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• 7 handy ways to improve your home in 2018 - CNET

  31-12-2017 23:40 via cnet.com
  Your resolution for 2018: Make home improvement a priority with these handy how-to ideas as inspiration.
  
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• WhatsApp messaging service returns after global outage

  31-12-2017 21:22
  (Reuters) - WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed.
  
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• Ripple: cryptocurrency enjoys end-of-year surge – but will it endure?

  31-12-2017 20:35 via theguardian.com
  Ripple, also known as XRP, peaks at more than $100bn and surpasses Ethereum to become second most valuable cryptocurrency after bitcoinIf 2017 was the year of bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency that neared $20,000 in December, will 2018 be the year of Ripple? Related: From the future of bitcoin to Facebook, 2018 in technologyContinue reading...
  
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• 2017 in review, Pixelbook is back, Apple battery replacement (MobileTechRoundup show #417)

  31-12-2017 20:11 via zdnet.com
  Kevin and Matt spent at least half of this last podcast of 2017 chatting about the good and bad times of mobile technology in 2017. Were their favorites yours too?
  
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• Google Doodle celebrates New Year's Eve with feathered friends - CNET

  31-12-2017 19:06 via cnet.com
  Google's penguin siblings are back to ring in the new year with "sparklers in hand" and "fireworks overhead."
  
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• Iran protests: Telegram and Instagram restricted

  31-12-2017 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Telegram and Instagram have been restricted but President Rouhani says Iranians have right to protest.
  
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• Amazon's Jeff Bezos ends 2017 as the world's richest person, worth $99 billion, despite Donald Trump

  31-12-2017 17:52 via zdnet.com
  Jeff Bezos is ending the year as the world's richest person, and despite Trump's numerous attacks - the latest was on US Postal Service pricing - he appears to have a good chance of maintaining his position.
  
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• Iran reportedly blocks Telegram, Instagram amid protests - CNET

  31-12-2017 16:57 via cnet.com
  Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says it's unclear if the ban on the messaging app is permanent or temporary.
  
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• UK lacks infrastructure for self-driving electric cars, says Axa

  31-12-2017 16:16 via theguardian.com
  Britain could miss out on autonomous vehicle revolution owing to the shortage of charging bays and National Grid limitationsA shortage of charging points and strain on energy supplies are now the main stumbling blocks to the rise of driverless electric cars, according to the UK boss of insurer Axa.Amanda Blanc said a lack of rapid charging bays and pressure on the National Grid have overtaken questions about accident liability as the biggest barriers to autonomous vehicles entering the transport
  
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• Up close with the Smarter Coffee 2nd Generation grinder brewer - CNET

  31-12-2017 15:58 via cnet.com
  See the Smarter Coffee 2nd Generation connected drip brewer up close and personal.
  
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• Smarter Coffee 2nd Generation review - CNET

  31-12-2017 15:56 via cnet.com
  Neither coffee fans nor smart home pioneers with like this connected brewer.
  
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• The best emerging storage tech of 2017

  31-12-2017 14:47 via zdnet.com
  Storage technology is evolving faster than any time in the last 40 years. Here are my picks for the best technologies to emerge in 2017.
  
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• UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says

  31-12-2017 14:44
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalizing people or helping them to prepare attacks, the country's security minister said.
  
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• ZAGG Slim Book keyboard for Apple iPad Pro 10.5: Enhances productivity with valued improvements

  31-12-2017 13:47 via zdnet.com
  Keyboards significantly extend the functionality of the Apple iPad Pro 10.5. ZAGG recently released a new model that is perfect for the enterprise with business attire, multi-angle rotation, and four useful modes.
  
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• Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content

  31-12-2017 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Internet firms are "ruthless profiteers" who fail to fight terrorism, the security minister says.
  
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• New Year's resolutions for big tech: how Silicon Valley can be better in 2018

  31-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Tech is one of the richest and most powerful industries in America – and it gets an awful lot wrong. So here’s some seasonal advice for Silicon Valley’s biggest beastsNew Year’s resolutions are crap. The entire exercise is rife with failure and self-loathing, and you, dearest, have no need to make any. You are already reading the Guardian. You are perfect exactly the way you are.Infinitely more fun than reflecting on one’s own shortcomings is diagnosing the problems
  
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• From the future of bitcoin to Facebook, 2018 in technology

  31-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Social networks and politics, the still unfulfilled promise of augmented reality, pay-to-play games: what might change in the year aheadBoth of the major smart home platforms have a long-running problem with “discoverability”: it’s very hard to let users know what their devices can do, particularly if they’re always improving thanks to rapid software updates. Continue reading...
  
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• With businesses fumbling, Singapore must take more care in data aspirations

  31-12-2017 02:38 via zdnet.com
  Singapore government has been opening up user data access to ease information exchange and business transactions, but it should observe some caution as major organisations continue to slip up over security.
  
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