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• 'Rick and Morty' fans are fried over lack of Szechuan sauce - CNET

  07-10-2017 23:02 via cnet.com
  McDonald's apologizes after sauce vanishes quickly, ending up on eBay. "This kind of marketing promotion is the reason Jerry is unemployed," notes a fan.
  
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• Project Loon balloons, from Google's Alphabet, to aid Puerto Rico - CNET

  07-10-2017 20:58 via cnet.com
  The FCC approves a request from Project Loon, and Google parent Alphabet, to provide airborne cell towers and help restore cell service on the isle.
  
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• Facebook 'like' designer puts parental controls on own iPhone - CNET

  07-10-2017 20:54 via cnet.com
  Commentary: As Apple's Jony Ive claims constant use of your iPhone is "misuse," Jonathan Rosenstein tries desperately not to download apps.
  
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• A French approach to headphone design - CNET

  07-10-2017 20:47 via cnet.com
  The Focal Clear headphones are designed and made in France to satisfy the most demanding audiophiles.
  
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• Fake news thrives because we desperately want to believe it - CNET

  07-10-2017 20:16 via cnet.com
  Commentary: Never before have people been so eager to spread and believe false information, as the Vegas massacre reminded us yet again.
  
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• What to play this weekend: Forza, Stardew Valley and Layton - CNET

  07-10-2017 20:09 via cnet.com
  This week's most interesting games are surprisingly portable.
  
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• Inside an artist audiophile's stunning New York City loft - CNET

  07-10-2017 19:47 via cnet.com
  Show Us Yours: Greg Patan, the son of a jazz musician, has an insane apartment filled to the rafters with high-end audio gear. Check it out.
  
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• This is UX: 'design developers' add new dimension to software design

  07-10-2017 18:23 via zdnet.com
  New tools and the drive to create superior user experience is creating a new breed of professional: 'design developers.'
  
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• The rising tension between IoT and ERP systems

  07-10-2017 17:09 via zdnet.com
  The Internet of Things is the new frontier. However, generations of ERP systems were not designed to handle global networks of sensors and devices.
  
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• Google Home Mini review - CNET

  07-10-2017 16:42 via cnet.com
  Google Assistant gets a tiny new device designed to be placed anywhere.
  
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• Google Home Mini sounds great but lacks vision - CNET

  07-10-2017 16:09 via cnet.com
  The Google Home Mini sounds better and looks better than the Echo Dot -- but Google needs to innovate if it wants to catch Alexa.
  
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• Change these 3 camera settings in iOS 11 - CNET

  07-10-2017 15:00 via cnet.com
  With a new file format and photo filters, there are some new camera settings iPhone photographers need to check or change.
  
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• Google's brand new Pixels and the incredible Yahoo hack video - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:50 via cnet.com
  In this week's wrap-up, Google introduces the world to its new phones, speakers and laptop. Meanwhile, parent company Verizon reveals a 2013 hack actually affected all three billion of Yahoo's user accounts.
  
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• Wacky gear for the ultra-rich at the Luxury Technology Show 2017 - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:30 via cnet.com
  From sun-chasing smart umbrellas to a $10,000 toilet, these gadgets cater to people with more disposable income than sense.
  
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• Vivint Smart Home review - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Vivint Smart Home offers a wide range of smart products, but $40 monthly monitoring is mandatory if you want smart assistant integration or app control.
  
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• Tokyo's massive new Gundam robot statue blew our minds - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  We made the pilgrimage to Daiba in Tokyo, Japan to check out the new, 1:1-scale Gundam, and it's a remarkable thing.
  
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• Next-gen women engineers forge a new path in tech - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  At the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in tech, young female computer science majors abound. They say they're ready to fight for a place in the field.
  
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• How iPhone X’s face scanner can win us over - CNET

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Face ID is controversial and untested... and what was wrong with the fingerprint scanner anyway?
  
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• Five things you need to know about the 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport video - Roadshow

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Smaller footprint and nimbler handling make this the Rogue for urban singles and young families.
  
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• 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport review - Roadshow

  07-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  The cute ute has a lot going for it, but it falters in some key areas.
  
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• Alienware 17, fast and functional if not terribly photogenic - CNET

  07-10-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  It's a great gaming laptop and supports Tobii Eye Tracking if you're so inclined, but it has an old-school design.
  
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• Alienware 17 and 15, combat-ready gaming laptops video - CNET

  07-10-2017 13:00 via cnet.com
  When you want a laptop that's fast and feels like it could survive a skirmish.
  
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• Who do you trust? How data is helping us decide

  07-10-2017 12:00
  Faced with a choice of babysitters, which do you rely on: your instinct – or the algorithm that tells you to book the one in the green top?My first lesson in the dangers of trusting strangers came in 1983, not long after I turned five, when an unfamiliar woman entered our house. Doris, from Glasgow, was in her late 20s and starting as our nanny. My mum had found her through a posh magazine called The Lady.Doris arrived wearing a Salvation Army uniform, complete with bonnet. “I rememb
  
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• What lies beneath: the smart home that wears its technology lightly

  07-10-2017 12:00
  Hi-tech features concealed throughout this 50s seaside house in East Sussex make it highly energy efficient – and make life easier for its ownersPicture a tech-savvy home and you will probably envisage a slick, white cube where the blinds whirr up at a preset hour and sensors turn on the shower. But a smart home doesn’t have to be robotic and flashy. “We wanted to use technology to make life easier,” says Gigi Sutherland of the home she and her partner, Matt Sellers, rede
  
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• Kids getting too much screen time? Here's some life-changing help

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• Google's Pixel Buds set the stage for the next hardware war

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• 'After, I feel ecstatic and emotional': could virtual reality replace therapy?

  07-10-2017 11:00
  If you’ve got acrophobia, paranoia, fear of flying, PTSD, even depression, software could soon be the solutionLeslie Channell admits he’s not a typical case for treatment. Channell, known to everybody as Chann, is a registered pilot who served 24 years in the army working on Apache helicopters. Chann also happens to be scared of heights. He doesn’t mind flying planes or sitting on the side of the Apache with the door open; he’s just terrified of going up two or three floo
  
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• 10 of the best life hacks from life's best hackers

  07-10-2017 11:00
  
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• Bozoma Saint John, Uber’s brand officer: ‘Saying please gets me everything I need’

  07-10-2017 10:30
  The Connecticut-born marketing executive on her fearless daughter and the app she couldn’t live withoutBorn in Connecticut, US,Saint JohnBozoma Saint John, 40, spent her early childhood in Kenya. After studying English and African American at Wesleyan University, she worked for Spike Lee’s advertising agency, Spike DDB, then ran PepsiCo’s music and entertainment marketing division. In 2014, she became head of global consumer marketing for Apple Music and iTunes. In June, she be
  
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• Step into the history of climate change in London this weekend

  07-10-2017 10:00
  
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• Pixel 2 vs iPhone 8 vs Galaxy S8: What's the best phone right now?

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• 'Other people had feet like mine': I found my tribe online

  07-10-2017 10:00
  Ashamed of your toes? Passionate about hamsters? There are others who feel just the same. All you have to do is find them…Read enough stories about the internet and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s main function is teenage bullying, criminal grooming and trolling public figures. But the internet also helps us find people like us, people you can’t spot on the bus, like never before. Before finding my own tribe in 2013, I was sad and broke, having traded my life savings
  
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• Any muppet could write The Tempest, pre-internet | Hadley Freeman

  07-10-2017 10:00
  Shakespeare had it easy. Writing an 800-word column while resisting the siren call of online gossip? That’s a literary triumphAddicts talk about hitting “rock bottom” with their vice, and given that I am definitely addicted to the internet, I know exactly when I reached mine. It wasn’t the multiple times I Googled the 1990 Bacardi advert five minutes before a deadline, purely to relive that glorious moment from my youth when alcohol advertised itself by promising it would
  
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• Any muppet could write The Tempest, pre-internet

  07-10-2017 10:00
  Shakespeare had it easy. Writing an 800-word column while resisting the siren call of online gossip? That’s a literary triumphAddicts talk about hitting “rock bottom” with their vice, and given that I am definitely addicted to the internet, I know exactly when I reached mine. It wasn’t the multiple times I Googled the 1990 Bacardi advert five minutes before a deadline, purely to relive that glorious moment from my youth when alcohol advertised itself by promising it would
  
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• Airbnb's new offices: plywood castles and sky-high boats

  07-10-2017 10:00
  
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• Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast'

  07-10-2017 09:00
  From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast? A rare interview with Google’s boss
  When Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren&rs
  
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• The Party: a virtual experience of autism - 360 video

  07-10-2017 08:00
  What is it like to be autistic? The Guardian’s latest VR film offers a glimpse of how a person on the autism spectrum copes with a stressful environmentThis video does not work in Safari – please use another browser
  The Party allows you to enter the world of an autistic teenager, Layla, who is at a surprise birthday celebration. You will hear her thoughts about what she is experiencing and how it is affecting her, and share the sensory overload that leads to a meltdown (an intense re
  
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• How the #BlackGirlMagic movement helped make the internet a little less bleak

  07-10-2017 07:00
  The concept is simple: it’s a celebration of black girls and women in a world all too happy to make them small Isn’t technology amazing? I cannot fathom a world without a search engine at my fingertips. How did we cope before them? Sometimes, I remember I completed university without the distracting diversions of YouTube, and marvel silently. When I realise neither Tumblr nor Twitter were around to derail my academic career, I thank my lucky stars. In 2017, aka the hyperbolic age, we
  
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• Berger & Wyse on internet security – cartoon

  07-10-2017 07:00
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• Baseball coach fined for wearing Apple Watch during game - CNET

  07-10-2017 04:37 via cnet.com
  Major League Baseball fines Arizona's coach for sporting a smart watch in the dugout. The incident follows the Boston Red Sox's wearable-related scandal.
  
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• Google to use balloons to provide Puerto Rico cell service

  07-10-2017 03:55
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said late on Friday it had approved Alphabet Inc's application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons.
  
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• Tesla delays big rig truck debut; Model 3 in 'production hell'

  07-10-2017 02:28
  (Reuters) - Tesla IncChief Executive Elon Musk on Friday pushed back the unveiling of the company's big rig truck until mid-November, tweeting that the electric vehicle maker was diverting resources to fix production bottlenecks of its new Model 3 sedan and to help Puerto Rico.
  
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• Scam support

  07-10-2017 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A man who runs an online support group says scam victims are not stupid - just unaware of the con.
  
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• Scam baiter: Why I risk death threats to expose online cons

  07-10-2017 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A man who runs an online support group says scam victims are not stupid - just unaware of the con.
  
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• Disqus confirms 2012 hack of its comments tool

  07-10-2017 01:05 via zdnet.com
  The company is sending out password reset emails to users whose passwords were exposed.
  
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• Tesla in 'production hell' to meet Model 3 deadline: Elon Musk

  07-10-2017 00:47
  (Reuters) - Tesla IncChief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the electric carmaker was "deep in production hell", just days after the company said it would fall behind its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 sedan due to production bottlenecks.
  
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• Oil industry networking site creator gets one year in U.S. hack case

  07-10-2017 00:33
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The founder of an oil and gas networking website who pleaded guilty to hacking a rival site he had created and sold to DHI Group Inc was sentenced to one year and one day in prison on Friday.
  
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• Here's how your Uber is learning to drive - CNET

  07-10-2017 00:10 via cnet.com
  Behind the wheel of the ride-hailing company's self-driving cars are "safety drivers," they're responsible for taking control in case anything happens.
  
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• Get to know the CNET family: Q&A with Mitchell Chang - CNET

  07-10-2017 00:00 via cnet.com
  You can't miss this CNET video producer in his multiple hats. Oh, and most importantly, he likes mustaches!
  
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• Days of future past: Pardon me, is that laptop a real Louis Vuitton?

  07-10-2017 00:00 via zdnet.com
  Style matters -- and it has as long human life has existed. Thanks mostly to Apple and its devices, style now matters in technology -- and makes a difference in our purchasing patterns. Paul Greenberg reprises a post from 2006: References may have changed, but the lust for and value of style hasn't.
  
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