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• Nginx adds OAuth 2 authentication, other tools to its application delivery platform

  18-01-2016 23:59 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  Open-source web server provider Nginx has launched Plus R8 with features the company says will improve the delivery and operation of complex and high-performance web applications.
  
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• Iraq needs to mock Isis propaganda more effectively, says Malcolm Turnbull

  18-01-2016 23:53 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The Australian prime minister tells the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington leaders are unwittingly aiding Isis by blaming Islam The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.Related: Australia excluded from Syria peace talks after Russian objectionCont
  
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• Video: Preventing data leaks with technology and security awareness

  18-01-2016 23:04 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  In an interview with ZDNet, Texas A&M University System CISO Danny Miller explains why security awareness and training are as critical as technical solutions when protecting your organization.
  
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• YouTube's years-long banishment in Pakistan ends -- sort of - CNET

  18-01-2016 22:50 via cnet.com
  
  Popular video-sharing site was blocked in 2012 after refusing to remove a video that Pakistan considered blasphemous.
  
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• Nissan's free-juice program expands to three new markets - Roadshow

  18-01-2016 22:35 via cnet.com
  
  New Leaf buyers in New York, Philadelphia and Santa Barbara will get two years' worth of free public charging.
  
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• Why Spider-Man has to stay fictional forever - CNET

  18-01-2016 21:00 via cnet.com
  
  Scientists look at the limitations of walking up walls in the real world and find that a real-life Peter Parker would look more like a freakish Sasquatch than an agile superhero.
  
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• ​Neura raises $11m Series A funding round to grow AI ecosystem

  18-01-2016 21:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  After three years of developing the technology, Neura plans to use the capital it has raised to make its artificial intelligence ecosystem commercially available.
  
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• VIDEO: What is a VPN service?

  18-01-2016 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A virtual private network (or VPN) is a secure connection between your device and another computer over the internet.
  
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• Widow says Apple told her to get court order to secure dead husband's password - CNET

  18-01-2016 20:30 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: A Canadian woman says that when her husband died, even showing the company his death certificate and will do no good in getting his Apple ID password.
  
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• Behold the first flower to bloom in space, a cheerful zinnia - CNET

  18-01-2016 20:00 via cnet.com
  
  The crew of the International Space Station welcomes spring in orbit as experimental zinnia plants eke out a happy orange flower.
  
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• X-ray reveals Elizabethan magician John Dee's hidden halo of skulls - CNET

  18-01-2016 19:42 via cnet.com
  
  A Victorian painting of Queen Elizabeth I's court philosopher depicted him in a halo of skulls that was subsequently painted over.
  
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• Bring your iPhone to the slaughter with Iron Maiden's heavy-metal mobile game - CNET

  18-01-2016 19:42 via cnet.com
  
  Run to the hills! The veteran heavy-metal band has a role-playing game coming out starring its decaying but immortal mascot, Eddie.
  
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• Apple investigating iPhone battery percentage freezing bug - CNET

  18-01-2016 19:00 via cnet.com
  
  iPhone 6S and 6S Plus owners say they have seen their battery percentage displays fail to update after changing time zone or manually adjusting their clocks.
  
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• New 'Star Wars Rebels' teaser has 'Force Awakens' lightsaber, Darth Vader, Leia and Yoda - CNET

  18-01-2016 18:52 via cnet.com
  
  Connections to the latest Star Wars film, "The Clones Wars" and the original trilogy appear on upcoming episodes of the animated series airing on January 20.
  
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• Taxi drivers in Hungary demand Uber to be shut down

  18-01-2016 18:10
  Taxi drivers in Hungary's capital demonstrated on Monday against ride-hailing service Uber, whose growing popularity they find unpalatable amid new regulations setting a fixed tariff for traditional taxi firms that is higher than Uber's. Taxis blocked a major road crossing in central Budapest and drove around in city streets blocking much of the road traffic in the capital's center. Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] service has triggered protests by taxi drivers from London to New Delhi as it up
  
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• Tech giants, farmers voice support for Samsung in Apple patent spat - CNET

  18-01-2016 18:01 via cnet.com
  
  Various companies, legal experts and nonprofits argue the high damages allowed in design patent infringement suits hurt everyone from large tech companies to farmers and consumers.
  
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• That Dragon, Cancer review – you've never played anything like it

  18-01-2016 17:48 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  This autobiographical game explores the death of a boy and shows the possibilities of the medium of video games It was once trendy for major game developers to talk about how they would one day make players cry. You don’t hear it so much now – partly because this sentiment resulted in a lot of pompously overwrought stuff like Heavy Rain, but partly there was a realisation that away from the mainstream industry, games have been doing it for years. Indie developers have always used gam
  
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• DOOM designer creates first new level in 20 years

  18-01-2016 17:30
  
  John Romero, designer of the original DOOM, has released a brand new level for the classic first person shooter -- his first in more than two decades.
  The level itself may be familiar to veterans of the 1993 game though. What Romero has released is his take on the E1M8 mission. Named "Tech Gone Bad", it's best viewed as an alternate universe take on the original version.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Get CyberLink PowerDirector 14 Ultra for $49.79 - CNET

  18-01-2016 17:11 via cnet.com
  
  From the Cheapskate: Normally $129.99, this top-rated video editing suite is a steal at this price. But the deal ends later today, so hurry up!
  
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• Friends Reunited website to close

  18-01-2016 17:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steve Pankhurst, one of the original founders of early social network Friends Reunited, announces that the platform is to close.
  
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• Tesla Gigafactory isn't yet living up to Nevada's expectations - Roadshow

  18-01-2016 16:59 via cnet.com
  
  The mammoth battery plant in Reno, Nevada is getting built, but the jobs it promised in return for tax breaks are yet to materialize.
  
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• Friends Reunited to close after 15 years

  18-01-2016 16:53
  
  Friends Reunited has been closed down by its owner Steve Pankurst. Continue reading...
  
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• Cabbies want to crowdfund £600,000 to contest Uber's license

  18-01-2016 16:53
  
  A group of London cabbies are taking the next step in their fight against Uber with their attempt to contest the 2012 ruling that licensed Uber. To do so, they hope to raise £600,000 via an Action for Cabbies crowdfunder. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• IT spending 2016: The cloud drives software and data center increases

  18-01-2016 16:52 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Another set of tech spending predictions show how the cloud is changing procurement choices.
  
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• Friends Reunited website to close after 15 years

  18-01-2016 16:36 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Though it has been around since Mark Zuckerberg was just 15 years old, one of the original social networking websites is to closeFriends Reunited was a pioneer of social networking when it launched in 2000, but on Monday founder Steve Pankhurst announced its closure.In an emailed entitled “the sunset of an era”, Pankhurst wrote that “the world is now a very different place” and that Friends Reunited is no longer able to compete with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Contin
  
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• HP Pro Tablet 608 G1 review: Compact and well-built, but expensive

  18-01-2016 16:15 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  HP's Pro Tablet 608 G1 is a compact and well-built Windows tablet with a high-resolution 7.9-inch screen. The entry-level price is on the high side; adding memory, storage, mobile broadband and a docking station will quickly boost that price.
  
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• WhatsApp drops $1 subscription, studies making businesses pay

  18-01-2016 15:48
  WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, is dropping its token $1 a year subscription fee for consumers as it experiments with making businesses pay to send notifications to consumers, Chief Executive Jan Koum said on Monday. The seven-year-old company, which was acquired by social media giant Facebook for $19.2 billion in 2014 and now counts nearly 1 billion users, is testing making restaurants, airlines and credit card companies pay to contact consumers, Koum said. Instead, WhatsA
  
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• Cyber war isn't turning out quite how it was expected

  18-01-2016 15:23 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Who needs hackers when old-fashioned bolt cutters are more useful than cutting-edge digital weaponry?
  
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• 'Cyborg sperm' could help solve male infertility

  18-01-2016 15:19
  
  A team of researchers from the Germany Institute for Integrative Nanosciences have developed a way of boosting sluggish sperm. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• How to make cleaning slime for electronics - CNET

  18-01-2016 15:12 via cnet.com
  
  Yes, you can clean with slime using this recipe.
  
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• Amazon and Netflix could herald indie cinema's great revival

  18-01-2016 15:10
  
  Streaming giants Amazon and Netflix look set to give the movie industry a shot in the armBy: Matt Cowan, Continue reading...
  
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• Phishing attack could steal LastPass password manager details

  18-01-2016 14:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hackers can simulate a login dialogue so closely that even careful users might simply give them their username, password and even their two-factor keyA security researcher has released a tool that can steal the login details and two-factor authentication key for the popular LastPass password manager, leaving users potentially exposed.
  LastPass, like many other password managers, stores user’s passwords in the cloud in an encrypted vault protected by a single username and password. The vaul
  
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• Donald Trump is only 11.4% as popular as Barack Obama

  18-01-2016 14:46
  
  New statistics show world leaders' popularity and engagement on Facebook, where the line between political relevance and the cult of celebrity blurs. Despite that, Donald Trump is still only 11.4% as successful as Barack Obama.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Video game based on Pakistan school massacre is withdrawn

  18-01-2016 14:36 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Game let players fight Taliban gunmen who attacked Peshawar school in 2014 and was released as part of peace campaignA gory video game set inside the Pakistani school where more than 130 children were massacred by Taliban gunmen has been withdrawn, weeks after it was released as part of an army-backed campaign to promote peace and tolerance in the country. Players of Pakistan Army Retribution take the role of a soldier attempting to “protect precious lives from terrorists” who attack
  
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• Doom creator releases new level

  18-01-2016 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John Romero, one of the developers behind seminal computer game Doom has released a new level for the 23 year old game.
  
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• Pakistan lifts ban on Youtube after launch of own version

  18-01-2016 14:34
  By Tommy Wilkes ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Monday it had removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website launched a local version that allows the government to remove material it considers offensive. Pakistan banned access to YouTube in September 2012 after an anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims", was uploaded to the site, sparking violent protests across major cities in the Muslim-majority country of 190 million people. The Ministry of Information
  
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• Blackberry phones 'as secure as ever'

  18-01-2016 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blackberry says its handsets are "as secure as ever", following reports Dutch police were able to read encrypted messages on its phones.
  
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• The world's 3.6 billion poorest people are getting poorer

  18-01-2016 14:28
  
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  The world's 62 richest people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the global population, according to a new study by Oxfam.
  The data, released ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, shows the gap between richest and poorest continues to widen.
  In 2015 it required the combined wealth of the world's 80 richest people to match the wealth of the poorest half of the population. In 2010 that figure
  
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• Is the Bitcoin experiment doomed?

  18-01-2016 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A high-profile Bitcoin developer says the crypto-currency has failed and he will no longer take part in its development.
  
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• WhatsApp is now free for all - and promises 'no adverts'

  18-01-2016 14:19 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  WhatsApp ditches the $1-a-year subscription fee as it looks for new ways to connect businesses with users.
  
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• How Republicans will learn from Obama's tech savvy campaign

  18-01-2016 14:07
  
  Aaron Ginn will help the Grand Old Party use tech in its election bidBy: Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Madhumita Venkataramanan, Continue reading...
  
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• ​Three things to remember when moving to the cloud in 2016

  18-01-2016 14:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Switching to cloud-based services can create flexibility -- but the move is not necessarily without its own challenges.
  
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• X-ray breakthrough 'opens door' to controlled nuclear fusion

  18-01-2016 13:59
  
  Scientists have for the first time been able to monitor the flow of energy during fast ignition, a process that it hoped to be capable of creating controlled nuclear fusion.
  By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Davos braces for an influx of digital disruptors

  18-01-2016 13:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Taavet Hinrikus hopes to shake-up the money transfer market much as Skype disrupted the phone industryTaavet Hinrikus is a disruptor. As the first employee of the internet phone service Skype, he helped spark a revolution in the way people communicate with each other. Now, Hinrikus is aiming to transform the way people move cash around the world through TransferWise, an online money transmission service.The 34-year-old Estonian is plotting his latest revolution from the unglamorous location of O
  
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• Netflix confirms second 'Jessica Jones' season, eyes 'Punisher' series

  18-01-2016 13:48
  
  Jessica Jones, Marvel's first female hero to headline her own series, will be returning to Netflix for a second season.
  The announcement came as part of the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in the US, courtesy of showrunner Melissa Rosenberg. The new season will see the return of Krysten Ritter as the super-strong, sort-of-flying private detective, following the traumatic events of her conflict against David Tennant's mind-controlling Kilgrave.By: Matt Kamen, Continu
  
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