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• Safari engineers look at different approach to fighting intrusive ads

  02-02-2019 20:22 via zdnet.com
  Safari engineers want to limit the amount of JavaScript that a website can load.
  
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• Ban phones in schools, says minister Nick Gibb

  02-02-2019 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Nick Gibb says while it's a matter for heads, excessive social media leaves pupils unable to concentrate.
  
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• 145$ million funds frozen after death of cryptocurrency exchange admin

  02-02-2019 15:49 via zdnet.com
  Highly unlikely that the exchange and its users will ever get access to these funds ever again.
  
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• Patriots vs Rams: How to stream Super Bowl 2019 online

  02-02-2019 13:42 via zdnet.com
  Are you far away from your usual TV, as the Los Angeles Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII? You can still watch the game over the internet.
  
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• Linux kernel gets another option to disable Spectre mitigations

  02-02-2019 12:59 via zdnet.com
  People want more control over the Spectre mitigations for the sake of performance.
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery is the only show worth watching right now

  02-02-2019 10:36
  
  With little fanfare, Star Trek: Discovery's second season is going about the tricky task of hooking itself into the franchise's unwieldy canon
  
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• iOS 12.1.4 is coming to fix the worst iPhone and iPad bug to date

  02-02-2019 10:03 via zdnet.com
  Keep an eye out for the iOS 12.1.4 update to be available for your iPhone or iPad, because if you're running iOS 12.1 or later, this is a must-have patch that fixes the worst iOS bug to date.
  
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• The must-watch new TV shows coming in 2019

  02-02-2019 07:00
  
  Spend some time in front of the small screen with our pick of the year's upcoming new TV shows on BBC, ITV, Netflix and more
  
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• The best tablets for kids in 2019

  02-02-2019 07:00
  
  WIRED Recommends the best tablets for young kids, older kids and adventuring kids
  
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• Omega's Seamaster Diver 300M goes big on ceramic and titanium

  02-02-2019 07:00
  
  The Seamaster Diver 300M Ceramic-Titanium looks like the ultimate stealth watch
  
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• Nightflyers is a George RR Martin sci-fi binge in search of a fandom

  02-02-2019 07:00
  
  Netflix’s new space horror series takes an early story from the man behind Game of Thrones and twists it into something else entirely
  
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• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is an unusual coming-of-age story

  02-02-2019 07:00
  
  The third How to Train Your Dragon film shows its protagonists doing something uncommon in animation: growing up
  
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• Security firm identifies hacker behind Collection 1 leak, as Collection 2-5 become public

  02-02-2019 03:06 via zdnet.com
  Billions of users records continue to leak. Some data leaked years before, some of it is new.
  
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• HP sees 3D printing potential in transforming APAC manufacturing

  02-02-2019 02:35 via zdnet.com
  3D printing can reduce labour costs since there are no parts to assemble and has the potential to "smarten" up logistics in markets such as Singapore and China, but it will require businesses to rethink the entire manufacturing process--from design to when products are delivered to customers.
  
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• MIT develops robot that uses AI to play Jenga game

  02-02-2019 01:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Developed by a team at MIT, the robot uses AI and may be used in industrial automation in the future.
  
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• Microsoft: What went right under Satya Nadella?

  02-02-2019 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  How Satya Nadella turned around the tech firm's fortunes.
  
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• Hypezone: How AI is making game streams more exciting

  02-02-2019 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The software, which runs on streaming site Mixer, picks the most interesting moments to show people.
  
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• How Spatial and augmented reality could change work

  02-02-2019 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The software allows people to chat and share images, videos and 3D models in augmented reality.
  
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