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• Hurricane Irma forces adorable Florida flamingo evacuation - CNET

  10-09-2017 23:30 via cnet.com
  It's more than just homes and humans in the path of the massive storm. The colorful birds of Busch Gardens are also being moved to shelter.
  
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• 'X-Files' turns 24, and Scully and Mulder are still perfect - CNET

  10-09-2017 23:00 via cnet.com
  On the show's nearly-quarter-century anniversary, Gillian Anderson thanked co-star David Duchovny on Twitter. He responded. Fans awwwwwwed.
  
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• Police tell Facebook group not to fire guns at hurricane - CNET

  10-09-2017 21:22 via cnet.com
  Commentary: An 80,000-strong Facebook group bands together to "show Irma that we shoot first." Florida police take to Twitter to try to stop it.
  
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• Astronaut's grim photos from space show hurricane destruction - CNET

  10-09-2017 20:17 via cnet.com
  ISS commander Randy Bresnik shares pictures of Hurricanes Irma and Jose and also of the devastation they leave behind.
  
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• Apple suffers 'major iPhone X leak'

  10-09-2017 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The operating system of unreleased iPhones is leaked to two websites, revealing secret details.
  
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• iPhone 8 -- how late can you tolerate? - CNET

  10-09-2017 19:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: With insistent suggestions that the new flagship iPhone may be delayed, how long are customers prepared to wait?
  
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• Caseology Parallax and Skyfall for Samsung Galaxy Note 8 hands-on: Attractive drop protection for less than $20

  10-09-2017 18:18 via zdnet.com
  The Galaxy Note 8 consists of two Gorilla Glass 5 panels with an aluminum frame. To help hold this slick device and offer some drop protection, a case is justified.
  
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• Sony VPL-VW285ES projector first look: Eyes on 4K for $5K - CNET

  10-09-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  We take a quick look at Sony’s just-announced “low” cost 4K projector.
  
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• How Fanatics knows what jersey you want to buy before you do - CNET

  10-09-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  The sports gear e-tailer's intricate analytics platform teases out customer demand.
  
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• PSA CEO says switch to electric cars must be profitable: paper

  10-09-2017 12:14
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - PSA Group will support newly acquired Opel introducing electric cars but the switch must be profitable for it to be successful, PSA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares told German paper Bild am Sonntag.
  
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• With iOS 11, Apple is finally giving Siri a new, more human voice

  10-09-2017 11:00
  
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• Is the flying car ready for takeoff?

  10-09-2017 10:30
  At least six developers have retail road-air vehicles in the pipeline, so it’s time to watch the skiesA little white winged pod lifts itself off the ground and glides off into the distance. The whole movement looks effortless. It’s like watching Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder – except we’re in a nondescript airfield in Germany, not the planet Tatooine. Echoes of Star Wars perhaps help explain why last week the pod’s maker, Lilium, secured $90m (£69m) inves
  
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• This startup is teaching coding to Canada's most isolated kids

  10-09-2017 10:00
  
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• Would you want a robot to be your child’s best friend?

  10-09-2017 09:45
  As toys reach new levels of sophistication, how concerned should we be about our children playing with artificial buddies that appear to have feelings?The little robot on the table wakes up. Its eyes, a complex configuration of cyan dots on a black, rounded screen of a face, sleepily open and it lets out a digitised approximation of a yawn. A compact device that looks like a blend of a forklift truck and PC monitor bred for maximum cuteness, the robot rolls blearily off its charging station on a
  
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• Why workers’ right don’t matter in Silicon Valley | John Naughton

  10-09-2017 08:00
  The leaders of the world’s biggest technology companies are liberal on social issues and trade, but anti-union and anti-regulationOne of the stranger sights of June was watching the titans of Silicon Valley meekly obeying Trump’s summons to a tech summit (dubbed his American Technology Council) at the White House. Those attending included Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Safra Catz of Oracle, Tim Cook of Apple, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (the venture-capital firm), Brian Krzanich of Intel, T
  
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• Apple iPhone 8 / iPhone X Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET

  10-09-2017 01:07 via cnet.com
  New leaks reveal phone names, lift the curtain on Animojis.
  
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• What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human?

  10-09-2017 01:05
  As robots grow more lifelike, and religious faith in our uniqueness wanes, it is a challenge to understand what it means to be mortalPerhaps the best way to think of what makes a human being human is to look at something that seems almost human and subtract the difference. Whatever is left over is what is unique to us. That seems to be the thinking behind the Finnish photographer Maija Tammi’s One of Them Is a Human #1, a portrait of Erica, the Japanese android who was declared the most re
  
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