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• Here we go again: Paris attacks may renew encryption debate

  16-11-2015 23:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The deadly attacks in Paris may soon reopen the debate over whether — and how — tech companies should let governments bypass the data scrambling that shields everyday commerce and daily digital life.
  
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• See a skydiving gamer, and the couch he's sitting on, drop from an airplane - CNET

  16-11-2015 23:41 via cnet.com
  
  As part of an Nvidia publicity stunt, a daredevil takes to the air while seated in a mock-up of a living room and playing games on an Android device.
  
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• Facebook expands Safety Check after Paris attacks - CNET

  16-11-2015 23:40 via cnet.com
  
  The social network responds to criticism after terrorist attacks in France. Meanwhile, Google gives out free Drive storage in exchange for writing reviews on its Maps.
  
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• How to create custom Amazon Echo voice commands for Alexa - CNET

  16-11-2015 23:38 via cnet.com
  
  With a little help from IFTTT, you can program your own commands for Amazon Echo that'll have Alexa doing your bidding. Here's the step-by-step on how to do it.
  
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• Facebook expands Safety Check after Paris attacks video - CNET

  16-11-2015 23:16 via cnet.com
  
  The social network responds to criticism after terrorist attacks in France. Meanwhile, Google gives out free Drive storage in exchange for writing reviews on its Maps.
  
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• Review: Updated: MacBook

  16-11-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designNote: OS X 10.11 El Capitan is now available to download onto the new MacBook from the Mac App store. It introduces loads of new features including a split-screen view, a Spaces Bar and under-the-hood performance improvements. To find out if OS X 10.11 El Capitan is a worthy upgrade, check out our OS X 10.11 El Capitan review.Also: Black Friday is nearly here! If you're looking to grab yourself Apple's 12-inch MacBook on the cheap, make sure you check out our cheap MacBook
  
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• Coffee can do what? 15 clever uses for your favorite bean - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:59 via cnet.com
  
  There's more to coffee than a caffeine kick.
  
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• Nvidia drops skydiving gamer, and a living room, out of an airplane - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:56 via cnet.com
  
  A daredevil skydiver takes to the air while seated in a mock-up of a living room and playing games on an Android device.
  
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• How to create custom Alexa commands for Amazon Echo using IFTTT video - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:43 via cnet.com
  
  With a little help from the online automation service, you can teach Alexa all sorts of new tricks. Here's how:
  
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• Stream video from your PC to the new Apple TV video - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:39 via cnet.com
  
  It only takes 5 steps and you won't need to use Apple's AirPlay.
  
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• Apple Pay expected to launch in Canada on Tuesday - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:39 via cnet.com
  
  The move will expand the payments service beyond the US and UK as Apple strives to reach more countries.
  
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• Disable this feature to stop your Vizio smart TV from spying on you - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:38 via cnet.com
  
  Worried about Vizio tracking your TV viewing habits? Here's how you can disable the company's data-collecting feature.
  
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• Microsoft and Code.org want to teach kids to code with Minecraft - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:36 via cnet.com
  
  The popular block-building-sandbox game is creeping into the third annual Hour of Code, a worldwide campaign to spark students' interest in programming.
  
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• 2016 Audi A7 review - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:32 via cnet.com
  
  Audi's gorgeous A7 gets more oomph, both under the hood and in terms of safety and convenience tech.
  
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• Hyundai announces pricing, range details for Sonata Plug-in Hybrid - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:28 via cnet.com
  
  With 600 miles of total driving range and a drag coefficient that rivals Tesla's Model S, the Sonata is a formidable green machine.
  
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• Watch celebrities compete to be biggest Star Wars fan for a cause - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:22 via cnet.com
  
  "Sherlock" actor Martin Freeman tries his best Yoda impression in a sketch for charity Children in Need. It features Warwick Davis and many other British celebrities, as well as R2-D2, C-3PO and BB-8.
  
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• AT&T selling Microsoft Lumia 950, Samsung Galaxy View beginning Nov. 20 - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:13 via cnet.com
  
  The carrier will sell the first Windows 10 smartphone and the gargantuan tablet later this week.
  
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• MetroPCS offers streaming music that won't eat up your data plan - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:06 via cnet.com
  
  T-Mobile's prepaid brand looks to appeal to customers by giving them ways to stream more video and music on their smartphones.
  
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• Stop your Vizio smart TV from spying on you video - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:01 via cnet.com
  
  CNET's Dan Graziano shows you how to disable Vizio's data collecting feature on your smart TV.
  
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• Introducing Roadshow - CNET

  16-11-2015 22:00 via cnet.com
  
  Soon to be your definitive source for a new age of transportation.
  
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• Pushpay goes to church to fuel SaaS hyper-growth

  16-11-2015 21:56 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Payments and eChurch applications drive tenfold increase in average committed monthly revenue over ten months.
  
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• Our crowdsourced sci-fi novel is halfway done, and tackling the afterlife - CNET

  16-11-2015 21:55 via cnet.com
  
  The world is helping CNET write an original science fiction book in just 30 days. Our story of conflict and discovery between future universes has taken off, but there's still time to help wrap it all up.
  
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• Anonymous 'declares war' on Islamic State

  16-11-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anonymous is promising its "biggest operation ever" against Islamic State militants after the Paris attacks.
  
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• Get weather alerts on your iPhone with WeatherIf - CNET

  16-11-2015 21:40 via cnet.com
  
  There's no need to open an app to check the weather when this iPhone app delivers weather notifications to you each morning.
  
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• Can BlackBerry make a comeback? T-Mobile CEO thinks so

  16-11-2015 21:35 via cnet.com
  
  T-Mobile CEO John Legere and COO Mike Sievert share their thoughts on the wireless world via a word association game.
  
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• VIDEO: Social media responds to Paris attacks

  16-11-2015 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tributes continue to dominate social media feeds, as the world tries to make sense of the Paris attacks online.
  
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• On the eve of 5G video - CNET

  16-11-2015 21:16 via cnet.com
  
  Verizon has announced it will go live with real world trials of its 5G network in the fall of 2016. Brian Cooley discusses the promise of the new wireless technology and how it will be used in the future.
  
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• Review: Panasonic TX-65CZ950

  16-11-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and featuresAt long, long last, OLED screen technology is starting to realise the huge potential it's always appeared to have. LG's investment in new OLED production facilities has enabled the Korean brand to start selling big-screen OLED TVs at prices low enough to take on the most expensive LCD TVs. And now Panasonic has decided the time is right to jump in with its own debut OLED TV, the 65CZ950: a set which laughs in the face of cheapness but also, handily, sets a whole new bar
  
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• Super-cool Star Wars art to awaken your senses (pictures) - CNET

  16-11-2015 20:17 via cnet.com
  
  From a fire-blasting bounty hunter to a hot rod for Luke Skywalker, these imaginative images might just be the Star Wars art you're looking for.
  
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• Ashton Kutcher tries to prove people can't live without their phones - CNET

  16-11-2015 20:12 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: In a new Motorola ad, Kutcher tests how long people can go without touching their phones. It's all in the service of, well, selling you a phone of course.
  
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• Review: LG 65EF9500

  16-11-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and featuresFor many serious AV enthusiasts, OLED screen technology is quite simply the future of television. It's all about OLED's self-emissive pixel design - where every dot in the picture produces its own light level and color independent of its neighbors. It has proved consistently capable of producing levels of contrast miles beyond what's possible with LCD TVs and slightly beyond even the best efforts of its closest technological cousin - Panasonic's much-loved and sorely mis
  
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• FanDuel runs 2 to 3 days behind paying out players

  16-11-2015 18:47
  
  By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel is running two to three days behind paying out players withdrawing their money, a company spokeswoman said on Monday. The company stopped taking new deposits from players in New York last week after the state's attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling and demanded that FanDuel and DraftKings - the two daily fantasy sports market leaders - stop accepting money from players in the state. The company is three
  
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• Bram de Zwart wants to bring 3D printers to the high street

  16-11-2015 18:17
  
  At WIRED Retail Bram de Zwart will be talking about designing and producing products at the point of sale. By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• T-Mobile CEO says BlackBerry 'on a comeback'

  16-11-2015 17:48 via cnet.com
  
  T-Mobile CEO John Legere and COO Mike Sievert share their thoughts on the wireless world via a word association game.
  
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• Introducing Roadshow

  16-11-2015 17:31 via cnet.com
  
  Soon to be your definitive source for a new age of transportation.
  
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• Facebook to use Safety Check tool more widely after Paris attacks

  16-11-2015 17:30 via cnet.com
  
  The social network drew criticism for activating the status tool after the crisis in Paris but choosing not to switch it on after bombings in Beirut the previous day.
  
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• Roadshow Teaser

  16-11-2015 17:15 via cnet.com
  
  A sneak-peek at what's to come from Roadshow.
  
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• UNSW unlocks key to quantum coding in silicon

  16-11-2015 17:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  In a world first, engineers at the University of New South Wales have successfully proven that a quantum version of computer code can be written in silicon.
  
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• Amazon brings startup Launchpad to the UK

  16-11-2015 16:51
  
  Amazon's expanded Launchpad its platform for startups to sell and market their products to the UK.
   By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Why 'Overwatch' is Blizzard's riskiest game yet

  16-11-2015 16:41
  
      Blizzard is known primarily as a developer of strategy games and MMORPGs. Recent years have seen it expand those boundaries though, with MOBA Heroes of the Storm and trading card game Hearthstone. Those are spin-offs or remixes of existing titles though -- next spring, the studio launches Overwatch, its first completely new franchise in nearly two decades.
  The game sees Blizzard stepping into new territory, conceptually and literally -- a mul
  
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• Mobile Phones Need ‘Bedtime Mode’ To Protect Sleep, Says Doctor

  16-11-2015 16:15
  
  The displays on mobile devices 'use short wavelength blue light that disrupts the body clock and interferes with sleeping patterns'
  
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• Nintendo wins major anti-piracy court battle

  16-11-2015 15:41
  
  Nintendo has won a court battle in Italy against importers of copyright and protection infringing consoles and accessories.
  The ruling, from a specialised intellectual property court in Milan, is the first time that a European Member State court has applied the guidance of Europe's highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• PornHub Traffic Drops 10% On ‘Fallout 4’ Game Launch Day

  16-11-2015 15:37
  
  The world’s most popular adult video site said that a drop in traffic among gamers occurred on 10 November around 5am when fans had finished downloading and installing the game
  
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• ​Crooks use old-school Conficker virus to infect police body cams

  16-11-2015 15:13 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Suggestions that police body cams have shipped with Conficker malware shows how careful device manufacturers must be, especially given the growth in the Internet of Things.
  
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• German watchdog probes Apple and Amazon audiobooks agreement

  16-11-2015 15:05
  
  Germany's Federal Cartel Office has begun an investigation into Apple Inc's arrangement with Amazon for purchasing audiobooks, the competition watchdog said in a statement on Monday. It said both companies had a long-term agreement for the purchase of audio books by Apple from Amazon's Audible business for distribution via Apple's iTunes store.
  
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• Young Star Wars fan caught singing 'Imperial March' on baby monitor

  16-11-2015 14:37 via cnet.com
  
  Some kids start loving Star Wars while they're still in the crib. Just listen to this little girl humming Darth Vader's theme song for proof.
  
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• Netgear's Arlo Q cam puts free cloud storage center stage

  16-11-2015 14:30 via cnet.com
  
  Netgear's $220 Arlo Q camera brings 1080p live streaming and free 7-day cloud storage to your DIY smart home.
  
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• EA reveals Star Wars Battlefront DLC... kind of

  16-11-2015 14:19
  
  EA has finally revealed some of the content that will be included in its forthcoming downloadable content expansions for Star Wars Battlefront.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix Australia reaches 2.5m users: ACMA

  16-11-2015 14:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Australian media regulator has published a report stating that 3.2 million Australians are using streaming services, with 2.5 million of these subscribing to Netflix Australia.
  
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• Microsoft presses pause on tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10

  16-11-2015 14:04 via cnet.com
  
  The software giant confirms its Project Astoria Android emulator is not developing as planned, although it's yet to write it off completely.
  
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