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• Trump tweets judge should be blamed if 'something happens' - CNET

  05-02-2017 23:56 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: The president takes to Twitter to continue his criticism of the federal judge who blocked his immigration order.
  
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• Block adverts, delete Flash, kill Java: ASD

  05-02-2017 23:26 via zdnet.com
  
  The Australian Signals Directorate's award-winning Top Four cyber threat mitigation strategy has become the Essential Eight. They're based on data, they're essential, and they'll upset vendors.
  
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• ​Judge: Google must give FBI emails stored overseas - CNET

  05-02-2017 22:36 via cnet.com
  
  This reported ruling goes counter to an appeals court judgement last year that Microsoft didn't have to hand over data stored on servers in Ireland.
  
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• Why your iPhone battery meter sometimes goes haywire

  05-02-2017 22:23
  
  I understand alternate facts. Sometimes my iPhone’s battery meter delivers them. Fact: I have a 18-month-old Apple iPhone 6. I keep it in god shape, never dropping it, subjecting it to extreme temperatures, or dunking it in bodies of water. I charge it regularly.  Fact: On a recent weekday afternoon, I picked up my iPhone, which had been sitting on my desk untouched for hours, and noticed it was reporting just 18% battery life. It was officially in the red. I quickly plugged it into a
  
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• Appeals court rejects Trump's attempt to restore travel ban - CNET

  05-02-2017 22:22 via cnet.com
  
  President Trump's bid to get his immigration ban reinstated ASAP fails, though it's just the latest move in a showdown over control of US borders that tech is closely watching.
  
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• T-Mobile Super Bowl ads embrace pot and twisted sex - CNET

  05-02-2017 22:11 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: How many marijuana jokes can you get into one ad? Many, if you have Martha Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart hamming it up. And then there's the "50 Shades of Grey" parody.
  
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• Google's Super Bowl ad celebrates your need to be lazy - CNET

  05-02-2017 21:50 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: For the big game, Google markets Google Home, the product that saves you the trouble of, oh, turning on the lights yourself.
  
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• NFL awards startups aiming to improve player health and safety - CNET

  05-02-2017 21:43 via cnet.com
  
  Three sports startups wowed the NFL during league's "1st & Future" competition, which hopes to attract tech companies to bring innovative ideas to the NFL.
  
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• Melissa McCarthy as White House's Sean Spicer wins Twitter - CNET

  05-02-2017 20:59 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: To many, the actress, a guest on "Saturday Night Live," is more Sean Spicer, than Sean Spicer.
  
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• French candidate uses hologram to travel campaign trail

  05-02-2017 20:12
  
  PARIS (AP) — French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon can't be in two places at once.
  
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• Appeals court rejects Trump attempt to restore travel ban - CNET

  05-02-2017 20:12 via cnet.com
  
  President Trump's bid to get his immigration ban reinstated ASAP fails, though it's just the latest move in the showdown over control of US borders that tech is closely watching.
  
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• Hypocrisy of the west over fake news claim | Letters

  05-02-2017 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The defence secretary, Michael Fallon, appears ignorant of well-established UK and US military programmes designed to modify public perceptions in conflict zones (Nato must counter Russia’s ‘weaponising’ of lies – Fallon, 3 February). A prototype system was first reported in detail by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain in the Guardian nearly six years ago – just as Nato began air attacks on Libya (Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media, 18 March 2011).I
  
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• SNL slams Trump, his tweets and immigration order - CNET

  05-02-2017 18:46 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: Alec Baldwin returns to "Saturday Night Live" as Trump and Kristen Stewart accuses the president of having a thing for her ex-boyfriend.
  
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• iPad Pro's $150 discount at Target is an insanely good deal - CNET

  05-02-2017 18:29 via cnet.com
  
  Get a hefty $150 off Apple's best tablet for a limited time. The Apple Watch and iPad Mini 2 are also discounted.
  
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• Net ​nostalgia: the online museums preserving dolphin gifs and spinning Comic Sans

  05-02-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Archivist Jason Scott has made it his mission to record digital culture for future generations. But why are we so keen to relive the days of Geocities websites and 56k modems?Jason Scott is a “guerilla internet archivist”. Someone’s got to be. If you’ve got some content embedded in a site that’s about to disappear, then he and his team of coders and data engineers go in there and “Ocean’s Eleven” the joint. In the name of digital archaeology, they
  
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• How to use Google Calendar’s smart meeting scheduler

  05-02-2017 17:11
  
  Scheduling meetings on Google Calendar is now a whole lot easier.  A recent update to Google Calendar implemented one of the better features of the iOS and Android apps — intelligent suggestions for meeting times, so you no longer have to worry to make sure the rooms and times work well for everyone - the calendar takes care of it for you. Room suggestions Image: Google When you create a meeting, Google Calendar automatically suggests meeting rooms based on the information provided by
  
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• New England Patriots ring up plenty of Super Bowl 2017 memes - CNET

  05-02-2017 17:00 via cnet.com
  
  From Bill Belichick's famed sweatshirt to those four sparkly rings, the Super Bowl favorite is all over social media.
  
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• Atlanta Falcons memes fly high as Super Bowl 2017 approaches - CNET

  05-02-2017 17:00 via cnet.com
  
  Social media loves an underdog, and these days, that's going to be whoever goes against the Patriots.
  
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• Mute all the disruptions in your life with this noise-canceling device

  05-02-2017 16:00
  
  'Muzo' is a portable acoustic device that prevents vibrations to cancel out unwanted noise.
  
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• Genetically-modified humans: what is CRISPR and how does it work?

  05-02-2017 15:00
  
  By: Abigail BeallContinue reading...
  
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• Synology RT2600ac review - CNET

  05-02-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  The Synology RT2600ac might be the best thing that's ever happened to home networking geeks. Here's CNET's full review.
  
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• If you're hoping to watch all of the Super Bowl in VR, sorry - CNET

  05-02-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Football's biggest game isn't ready yet for all four quarters to be shown in virtual reality.
  
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• Smart DNS Proxy

  05-02-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Smart DNS Proxy is a privacy brand of Global Stealth Inc, the company behind Getflix (a VPN which didn’t fare well in our recent review).The service combines a site-unblocking Smart DNS product with an apparently well-specified VPN: no bandwidth limits, five simultaneous connections, PPTP, L2TP & OpenVPN support, plus it’s torrent-friendly.There are more than 80 locations which go well beyond Europe and North America, and they include: Angola, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Hong Kon
  
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• Samsung's battery blowup makes me more likely to buy the next Note -- not less - CNET

  05-02-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: The Note 8 will be a safer phone, because it has to be.
  
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• Marcus Krause's lung cancer wouldn't stop growing. Then he took a new kind of blood test

  05-02-2017 12:00
  
  By: João MedeirosContinue reading...
  
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• Five easy ways to make your home smarter

  05-02-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Turn up the heat, dim the lights and cue themusic, all with the touch of a button or a voice command. Here’s the latest kit to connect your worldMore and more of the devices in our homes come with an internet connection, hooked up to your wifi to do various “smart” things. And while the smart-home dream where everything just magically does your bidding without you having to lift a finger is still a long way away, even the most mundane devices will soon be able to do something t
  
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• The unique shame of the video game critic

  05-02-2017 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  With real lives and real rights under threat, what’s the point of writing about virtual worlds?Early into the video game critic’s career, the statement “I write about video games for a living” assumes the fraught, almost tearful, character of a confession. Even in its highest form (something like: the sifting of art and entertainment in search of truth or beauty), the critic’s profession is something of a superfluity for the species. Marooned on the desert island,&n
  
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• Gal Gadot, Jason Statham, Wix kick butt in Super Bowl ad race - CNET

  05-02-2017 01:36 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: Experts measuring online views declare that tech firm Wix.com, with an ad featuring the two baddie-bashing action stars, is the fave for now.
  
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• My poker heroes were cowboys, but the internet saw them off

  05-02-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  We thought computers needed to become more human to win at pokerI was one of those who said it could never be done: that a computer wouldn’t ever manage to beat the best at the game of poker. I was romantic and wide-eyed at 18, when my heroes were the cowboys from Texas who ruled the felt. They were uneducated and coarse, yet chock full of the human qualities needed to excel at poker.With nicknames like Amarillo Slim and Texas Dolly, these larger-than-life characters had fearlessness, apti
  
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• AI can win at poker: but as computers get smarter, who keeps tabs on their ethics?

  05-02-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is fast at learning games, but applied to wider society it can have troubling outcomesYou might not expect to find a player named Libratus around a poker table in a high-stakes game of no-limit Texas Hold’em. Yet it was Libratus – an artificial intelligence (AI) – that emerged triumphant from a gruelling 20-day tournament that culminated late last Monday in a dramatic victory over four of the world’s top players. Continue reading...
  
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• 2017 BMW 7 Series Release Date, Price and Specs - Roadshow

  05-02-2017 00:01 via cnet.com
  
  The 2017 BMW M760i xDrive arrives with a twin-turbocharged V12 and handling upgrades to become the most potent and comfortable 7 Series to date.
  
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