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• Here's how you can order a Tesla Model 3 - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 22:54 via cnet.com
  
  Tesla's most affordable car yet is sure to be a hit with green-leaning car nuts. If you don't know how to get in line, we'll walk you through it.
  
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• T-Mobile brings unlimited streaming to YouTube video - CNET

  18-03-2016 22:25 via cnet.com
  
  The popular video streaming site is a new addition to T-Mobile's Binge On program.
  
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• Why we should worry about Domino's delivery robots (CNET Update show notes) - CNET

  18-03-2016 22:09 via cnet.com
  
  The pizza chain continues its quest to become a major tech company with the DRU delivery robot. Let's hope Boston Dynamics doesn't get sold to the food service business, as Carl's Jr. contemplates hiring more machines.
  
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• How to prevent your stand mixer from splashing - CNET

  18-03-2016 22:00 via cnet.com
  
  Do you make a mess when you mix? Here are two tips to keep your kitchen clean.
  
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• More chargers than gas stations? It's a reality in Manhattan - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 21:57 via cnet.com
  
  Tesla's ramping up its charging presence in Manhattan, which means electrons will be even easier to come by than good ol' hydrocarbons.
  
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• U.S. prosecutors, Apple to bring witnesses to hearing on locked iPhone

  18-03-2016 21:54
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government and Apple Inc will be able to cross-examine the other's witnesses in a court hearing next week on whether the technology company must help federal investigators unlock an encrypted iPhone tied to one of the San Bernardino killers, Apple said. The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of dat
  
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• Why we should worry about Domino's delivery robots video - CNET

  18-03-2016 21:46 via cnet.com
  
  The pizza chain continues its quest to become a major tech company with the DRU delivery robot. Let's hope Boston Dynamics doesn't get sold to the food service business, as Carl's Jr. contemplates hiring more machines.
  
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• FBI says car hacking is a real risk - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 21:27 via cnet.com
  
  Security researchers have shown they can take over steering and disable the brakes of moving vehicles.
  
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• Michael Kors Access Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  18-03-2016 21:24 via cnet.com
  
  Michael Kors Access is an Android Wear-powered smartwatch that's designed for fashionistas.
  
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• The 404 Show 1654: The weird Internet; 10 Cloverfield Lane, Julie Rubicon, VR (podcast) - CNET

  18-03-2016 21:18 via cnet.com
  
  Justin Yu is back again this week to give us a spoiler-free quick review of 10 Cloverfield Lane and a strange Facebook story called Julie Rubicon. Plus we get a live demo of the Here Active Listening earbuds.
  
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• Twitter keeping 140-character limit on tweets after all - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:55 via cnet.com
  
  Despite rumors to the contrary, it looks like Twitter won't be letting users bloviate endlessly via tweets. The 140-character limit isn't going anywhere, says CEO Jack Dorsey.
  
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• Newest Monopoly token is a Ford Mustang - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 20:51 via cnet.com
  
  Now you can take the ubiquitous pony car for a spin as you build your own in-game empire.
  
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• Crave Ep. 233: Big Mac survives molten copper and heats up Internet - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:43 via cnet.com
  
  A YouTuber pours molten copper on a McDonalds burger and it barely leaves a mark, leading the online masses to start asking the tough questions.
  
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• Big Mac survives molten copper and heats up Internet, Ep. 233 video - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:41 via cnet.com
  
  This week on Crave, tweeting pigeons help determine whether London air is polluted, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter weighs in while cosplaying Street Fighter, and why does this Big Mac seem invincible? It's the Crave show.
  
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• LG G5 available April 1 for U.S. Cellular, presale begins March 28 - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:33 via cnet.com
  
  At a total price of $636 without a two-year contract, the G5 costs more than its predecessor last year.
  
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• Long-lost Lovecraft manuscript penned for Houdini found - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:31 via cnet.com
  
  The man who brought us Cthulhu wrote a book for the man known to escape everything. But if you want to read the unfinished work, it's going to cost you.
  
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• Breville's Barista Express makes delicious espresso and is a snap to use video - CNET

  18-03-2016 20:28 via cnet.com
  
  If you're willing to make the effort, the $600 Breville Barista Express pulls flavorful espresso shots without much of a learning curve.
  
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• The price is wrong: Family Sharing confuses the App Store - CNET

  18-03-2016 19:32 via cnet.com
  
  Apple Family Sharing members don't need to go to the Purchased page in the App Store to install previously purchased apps for free; it just appears that way.
  
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• Shootout: NSX vs. NSX in a battle of Japanese icons - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 19:27 via cnet.com
  
  There's a new NSX in town and it has twice the horsepower of the original. But is it twice the car?
  
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• GameStop attracts large investors as shorts back off

  18-03-2016 19:21
  By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - GameStop, one of the most shorted U.S. stocks, has started to attract institutional buyers and dissuade some traders betting against it as it fights off a consumer shift toward downloading video games and its depressed share price stabilizes. Meanwhile, the number of institutional owners, like hedge funds, pension funds and mutual funds, has jumped 21 percent, according to research firm Morningstar. Over the last two weeks, short sales in GameStop's st
  
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• Police take to Twitter to laugh at alleged drug dealers - CNET

  18-03-2016 19:19 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: British police find some drugs in a stash. They leave what to them was an amusing note and then laugh about it on Twitter.
  
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• Breville Barista Express review - CNET

  18-03-2016 19:13 via cnet.com
  
  If you seek a home espresso machine with the power to pull truly excellent shots, look no further than the $600 Breville Barista Express.
  
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• For virtual reality creators, motion sickness a real issue

  18-03-2016 19:07
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If the controls and movement in a traditional video game aren't natural, it's merely annoying to players. For designers of virtual reality experiences, the same mistake could make users sick.
  
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• Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source

  18-03-2016 19:02
  By Edward Taylor and Harro Ten Wolde FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] has sounded out car companies about placing a large order for self-driving cars, an auto industry source said on Friday. "They wanted autonomous cars," the source, who declined to be named, said. "It seemed like they were shopping around." Loss-making Uber would make drastic savings on its biggest cost -- drivers -- if it were able to incorporate self-driving cars into its fleet.
  
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• Amazon at odds with SEC over allowing shareholder vote on gender pay gap

  18-03-2016 19:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  US regulator says the e-commerce retailer cannot omit a proposal addressing the pay gap and it should be voted on at the May shareholder meetingAmazon took legal action in an attempt to avoid having to hold a shareholder vote on whether it should work to reduce the gap between how much it pays male and female staff.
  Lawyers for the world’s largest retailer asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to give it permission not to include a vote on addressing the gender pay gap at i
  
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• Interview: Nerdist's Dan Casey recaps his favorite SXSW 2016 movies and TV shows on Tomorrow Daily video - CNET

  18-03-2016 19:00 via cnet.com
  
  Nerdist Senior Editor Dan Casey pops by the Tomorrow Daily studio to chat about SXSW 2016, what's been happening over at "The Dan Cave" and tells you which summer blockbuster you shouldn't miss.
  
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• Cruising the Continent in a Tesla: How we drove 1,000 miles on electricity - CNET

  18-03-2016 18:55 via cnet.com
  
  We took a Tesla on a mighty road trip across Europe to see how easy it is to drive a long distance powered by electricity alone.
  
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• 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Release Date, Price and Specs - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 18:33 via cnet.com
  
  Along with a brand-new look, Chevrolet's compact hatch offers several key technologies not available on the competition.
  
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• Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO says

  18-03-2016 18:30
  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today Show. A Twitter spokesman declined to elaborate.
  
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• Sex dust scepticism, DJI drone review: Podcast 259

  18-03-2016 18:27
  
  
  We review the DJI Phantom 4 drone and ask a nutritionist what's in Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Sex Dust' smoothie.By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• 'Daredevil' season 2 starts slow, heats up fast (review) - CNET

  18-03-2016 18:21 via cnet.com
  
  The man without fear returns to Netflix, and this time Elektra and the Punisher are testing both his superpowers and his morality.
  
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• Getting started with Windows 10's Phone app - CNET

  18-03-2016 18:15 via cnet.com
  
  Skype's voice-calling app is limited -- but why would you want to make voice calls on Skype, anyway?
  
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• We took a ride on the world's first VR rollercoaster

  18-03-2016 18:12
  
  WIRED travelled to Alton Towers in Staffordshire to take a ride on Galactica, the world's first rollercoaster fully dedicated to virtual reality.By: Jeremy White, Continue reading...
  
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• Stripe expands payments service to Cuba to support startups

  18-03-2016 18:09
  By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley payments company Stripe is bringing its services to Cuba to help entrepreneurs there start new businesses, an action that brings U.S. tech services to Cubans as relations between the two countries thaw. Stripe, a startup valued at $5 billion that gives websites and apps an easier way to process payments, said on Friday it will extend to Cuba one of its new services, called Stripe Atlas, a product designed to give entrepreneurs access
  
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• 9 crazy things we learned about Pluto in the past year - CNET

  18-03-2016 18:08 via cnet.com
  
  The former ninth planet isn't just a frozen rock. We now know it has snow, blue skies and of course, a lot of heart.
  
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• Twitter to keep 140-character limit, says CEO Jack Dorsey

  18-03-2016 17:59
  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will keep the 140-character limit for tweets, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today Show when asked whether the limit was staying. Technology news website Re/code reported in January that Twitter was building a new feature that would allow users to post tweets as long as 10,000 characters.
  
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• Old NSX vs. new NSX on the road and the track video - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 17:55 via cnet.com
  
  The 2017 Acura NSX is certainly faster than its predecessor, but is it more fun? We call in Graham Rahal to help us find out.
  
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• How to play Facebook Messenger's secret basketball game - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:50 via cnet.com
  
  The arcade-style basketball is fun, and sure to spark some competition.
  
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• Sony PlayStation Vue TV service: No cable, no contract, few compromises video - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:48 via cnet.com
  
  Vue lets you ditch cable TV's contracts and feed and still enjoy tons of live channels and features, including a cloud DVR and local sports, and you don't even need a PlayStation.
  
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• Simon Pegg in talks for Steven Spielberg's 'Ready Player One' - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:47 via cnet.com
  
  The big-screen adaptation of Ernest Cline's popular sci-fi novel debuts in 2018, and Pegg could play Orgen Morrow, the co-creator of Oasis.
  
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• Swedish student builds steam-powered Raspberry Pi

  18-03-2016 17:44
  
  Steampunk isn't just for enthusiastic live-action role players with a fondness for Victorian aesthetics - it's a viable way of powering a Raspberry Pi.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Jenn-Air Connected Double Oven Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:40 via cnet.com
  
  You'll have some help remembering if you left the oven on this summer when Jenn-Air's connected wall oven start working with the Nest Learning Thermostat. The luxury-appliance brand announced the collaboration this week at the Architectural Digest Design Show in New York City.
  
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• Training Apple blog | LIVE

  18-03-2016 17:38 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
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• Nasa: nuclear is 'most effective' way of getting humans to Mars

  18-03-2016 17:38
  
  Nasa administrator Charles Bolden has claimed that nuclear thermal propulsion is the "most effective" way of sending humans to Mars.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Release Date, Price and Specs - Roadshow

  18-03-2016 17:36 via cnet.com
  
  We've already learned about its hot-to-trot Quadrifoglio trim, but now it's time to get acquainted with the other variants of Alfa Romeo's new sedan.
  
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• Battery-free wearables of the future could run off your footsteps - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:34 via cnet.com
  
  An energy-harvesting insole would use your own body movements to provide power for your devices.
  
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• Photographer snaps thrilling space station image from his backyard - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:23 via cnet.com
  
  An amateur astrophotographer takes on the challenge of getting a stunning shot of the ISS and succeeds. It's all in the timing.
  
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• PlayStation VR bundle with everything you need to play in VR to cost $500 - CNET

  18-03-2016 17:22 via cnet.com
  
  The bundle includes everything PlayStation 4 owners need to begin playing games in virtual reality.
  
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• Young people don’t have tribes any more. We have smartphones instead | Jack Jones

  18-03-2016 17:19 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Once there were mods, rockers, punks and skinheads. Now, online possibilities are infinite and we can curate our own individual worldsWe hunt in packs. It’s human nature. We do it to protect ourselves from the threat of attack, loneliness and to gather food. And while we are at it, our packs develop their own cultures, beliefs and ways of behaving. That includes ways to amuse ourselves when not much is happening. Thankfully, we don’t have to go out and kill yaks any more, but while t
  
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• TalkTalk ditches passwords for voice recognition

  18-03-2016 17:16
  
  TalkTalk is letting customers use their voices as passwords.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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