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• Google on a bike: The future of search

  25-03-2018 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan gets on his bike to talk about the future of search at Google's Mountain View campus.
  
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• Uber to sell Southeast Asia business to rival Grab: sources

  25-03-2018 22:03
  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, in what would be the U.S. company's second retreat from Asia.
  
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• Shopping for Galaxy S9 at Verizon and AT&T. Customers speak out - CNET

  25-03-2018 22:00 via cnet.com
  Commentary: After my indifferent experience at two carrier stores and a better one at T-Mobile, customers of the carriers have their say.
  
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• You're fired! Animatronic T-rex burns up in hellish scene - CNET

  25-03-2018 19:55 via cnet.com
  The 24-foot dinosaur is really extinct after an accident sizzles him down to a frightening charred skeleton.
  
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• Furor erupts around Indian PM Modi's app over alleged data sharing

  25-03-2018 19:50
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official mobile application https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.narendramodiapp&hl=en was sending personal user data to a third party without their consent caused a furor on social media in India and drew criticism from the leader of the main opposition party on Sunday.
  
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• Polls show Facebook losing trust as firm uses ads to apologize

  25-03-2018 19:21
  SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany indicated that a majority of the public were losing trust in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users.
  
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• Wall Street's beloved FANG stock quartet may be breaking up

  25-03-2018 18:41
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The quartet of technology stocks that has driven Wall Street indices to record highs in recent years may be breaking up, possibly undermining one of the best growth stories in a nine-year bull market.
  
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• Exercise tracking, Pixel C status, and OnePlus strange approach to selling phones (MobileTechRoundup #427)

  25-03-2018 18:15 via zdnet.com
  The Samsung Galaxy S9 is now available in stores, the Pixel C received its last Android update, and Kevin picked up another Pixel phone.
  
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• Americans less likely to trust Facebook than rivals on personal data: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  25-03-2018 17:37
  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebookto obey U.S. privacy laws, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, illustrating the challenge facing the social media network after a scandal over its handling of personal information.
  
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• Zuckerberg apologizes for data scandal in full-page ads - CNET

  25-03-2018 17:23 via cnet.com
  Facebook chief calls scandal a "breach of trust" and outlined preventative steps the company is taking.
  
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• Web Foundation CEO: Getting the whole world online is our goal - CNET

  25-03-2018 17:00 via cnet.com
  Adrian Lovett, the Web Foundation's new CEO and president, says we shouldn't take the good things about the web for granted -- we should fight for them.
  
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• A quick guide to Roblox, for adults – AKA the latest 'next Minecraft'

  25-03-2018 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Some might be baffled by the cheapo Lego art style and janky controls – but, for kids, playing a game that doesn’t always work properly is all part of the funIf your kids aren’t playing Fortnite – the colourful, cartoonish shooter that has recently become a massive after-school (and work lunch-break) craze – they are probably playing Roblox. Like Minecraft, which colonised the minds of basically all school-aged children around 2012-15, Roblox lets players get creati
  
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• Facebook boss apologises in UK and US newspaper ads

  25-03-2018 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The firm could have done more to stop data breach that affected "millions", Mark Zuckerberg says.
  
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• TerraMaster F4-420 NAS

  25-03-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year we reviewed the TerraMaster F2-220, a dual-drive NAS that offered plenty of computing power, but needed to enhance the software side of that proposition.Given the TerraMaster numbering convention, it would be easy to assume that the F4-420 is merely a four drive version of the F2-220. And in some respects that isn’t far from the truth. Let’s take a more detailed look at this NAS solution which is priced at $460 or £400.Design
  The appearance of the F4-420 is something
  
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• Linux Mint announces Mintbox Mini 2 tiny desktop PC with Intel inside

  25-03-2018 14:27 via zdnet.com
  Due in June, the new Mintbox moves from an AMD CPU to a rival Celeron processor, which should provide a performance boost while maintaining a similar price point.
  
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• Coros Omni smart cycling helmet hands-on: Protection, music, and safety

  25-03-2018 14:21 via zdnet.com
  It's not safe to use earbuds while you ride a bike in most areas. However, Coros has a new helmet with support for open ear music, smart rear lighting, and safety comms to vital contacts.
  
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• 2018 Kia Stinger GT joins Roadshow's long-term test fleet - Roadshow

  25-03-2018 14:00 via cnet.com
  We invite our 2018 Vehicle of the Year winner home for an extended test.
  
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• AirPower: All we know about Apple’s wireless charging pad - CNET

  25-03-2018 13:00 via cnet.com
  Apple's wireless charging pad AirPower was first unveiled in September. Here's everything we know about it so far.
  
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• ​ATO pulls website offline despite cancelling scheduled maintenance

  25-03-2018 09:52 via zdnet.com
  The Australian Taxation Office once again took its services completely offline after tweeting last week planned maintenance was cancelled.
  
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• Death by robot: the new mechanised danger in our changing world

  25-03-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  As the use of autonomous machines increases in society, so too has the chance of robot-related fatalitiesWas killed last Sunday by an Uber autonomous car that hit the 49-year-old at approximately 40mph as she was crossing the road in Tempe, Arizona. Police confirmed there was an operator in the Volvo SUV at the time of the collision, and stated that it didn’t appear the car had slowed down. Continue reading...
  
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• Games Workshop: The empire that began in a west London flat

  25-03-2018 01:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson reveal the humble beginnings of Games Workshop.
  
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• China's uncontrolled space station could crash to Earth soon - CNET

  25-03-2018 01:51 via cnet.com
  Tiangong-1 launched in 2011. Now it's coming home at very high speeds without a steering wheel, with the latest reentry predictions closing in around April 1.
  
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• Apple Music's Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are 'too similar'

  25-03-2018 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services need to diversify to survive.
  
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• Waymo CEO says its tech would have handled Uber self-driving incident safely

  25-03-2018 01:05
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The head of Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that the company's technology would have safely handled the situation confronting an Uber self-driving vehicle last week when it struck a pedestrian, killing her.
  
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• Being a driverless car passenger proves ‘unsettling and extraordinary’

  25-03-2018 01:05 via theguardian.com
  The latest UK entry in the race to revolutionise roads goes for a spin despite the first such vehicle death in the US last weekHow many people does it take to drive a driverless car? Five: a safety driver behind the wheel, an operator to program the route, and three engineers monitoring it in another car behind.It is, to be fair, barely even a prototype. The autonomous car unveiled in Milton Keynes last week is bleeding-edge engineering, Britain’s entry in a global race to get the first dr
  
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