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• All the coolest things we saw at Toy Fair 2018 - CNET

  18-02-2018 23:54 via cnet.com
  Here are many of the most interesting new toys, games and gadgets that we discovered.
  
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• Essential Phone colors, Google Pixel sales, Amazing Amazfit Bip battery (MobileTechRoundup show #423)

  18-02-2018 23:32 via zdnet.com
  A new phone arrives at my house on Tuesday while I continue to be impressed by he incredible battery life of the Amazfit Bip watch.
  
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• ​The future of smartphones: Five big questions

  18-02-2018 23:00 via zdnet.com
  We've reached peak smartphone, but is the next innovation lurking among the stands of the world's biggest mobile show?
  
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• Can Samsung still claim to be ahead of Apple? - CNET

  18-02-2018 21:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: Samsung keeps insisting that Apple is always behind. With the release of the Galaxy S9, how true might that be?
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover Activity Key wearable sales are hot - Roadshow

  18-02-2018 19:00 via cnet.com
  Shoppers are ponying up for this Fitbit-like RF-based wearable tech in surprising numbers.
  
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• India's Reliance, global tech firms to invest $9.3 billion in industrial area

  18-02-2018 18:59
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Reliance Industries Ltd and global technology companies will invest 600 billion rupees ($9.34 billion) over 10 years to set up an integrated industrial area in the western state of Maharashtra, the company's chairman Mukesh Ambani said.
  
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• Facebook proved popular with Russian election trolls - CNET

  18-02-2018 18:26 via cnet.com
  Social network singled out in indictment charging 13 Russians with interfering with the US election.
  
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• Why Microsoft should scrap Bing and call it Microsoft Search - CNET

  18-02-2018 18:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: Recently, Microsoft began to feature its own name on Bing Translator. Perhaps it's time for the Bing brand to be retired.
  
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• Ford GT sale puts John Cena in a legal cage match - Roadshow

  18-02-2018 18:00 via cnet.com
  It's now up to the courts to decide whether wrestling star John Cena can sell his new Ford GT supercar for a healthy profit.
  
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• Dodge Demon hits 203 mph in about a minute - Roadshow

  18-02-2018 18:00 via cnet.com
  You'll need to do a couple things to make your own Demon capable of that speed, though.
  
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• Gambling tycoon builds $100m bitcoin-funded Antiguan resort

  18-02-2018 17:54
  ‘His excellency’ Calvin Ayre says project will be entirely funded from digital currency profitsCalvin Ayre, a gambling and bitcoin multi-millionaire who was once on the run from the US authorities, is building a $100m five-star resort on Antigua funded by profits from digital currencies.Canadian-born Ayre, who has been appointed Antigua and Barbuda’s special economic envoy, said he had begun work on the upmarket tourist resort on Antigua’s Valley Church beach.Continue rea
  
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• How a $20 bitcoin buy led to a multiyear hassle - CNET

  18-02-2018 14:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: My encounter with a bitcoin ATM four years ago turned $20 into a saga of frustration, forgetfulness and jackpots won and lost.
  
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• Rent-a-church spire plan to boost mobile phone coverage

  18-02-2018 10:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The government invites churches to let their spires be rented to improve the UK's mobile coverage.
  
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• Software may have helped Daimler pass U.S. emissions tests: report

  18-02-2018 10:29
  BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. investigators probing Mercedes maker Daimlerhave found that its cars were equipped with software which may have help them to pass diesel emissions tests, a German newspaper reported on Sunday, citing confidential documents.
  
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• India's City Union Bank CEO says suffered cyber hack via SWIFT system

  18-02-2018 10:11
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's City Union Banksaid on Sunday that "cyber criminals" had hacked its systems and transferred nearly $2 million through three unauthorized remittances to lenders overseas via the SWIFT financial platform.
  
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• Elon Musk’s dream ideas

  18-02-2018 07:59
  From superfast trains to colonising Mars – a selection of Elon Musk’s extraordinary ideasMusk’s SpaceX enterprise was founded with the intention of making space travel affordable. By extension, Musk has stated that he hopes human beings will one day become a “multi-planetary species”. At the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide last September, Musk said he hopes to send cargo ships to the Red Planet within the next five years, with humans settling b
  
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• Temple Cycles Adventure review: ‘Perfect for hill passes, pints and pasties’ | Martin Love

  18-02-2018 07:00
  Whatever two-wheel adventures you are planning, this classy take on the all-round gravel bike will make the ideal companionTemple Cycles Adventure Disc
  Price £1,595, templecycles.co.uk
  Frame Reynolds steel
  Gears Shimano 105
  Saddle Brooks
  Brakes TRP SpyreIf you’ve cycled in the West Country, you’ll know it’s all about hills, hills, more hills and then, always, a flagstoned pub with a pint waiting for you at the end of a long day’s ride. It’s pain followed by pl
  
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• Careem acquires Middle East online restaurant listing platform, to trial food delivery

  18-02-2018 06:01
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Careem, a Middle East competitor to Uber Technologies [UBER.UL], said on Sunday it had acquired RoundMenu and would start trialing food delivery services through the restaurant listing and reservation online platform this month.
  
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• First SpaceX internet satellites now set to launch Wednesday - CNET

  18-02-2018 06:00 via cnet.com
  Elon Musk's rocket company has been working on getting satellite broadband off the ground for years. Now the Falcon 9 is set to launch the first test.
  
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• At Toy Fair 2018, poop playthings are absolutely everywhere - CNET

  18-02-2018 03:32 via cnet.com
  Poop proves exceedingly popular in this year's crop of new toys. This might be my least favorite toy theme ever.
  
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• Google's firing of James Damore was legal, labor board says - CNET

  18-02-2018 02:41 via cnet.com
  The US National Labor Relations Board says Google fired the author of a controversial diversity memo not to silence a dissenter, but over "unprotected discriminatory statements."
  
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