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• Samsung's most innovative phones look so old now (pictures) - CNET

  22-02-2016 23:35 via cnet.com
  
  From Mobile World Congress 2016, take a walk down memory lane with some of Samsung's greatest mobile hits.
  
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• Wirelessly charge your Tesla Model S with new Plugless Power system - Roadshow

  22-02-2016 23:20 via cnet.com
  
  This setup appears to be a relatively simple plug-and-play affair with some solid capability.
  
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• Review: HP Spectre x360 15

  22-02-2016 23:15
  
  Introduction and designThe ultra-light and thin craze has undeniably changed the landscape of Ultrabooks, and now it's transforming the world of 15-inch laptops. In 2015, we saw some incredibly thin and powerful notebooks, like the Toshiba Satellite Radius 15 and Dell XPS 15. Now HP, introduces the Spectre x360 15, one of the thinnest 15-inch, 2-in-1 laptops.Measuring just 0.63 inches (16mm) thin, it comes at the same thickness as its 13-inch Ultrabook sibling, the HP Spectre x360. What's more,
  
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• Zuckerberg undecided when to let his daughter online -- but everyone else is welcome - CNET

  22-02-2016 23:06 via cnet.com
  
  Undeterred by a recent setback in India, Facebook's CEO is pressing on with his mission to connect every single person in the world to the Internet.
  
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• U.S. government, Apple take encryption case to court of public opinion

  22-02-2016 23:04
  By Dustin Volz, Abhirup Roy and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday urged the creation of a government panel on encryption, the latest salvo in a standoff over a locked iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting that has escalated into a public relations battle between the revered technology company and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. ...
  
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• Hands-on review: MWC 2016: Huawei MateBook

  22-02-2016 23:00
  
  The Huawei MateBook is supposed to be the ideal 2-in-1 tablet, one that perfectly compliments your Huawei Mate 8 phone. It did just that with style at my MWC 2016 demo.This is a 12-inch Windows 10 convertible inside an aluminum unibody that matches the Huawei phone down to the color choices with silver, space gray and gold. It feels like an iPad Pro running Microsoft software.In fact, Huawei's first Windows-powered device can turn into a Microsoft Surface-like tablet thanks to a keyboard case at
  
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• Everything coming and going on Netflix for March - CNET

  22-02-2016 22:56 via cnet.com
  
  Netflix is bringing out lots of originals in March, including new seasons of "Daredevil" and "House of Cards."
  
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• Snapchat finally allows 100% original filters, but there's more than one catch

  22-02-2016 22:55
  
  Snapchat is bringing custom geofilters to the picture-sharing service, allowing users to make their own, 100% personalized frames locked to a specific location.The service's past geofilters, created by artistic members of its community, could only promote public areas, such as a city landmark, or be tied into a specific occasion, such as a holiday or The Super Bowl. (Even then, they had limits on what type of artwork could be used, e.g. brand logos.)Starting today, however, Snapchatters in the U
  
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• NASA craft captures a trio of moons amid Saturn's rings - CNET

  22-02-2016 22:53 via cnet.com
  
  Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas pose like celestial siblings for a dramatic image just released from the Cassini mission.
  
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• Tesla Model S gets wireless charging in April, but Tesla didn't make it

  22-02-2016 22:41
  
  While Tesla has yet to introduce its own wireless charging solutions for its electric fleet, Evatran is readying a Plugless Power solution for Tesla's most popular electric vehicle (EV), the Model S.You can reserve yourself a Plugless Power inductive wireless charging pad for the Tesla Model S, which should begin shipping out in April, for a deposit of $244 (about £172, AU$338).The company says its wireless charging will work with Tesla's system. Specifically, the pad should add 20 miles t
  
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• MWC 2016: Mark Zuckerberg on AI: we're nowhere near understanding how intelligence works

  22-02-2016 20:59
  
  When Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage today at MWC 2016 for the Facebook keynote, he talked again mostly of his excitement for VR. He also discussed the future of 5G, Free Basics and a growing focus on sharing video.But the Facebook CEO also had some choice words regarding artificial intelligence (AI), revealing perhaps why we shouldn't worry about AI just yet.He said that, while AI is becoming increasingly important in a lot of different fields of life and study, "we're nowhere near understand
  
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• Luxury fashion world upending tradition to join digital age

  22-02-2016 20:49
  
  LONDON (AP) — Buying luxury clothes online right off the runway. Trying them on virtually. Not having to wait months for the new collection to ship.
  
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• MWC 2016: 5 unmissable computing highlights from MWC 2016

  22-02-2016 20:31
  
  IntroductionMWC is the best convention in the world if you're into smartphones. As it turns out, Barcelona's tech-fest is also a grand time if you're not into smartphones, partly thanks to a bunch of nifty computing products hitting the show floorthis year.So, come on: put down that phablet, grab a mouse and check out the most killer computing products to emerge from MWC 2016.1. Huawei MatebookHuawei? Launching a Windows convertible? More like, "No way!" It's true: the Chinese smartphone giant h
  
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• Hands-on review: MWC 2016: Alcatel Idol 4

  22-02-2016 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a flash hands on review to give you the chance to see what the phone is all about as soon as possible. Stay tuned as we'll be expanding and upgrading this review very shortly with more info.I'm still a bit confused about the Alcatel Idol 4. The manufacturer has rebranded and in the process refined its phones impressively. The Idol 4 is a sleek, metal and glass phone that has a distinctly midrange price of around €279 - and it's using decent Qualcomm chips and has a decent camera too
  
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• AT&T, Ericsson set deals with automakers on Internet-connected cars

  22-02-2016 19:28
  (Reuters) - AT&T Inc has entered into a multiyear contract to help Porsche, the luxury sports division of Volkswagen AG , provide Internet connectivity in its cars in the United States, beginning with some 2017 models, the companies announced on Monday. In a separate announcement on Monday, Ericsson, the world's top supplier of wireless equipment, and Geely Automobile Holdings of China said they would work jointly to develop "an industry-leading connected car platform." AT&T and Audi, an
  
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• Some victims in mass shooting support efforts to hack iPhone

  22-02-2016 19:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some victims of the mass shootings in southern California and their families will file documents encouraging a U.S. magistrate judge to uphold her order that Apple Inc. help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone as part of the terrorism investigation, a lawyer said Monday.
  
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• Zuckerberg to press on with Internet access despite setback

  22-02-2016 19:03
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed Monday to press on with his 3-year-old effort to bring the developing world online, even after Indian regulators banned one of the pillars of the campaign.
  
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• Amazon raises free shipping minimum for most orders to $49

  22-02-2016 19:01
  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has raised its free-shipping threshold for orders from non-Prime customers to $49 from $35 in the United States. Orders of books worth $25 or more will, however, be eligible for free shipping, according to the shopping website. The company's shipping costs rose more than 18 percent to $11.5 billion last year.
  
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• Attorney for victims to file in support of US against Apple

  22-02-2016 18:37
  
  Some of the victims and their families in the mass shootings in southern California are openly supporting the U.S. government's position that Apple Inc. be required to help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone ...
  
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• Western Digital investor Alken pushes to cancel SanDisk deal

  22-02-2016 18:11
  Western Digital agreed to buy SanDisk in a $19 billion deal in October to help increase its ability to make flash memory storage chips used in smartphones and tablets. The London-based investment manager, Alken Asset, said weakness in the storage chip market has hurt Sandisk's stock price which in turn will hurt Western Digital if the deal goes through. "The price being paid for SanDisk is excessive in light of the changing landscape for SanDisk's products and capital markets considerations," sa
  
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• Apple urges U.S. government to form commission on encryption issues

  22-02-2016 18:00
  Apple Inc on Monday urged the creation of a government panel on encryption to help resolve a standoff over national security and data privacy that erupted last week after the technology company refused a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone linked to one of the killers in a mass shooting in California in December. It was the latest move in a public and symbolic showdown between the U.S. government and technology companies, both of which are keen to set a precedent over how far U.S. investi
  
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• Some highlights from the Barcelona wireless show

  22-02-2016 17:54
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Several smaller phone makers are using this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to unveil new smartphones targeting the lower-end and mid-range markets.
  
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• Panasonic unveils Windows 10, Android rugged tablets

  22-02-2016 17:37 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The 4.7-inch devices include one of the first to run Microsoft's Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise operating system.
  
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• How shapeshifting nanoparticles could deliver drugs to tumours

  22-02-2016 17:27
  
  Chemotherapy is still widely used to treat cancer -- but it's far from perfect. The treatment can't tell the difference between healthy cells and cancerous ones, meaning that both are attacked. This subsequently leads to side effects such as sickness, weakness and hair loss. Now, a team at the University of Toronto has developed a "molecular delivery system" which allows chemotherapy drugs to target unhealthy cells, minimising damage done to healthy cells. By: Emily Rey
  
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• Samsung almost fixes a small design problem with the S7 - CNET

  22-02-2016 17:12 via cnet.com
  
  Have Samsung designers finally figured out how to line up ports and speaker grills properly? I take a look.
  
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• Meizu's Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition clones the iPhone (pictures) - CNET

  22-02-2016 17:12 via cnet.com
  
  Available for pre-order at Mobile World Congress, fans of Meizu's iPhone-ish looks can soon get their hands on this Ubuntu-powered phone.
  
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• VW expands crossover onslaught with new Geneva concept - Roadshow

  22-02-2016 17:10 via cnet.com
  
  The automaker is also slated to roll out several updated products, including a refreshed seventh-generation Golf and a new Up city car.
  
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• IBM inks deal with VMWare, tries to bolster cloud credentials

  22-02-2016 17:09
  Computing giant IBM has expanded its partnership with VMWare , one of several initiatives it plans to announce Monday as it works to carve out a bigger role in the fast-growing field of cloud computing. The VMWare agreement will make it easier and faster for companies using VMWare's virtualization products to deploy and run them on IBM's cloud data centers, so those companies can easily connect their own data centers to the cloud. The idea is to make IBM's services more attractive to VMWare's cu
  
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• Cat S60 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  22-02-2016 17:06 via cnet.com
  
  The Cat S60 is a rugged phone with the unusual addition of a thermal imaging camera. We take a closer look at Mobile World Congress.
  
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• Facebook is using AI to map where everybody lives to get the world online

  22-02-2016 17:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  To help get the last 10 percent of the world's population online, researchers have been using neural networks to search billions of satellite images for communities that are off the grid.
  
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• Acer Chromebook R11, First Take: Convertible and cost-effective

  22-02-2016 17:01 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  If Chrome OS can satisfy your mobile productivity requirements, Acer's multi-mode Chromebook R11 is a well-built and affordable vehicle.
  
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• Vodafone brings refugees 66-phone mega-charger, Wi-Fi - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:57 via cnet.com
  
  The Vodafone Foundation is working with the UN to help refugees get online with portable equipment.
  
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• Samsung, LG have sold you their little black dress. Now they want you to accessorize - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:44 via cnet.com
  
  The Korean phone makers hope that surrounding their marquee products with buzz-worthy companion products will spark a trend.
  
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• Watch Sony's crazy connected concepts project touchscreens onto your table video - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:35 via cnet.com
  
  Sony showed off a range of funky concepts at MWC, including a personal assistant projected and an ear piece that welcomes you when you put it in.
  
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• These glasses could be the future of drone piloting video - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:20 via cnet.com
  
  Epson says its Android-powered OLED smart specs would be perfect for getting a drone's-eye-view. We show you how it works.
  
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• Sony Xperia Ear and Xperia Eye: nothing new to hear

  22-02-2016 16:17
  
      The Xperia Ear and Xperia Eye aren't as innovative as Sony would have you believe.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Verizon to buy XO Communications' fiber-optic business

  22-02-2016 16:09
  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc, the No.1 U.S. wireless service provider, said it would buy Carl Icahn-owned XO Communications' fiber-optic network business for about $1.8 billion. Verizon said the deal will include XO's fiber-based Internet protocol and Ethernet networks that will help serve its enterprise and wholesale customers. Carl Icahn, the chairman and sole shareholder of XO Holdings, which owns XO Communications, said the deal does not represent a significant annualized return on
  
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• Google's Android has too many flavors and Apple isn't the only one who thinks so - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:05 via cnet.com
  
  The chief of Google's Android, the world's most popular mobile software, has one of the toughest jobs in tech: fending off Apple and fighting "fragmentation." Hiroshi Lockheimer's modus operandi: Get everyone to calm down.
  
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• The Samsung Portable SSD T3 is one tough cookie video - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:00 via cnet.com
  
  This fast, rugged portable drive is such a tough cookie it's practically a choking hazard. CNET editor Dong Ngo warns you not to eat it.
  
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• Samsung Portable SSD T3 review - CNET

  22-02-2016 16:00 via cnet.com
  
  With support for USB-C and the new 2TB capacity, the Portable SSD T3 is the ultimate portable storage device -- if you can afford it.
  
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• Intel sets out its plans for 5G mobile push

  22-02-2016 16:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Company uses Mobile World Congress 2016 to position itself as leader in smarter networks - but also announces partnerships with other players to develop 5G.
  
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• How autonomous technology may give outsider luxury car brands like Lincoln the inside track - Roadshow

  22-02-2016 16:00 via cnet.com
  
  Self-driving cars are going to shake up the world's luxury automakers -- and this trend could favor underdog brands like Lincoln and Hyundai.
  
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• Epson's new lightweight smart glasses cost a pretty penny (pictures) - CNET

  22-02-2016 15:53 via cnet.com
  
  The Moverio BT-300 cost more than $800, but at the risk of looking like a dork, they may be worth it.
  
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• Get a lifetime SnapPages Pro subscription for $49 - CNET

  22-02-2016 15:20 via cnet.com
  
  From the Cheapskate: Need to build a website? This robust service offers simple drag-and-drop tools, SEO help, cloud storage and lots more. It would normally run you $130 for just one year.
  
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• Bezel-free displays and pixel-packed cameras in Sony's Xperia X and XA phones video - CNET

  22-02-2016 15:11 via cnet.com
  
  We take a closeup look at Sony's two new Android phones, the Xperia X and XA, two mid-range handsets with slick design and solid specs.
  
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• Sony Xperia X Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  22-02-2016 15:10 via cnet.com
  
  Sony splashes down at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with a new range of phones, and a new Bluetooth earpiece.
  
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• 9 startups helping to save 1.3 billion tonnes of wasted food

  22-02-2016 15:05
  
  1.3 billion tonnes of food -- one-third of the world's production -- are wasted every year; these startups are trying to fix the food chain at every point from farm to forkBy: Chris Stokel-Walker, Continue reading...
  
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• The household robots who will do your chores

  22-02-2016 15:02
  
  Robots are rather multi-talented machines. They can drum, for a start, help in search and rescue missions, work as receptionists and even go into space. The question we're all asking, though, is this: how can these supremely intelligent machines, whose capacity for learning surpasses that of many humans, be best utilised to do our housework? At least one team is trying to find out. 
   By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• ZTE unsheathes sub-$250 full-metal Blade V7, Blade V7 Lite

  22-02-2016 14:58 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  With ambitions to sell 60 million to 70 million smartphones in 2016, ZTE has announced two new all-metal smartphones that will available later this year for under $250.
  
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