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• Amazon Live launches with live-streamed shopping videos

  08-02-2019 23:05 via zdnet.com
  The new video shopping experience launches as QVC rolls out its own new app with shoppable videos.
  
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• Why chatbots still leave us cold

  08-02-2019 22:57 via zdnet.com
  A competition administered by Facebook's AI researchers, with help from Microsoft and others, shows the state of the art in getting machines to engage in chit chat is still soul-crushingly boring and nonsensical. New technology and benchmarks may help down the road.
  
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• What neuromorphic engineering is, and why it’s triggered an analog revolution

  08-02-2019 20:08 via zdnet.com
  Maybe we can’t keep packing transistors onto substrates the way Gordon Moore showed us how to do. So how about if we replaced those millions of transistors with components “inspired by the true story” of the brain?
  
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• Carbonite buys Webroot for $618 million

  08-02-2019 20:00 via zdnet.com
  Carbonite said it plans to combine Webroot's cloud-based security service with its own backup and recovery technology to create a comprehensive endpoint security platform.
  
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• Microsoft to modify Office ProPlus by end of April in response to Dutch ministry's privacy concerns

  08-02-2019 19:52 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is going to make some changes to Office ProPlus in response to issues raised by the Netherlands' justice ministry last year over potential GDPR violations, according to a new report.
  
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• Jeff Bezos's blackmail masterclass: Podcast 404

  08-02-2019 19:16
  
  Coming up today: Jeff Bezos, what we can learn from France’s big tech tax plan and we go inside the weird and disturbing world of YouTube’s child ASMR stars
  
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• Raspberry Pi: Hi-tech firm goes for high street experience

  08-02-2019 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Why would a technology firm that has sold millions of units online venture on to the high street?
  
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• Jeff Bezos has given a masterclass in how to respond to blackmail

  08-02-2019 18:51
  
  Calling out blackmailers and dirty tricksters is the best defence, not only for billionaires. But it's a position of power not open to everyone
  
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• Microsoft is revamping its Office Home Use Program to feature discounted Office 365 subscriptions

  08-02-2019 17:58 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft hasn't yet launched its updated Home Use Program for Office in the U.S. But once it does, it will be offering qualified business customers 30 percent off on Office 365 Home/Personal subscriptions for employee home use.
  
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• US Senators ask DHS to look into US government workers using foreign VPNs

  08-02-2019 16:58 via zdnet.com
  Senators alarmed that US government workers may be sending sensitive traffic to China or Russia.
  
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• Brazil is among the world's most expensive countries to buy an iPhone

  08-02-2019 16:44 via zdnet.com
  Consumers pay more than double the US price for Apple products, says report.
  
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• Mirantis signs huge networking deal with AT&T

  08-02-2019 16:12 via zdnet.com
  Mirantis is partnering with AT&T on an OpenStack project, AirShip, to integrate Kubernetes into Telecom's Software Defined Networks.
  
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• Using AI to secure the global supply chain

  08-02-2019 16:02 via zdnet.com
  With global supply chains becoming increasingly complex, manufacturers are starting to turn to AI to help untangle the web. The results could have huge national security implications.
  
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• The 10 best smartphones you can buy right now

  08-02-2019 15:56 via zdnet.com
  It's easy to find a great phone today. In fact, current flagship devices are so good you really don't need to be replacing them every year.
  
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• When it comes to innovation, even shipping cartons can be improved upon

  08-02-2019 15:53 via zdnet.com
  Innovation isn't just about flashy technology. The entire user experience can benefit from innovation, especially the areas we all take for granted, like shipping cartons.
  
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• Windows 95 reborn: Windows 10, Linux, Mac get major nostalgia upgrade

  08-02-2019 15:43 via zdnet.com
  Relive Windows 95 on a Mac, Linux or Windows 10 machine.
  
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• Jeff Bezos: Amazon boss accuses National Enquirer of blackmail

  08-02-2019 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer attempted extortion by threatening to publish "intimate photos".
  
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• Google: We've open-sourced ClusterFuzz tool that found 16,000 bugs in Chrome

  08-02-2019 14:53 via zdnet.com
  Google's automated bug-finding tool is now available to all software developers.
  
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• Olloclip iPhone XS clip and Connect X lenses: Take your mobile photography to the next level

  08-02-2019 14:47 via zdnet.com
  Olloclip recently released new lens mounting clips for the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max. With support for nine Intro, Essential, and Pro lenses there isn't anything you can't capture with your iPhone.
  
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• The 10 best not-so-new phones: Why last year's models make great deals

  08-02-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  "Latest and greatest" doesn't always make a device your best buy. Matt Miller finds a few select older models that deliver way more value and could mean hundreds of dollars saved.
  
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• Now this Android spyware poses as a privacy tool to trick you into downloading

  08-02-2019 13:12 via zdnet.com
  Triout malware is designed for espionage and can spy on almost every aspect of compromised devices - and now it's back with new tactics.
  
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• Revolut admits making up stats in adverts

  08-02-2019 12:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Digital banking service Revolut is referred to the City watchdog over its Valentine's Day "single takeaway" ad.
  
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• Apple to pay teenager who found FaceTime bug

  08-02-2019 12:54 via bbc.co.uk
  The flaw let iPhone owners eavesdrop on people they called via the FaceTime video-chat system.
  
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• iPhone snooping: Apple cracks down on apps that secretly record taps, keystrokes

  08-02-2019 12:20 via zdnet.com
  iOS app developers have been capturing how users interact with screens without gaining user consent.
  
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• Robot aims to inspire girls to take STEM and other news

  08-02-2019 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
  
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• YouTube U-turn over child abuse singer

  08-02-2019 11:47 via bbc.co.uk
  YouTube deletes singer Austin Jones's channel, after he exchanges sexual images with underage girls.
  
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• Sirin Labs Finney review: A secure flagship-class smartphone with a built-in cold storage crypto wallet

  08-02-2019 09:25 via zdnet.com
  The Finney is a well-built Android handset, but its real job is to demonstrate the value of Sirin OS as a secure and usable platform for cryptocurrencies and other blockchain applications.
  
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• Friday briefing: Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of blackmail

  08-02-2019 08:47
  
  The Amazon CEO says the tabloid threatened to publish nudes if he didn't retract claims of political motivation, Apple has put out a fix for the Facetime chat eavesdropping bug
  
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• Climate change: UK carbon capture project begins

  08-02-2019 07:46 via bbc.co.uk
  A controversial new scheme is capturing CO2 emissions from wood burning.
  
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• Rumors of a Flipkart exit swirl around Walmart as chaos engulfs Indian e-commerce

  08-02-2019 07:03 via zdnet.com
  Amazon and Walmart have suffered market cap hits, as well as substantially lower revenue and profit growth projections thanks to an ill-conceived and politically opportunistic move by the Indian government.
  
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• What the KFC chicken crisis tells us about Brexit food shortages

  08-02-2019 07:00
  
  As the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looms, lessons can be learned from KFC's struggles with the UK's hallowed Golden Triangle
  
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• Video games are unlocking the mysteries of the quantum world

  08-02-2019 07:00
  
  Quantum games could be the first area to achieve quantum advantage. In Helsinki, developers are getting set for another round of experiments
  
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• This is how science can fix its glaring gender inequality problem

  08-02-2019 07:00
  
  The Lancet's latest issue, dedicated to advancing women in science, sheds some light on why gender diversity is taking so long
  
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• IBM's quantum computer is trying its hand at video game design

  08-02-2019 07:00
  
  Quantum games could be the first area to achieve quantum advantage. In Helsinki, developers are getting set for another round of experiments
  
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• Apple Watches and LCD screens are propping up LG, not OLED

  08-02-2019 07:00
  
  As OLED tech is still too expensive for the mid-range market, LG Display is reliant on cash from its liquid crystal display tech, and a lucrative partnership with Apple
  
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• Australia parliament hit by cyber-hack attempt

  08-02-2019 06:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Politicians' passwords have all been reset, but officials say it appears no information was stolen.
  
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• MongoDB databases still being held for ransom, two years after attacks started

  08-02-2019 06:30 via zdnet.com
  New hacker groups that hold MongoDB databases for ransom have been spotted last month.
  
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• Huawei will need 5 years and $2b to resolve UK security concerns: Report

  08-02-2019 02:41 via zdnet.com
  Security concerns found by the UK government last year will take between three and five years to resolve, Huawei has reportedly said, while it also awaits European decisions on whether it can take part in 5G deployments.
  
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• Google warns about two iOS zero-days 'exploited in the wild'

  08-02-2019 02:17 via zdnet.com
  iOS users are advised to update to iOS 12.1.4; release which also fixes infamous FaceTime bug.
  
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• Amazon offers up regulatory guidelines for facial recognition

  08-02-2019 01:42 via zdnet.com
  As Amazon's Rekognition comes under fire, Amazon suggests guidelines for national legislation regulating the technology.
  
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• 'How a smartphone saved my mother's life'

  08-02-2019 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The smartphone is becoming a powerful medical tool that can diagnose a growing number of conditions.
  
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• EE data breach ‘led to stalking’

  08-02-2019 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A customer's ex-partner accessed her new address and bank details, before turning up at her home.
  
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• Australian government computing network reset following security 'incident'

  08-02-2019 00:12 via zdnet.com
  Department of Parliamentary Services says there is no evidence to suggest data has been taken or accessed, or that the incident is part of a plan to influence electoral processes.
  
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