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• Huawei MediaPad M3 review - CNET

  30-10-2016 23:59 via cnet.com
  
  Packing powerful speakers and LTE, the premium Android tablet beats the iPad Mini 4 where it hurts the most: affordability.
  
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• Nasa engineers carve hi-tech pumpkins in annual competition

  30-10-2016 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa scientists take a break from building spacecraft with a competition to carve the best pumpkin.
  
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• Microsoft vs. Apple: The two videos that show the difference - CNET

  30-10-2016 22:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: Last week, both had shows. One, though, showed more imagination. A video produced by each company demonstrates it clearly.
  
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• Google scares up a cute game for Halloween doodle - CNET

  30-10-2016 20:47 via cnet.com
  
  Help an adorable black cat as she tries to save her school of magic from sinister spirits.
  
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• This is the panic inside a plane when it catches fire - CNET

  30-10-2016 20:30 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: An American Airlines 767 catches fire in Chicago. The plane is evacuated. Naturally, someone films the scene with a phone.
  
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• An open letter to Microsoft and Google's Partnership on AI

  30-10-2016 20:00
  
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• Finally, something more distressing than Google Glass - CNET

  30-10-2016 19:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically incorrect: Welcome to the Smabow, the baseball cap with a camera holder. Because you need two cameras these days, don't you?
  
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• TomTom Touch fitness tracker: More than a step tracker thank to body composition measurement

  30-10-2016 18:29 via zdnet.com
  
  TomTom has been making GPS fitness watches for years and its first 24/7 activity tracker brings something unique to the market. The TomTom Touch is comfortable, tracks all your activity, and even supports phone notifications.
  
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• TomTom Touch fitness tracker: More than a step counter thanks to body composition measurement

  30-10-2016 18:29 via zdnet.com
  
  TomTom has been making GPS fitness watches for years and its first 24/7 activity tracker brings something unique to the market. The TomTom Touch is comfortable, tracks all your activity, and even supports phone notifications.
  
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• Gear WIRED loves: Luxurious leather watches and gadgets

  30-10-2016 18:00
  
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• Google scares up cute game for Halloween doodle - CNET

  30-10-2016 17:30 via cnet.com
  
  Help an adorable black cat as she tries to save her school of magic from sinister spriits.
  
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• Peter Thiel explains his support for Donald Trump - CNET

  30-10-2016 17:00 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: The famed VC insists the situation is so dire that we must overlook personal characteristics.
  
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• New MacBooks mark Apple's return to high-end laptops in age of the tablet

  30-10-2016 16:51
  
  After a long period as a mid-market manufacturer, rapid shift signals a reaction to the changing shape of the PC marketApple released its latest laptops on Thursday, a new range of computers to replace the ageing range of Retina MacBook Pros. They are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, with a new touch bar at the top of the keyboard and a fingerprint sensor replacing the power button.They are £750 more than the machines they replace were – though their price has also gone u
  
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• A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian 'web warrior' who took on Facebook and won

  30-10-2016 15:00
  
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• Huawei MediaPad M3 is a sleek Android alternative to the Apple iPad Mini 4 - CNET

  30-10-2016 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  This Huawei tablet features loud Harman-Kardon speakers, a sleek design and a price that gives the Apple iPad Mini 4 serious competition.
  
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• Bringing up baby: how can we teach children to become productive members of society?

  30-10-2016 13:00
  
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• Beer bot chronicles: First beer with the push-button brewer - CNET

  30-10-2016 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  Here are our early impressions as we test the homebrewing machine that does the all the work for you.
  
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• First impressions of the Picobrew Pico -- a beer brewing robot video - CNET

  30-10-2016 12:50 via cnet.com
  
  After brewing our first beer, here are our thoughts on the machine that wants to brew beer for you.
  
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• Facebook fact-check: all the fake news, from the Obamas to miracle cannabis

  30-10-2016 11:45
  
  Reporter Alan Yuhas highlights the bogus stories, clickbait and disinformation framed as trending ‘news’ by one of the world’s most powerful companiesLast month Facebook announced it would join a coalition with Twitter and more than 20 news organizations to tamp down on the proliferation of fake news on the social network. Since that announcement, conspiracy theories and explicitly fake news have continued to slip past Facebook’s algorithm.The company did, however, confro
  
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• From beauty blogger to cosmetic queen: Emily Weiss on how to connect with millennials

  30-10-2016 11:00
  
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• Reach for the sky: five of the best drones

  30-10-2016 08:30
  
  Discover your inner aviator, from the entry level Parrot Mambo to the high-spec DJI PhantomWe all have our own way of transcending the banality of everyday life. A good book, going to the gym, watching our football teams struggle to reach the heights or avoid the lows. Taking to the sky with a drone is peak escapism, an adrenaline blast that, for a few short minutes, raises the pulse, puts a stupid grin on your face and revives childhood dreams.With so many jostling for your attention, though, w
  
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• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World review – dispatch from a technology tourist

  30-10-2016 08:00
  
  Internet luddite Werner Herzog offers a sporadically fascinating glimpse of a vast and complex subjectThe entire scope of the digital age – from the birth of the internet, to artificial intelligence, to catastrophist predictions of the end of days – is crammed into 96 idiosyncratic minutes in this latest documentary by Werner Herzog. And while Herzog’s defiantly esoteric line of commentary works with some subjects – suicidal penguins, for example, in Encounters at the End
  
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• Weird horror movies for Halloween you probably overlooked - CNET

  30-10-2016 02:44 via cnet.com
  
  Killer puppets, Nazi zombies and tentacled sea creatures. Instead of watching the same old scary films, catch these creepy picks you never thought of adding to your streaming queue.
  
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• Here East: An Olympian tech hub for London?

  30-10-2016 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After more than four years, plans are taking shape to turn the old media centre in the London Olympic Village into a hub for technology start-ups.
  
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• First self-driving cars will be unmarked so that other drivers don’t try to bully them

  30-10-2016 01:05
  
  Volvo fears that other road users could drive erratically in order to take advantageThe first self-driving cars to be operated by ordinary British drivers will be left deliberately unmarked so that other drivers will not be tempted to “take them on”, a senior car industry executive has revealed.One of the biggest fears of an ambitious project to lease the first autonomous vehicles to everyday motorists is that other road users might slam on their brakes or drive erratically in order
  
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• OK Google, the definition of 'hero' isn't just for men anymore

  30-10-2016 00:04
  
  Halloween season is upon us, and everyone is dressing up as their favorite monster, sexy plumber and, of course, comic book hero. But if you take a quick look at Google's definition of "hero," you might be surprised that, in 2016, it still defines a hero as a man. SEE ALSO: Carol Danvers, Marvel's first female superhero, is also the most powerful I stumbled upon this while looking for cool comic book hero costume images. Here's the definition Google returned when I typed the word in on Saturday:
  
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