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• 'Steve Jobs' writer Aaron Sorkin says 'my conscience is clear' on film's accuracy

  18-10-2015 21:46 via cnet.com
  
  Movie's star, Michael Fassbender, describes his admiration for Jobs and calls Sorkin's script the best he's read.
  
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• Steve Ballmer says he's made investment in Twitter

  18-10-2015 20:15 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: The former Microsoft CEO opens a new, verified Twitter account and reveals he's acquired a 4 percent ownership stake in the microblogging company.
  
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• The story behind 'alien megastructures' scientists may have found (but probably didn't)

  18-10-2015 19:43 via cnet.com
  
  A story that went viral this week reports that astronomers finally found E.T., but those aren't the facts. CNET's Eric Mack talks with the astronomers involved about what is still a very interesting star.
  
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• Microsoft and partners revive Mac vs. PC ads -- without mentioning Mac

  18-10-2015 18:35 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: A new advertising campaign from Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Lenovo and HP does what? Oh, you'll understand when you see it.
  
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• The innovators: burglar alarms upgraded for the smartphone age

  18-10-2015 16:01 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Cocoon uses a microphone to detect sounds outside of the hearing range of humans to alert you to intrudersAs history has it, the young Isaac Newton found inspiration for the theory of gravity by watching apples fall to the ground. Dan Conlon’s big idea was born after smashing the bell box of a faulty alarm system off the side of his house in the early hours of the morning as the ringing kept the neighbourhood awake.
  It was not the first time Conlon had had a problem with an alarm. He had p
  
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• The Apple Store's latest trick: 3D Touch tables

  18-10-2015 15:34
  
  Apple's very keen to promote the new 3D Touch technology inside this year's iPhones, so much so that the company has installed pressure-sensitive tables inside two of its flagship stores in the US.YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmprLUlemugIf you live in San Francisco or New York then you might want to head down and give them a try: the surfaces of the display units start to ripple when you press down on the iPhones sat on top of them.According to an Apple Store employee who spoke to G
  
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• YouTube star Freddie Wong: Virtual reality needs to be like Disneyland (Q&A)

  18-10-2015 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  The YouTube auteur behind "Video Game High School" dove into VR for Hulu with a short film, "The Big One." His eureka moment: Realizing filmmakers should approach the new format like it's an amusement park ride.
  
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• ELAC F5 floorstanders deliver phenomenal performance

  18-10-2015 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  The ELAC Debut F5 delivers astonishing performance for an astonishingly low price, budget minded audiophiles never had it so good.
  
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• Why a TV should never be mounted over a fireplace

  18-10-2015 13:50 via cnet.com
  
  Putting a TV over a fireplace does more harm than good. Sharon Profis tells all on You're Doing It All Wrong.
  
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• Great-sounding tower speaker sets new standard for hi-fi value

  18-10-2015 13:45 via cnet.com
  
  The ELAC Debut F5 delivers astonishing performance the price. Audio-first, big-speaker buyers on a budget never had it so good.
  
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• Iran nuclear deal hits milestone aimed at sanctions relief

  18-10-2015 13:42
  
  The U.S. expects Iran will take months to live up to its end of a seven-nation nuclear pact that could eventually provide the country relief from international sanctions. A milestone in the agreement was ...
  
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• World Solar Challenge race gets under way in Australia’s Northern Territory – video

  18-10-2015 13:34 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Solar cars compete in the 2015 World Solar Challenge race across Australia’s Northern Territory on Sunday. The competition, which has been held every two years since 1987, involves 46 cars from 25 countries, racing over 3,000km (1,864 mile) to the South Australian city of Adelaide. The first cars are expected to cross the finish line on Wednesday Continue reading...
  
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• Running Man of Tech: How Gollum could help you buy the right running shoes

  18-10-2015 13:30
  
  My precious running styleI want to admit something. Something most runners won't talk about. Won't admit. Feel ashamed to even bring it up, for fear of looking stupid… and it affects both the complete beginner and experienced trotter.I've been running for seven years and I have no idea how to buy running trainers. Seriously, it's a complete mystery to me.The thought process goes: some trainers are bouncy and that is good because they feel nice and can bounce you along faster but some trai
  
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• TechRadar Deals: The best iPhone 5S deals in October 2015

  18-10-2015 10:34
  Best iPhone 5S dealsThe plucky iPhone 5S is still going, with Apple refusing to let its smallest form factor die as it knows there are still a number of fans who want something a little more dainty in their mitts. It may be over two years old, but the iPhone 5S still boasts Touch ID and it's rocking the latest software in iOS 9. If you fancy picking up the iPhone 5S then there is something quite major to consider - storage space. Apple now only officially sells the 16GB and 32GB versions, it's k
  
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• Google Play is about to look a lot nicer on your Android devices

  18-10-2015 10:28
  
  Google engineer Kirill Grouchnikov has spilled the beans on a major new visual overhaul coming to Google's Play Store on mobile - and reports suggest the refreshed look is now rolling out to users across the world.As well as a slick new style inspired by Google's Material Design principles, the updated Play Store is going to make it easier for you to switch between apps (and games) and everything else on offer from the digital marketplace.One of the most noticeable changes is the introduction of
  
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• Technology for the 10 billion: How tech will change the world by 2050

  18-10-2015 10:15
  
  IntroductionThe population of humans will rise from 7.3 billion today to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to the United Nations. That means extra pressure on the planet, with global warming becoming super-serious, resources fast depleted and energy in short supply. Swelling population also means more poverty, more crime and more demand for food. The challenges for technology just keep growing, and here are just a handful of the solutions that breakthrough tech will help create. Also check out: How
  
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• Security is the loser in the holy war between Android and Apple

  18-10-2015 10:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Where once we debated the merits of Mac and PC, now the struggle for dominance between smartphone operating systems leaves some users vulnerableThe novelist Umberto Eco wrote a deliciously insightful essay in 1994, in which he argued that the Apple Mac was a Catholic machine, in contrast to the PC, which, he argued, was clearly a Protestant device. How so? Simply this: the Mac freed its users/believers from the need to make decisions. All they had to do to find salvation was to follow the Apple
  
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• TechRadar Deals: The best iPhone 6 Plus deals in October 2015

  18-10-2015 10:10
  Best iPhone 6 Plus dealsThe enormous iPhone 6 Plus is magnificent, and it's the device that many people wanted Apple to create. Sure it may have been replaced by the equally impressive iPhone 6S Plus, but this is where Apple's supersized adventure began and it can now be yours for even less. The higher resolution display, larger screen and enhanced camera do come at an additional cost though, so if you're looking for something slightly more economical check out the iPhone 6. If you're still with
  
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• TechRadar Deals: The best iPhone 6 deals in October 2015

  18-10-2015 10:00
  Best iPhone 6 dealsYour contract is up, you're ready to upgrade and you're looking for the best iPhone 6 deal for your budget? Look no further - we've done all the research and found all of the UK's best contracts for Apple's best-ever iPhone. They're all 24 month deals - no way around that unfortunately - but with prices from under £35 a month, there's never been a better time to pick up this phone! Thanks to the arrival iPhone 6S there are some corking deals to be had on the iPhone 6. Fi
  
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• Sherry Turkle: ‘I am not anti-technology, I am pro-conversation’

  18-10-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  In the social media age, we know how to connect: but are we forgetting how to talk to each other? Leading US psychologist Sherry Turkle wants to fight backFor nearly 30 years now, Sherry Turkle, professor of social psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been exploring the effects of digital worlds on human behaviour. Her books, Life on the Screen, The Second Self and Alone Together, have charted the seductions of “intimate machines”, the advance of social media
  
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• Vodafone makes mother pick up £2,000 bill for multiple phones for son with learning difficulties

  18-10-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  She had agreed to settle his monthly charges by direct debit. But no one told her he’d been sent multiple handsetsA Cheshire parent has had to pay out more than £2,000 after Vodafone gave eight expensive mobile handsets to her 21-year-old son in a case that will alarm parents who pay their grown-up children’s mobile bills.Claire Hardwick is paying her unemployed son Nick’s monthly bill by direct debit because his severe learning difficulties mean he is unable to manage a
  
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• Guardian readers on privacy: 'we trust government over corporations'

  18-10-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Government can’t be trusted to store data safely, our readers say, but the public’s sense of what is private is shiftingThere have been few public disclosures to put privacy and surveillance on the agenda as much as Edward Snowden in June 2013. Yet outside the technology industry and surveillance community itself, how much impact did the story make, and what have been the wider implications for citizens and their attitudes to online privacy?We asked Guardian readers whether they felt
  
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• Would you tell Apple you've had sex?

  18-10-2015 01:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Would you tell Apple when you've had sex?
  
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• Letter from Africa: Tanzania's cybercrime law

  18-10-2015 01:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will Tanzania cybercrime law stop online chats?
  
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• Delivery drivers face prospect of record-breaking number of Christmas parcels

  18-10-2015 01:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of van drivers recruited to ensure that the year’s predicted 860m parcels are delivered on time, as online buying continues to soarVan delivery drivers are gearing up for what is anticipated to be the biggest volume of parcels they have ever had to distribute, as shoppers hit their keyboards for a massive spending spree in the run-up to Christmas.In the final three months of the year, retailers are expected to send out a fifth more parcels than in the same period last year and th
  
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• Cancer blogger tops ebook chart by making peace with her illness

  18-10-2015 01:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Sophie Sabbage’s bestseller, The Cancer Whisperer, tells how she tries to learn from the disease and not fear itIt was the “stoical silence” that made Sophie Sabbage write her book while she was supposed to be dead.“I was sitting in this NHS waiting room and that’s what it was, stoical silence, eyes front, as terrified people sat there waiting for chemotherapy or radiation treatment. No one was connecting. I was crying, something I thought was appropriate for someon
  
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