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• EU reportedly ready to act against tech companies over terror content - CNET

  19-08-2018 22:20 via cnet.com
  European Union plans to impose fines over terrorist propaganda.
  
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• Twitter CEO Dorsey explains ignoring Infowars' rules violations - CNET

  19-08-2018 20:57 via cnet.com
  Speaking to CNN, Dorsey says Twitter didn't take action against Alex Jones until others pointed out bad behavior.
  
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• Twitter doesn't proactively police its service, CEO Dorsey says - CNET

  19-08-2018 19:10 via cnet.com
  Speaking to CNN, Dorsey says Twitter didn't take action against Alex Jones until others pointed out bad behavior.
  
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• Movies and shows on Amazon: September 2018 - CNET

  19-08-2018 16:00 via cnet.com
  Classics like Chinatown, Blazing Saddles and Ghostbusters are headed your way!
  
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• OnePlus 6T will launch with T-Mobile in first US carrier deal ever - CNET

  19-08-2018 14:50 via cnet.com
  The company is shooting to price the phone at $550, although that still needs to be finalized.
  
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• Visual effects company MPC reveals modern movie magic - CNET

  19-08-2018 14:30 via cnet.com
  Computer-generated visual effects are everywhere in movies and TV. But how is digital magic conjured?
  
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• Know your visual effects lingo - CNET

  19-08-2018 14:30 via cnet.com
  From compositing to previz, understand the latest filmmaking terms with this handy glossary of visual effects jargon.
  
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• Inside the visual effects factory where movie magic is made - CNET

  19-08-2018 14:30 via cnet.com
  This is how modern CG effects are created.
  
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• The shaky world of coffee maker startups - CNET

  19-08-2018 14:00 via cnet.com
  Backing a coffee maker startup is a wild ride: see where a few recent ones stand.
  
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• Morgan Motor Company still makes cars by hand with wood - Roadshow

  19-08-2018 14:00 via cnet.com
  Hand-built sports cars made largely of wood are still being built. Here’s a look inside the anachronistic Morgan Motor Company.
  
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• Classic of classics: How Morgan still makes its wooden wonders - Roadshow

  19-08-2018 14:00 via cnet.com
  The tiny British automaker Morgan still makes cars by hand using a combination of woodworking skill and modern technology. Here’s how.
  
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• 5 ways Samsung's new Bixby speaker can beat Alexa, HomePod and Google Home - CNET

  19-08-2018 13:15 via cnet.com
  Commentary: If Samsung follows this blueprint, the Galaxy Home will have a fighting chance versus Amazon, Google and Apple.
  
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• The MSI GS65 Stealth Thin's got game and panache video - CNET

  19-08-2018 13:00 via cnet.com
  This speedy ultrathin gaming laptop forgoes flash for style.
  
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• MSI GS65 Stealth Thin review: A gaming laptop that does split-personality with style - CNET

  19-08-2018 13:00 via cnet.com
  A good choice for work and play without looking too flashy -- or too boring.
  
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• MSI GS65 Stealth Thin games with slim style - CNET

  19-08-2018 13:00 via cnet.com
  This gaming laptop is all business in the back and a party up front.
  
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• The game changers: meet the creatives shaking up the gaming world

  19-08-2018 09:30
  On the eve of a new exhibition, we talk to six radical designers in an industry that’s evolving at exhilarating speedJust as the kaleidoscopic dramas of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, the pseudo-non-fiction murk of Alan Moore’s comic From Hell and the domestic pragmatism of Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals meet under the fat banner of prose, so the body of video games becomes an ever broader church. It is impossible to enforce orthodoxy in a medium where shifting techno
  
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• Why a $100 phone will get Android Pie before your Samsung Galaxy S9

  19-08-2018 08:00
  
  Android Pie (Go edition) will be on entry-level smartphones this autumn and is part of Google’s plan to get millions more Android users
  
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• Inside the British military base where young hackers learn to stop cybercrime

  19-08-2018 08:00
  As part of the Cyber Security Challenge UK, law enforcement agencies are putting ‘cyberdefenders’ through their pacesAt the heart of a police operation to defend Britain from attack by cybercriminals, a 14-year-old boy was honing his skills to thwart hackers linked to a rogue state.Ben Abrahmason was among a group who gathered at a military base in Wiltshire on Friday to counter fictional but sophisticated cyber-attacks. Continue reading...
  
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• Timeline: Elon Musk's 'difficult and painful' 2018

  19-08-2018 07:00
  The Tesla founder confessed that the past year was ‘excruciating’ in an emotional interview that led to stocks falling sharply. Here’s a look back on his 201827 JanuaryElon Musk’s Boring Company launches a $500 flamethrower. Critics say it is more like a gun-shaped blowtorch than a flamethrower. Continue reading...
  
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• The strange saga of Elon Musk: inside his 'excruciating' year

  19-08-2018 07:00
  The Tesla founder acknowledged that the past year has been ‘most difficult and painful’ time in his career – but what brought him there? It’s been a horrible year for Elon Musk. One even he acknowledges couldn’t have been much worse. “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” the billionaire entrepreneur said in an New York Times interview published on Friday. “It was excruciating.” Related: Tesla founder Elon
  
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• From the archive: Martin Amis on arcade games

  19-08-2018 07:00
  An Observer Magazine cover story from September 1982 sees the novelist, 33, turn his attention to a ‘global addiction’Martin Amis discovered Space Invaders at a bar near the railway station in Toulon. It was 1979. The console had been installed in the corner and resembled a fridge, and as soon as Amis slotted in his first coin he fell head over heels. ‘I knew instantly that this was something different, something special,’ he explains. ‘The bar closed at 11 o’
  
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• Harry Potter wand teaches children to code

  19-08-2018 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  A magic wand designed to teach children how to code has been revealed.
  
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• See the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro 500M Limited Edition - CNET

  19-08-2018 00:20 via cnet.com
  It's translucent, it's got a 2TB hard drive and it's a limited edition run of 50,000 consoles.
  
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• Trump tweets that social media firms discriminate against the right - CNET

  19-08-2018 00:10 via cnet.com
  The president accuses social media of "closing down the opinions" of conservatives.
  
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