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• Survey: What's on your company's tech budget for 2018?

  14-07-2017 21:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Take this quick, multiple choice survey and tell us about your company's spending priorities for the upcoming year.
  
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• Doogee Mix smartphone hands-on: Great performance with a fabulous screen

  14-07-2017 20:34 via zdnet.com
  
  The Doogee Mix Android 7.0 phone maximizes screen size in a compact body and delivers loads of performance.
  
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• Microsoft issues fix for new Surface Pro hibernation issue

  14-07-2017 18:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft has made available a fix for a hibernation bug that has affected a number of users of its latest Surface Pro device.
  
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• Trump voter commission releases voter complaints — and their personal data

  14-07-2017 18:31 via zdnet.com
  
  The government just doxed several concerned (and angry) citizens.
  
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• 3D printing hands on: Modding the Ultimaker 3 with 3D printed accessories

  14-07-2017 18:11 via zdnet.com
  
  The Ultimaker 3 is a fine printer, but there are still some tweaks you might want to make. In this edition of the 3D Printing Discovery Series, we showcase two great (and necessary) mods for the Ultimaker 3.
  
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• Volvo XC60 (2017) review: Volvo's premium SUV is a cracker

  14-07-2017 18:09
  
  Packed with useful tech, Volvo's mid-sized premium SUV is a fantastic all-rounder
  
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• How machine learning is taking on online retail fraud

  14-07-2017 18:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Fraud is one of the biggest causes of lost revenue for online retailers. Fraugster and Riskified, two startups that operate in this space, share their insights and methods for safeguarding online retail.
  
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• UK laptop flight ban explained: US has lifted the laptop flight ban, UK ban remains

  14-07-2017 18:06
  
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• UK laptop flight ban could be lifted this week

  14-07-2017 18:06
  
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• The UK's laptop ban on flights: the latest news and updates

  14-07-2017 18:06
  
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• AT&T eyes media, telecom split after Time Warner merger

  14-07-2017 18:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports that executives want to split AT&T's wireless and satellite TV business from newly acquired Time Warner media assets.
  
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• Gig economy showdown, dinosaur art: Podcast 326

  14-07-2017 17:47
  
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• oBike's UK launch isn't going well because people are the worst

  14-07-2017 17:04
  
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• The $3.8bn cryptocurrency bubble is a huge deal. But it could break the blockchain

  14-07-2017 16:51
  
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• Drone Racing League sets world record for fastest quadcopter

  14-07-2017 16:45 via zdnet.com
  
  The DRL says its hand-built RacerX drone reached top speeds of 179.6 miles per hour.
  
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• Defence minister opens £3m cyber security centre in Gloucester

  14-07-2017 16:32 via computerweekly.com
  
  UK minister for defence procurement has opened Lockheed Martin’s job-creating cyber security centre aimed at boosting UK cyber defence capability and skills
  
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• Not all organisations improving defences after Petya

  14-07-2017 16:00 via computerweekly.com
  A survey of IT leaders worldwide reveals that not all organisations are planning to improve their cyber defences in the wake of the Petya attacks
  
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• Mobile phone sales bounce back in Brazil

  14-07-2017 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The market has shown signs of recovery in the first quarter of the year, says IDC.
  
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• These 4K monitors bring ultra-high definition to your home office

  14-07-2017 15:59
  
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• What's next on Microsoft's LinkedIn and Dynamics integration list

  14-07-2017 15:54 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft has made generally available the first of its promised LinkedIn integrations. Here's what else is on the near-term list, as well as on the Dynamics CRM/ERP roadmap.
  
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• Homeland Security says Americans who don't want faces scanned leaving the country "shouldn't travel"

  14-07-2017 15:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extended to Americans, worrying some privacy advocates.
  
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• This cheap password-stealing malware just added to your security headaches

  14-07-2017 15:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Russian built Ovidiy Stealer comes with slick marketing and support to users to encourage sales to the lowest level hackers.
  
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• New anti-encryption law could force Facebook and Google to hand over data

  14-07-2017 15:32
  
  Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull declares laws of Australia trump laws of mathematics
  
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• Uber vs Waymo: what you need to know about the legal showdown

  14-07-2017 14:57
  
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• Google wants you to stop using its SMS two-factor sign-in

  14-07-2017 14:46 via zdnet.com
  
  SMS isn't secure, so Google will start pushing its users across to its prompt-based 2-Step Verification.
  
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• Windows, Linux distros, macOS pay for Kerberos 21-year-old 'cryptographic sin'

  14-07-2017 14:26 via zdnet.com
  
  Researchers find an authentication protocol bug that affects Windows, Linux and Apple.
  
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• China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives

  14-07-2017 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Chinese mall creates "husband storage” pods for wives to leave their partners.
  
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• Watch your Bitcoin vanish: Blockchain split may be imminent

  14-07-2017 12:59 via zdnet.com
  
  You will need to tread carefully in the coming weeks to avoid your funds disappearing.
  
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• Watch out for this money stealing macOS malware which mimics your online bank

  14-07-2017 12:58 via zdnet.com
  
  OSX Dok now attempts to steal money from Apple Mac users -- and could be being prepared for use in further attacks.
  
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• Natural Cycles becomes world’s first app to be officially recognised as birth control

  14-07-2017 12:48
  
  The EU-approved app uses algorithms to track fertility and plan, or prevent, pregnancy
  
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• How Formula 1 plans to digitise fan experience

  14-07-2017 12:39 via computerweekly.com
  For a sport built on advanced technology, Formula 1 has lacked a truly digitally enabled fan experience – but that could be about to change
  
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• Australian PM seeks access to encrypted messages

  14-07-2017 12:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country's leader says the internet cannot be a "dark place" for criminals to communicate.
  
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• Calculating, plotting ravens make plans for their future

  14-07-2017 12:30
  
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• How Wimbledon's male players are legally doping with steroids

  14-07-2017 12:26
  
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• Windows 10's new Fluent Design gets a smoother, sleeker look

  14-07-2017 12:18 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's new design system is slowly taking shape in Windows 10.
  
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• Viking Technology unveils world's biggest 50TB SSD

  14-07-2017 12:16 via zdnet.com
  
  Great performance and massive capacity can be yours - just don't ask the price!
  
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• Quick poll: Dealing with a slow PC

  14-07-2017 12:12
  
  When your system starts running like treacle, who you gonna call?
  
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• Luxury smartphone maker Vertu collapses

  14-07-2017 12:02 via zdnet.com
  
  The firm's liquidation will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs.
  
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• DeepMind AI is learning to walk and other tech news

  14-07-2017 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best of the week's technology news stories.
  
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• Planet Nine: 'Extreme' objects in the far reaches of our solar system hint at mystery world

  14-07-2017 11:51
  
  If Planet Nine exists, studies suggest it has a mass around 10 times that of Earth and orbits 20 times farther from the sun
  
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• NHS urged to spend extra cyber defence funds wisely

  14-07-2017 11:29 via computerweekly.com
  The NHS has been urged to invest wisely in cyber defences after the government announced plans to increase data security funding by millions of pounds in response to the Caldicott review
  
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• If you’ve used public Wi-Fi lately, you could be working community service very soon

  14-07-2017 11:22
  
  Always read the terms and conditions
  
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• This ‘soft’ 3D-printed heart throbs and pumps blood just like the real thing

  14-07-2017 11:12
  
  A team at ETH Zurich has made an artificial heart that pumps with its own ventricle system
  
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• Dell Latitude 5285 2-in-1 review: A business-class Surface Pro clone with a clever kickstand

  14-07-2017 10:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Dell's 12.3-inch 2-in-1 is well built and offers plenty of configuration options, but we'd prefer it if the keyboard was bundled.
  
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• Flat-packed bouquets are giving florists a digital shake-up

  14-07-2017 10:33
  
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• Spurs sign up intelligent edge to digitise new stadium

  14-07-2017 10:30 via computerweekly.com
  Computer Weekly visits White Hart Lane to see how Tottenham Hotspur football club is building the most technologically advanced stadium in the UK
  
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• BMW owners can now make Skype calls while driving — what could possibly go wrong?

  14-07-2017 09:35
  
  Skype for Business will launch on the BMW 5 Series in Germany, France and the UK before rolling out to other markets
  
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• Tata Consulting reports $923m profit in Q1 2017

  14-07-2017 09:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Tata Consulting acquired 22 new clients in the quarter, two of which were in the $50 million-plus and $100 million-plus bands.
  
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• WIRED Awake July 14: Uber and Yandex are forming a new taxi company

  14-07-2017 08:55
  
  Uber and Yandex are merging their Russian businesses to form a new ride-hailing firm, the EU wants to ban devastating logging in Poland’s ancient Białowieża forest
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• ​Dimension Data and Deakin University open cybersecurity accelerator

  14-07-2017 08:35 via zdnet.com
  
  The six-month accelerator program designed to help early-stage cybersecurity startups is funded by the Victorian government's LaunchVic kitty.
  
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