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• Tech's dirtiest little secret: Sometimes we agree to go backward

  25-10-2015 23:15 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The technology world talks incessantly about progress, but even with some of the best products we sacrifice great features in the name of progress. Here's why, and some big examples.
  
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• TalkTalk boss says cybersecurity 'head and shoulders' above competitors

  25-10-2015 20:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Dido Harding says TalkTalk will ‘thrive’ in greater transparency with customers but that it would be naive to suggest hack could not happen againTalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding has insisted the company’s cybersecurity is “head and shoulders” better than its competitors in the wake of the massive hack attack affecting thousands of customers.In an interview with the Guardian, Harding conceded it would be “naive” to rule out the prospect of the teleco
  
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• Mysterious 'Sherlock' Victorian special gets title and release date

  25-10-2015 20:08 via cnet.com
  
  Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return as Holmes and Watson in "Sherlock: The Abominable Bride," to air on January 1, 2016 in the US and UK, and in select theaters worldwide.
  
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• President Obama compares Republicans to Grumpy cat

  25-10-2015 20:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: The president suggests his opponents are nothing more than an Internet meme. Are there other memes that might be appropriate for today's political world?
  
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• 2016 Corvette Z06: Chevy 'blows' the base Vette away (CNET On Cars, Episode 76)

  25-10-2015 17:08 via cnet.com
  
  Corvette Z06 is the attainable supercar; automatic braking could be the next standard feature; and we demystify the three specs of wheel alignment.​
  
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• Adele and her flip phone rouse the Web

  25-10-2015 17:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: Releasing her first album in years, the singer's video for her new song "Hello" is (almost) all about her flip phone. Social media cannot get enough.
  
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• TalkTalk hires BAE Systems to investigate cyber attack

  25-10-2015 16:54
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - British broadband provider TalkTalk said on Sunday it had hired defense company BAE Systems to investigate a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of personal data from its more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said on Friday it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party for the attack, which has led to calls for greater regulation of how companies and public bodies manage personal data. "BAE Systems are supporting us as we investigate t
  
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• Hello, Halo 5: Microsoft's fresh take on the popular game

  25-10-2015 16:44 via cnet.com
  
  From CNET Magazine: The Halo video game universe is about to expand with new characters and storylines. Will passionate fans like what they see?
  
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• The one-time tech purchase that will make your life easier

  25-10-2015 12:50 via cnet.com
  
  Watching TV shouldn't be such a hassle. Sharon Profis offers a solution to remote control clutter on "You're Doing It All Wrong."
  
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• 2016 Corvette Z06: Chevy 'blows' the base Vette away

  25-10-2015 12:50 via cnet.com
  
  Corvette Z06 is the attainable supercar; automatic braking could be the next standard feature; and we demystify the three specs of wheel alignment.​
  
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• GameCity 2015: wake up with the Guardian, day two – live!

  25-10-2015 09:48 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  In this episode of our daily GameCity show we’re talking to Goldeneye designer Martin Hollis, The Chinese Room’s Dan Pinchbeck and original GTA producer Gary PennIt’s our second day of live audio broadcasts from the GameCity festival in Nottingham. Join us for an hour of chat with legendary game designer Martin Hollis (GoldenEye, Perfect Dark), Dan Pinchbeck co-founder of The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture) and Gary Penn of Denki, who oversaw t
  
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• Tony Fadell: the man who wants to take control of your home

  25-10-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  He helped develop the iPod and iPhone, and now the Nest Labs founder has brought a similar charm to something far less sexy – thermostats and smoke alarmsTony Fadell’s eyes dart around the room and his face wrinkles in cartoonish dismay. He looks, for a second, like he might actually be physically unwell. We are in a library-style room in a private members’ club in central London: you or I might consider the decor to be plush, even fancy. But for Fadell, the 46-year-old America
  
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• Lohner Stroler: bike review | Martin Love

  25-10-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The Lohner is a stylish electric bicycle that’s perfect for the city. But what sets it apart is that it’s made for two…Price: £2,900
  Top speed: 15mph
  Weight: 36kg
  Range: 35 miles
  Charge time: 80% in 1 hour; 100% in 6 hoursLohner is one of the more obscure family names in motoring. It dates back to the 1820s when Heinrich Lohner set up a coach-building business in Vienna. By the end of the century, his grandson Ludwig had taken over and had decided that so-called “s
  
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• Colouring in car classics | Martin Love

  25-10-2015 07:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The fad for colouring has reached the mechanical cutaway, and Haynes’s manual is a winnerAsk anyone (well, let’s be honest, any man) about engineering ‘cutaways’ and they’ll go misty eyed. Up there with Hornby model trains and Airfix plane kits, these incredibly detailed diagrams of the inner workings of everything from Bessemer iron converters to Apollo space crafts have the power to reduce men to a state of slack-jawed reverence.Haynes, famous for its maintenance
  
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• VIDEO: Can phones beat the ticket touts?

  25-10-2015 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A crop of British start-ups has developed a digital way to get into music gigs, that could make life for touts a lot harder.
  
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• New wave of podcasts aimed at younger, wider audience

  25-10-2015 01:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Former Spotify boss heads team hoping to attract reality TV fans to formatAs listeners look forward to the return of hit US true-crime podcast Serial, audio producers are hoping to recreate its success with a new wave of podcasts aimed at the reality TV generation.An audio diary by teenage cancer survivors and subjects as diverse as life in an inner-city gang and on a remote farm are among the projects planned by Acast, a Swedish podcast platform that received investment of £3.2m in May to
  
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