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• Has China silenced its bloggers?

  12-07-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Has China silenced its bloggers?
  
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• Updated: Fallout 4 release date, news and trailers

  12-07-2015 22:58
  
  There are few games more anticipated than Fallout 4 right now, but the good news is that the post-apocalyptic RPG is coming soon. Very soon. We also know quite a lot about the game as Bethesda has divulged plenty of footage and information already.Like its predecessors Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4 will be an open-world exploration game set in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but with the added power of new-generation consoles. The game will be launching on the PS4, Xbox One and PC,
  
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• Greeks using new tech to access cash

  12-07-2015 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greeks eye new tech to combat capital controls
  
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• Is this the end of Metal Gear Solid?

  12-07-2015 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There are rumours the production company that makes the Solid Snake games has been disbanded.
  
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• How your smartphone distracts you even when you're not using it

  12-07-2015 16:13
  
  How good are you at resisting the pull of the pings emitted by your smartphone on a daily basis? Turns out those alerts can be distracting whether or not we act on them.Academics from Florida State University have found that phone notifications make our minds wander, even if we don't pick up the handset - we start thinking about what the alerts could be and how we might respond to them."Although these notifications are generally short in duration, they can prompt task-irrelevant thoughts, o
  
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• Running Man of Tech: How to challenge people in Fiji to a cycle race from your garage

  12-07-2015 16:10
  
  I'm going to be sweating forever I'm currently tapping this out in the back of my soon-to-be brother-in-law's car as he takes me and my (now) fiancée to the airport for a week in New York. I'm sweating buckets because I tried to sneak in a quick interval run before we left, which meant I bolted in through the door with only a few minutes to go to disapproving looks and the fastest shower of my life.I've definitely forgotten something important, I've got that post run 'I CAN'T STOP SWEATING'
  
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• How Ellen Pao lost her job but survived Reddit's swamp of trolls

  12-07-2015 14:19 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Silicon Valley’s most controversial executive has personified the discrimination and harassment directed at women in technology and on the internet. A look back at her landmark gender lawsuit and her ouster at Reddit reveals how much – and how little – has changedWhen Ellen Pao took the witness stand four months ago, accusing the most powerful venture-capital firm in the most powerful new industry of pervasive sexism against her and powerful women like her, she talked about the “right pa
  
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• William Hurt: ‘My competition these days isn’t another actor. It’s a computer-generated image at Pixar’

  12-07-2015 11:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The American star of Humans likes computer science, but hates autocorrect. As for owning a robot, he’s really not sure…Are you a gadget fiend or a technophobe?I’ve been interested in technology and computers since I was 17. I always figured that science fiction is mostly science probability. The ideas in people’s imaginations become fact pretty quickly these days. Continue reading...
  
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• The Uber addiction – why the taxi app is driving me crazy

  12-07-2015 11:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Ethical objections to the all-conquering app are laudable, but try maintaining those when there’s a cut-price chauffeur at the doorBring up the subject of the world’s biggest, most unscrupulous tech companies, and many people will mention the low level of corporation tax paid by online behemoths in the UK (just slashed from 20% to 18% by 2020 in George Osborne’s budget). Or they’ll talk about how Amazon is squeezing independent bookshops and paying self-published authors a pittance – a
  
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• Explained: 11 tips for owning Twitter

  12-07-2015 11:30
  
  IntroductionFor a social network with over 230 million users, Twitter can be surprisingly tough to get right. It's a minefield of what should I tweet? When should I tweet? How often should I tweet? Who should I follow? Who should I unfollow? Who am I allowed to talk to? How does this work? Why am I here? What is the point? Where did I leave my shoe? Has anyone got any ketchup? What time is dinner? And so on.Whether you're just getting started or you're an old pro, we're here for you with some to
  
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• Windows phones aren't dead yet: six new handsets on the way

  12-07-2015 10:23
  
  Given the sweeping job cuts we've seen at Microsoft this week, you could be forgiven for thinking the company is looking at winding down its phone hardware business and focusing on the desktop instead.Nevertheless CEO Satya Nadella has promised he is "committed to our first-party devices including phones", and it sounds like the firm is going to make good on that promise in the not-too-distant future.Respected Twitter tipster @evleaks (aka Evan Blass) says that at least six new handset
  
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• No Man’s Sky: the game where you can explore 18 quintillion planets

  12-07-2015 10:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  It’s a game where you’re unlikely to meet other players, no one will win and it will take over four billion years to explore it all. And that’s why it’s the most anticipated title for decades. Sean Murray is sweating in an Uber cab as it lurches to the staccato rhythm of Los Angeles traffic. The 34-year-old video game programmer is anxious. His meeting at SpaceX with Elon Musk, the American business magnate who hopes to put a human on Mars within the next two decades, overran and Murray
  
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• VIDEO: Could plants help power our devices?

  12-07-2015 09:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How plants could be used to create a "biological solar panel"
  
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• 20 apps and games for July

  12-07-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Our monthly roundup of 10 apps and 10 mobile games should keep your smartphone well-stocked for summerContinue reading...
  
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• How to backup your iPhone and iPad to save your iOS data

  12-07-2015 00:20
  
  How to backup your iPhone and iPadData loss is a fact of life - you drop your phone, it hits the ground, shatters to pieces, and chances are you lost the majority of your data on the device. Thankfully, we have services like iCloud that automatically backup your data, making it easily retrievable in the case of a shattered or damaged smartphone.Unfortunately, it isn't the best solution for backing up data, particularly because Apple just isn't the best when it comes to cloud services. Security i
  
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