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• Silicon Valley merchants struggle in shadow of dramatically expanding Googleplex

  09-02-2018 23:07 via zdnet.com
  Google's Silicon Valley expansion plans highlight the tension between tech companies and local communities
  
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• Security firm Cygilant apologizes after social media meltdown

  09-02-2018 22:20 via zdnet.com
  A painful lesson in how not to do social media.
  
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• Android Messages app sheds light on Google's plan to take on iMessage

  09-02-2018 21:43 via zdnet.com
  Apple's iMessage is the glue that keeps many users on iOS, and now it appears Google is readying a legitimate competitor.
  
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• Amazon delivery service: Why Bezos is launching Shipping with Amazon

  09-02-2018 19:04 via zdnet.com
  Now UPS and FedEx have to answer the dreaded Amazon question as the e-commerce giant aims to launch a shipping service for third party sellers.
  
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• New Sega Mega Drive game made on '90s kit

  09-02-2018 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The Sega Mega Drive games console gets a new game more than 20 years after it went on sale.
  
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• Uber settles Waymo lawsuit over stolen trade secrets

  09-02-2018 17:36 via zdnet.com
  Uber will pay Waymo $245 million in cash, equal to a .34 percent equity stake at the raid-hailing firm's recent $72 billion valuation.
  
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• Microsoft delivers public preview of Dynamics 365 for Marketing for SMBs

  09-02-2018 17:08 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's Dynamics 365 for Marketing service is finally available as a public preview and has a new delivery target of April 2018.
  
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• Intuit lowers Q2 outlook citing later tax season

  09-02-2018 15:31 via zdnet.com
  Intuit says that tax prep season started six days later that last year, shifting tax revenue to the third quarter.
  
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• Apple's TV app for iOS: Now you can watch new 'live news' channels

  09-02-2018 15:27 via zdnet.com
  Apple rolls-out a live news-streaming feature on the TV app for iOS and tvOS.
  
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• Why Amazon needs Shipping with Amazon and control of the last inch of delivery

  09-02-2018 15:19 via zdnet.com
  Now UPS and FedEx have to answer the dreaded Amazon question as the e-commerce giant aims to launch a shipping service for third party sellers.
  
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• YouTube drops ads from Logan Paul channels

  09-02-2018 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  In December, the video blogger was criticised for uploading a video of a dead body.
  
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• Apple AirPods 2: Will Apple’s new wireless buds be in your ears in 2018?

  09-02-2018 14:50
  
  Music to your ears
  
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• No more Windows 10 passwords? Microsoft says Hello to palm-vein biometrics

  09-02-2018 14:49 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft and Fujitsu have teamed up to enable palm-vein authentication on Windows 10 as part of Windows Hello.
  
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• Apple confirms iPhone source code leak

  09-02-2018 14:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Some of the secret code used in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system is leaked online.
  
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• Scientists have just made wood that is as strong as steel

  09-02-2018 14:19
  
  Wooden want to get hit by this
  
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• Qualcomm leaves the door open for potential Broadcom deal

  09-02-2018 14:16 via zdnet.com
  Broadcom is pushing for a meeting with Qualcomm "without delay."
  
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• Inside Facebook's alt-alt-right: Podcast 355

  09-02-2018 14:16
  
  Coming up today: SpaceX success; fatberg facts; why the government’s got it wrong about the gig economy, and we go inside Britain’s Facebook-loving, alternative alt-right.
  
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• It's time to dump those old iPhones and iPads

  09-02-2018 13:33 via zdnet.com
  The leak of Apple's iBoot source code onto GitHub is likely to turn older devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities.
  
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• Long live the new flesh: Researchers have made a robotic skin that can heal itself

  09-02-2018 13:24
  
  The ‘e-skin’ can sense pressure and temperature, and self-repair if someone cuts it
  
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• Hands-On: Kali Linux 2018.1 on the Raspberry Pi Zero W

  09-02-2018 13:24 via zdnet.com
  A new release of Kali Linux is available, and it includes a version for the Raspberry Pi Zero W: I have installed and tested it, here is what I found.
  
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• Honor 7X review: Meet the new budget flagship king

  09-02-2018 13:20
  
  An 18:9 display, nippy performance and just £270, the Honor 7X is a bona fide bargain
  
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• 11 things we love about the new London electric taxi

  09-02-2018 13:09
  We took the LEVC TX out on the capital’s streets - here are the things we loved about it
  
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• Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot'

  09-02-2018 13:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Reports say scientists at a Russian nuclear bomb factory tried to mine crypto-currencies.
  
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• Qualcomm ramps up IoT business in Brazil

  09-02-2018 13:06 via zdnet.com
  The company has announced plans to build a factory and set up a smart city R&D center in São Paulo.
  
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• Cisco: Severe bug in our security appliances is now under attack

  09-02-2018 13:01 via zdnet.com
  Proof-of-concept exploit for Cisco's 10-out-of-10 severity bug surfaces days after researcher details his attack.
  
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• Save $15 on iPhone battery replacement that comes to you

  09-02-2018 13:00 via zdnet.com
  Puls will send a tech to your office on your schedule. And to ice that cake, here's a BBH-exclusive discount!
  
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• Plagiarism software unearths a new source for Shakespeare’s plays

  09-02-2018 12:58
  
  A 1500s manuscript may have inspired some of Shakespeare’s most famous work
  
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• Ransomware: New free decryption key can save files locked with Cryakl

  09-02-2018 12:42 via zdnet.com
  The addition by the Belgian National Police and Kaspersky Lab brings the number of decryption tools on the No More Ransom portal up to 52.
  
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• Cryakl ransomware decryption keys now available for free

  09-02-2018 12:42 via zdnet.com
  Addition by Belgian National Police and Kaspersky Lab brings number of decryption tools on the No More Ransom portal up to 52.
  
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• Twitch to ban users for 'hate' on other platforms

  09-02-2018 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The streaming site says it will now ban people who are abusive on other platforms as well as its own.
  
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• When it comes to technology we love, is it ever really obsolete?

  09-02-2018 12:00 via zdnet.com
  Companies need to think hard about what to do with technologies that are old but still much loved.
  
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• Facebook testing 'downvote' button

  09-02-2018 12:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The social network is testing a feature that lets people hide offensive comments.
  
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• The EU could soon abolish coordinated daylight saving time

  09-02-2018 11:59
  
  The European parliament yesterday voted to keep the same time all year round
  
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• Jeremy Hunt: Social media 'as dangerous as obesity'

  09-02-2018 11:55
  
  Children are spending too much time online and are losing out on social skills
  
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• Teen codes app for Alzheimer's patients and other news

  09-02-2018 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
  
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• Zerodium offers $45,000 for Linux zero-day vulnerabilities

  09-02-2018 10:40 via zdnet.com
  The private exploit seller is expanding its reach to acquire bugs in popular Linux builds.
  
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• Disney rolls out autonomous robots into Disneyland

  09-02-2018 09:46
  
  Context-aware, personality-driven robot aliens are Disney’s secret weapon at warming your heart
  
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• Twitter just turned a profit for the first time ever

  09-02-2018 09:42
  
  Tweet success
  
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• Facebook Dislike button rolls out as a “Downvote” option appears for some US users

  09-02-2018 09:03
  
  Facebook has begun testing a Downvote button to some users, but its staying tight-lipped on the rollout
  
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• Huawei: National security concerns not a blank cheque for public policy decisions

  09-02-2018 06:44 via zdnet.com
  Speaking to a joint Australian Parliament committee on the digital economy, Huawei has said national security cannot be used to to 'disguise protectionism' for every public policy decision by governments globally.
  
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• Farewell Soapy, but will Australia's new attorney-general be any better?

  09-02-2018 05:35 via zdnet.com
  Law and order surveillance enthusiast George 'Metadata' Brandis is off to London. His replacement, Christian Porter, is a Star Wars tragic who avoided taking responsibility for Centrelink's robo-debt debacle.
  
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• Australia stepping up foreign cooperation on state-level cyber deterrence

  09-02-2018 04:50 via zdnet.com
  Addressing an inquiry into Australia's trade system and the digital economy, Ambassador for Cybercrime Tobias Feakin said the nation and its neighbours are thinking 'quite actively' about how to join forces on cyber deterrence.
  
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• Impelus to seek injunction against Telstra third-party billing decision

  09-02-2018 03:08 via zdnet.com
  Following Telstra's decision to cut off third-party billing partners, Impelus has announced its intention to seek relief from the Supreme Court of NSW citing EDITDA impact of up to AU$680,000.
  
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• NBN speed-monitoring boxes deployed as report due March

  09-02-2018 02:56 via zdnet.com
  ACCC chair Rod Sims has said the speed-monitoring boxes have just been deployed to the first lot of volunteer households, with the initial report due to be published next month.
  
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• DTA considering international 'brokerage' of digital identities

  09-02-2018 02:34 via zdnet.com
  Reaching a point where Australia can 'broker' the agreed digital identity of a citizen with another country is in the sights of the Digital Transformation Agency.
  
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• Product strategy key to cashless adoption in APAC

  09-02-2018 02:23 via zdnet.com
  Achieving scale is critical to ensure the viability of mobile payment systems and there needs to be regulatory and industry alignment across Asia-Pacific, as well as globally, for such payments to hit mainstream.
  
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• Ericsson completes 5G carrier solution

  09-02-2018 01:47 via zdnet.com
  Ericsson has upgraded its radio portfolio using the 5G NR standards set by 3GPP in December, claiming a complete carrier solution.
  
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• What is the point of an air show?

  09-02-2018 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Whether it's Paris or Farnborough, Dubai or Singapore, air shows have a real fanbase. But why?
  
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• EE 'shoebox' to tackle broadband not-spots

  09-02-2018 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  EE will sell a 4G antenna to bring fast broadband to homes in rural areas.
  
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• Potato plastics

  09-02-2018 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Better recycling and compostable materials could be an answer to our plastic pollution problem.
  
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