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• MWCA: AT&T and the push for smarter cities

  14-09-2018 22:15 via zdnet.com
  AT&T's smart cities solutions for the City of Los Angeles include improving the lives of the homeless and using IoT tech to detect and triangulate the locations of unreported shootings.
  
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• Online sports are about to get actual real-time streaming

  14-09-2018 22:05 via zdnet.com
  When you watch football, soccer, baseball, or any sport with online streaming, you're actually watching video that's seconds behind. Limelight thinks it has the answer to this annoyance.
  
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• US loses extradition battle with Russia for Bitcoin kingpin

  14-09-2018 20:38 via zdnet.com
  Around 95 percent of all ransomware payments were laundered through Vinnik's BTC-e platform.
  
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• Quick poll: What makes Google Chrome so darn good?

  14-09-2018 19:26
  
  As Google Chrome turns ten, we ask you why it's so popular
  
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• HP eyes custom orthotics market to push 3D printing systems

  14-09-2018 19:12 via zdnet.com
  HP has teamed up with Go 4-D, a player in the medical orthotics industry, to distribute its FitStation platform around North America.
  
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• Thomson Reuters seeks tech startups in Brazil

  14-09-2018 18:06 via zdnet.com
  The company is looking for ventures working on artificial intelligence and blockchain applied to the tax and foreign trade segments.
  
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• Apple Watch 4 vs Apple Watch 3: Should you pre-order the new Apple Watch 4?

  14-09-2018 17:30
  
  Apple has shown us the new Apple Watch –how does it differ from the Apple Watch 3?
  
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• Blockchain betting app mocks competitor for getting hacked. Gets hacked four days later

  14-09-2018 17:28 via zdnet.com
  Hacker steals roughly $125,000 from blockchain-based online gambling app by exploiting vulnerability in EOS smart contract (game's source code).
  
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• Bristol tech start-up firm pioneers growing salad indoors

  14-09-2018 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A biotechnology firm is developing ways of growing salad crops without soil, rain or sunshine.
  
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• iPhone XS mocked by Huawei for being so very boring

  14-09-2018 17:02 via zdnet.com
  You can always guarantee that some brand will follow an iPhone unveiling with derision.
  
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• Apple Watch 4 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Polar Vantage: Comparing their heart monitoring capabilities

  14-09-2018 16:53 via zdnet.com
  Today's newest watches employ advanced heart rate monitoring and analysis to help us better understand our hearts and obtain early warnings of possible serious health issues.
  
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• ​Ansible Tower 3.3 arrives to make DevOps easier than ever

  14-09-2018 16:37 via zdnet.com
  This new version features more control, greater scalability, better container support, and can now be run on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
  
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• YouTube nursery-rhyme channel with billions of views sold

  14-09-2018 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The Little Baby Bum channel has racked up more than 17.5 billion views.
  
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• Data breaches affect stock performance in the long run, study finds

  14-09-2018 16:02 via zdnet.com
  Study finds that stocks from 28 companies that suffered large breaches had underperformed on the stock market.
  
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• North Korea claims NHS and Sony hack suspect 'doesn't exist'

  14-09-2018 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The man alleged to have hacked the UK's health service and Sony Pictures is not real, says Pyongyang.
  
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• ​Google restores 'www' to Chrome URLs after user backlash

  14-09-2018 15:12 via zdnet.com
  But not for long - they will be gone again by Chrome 70.
  
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• Why a four-day work week makes sense: Podcast 385

  14-09-2018 14:53
  
  On the WIRED UK podcast this week: the scientific and economic case for a four-day working week, the EU’s war on memes continues and we deliver our verdict on all the good stuff Apple announced this week.
  
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• Apple's iPhone XR: The Reasonable choice

  14-09-2018 14:36 via zdnet.com
  I think I figured out what the "R" really stands for.
  
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• iPhone XR vs iPhone Xs: Is spending an extra £200 worth it?

  14-09-2018 14:32
  
  We compare the new iPhone XR and Xs to see which one comes out on top
  
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• Lenovo ThinkPad E580 review: A well-priced 15-inch business laptop with a great keyboard

  14-09-2018 14:00 via zdnet.com
  Lenovo's ThinkPad E580 is a well-built laptop that, with smart configuration, could prove to be an attractive option for the canny business buyer.
  
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• DDoS attacks: Students blamed for many university cyber attacks

  14-09-2018 13:57 via zdnet.com
  DDoS attacks against university campuses are more likely in term time.
  
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• Artists use AR to display politically-charged art in provocative places

  14-09-2018 13:40 via zdnet.com
  Billed as the first truly interactive fine-art augmented reality experience, this may be the birth of a new medium
  
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• ​Facebook's fact-checkers train AI to detect "deep fake" videos

  14-09-2018 13:25 via zdnet.com
  Facebook is facing an uphill battle automating the detection of misinformation in photos and videos.
  
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• The ECG in the new Apple Watch is a potential healthcare headache

  14-09-2018 13:23
  
  "A poor test could create thousands of false positives and overburden the health service such that people who really do have a heart condition can't get to see a doctor"
  
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• iPhone Xs vs Xs Max: Does bigger really mean better?

  14-09-2018 13:03
  
  Apple’s new iPhones are here, but which is better: iPhone Xs or Xs Max?
  
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• The robot child patient for doctors and other news

  14-09-2018 12:55 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Click's Omar Mehtab looks at some of the week's best technology stories.
  
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• Nintendo announces raft of new games for Switch console

  14-09-2018 12:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The Japanese firm announces a range of new games for its console - as well as a new retro controller.
  
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• Volvo new driverless truck is self-driving, electric and cloud-based

  14-09-2018 12:11
  
  Meet Vera, Volvo’s attempt to revolutionise logistics
  
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• SpaceX is the first to fly a private tourist around the moon

  14-09-2018 11:39
  
  Elon Musk’s space company is flying a punter to the moon – and we’ll know who next week
  
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• SpaceX is flying this Japanese billionaire around the moon

  14-09-2018 11:39
  
  Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will take up to eight artists on his private tour of the moon
  
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• Elon Musk names Japanese billionaire as private tourist SpaceX is flying around the moon

  14-09-2018 11:39
  
  Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will take up to eight artists on his private tour of the moon
  
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• Smartwatch sales will double in next four years

  14-09-2018 11:38 via zdnet.com
  Apple Watch expected to dominate, but Google's Wear OS will catch up.
  
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• Harvesting marijuana with robots is hard. Here's how one company figured it out.

  14-09-2018 11:13 via zdnet.com
  The legal hemp industry is booming. Like many commercial ag sectors, automation is coming.
  
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• If Hurricane Florence is the new norm, here's how to redesign our cities to cope with climate change

  14-09-2018 11:10
  
  Miami, Shanghai, Osaka and scores of other cities could be mostly underwater in 100 years. What's our plan?
  
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• North Korea claims hacker responsible for WannaCry outbreak does not exist

  14-09-2018 10:12 via zdnet.com
  The country insists the indictment of the hacker is nothing more than a smear campaign.
  
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• Salford scientists show how cars could power your home

  14-09-2018 10:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The electric cars with stored power that could be transferred to a dwelling.
  
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• Friday briefing: Human flesh isn't very nutritious – the 2018 Ig Nobel prizes

  14-09-2018 08:56
  
  Cannibalism isn't as nutritious as traditional meat-based diets, stop and search doesn't work against violent crime, early analysis indicates that climate change has made US Hurricane Florence more of a threat
  
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• Stop and search doesn't work against violent crime. Here's why

  14-09-2018 08:00
  
  Most studies show stop and search to be ineffective at best. Policymakers should look for alternatives
  
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• Australian Computer Society acquires an accelerator and joins World Economic Forum

  14-09-2018 06:34 via zdnet.com
  A busy seven days for the professional association topped off with membership to the global Davos hobnobbing society.
  
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• ​SK Telecom snubs Huawei in 5G equipment selection

  14-09-2018 06:27 via zdnet.com
  SK Telecom, South Korea's largest wireless operator, has announced that Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia will be the preferred bidders for 5G equipment with Huawei noticeably absent.
  
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• Church of England to keep Amazon shares despite Welby criticism

  14-09-2018 05:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked the tech company for "leeching off the taxpayer".
  
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• Police hit Australian immigration centre over alleged AU$3m business email scam

  14-09-2018 04:50 via zdnet.com
  NSW Police allege a 43-year-old Nigerian man was coordinating a AU$3 million business email compromise scam from within an Australian immigration detention centre.
  
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• CSIRO using serverless compute to analyse the human genome

  14-09-2018 03:16 via zdnet.com
  The CSIRO is using AWS Lamba to allow analysis of the 20 exabytes of data coming from genomics every year.
  
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• Nottingham make-up artist's surreal work is Instagram hit

  14-09-2018 01:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Romanie Jade-Tulloch's mind-bending artworks can take five hours to create.
  
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• Beyond pizza

  14-09-2018 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  How a city best known for pizza, football and crime is embracing tech to revive its fortunes.
  
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• Sly malware author hides cryptomining botnet behind ever-shifting proxy service

  14-09-2018 01:04 via zdnet.com
  Botnet author appears to be successful at hiding cryptocurrency mining botnet behind reverse proxy network used by enterprises and the developer community.
  
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