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• Exclusive space black BlackBerry KEYone hitting AT&T shelves on September 1

  24-08-2017 23:27 via zdnet.com
  The BlackBerry KEYone is currently sold in silver at Sprint and via retailers as a GSM unlocked device. AT&T customers will soon get an exclusive color.
  
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• Apple to invest $1.3 billion to build Iowa data center

  24-08-2017 23:18 via zdnet.com
  Apple will support various services, an important source of recurring revenue, with the data center.
  
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• Pure Storage names new CEO

  24-08-2017 23:08 via zdnet.com
  Along with naming Charles Giancarlo as the new CEO, Pure Storage posted its Q2 results and gave a more optimistic outlook for the full fiscal year.
  
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• Splunk, Autodesk report strong quarters

  24-08-2017 22:48 via zdnet.com
  Brocade also reported financials but came up short of Wall Street expectations.
  
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• Half-price Note 8? Yes, if you owned a Note 7 -- or any of these smartphones

  24-08-2017 22:16 via zdnet.com
  The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is the most expensive smartphone today. In order to reward loyal Note 7 owners who had to return their devices last year, Samsung is offering a compelling upgrade program.
  
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• Half-price Note 8? Yes, if you owned a Note 7

  24-08-2017 22:16 via zdnet.com
  The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is the most expensive smartphone today. In order to reward loyal Note 7 owners who had to return their devices last year, Samsung is offering a compelling upgrade program.
  
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• Google Cloud adds firewall to App Engine

  24-08-2017 21:50 via zdnet.com
  The aim is to give developers and admins a way to test and secure cloud apps. The App Engine firewall is in beta.
  
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• Amazon outlines Whole Foods integration plans

  24-08-2017 21:15 via zdnet.com
  Amazon's $13.7 billion takeover of the upscale market closes on Monday.
  
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• DreamHost, web host of controversial sites, hit by DDoS attack

  24-08-2017 20:45 via zdnet.com
  Days after the Department of Justice demanded visitor data for an anti-Trump website, the web host company DreamHost has fallen to a distributed denial of service attack. The company is also reported to be hosting a new version of the Nazi site, the Daily Stormer.
  
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• Rio de Janeiro to open taxi app API

  24-08-2017 20:20 via zdnet.com
  The city has created a tool to connect taxis and passengers at no cost to drivers.
  
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• The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is not just for scribblers anymore

  24-08-2017 20:18 via zdnet.com
  Rising after the fall of the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung's pioneering phablet enters a world where big is boring and the stylus often remains stashed. With subtle advantages, the Note's new reality is simply that it's Samsung's best.
  
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• Marketo to migrate to Google Cloud as part of multi-year deal

  24-08-2017 19:51 via zdnet.com
  As part of the deal, Marketo will integrate its Engagement Platform with Google's G Suite and data analytics.
  
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• YouTube stars win fair use legal battle

  24-08-2017 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  h3h3 Productions did not violate copyright laws when it mocked another YouTube film-maker, judge rules.
  
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• Dixons Carphone warns on profit as mobile sales hit

  24-08-2017 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Dixons Carphone warns more expensive mobile phones and lower EU roaming charges will hit profits.
  
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• Forget hard skills, it's soft skills that are hard to come by

  24-08-2017 18:31 via zdnet.com
  Energy companies invest in lots of technology, but without developing communications and collaboration, they won't optimize the benefits.
  
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• F1 2017 game review: The most complete Formula 1 game on PS4 and Xbox One

  24-08-2017 18:10
  
  F1 2017 makes some serious improvements, but is it the best racing game around?
  
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• Facebook Messenger user? Watch out for fake messages rigged with malware

  24-08-2017 17:41 via zdnet.com
  An adware campaign is using social engineering to trick victims into installing malware, using a web page tailored to their browser.
  
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• Samsung working on home smart speaker

  24-08-2017 17:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The technology giant is developing a rival to the Google Home speaker and Amazon Echo.
  
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• Report shows that AI is more important to IoT than Big Data insights

  24-08-2017 17:02 via zdnet.com
  We think that big data is the only thing we need for all of our insights. But in the world of IoT, that is not the case.
  
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• London Tube platforms are being painted green to cut congestion

  24-08-2017 17:00
  
  By: Victoria TurkContinue reading...
  
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• Hitachi unveils new Unified Compute Platform product for hybrid cloud

  24-08-2017 17:00 via zdnet.com
  Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, the new UCP allows customers to either deploy integrated SDDC stack or build their own.
  
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• Future of dark web markets not yet in question, says analyst

  24-08-2017 16:55 via computerweekly.com
  AlphaBay and Hansa shutdowns are unlikely to jeopardise the future of dark web markets, according to a security analyst
  
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• How to run Windows 10 on your Mac

  24-08-2017 16:37 via zdnet.com
  People are buying new Macs at the rate of around 4 to 5 million every quarter, but it seems that many users still can't make a total break from Windows. Here's a look at how you can run Windows 10 on your Mac alongside macOS.
  
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• Father and son charged over dark web drugs

  24-08-2017 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The pair, from New York, allegedly sold fentanyl and oxycodone on the AlphaBay marketplace.
  
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• Doc.ai launches blockchain-based conversational AI platform for health consumers

  24-08-2017 16:01 via zdnet.com
  Healthcare consumers will be able to discuss pathology results with a machine.
  
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• Flashpoint warns of under-the-radar phishing campaigns

  24-08-2017 16:00 via computerweekly.com
  Simple but hard-to-detect phishing campaigns are targeting all industry sectors as a key enabler of business email compromise attacks, security analysts warn
  
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• 12 tweets where Citizen Trump accidentally burned President Trump

  24-08-2017 15:17
  
  Foresight is a wonderful thing
  
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• US election hack: Microsoft wins latest round in court against Fancy Bear phishers

  24-08-2017 15:15 via zdnet.com
  A US judge has banned the Fancy Bear hackers from attacking Microsoft's customers.
  
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• Most Fortune 500 companies aren't using this basic email security feature

  24-08-2017 14:53 via zdnet.com
  The email security feature would cut down on the majority of phishing scams and spam email.
  
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• GCSE computing rises in popularity, but fears remain over skills gap

  24-08-2017 14:39 via computerweekly.com
  The number of both male and female students who chose to take a computing GCSE increased in 2017
  
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• Beyond CrashPlan and Carbonite: For cloud backups, own the blob

  24-08-2017 14:39 via zdnet.com
  Learn from the Crashplan abandonware experience -- own your data, in an archive-agnostic format.
  
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• Jon Snow: Facebook a threat to democracy

  24-08-2017 14:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The Channel 4 journalist said Facebook had allowed "cancerous" fake news to spread.
  
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• Ransomware 2.0: Spora now steals your credentials and logs what you type

  24-08-2017 14:25 via zdnet.com
  Vicious family of the file-locking malware becomes the latest form of ransomware not content with inflicting one form of misery on victims.
  
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• How does Elon Musk’s spacesuit design stack up against Nasa's?

  24-08-2017 14:22
  
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• Government Digital Marketplace spend with SMEs exceeds £1bn but declines in 2017

  24-08-2017 14:15 via computerweekly.com
  Spending with SMEs through Cabinet Office Digital Marketplace framework goes over £1bn, but figures suggest SMEs getting smaller proportion of sales
  
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• Windows 10 'forced downloads': We won't do them again, pledges Microsoft

  24-08-2017 14:11 via zdnet.com
  Responding to a lawsuit from a German consumer agency, Microsoft says it won't be repeating its initial approach to Windows 10 upgrades.
  
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• Brexit: UK seeks data transfer pact with EU

  24-08-2017 14:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The government's latest Brexit paper discusses how data transfers will be affected by leaving the EU.
  
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• Tableau details its natural language query plans

  24-08-2017 14:00 via zdnet.com
  A couple weeks after acquiring ClearGraph, Tableau maps out what natural language query will look like and how it will fit with its machine learning roadmap.
  
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• In Brexit Britain, Alan Partridge's new BBC series was inevitable

  24-08-2017 13:55
  
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• Robot priest: the future of funerals?

  24-08-2017 13:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Developers in Japan offer a robot "priest" to conduct Buddhist funeral rites - but will it catch on?
  
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• KFC’s new VR game is a bucket of dystopian nightmare grease

  24-08-2017 13:25
  
  “Put your supple human hands in that bread and give the chicken a toss”
  
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• Windows 10 Insiders: Microsoft won't tell you about known bugs anymore

  24-08-2017 13:12 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft has decided Windows Insiders don't need to know about the bugs it's aware of.
  
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• Airbus is building a flying car. First it needs to learn how to land

  24-08-2017 13:10
  
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• Human waste to transform into plastic parts on long space journeys

  24-08-2017 13:04 via zdnet.com
  Scientists are working on ways to make every scrap of resource valuable on long trips away from Earth.
  
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• Mac malware continuing to escalate, warn security researchers

  24-08-2017 13:00 via computerweekly.com
  Malware targeting the Mac operating system has seen a significant growth in the first half of this hear, according to security firm Malwarebytes
  
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• This could be huge! Astronomers hint that an unprecedented gravitational wave event has been spotted with neutron stars

  24-08-2017 12:53
  
  Scientists have hinted at a breakthrough in the study of gravitational waves, but what does this mean?
  
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• AccuWeather app shared users' location data

  24-08-2017 12:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The app shared location data of people who said they did not want it to know where they were.
  
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• Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac review: Touch Bar control for virtualised Windows apps, and more

  24-08-2017 12:16 via zdnet.com
  The latest version of Parallels' Mac-based virtualisation software is now optimised for macOS High Sierra and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
  
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• Android 8.0 Oreo: Google says it's looking into buggy Bluetooth audio problems

  24-08-2017 12:10 via zdnet.com
  Google is trying to get to the bottom of a Bluetooth connectivity bug affecting Pixel and Nexus owners.
  
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• Dominique Ansel invented the Cronut... but he didn't stop there

  24-08-2017 12:06
  
  By: James TempertonContinue reading...
  
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