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• US, Russia, China don't sign Macron's cyber pact

  12-11-2018 23:45 via zdnet.com
  New cyber peace pact signed by 51 other countries, 224 companies, and 92 non-profits and advocacy groups.
  
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• Can listening to bees help save them - and us?

  12-11-2018 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists hope artificial intelligence will gives us more insights into bee health and behaviour.
  
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• Apple iPhone sales fears rock Wall Street

  12-11-2018 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  The tech giant's share price fall has wiped more than $40bn off its market value.
  
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• ​The real reason Palmer Luckey was fired from Facebook

  12-11-2018 21:36 via zdnet.com
  Opinion: It had nothing to with politics and a lot to do with losing a $500 million lawsuit for stealing intellectual property.
  
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• Internet Explorer scripting engine becomes North Korean APT's favorite target in 2018

  12-11-2018 20:29 via zdnet.com
  North Korean hacking group focuses attacks on aging and soon-to-be-deprecated technology.
  
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• ​Ceph open-source storage takes an organizational step forward

  12-11-2018 20:23 via zdnet.com
  Under the guidance of The Linux Foundation, the Ceph open-source project will now be directed by the Ceph Foundation.
  
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• Car crash data thief 'unlucky' to be jailed

  12-11-2018 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A car repair worker is the first person to be sentenced to jail as a result of a UK data watchdog prosecution.
  
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• Digital transformation in 2019: AI, robotics, and IoT to play starring roles

  12-11-2018 19:16 via zdnet.com
  New report from Forrester predicts how these and other technologies will impact business.
  
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• Best Walmart Black Friday 2018 deals: $99 Chromebook, $89 Windows 2-in-1, and more

  12-11-2018 19:15 via zdnet.com
  The mega-retailer has a few PC deals for shoppers, even including one on an HP Pavilion gaming laptop.
  
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• Best Dell Black Friday 2018 deals: $120 Inspiron laptop, $500 gaming desktop, and more

  12-11-2018 19:15 via zdnet.com
  The PC manufacturer offers its usual range of deals on laptops and desktops, though many are of the limited-time "doorbuster" variety.
  
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• Best BJ's Black Friday 2018 deals: Laptop, desktop, and tablet sales galore

  12-11-2018 19:00 via zdnet.com
  Among its doorbuster sales, the warehouse chain will have a 9.7-inch Apple iPad with 128GB of storage for $349.99.
  
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• Best Target Black Friday 2018 deals: $250 iPad mini 4, $120 Chromebook, and more

  12-11-2018 18:45 via zdnet.com
  Target stores will also have Amazon Fire 7 tablets for $30 and the 9.7-inch iPad for $250.
  
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• US overtakes China in top supercomputer list

  12-11-2018 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  A new list of the world's most powerful machines puts the US in the top two spots.
  
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• Best Staples Black Friday 2018 deals: PC sales include $150 Chromebook

  12-11-2018 18:30 via zdnet.com
  We break down the office superstore's wide range of laptop and desktop specials from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more.
  
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• Best Buy Black Friday 2018 deals: Deep discounts on Apple Mac, Microsoft Surface

  12-11-2018 18:15 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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• Best Costco Black Friday 2018 deals: $250 iPad, $200 laptops, and more

  12-11-2018 18:00 via zdnet.com
  Specials on Apple's tablet, the Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1, and 14-inch HP Chromebook are only available online on Thanksgiving, but the warehouse chain will also have several other laptop and desktop PCs on sale as well.
  
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• Xiaomi criticised for UK smartphone £1 flash sale

  12-11-2018 17:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Xiaomi offered only two or three phones at the advertised price.
  
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• What a quantum computer is, and why it needs to be more

  12-11-2018 17:51 via zdnet.com
  It would be the harbinger of an entirely new medium of calculation, harnessing the inexplicable powers of subatomic particles to obliterate the barriers of time in solving incalculable problems. Your part in making it happen may simply be to convince yourself that black is white and up is down.
  
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• Foreign firms inject £110m into UK tech jobs

  12-11-2018 17:22
  
  FinTech, AI and engineering sectors earmarked for overseas investment
  
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• Microsoft is working on a Google G Suite to Office 365 migration toolset

  12-11-2018 17:14 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is readying tools to help customers migrate from G Suite to Office 365 which could be available by the second quarter of 2019.
  
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• US now claims world's top two fastest supercomputers

  12-11-2018 17:00 via zdnet.com
  According to the Top500 List, IBM-built supercomputers Summit and Sierra have dethroned China's Sunway TaihuLight in terms of performance power.
  
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• Intel announces 5G modem for 2019

  12-11-2018 17:00 via zdnet.com
  Intel said it has pushed the launch of a 5G modem forward by six months, with the product to become available to device manufacturers in the second half of next year.
  
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• HPE Aruba forms industrial IoT partnership with Siemens

  12-11-2018 16:52 via zdnet.com
  The goal for the two companies revolves around melding operational and information technology.
  
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• These are all the problems with Iceland's banned Christmas advert

  12-11-2018 16:23
  
  Iceland's orangutang commercial wasn't technically banned. The ad was blocked as it's politically backed. And then there's the complex issue of palm oil's environmental impact
  
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• Nuance sells document imaging business for $400 million

  12-11-2018 16:19 via zdnet.com
  Intelligent automation software maker Kofax is snapping up the product line.
  
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• HTTP-over-QUIC to be renamed HTTP/3

  12-11-2018 15:48 via zdnet.com
  IETF agrees to base the next major iteration of HTTP on Google's QUIC protocol
  
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• UK companies microchip employees, sparking fears from unions

  12-11-2018 15:46
  
  Microchips could be implanted into employees of UK firms to track worker efficiencies
  
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• Selfies and other unhealthy social media use turns you into a narcissist

  12-11-2018 15:32
  
  A new study suggests that taking selfies could lead to negative personality traits
  
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• Transformation goes pragmatic

  12-11-2018 15:23 via zdnet.com
  Pace and diversity of technology continues to challenge prioritization and budgets. Forrester's 2019 predictions offer insight to help understand the 14 major dynamics that will impact firms next year.
  
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• Brazilian Central Bank reaches out to fintechs

  12-11-2018 15:07 via zdnet.com
  New legislation around areas such as instant payments and foreign investments provide opportunities to ventures and investors.
  
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• With latest SAP S/4HANA cloud release, SAP begins automation process march

  12-11-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  SAP prefers the intelligent process automation term over robotic process automation, but the end result is the same. More automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence.
  
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• Microsoft to start shipping Surface Go tablets with built-in LTE on November 20

  12-11-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft soon will be selling both consumer and commercial models of the LTE versions of its smallest Surface devices, the Surface Go.
  
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• Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case

  12-11-2018 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A US judge asks Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Echo device in a house where two women died.
  
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• Steam bug allowed unlimited free downloads

  12-11-2018 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Valve awarded the researcher that found the issue a bug bounty of $20,000.
  
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• Tech business management software company Apptio to go private in $1.9bn deal

  12-11-2018 14:22 via zdnet.com
  Acquisition will help Apptio accelerate growth, says CEO.
  
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• Western Digital jumps into in-memory computing segment

  12-11-2018 14:00 via zdnet.com
  By combining software with SSDs, Western Digital is offering a way to get the most out of servers without making a pricey investment in more DRAM.
  
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• Oracle announces new bare metal instances for HPC workloads

  12-11-2018 14:00 via zdnet.com
  The Intel Xeon-powered instances are part of Oracle's "clustered network" offering, which provides access to a low-latency, high-bandwidth RDMA network.
  
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• Twitter CEO believes Follower counts are meaningless

  12-11-2018 13:08
  
  Jack Dorsey wants users to focus on meaningful engagements instead of numbers
  
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• New photos of Jupiter show off Van Gogh-like clouds

  12-11-2018 12:40
  
  NASA’s Juno probe has sent home more stunning pictures of Jupiter
  
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• Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal in Finland

  12-11-2018 12:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Finland's PM suggests it was jammed deliberately in northern Finnish airspace during Nato exercises.
  
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• Apple MacBook Air (2018) review: Apple's veteran ultraportable gets a facelift

  12-11-2018 11:57 via zdnet.com
  This long-overdue update refines the MacBook Air's elegant, lightweight design, while adding up-to-date features such as a Retina Display and the T2 security chip.
  
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• Douglas Rain: Actor who voiced Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey dies

  12-11-2018 11:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Canadian actor Douglas Rain voiced the chilling computer in the landmark sci-fi film.
  
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• Cloud computing is the key to digital transformation at Guinness World Records

  12-11-2018 11:24 via zdnet.com
  Dedication's what you need if you want to create a successful approach to technology-led change
  
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• IoT security and Linux: Why IncludeOS thinks it has the edge

  12-11-2018 11:20 via zdnet.com
  By giving the Internet of Things a more suitable operating system, Norwegian software outfit IncludeOS aims to secure the billions of IoT devices coming online.
  
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• Monday briefing: Facebook ends forced arbitration for sexual harassment victims

  12-11-2018 08:52
  
  Facebook no longer requires sexual harassment victims to go through mandatory internal arbitration, PayPal is accused of false equivalence as it bans anti-fascists alongside far-right hate groups, Microsoft acquires RPG developers Obsidian and inXile
  
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• Chelsea Pensioners' verdict on WW1 VR experience

  12-11-2018 07:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Nothing to be Written is a VR experience about field postcards sent home by soldiers during WW1.
  
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• How President Trump took 'fake news' into the mainstream

  12-11-2018 07:36 via bbc.co.uk
  What began as a way to describe misinformation was quickly diverted into a propaganda tool. The BBC's Dave Lee examines how "fake news" went mainstream.
  
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• Why the LVMH group doesn't believe that digital is the future

  12-11-2018 07:00
  
  Ian Rogers, the first ever chief digital officer of the LVMH group explains why companies should be focussing on technology, not digital
  
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• LVMH's digital transformation is a €40bn success. Meet the former Apple exec in charge

  12-11-2018 07:00
  
  Ian Rogers, the first ever chief digital officer of the LVMH group, on why he hates the word "digital" and his very tricky job: matching the luxury online customer journey with the pampered, indulgent experience IRL
  
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• As fake news flourishes, the UK's fact-checkers are turning to automation to compete

  12-11-2018 07:00
  
  Speed is everything in a post-truth world of alternative facts, online propaganda and political lies. Full Fact, the UK's fact-checkers, are increasingly relying on technology tackle counter-narratives
  
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