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• Tableau Q1 mixed as customers adopt subscription pricing

  03-05-2017 23:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Analytics software maker Tableau said it may see some lumpy revenue fluctuations as customers move to subscription pricing, but the long-term demand is positive.
  
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• Now: self-contained systems map the user journey

  03-05-2017 23:25 via zdnet.com
  
  'Self-contained systems' typically apply to black boxes. A wide open, service-oriented form is emerging to help shatter monolithic applications.
  
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• Facebook beats Q1 revenue expectations as monthly user base nears 2B

  03-05-2017 22:27 via zdnet.com
  
  The company beat revenue expectations with 49 percent year-over-year growth.
  
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• Square handily tops Q1 targets, ups 2017 revenue forecast

  03-05-2017 22:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Square's Q1 revenue was $462 million, up 22 percent over the same quarter last year.
  
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• Bionic hand 'sees and grabs' objects automatically

  03-05-2017 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The hand is programmed to react within milliseconds and perform four different "grasps".
  
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• The pop-culture podcasts dissecting your favourite shows minute-by-minute

  03-05-2017 21:00
  
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• The new Surface Laptop is no Chromebook

  03-05-2017 21:00 via zdnet.com
  
  And Windows 10 S is no Chrome OS either.
  
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• Fandom gets granular

  03-05-2017 21:00
  
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• Meet IoT's latest target: A wooden stick

  03-05-2017 20:39 via zdnet.com
  
  Adding a simple light to a tongue depressor might begin a path toward crowdsourced data about warning signs for oral disease. Welcome to the Internet of Tongues.
  
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• Echo Look brings a camera into your bedroom, asks what you're wearing

  03-05-2017 20:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Amazon's latest vehicle for the Alexa voice agent has the opportunity to expand the retailer into new businesses as well as raise more privacy concerns.
  
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• Crowd-created Moto Mods highlight creativity, demand limits

  03-05-2017 19:36 via zdnet.com
  
  To further the damaged cause of the modular phone, Lenovo and Verizon teamed up with Indiegogo to launch crowdfunded campaigns for Moto Mods. Three attracted significant interest but others attracted no funds at all.
  
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• Slack launches its first AI search feature

  03-05-2017 19:00 via zdnet.com
  
  It's the first feature to come out of Slack's Search Learning & Intelligence (SLI) group.
  
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• Rackspace CEO to leave the cloud services company

  03-05-2017 18:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Taylor Rhodes is to leave managed cloud company Rackspace after a decade in charge.
  
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• How tech is transforming manufacturing

  03-05-2017 18:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Technologies such as machine learning, 3D printing, virtual reality, and augmented reality are dramatically changing the way goods are designed and made.
  
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• Microsoft's Power BI Premium delivers enterprise-grade features and bulk discounts

  03-05-2017 18:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Power BI Pro is only $10/user/month, but that can really add up for big organizations, even as performance and capacity can be insufficient for their needs. Enter Power BI Premium, designed to solve both problems.
  
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• Why Honda supplying F1 engines to Sauber in 2018 makes A LOT of sense

  03-05-2017 17:32
  
  Honda and Sauber can help each other out next year
  
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• Facebook hires 3,000 to review content

  03-05-2017 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Zuckerberg said it had been "heartbreaking" to hear of murder and suicide broadcast on Facebook.
  
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• Hundreds of privacy-invading apps are using ultrasonic sounds to track you

  03-05-2017 16:58 via zdnet.com
  
  Apps are using ad-tracking audio signals that your phone can hear, but you can't.
  
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• Google hails end of multi-year enterprise cloud migrations

  03-05-2017 16:45 via computerweekly.com
  
  Google cloud chief, Diane Greene, claims multi-year datacentre migrations are no longer the norm, as some firms are making the move off-premise in weeks or months
  
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• Sprint launches Magic Box, an LTE small cell to boost coverage, network

  03-05-2017 16:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Sprint's Magic Box is free to qualified customers and appears to be a win-win. Customers get better coverage indoors and Sprint gets inexpensive backhaul for its network.
  
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• Singapore looks for answers to key challenges in AI, data science

  03-05-2017 16:03 via zdnet.com
  
  Government unveils a new scheme, investing up to S$150 million over five years, to use artificial intelligence to resolve challenges affecting society and sets up data science consortium to drive the sector.
  
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• Does Windows 10 need antivirus software? (And more top Google queries answered)

  03-05-2017 15:53 via zdnet.com
  
  When you're searching for answers, Google's autosuggest feature lets you know what other people are looking for when conducting similar queries. In this, the first of a new series, we provide some answers to the most popular queries, as suggested by Google.
  
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• How Apple's services business stacks up against subscription-based rivals

  03-05-2017 15:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple's services business is already a Fortune 100 company that has more revenue than Netflix and Amazon's retail subscriptions combined.
  
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• Sprint delivers mixed Q4 but narrows losses

  03-05-2017 15:41 via zdnet.com
  
  The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier posted net operating revenue of $8.54 billion, up five percent above the previous year.
  
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• Cognitive security is key to cyber arms race, says KuppingerCole

  03-05-2017 15:39 via computerweekly.com
  Cognitive computing technology is an area of artificial intelligence that is expected to help provide businesses with the security tools they need to deal with new and emerging cyber threats
  
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• Barclays Bank opens startup hub in London

  03-05-2017 15:24 via computerweekly.com
  Bank aims to support fintech firms in their early stages
  
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• Microsoft's Nadella: 'We'll make more phones. But they won't look like today's devices'

  03-05-2017 15:19 via zdnet.com
  
  So don't hold your breath if you're a fan of the rumored Surface phone.
  
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• The UK's Espionage Act is a 'threat to free speech'

  03-05-2017 15:00
  
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• Amazon expands FreeTime service to all Android devices

  03-05-2017 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Parents are no longer required to purchase an Amazon device to take advantage of the company's parental control platform.
  
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• ADT taps Amazon's Alexa for Pulse system control

  03-05-2017 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  ADT Pulse subscribers can arm, disarm, and control all ADT Pulse appliances through an Amazon Echo.
  
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• The death of the smartphone and the birth of the next big thing

  03-05-2017 14:49 via zdnet.com
  
  The days of the smartphone are drawing to a close: what comes next will disrupt the status quo and change how we use technology.
  
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• Tim Cook: iPhone rumors are dampening sales

  03-05-2017 14:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Here are five noteworthy statements made by Tim Cook during Apple's 2Q17 earnings conference call.
  
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• Facebook top 10 concert lists may be security risk

  03-05-2017 14:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pause before revealing your favourite gigs online - as you may be compromising your bank account.
  
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• ​Nutanix expands software footprint with HPE, Cisco, offers more pricing options

  03-05-2017 14:30 via zdnet.com
  
  With HPE in the fold, Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud Platform will be available on the big four server vendors. Nutanix also adds more consumption-based pricing models.
  
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• China announces tighter regulations for online news

  03-05-2017 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Editors must be government approved, and staff trained, assessed and accredited by the authorities.
  
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• 3D XPoint et al to force architecture and software changes

  03-05-2017 14:15 via computerweekly.com
  New solid state technologies such as 3D XPoint will be a second tier of memory, bringing change to hardware architectures and software to be rewritten, says SNIA solid state group chair
  
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• Windows 10 S: Can Microsoft avoid another Windows RT blunder?

  03-05-2017 14:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Has the Redmond giant learned from the mistakes it made with Windows RT? Is it making a whole set of new mistakes or is Windows 10 S a credible threat to Google's Chrome OS platform?
  
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• Why Rosalind Nashashibi is our pick for this year's Turner Prize

  03-05-2017 14:10
  
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• Acer, HP launch $299 Windows 10 S laptops

  03-05-2017 14:09 via zdnet.com
  
  The new notebooks, running a special locked-down version of Windows 10, are noticeably cheaper than the $999 Surface using the same OS Microsoft just announced.
  
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• Spiceworks survey finds 6% gender pay gap for women IT workers

  03-05-2017 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The IT industry is far ahead of the 20% gender pay difference across all US jobs but it needs a final push to close the gap completely
  
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• Report: By 2035, 20 percent of 5G's economic impact will be in automotive

  03-05-2017 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A study commissioned by Qualcomm suggests 5G will enable more than $2.4 trillion in total economic output across the automotive sector, its supply chain and its customers.
  
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• Fake tech support spiders on the world wide web

  03-05-2017 14:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  Fake tech support should be incorporated into security awareness training as it can be a highly effective way to trick employees into granting access to enterprise computer systems
  
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• NASA discovers star system similar to ours, right on our galactic doorstep

  03-05-2017 13:52
  
  Astronomers describe Epsilon Eridani as “a much younger version of our solar system”
  
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• NASA discovers star system like ours, right on our galactic doorstep

  03-05-2017 13:52
  
  Astronomers describe Epsilon Eridani as “a much younger version of our solar system”
  
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• On the road with Samsung DeX: Almost good enough to leave the laptop behind

  03-05-2017 13:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Over the past two weeks I traveled to Florida and New York on business trips with my Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus and the Samsung DeX. The experience wasn't perfect, but it's the closest we've gotten to using just your phone for computing.
  
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• Retro tech: Flying car prototypes

  03-05-2017 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How flying cars have gone from being a science fiction fantasy to almost becoming a reality, as seen through the BBC archive.
  
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• Mayor of London seeks chief digital officer

  03-05-2017 13:42 via computerweekly.com
  Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London
  
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• IBM to snap up remnants of Verizon's cloud business

  03-05-2017 13:35 via zdnet.com
  
  After bowing out of the public cloud last year, Verizon is now shedding its private cloud offerings.
  
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• Can Google win its battle with Android malware?

  03-05-2017 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Cybercriminals are sneaking malicious apps into Google's official app store. Can they be stopped?
  
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• Sadiq Khan to appoint London's first ever CDO

  03-05-2017 12:53
  
  Chief digital officer will be responsible for upgrading public services technology
  
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