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• California taxis can sue Uber over ads claiming safer service, judge rules

  18-07-2015 22:14 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Taxis say their background checks are more thorough than those of the ride-sharing service, despite Uber’s reported advertising to the contraryA federal judge has ruled California taxicab companies can sue competitor Uber over advertising statements that it offers the safest rides on the road.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that taxicab companies accused the ride-hailing company of false advertising for stating in ads and online postings that its background checks were the most thorough an
  
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• Phone Week: Your house is getting smarter - and your phone is the brain

  18-07-2015 19:35
  
  The future of your homeSmartphones are nice and feature-stocked these days, but we know what the phone buying hoardes are like: everyone wishes they did more. Sure, you can tweet from them, but we want them to be able to cook us dinner and take the robot vacuum for a walk. The good news is that's a future which may be closer than you think.We're already on our way there, as phones are gradually connecting us more to other devices. For example many smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S6 and H
  
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• Phone Week: How the smartphone changed the general election

  18-07-2015 18:00
  
  Voting for MobileThe 2015 UK general election saw something special - the first time the smartphone played a leading part in helping millions of people get a close and real-time view of the unfolding events.But is this just a gimmick by broadcasters struggling to maintain their relevance alongside online user-generated content, keen to be seen hanging with the latest cool-kid social media gadgets? Or is mobile genuinely going to play a pivotal role in the newsroom of the future?TechRadar has spo
  
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• Phone Week: Brilliant smartphone photography tips and tricks

  18-07-2015 17:00
  
  Smartphone photography tips and tricksSmartphone photography, iPhoneography, mobile photography or whatever you want to call it, it's clear that taking great pictures with a phone has become a thing now.What does that mean, exactly? It means that folks are creating works of art using their smartphones, and those pieces also go up in galleries or are made into prints. That's the extreme end, of course, but on the other we have Instagram photos that look totally killer.If you own a smartphone made
  
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• VIDEO: Making phone speakers from paper cups

  18-07-2015 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The step-by-step guide to turn two paper cups and a toilet roll holder into a smartphone speaker
  
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• VIDEO: Making phone speakers from cups

  18-07-2015 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The step-by-step guide to turn two paper cups and a toilet roll holder into a smartphone speaker
  
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• Instagram, an artist and the $100,000 selfies – appropriation in the digital age

  18-07-2015 11:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Richard Prince has turned borrowing online images into high art – and hard cash. But is the artist’s work anything other than genius trolling?It’s a question as old as art itself: “Yeah, but is it art?” Type it into Google and get 1.26 billion results. It lends itself to book titles, television series and conversations between white walls, whetted by prosecco. Continue reading...
  
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• On the road: BMW i3 – car review

  18-07-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘The steering is so responsive, it made me want to zigzag down the road for a laugh’All the problems you might encounter with a BMW i3 will be because you have not planned your life around having one. You can’t charge it with an extension cable, so even if you have a plug installed in your forecourt (who has a forecourt?), parking must reach it. I was charging up with a cord 30m down my road, hopping in and out of the house to apologise to passersby.The mileometer is maddening: a prom
  
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• Online piracy sentences reviewed

  18-07-2015 06:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online pirates could face jail terms of up to 10 years under plans being considered by the government.
  
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• Large-scale online pirates to face up to 10 years’ jail under ministers’ proposals

  18-07-2015 01:01 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Consultation calls for maximum sentence to be vastly increased so penalties for online offences tally with those for copyright infringement of physical goodsCommercial infringement of copyright online should in future be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, ministers are proposing.A consultation launched by the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is calling for the present maximum sentence of two years to be significantly increased. Continue rea
  
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