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• Facebook shares close 19% lower after growth warning

  26-07-2018 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The fall in Facebook's shares wiped more than $120bn off the company's market value on Thursday.
  
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• Payment processor Stripe launches card issuing business

  26-07-2018 23:23 via zdnet.com
  Stripe is primarily targeting marketplaces and other large, technology-oriented companies with the service.
  
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• Atlassian partners with Slack, exits real-time communication game

  26-07-2018 23:10 via zdnet.com
  The intellectual property behind Stride and HipChat will go to Slack. Atlassian will double down on managing IT teams.
  
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• Whoops! Has LifeLock been unlocked?

  26-07-2018 22:59 via zdnet.com
  LifeLock, the identity theft protection service, might have been revealing its users' identities. Whoops!
  
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• Western Digital posts solid Q4, NCR trips, other techs mixed

  26-07-2018 22:44 via zdnet.com
  Western Digital's storage strategy is paying off, but NCR is struggling with ATM and point of sale hardware.
  
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• Intel reports strong Q2 as CEO search continues

  26-07-2018 22:35 via zdnet.com
  Collectively, Intel said its data-centric businesses are approaching 50 percent of total revenue.
  
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• Amazon posts big Q2 earnings beat but misses revenue target

  26-07-2018 22:30 via zdnet.com
  AWS once again accounted for a significant portion of Amazon's net income, growing 49 percent year-over-year.
  
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• Will smart vending machines replace the IT service desk?

  26-07-2018 22:06 via zdnet.com
  Smart vending machines are giving employees instant access to the supplies they need -- when they need it. But will it solve the hardware administrative headaches for IT?
  
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• This robotic arm for multitasking can be controlled with thoughts

  26-07-2018 21:35 via zdnet.com
  Researchers developed a robotic arm that lets users multitask while controlling the device with their thoughts.
  
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• How Credit Karma has leveraged the cloud to innovate

  26-07-2018 21:22 via zdnet.com
  Credit Karma CTO Ryan Graciano explains how the business has used Google Cloud Platform resources to quickly build new products. [Cloud TV]
  
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• At Target, engineers drive IT decision making

  26-07-2018 19:33 via zdnet.com
  Target CIO/CDO Mike McNamara says the retailer's decision to move to the Google Cloud Platform was based largely on the preferences of its engineering team. [Cloud TV]
  
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• Vote Leave's targeted Brexit ads released by Facebook

  26-07-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The social media ads that helped Vote Leave win the EU referendum are published in full for the first time.
  
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• Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

  26-07-2018 18:33 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affectsome Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.
  
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• US warns of supply chain cyber-attacks

  26-07-2018 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  National Counterintelligence and Security Center says 2017 was a "watershed" year for such hacks.
  
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• Facebook suffers £83 billion financial blow following Cambridge Analytica scandal

  26-07-2018 18:10
  
  Over £83 billion wiped from Facebook’s market value after three million European users abandoned service
  
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• Amazon tool flags Congress members as suspects

  26-07-2018 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The American Civil Liberties Union compared photos of the politicians with a database of arrested people.
  
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• PewDiePie 'sorry' for meme mocking Demi Lovato

  26-07-2018 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The YouTuber is being criticised for appearing to make fun of Demi Lovato being in hospital.
  
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• Chinese shipping firm infected by ransomware

  26-07-2018 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Ransomware knocked out communications in the US offices of the shipping and haulage firm.
  
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• How Etsy is using AI to improve its search function

  26-07-2018 16:19 via zdnet.com
  Building a search function on Etsy has proven to be challenging, since the online marketplace sells so many one-of-a-kind items,Etsy CTO Mike Fisher explains. [Cloud TV]
  
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• Hacking campaign uses old Microsoft Office flaws to create backdoors, steal files

  26-07-2018 16:15 via zdnet.com
  The Felixroot campaign deploys vulnerabilities that were exposed -- and patched -- last year in a bid to deploy file-stealing malware.
  
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• Google pledges to foil phishing attacks with new Titan Security Key

  26-07-2018 15:24 via zdnet.com
  If you trust Google, this is the second-factor security key for you.
  
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• How police work is evolving, thanks to voice recognition and the cloud

  26-07-2018 15:19 via zdnet.com
  Mark Geremia of Nuance Communications and Chief Joseph Solomon of the Methuen, Mass. Police Department explain how first responders use tools like voice recognition to help with everything from paperwork to potentially preventing police ambushes. [Cloud TV]
  
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• How Etsy chose a public cloud provider without relying on bias or opinion

  26-07-2018 15:08 via zdnet.com
  After joining Etsy as CTO in 2017, Mike Fisher launched a methodical, matrix-based review of public cloud providers and landed on Google Cloud Platform. [Cloud TV]
  
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• Windows 10: How Microsoft will stop software updates from ruining your day

  26-07-2018 14:57 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's predictive model will try to determine whether you've just left for a coffee or have finished for the day so that it can deliver updates without interrupting your work.
  
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• Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC

  26-07-2018 14:11 via zdnet.com
  After a disastrous launch and a big writedown, analysts were ready to write off Microsoft's Surface division five years ago. But instead of disappearing, the Surface division has been a surprising success.
  
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• Tommy Hilfiger smart clothes track wearers

  26-07-2018 14:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The new line will provide the brand with information on what happens to clothes when they leave the store.
  
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• Windows scores a win over Linux as another state decides to switch

  26-07-2018 13:46 via zdnet.com
  Around 13,000 workstations running OpenSuse will be migrated to a current version of Windows.
  
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• Microsoft is now bigger than IBM has ever been - but Google's growth is astonishing

  26-07-2018 13:25 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's latest financial results show that it is now bigger than IBM has ever been -- but Google got there first.
  
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• Samsung has just developed an “unbreakable” OLED screen

  26-07-2018 13:23
  
  You may never crack your phone screen again thanks to Samsung’s latest innovation
  
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• The DIY rocket scientists on a mission to send a human to space

  26-07-2018 13:05
  
  A group of amateur space engineers hopes to get one step closer to space by launching a homemade rocket 12 kilometres into the sky from a boat off the coast of Denmark this weekend
  
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• Qualcomm abandons NXP acquisition plans, picks up $2 billion tab

  26-07-2018 12:28 via zdnet.com
  The silence of Chinese regulators has become deadly for the deal.
  
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• In international waters, satellites spy signs of secret crimes

  26-07-2018 12:18
  
  A study of five years of ship movement data shows the potential scale of illegal fishing and human rights abuses on the world’s oceans
  
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• In international waters, satellites detect signs of secret crimes

  26-07-2018 12:18
  
  A study of five years of ship movement data shows the potential scale of illegal fishing and human rights abuses on the world’s oceans
  
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• ​Microsoft's Outlook.com gets a dark mode

  26-07-2018 12:10 via zdnet.com
  Outlook online users now have an option that's easier on the eyes in dimly lit places.
  
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• Hacking campaign combines attacks to target government, finance and energy

  26-07-2018 12:02 via zdnet.com
  Attack group operating out of Iran copies techniques used in successful, high-profile attacks - but forget to cover their tracks, leaving their tactics exposed.
  
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• YouTube removes 'hate speech' videos from InfoWars

  26-07-2018 11:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The channel has also been banned from broadcasting live for 90 days for posting "hate speech".
  
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• Google, Accenture team up to create enterprise data insight solutions group

  26-07-2018 11:04 via zdnet.com
  The retail, consumer, and healthcare industries will be targeted first.
  
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• Coinbase Bitcoin Cash insider trading inquiry reaches an end

  26-07-2018 10:26 via zdnet.com
  The rocketing price of BCH at launch led some to wonder whether insider deals had taken place.
  
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• Segway electric skates face 'hoverboard ban'

  26-07-2018 10:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Self-balancing electric skates designed by Segway will not be allowed on the pavement in the UK.
  
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• Thursday briefing: MPs warn of climate change's heatwave death toll

  26-07-2018 08:45
  
  The Environmental Audit Committeesays the UK's infrastructure isn't equipped for a future of regular heatwaves, evidence of liquid water has been discovered on Mars, Facebook's share price has plummeted as user growth begins to stall
  
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• Poor cybersecurity could destabilise increasingly complex energy grids

  26-07-2018 08:40 via zdnet.com
  Securing smart energy grids will take a 'transformational' project, says CQR Consulting's Phil Kernick. Until then, we must 'hobble forward' with grids that are getting easier to take down.
  
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• PM flags My Health Record 'reassurances' as RACGP expresses concern

  26-07-2018 08:12 via zdnet.com
  Change appears to be coming to My Health Record, although the details are far and few between.
  
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• Qualcomm axes NXP deal after failing to get Chinese approval

  26-07-2018 07:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Qualcomm's NXP deal scrapped after deadline passes without approval from Chinese regulators.
  
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• ​China withdraws local Facebook presence approval

  26-07-2018 07:26 via zdnet.com
  The social media giant that has been blocked for a decade has had its approval to stand up an innovation hub withdrawn by the Chinese government.
  
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• Pine Labs co-founder Rajul Garg on India's hot new areas of tech investing

  26-07-2018 07:16 via zdnet.com
  An interview with well-known entrepreneur and investor Rajul Garg about new and fading themes in the Indian tech investing landscape.
  
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• ​Samsung mass produces 10nm 16Gb LPDDR4X mobile DRAM

  26-07-2018 06:05 via zdnet.com
  Samsung's 10-nanometre-class Low Power, Double Data Rate, 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM will improve performance and lower power consumption of premium smartphones, it said.
  
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• ​SK Telecom applies quantum key to Deutsche Telekom network

  26-07-2018 05:52 via zdnet.com
  SK Telecom has applied its quantum safe system on Deutsche Telekom's trial network and will expand deployment to commercial networks in 2019.
  
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• Medicare hits My Health Record opt-out while Health complains about Parl Library

  26-07-2018 04:35 via zdnet.com
  My Health Record opt-out was down for less than two hours, while a complaint from the Department of Health has taken a Parliament Library piece critical of government assertions offline for much longer.
  
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• Australians cannot opt-out of My Health Record today because Medicare is down

  26-07-2018 04:35 via zdnet.com
  We should probably be thankful the Australian government managed to keep its computers running for over a week.
  
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• Megaport continues to burn through cash across FY18

  26-07-2018 04:07 via zdnet.com
  Company is projecting cash outflow of AU$19.5 million in the next quarter, nearly matching half the AU$39.6 million outflow experienced over FY18.
  
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