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• VIDEO: The gadgets that track workplace fitness

  10-08-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News explains how some employers are trying to keep their staff in the peak of health and fitness - and are even issuing wearable health devices.
  
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• HTC stored unencrypted fingerprints

  10-08-2015 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security researchers identify a way to access unencrypted fingerprint data on an HTC smartphone.
  
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• Everybody's Gone To The Rapture review: ghosts of England

  10-08-2015 19:11
  
      Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has been seen as a game about a sort of quaintly 'British' end of the world: instead of rampaging zombies or gun-toting alien maniacs, the entire population of the rural Shropshire landscape in which the game is set have simply politely vanished, quietly shuffling off the village green, leaving behind little more than a few bloody tissues, open doors to several family homes and ghostly remnants of themselves, their conversations,
  
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• Review: Moto Surround

  10-08-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Getting in shape is rarely affordable. It's costly in terms of time, energy and, most of all, money. Gym memberships and workout clothes cost enough as is, so the tech powering your routine shouldn't put even more stress on your wallet. Motorola showed with its Pulse that it could make cram a whole lot into its $59 (about £37, AU$80) set of Bluetooth on-ear headphones without sacrificing quality. And thankfully, Moto's gym-friendly offering, the Surround, also impresses without breaking the ban
  
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• VIDEO: The robots probing Sellafield's waste

  10-08-2015 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Theo Leggett reports on the submarine robots tackling Sellafield's nuclear waste.
  
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• Review: Moto G (2015)

  10-08-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New Moto GWhen the first Moto G arrived back in 2013, it was a revelation. It showed us that phones under £150 didn't have to come with rubbish screens and dodgy performance. Now we're onto the Moto G's third version.What's new? A better camera is the highlight, while water resistance and a 64-bit CPU offer side attractions you don't always get at this price.There's the one potential issue: price. The Moto G now goes up to £209/$219 for the 2GB RAM/16GB storage version, or £179/$179/$250AU fo
  
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• BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition, in pictures

  10-08-2015 16:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  BlackBerry just released a slightly modified Passport in silver and black. The insides remain the same while the outside received a few design tweaks.
  
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• Review: Sony KD-65X8505C

  10-08-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and featuresMuch as we may have loved the recently-tested Sony 75X9405C TV, it's just not going to be an option for most households. Partly because of its £7,000+ price, and partly because of its sheer enormity. Its already colossal 75-inch screen is joined by rows of extremely large (by TV standards) speakers down each side.Cue the Sony KD-65X8505C: a new TV that still delivers a native 4K UHD resolution, a really big screen, Sony's Triluminos colour technology and Sony's new X1 v
  
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• Starwars.co.uk owner strikes back

  10-08-2015 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fancy-dress store using the starwars.co.uk domain name files an appeal against a ruling that says the web address should be transferred to Disney.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Car-in-a-bag' created in Japan

  10-08-2015 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An electric skateboard the size of a tablet computer has been developed by a Japanese engineer.
  
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• Uber pledges to improve vetting of drivers after Dallas sexual assault

  10-08-2015 14:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Company says it will revise protocol after admitting Talal Ali Cammout, who was arrested for attacking a passenger, was granted approval to drive by mistakeUber has pledged to improve its vetting procedures after admitting that a man arrested in Dallas on suspicion of sexually assaulting a passenger was granted approval to drive for the company by mistake. Continue reading...
  
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• HTC stored user fingerprints as image file in unencrypted folder

  10-08-2015 14:10 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Smartphone security called into question by researchers who discovered fingerprint data and sensors are often ‘world readable’ and easy to hackResearchers from FireEye have found that data that could be used to clone a user’s fingerprint was stored as an unencrypted “world readable” image file on HTC smartphones.
  Four security researchers discovered that the image file, which is clear replica of a user’s fingerprint, could be stolen by rogue apps or hackers. Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Photo tags 'won't tackle abuse images'

  10-08-2015 14:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An expert in tackling child sexual abuse says a new photo tagging system will not stop peer-to-peer sharing of images.
  
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• Carphone Warehouse: information watchdog investigating 2.4m customer hack

  10-08-2015 13:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Information Commissioner’s Office making enquiries into data breach that also affected TalkTalk and iD users and exposed 90,000 customer credit cardsThe UK’s data protection watchdog is investigating the hacking of Carphone Warehouse, which compromised the personal data and bank details of 2.4 million customers.Carphone Warehouse said names, addresses, date of birth information and bank details of 2.4 million customers – and 90,000 customer credit cards – “may also have been accessed�
  
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• YouTube Minecraft star CaptainSparklez starts crafting mobile games

  10-08-2015 13:46 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Jordan Maron’s first game Fortress Fury already has 2m downloads and fans With nearly 8.8 million subscribers and 1.8bn views for his YouTube channel, Jordan “CaptainSparklez” Maron is one of the most popular gamers on the online video service.Maron’s most popular videos are his musical parodies of songs including Coldplay’s Vida la Vida and Psy’s Gangnam Style produced using the Minecraft game, but his daily videos have helped him to build a fervent online fanbase. Continue reading.
  
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• Child abuse tool gets government data

  10-08-2015 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, the British government is sharing its own child abuse image data with net charity the Internet Watch Foundation.
  
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• No more LOLs: 50% of Facebook users prefer 'haha' to laughing out loud

  10-08-2015 13:18 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Social network study finds just 1.9% use ‘LOL’ to signal amusement, as emoji use is on the riseStill using LOL to express laughter digitally? Ha, that’s so old. According to a new study carried out by Facebook, 51% of us express our laughter on the social network with a simple “haha”.The US-wide study, entitled The Not-So-Universal Language of Laughter, and conducted in response to a New Yorker article on the subject of “e-laughter”, has collated data on the way de-identified users
  
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• Facebook urged to tighten privacy settings after harvest of user data

  10-08-2015 12:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Software developer exploits loophole to obtain thousands of names, pictures and locations of users who link their mobile phone number with accountFacebook has been urged to tighten its privacy settings after a software engineer was able to harvest data about thousands of users – simply by guessing their mobile numbers.The developer obtained the names, profile pictures and locations of users who had linked their mobile number to their Facebook account but had chosen not to make it public. Conti
  
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• German treason inquiry dropped

  10-08-2015 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Germany's chief prosecutor drops a treason investigation into two journalists at the Netzpolitik website, after a public outcry.
  
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• ​Cyanogen rising: 'More users than Windows Mobile and BlackBerry combined'

  10-08-2015 12:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Cyanogen looks to be positioning itself to be the third smartphone platform - but is outstripping Windows Mobile really a big deal?
  
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• Acer TravelMate P256-M review: An affordable business workhorse

  10-08-2015 12:27 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The TravelMate P256-M is a hefty 15.6-inch notebook that's let down by a low-resolution, moderate-quality screen. Still, it performs adequately with mainstream business workloads, and the price is attractive.
  
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• Toca Boca revenues show baby steps for children's apps market

  10-08-2015 12:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Most prominent independent kid-apps developer reports £6.1m for 2014, as it prepares for video expansion in 2015Tens of millions of children are using tablets, but this does not yet mean a lucrative market for the companies making apps for these digital kids.The most prominent independent developer of children’s apps, Swedish company Toca Boca, has published its financial results for 2014, revealing revenues of SEK 82.2m (£6.1m) for the year. Continue reading...
  
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• This Is My Jam shuts down after losing battle for the open web

  10-08-2015 12:18 via feeds.theguardian.com
  The music discovery service was created for a web that no longer exists, its founders sayMusic discovery site This Is My Jam is to close after four years, citing the difficulty of running the music-focused startup in an age of increasing online centralisation and ever-stricter copyright regimes for embedded audio.The site, founded by London-based former Last.fm employees Matt Ogle and Han Donovan, allowed users to highlight a single song as their “jam”, and share it on other social networks,
  
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• ICYMI: You're not LOLing, are you?

  10-08-2015 12:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A round-up of interesting technology-related links you may have missed over the past weekend.
  
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• ​Google to launch $50 handset after early Android One disappointments

  10-08-2015 11:34 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Google is planning a major reset of Android One in India as well as a massive investment in coming years to boost connectivity in the country.
  
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• VIDEO: Buddy robot snubs creator

  10-08-2015 09:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A prototype companion robot which will cost less than $700 (£452) has been shown off in London
  
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• Games reviews roundup: N++; Tembo the Badass Elephant; Angry Birds 2

  10-08-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  N++ is simple but no easy ride; a Rambo-style elephant is not that original; and Angry Birds 2 is another winnerPS4, Metanet Software, cert: 7Don’t expect N++ to present an easy ride. This is a platformer that boils down the central elements of the genre to a pure, minimalist offering and never shies away from asking more from its players, insisting you overcome a barrage of seemingly impossible jumps spread over thousands of single screen 2D stages. Continue reading...
  
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• Bigger than X Factor: YouTube channel Little Baby Bum moves into toys

  10-08-2015 08:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  British children’s channel makes first merch move fuelled by 3.6bn views, with ambitions to overtake One Direction on YouTube by ChristmasFresh from overtaking Ed Sheeran, the BBC and X Factor in YouTube’s all-time video views chart, children’s nursery-rhymes channel Little Baby Bum is moving into the toys market.Its videos have been watched more than 3.6bn times since it was launched in 2011 by a UK-based couple, and is currently one of the top five channels on Google’s online videos se
  
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• Superloop granted telco licence for Hong Kong

  10-08-2015 08:40 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  Fibre company Superloop has been awarded a telecommunications licence in Hong Kong to build out a dark fibre network similar to its assets in Australia and Singapore.
  
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• ​ANZ recruits external help with new technology panel

  10-08-2015 07:29 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  ANZ has established a new technology panel that includes members from Twitter, Dimension Data, and former employees of PayPal and Procter and Gamble to assist with providing the bank with digital advice.
  
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• UberX receiving 'special treatment' from ATO: Uber ANZ GM

  10-08-2015 06:41 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  With 15,000 Australian drivers on its books, Uber's Australia and New Zealand general manager said the ATO is getting in the way of the sharing economy by imposing taxi driver rules on UberX drivers.
  
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• Aquaris E5 Ubuntu phone launches globally, sans 4G or even 3G in US

  10-08-2015 05:57 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  BQ has finally made its Ubuntu smartphone available in the US -- but the handset doesn't have 4G LTE, and it also won't be compatible with the 3G bands in use.
  
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• VIDEO: Hackers share and compete in Las Vegas

  10-08-2015 02:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Las Vegas gathering of hackers is a chance to share intelligence - and compete.
  
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• News from DEF CON 23: fake deaths, DHS and Tesla court hackers

  10-08-2015 02:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  As infamous hacker conference DEF CON wraps up its 23rd year in Las Vegas today, news reports trickle out, with the non-technical and sensational talks grabbing the first round of headlines.
  
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• Cuban internet delivered by hand

  10-08-2015 01:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How Cubans are getting around the lack of internet access
  
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• ‘I’m a professional cyberstalker'

  10-08-2015 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ken Westin uses advanced snooping techniques on unsuspecting computer users - but his targets perhaps deserve the attention.
  
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• Nordstrom's central cloud team: Five takeaways

  10-08-2015 00:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Nordstrom has a central cloud on-boarding team for its various groups. The general idea worth emulating: Learn best practices once the pass it on.
  
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