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• It’s fast, global, engaged and influential – so why isn’t Twitter flying?

  01-08-2015 17:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  While Facebook and Snapchat soar, the most immediate social media channel in the world has many experts worriedHow many tech companies are saddled with the problem of enjoying global fame but struggling with lacklustre performance? Not Facebook, which revealed in its results that it has nearly 1.5 billion users logging in each month around the world. Twitter, however, is an example where participation is lagging behind reputation.The company built around text-message-length “tweets” announce
  
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• Review: UPDATED: TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio

  01-08-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction, Screen, Battery and DesignAs impressed as we were with the TomTom Runner and Multi-Sport, it was obvious at the time that there was plenty of room for improvement.A year later and TomTom is refreshing its watches with the new "Cardio" versions, which bring all the familiar features of the first two but with one big added extra - a built-in heart rate monitor.Not just that, but (so far) a highly accurate one. The original Runner and Multi-Sport could be paired with a separat
  
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• How Google quietly revved up its very own car company

  01-08-2015 13:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal the tech giant created Google Auto LLC to help develop its self-driving cars even as it courted big car makers Google has set up its own car company. The tech giant has flirted with major car firms as it explores driverless cars but has also quietly set up its own auto company, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.Google Auto LLC is headed by Chris Urmson, project lead for Google’s self-driving cars. Urmson has been on a charm offensive with
  
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• Is the Asian tech boom about to bust?

  01-08-2015 13:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Optimism and concern at HK's tech conference
  
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• Ex-boss of MtGox bitcoin exchange arrested in Japan over lost $390m

  01-08-2015 11:12 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  French-born Mark Karpeles held in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange MtGox, has been arrested in Japan, and is reportedly to be questioned over the 2014 disappearance of nearly $390m (£250m) worth of the virtual currency.Continue reading...
  
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• Right to be forgotten: Swiss cheese internet, or database of ruin?

  01-08-2015 11:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Posturing over Google and the ‘right to be forgotten’ detracts from larger issues about respect for individuals v overreaching economic rights in digital space Imagine, 25 years ago, someone telling you: we really need to redress this massive social ignorance that, when you meet someone for the first time, you don’t know everything about them. What we ought to do is assemble a giant database. On everyone.Brilliant idea. But there are a couple of provisos, they add. This database will be so
  
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• Windows 10: Microsoft under attack over privacy

  01-08-2015 10:44 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  From personalised ads in Solitaire to an address book-reading personal assistant, some users are unhappy with Windows 10’s approach to privacyWindows 10 is under attack over default settings which users say compromise their privacy, just days after the operating system’s successful launch saw more than 14 million installs in the first 24 hours.Hundreds of commenters on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit have criticised default settings that send personal information to Microsoft, use bandw
  
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• Bitcoin chief arrested in Japan

  01-08-2015 09:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The founder of MtGox - once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange - is arrested by Japanese police investigating losses of nearly $400m.
  
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• On the road: Skoda Fabia – car review

  01-08-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘It didn’t set my world on fire. It probably thinks setting things on fire is irresponsible’I can seriously see the point of the Skoda Fabia. I can’t stand the convention that, as soon as you have a family, you have to start driving some lumbering bison of a car, destined to stick out in car parks and squeeze down urban roads. I would much rather drive something that looked like a hot hatch and just happened to have a bunch of people and animals in the back.OK, the Fabia does not lo
  
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• Zuckerbergs' baby announcement immediately upstaged by their dog

  01-08-2015 01:12 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Beast, a puli, is the newest internet celebrity thanks to his moppy hair and unusual heritageWhen Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced they are expecting a baby girl, the internet showered them with praise. At last count, nearly 800,000 people had liked the Facebook announcement in which they shared the big news. But this being the internet, the happy couple were almost immediately upstaged by their dog. Continue reading...
  
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