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• Ancestry.com offers provocative Independence Day ad - CNET

  02-07-2017 23:30 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: The genealogy site gets descendants of those who signed the Declaration of Independence to show the true diversity of the nation.
  
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• Facebook drone that could bring global internet access completes test flight

  02-07-2017 23:15
  
  Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term plan for the Aquila drone is to have it and others provide internet access to 4bn people around the world who are in the darkA solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has completed a test flight in Arizona, after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing. Related: Facebook's solar-powered drone under investigation after 'accident'Continue reading...
  
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• The freaky Pixar theory that could blow your mind - CNET

  02-07-2017 22:07 via cnet.com
  
  What if every Pixar movie was from the same universe? And what if one of them took place in the past AND the future?
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is going back on sale - CNET

  02-07-2017 21:56 via cnet.com
  
  The new Fan Edition hits stores on Friday – but only in South Korea.
  
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• Samsung resurrects Galaxy Note 7 sales - CNET

  02-07-2017 20:55 via cnet.com
  
  New Fan Edition to go on sale Friday – but only in South Korea.
  
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• Trump tweets video of him body-slamming and punching CNN - CNET

  02-07-2017 19:48 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: The president insists his tweeting is 'modern day presidential.' Is this a prime example?
  
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• R2-D2 sells at auction for over $2 million - CNET

  02-07-2017 17:58 via cnet.com
  
  A fan buys an iconic Star Wars droid pieced together from other R2-D2 prop parts at an auction in Southern California.
  
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• Trump defends his tweets as 'modern day presidential' - CNET

  02-07-2017 17:07 via cnet.com
  
  Forget "covfefe." Twitter found a new catchphrase after the president stuck up for his controversial use of social media.
  
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• Build a career in IT with this CompTIA certification training (​ZDNet Academy)

  02-07-2017 16:34 via zdnet.com
  
  Get up to speed with the latest concepts in configuring networks and managing security with this course bundle.
  
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• Turn an old monitor into a wall display with a Raspberry Pi - CNET

  02-07-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Have an old monitor and Raspberry Pi lying around? Put them both to great use with this DIY wall-mounted display.
  
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• How to watch every Marvel Cinematic Universe film in the right order - CNET

  02-07-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Here's why you shouldn't watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the order the films were released.
  
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• Blink and you'll miss these MacBook Pro updates video - CNET

  02-07-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  Same body on the outside, same features, but new processor and GPU options include.
  
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• Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (15-inch, 2017) review - CNET

  02-07-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  
  The updated 15-inch MacBook Pro has new CPU and graphics options, on top of last year's Touch Bar and giant touchpad.
  
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• The brain on DMT: mapping the psychedelic drug's effects

  02-07-2017 12:00
  
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• Avast Pro Antivirus

  02-07-2017 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It may be best known for its free antivirus, but Prague-based Avast is a cyber-security giant which reports 400 million users and claims to have 40% of the security software market outside of China. In 2016, it acquired AVG, and Avast products now combine the best of both technologies.Avast Pro Antivirus is a very powerful product which comes stuffed with essential features. There's real-time virus protection, URL filtering, a password manager, browser clean-up module, wireless network checker,
  
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• Digested Read: Sheryl Sandberg's 'Option B'

  02-07-2017 11:00
  
  By: WIREDContinue reading...
  
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• Internet regulation: is it time to rein in the tech giants?

  02-07-2017 10:30
  
  Fake news and Isis propaganda have raised concern about the power of the web. But with cyberspace controlled by a handful of giant firms, can governments ever hope to curb them – and is that even desirable?“Enough is enough,” said Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street after the London Bridge attack last month. “When it comes to taking on extremism and terrorism, things need to change.” And one of those things was the behaviour of internet firms, which should not all
  
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• Flying in an electric plane

  02-07-2017 09:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  ...but how does it feel? Richard Westcott reports.
  
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• The biographical video games playing at real life

  02-07-2017 09:00
  
  An emerging genre of games based on people’s real-life experiences is proving provocative and compellingIn my myriad careers as a video game player, I have waited tables in Diner Dash, manned trebuchets in Total War, driven cabs in Crazy Taxi, delivered newspapers as Paperboy and tilled fields in Farming Simulator. Play is work’s twin, and video games are characterised by their capacity to allow us to inhabit the vocations and occupations of others. In general, however, the people wh
  
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• Russia behind cyber-attack, says Ukraine's security service

  02-07-2017 02:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ukraine's security service says it has obtained data linking Russia to last week's malware attack.
  
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• To tackle Google’s power, regulators have to go after its ownership of data

  02-07-2017 01:05
  
  Long-term the aim is to find profitable uses for its stockpiled informationThe problem with regulating technology companies is that, faced with tough new rules, they can eventually innovate their way out, often by switching to newer, unregulated technologies. The risk of targeted regulation informed by little other than economic doctrines might even be fuelling a corporate quest for eternal disruption: instead of surrendering to the regulators, technology firms prefer to abandon their old busine
  
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• Challenges to Silicon Valley won’t just come from Brussels

  02-07-2017 01:04
  
  Fine of €2.4bn levied on Google is a sign of the continued erosion of US tech firms’ domination of the internetThe whopping €2.4bn fine levied by the European commission on Google for abusing its dominance as a search engine has taken Silicon Valley aback. It has also reignited American paranoia about the motives of European regulators, whom many Valley types seem to regard as stooges of Mathias Döpfner, the chief executive of German media group Axel Springer, president of t
  
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• Can you buy anything real with Bitcoin? On the streets of Bristol, it proves a hard sell

  02-07-2017 01:04
  
  The digital currency can now be bought at ATMs around the countryMy journey into the dark economy starts much as expected: in front of a computer screen, late at night. It ends somewhere quite unexpected, in a humdrum setting a world away from the stereotype of modernity, equality and sticking it to the man promised by digital currencies such as Bitcoin: it ends in a used DVD store, my purchase refused.The dark economy is moving into the light. In a few scattered places, 40 or so in London, one
  
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