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• Metro Exodus arrives in 2018 video - CNET

  11-06-2017 23:44 via cnet.com
  
  The team at 4A continues their Metro first-person-shooter series with its latest entry, Metro Exodus, heading to consoles in 2018.
  
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• Microsoft unveils top-spec Xbox One X console

  11-06-2017 23:16
  
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• Microsoft Xbox One X Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  11-06-2017 23:15 via cnet.com
  
  The next generation of Xbox is nearly here.
  
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• Microsoft reveals the Xbox One X, its most powerful console ever - CNET

  11-06-2017 23:15 via cnet.com
  
  The next version of the Xbox makes a giant splash at E3 2017.
  
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• WWDC wrap and big giveaway thanks to HTC and LG (MobileTechRoundup show #400)

  11-06-2017 23:08 via zdnet.com
  
  WWDC was held last week and Matt made an unplanned purchase. We also checked out the new MateBook X and Brydge keyboard. Listen to the show and enter the giveaway too.
  
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• E3 2017 has started: Here's how to watch all the live events - CNET

  11-06-2017 22:01 via cnet.com
  
  The biggest video game show of the year will be packed with announcements. Find everything out at the same time we do!
  
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• School principal offers students $100 to stay off phones - CNET

  11-06-2017 22:00 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: A Washington DC principal attempts to bribe students into getting a life.
  
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• E3, the biggest video game show of the year, has a new twist - CNET

  11-06-2017 20:10 via cnet.com
  
  Ever been to E3? The massive video game show happens every year in Los Angeles. The newest feature this year is that it's opening to the public.
  
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• Goldman Sachs CEO tweet-trolls Donald Trump - CNET

  11-06-2017 19:30 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: Lloyd Blankfein, not a known Twitterer, mocks the president's infrastructure week. And then former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gets in on the Trump-trolling act.
  
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• Apple could sacrifice iPhone 8 gigabit data support: Report

  11-06-2017 18:56 via zdnet.com
  
  Smartphone wars: iPhone 8 will reportedly miss out on next-generation gigabit networks, because of how Apple sources components. Meanwhile, the competing Galaxy S8 supports the new tech.
  
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• Trump calls ex-FBI chief Comey 'cowardly' in tweetstorm - CNET

  11-06-2017 18:49 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: After the former FBI director describes a massive Russian hacking effort against the US elections, the president takes to Twitter to suggest Comey may have broken the law by "leaking."
  
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• Uber's Travis Kalanick may take break from company - CNET

  11-06-2017 17:50 via cnet.com
  
  The role of the startup's CEO will be discussed at a board meeting Sunday, Reuters reports.
  
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• PhotoScape

  11-06-2017 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PhotoScape is primarily a photo editor, but this label doesn't really do it justice – there is much more to it than basic retouching. There's also an image viewer, a batch editing function, a built in screen capture tool, and a host of filters and effects to quickly liven up any image.
  On top of this you can stitch together multiple images into a panorama or collage, work with animated GIFs, convert RAW images, create slideshows, and print photos using a number of templates – the lis
  
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• aTube Catcher

  11-06-2017 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  aTube Catcher is one of a growing number of tools that download videos from the likes of YouTube, Dailymotion and Metacafe. While it's often easy to browse the web on your phone will you travel, there are times when there's no connection available. This is when it pays to have downloaded videos in advance.
  The videos you download can be converted to a number of popular formats, suitable for playback on a variety of devices. So whether you're looking for the best possible quality to view on a hig
  
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• Google Android O Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  11-06-2017 16:00 via cnet.com
  
  The new software digs deep in an effort to make Android faster and smoother.
  
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• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2017

  11-06-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eugene Kaspersky started developing antivirus software as a hobby in 1989. In 1997 he co-founded Kaspersky Labs with his wife, and over the years it has grown into a cybersecurity giant with 400 million users and 270,000 corporate clients.Kaspersky's starter product is Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2017, a simple package which concentrates on the key essentials only. Forget Bitdefender-type extras like a password manager, banking protection or file shredder – Kaspersky leaves those for its high-end
  
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• Moving from Android to iOS: Lessons learned helping with a transition

  11-06-2017 14:47 via zdnet.com
  
  After a blatant theft of my wife's HTC 10 a couple of weeks ago, we decided to shift her to an iPhone since the other four family members use iOS and there are benefits to all of us using iPhones. At least, that is what I thought at first.
  
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• Foxit Reader

  11-06-2017 14:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Foxit Reader is a PDF reader – and much more. As well as providing a way to view PDF files, the program can also be used to create this type of file, sign PDFs, and add annotations.There are also Foxit Reader plugins for Microsoft Office programs (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that make for easy conversion of common file types, and open up the possibility of create PDFs from pretty much any file you can open.
  Ultimately, Foxit Reader is a PDF viewer with a handful of tricks up its
  
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• The bike at 200: World's craziest rides, then and now - CNET

  11-06-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the bike with a romp through bonkers bicycling creations from a hoverbike to a 19th-century quad-cycle.
  
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• Pilot text messages are saving you from flight delays - CNET

  11-06-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Using a new text-based communication technology called Data Comm, the FAA is helping speed up departures across the country.
  
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• Inside the world's biggest automated package sorting facility - CNET

  11-06-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  We visit this UPS facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
  
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• Enter the Dark Universe -- 'The Mummy' and beyond - CNET

  11-06-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  "The Mummy" is the first film in a new franchise resurrecting classic movie monsters from Universal Pictures. Here's what you need to know.
  
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• Meet the next generation of fintech startups set to revolutionise the world of finance

  11-06-2017 13:00
  
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• Imax brings virtual reality to movie theaters - CNET

  11-06-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  We went eyes-on with this ambitious new cinema experiment, now open in New York City and Los Angeles.
  
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• How Putin keeps the internet under state control

  11-06-2017 12:00
  
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• The best hedge trimmers are put to the test by TV gardener Matthew Wilson

  11-06-2017 10:00
  
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• Kingdom Hearts III has a new trailer (but no release date) - CNET

  11-06-2017 08:21 via cnet.com
  
  First announced in 2013, the long-awaited Disney / Final Fantasy mashup is still not ready.
  
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• Why open-world games are a far cry from reality

  11-06-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Titles that inhabit close versions of our physical reality too often shy away from grappling with difficult political truthsIn the beginning, video game settings were predominantly fantastical, usually galactic: the technical and financial cost of rendering a scene on a computer screen made space, with that affordable blackness, the ideal locale. Thus 1962’s Spacewar!, 1979’s Galaxian and 1984’s Elite were all games whose settings were defined as much by those boundaries as aut
  
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• Uber board to discuss CEO absence, policy changes: source

  11-06-2017 07:25
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] board will discuss Chief Executive Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the embattled ride-hailing firm and consider sweeping changes to the company's management practices at a meeting on Sunday, according to a person familiar with the situation.
  
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• Stormtroopers, hip-hop and video games: EA Play at E3 2017 - CNET

  11-06-2017 03:18 via cnet.com
  
  The 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo is off to a bang. Here's what it was like to attend the first fan event, EA Play.
  
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• WD's My Passport SSD is a tiny thing video - CNET

  11-06-2017 01:03 via cnet.com
  
  Editor Dong Ngo explains why the tiny My Passport SSD portable drive from WD is a huge deal.
  
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• Star Wars Battlefront II, Madden 18 and everything EA announced for E3 2017 - CNET

  11-06-2017 00:27 via cnet.com
  
  The game company kicked off E3 with reveals of a story mode for its famous football franchise and a new IP from BioWare.
  
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