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• Telstra and Cisco 'co-innovate' on SDN, NFV, Spark, Telstra Air

  21-09-2016 23:42 via zdnet.com
  
  Telstra and Cisco are collaborating on innovating in three main areas, with the overarching aim of digitisation.
  
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• Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

  21-09-2016 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook's founder and his wife aim to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century.
  
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• Clash Royale dethrones Pokémon Go as top-grossing iOS app

  21-09-2016 20:00
  
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• Apple releases iOS 10.1 beta, adds Portrait Mode to iPhone 7 Plus

  21-09-2016 20:00 via zdnet.com
  
  One of the premier features currently missing from Apple's latest smartphone is now available in beta.
  
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• WIRED Gear: our pick of the hot products in 2017

  21-09-2016 19:34
  
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• WIRED Gear: our pick of the hot products in 2016

  21-09-2016 19:34
  
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• Gear WIRED loves: the best new products of 2016

  21-09-2016 19:34
  
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• MI6 set to recruit 1,000 extra staff

  21-09-2016 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security service MI6 is to recruit nearly 1,000 extra staff by 2020, as it battles against the challenges of the internet age, BBC Newsnight learns.
  
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• Expensive and underwhelming: hands-on with GoPro's Karma drone

  21-09-2016 18:30
  
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• Meet Huddle the company at the heart of the world's biggest corporations

  21-09-2016 18:29
  
  With both the UK and US governments under its belt, Huddle is the collaboration software you want to be using
  
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• Apple might buy McLaren to create the ultimate Apple Car

  21-09-2016 18:05
  
  It looks like McLaren and Apple might be joining forces – and it actually makes sense
  
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• Lenovo's Signature laptops refuse to install Linux

  21-09-2016 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lenovo confirms that some of its laptops refuse to install Linux but says it has not deliberately blocked the software.
  
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• Virginia review: film and games collide in cut-up noir

  21-09-2016 17:05
  
  A gripping experiment in storytelling, even if it sometimes grips too tightly
  
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• Skylanders Academy animated series is Netflix's latest exclusive

  21-09-2016 17:00
  
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• McLaren denies claims it is about to be bought by Apple

  21-09-2016 16:52
  
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• Apple in talks to buy McLaren Technology Group

  21-09-2016 16:52
  
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• Local authorities must collaborate to survive

  21-09-2016 16:45 via computerweekly.com
  Councils need to seek opportunities to work with their peers if they are to take advantage of digital transformation at a time when budgets are squeezed
  
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• London Capital Group improves service deployment with SDN

  21-09-2016 16:42 via computerweekly.com
  Online trading firm has revitalised its service delivery after switching a legacy physical network for VMware NSX SDN
  
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• Malware-infected USB sticks posted to Australian homes

  21-09-2016 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian police have warned the public not to use unmarked USB sticks found in their letterboxes.
  
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• Tick, tock, tick, tock: New malware is hitting your network every four seconds

  21-09-2016 16:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Check Point report suggests organisations haven't kept up with security to meet a nine times rise in malicious software
  
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• Samsung Pay now lets you buy shopping using your eyes

  21-09-2016 15:49
  
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• $81m cyber heist highlights gap between attacker and defenders, says Swift

  21-09-2016 15:45 via computerweekly.com
  Secure messaging service Swift was surprised by the gaps in banks’ cyber security practises highlighted by mega cyber heist, says CISO Alain Desausoi
  
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• Microsoft's new datacenters aim to put customer data beyond the reach of US snooping

  21-09-2016 15:34 via zdnet.com
  
  New German datacenters aim to provide additional protections for customer data by giving control to an independent data trustee.
  
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• Google weakens Allo chat app privacy promise

  21-09-2016 15:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google launches its new chat app with less privacy protection than previously promised.
  
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• Mobile phone roaming charge abolition plan rewritten

  21-09-2016 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Proposed time limits on cost-free roaming for travellers with mobile devices have been scrapped under new European Commission plans.
  
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• North Korea has just 28 websites registered to its domain - and most celebrate Kim Jong-Un

  21-09-2016 14:27
  
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• Study suggests that fitness trackers could make weight loss harder

  21-09-2016 14:23
  
  Two year study of 471 volunteers shows stronger weight loss in participants without fitness trackers
  
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• Daan Roosegaarde wins the Design Innovation Medal at London's Design Festival

  21-09-2016 14:08
  
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• Serious drug side effects are massively underreported in medical papers

  21-09-2016 14:03
  
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• Brussels proposes new rules to stop abuse of roaming charge rules

  21-09-2016 13:45 via computerweekly.com
  
  The European College of Commissioners has proposed new rules to help prevent abuse of the end of mobile roaming charges across the EU
  
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• Fifa 17's Ultimate Team web app is now live - with a hitch

  21-09-2016 13:24
  
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• Fifa 17's Ultimate Team web app and demo is now live - with a hitch

  21-09-2016 13:24
  
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• Fifa 17's Ultimate Team web app and demo is live - with a hitch

  21-09-2016 13:24
  
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• Skills gaps and ill-defined strategies hold back cloud adoption, suggests IDC research

  21-09-2016 13:15 via computerweekly.com
  
  Cisco-backed research into cloud adoption trends suggests few enterprises have perfected their off-premise IT strategies
  
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• Small talk should be banned - here's why

  21-09-2016 13:00
  
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• This Google Maps update makes it easier for Android users to find the way

  21-09-2016 12:56 via zdnet.com
  
  New shining direction beam will point you in the right direction
  
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• Using your phone while driving will soon get you six points and a £200 fine

  21-09-2016 12:53
  
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• From today, using your phone while driving will get you six points and a £200 fine

  21-09-2016 12:53
  
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• What the North Korean internet really looks like

  21-09-2016 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  North Korea notoriously restricts access to the internet for its own citizens, but the full list of its websites visible to the outside world have apparently been revealed for the first time.
  
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• Netflix is planning 1,000 hours of original Netflix shows to air this year

  21-09-2016 12:34
  
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• Get ready for more Netflix Originals: site wants to boost in-house shows by 50 per cent

  21-09-2016 12:34
  
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• Get ready for 1,000 hours of original Netflix shows this year

  21-09-2016 12:34
  
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• Finland’s OP Financial Group outlines digital ambitions

  21-09-2016 12:28 via computerweekly.com
  
  Chief digital officer at financial services group describes how new technology is fundamentally changing the business
  
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• Hands-on with the GoPro Hero5 Black and Session

  21-09-2016 12:22
  
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• The future of sport: Should we allow genetic enhancements?

  21-09-2016 12:20
  
  Whether or not humans should be enhanced for sporting gain isn’t quite the black-and-white issue it first appears
  
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• Mobile connectivity still costing businesses billions

  21-09-2016 11:49 via computerweekly.com
  
  Despite efforts to bring down the cost of mobile connectivity for business users, a report from iPass shows business travellers are incurring hundreds of pounds of charges every month
  
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• Nike’s self-lacing trainers are finally going on sale

  21-09-2016 11:43
  
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• Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

  21-09-2016 11:15 via computerweekly.com
  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique
  
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• Telstra leverages China, Indonesia for NAS growth across APAC

  21-09-2016 11:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Amid a disinclination to provide global services for large corporations, Telstra said it is instead leveraging its Asia-Pacific acquisitions and joint ventures to provide network services there.
  
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• WATCH THIS: A Turkish company is making actual Transformers

  21-09-2016 11:09
  
  Transformers exist, and there's a video to prove it... Sort of
  
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