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• New Year Honours 2018: AI chief Demis Hassabis made CBE

  29-12-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The chief executive of DeepMind is recognised on the New Year Honours list.
  
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• AT&T's FirstNet enlists all 50 states for first responder network

  29-12-2017 22:47 via zdnet.com
  AT&T says it will spend about $40 billion over the life of the contract to deliver FirstNet and all states are opt-ing in.
  
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• 10 things in cybersecurity that you might have missed this year

  29-12-2017 21:05 via zdnet.com
  From frustrating to mysterious to downright creepy, here are ten things we learned during 2017.
  
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• The 10 best smartphones of 2017

  29-12-2017 16:33 via zdnet.com
  Now that all of the flagship phones have been announced for 2017, a new model has moved into the top spot.
  
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• Google kills Pixel C tablet, points customers to Pixelbook

  29-12-2017 16:05 via zdnet.com
  Google will still support Pixel C with updates, the company said.
  
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• Will multi-actuators save the disk drive?

  29-12-2017 14:45 via zdnet.com
  Disk drives win against SSDs on $/bit, but lose onI/Os per second (IOPS). Seagate is now floating the idea of multiple actuators in a single disk drive. Will that save disk drives from oblivion?
  
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• Planning Africa's smart cities

  29-12-2017 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  African cities are getting "smart" by embracing technology and improving efficiency.
  
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• Atlassian Stride, First Take: A relaxed approach to collaborative chat

  29-12-2017 13:22 via zdnet.com
  Stride's real promise is in its prospective integration with the rest of Atlassian's portfolio.
  
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• Contact made with 'missing' Angolan satellite

  29-12-2017 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Data links to Angosat-1 have been restored after it went missing for two days.
  
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• US says Romanians hacked Washington DC police cameras

  29-12-2017 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The alleged attack took place in Washington DC just days before Donald Trump's inauguration.
  
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• YouTube app removed from Amazon Fire TV kit early

  29-12-2017 11:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Amazon Fire TV devices now point people towards the YouTube website instead.
  
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• Top 10 information management stories of 2017

  29-12-2017 11:00 via computerweekly.com
  In 2017, there has been some convergence of old and new schools of data management and BI/analytics – as with financial services firms’ data strategies that combine data stores and blend types of analytics
  
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• Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2017

  29-12-2017 11:00 via computerweekly.com
  Artificial intelligence is being used more and more across various industries, but there still issues around the technology. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI stories for 2017
  
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• Apple apologises for slowing older iPhones down

  29-12-2017 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  It says it will slash the price of battery replacements and issue new monitoring software.
  
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• NSW agencies struggle with security basics

  29-12-2017 03:42 via zdnet.com
  Lack of privileged account monitoring, incomplete inventories of IT assets, and lack of a consistent cyber definitions leave NSW government agencies in the lurch.
  
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• Yoti can guarantee your identity online, but sometimes you just want to fake it....

  29-12-2017 00:31 via zdnet.com
  Yoti (Your Own Trusted Identity) is a smartphone app that solves the identity problem for many digital services. But while it provides more privacy than most systems, it's not going to replace lying...
  
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