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• A cat in a desert is your new optical-illusion obsession - CNET

  30-05-2016 23:30 via cnet.com
  
  The brick wall is so yesterday. A perfectly coiffed cat is set to be the new king of Internet optical illusions.
  
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• Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe impresses with metal body and top specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 22:02 via cnet.com
  
  The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer's first flagship in a long packs flagship hardware into a beautiful metal body.
  
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• AI startup taps human 'swarm' intelligence to predict winners - CNET

  30-05-2016 21:00 via cnet.com
  
  After striking it big on the Kentucky Derby, Unanimous AI is unleashing its human-based artificial intelligence, UNU, to the masses to pick sports and politics.
  
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• See what happens when you strap a GoPro to a cheetah - CNET

  30-05-2016 20:00 via cnet.com
  
  A cheetah carries a camera on its back and gives humans a big cat's-eye-view of what it looks like to be a furry running machine.
  
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• Lies, damned lies and drunken men using lamp posts | Letters

  30-05-2016 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Facebook certainly does have a lot to answer for in the way it responds to sexist abuse (MPs lead national campaign against sexist abuse online, 26 May). I often get abusive, misogynistic messages on my Facebook page from complete strangers and these are frequently accompanied by penis pictures. When I complain, the response I get is that these messages do not contravene their “community standards”. Yet a tasteful photo of me breastfeeding my baby was removed, because Facebook doesn&
  
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• Tenants angry after apartment building orders them to 'friend' it on Facebook - CNET

  30-05-2016 19:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: The owners of a Salt Lake City apartment building change the tenancy agreement and give tenants five days to like the building on Facebook. Or else.
  
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• VIDEO: Warcraft: from PC to the silver screen

  30-05-2016 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Director Duncan Jones talks about bringing the popular video game to the big screen.
  
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• BMW dumps investment capital into Scoop, yet another mobility company - Roadshow

  30-05-2016 18:29 via cnet.com
  
  The Scoop app connects drivers and riders to carpool together for a more efficient commute, and perhaps listen to Salt-N-Pepa's "Shoop" on the car stereo.
  
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• SAE International begins to set a standard for wireless EV charging - Roadshow

  30-05-2016 18:09 via cnet.com
  
  SAE TIR J2954, if accepted and implemented on a wide scale, will ensure wireless charging works on all vehicles that follow the standard.
  
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• Sleep is the Final Frontier in this Star Trek shuttlecraft tent concept - CNET

  30-05-2016 17:10 via cnet.com
  
  Star Trek fan designs camping tent to look like a Federation shuttlecraft that "would be perfect for all of your away missions."
  
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• How driverless cars will change car ownership forever

  30-05-2016 17:00
  
  Fast-forward 20 years. Driverless cars coast around every street in the country without a human driver behind the wheel. They've reached market saturation — the technology is as commonplace as cruise control is today. The rise of self-driving cars leads to a host of questions, of course, but for the moment let's focus on just one: Will you still be able own a car? Would you even want to? I mean, why buy when you can take an autonomous pod everywhere for far less? SEE ALSO: Really, you
  
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• I made iMovie magic on the iPad Pro

  30-05-2016 16:25
  
  For the last few months, I spent hours creating a video celebrating my quarter century of marriage. It’s honestly too personal to show you, but what I learned in the process is not. You can make something quite awesome with an iPhone, iMovie (for the iPad) and an iPad Pro. When I got married, we couldn’t afford a videographer. We ended up with beautiful photos and the memories we could replay in our own heads. For my project, I decided to create a wedding video out of available
  
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• Experimental installations put the social in social science

  30-05-2016 16:14
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The truck-size metal container sitting in a downtown park here isn't meant to raise awareness about the global shipping industry, though it may nudge some people's curiosity in that direction.
  
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• India rejects Apple's plans to sell refurbished iPhones, but might agree to Apple Stores

  30-05-2016 16:09
  
  The Indian government has rejected Apple's proposal to sell refurbished iPhones in the country, but said it was considering the company's application seeking a waiver of the mandatory local sourcing rule to open its retail stores. SEE ALSO: Apple doubles down on India "We would not be in favour of whatever you may call them — used but refashioned, remodelled, updated... used goods," commerce and industry minister, Nirmala Sitharaman said.  However, she said that it could look at
  
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• After Gamergate, female video game developers on the rise

  30-05-2016 15:59
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Students from an all-female arts college in Philadelphia attended a conference for video game developers last year and, without even trying, they stood out.
  
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• Bangladesh panel finds possible insider role in central bank cyber theft

  30-05-2016 14:34
  Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist told reporters on Monday. Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Bangladesh central bank and issued instructions through the SWIFT network to transfer $951 million of its deposits held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
  
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• Asus ZenBook 3 will make your current laptop look fat

  30-05-2016 14:19
  
  When Apple launched the 12-inch MacBook in 2015, it instantly became a benchmark for ultra-light computers, surpassed in portability by only a few models.  The thinking behind Asus' new ultraportable, the ZenBook 3, seems to have been approximately this: Let's make a laptop that's even thinner and lighter than the MacBook, but more powerful and with a slightly larger screen. SEE ALSO: Asus' new ZenFone 3 smartphones go from big to gargantuan Amazingly, the company's done it. The ZenBook 3 i
  
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• Veterans bootstrap the transition from battlefield to tech - CNET

  30-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Leveraging their leadership and technology skills, vets are joining one of the fastest-growing industries.
  
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• Asus Zenbo is an E.T.-like home robot with a touchscreen face

  30-05-2016 13:56
  
  Writing about tech is often straightforward. But finding words for Asus' Zenbo home robot, announced just before the start of the Computex trade show in Taipei, is a tougher task. The multi-faceted robot is hard to categorize and, well, just plain weird.  Designed to provide "assistance, entertainment and companionship to families," the Zenbo looks as if E.T. got together with an iMac G4. The robot is partly a home surveyor, and partly an Amazon Echo-style assistant.  SEE ALSO: As
  
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• The 12 most visually arresting games on Xbox One

  30-05-2016 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  From the scenic grandeur of The Witcher and Rise of the Tomb Raider, to the handcrafted beauty of Ori and the Blind Forest, here are some of the most evocative visual experiences on Microsoft’s latest console Continue reading...
  
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• Big data without the big headaches: How to get your strategy right

  30-05-2016 13:30 via zdnet.com
  
  The potential benefits of big data are huge, but getting the projects running smoothly isn't easy.
  
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• 'We don't want a police state': Edward Snowden slams Australian metadata laws

  30-05-2016 13:20
  
  Whistleblower Edward Snowden has taken aim at Australia's metadata retention laws, which he claims violate the personal freedoms of all Australians.  On Saturday, Snowden addressed an audience in Sydney, Australia via a teleconferencing robot at a Think Inc. event,  An Evening With Edward Snowden .  Snowden is the former National Security Agency contractor who was responsible for the massive leak of classified government documents in 2013, which showed the U.S. government was spyi
  
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• The three big reasons Windows 10 tablets don't cut it

  30-05-2016 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Microsoft needs to fix battery life, screen and app issues if Windows 10 tablets are to successfully compete on the same footing as Android or the iPadIf you’re after a tablet in 2016 you broadly speaking have three choices: Android, Apple’s iPad or Microsoft’s Windows 10 tablets.While the first two are mobile born and bred, spawned from smartphone operating systems, Windows 10 comes from the other side of computing - the traditional desktop. Continue reading...
  
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• Getting off offline: when porn gets in the way of a real-world relationship

  30-05-2016 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many believe that porn is addictive, and that the endless stream of on-demand internet erotica makes real-life sexual experiences not stimulating enoughGregor Schmidinger was eight when he viewed his first porn magazine, found in a rubbish bin in his hometown in Austria. Aged 11, he had access to the internet at home, which he used to explore his burgeoning attraction to men. As the years progressed, he spent more time masturbating to increasingly hardcore – and in some cases violent &ndas
  
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• ROG XG Station 2 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 12:58 via cnet.com
  
  A mere nine years after it launched the XG Station external graphics card, ROG decides it's time for an upgrade: the VR-capable XG Station 2. Better late than never, right?
  
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• Asus ROG Avalon Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 12:50 via cnet.com
  
  The proof-of-concept motherboard-chassis hybrid combines both to make it easier to install parts but it's not perfect.
  
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• Apple's plan to sell used iPhones in India officially gets rejected - CNET

  30-05-2016 11:53 via cnet.com
  
  Luckily for the Cupertino, California-based company, it still has hopes of opening up its own retail stores in the populous nation.
  
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• Asus ZenFone 3 gets its own accessories, and they're super pretty - CNET

  30-05-2016 11:46 via cnet.com
  
  What use is a flagship phone if it doesn't have matching accessories? Luckil, Asus has upped its game, launching a range of smartphone accessories at Computex to match its new ZenFone 3.
  
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• Asus Transformer 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 11:26 via cnet.com
  
  The mid-range of the new Transformer family has a killer screen in a 6.9mm body.
  
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• Asus' new ZenFone 3 smartphones range from big to gargantuan

  30-05-2016 10:31
  
  Asus has kicked off the press day at the Computex trade show in Taipei with an absolutely enormous lineup of products. Among them are three new Android smartphones, the ZenFone 3, the ZenFone 3 Deluxe and ZenFone 3 Ultra, all of which share a similar, seamless metallic design but come in very different sizes.  The ZenFone 3 Deluxe is perhaps the most interesting device in the lineup — an absolute powerhouse of a phone, with a 5.7-inch full HD display, a 23-megapixel back camera, a Qua
  
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• Asus' new ZenFone 3 smartphones go from big to gargantuan

  30-05-2016 10:31
  
  Asus has kicked off the press day at the Computex trade show in Taipei with an absolutely enormous lineup of products. Among them are three new Android smartphones, the ZenFone 3, the ZenFone 3 Deluxe and ZenFone 3 Ultra, all of which share a similar, seamless metallic design but come in very different sizes.  The ZenFone 3 Deluxe is perhaps the most interesting device in the lineup — an absolute powerhouse of a phone, with a 5.7-inch full HD display, a 23-megapixel back camera, a Qua
  
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• Canon EOS Rebel T6/1300D full-resolution photo samples - CNET

  30-05-2016 10:00 via cnet.com
  
  The T6 is good for daytime photography.
  
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• Computex 2016: ASUS unveils $599 Zenbo home robot

  30-05-2016 09:59 via zdnet.com
  
  Described as a 'smart little companion', the Zenbo robot from ASUS is a smart home manager and security device.
  
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• Asus ZenBook 3 is slim, shiny and powerful - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:59 via cnet.com
  
  The Asus ZenBook 3 features impressive hardware with an Intel Core i7 processor and a 1TB SSD in a super slim design.
  
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• Asus Transformer 3 Pro Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:51 via cnet.com
  
  Asus declares war on the Microsoft Surface with its new Transformer 2-in-1 tablet range.
  
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• Top 5 Bluetooth speakers you can buy video - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:50 via cnet.com
  
  Picking a Bluetooth speaker can be really tough. These are the best ones you can get.
  
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• Zenbo family robot destroys Computex with cuteness before it even begins - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:43 via cnet.com
  
  Asus dropped an unexpected robot revolution on its Computex press conference, launching the Zenbo household assistant, priced at $599.
  
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• Indian minister: discussing Apple's request for FDI rules waiver

  30-05-2016 09:31
  By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government on Monday said it was discussing Apple Inc's foreign direct investment application that seeks a waiver from a local sourcing rule. Nirmala Sitharaman, commerce and industry minister in the federal cabinet, told reporters her ministry would discuss the issue with the finance ministry. The finance ministry's foreign investment promotion board (FIPB), which clears foreign direct investment applications, has asked the iPhone maker to sell at
  
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• Iceland plans Airbnb restrictions amid tourism explosion

  30-05-2016 09:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Move to tax people who rent out properties through website as officials and residents express concerns over visitor impactIceland is poised to curb an Airbnb explosion as it tries to balance record tourist numbers with the protection of its spectacular unspoilt landscape and traditional lifestyle.Proposed legislation, which could become law this week, seeks to restrict the number of days residents can offer Airbnb rentals in their properties to 90 days a year before they must pay business tax.Co
  
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• Asus ZenBook 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:28 via cnet.com
  
  This new laptop from Asus comes lighter and thinner than Apple's laptops while packing more powerful hardware.
  
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• Taiwan's Asus unveils 'budget' household robot

  30-05-2016 09:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC's Taiwan correspondent Cindy Sui meets with Zenbo - what its creator Asus says is the first 'affordable' household robot.
  
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• Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:12 via cnet.com
  
  Asus thinks you'll want a big screen to watch videos, so it made a ridiculously huge phone (that isn't quite a tablet).
  
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• ​Australian government expands STEM school-business partnerships

  30-05-2016 09:05 via zdnet.com
  
  An extra 12 schools around the country will get to trial the Pathways in Technology Early College High School program, after a AU$4.6 million funding boost from the federal government.
  
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• Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:02 via cnet.com
  
  The Deluxe version of the ZenFone 3 comes loaded with the best hardware encased in a beautiful aluminium design.
  
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• MediaTek's Pump Express 3.0 charges a smartphone from 0 to 70 in 20 minutes - CNET

  30-05-2016 09:00 via cnet.com
  
  The Taiwanese chipmaker's new battery solution looks promising, but will only be available at the end of the year.
  
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• Asus ZenFone 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  30-05-2016 08:58 via cnet.com
  
  The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer drops the plastic of its previous models in favor of more premium materials.
  
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• Telstra CTO departs as reports claim CV fraud

  30-05-2016 08:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Telstra refuses to comment on reports that Telstra CTO Vish Nandlall was fired for falsifying his CV, but has confirmed his departure from the company.
  
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• Obama the Arm Wrestler? Exploring Taipei's underground tech and toy scene video - CNET

  30-05-2016 08:38 via cnet.com
  
  Before Computex kicks off in Taipei, we go underground to find the weird toys and tech accessories on offer below the city's busy streets.
  
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• Tesla's Gigafactory grand opening to take place July 29 - CNET

  30-05-2016 08:12 via cnet.com
  
  The company's giant battery manufacturing facility outside Reno, Nevada will be celebrating a grand opening in just two months' time.
  
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• Games review roundup: Total War: Warhammer; Valkyria Chronicles: Remastered; Doom

  30-05-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Warhammer and Total War are rejuvenated in a joint endeavour, while Valkyria and Doom updates delight Continue reading...
  
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