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• Mark Zuckerberg asks governments to help control internet content

  30-03-2019 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Zuckerberg writes an open letter calling for new laws to monitor internet content.
  
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• Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange hacked a third time in two years

  30-03-2019 21:28 via zdnet.com
  Hackers believed to have made off with nearly $20 million in EOS and Ripple cryptocurrencies.
  
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• AirPower fail: The latest victim of Apple's OCD

  30-03-2019 15:31 via zdnet.com
  It was only amatter of time before Apple flew too close to the sun.
  
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• Polar Vantage V review: Advanced technology and coaching help athletes achieve their best

  30-03-2019 13:47 via zdnet.com
  The Polar Vantage V is an excellent multi-sport GPS watch that is made better by the Polar Flow platform and coaching provided after data is collected and analyzed. Wrist-based power is new to the watch and hopefully future updates will expand its usefulness, but there is still plenty to love right now.
  
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• 'The Leggings problem': can we just never hear about them again? | Arwa Mahdawi

  30-03-2019 13:00
  The spandex-based controversy has been broiling in the west for years; and it’s not just men policing women’s bodies, women are doing it to themselvesSign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter​ on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• 'The Leggings problem': can we just never hear about them again?

  30-03-2019 13:00
  The spandex-based controversy has been broiling in the west for years; and it’s not just men policing women’s bodies, women are doing it to themselvesSign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter​ on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• A transformational story: Adobe rethinks its data playbook

  30-03-2019 12:00 via zdnet.com
  Tech company, transform thyself. The people that push digital transformation are under just as much pressure to make things happen within their own domains.
  
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• Daimler asks EU antitrust regulators to probe Nokia patents

  30-03-2019 11:21
  German carmaker Daimler has complained to EU antitrust regulators about Nokia patents essential to car communications, a move underlining the tensions between tech companies and the car industry on the use of key technologies.
  
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• Dead Pixels: A comedy 'about gamers for gamers'

  30-03-2019 10:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Newsbeat's been chatting to the stars of a new sitcom based on the lives of gamers
  
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• After two years off-grid, I'm embracing daily letters, good sleep and my DIY hot tub | Mark Boyle

  30-03-2019 08:00
  This is what I’ve learned from living without email, electricity, or a phone…It was almost midnight when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be for ever. I had spent the summer of 2016 hand-building a straw bale home on a half-wild smallholding in County Galway, Ireland, and the following morning I intended to begin a new life without modern technology. There would be no running water, no clock, no fossil fuels, no electricity or any o
  
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• We really need to talk about the plot twist shocker in the finale of Star Trek: Discovery season two

  30-03-2019 07:00
  
  What on Vulcan just happened? WIRED's resident Trekkies dissect the finale of Star Trek: Discovery season two and try and work out where the show goes next
  
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• We really need to talk about the plot twist shocker in Star Trek: Discovery season two

  30-03-2019 07:00
  
  What on Vulcan just happened? WIRED's resident Trekkies dissect the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery season two and try and work out where the show goes next
  
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• The clocks are changing tonight for one of the last times ever

  30-03-2019 07:00
  
  The European Parliament has voted to put a stop to daylight saving time. And even Brexit is unlikely to derail its plan
  
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• The best power banks and portable chargers in 2019

  30-03-2019 07:00
  
  WIRED Recommends the best power banks to keep your phones, tablets, smartwatches and laptops charged
  
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• Stampede of the unicorns: will a new breed of tech giants burst the bubble?

  30-03-2019 06:00
  Lyft, which went public on Friday, will soon be joined by Uber, Airbnb and other companies valued over $1bn – and they may be just the animal to burst a bubbleFive years ago Aileen Lee, founder of Silicon Valley investor Cowboy Ventures, coined the term “unicorn” for a private company valued at more than $1bn. Back then unicorns were almost as rare as their mythical namesakes – just 39 existed, according to Lee. Now there are 334 around the world, worthmore than $1tn. And
  
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• First image surfaces of Google Chrome's upcoming Tab Groups feature

  30-03-2019 01:57 via zdnet.com
  Work on Tab Groups is still in its early phases. Feature won't be ready for months.
  
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• Google’s DeepMind asks what it means for AI to fail

  30-03-2019 01:04 via zdnet.com
  Google's DeepMind has been hard at work on the problem of how to make neural networks "robust," but much work remains to be done even to understand what failure means. One thing that may help: More of a role by humans to specify success and failure.
  
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