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• Google denies report of revenue sharing with news publishers - CNET

  22-10-2017 23:24 via cnet.com
  Search giant calls Financial Times report of revenue sharing deal "totally wrong."
  
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• Businesses need to think about a public cyber star rating

  22-10-2017 23:00 via zdnet.com
  How secure is your business and its supply chain, and could it stand up to public scrutiny?
  
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• Samsung phone reportedly emits smoke on flight - CNET

  22-10-2017 21:40 via cnet.com
  Commentary: A Samsung Galaxy J7 in a woman's purse reportedly has to be put into a tray full of water on a Jet Airways flight over India.
  
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• Google will reportedly share revenue with news publishers - CNET

  22-10-2017 21:01 via cnet.com
  Deal will resemble arrangement Google has with traditional advertisers through its AdSense business, The Financial Times reports.
  
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• Google Pixel 2, Moto X4, Essential Phone, AirPods (MobileTechRoundup #410)

  22-10-2017 19:21 via zdnet.com
  Pixel 2 reviews went live while Huawei revealed the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro. A couple new phones arrived for testing and both hosts bought some more gear.
  
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• iPhone X: An ugly deception? - CNET

  22-10-2017 19:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: Apple wants to convince you that its new "smartphone of the future" is all screen. But just look at it.
  
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• Tesla reaffirms effort to build cars in China; mum on deal report

  22-10-2017 17:49
  (Reuters) - Electric car maker Tesla Increaffirmed on Sunday it is talking with the Shanghai municipal government to set up a factory in the region and expects to agree on a plan by the end of the year, but declined to comment on a report that a deal has been reached.
  
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• Dive Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Netflix and Google - CNET

  22-10-2017 17:21 via cnet.com
  Virtual reality travelling is here. So sit back on your couch and visit Australia's amazing reef.
  
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• Toshiba Tecra X40-D-10H

  22-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Toshiba makes an enormous number of laptop models for both home and business use. The Tecra systems are just a small part of its business-oriented range, focused on those on the move who need a powerful platform that they can transport easily.There are four subdivisions to the Tecra series: A, Z, W and X types, the latter of which is the subject of this review. And, within just the X40-D-10 range there are F, G, H, J, R and Z models.What they have in common is a 14-inch display, the same lightwe
  
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• Israel Facebook: Mistranslated post creates security alert

  22-10-2017 14:13 via bbc.co.uk
  A post saying "good morning" in Arabic was reportedly mistranslated to say "attack them" in Hebrew.
  
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• Dive the Great Barrier Reef with Netflix and Google - CNET

  22-10-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Virtual reality travelling is here. So sit back on your couch and visit the reef.
  
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• Eight of the best science and tech newsletters to subscribe to

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• Tim O’Reilly: ‘Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity’

  22-10-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O’Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholdersTim O’Reilly believes we need to have a reset. This means more coming from him than it does from most people. The 63-year-old CEO, born in Ireland and raised in San Francisco, is one of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age. His publishing company, O’Reilly Media, began producing computer manuals in t
  
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• Give your home a stylish makeover with these innovative designs

  22-10-2017 09:00
  
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• From seeds to skyscrapers, these wooden towers are eating CO2

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• Remove ads that appeal to children, gambling sites told

  22-10-2017 08:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Regulators said the firms must advertise responsibly, and warned of the possibility of sanctions.
  
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• Tech giants face Congress as showdown over Russia election meddling looms

  22-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Facebook, Twitter and Google once seemed to encapsulate freedom and connectivity. At a hearing on 1 November a new question will be posed: have they become a tool for foreign autocracies and domestic extremists?A showdown is looming in Washington between Congress and the powerful social media companies that have helped define the current unsettled age in western democracies.
  The immediate issue before the Senate and the House intelligence committees, which have summoned representatives from Face
  
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• North Korea’s deadliest weapon? Its hackers | John Naughton

  22-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  As Sony Pictures and the New York Federal Reserve will attest, the regime has become extremely skilled, and successful, at cyber attacksRule No 1 in international relations: do not assume that your adversary is nuts. Rule No 2: do not underestimate his capacity to inflict serious damage on you. We in the west are currently making both mistakes with regard to North Korea. Our reasons for doing so are, at one level, understandable. In economic terms, the country is a basket case. Accordi
  
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• Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky?

  22-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the stationLast week, Richard Branson gave a boost to tech tycoon Elon Musk’s vision of a futuristic transport system. Hyperloop One is the frontrunner among several companies working on plans for magnetically propelled ground shuttles capable of keeping pace with commercial airliners. Branson announced an in
  
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• Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name

  22-10-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Parent company Alphabet would provide services in response to data harvestedLast June Volume, a leading magazine on architecture and design, published an article on the GoogleUrbanism project. Conceived at a renowned design institute in Moscow, the project charts a plausible urban future based on cities acting as important sites for “data extractivism” – the conversion of data harvested from individuals into artificial intelligence technologies, allowing companies such as Alpha
  
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• I went to buy a Pixel 2. Verizon tried to sell me a Galaxy S8 - CNET

  22-10-2017 00:22 via cnet.com
  Commentary: Verizon is Google's exclusive partner for the Pixel 2 phone. But I wouldn't have known that after a chat with a Verizon salesman.
  
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