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• Mayweather-McGregor fight: How to stream, time and date, odds and more - CNET

  26-08-2017 22:47 via cnet.com
  When does it start? How can you watch it? We have everything you need to know right here.
  
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• Essential Phone begins shipping, only 58 days late (update) - CNET

  26-08-2017 21:35 via cnet.com
  Or three days late, depending how you count.
  
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• Massive robot dance sets a Guinness world record - CNET

  26-08-2017 21:29 via cnet.com
  Watch as 1,069 robots dance simultaneously in China to break the record.
  
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• Here’s an unconventional, terrific-sounding bookshelf speaker - CNET

  26-08-2017 19:47 via cnet.com
  The Hsu Research CCB-8 speaker delights the Audiophiliac!
  
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• McGregor-Mayweather fight: Follow these Twitter accounts - CNET

  26-08-2017 19:00 via cnet.com
  Get ready for the big fight by following the best boxing and MMA accounts on Twitter.
  
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• Listening to a $6K headphone and loving every second if it - CNET

  26-08-2017 18:47 via cnet.com
  The Hifiman Susvara is the perfect headphone for hardcore audiophiles with deep pockets.
  
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• Mayweather-McGregor fight: Time, how to stream, odds and much more - CNET

  26-08-2017 17:36 via cnet.com
  When does it start? How can you watch it? We have everything you need to know right here.
  
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• 5 essentials for building the perfect Internet of Things beast

  26-08-2017 17:24 via zdnet.com
  The challenge is that 'the IoT platform market is immature and there are over 150 options to choose from.'
  
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• The 3:59 extended edition: Was the Galaxy Note 8 worth the wait? - CNET

  26-08-2017 17:06 via cnet.com
  Here's our full podcast and live YouTube post-show digging into the details on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
  
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• Food delivery creates tech headache for some U.S. restaurants

  26-08-2017 16:33
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four tablets from various delivery companies crowd the front counter of Proposition Chicken in San Francisco, each calling out with its own ring when an order arrives.
  
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• Our favorite special effects sequence from a movie - CNET

  26-08-2017 15:00 via cnet.com
  Every week we ask people around the office questions about pop culture to see what makes them tick. This week, we ask what visual-effects scene from a movie is their favorite.
  
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• Samsung's de facto chief sentenced; Amazon says Whole Foods changes are coming video - CNET

  26-08-2017 14:50 via cnet.com
  In this week's wrap-up, Samsung's acting head gets a five-year prison sentence after being found guilty of bribery and embezzlement. Meanwhile, Amazon announces imminent changes for Whole Foods, including price cuts.
  
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• Video Roundup: New at Samsung

  26-08-2017 14:00 via zdnet.com
  After last year's Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, Samsung had to step back and consider whether the Note line should even continue. Was the brand too damaged? Would customers ever trust the company again? Obviously, it determined we're ready for more. Here's a look at what Samsung has been up to lately.
  
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• Online anger fuels democracy in this interactive show - CNET

  26-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  An experimental play looks at how the internet helped corrode political discourse and what we can do to fix it.
  
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• Appliance Science: How rice cookers cook rice without burning - CNET

  26-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  How does your rice cooker make perfect rice without burning it? Science, that's how. Appliance Science looks at how rice cookers work.
  
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• ​Samsung's quest to reinvent the TV in the age of convergence

  26-08-2017 13:45 via zdnet.com
  From QLED, to smart, to curved, Samsung Electronics' experiments in TVs have drawn both praise and ridicule. But are these all leading to a paradigm shift with the South Korean tech behemoth leading the charge?
  
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• How the Galaxy Note 8 will keep you from getting burned - CNET

  26-08-2017 13:30 via cnet.com
  After the Note 7 fires in 2016, Samsung needs its new phones to be all about safety. It all starts with the batteries.
  
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• Glenn's Texas-sized home theater will make you jealous - CNET

  26-08-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  After you see this Dallas native's home-theater, you might get inspired to concoct own audio-visual feast for your abode.
  
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• The Indian startup modernising a 200-year-old industry: tea

  26-08-2017 12:00
  
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• I write viral news for a living. What it's like will shock you

  26-08-2017 11:00
  
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• YouTube football team Hashtag United 'living the dream'

  26-08-2017 01:56 via bbc.co.uk
  The amateur team's matches are watched by hundreds of thousands of fans.
  
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• How Australia’s gaming industry is leading the way in fighting sexism

  26-08-2017 01:50
  A crop of female developers is aiming to empower more women to break into a historically male-dominated industry to right the gender imbalance and, ultimately, creates game suited to, well, women At 23, Ally McLean already has what many would consider an enviable career.Currently the project lead at Sydney independent game development studio Robot House, McLean got her start as a professional cosplayer – designing and wearing elaborate gaming and pop-culture character costumes at comic boo
  
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• 2017 Nissan Rogue Hybrid SV review - Roadshow

  26-08-2017 01:17 via cnet.com
  Nissan's small hybrid SUV is only a bit more fuel-efficient than its non-hybrid base, but it also doesn't cost much more green to go green.
  
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• Samsung HW-MS750 Sound+ Soundbar

  26-08-2017 01:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the great pantheon of audio manufacturers you’ll find names like Klipsch, Audio-Technica, Polk, Bose, KEF, Harman Kardon and now, finally, Samsung. The South Korean manufacturer’s meteoric rise to aural greatness started with the Samsung HW-K950 – a spectacular-sounding Dolby Atmos soundbar – back in 2016, then continued with this year’s even-more-impressive (and more affordable) HW-MS650, and now has reached the zenith with the all-new Samsung HW-MS750
  
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• Veritas Capital explores sale of nearly $3 billion in high-tech portfolio assets: sources

  26-08-2017 00:06
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York-based private equity firm Veritas Capital is exploring the sale of two high-tech portfolio companies, worth nearly $3 billion in total, as it looks to raise cash to fund new deals this Fall, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
  
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• After governance breakdown, Node.js leaders fight for its survival

  26-08-2017 00:00 via zdnet.com
  The tumultuous events this week in the Node.js community were a long time coming. Insiders tell ZDNet how the community is trying to repair — and prepare for what's to come.
  
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