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• Symantec invests in opening a Singapore security centre

  02-12-2015 23:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Symantec has opened its sixth security operations centre in Singapore, which will expand support for neighbouring SOCs in Chennai, India and Tokyo, Japan.
  
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• 9 ways to protect and fix cords around the home - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:36 via cnet.com
  
  Tired of replacing cords? Here's your solution.
  
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• Star Wars in VR: These are the Google Cardboards you're looking for - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:25 via cnet.com
  
  Verizon gives away free virtual-reality viewers as the Star Wars app launches VR video clips. And one movie theater goes all-out to help guests live the movie.
  
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• Zuckerberg's huge pledge reflects a new era in philanthropy

  02-12-2015 23:21
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The huge philanthropic pledge by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife — totaling perhaps $45 billion — reflects the fast-paced emergence of a new Gilded Age of giving. The changes excite many in the charity world, but also raise questions about effectiveness, ethics and the impact on older charities that may not share in any windfall.
  
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• LG LTCS24223S 24 cu. ft. Top Freezer Refrigerator review - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:16 via cnet.com
  
  With more room for groceries than you'll get with some French door models, this classic fridge is a good value if you're in the market for storage space.
  
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• Behold, LG's biggest top freezer fridge (pictures) - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:15 via cnet.com
  
  With a whopping 24 cubic feet of storage space, this $1,200 fridge has even more room for groceries than some French door models.
  
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• Watts vs. Lumens: How to choose the right LED light bulb - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:09 via cnet.com
  
  Using watts gauge the brightness of a LED bulb? Don't.
  
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• The death of Adobe's Flash is lingering, not sudden - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:06 via cnet.com
  
  Widely used technologies take a long time to fade. Adobe's move this week to rename Flash Professional is only one nail in its coffin.
  
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• Ogle every single original Star Wars vehicle to scale in this video - CNET

  02-12-2015 23:02 via cnet.com
  
  Relive the original Star Wars movies through the eyes of an artist who illustrated all the vehicles and laid them out by size.
  
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• Rumors say Nikon's acquiring Samsung camera tech: We say win-win - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:59 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: Rumors circulating around the Web indicate that Nikon will acquire, or has already acquired, Samsung's NX camera technology. That's both a good idea and a necessity for both companies.
  
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• Best GoPro accessories - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:53 via cnet.com
  
  These are some of the best and most useful action cam accessories we've laid our hands on for anyone who wants to move beyond the basic helmet mount.
  
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• India, Brazil resist bid for long-term carbon goals

  02-12-2015 22:48
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Attempts to inscribe a long-term goal to phase out carbon emissions in an envisioned global climate pact are facing pushback at U.N. talks from big developing countries including India and Brazil.
  
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• Target in $39.4 million settlement with banks over data breach

  02-12-2015 22:40
  
  Target Corp has agreed to pay $39.4 million to resolve claims by banks and credit unions that said they lost money because of the retailer's late 2013 data breach. The settlement filed on Wednesday resolves class-action claims by lenders seeking to hold Target responsible for their costs to reimburse fraudulent charges and issue new credit and debit cards. Target has said at least 40 million credit cards were compromised in the breach, and that as many as 110 million people may have suffered the
  
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• Freshly minted Square shares become target for short sellers

  02-12-2015 22:38
  
  By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Short sellers did not wait long to bet against mobile payments company Square Inc , whose steeply discounted initial public offering last month increased concerns about sky-high valuations for Silicon Valley's biggest startups. About 85 percent of Square shares available for lending from institutional investors have been snapped up since the Nov. 18 IPO, with borrowers paying a 45 percent annualized interest rate, according to data from SunGard's Astec
  
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• Star Wars in VR: These are the Google Cardboards you're looking for video - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:37 via cnet.com
  
  Verizon gives away free virtual-reality viewers as the Star Wars app launches VR video clips. And one movie theater goes all-out to help guests live the movie.
  
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• Review: Lenovo ThinkCentre Chromebox Tiny

  02-12-2015 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designWith the release of its first Chromebox ($199, £132, AU$271) in the micro desktop form factor, Lenovo is giving business and education users the option of creating a modular, all-in-one (AIO) Chrome OS PC. The device sports the same compact, flattened desktop form factor as Lenovo's Windows-based ThinkCentre M Series Tiny ($299, £198, AU$407), making it easy for offices to swap out older Tiny-in-One units for the new Chromebox Tiny. Lenovo also sells a separate
  
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• New Star Wars movie theater goes to the dark side (pictures) - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:23 via cnet.com
  
  A movie theater in Omaha, Nebraska, gives in to the Empire with a Star Wars-inspired lobby complete with a massive Death Star and a throne fit for an Emperor.
  
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• Smartphone camera performance: What does the sensor's megapixel count really tell you?

  02-12-2015 22:21 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  You should look beyond the number of megapixels when judging the quality of a smartphone's camera: optics are important too.
  
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• Nissan's free-EV-charging program makes its way to the Twin Cities - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:19 via cnet.com
  
  Leaf owners in Minneapolis-St. Paul won't have to worry about paying for public juice for two years.
  
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• This LG top freezer fridge is as big as they come video - CNET

  02-12-2015 22:18 via cnet.com
  
  With 24 cubic feet of total storage space, the LG LTCS24223S is as big as top freezers come, and has even more room for groceries than some French door models.
  
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• China's Xinhua says U.S. OPM hack was not state-sponsored

  02-12-2015 22:17
  
  By Paul Carsten and Mark Hosenball BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday an investigation into a massive U.S. computer breach last year that compromised data on more than 22 million federal workers found that the hacking attack was criminal, not state-sponsored. In an article about a meeting in Washington between top U.S. and Chinese officials on cyber security issues, Xinhua said the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was among
  
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• Elon Musk calls for carbon price to halve the transition time to clean energy

  02-12-2015 21:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Businessman and innovator says a scheme similar to the one Australia abandoned would make a huge difference in tackling climate change One of the world’s greatest innovators, Elon Musk, says the key to tackling climate change and driving clean energy innovation is a carbon price very similar to the one Australia abolished.
  Addressing students at the Sorbonne University on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit, the electric car, powerwall battery and space tycoon said he believed a phas
  
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• Canada's national police force launching cyber crime unit

  02-12-2015 21:37
  
  Canada's national police force said on Wednesday it would create a team of cyber crime investigators to fight hacking attacks on the federal government and other major targets. Canada has seen a wave of intrusions of government and corporate computer networks in recent years, and security experts often complain that the country lags behind its U.S. and European peers in thwarting digital attacks. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the initiative aimed to add 40 new positions, a mix of
  
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• Facebook to halt tracking non-Facebook users in Belgium

  02-12-2015 21:06
  
  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook will stop tracking browsers of Facebook pages in Belgium who are not signed into a Facebook account, seeking to comply with a court ruling last month ordering it to do so or face daily fines, the company said on Wednesday. The company's action means Belgians will have to log into Facebook before they can see Facebook pages, forcing them to create and sign into an account if they want to view the pages or related content. Previously non-users could
  
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• The Guardian view on the Chan-Zuckerberg foundation: a truly generous gesture | Editorial

  02-12-2015 21:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Good intentions can’t guarantee good results as the new breed of venture philanthropists are learning. But three cheers for generosityWho could quibble with the decision by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to celebrate the birth of their daughter by donating almost all of their private fortune – $45bn – to a new philanthropic foundation? Quite a lot of people, it turns out, are not quite dazzled by what, in the global league of success, amounts to vo
  
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• Unboxing the Limited Edition Star Wars Battlefront PS4 Bundle video - CNET

  02-12-2015 20:58 via cnet.com
  
  Jeff Bakalar unwraps the 500GB Limited Edition Star Wars Battlefront bundle from Sony, along with a Darth Vader inspired DualShock 4 controller and console skin.
  
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• Denon soundbar is for music-lovers first video - CNET

  02-12-2015 20:54 via cnet.com
  
  The Denon HEOS HomeCinema offers discreet looks and a dynamic performance but it could be easier to use.
  
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• Females and Felines Are Top 2015 Instagram Stars

  02-12-2015 20:43
  
  Or be Taylor Swift. All of the Top 10 most-liked images of 2015 on the social media platform featured women, including pop stars Beyonce and Selena Gomez, according to an Instagram list released on Wednesday.
  
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• Pacific cable deal to link New Zealand and Hawaii

  02-12-2015 20:36 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Spanish firm Amper contracts Alcatel Lucent for new cable to connect Pacific Islands.
  
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• Facebook shares: what's behind Mark Zuckerberg's 'hacker philanthropy'?

  02-12-2015 20:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The tech billionaire was already one of the essential figures of our age. Now, with his $45bn pledge, he’s being seen as a generational Superman. But does a state-like level of spending run the risk of making him a ‘chequebook dictator’? Mark Zuckerberg drives a Volkswagen Golf. He pays himself an annual salary of a dollar. In 2006, at the age of 22, he turned down a billion times that for Facebook. In 2010, when his then-girlfriend (now wife) Priscilla Chan moved in to his hom
  
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• Uber launches taxi-hailing button for third-party apps

  02-12-2015 20:21
  
  (Reuters) - Online taxi-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] said it would allow third-party app developers to add a 'Ride Request' button within their apps for free. Developers would need to register their apps on Uber's website to get access to the code to add the button, which users can tap to request a ride. To entice developers to use the feature, Uber said it would pay $5 for every new U.S.-based customer that uses the button from the developer's app.
  
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• Numericable-SFR to buy out other shareholders in cloud firm Numergy

  02-12-2015 20:11
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - French telecoms group Numericable-SFR has agreed to buy out other shareholders in French cloud computing firm Numergy to build up its offering services for companies. The company said in statement said that it would buy the 33 percent stake held by French state-owned lender Caisses des Depots and a 20 percent stake held by French IT firm Atos. Financial details were not disclosed. (Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
  
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• Why video game loading screens could soon be fun

  02-12-2015 19:41
  
  In a fascinating bit of legal minutia, the expiration of a decades-old patent could lead to waiting for video games to load becoming a lot less boring.
  In 1995, Namco -- now Bandai Namco -- filed patent on "Recording medium, method of loading games program code means, and games machine". It sounds boring, but had exciting applications: it let Namco run games-within-games while the main title loaded data.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Red Planet red flags? NASA council has doubts about Mars mission - CNET

  02-12-2015 19:19 via cnet.com
  
  The space agency's own advisory council wondered aloud this week if NASA should drop the whole idea of visiting the Red Planet for now.
  
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• Harrison Ford reveals why he did 'The Force Awakens': I got paid - CNET

  02-12-2015 19:18 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: The Star Wars actor tells it like it is on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show." He also uses a Han Solo doll to explain his recent injuries.
  
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• Review: PicoBrew tidies some home-brew hassles for a price

  02-12-2015 19:17
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — I've been brewing beer in my kitchen and garage for a couple years, so I know how time-consuming and messy it gets. I had high hopes for a system that promises to eradicate those hassles.
  
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• Adele says hello to tech that's tough on ticket resellers - CNET

  02-12-2015 19:15 via cnet.com
  
  The hot-selling pop singer teams with Songkick to squelch efforts by bulk buyers to gouge eager fans.
  
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• Uber launches ride-hailing button for use in apps

  02-12-2015 19:14
  
  (Reuters) - Online taxi-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] is launching a new button, called the Ride Request Button, which developers can add to their apps. The button will appear next to addresses in third-party apps that users can tap to instantly get a ride, Uber said in a blog post. (http://ubr.to/1NqJym9) (Reporting By Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
  
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• The playlist: hip-hop – Junglepussy, Wiki, Tink and more

  02-12-2015 19:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Junglepussy’s free album could be one of 2015’s best, Wiki unleashes a track from Lil Me, Tink kicks you to the kerb and A$AP Rocky’s out to lunchJunglepussy’s free album is a late contender for one of the best hip-hop releases of 2015. Distorted vocals are accompanied by lines about making porn to watch while eating popcorn. It’s unlike anything that’s come out this year and builds on Junglepussy’s reputation as one of Brooklyn’s best rappers. Con
  
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• Uber backed by competition watchdog in TfL regulation battle

  02-12-2015 19:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Competition and Markets Authority says nine of 25 proposals put forward by Transport for London to regulate taxi trade would be bad for customersUber has been given a boost in its attempts to stave off proposed changes to regulating the taxi trade in London, after the competition authority said the reforms would not serve the public interest.Transport for London (TfL) is consulting on a range of requirements for licensed hire cars, after advances in technology, and particularly the advent of Ube
  
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• Windows 10 Settings menu: The Accounts tab - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:58 via cnet.com
  
  This is where in the OS you'll manage your accounts, your work accounts, your kids' accounts...and everything else.
  
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• Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate. Has he noticed the Republicans? | Tim Dowling

  02-12-2015 18:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  From Donald Trump on Muslims to Ben Carson on pyramids, the hopefuls on Bush’s own side keep saying something stupidOver the weekend Jeb Bush, the US presidential hopeful, told CBS News that if it came to it he would support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, “because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”. You can see why he felt obliged to say so, but it won’t be easy for him to defend the idea that Clinton is the worst presidential prospect he can think of. Relat
  
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• Review: Kia Optima

  02-12-2015 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Design, interior and infotainmentMid-size sedans are the bread and butter of the American automotive industry, falling just behind pickup trucks in terms of overall sales. This highly competitive segment is where every manufacturer brings its A-game to grab a chunk of the combined yearly sales that reach nearly 2.4 million vehicles.If you asked what I thought about Kia vehicles a decade ago, the answer would have included not-so-kind remarks and plenty of sarcasm. That was always the case when i
  
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• Verizon's working Minecraft cell phone makes blocky video calls - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:48 via cnet.com
  
  Video calls and Internet surfing in Minecraft are now possible with a Verizon cell phone that functions inside the game. Just don't expect high-def.
  
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• AC Schnitzer cooks up a 400-horsepower, triple-turbocharged diesel BMW 1 Series - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:44 via cnet.com
  
  A mountain of torque in the ACS1 5.0d concept car makes diesel a better candidate for performance than you might otherwise believe.
  
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• Blood inflammation link with depression could lead to new treatments

  02-12-2015 18:43
  
  Theories abound as to the biological and psychological basis of depression -- and now a new study claims that inflammation of the blood could be behind low mood.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• iPhone 6 Plus recruited to ease travel troubles for United Airlines customers - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:26 via cnet.com
  
  Customer service reps will be equipped with Apple's big-screened phone to assist travelers with problems at the airport.
  
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• Amazon adds blue-light filter to Fire tablets for improved nighttime reading - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:22 via cnet.com
  
  The update also adds new tools to better help parents manage what kids can and can't do on Fire tablets.
  
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• How to watch the new Star Wars VR content - CNET

  02-12-2015 18:03 via cnet.com
  
  This is the how-to post you're looking for...
  
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• Review: Honeywell MM14CCS 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner

  02-12-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Honeywell MM14CCS 14,000 BTU helps ease the common misconception that the hot, sunny weather in Los Angeles is always "nice," thanks to this portable air conditioner's cool high-tech breeze that comes at a reasonable price.Because Southern California is pretty much warm year-round and not every building has central air conditioning or a window that fits a normal AC unit, my home computer is always cranking up the apartment heat index all day long. It can get roasting.I've thought about buyin
  
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