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• Facebook believes in mourning time video - CNET

  08-02-2017 23:50 via cnet.com
  
  More reasons to want to work at Facebook... The company is giving employees more bereavement leave and flexible time off to care for sick family members.
  
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• Wear24 smartwatch Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  08-02-2017 23:49 via cnet.com
  
  The Android 2 watch comes out in March with a 450mAh battery.
  
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• Trump's 'Easy D' mention gives Twitter an easy laugh - CNET

  08-02-2017 23:49 via cnet.com
  
  Some on the internet don't think the abbreviation means what the president thinks it means.
  
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• Kate McKinnon takes wheel as Ms. Frizzle in 'Magic School Bus' - CNET

  08-02-2017 23:38 via cnet.com
  
  Who you gonna call? The "Ghostbusters" and "SNL" star will teach a whole new generation on the Netflix revival show.
  
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• Intel uses White House Oval Office for splash on Arizona factory

  08-02-2017 23:19
  Intel Corp chose the White House Oval Office as its backdrop to announce a $7 billion investment in a previously shelved Arizona factory, which it said would create 3,000 jobs when it is up and running. Intel Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich told reporters about the investment while standing behind President Donald Trump. Trump told reporters Krzanich called him a few weeks ago to say he wanted to meet to make a big announcement.
  
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• Microsoft to devs: Again, here's why Universal Windows Platform matters

  08-02-2017 23:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is extolling the benefits of writing to its Universal Windows Platform a couple of months ahead of the release of Windows 10 Creators Update. Here's the latest pitch.
  
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• ​Two million of us now are HBO Now subscribers - CNET

  08-02-2017 23:04 via cnet.com
  
  Fans of Game of Thrones, Westworld and other HBO streaming-video showsincreased from 800,000 a year ago.
  
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• Public sector union to use Centrelink Senate inquiry to highlight departmental 'dysfunction'

  08-02-2017 23:01 via zdnet.com
  
  The Community and Public Sector Union plans to shine a light on the 'dysfunction' present at the Department of Human Services during a Senate inquiry into the Centrelink 'robo' letter debacle.
  
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• Facebook removes VR demo stations from hundreds of Best Buy stores - CNET

  08-02-2017 22:47 via cnet.com
  
  Some shops may have gone days without giving a single demo of the Oculus Rift headset.
  
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• Signal, Snowden's favorite private messenger, is testing a video call feature

  08-02-2017 22:42
  
  Signal, better known as Edward Snowden's favorite private messaging app, is testing a feature that lets users make video calls.  A beta version of the secure messaging platform is now available on Google Play, which includes an additional toggle for "video calling beta" when you go into settings. Users can make encrypted video calls to other Signal users who have also opted into the beta version by tapping the video icon at the top of their screens.  SEE ALSO: Trump's cyber advisor did
  
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• Subaru, Acura claim gold medals in KBB 5-year cost-to-own awards - Roadshow

  08-02-2017 22:31 via cnet.com
  
  Kelley Blue Book also breaks the study down by individual segments, and that's where other automakers pick up some accolades.
  
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• All the winners of KBB's 5-year cost to own awards - Roadshow

  08-02-2017 22:31 via cnet.com
  
  Each year, Kelley Blue Book puts together a list of the cars it thinks will have the lowest cost of ownership over the next five years. Here are the cars that walked away winners this year.
  
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• Intel to invest $7 billion in Arizona semiconductor factory

  08-02-2017 22:17 via zdnet.com
  
  The Fab 42 factory will produce Intel's new 7 nanometer semiconductors.
  
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• Silicon Valley is struggling to work together against Trump's havoc

  08-02-2017 22:11
  
  On a daily basis, Stewart Butterfield roasts Donald Trump on Twitter. The Slack CEO is among the most outspoken leaders in the tech community when it comes to the new president, which made it all the more surprising to see his company missing from the list of 97 tech giants that signed onto an amicus brief opposing the recent Muslim travel ban—arguably the most unified, aggressive action ever taken by the industry on a political issue. Turns out, Slack wasn't a holdout. They just got left
  
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• Trump touts new jobs as Intel resurrects Arizona chip factory - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:58 via cnet.com
  
  Intel's mothballed Fab 42 is back in business to make next-gen chips, and CEO Krzanich uses it to endorse administration efforts to boost US manufacturing.
  
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• A supersonic life: the story of Concorde Alpha Foxtrot - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:57 via cnet.com
  
  As it moves into its new home in an aviation museum in Bristol, England, take a look back at the amazing life of the last Concorde to be built.
  
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• Cyber expert's arrest silences Russian contacts of some Western crime fighters

  08-02-2017 21:45
  By Joseph Menn and Jack Stubbs SAN FRANCISCO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian cyber-security experts have scaled back cooperation with Western contacts after one of their number was arrested in Moscow on treason charges, making it harder to fight global online crime, U.S. law-enforcement and industry sources say. Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been w
  
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• Rethink Robotics rethinks its software

  08-02-2017 21:42 via zdnet.com
  
  Intera 5, a new software platform from Rethink Robotics, makes it easy to program industrial robots to do complex tasks.
  
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• Facebook closes hundreds of VR demo stations at Best Buy stores - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:41 via cnet.com
  
  Some shops may have gone days without giving a single demo of the Oculus Rift headset.
  
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• Despite diversity push, tech has a discrimination problem - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:33 via cnet.com
  
  A new survey from Indeed shows that 24 percent of tech workers experience discrimination at their current company.
  
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• Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source

  08-02-2017 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Online encyclopaedia editors rule out publisher as a reference citing ‘reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism’Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”.The move is highly unusual for the online encyclopaedia, which rarely puts in place a blanket ban on publications and which still allows links to sources such as Kremlin backed news or
  
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• Adata SD700 External SSD

  08-02-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hard disk drives used to dominate the world of external storage, but the arrival of silicon-based technology has changed the norm and gobbled away their market share within a few years.While the first flash USB drives lacked the capacity and the speed to match external HDDs, more recent models have managed to surpass them except when it comes to price per unit of storage.For a growing minority though, adopting silicon-based storage will have proved to be life-changing, especially if they opted f
  
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• MacOS removed battery time remaining. Here's how to bring it back - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:23 via cnet.com
  
  Percentage? We don't need no stinkin' percentage. Despite a recent change, you can still see how many hours and minutes of use remain on your MacBook.
  
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• The Nintendo Switch won't support your internet browsing at launch - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:17 via cnet.com
  
  It's possible Nintendo could add it as a later upgrade.
  
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• Acer Chromebook R13 is a long-lasting notebook with a low price video - CNET

  08-02-2017 21:15 via cnet.com
  
  The 13-inch laptop has a 360-degree hinge so you can use it as a tablet, plus a 13-hour battery life.
  
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• New 'sentient' tools set to explode on the global market

  08-02-2017 21:11 via zdnet.com
  
  Emerging products made possible by leaps in artificial intelligence, cloud, and robotics will affect many jobs.
  
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• AutoComplete: VW accessorizes Atlas with new Weekend Edition video - Roadshow

  08-02-2017 21:08 via cnet.com
  
  Chevrolet prices the Colorado ZR2, and KBB hands out cost-of-ownership awards.
  
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• Intel meeting with Trump turned into a really awkward infomercial

  08-02-2017 21:05
  
  Chip tech giant Intel held a press conference with Donald Trump Wednesday, but instead of just the usual photo op and quick announcement about jobs and innovation, this meeting awkwardly veered into infomercial territory. SEE ALSO: These are the tech giants who didn't sign Silicon Valley's letter against Trump's travel ban It started typically enough with the company's CEO Brian Krzanich announcing a major push for U.S.-based jobs with a $7 billion investment in an Arizona factory. But then Trum
  
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• Oculus Rift gets voice-controlled search in VR

  08-02-2017 20:58
  
  One the most frequent requests from Oculus Rift users is the ability to search for apps on Oculus Home, a basic but missing tool in the Oculus virtual reality environment — until now.  A new update, only available to some users right now, offers a search feature called Oculus Voice.  SEE ALSO: Facebook's VR social network is surprisingly stunning Currently, for most users, when you put on the Rift headset and open Oculus Home, you're forced to scroll through dozens of apps, page
  
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• This wearable can record everything you say — then write it down

  08-02-2017 20:40
  
  We've all been struck by a jolt of inspiration at the most inopportune moment, only to have the brilliant idea slip away before it can be jotted down. A new voice-recording wearable could ensure that never happens again. Launched on Kickstarter earlier this month, Senstone is a compact brooch-sized device designed to capture your spur-of-the-moment thoughts at the tap of a button, transferring them to a companion app on your smartphone. But it doesn't stop there: the device's real potential is i
  
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• HoloLens app mixes AR and VR to put a room on the top of Mt. Fuji

  08-02-2017 20:40
  
  We hear many descriptions of future applications around mixed reality — the intersection of augmented reality and virtual reality — but we don't see much in the way of real demonstrations of the technology.  Now a new HoloLens experiment from a Japan-based developer shows us what one version of mixed reality actually looks like.  SEE ALSO: HoloLens magic brings 'Portal' to (augmented) reality Recorded from the HoloLens' camera, we see a portal to an outside environment floa
  
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• Google reveals Android Wear 2.0 is sending AI to your wrist

  08-02-2017 20:40
  
  The second generation smartwatch software includes Google Assistant.
  
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• Facebook will now allow people to use Safety Check to offer food and shelter

  08-02-2017 20:40
  
  The natural disaster and accident check-in tool has solely been used to mark Facebook users as safe until now.
  
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• Intel, in Oval Office, announces $7 billion semiconductor factory

  08-02-2017 20:31
  Intel Corp chose the Oval Office as its backdrop to announce a $7 billion investment in a new Arizona semiconductor factory, a plant it said would create 3,000 new jobs when it is up and running. Intel Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich announced the investment to reporters while standing behind President Donald Trump, a signal of how corporate America is adapting to a White House that is not reluctant to single out companies for praise or criticism.
  
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• Farewell Dippy! Timelapse shows London's iconic diplodocus being dismantled

  08-02-2017 20:30
  
  By: Victoria WoollastonContinue reading...
  
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• Leak suggests Samsung is going after the Surface Pro with an impressive tablet PC

  08-02-2017 20:28
  
  Samsung's TabPro S did a good job modeling itself off the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro, but it was no Surface Pro killer. With no Surface Pro 5 available (yet), Samsung might get its chance to leap ahead of the competition, assuming leaked product details from The Leaker turn out to be the real deal. SEE ALSO: Samsung's new 2-in-1 Chromebooks now include a stylus Samsung's reportedly planning to announce a successor to the TabPro S in a few weeks at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, th
  
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• Valentine's Day is made for drones, drone company says - CNET

  08-02-2017 20:26 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: Chinese drone maker DJI even offers a Valentine's gift pack with chocolates included, of course.
  
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• Hater - The dating app that matchmakes by hates, not likes

  08-02-2017 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is it easier to start a conversation around the gripes, rather than the likes, you have in common?
  
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• Browsing Pinterest is about to get as easy as snapping a pic

  08-02-2017 20:18
  
  You can now browse Pinterest via your smartphone camera. Pinterest introduced a new feature called Lens, which allows users to search for Pins with their smartphone camera. SEE ALSO: These are the hottest trends for 2017 according to Pinterest Available "in the coming weeks" for iOS and Android (in beta), the feature lets you snap photos of objects you come across in the real world and browse Pinterest for related topics based on them. You don't even have to tell the service what it's a picture
  
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• Windows 10 will let you watch TV as you work - CNET

  08-02-2017 20:17 via cnet.com
  
  Microsoft's software gets a mini-window for watching video or holding Skype chat. Also new: Windows 10 can lock itself automatically when you walk away.
  
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• Scientists have proved that time really does fly when you're on Facebook

  08-02-2017 20:01
  
  One minute you’re having a little scroll through your timeline, the next minute it’s 3am.
  
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• Slide into a svelte, Swedish Volvo V90 for less than $50,000 - Roadshow

  08-02-2017 19:56 via cnet.com
  
  You probably won't be able to find one at a local dealership, though.
  
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• Snap's older user base slowly growing ahead of IPO: analyst

  08-02-2017 19:53
  Snap Inc's Snapchat lags far behind rival social media outlets Facebook Inc, Instagram and Twitter Inc in reaching older users, but the soon-to-be public company has been growing that crucial audience, analysis by MoffettNathanson of a regulatory filing showed. While advertisers covet younger consumers, those 18- to 24-year-olds can be notoriously fickle when it comes to social media preferences, often moving on to the next big thing. Snap said in its S-1 filing on Thursday that its younger-skew
  
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• Are you excited for Android Wear 2.0? (The 3:59, Ep. 176) - CNET

  08-02-2017 19:52 via cnet.com
  
  We break down Google's latest effort to make smartwatches relevant.
  
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• Meet the blockheads: a rare glimpse inside Minecraft's HQ

  08-02-2017 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  It is a fuzzy, lo-fi world of multi-coloured bricks and boxy animals. So why do millions of people want to live inside Minecraft? We travel to Sweden to find outYou wouldn’t know, turning into this nondescript street in Stockholm and padding up the stone steps to Minecraft HQ, that anything special was being made up here. The truth only becomes clear when you step through the door and discover the endless shelves filled with awards (including a Bafta) and the vast boxes of Minecraft mercha
  
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• Your phone screen could soon be made with frickin' diamonds - CNET

  08-02-2017 19:40 via cnet.com
  
  A new technology promises to make screens stronger than glass or sapphire crystal alone.
  
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• Microsoft Office beta testers will soon get MacBook Pro Touch Bar support

  08-02-2017 19:40
  
  The jury is still out on whether the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pros are a total gimmick or not — some people really like it but others, not so much. While it'll take some time before there's a healthy crop of apps with Touch Bar support, Microsoft Office is ready to finally join the club. SEE ALSO: MacBook Pro with Touch Bar banned from bar exam in multiple states First teased at the new MacBook Pro's unveil event in October, Touch Bar support is finally rolling out this week for Word, Exce
  
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• ​Another Samsung battery fire -- this time at its factory - CNET

  08-02-2017 19:40 via cnet.com
  
  A Wednesday fire in a Samsung SDI battery plant in China was extinguished with no injuries.
  
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• Get free phone service from CellNuvo - CNET

  08-02-2017 19:39 via cnet.com
  
  So there really is an alternative to RingPlus. But it's one with a much more limited plan and added hoops to jump through. Plus: two great bonus deals!
  
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• The HP Omen 17 is a gimmick-free gaming laptop video - CNET

  08-02-2017 19:35 via cnet.com
  
  The 17.3-inch notebook might appear tame, but with the right configuration it can conquer your competition.
  
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