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• Gallery: PAX 2015: Our favorite trailers

  31-08-2015 23:46
  
  PAX 2015 TrailersAs this year's Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX, comes to an official close, gaming fans worldwide are still reeling from all the announcements, reveals and upcoming titles unveiled this weekend. Thankfully, those not able to attend weren't left in the dark, as several game trailers hit the web almost as soon as they were announced. We've gone through and picked out the best trailers to debut at PAX, singling out the ones we felt shouldn't be forgotten on the show floor.Sh
  
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• Ohio traffic stop after black man's 'eye contact' with officer prompts scrutiny

  31-08-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  John Felton posted video on Facebook in which an officer said he had pulled the 25-year-old African American over due to a failure to signal a turn in good timeAn Ohio traffic stop that a police officer justified by saying a black driver “made direct eye contact” has prompted a promise of review by the Dayton police department and an acrimonious response from police supporters defending the stop.On the night of 15 August, according to a Facebook account by 25-year-old John Felton, he
  
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• New Apple TV remote said to be well-versed in gaming and Siri

  31-08-2015 23:26
  
  The new Apple TV is said to include a smarter remote, which could help it compete with today's set-top boxes in terms of smart functionality, and could show Cortana a thing or two in the process. The upgraded remote is said to connect with the next Apple TV via Bluetooth instead of using an IR signal, 9to5Mac reports. If true, that means the remote will work much better without a direct line of sight to the set-top box. It's also said to operate on replaceable batteries rather than a rechargeabl
  
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• Samsung Gear S2 is official in three flavors, including one that makes phone calls

  31-08-2015 23:00
  
  So far we've seen only leaked snippets of the Samsung Gear S2 and a short teaser trailer from the company itself. That's about to change today.Just ahead of IFA 2015, Samsung has released the official specs for the round faced smartwatch and as speculated before, revealed there will indeed be two versions of the wearable along with a 3G watch.There's no real difference between the watches except for the dimensions with the Gear S2 measuring 42.3x49.8x11.4mm weighing 47g and the Gear S2 Classic m
  
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• Uncharted 4 release date gets mapped out along with a collector's edition

  31-08-2015 22:28
  
  For all its wins at this year's E3, Sony missed a key opportunity to reveal a key detail on its biggest game of the year, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. The game suffered a major delay earlier this year when gamers were told that they might need to wait an extra year for UC4 to hit store shelves. Thankfully, we won't have to wait that long. Nearly two months later, however, Sony finally has a lock on Naughty Dog's next big title and has officially announced March 18, 2016 as the game's release date
  
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• How hard is it to ride a Segway?

  31-08-2015 19:03 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The collision between a hapless Segway-mounted cameraman and Usain Bolt has thrust the motorised scooter into the limelight for all the wrong reasons. But how tricky can they be to master? Rebecca Nicholson gets on a rollSteve Jobs famously declared that the Segway would be “as big a deal as the PC”, until he actually saw one, at which point he recanted and decided that “it sucks”. Since its launch, the self-balancing motorised scooter has had just one other big moment in
  
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• Ashley Madison claims site has plenty of female users eager to cheat

  31-08-2015 18:45 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Representatives from the site dispute claims that only 1,492 women have ever checked their messages and most of its female users are fake ‘angel’ botsThere were lots of women looking to cheat on their partners on our site, honest, representatives of hacked infidelity service Ashley Madison claimed on Monday.The latest – unattributed – statement from the Canadian company came after Annalee Newitz, a writer for several Gawker Media websites including Gizmodo, studied the ha
  
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• Testing Favor: app aims to bring users whatever they need – but does it deliver?

  31-08-2015 18:24 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Do you need your dry cleaning dropped off or some cat litter picked up? Capitalism insists you shouldn’t bother – pay a startup to do it for youA good invention, popular wisdom tells us, ought to either fulfill a need or create one. But popular wisdom greatly underestimates our laziness.These days, a good invention simply indulges our sloth: what are Seamless and Drizly if not attempts to make perfectly accomplishable tasks a little easier? I understand the impulse – indeed, i
  
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• The Diamond Minecart becomes most popular YouTube channel

  31-08-2015 16:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  British gamer Daniel Middleton’s Minecraft videos beat WWE wrestling, Little Baby Bum, BuzzFeed and Taylor Swift with 400m July viewsThe most popular channel on YouTube now belongs to British gamer Daniel Middleton, whose Minecraft videos published as The Diamond Minecart were watched more than 402m times in July 2015 alone.That was enough to make him the biggest channel on YouTube that month ahead of wrestling body WWE’s 399m views, according to the latest chart published by analyti
  
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• Can Michael Fassbender's Assassin's Creed save the video game movie?

  31-08-2015 13:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Will Ubisoft’s bloodthirsty romp through history consign previous celluloid terrors to the dustbin of history?The history of video game-to-film adaptations is littered with the rotting corpses of productions featuring half-arsed storylines, C-grade casting and a distinctly regrettable absence of directorial vision. The famously appalling German director Uwe Boll has made a living from trotting out cheap and nasty films, which usually make their money back thanks to gamers who are fooled in
  
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• Tidal takes shot at Apple after block on live stream of Drake festival set

  31-08-2015 11:41 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  But rapper’s manager hits back, saying Apple Music contract was not the cause, and slams Jay-Z’s streaming service for ‘publicity stunt’ Digital music service Tidal has accused Apple of blocking it from streaming video of a charity-festival set by rapper Drake, but the star’s manager has retaliated by accusing the service of a “publicity stunt”.Drake played a mini-set at the Lil WeezyAna festival in New Orleans over the weekend, with the event streamed l
  
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• Twitter publishes targets for a 'more diverse' workforce in 2016

  31-08-2015 11:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Aims to increase proportion of women and underrepresented minorities, with no African American or Hispanic staff currently in US leadership positionsTwitter has outlined its ambitions to boost the proportion of women and underrepresented minorities in its workforce, publishing targets for “a more diverse Twitter” in 2016.The social network is aiming to increase the percentage of women on its payroll to 35% that year, as well as ensuring that 16% of its tech roles and 25% of its leade
  
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• Telstra Air signs up 100,000 customers

  31-08-2015 09:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Less than a month since Australia's telco giant launched its nationwide Wi-Fi offering, Telstra has seen over 100,000 customers sign up to use their own data away from their homes, and use their own modems to support the network.
  
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• ​ASIC commits to fighting online attacks over the next four years

  31-08-2015 09:15 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it will be watching out for the growing number of online attacks as part of its corporate plan to 2018-19.
  
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• Superloop announces AU$1.19m loss for FY15 as network construction continues

  31-08-2015 08:33 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Fibre company Superloop has announced a loss of more than AU$1 million on revenues of just over AU$7,000 as it continues rolling out its networks across APAC.
  
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• Akamai eyes growth in security and startups

  31-08-2015 07:29 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Akamai Technologies Asia Pacific managing director Graeme Beardsell has revealed the company is looking to grow its business in the security and startup sector.
  
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• Optus pairs with Cisco for data virtualisation

  31-08-2015 06:32 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Australia's second-largest telco has partnered IT giant Cisco to offer enhanced data insights capabilities for business customers and improved cloud storage solutions.
  
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• Australian defence force employs Oculus gear to explore VR

  31-08-2015 04:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Australian Department of Defence is exploring the use of virtual reality, by way of Oculus Rift head-mounted displays, kicking off a study to explore the future applications of the technology.
  
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• Pillar Administration to migrate platform using Acurity software

  31-08-2015 03:59 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Pillar Administration is currently undertaking a mutli-phase business transformation using Financial Synergy's Acurity software to move nine subsidiary platforms into one.
  
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• Alcatel-Lucent CEO to gain €14m from Nokia merger

  31-08-2015 03:43 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  With the pending merger of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia, the CEO of the French company has come under fire by local governing bodies after it was revealed he is set to pocket €14 million when the deal is finalised.
  
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• VIDEO: Ragunan Zoo launches a phone app

  31-08-2015 03:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ragunan Zoo introduces a mobile phone app to navigate the park.
  
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• VIDEO: Indonesia zoo app 'to tackle image'

  31-08-2015 03:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ragunan Zoo introduces a mobile phone app to navigate the park.
  
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• Are we addicted to technology?

  31-08-2015 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is technology changing our brains?
  
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• Smartphones have got boring? Don't believe it

  31-08-2015 00:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  You think smartphones have gone dull? Maybe you're just not looking in the right places.
  
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