....
  
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• Apple starts production on its Force Touch iPhone 6S

  27-06-2015 12:08
  
  A new report from Bloomberg backs up the rumours we've been hearing about Force Touch coming to the iPhone. "People with knowledge of the matter" say production has already started on this year's handsets.For the Force Touch newbies, it's a pressure-sensing technology that reacts to the lightness (or otherwise) of a touch on a display. It can already be found on the Apple Watch and the new MacBook.Bloomberg's sources say the new pair of phones are going to keep last year's designs as w
  
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• Week in Gaming: Video games need fixing, but we must stop blaming the little guys

  27-06-2015 12:00
  
  With the excitement of E3 behind us, the ever-present negativity in the games industry settles back down to its regular levels. At even the best of times, there's always this undercurrent of grumblings about frame rate, resolution and various other game-related things like DLC and exclusives and pre-order bonuses, and much of it is legitimate and worth pointing out. Like most people, I don't really want to see things like Dead Island's pre-order bonus - a bloodied female torso - being pimped out
  
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• Running Man of Tech: Would you want a personal trainer strapped to your head?

  27-06-2015 12:00
  
  Has anyone noticed how the sun seems to be shining a little brighter these days? The air feel a little crisper, more satisfying? And how about them chirping birds, eh? Loads of them everywhere.It's possible that this is just my post-triathlon mind breaking free of the memory of being trapped in the Thames, the need to keep donning the sausage suit and throw myself in lakes no longer a part of my life.Instead it's back to the wonderful simplicity of running, where the only criteria are a pair of
  
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• Why is Apple so embarrassed by games?

  27-06-2015 11:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  It’s time for the company to stop telling people interested in games to ‘write a book’ if they want to make art For the past five years, one company has dominated the handheld games market. Sure, its major competitor fights a good fight, but there’s no doubting who’s boss.I’m not talking about Sony and Nintendo, by the way. No: the real fight is between Apple and Google. Continue reading...
  
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• Government launches anti-trolling website to help victims of online abuse

  27-06-2015 11:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Site particularly aims to advise women and LGBT people after figures from Stonewall show 23% of LGBT pupils experienced cyberbullyingThe government has launched an anti-trolling website offering practical tips to people who find themselves the victims of online abuse on how to report the offence and where to seek help.The site is particularly aimed at women and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, because they have suffered some of the most extreme online abuse since the explosion in u
  
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• 5 things you should know about Windows as a Service

  27-06-2015 09:53
  
  IntroductionWindows 10 isn't really the last version of Windows. It might be the last version number though, because new features and improvements will come out as part of Windows 10 rather than as new releases you have to upgrade to. Some of those will be smaller fixes and updates; some will be larger upgrades, like the Redstone update expected in 2016. They'll be delivered through Windows Update and Windows Update for Business, something Microsoft refers to as Windows as a Service. But what do
  
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• Turn off, tune out: National Unplugging Day hopes to give Britain a digital detox

  27-06-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Nationwide initiative for a ‘technology Sabbath’ encourages families to reconnect with each other by disconnecting their computers, iPads and phones for 24 hours When the Bird family give up technology on Sunday for the country’s first annual “National Unplugging Day”, 15-year-old James will be most worried about how his sister Charlotte, 13, will cope.“My sister will struggle more than anyone,” he said. “She relies on her phone so much. She’s always checking it – when we’r
  
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• On the road: VW Golf GTE - car review

  27-06-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘The emissions are roughly what you’d emit smoking a cigar. A cigar made of coal’Everything’s easy once you’re used to it, so I try not to mention how long I normally spend figuring out the touch screen in cars, even though that accounts for roughly a third of my life. The Golf GTE (Gran Turismo Electricity) is brilliantly intuitive. Its technology is remarkable and it has five operating modes: pure electric, electric plus, battery hold, battery charge and auto hybrid. If they had
  
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• Updated: Samsung is patching its Windows Update blunder

  27-06-2015 00:53
  
  Update: Nearly three days after Samsung laptop bloatware was discovered to be deactivating the automatic Windows Update, the Korean firm says it plans to send a patch soon to stop the software from performing the sketchy practice."Samsung has a commitment to security and we continue to value our partnership with Microsoft," a company spokesperson told VentureBeat. "We will be issuing a patch through the Samsung Software Update notification process to revert back to the recommended
  
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• Didn't order the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy? We've got bad news for you

  27-06-2015 00:31
  
  Fallout 4 pre-orders for the special edition Pip-Boy sold out almost immediately, and it looks like they're gone again the second time around, forever.Specifically, Bethesda will no longer manufacture real life Pip-Boys for future retail. Bethesda's VP of Marketing and PR Pete Hines took to Twitter and briefly stated: "Each store is being given their final allotment. How and when they make the[sic] available is up to them. but no more are being made."If you missed out on the first and
  
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