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• Apple sends out invites for October 27 Mac event

  19-10-2016 22:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple is expected to announce new MacBooks at the Apple campus in Cupertino.
  
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• Robo-journalists could soon be writing sports reports in the UK

  19-10-2016 21:00
  
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• Robot arm flies aircraft over US

  19-10-2016 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A robotic arm that can help fly an aircraft has been designed by engineers in Virginia.
  
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• Pro-Clinton bots 'fought back but outnumbered in second debate'

  19-10-2016 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study says more tweets were posted by suspected bots in favour of Clinton and Trump in the second presidential debate.
  
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• Former Secretary of Defense: 'I have wasted more money on IT than anyone in history'

  19-10-2016 18:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Learn the two watershed moments for IT in the military over the past 50 years and the four most important domains of cybersecurity, according to former DoD chief Robert Gates at Gartner Symposium.
  
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• Scientists accidently convert CO2 into ethanol

  19-10-2016 18:14
  
  Scientists reverse the combustion process with a whopping 63% yield
  
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• Obituary: Jonathan Green-Armytage, former Computer Weekly journalist

  19-10-2016 18:00 via computerweekly.com
  Computer Weekly marks the passing of one of the great tech reporters from the 1980s and 1990s
  
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• How VR and surgery are a match made in heaven

  19-10-2016 17:37
  
  Dr Shafi Ahmed believes VR is about more than fun and games, so he live-streamed an operation entirely in VR
  
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• The breathtaking winning entries in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

  19-10-2016 17:22
  
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• Lewis Hamilton joins Call of Duty's pit crew

  19-10-2016 17:22
  
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• Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  19-10-2016 17:15 via computerweekly.com
  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
  
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• Swiss beat UK's BT to next-gen G.fast broadband

  19-10-2016 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Switzerland is the first country in Europe to deliver so-called ultrafast broadband to customers through traditional copper infrastructure, according to service provider Swisscom.
  
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• Ministry of Defence CIO Mike Stone set to leave in early 2017

  19-10-2016 17:08 via computerweekly.com
  Ministry of Defence IT chief will depart in March next year, becoming the latest of several high-profile government technology leaders to quit
  
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• AWS Educate adds cloud career courses, job board

  19-10-2016 16:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Companies including Cloudnexa, Instructure, Salesforce, Splunk, Udacity already signed up to offer jobs to those with AWS Educate qualifications
  
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• Three things to do when your phone or laptop is stolen, and four things to prevent losing everything

  19-10-2016 16:40
  
  Having a laptop stolen is heartbreaking. Here's how to prepare for the worst, from someone who learnt it the hard way
  
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• Three things to do when your phone or laptop is stolen, and four things to help prevent losing everything

  19-10-2016 16:40
  
  Having a laptop stolen is heartbreaking, here's how to prepare for the worst from someone who learnt it the hard way
  
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• Matt Hancock calls for market to lead on full FTTP broadband

  19-10-2016 16:29 via computerweekly.com
  Digital and culture secretary used his keynote speech at Broadband World Forum to call for a national market-led fibre-to-the-premise roll-out, and pledged government support to make it happen
  
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• Ireland to follow UK in setting up national cyber security centre

  19-10-2016 16:28 via computerweekly.com
  The Republic of Ireland plans to set up a national cyber security centre and education programme to improve the security of critical infrastructure, businesses and citizens
  
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• VMworld 2016 vox pop: VMware users cool about VSAN

  19-10-2016 16:08 via computerweekly.com
  As VMware announces upgrades to its VSAN hypervisor-based storage software, event attendees seem to think it is a costly product and possibly unsuited to high-end use cases
  
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• Who needs 84 security vendors? With new suite, Dell looks to consolidate your protection

  19-10-2016 16:03 via zdnet.com
  
  Combining Dell Data Security Solutions, Mozy by Dell, RSA, and VMware AirWatch, Dell Technologies has released a new product suite focused on endpoint data security.
  
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• This £20,000 chair is designed to make you feel weightless

  19-10-2016 16:00
  
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• Seagate gets Q1 bottom line boost from cloud storage buildout

  19-10-2016 15:53 via zdnet.com
  
  Seagate delivered record shipments in Exabytes as cloud storage demand fueled its first quarter.
  
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• Xiaomi Mi Max Prime review: Good-value phablet with great battery life

  19-10-2016 15:26 via zdnet.com
  
  If you're in the market for a large-screen phablet, this 6.44-inch handset is definitely worth considering: performance, battery life and camera quality are all up to scratch or better, and the price is very competitive.
  
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• Wearable tattoo tells your smartphone how drunk you are before the cops do

  19-10-2016 15:24 via zdnet.com
  
  Researchers say a wearable tattoo can deliver accurate blood-alcohol level readouts to its wearer's smartphone.
  
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• Cloud computing: You are probably ignoring the biggest security flaw

  19-10-2016 15:18 via zdnet.com
  
  Even if your code is hacker-proof, there's still one way into your systems and it's much tougher to patch.
  
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• Google: This is the scale of race, gender problem in computer science education

  19-10-2016 14:12 via zdnet.com
  
  ​New research from Google and Gallup shows that race and gender play a big role in whether students even have an opportunity to start a career in tech.
  
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• British F1 champion Lewis Hamilton joins Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare cast

  19-10-2016 13:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 31-year-old racing driver will play the role of an engineer onboard the Retribution in Infinite Warfare.
  
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• Snowden: the IT analyst turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance

  19-10-2016 13:45 via computerweekly.com
  Oliver Stone's biopic on Edward Snowden reaches the heart of the ethical crisis posed by mass surveillance for the state and ordinary citizens
  
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• Sat-nav update 'to prevent stuck lorries'

  19-10-2016 13:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A multi-million pound sat-nav project seeks to stop lorries getting stuck on UK roads.
  
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• Instagram's new tool offers support to people with mental health issues

  19-10-2016 13:27
  
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• Knowing the business is key to security, says consultant

  19-10-2016 13:10 via computerweekly.com
  Security must be based on real-world business needs and practices as traditional perimeter-based security is no longer working, says independent security consultant Brian Honan
  
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• Meet BugFinders, the British company crowdsourcing the art of app testing

  19-10-2016 13:06
  
  We meet the British company that can draw upon the talents of 55,000 testers to help spot bugs
  
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• This luxury Pikachu watch will set you back £20,000

  19-10-2016 12:50
  
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• Prescribing the right medicine for IT in pharmacies

  19-10-2016 12:19 via zdnet.com
  
  How pharmacy chain Day Lewis revamped its storage strategy.
  
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• You may soon be able to buy broadband from Amazon Prime

  19-10-2016 12:16
  
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• Huawei lifts lid on Kirin 960 chipset

  19-10-2016 12:14
  
  Faster, more efficient and more secure, Huawei's latest processor looks to close the gap on Qualcomm
  
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• Chemists accidentally turn carbon dioxide to ethanol in breakthrough study

  19-10-2016 12:11
  
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• Microsoft's new breakthrough: AI that's as good as humans at listening...on the phone

  19-10-2016 12:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's new speech-recognition record means professional transcribers could be among the first to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence.
  
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• Microsoft's new breakthrough: AI that's as good as humans at listening... on the phone

  19-10-2016 12:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's new speech-recognition record means professional transcribers could be among the first to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence.
  
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• BT plans more rural FTTP digs as demand for ultrafast grows

  19-10-2016 12:09 via computerweekly.com
  At Broadband World Forum in London, BT showed off improved FTTP and G.fast broadband delivery technology, and set its sights on expanding ultrafast services to rural areas
  
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• Ecuador confirms it 'temporarily' shut off Julian Assange's internet

  19-10-2016 12:02
  
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• Hacker threatens Adult FriendFinder leak after finding security flaw

  19-10-2016 11:59
  
  Adult FriendFinder "has a serious security flaw"
  
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• WIRED2016: Speakers

  19-10-2016 11:47
  
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• Football Manager: 'From hard to soft Brexit'

  19-10-2016 11:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sports Interactive's Ciaran Brennan explains the Brexit scenarios in Football Manager 2017
  
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• Volkswagen patents new EV range, including sports car and SUV

  19-10-2016 11:00
  
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• New College Durham selects VMware’s VSan over hyperconverged appliances

  19-10-2016 11:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  New College Durham decides to update its expensive SAN with VMware’s Virtual San, as hyperconverged infrastructure was deemed too expensive and ill-fitting for the college
  
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• WIRED2016: Agenda

  19-10-2016 10:30
  
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• Information security needs to cast recruitment net wider, says panel

  19-10-2016 10:30 via computerweekly.com
  
  Companies struggling to fill info sec roles should focus on finding people who can do what they need, not on qualifications, according to a security industry panel
  
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• Apprentices flourish in IT services sector

  19-10-2016 10:30 via computerweekly.com
  Members of the apprentice scheme at UK IT services firm MCSA tell Computer Weekly why university was not the natural progression for them
  
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• Tech billionaires dominate the 2016 Forbes rich list

  19-10-2016 10:00
  
  Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Ellison make up four of the top five
  
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