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• Google needs to break up its all-or-nothing approach to permissions

  11-11-2018 23:00 via zdnet.com
  Want to play a YouTube clip on a Google Home Hub? You better have handed over your Chrome web history.
  
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• Alibaba Singles Day sales frenzy surpasses records

  11-11-2018 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The Chinese firm's shopping bonanza day saw customers spend a record $30.8bn.
  
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• Best Buy 2018 Black Friday ad features Apple Mac, Microsoft Surface deals

  11-11-2018 16:27 via zdnet.com
  The electronics retailer also has the a deal on the Google Pixelbook laptop, along with a $99 Samsung Chromebook special.
  
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• Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service

  11-11-2018 16:08 via zdnet.com
  Company makes it easy for mobile users to hide their DNS traffic from nosy ISPs.
  
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• These are the things Apple customers hate the most (there's a lot)

  11-11-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  A Reddit thread asks a simple question: What example of Apple's nickel and diming has annoyed you the most? And goodness are Apple customers annoyed.
  
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• 5 amazing things about Google I learned from one of its top executives

  11-11-2018 14:00 via zdnet.com
  When a Google executive speaks, you have to listen intently and parse the words. I tried for at least 20 minutes.
  
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• These are some of the best hotels in the world for design and tech

  11-11-2018 08:00
  
  Hotels have always been testing grounds for design innovation and technology. These are the best hotels for standout architecture and accommodation
  
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• Meet Fallout's philosophers who are obsessed with the game's intense political feuds

  11-11-2018 08:00
  
  For some players, Fallout is not just a game; it presents a moral and political landscape that is closer to real life than most of us would be comfortable with
  
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• How small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

  11-11-2018 08:00
  
  The Bristol-based Small Robot Company has created a series of agile robots for farming. By being customisable they could help to replace the tractor
  
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• ​Samsung to produce over one million foldable phones

  11-11-2018 05:46 via zdnet.com
  Samsung will make over one million units for its upcoming foldable phone in initial stock and it will be launched within the first half of 2019, the firm's mobile boss says. He also met Google CEO Sundar Pichai two months ago and formed a taskforce for foldable phone's UX.
  
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• Alibaba generates 149 billion yuan in sales in first 12 hours of 11.11

  11-11-2018 05:13 via zdnet.com
  Within the first hour of the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, total gross merchandise volume had exceeded 67 billion yuan -- nearly $10 billion.
  
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• What do tampons and WWI have in common?

  11-11-2018 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Tampons, drones and more surprising innovations from World War One that changed the world.
  
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