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• Amazon Prime has more than 100 million members; Bezos outlines tips to teach high standards

  18-04-2018 23:45 via zdnet.com
  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2018 shareholder letter has a few key disclosures as well as some management tips to ponder.
  
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• Dell changes its approach and goes OS-agnostic in security

  18-04-2018 23:43 via zdnet.com
  ZDNet caught up with Dell's data security chief at the RSA Conference to hear how the PC industry is changing its approach to cybersecurity.
  
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• Brazil's Nubank introduces facial biometrics to increase security

  18-04-2018 23:42 via zdnet.com
  The fintech is using the technology to prevent identity fraud in credit card requests
  
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• What's the next stage in cybersecurity? An AI-powered, data-centric model

  18-04-2018 23:26 via zdnet.com
  CEO of MinerEye tells ZDNet how he stopped chasing bad guys and worked to rethink the paradigm IT uses to protect a company's most valuable digital assets.
  
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• Users can now live stream directly to Twitter and monetise content

  18-04-2018 23:04 via zdnet.com
  To complement its social Over The Top (OTT) production and distribution platform, a Canadian start-up now lets users turn their Twitter page into a social TV channel.
  
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• Cloudera transitions, doubles down on data science, analytics, and cloud

  18-04-2018 22:50 via zdnet.com
  ​Cloudera has restructured amid intensifying cloud competition. Here's what customers can expect.
  
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• Yahoo Mail boasts performance gains using Redux architecture

  18-04-2018 22:12 via zdnet.com
  Yahoo said the new architecture has led to reduced latencies in various operations, reduced JavaScript exceptions, and better synchronized states.
  
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• Cisco folds Spark into Webex as Webex Teams

  18-04-2018 20:30 via zdnet.com
  Webex Teams takes all of the collaboration features in Cisco Spark and offers them alongside features based on the Webex conferencing platform.
  
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• Stripe rolls out new fraud prevention tools for the enterprise

  18-04-2018 19:00 via zdnet.com
  The e-commerce business is updating Radar, its machine learning-powered fraud prevention tool, to serve larger companies.
  
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• Watch: This robot can build IKEA furniture in under 10 minutes without human help

  18-04-2018 18:47
  
  In tests, the robot used open-source libraries as instruction manuals to assemble the Stefan chair
  
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• NHS website defaced by hackers

  18-04-2018 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  The digital vandalism was spotted by a security researcher and has since been fixed.
  
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• Iceland's Bitcoin heist suspect 'flees on PM's plane'

  18-04-2018 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The man fled from Iceland to Sweden on a passenger plane reportedly also carrying the prime minister.
  
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• Microsoft's OneNote for Windows 10 to become the default Windows version later this year

  18-04-2018 18:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft plans to replace the desktop version of OneNote with the Universal Windows Platform/mobile one later this year when OneNote 2019 launches.
  
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• T-Mobile launches T-Mobile One Military and other initiatives for those who served

  18-04-2018 17:50 via zdnet.com
  US wireless carriers have discounts for military families and today T-Mobile announced more expansive discounts and several initiatives to support active duty members, veterans, and their families.
  
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• Toshiba follows WD in colour-coding its hard drives, but with different colours

  18-04-2018 17:34 via zdnet.com
  Toshiba has colour-coded its hard drives to help buyers pick the right kind of drive for their storage needs. Western Digital has been doing this for years, but perhaps an industry-wide standard would help everyone
  
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• Home Depot plans to hire 1,000 IT pros as it builds the tech behind One Home Depot strategy

  18-04-2018 17:28 via zdnet.com
  Home Depot is melding digital and physical stores, data across various units and delivery, fulfillment and supply chain. The retail giant will also need software and system engineers, UX designers andproduct managers.
  
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• Lyrid meteor shower 2018: How to watch the Lyrids in the UK

  18-04-2018 17:20
  
  From 16-25 April, the Lyrid meteor shower will light up the night sky
  
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• Sony Xperia XZ2 review: New design struggles to deliver the flagship goods

  18-04-2018 16:38 via zdnet.com
  Sony's Xperia XZ2 has a new look, plus appealing 4K and super slo-mo video modes. But it's laden with third-party apps and battery life could be better.
  
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• Apple readies new iPhone for launch: Report

  18-04-2018 16:30 via zdnet.com
  A new EEC filing reveals several unannounced smartphones from Apple.
  
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• Facebook makes GDPR push with new data privacy settings

  18-04-2018 16:28 via zdnet.com
  Here's how the social media giant is updating privacy policies ahead of the EU's new data law.
  
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• Garmin announces Connect IQ 3.0 platform for wearables, bike computers, and handhelds

  18-04-2018 16:00 via zdnet.com
  Garmin's Connect IQ platform continue to evolve and improve its sports-focused mobile devices while giving developers more access and tools to enhance offerings to customers.
  
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• How to download photos from iCloud

  18-04-2018 15:56
  
  Want your cloud-based iPhone snaps on your computer? Here’s how to download your photos from iCloud
  
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• Open source's big German win: 300,000 users shift to Nextcloud for file sharing

  18-04-2018 15:19 via zdnet.com
  Germany's federal government settles on an open-source collaboration system for employees.
  
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• Are AI fairytales the future?

  18-04-2018 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The first AI fairytale has been written by an algorithm, a company claims - a taste of future story-telling?
  
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• Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others

  18-04-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to "build a three-dimensional picture" on millions of people.
  
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• Cray and AMD EPYC join forces for new supercomputer product line

  18-04-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  AMD EPYC 7000 processors get a home inside Cray's new CS500 cluster systems.
  
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• Cryptographers spank blockchain, social media

  18-04-2018 14:27 via zdnet.com
  RSA Conference panel takes hard look at current issues. The group also questions the industry's obsession with increasing speeds at the expense of security.
  
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• Chrome 66 rolls out: Autoplay video silenced by default plus 62 bugs fixed

  18-04-2018 14:17 via zdnet.com
  Chrome 66 mutes audio on autoplay video by default unless a user tends to watch video on a site with sound on.
  
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• This deposit of mud from a Japanese island could be home to a “semi-infinite” trove of rare earth minerals

  18-04-2018 13:35
  
  16 million tonnes of rare earth minerals have been found off a Japanese island, but is it as big a deal as its being made out to be?
  
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• IBM: Our in-memory computing breakthrough will cut cost of training AI

  18-04-2018 13:31 via zdnet.com
  IBM's nanoscale analog computers could solve the big-data energy crunch facing traditional architectures.
  
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• OVO wants to let electric car owners sell their excess energy

  18-04-2018 13:00
  
  OVO's Vehicle-to-Grid electric charger will let customers make money by selling stored power back to the grid
  
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• WannaCry ransomware report: NHS is still not ready for the next big attack

  18-04-2018 12:48 via zdnet.com
  "The extensive disruption caused by WannaCry laid bare serious vulnerabilities in the cyber security and response plans of the NHS," warn MPs.
  
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• IBM launches open-source library for securing AI systems

  18-04-2018 12:46 via zdnet.com
  The framework-agnostic software library contains attacks, defenses, and benchmarks for securing artificial intelligence systems.
  
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• Fortinet Security Fabric merges with IBM Threat Management system

  18-04-2018 12:43 via zdnet.com
  IBM and Fortinet's strategic relationship has expanded with the combination of security solutions and threat data.
  
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• Facebook just unironically signed this pledge to “protect all of our users and customers everywhere"

  18-04-2018 12:30
  
  Silicon Valley’s finest got in line to sign the pledge of resistance to cyberattacks
  
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• iPhone X global profits alone beat all Apple's rivals and it's not even close

  18-04-2018 12:19 via zdnet.com
  Even Apple's iPhone SE takes a larger share of worldwide handset profits than any model from Chinese makers.
  
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• Is Huawei ready to throw in the towel on the US market?

  18-04-2018 12:03
  
  It’s hard to break a country where the government sees you as a security threat
  
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• Bitcoin peaks and falls become race tracks

  18-04-2018 11:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The rapidly changing value of crypto-currency has been turned into a mobile game.
  
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• Hyperledger bug bounty program goes public

  18-04-2018 11:29 via zdnet.com
  The open-source blockchain project is now asking the public to help in the quest to squash bugs impacting the platform.
  
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• NASA might just have found the key to autonomous spacecrafts with its Galactic Positioning System

  18-04-2018 11:19
  The GPS acronym just went cosmic
  
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• Amazon has a super light browser for Indian Android users

  18-04-2018 10:34
  
  Under 2MB in size, but why?
  
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• School warns over Roblox and Fortnite online games

  18-04-2018 09:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Roblox and Fortnite enable players to talk to interact with each other via online chat.
  
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• China, Japan, and Australia amongst top APAC nations hit with botnets

  18-04-2018 09:04 via zdnet.com
  South Korea and Taiwan also are on the top 20 list of global markets that saw the most bot traffic last year, while China was the third most common origin of malicious traffic, behind leader United States and Russia.
  
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• New York probes 13 cryptocurrency exchanges with pertinent questions

  18-04-2018 08:58 via zdnet.com
  The New York Attorney General has asked a number of virtual currency exchanges to answer simple questions such as: Who owns you? And where do you keep customers' funds?
  
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• Minister ridiculed for saying ancient India invented internet

  18-04-2018 08:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Biplap Deb cited the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata but his statement has attracted ridicule.
  
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• Victoria delivering in-train mobile coverage

  18-04-2018 08:22 via zdnet.com
  All Vlocity trains on the Ballarat, Geelong, Bendigo, Traralgon, and Seymour lines will have mobile boosters by the end of this year, with telcos to activate 35 additional mobile towers.
  
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• Facebook seeks facial recognition consent in EU and Canada

  18-04-2018 06:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Amid a privacy crisis, Facebook asks permission to expand use of facial recognition technology.
  
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• Trump rejects TPP hopes

  18-04-2018 05:59 via zdnet.com
  Following talks last week that the US was reconsidering joining the TPP, President Trump has said he doesn't 'like' the trade deal, adding that bilateral agreements are preferable.
  
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• 'Urgent reforms' needed for auDA: Fifield

  18-04-2018 05:28 via zdnet.com
  auDA's current management framework is 'no longer fit for purpose', Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has said while releasing a plethora of recommendations and new terms of endorsement.
  
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• ​Alipay debuts electronic identity card pilot in three Chinese cities

  18-04-2018 04:10 via zdnet.com
  Alipay has begun a pilot program for its users to receive an electronic identity card via its app that can be used in Zhangzhou, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou.
  
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