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• James Corden and Eddie Redmayne in amusing TSA standoff - CNET

  20-11-2016 22:25 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: To promote the new "Fantastic Beats" movie, the two Englishmen somehow pretend that one of them is American and the other is just an ordinary guy.
  
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• 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' garden gnomes: Your weeds will be assimilated - CNET

  20-11-2016 22:01 via cnet.com
  
  Resistance is futile: Gnomes painted like Picard, Riker, Worf, Data and Locutus of Borg are beaming down to your lawn.
  
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• Google Daydream View, Samsung Gear S3 Frontier, HTC Bolt (MobileTechRoundup show #386)

  20-11-2016 20:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Kevin is trying out his new Google Daydream View VR headset while I am going for a run with my new Samsung Gear S3 Frontier smart watch. Lots of mobile tech to chat about once again on MoTR.
  
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• Fatty the robot smashes glass, injures visitor - CNET

  20-11-2016 20:30 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: In China, a robot runs amok. But don't worry, it was all a human's fault for pushing the wrong button. Allegedly.
  
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• Kanye West storms out of concert, Twitter loses mind - CNET

  20-11-2016 18:55 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: After two songs in Sacramento, the fascinating rapper disses Beyoncé and Jay Z and leaves.
  
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• Revolutionary weather satellite blasts off - CNET

  20-11-2016 18:08 via cnet.com
  
  New GOES-R satellite features a camera that will provide near real-time high-resolution imagery.
  
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• SNL mocks Trump again, Trump tweets anger - CNET

  20-11-2016 17:51 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: "Saturday Night Live" sees Alec Baldwin return as Donald Trump. On the show, president-elect uses Google and Siri to help him with military strategy.
  
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• These sensors turn your drumsticks into a virtual drumkit

  20-11-2016 16:00
  
  'Freedrum' is a virtual drumkit that connects to your iPhone and lets you jam anywhere you want. 
  
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• Which flood sensor should you buy? - CNET

  20-11-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  We break down the options by price range.
  
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• Brewing with Pico: The final batch - CNET

  20-11-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Beer bot chronicles, part 4: Wrapping up my month of testing with one last brew.
  
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• Want to be a social media star? YouTubers give their top tips

  20-11-2016 13:00
  
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• India's top e-tailer Flipkart eyes groceries; renewed push in furniture

  20-11-2016 12:16
  By Sankalp Phartiyal and Euan Rocha BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's top e-commerce player Flipkart plans to move into the groceries space and make a renewed push in the online furniture business, as it expands its product portfolio and looks to outmaneuver global giant Amazon.com in a burgeoning Indian market. Flipkart Chief Executive Binny Bansal said the home-grown e-commerce player plans to begin experimenting with grocery sales next year and scale up operations over a three year period. More a
  
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• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tickets go on sale tomorrow

  20-11-2016 11:45
  
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• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tickets go on sale

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• New Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer drops as tickets go on sale

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• The Sewing Group review – stitches in time

  20-11-2016 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London
  EV Crowe explores the disorienting effects of technology in her cryptic new playEV Crowe’s new play, The Sewing Group, is a sly thing. It begins in Shaker-like simplicity. Three women in long black dresses stitch in a plain wooden room. Two of them squinny with suspicion at the third. There are extended silences as they dip their needles into what look like squares of tapestry, though they say – imagine how scratchy – they are worki
  
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• Car review: Renualt Mégane | Martin Love

  20-11-2016 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After a few years in the doldrums, Renault is back on form. Its new Mégane is handsome and good value… What more do you want in a car?Price: £16,950
  Top speed: 116mph
  0-62mph: 11.3 seconds
  MPG: 76.4
  CO2: 96g/km“You write about cars? What? For a job? That is hilarious!” I’m not sure how to respond to this. I’m at a dinner party with some old friends and their neighbour has arrived. The woman, married to an accountant (“Giles, he writes about cars,
  
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• Virtual reality to aid Auschwitz war trials of concentration camp guards

  20-11-2016 03:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Auschwitz concentration camp has been recreated in virtual reality to help in war crime trials of former guards.
  
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• How virtual reality could help prosecute Nazi war criminals

  20-11-2016 03:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak meets the team behind a 3D recreation of Auschwitz.
  
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• China says terrorism, fake news impel greater global internet curbs

  20-11-2016 02:27
  By Catherine Cadell WUZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's ambitions to tighten up regulation of the Internet have found a second wind in old fears - terrorism and fake news. Ren Xianling, the vice minister of China's top internet authority, said on Thursday that the process was akin to "installing brakes on a car before driving on the road". Ren, number two at the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), recommended using identification systems for netizens who post fake news and rumors, so they co
  
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• Amazon's new app will 'see' inside your packages

  20-11-2016 01:52
  
  Amazon is giving its app a new feature to help holiday shoppers keep track of what's in their packages.  The company updated its iPhone app with a new feature that uses the phone's camera to help detect what's inside your packages without opening them. SEE ALSO: Amazon's Black Friday deals just kicked into high gear Dubbed, "Package X-Ray," the feature uses your iPhone's camera to scan the barcode on the package. Once scanned, the app will show which of your orders are inside.  You can
  
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• Cybersecurity boss on love and respect

  20-11-2016 01:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amnon Bar-Lev, president of Check Point Software, shares the business advice he wishes he had when he started out.
  
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