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• Hands-on with the HTC Active Earphones: Weatherproof, attractive, lightweight, and great sounding

  26-07-2015 23:56 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  I prefer to use earphones to listen to music and podcasts when I commute, work, and exercise so was happy to experience great performance with the HTC Active Earphones.
  
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• Welcome to MCity, Michigan's ghost town of driverless cars

  26-07-2015 14:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  A 32-acre site recreating Michigan’s roadways is the testing ground for technology that experts hope will be able to cut fatal auto crashes by 80% For Sebastian, life is destined to be lonely. The short pedestrian will, for now, be the sole resident of a small city located near the University of Michigan’s north campus. He’ll pass time by stepping into oncoming traffic – while others watch on, never warning of an impending crash. But Sebastian won’t feel pain: he’s a robot, created b
  
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• Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider

  26-07-2015 13:16 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  On 3 June this year, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN began delivering particle collisions at an energy 63% higher than previously achieved. This week in Vienna, first physics results were presented. Here are some highlights
  The European Physical Society High Energy Physics conference is taking place now in Vienna. This is the first big chance for the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to show off what they have managed to extract from the new data they have recorded since 3 June, w
  
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• Review: Garmin Swim

  26-07-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Build, Battery Life and Swim TrackingAs the name suggests, the Garmin Swim is a fitness watch aimed at swimmers. Plenty of smartwatches and fitness bands include swim tracking, but this is one of the few that's dedicated for swimmers.There's no step counting or sleep tracking here, it's all about the pool, and as such, Garmin is strokes ahead of the competition.It costs £129.99 from the Garmin shop – though you can find it for as little as £87 online – which puts it at the more affordable
  
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• VIDEO: 'VR Jam' - 36 hours to make a game

  26-07-2015 09:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What will developers be able to do with only 36 hours to create a virtual reality game?
  
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• Get with the program: the coders offering training for free

  26-07-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  It’s the must-have skill-set of the 21st century, yet unless you’re rich enough to afford the training, or fortunate enough to be attending the right school, the barriers to learning can be high. Now a movement of pioneering coders is challenging the stereotype by offering free training for all‘Why are we not doing more to have coding colleges and technical, vocational education alongside university education?” This question, raised by Labour’s Yvette Cooper during an interview with th
  
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• Forget the Ashley Madison or Sony hacks – a crippling cyberattack is imminent in the US

  26-07-2015 01:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Instead of mobilising a national defence against cyberattacks, we want a toaster that communicates with the washing machine over the internetComputer experts have long warned about a catastrophic cyber-attack in the US, a sort of Web 3.0 version of 9/11 that would wreak enormous damage throughout the country. Like most Americans, I shrugged. With all of the enormous resources the country enjoys, those warnings seemed like the rantings of a digital Chicken Little.Oddly enough, the revelations of
  
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