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• Best Buy Flash Sale: Best deals from the 24-hour discount sale

  05-04-2019 23:54 via zdnet.com
  Best Buy is holding a day-long flash sale with deals on TVs, phones, laptops, and more. Here are some of the best discounts we've spotted.
  
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• iPad Air (2019) review: Apple's newest tablet combines productivity with affordability

  05-04-2019 22:55 via zdnet.com
  Apple brought the iPad Air back and it's one heck of a tablet.
  
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• Microsoft is closing its HealthVault patient-records service on November 20

  05-04-2019 22:12 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's HealthVault personal-health-record service is closing on November 20 and any data left in it at that time will be deleted, Microsoft officials are telling users via e-mail.
  
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• Microsoft is ready to move Windows 10 Fast Ring testers to build 20H1

  05-04-2019 21:25 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is switching up the way it's going to be testing Windows 10 with the next couple of releases. What's behind its latest moves? I have some theories.
  
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• IoT botnet targeting your enterprise? Nope. Just a kid with an ExploitDB account

  05-04-2019 20:45 via zdnet.com
  Most IoT botnets are the work of kids playing with exploits they've found online.
  
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• iOS 12.2: Should you install it?

  05-04-2019 20:36 via zdnet.com
  If you are the cautious type then chances are that you don't rush out to install new releases of iOS, but instead wait for those who are braver – or foolhardy – to go first.
  
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• Our security recommendations will help you handle the worst of what 2019 throws at you

  05-04-2019 20:13 via zdnet.com
  Things could get a little bumpy for security professionals in 2019 as external factors put more pressure them.
  
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• How to schedule emails in Gmail

  05-04-2019 19:38 via zdnet.com
  Here's how you send an email in the future using Gmail without having to be at your device, or use any third-party services or extensions.
  
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• We could lose the 5G race to China, warns US Department of Defense

  05-04-2019 18:12 via zdnet.com
  "China has taken the lead in 5G development," warns new report - and the US is worried about allies using Chinese 5G networks.
  
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• Google's ethics board shut down

  05-04-2019 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Just over a week after it was announced, an ethics board set up to oversee Google's AI has been shut.
  
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• Facebook 'hosts' cyber-crime marketplaces

  05-04-2019 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Security researchers found credit card numbers and phishing campaigns being openly traded online.
  
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• Serverless computing 101: What it really means, and where servers enter the picture

  05-04-2019 17:10 via zdnet.com
  If you think the term "cloud" obscures the technology behind interoperable network platforms, consider "serverless:" A style of programming for cloud platforms that is changing the way applications are built, deployed, and ultimately, consumed.
  
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• Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Linux is a snap

  05-04-2019 16:28 via zdnet.com
  Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.
  
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• Inside North Korea's elite hacker army

  05-04-2019 15:49
  
  Coming up today: Inside North Korea’s elite hacker group, we mourn the death of Google+ and explain why the clocks changing will soon be a thing of the past.
  
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• Twelve years later: Firefox to add full protection against 'login prompt' spam

  05-04-2019 15:48 via zdnet.com
  Firefox to limit the number of "Authentication Required" popups to two per page.
  
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• Facebook closes groups that offered phishing services, hacked data for sale to thousands of members

  05-04-2019 15:08 via zdnet.com
  Researchers at Cisco Talos uncover 74 Facebook groups being used for illicit activity by hundreds of thousands of users.
  
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• Facebook is riddled with hacker groups sharing tools and tech

  05-04-2019 15:00
  
  Dozens of Facebook groups were selling phishing tools, spam tech and people's credit card details
  
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• Microsoft responds to female harassment claims

  05-04-2019 14:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Dozens of incidents of sexual harassment and discrimination have been lodged by women at the firm.
  
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• Teens 'not damaged by screen time', study finds

  05-04-2019 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Oxford University study finds no evidence of link between adolescent wellbeing and screen time.
  
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• Amazon's big internet plan: 3,236 satellites to beam faster, cheaper web to millions

  05-04-2019 14:06 via zdnet.com
  Soon you could be buying your goods online from Amazon using the company's own satellite broadband system.
  
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• How hyperscale data centers are reshaping all of IT

  05-04-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  In a world where technology and miniaturization are often considered BFFs, the most important innovations of the 21st century take place in facilities that may be seen from space.
  
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• Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo quizzed over subscriptions

  05-04-2019 13:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The Competition and Markets Authority wants to be sure console service contracts are fair to gamers.
  
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• Google: Gmail Smart Compose will write your email subject lines by default

  05-04-2019 13:21 via zdnet.com
  Gmail Smart Compose can write your email subjects by analyzing the body of an email.
  
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• Here are the gender pay gaps at Apple, Facebook and Google

  05-04-2019 13:14
  
  The latest figures show that gender pay gap remains a major problem in the technology industry
  
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• Watch: A team of robots fulfills an order in 1 hour

  05-04-2019 13:05 via zdnet.com
  The next evolution of the logistics automation may be in robot-run micro-fulfillment.
  
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• Google pulls plug on AI ethics group only a few weeks after inception

  05-04-2019 12:46 via zdnet.com
  The current climate has been blamed -- not due to AI, but rather its members.
  
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• Mozilla: Google Accounts, Android trip up Firefox's 'passwordless' sign-in plans

  05-04-2019 12:29 via zdnet.com
  Firefox will gain support for the legacy secure sign-in standard FIDO U2F in upcoming releases.
  
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• Doctor apps vs the NHS: Are virtual GPs kill or cure for the health service?

  05-04-2019 12:00 via zdnet.com
  Patients like video consultations with a doctor. But what does the rise of private GP apps mean for the future of the NHS?
  
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• Apple scammed by college students through fake iPhone replacement scheme

  05-04-2019 11:31 via zdnet.com
  The students who are allegedly involved in the scam stole close to a million dollars.
  
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• How the customs union became Brexit Britain's political hot potato

  05-04-2019 11:17
  
  This is the story of how an obscure trade arrangement suddenly found itself at the centre of all Brexit arguments
  
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• A potted history of how the customs union became Brexit Britain's political hot potato

  05-04-2019 11:17
  
  This is the story of how an obscure trade arrangement suddenly found itself at the centre of all Brexit arguments
  
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• Box lifting warehouse robots unveiled

  05-04-2019 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at some of the week's best technology stories.
  
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• Friday briefing: Australia passes law requiring social media to rapidly remove violent material

  05-04-2019 08:49
  
  Social networks in Australia must remove images of violence rapidly or face legal penalties, Amazon is planning its own satellite broadband constellation
  
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• Why the tech industry is wrong about Australia's video streaming legislation

  05-04-2019 07:27 via zdnet.com
  The tech industry's predictable knee-jerk reaction to the government's knee-jerk 'social media' legislation highlights its moral bankruptcy. It's time to be part of the solution, not the problem.
  
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• 5G: World's first commercial services promise 'great leap'

  05-04-2019 06:40 via bbc.co.uk
  South Korea and the US turned on 5G networks that promise ultra-fast speeds and new applications.
  
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• Digital Council reports NSW and Victoria have the most data-based digital initiatives

  05-04-2019 06:20 via zdnet.com
  Just under 100 data and digital government initiatives are currently underway in Australia, a report from the Australian Digital Council has revealed.
  
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• Defence awards AU$15m in latest round of Innovation Hub contracts

  05-04-2019 05:48 via zdnet.com
  It will also make major reforms to its DISP program to make it easier for industry to do business with Defence.
  
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• CSIRO promotes ethical use of AI in Australia's future guidelines

  05-04-2019 05:04 via zdnet.com
  For Australia to realise the benefits of artificial intelligence, CSIRO said it's important for citizens to have trust in how AI is being designed, developed, and used by business and government.
  
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• Backdoor code found in popular Bootstrap-Sass Ruby library

  05-04-2019 03:35 via zdnet.com
  Bootstrap-Sass Ruby library had been downloaded more than 28 million times. Backdoored version only 1,470 times.
  
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• Samsung Q1 profit to see shock 60% decline

  05-04-2019 03:20 via zdnet.com
  Samsung Electronics expects operating profits of 6.2 trillion won for the first quarter of 2019, a steep 60% drop from a year ago and the South Korean tech giant's lowest in ten quarters.
  
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• Committee asks for more transparency over Australia's face-matching system

  05-04-2019 02:44 via zdnet.com
  In addition to asking for more transparency on privacy and false matches regarding biometric databases, a Parliamentary Joint Committee has made recommendations on how to tackle the IoT age, the dark web, artificial intelligence, and data-sharing from an Australian law enforcement lens.
  
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• Video app TikTok fails to remove online predators

  05-04-2019 02:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The app popular with teens fails to suspend accounts of users who send sexual messages, the BBC finds.
  
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• Apple hires top AI expert Ian Goodfellow from Google

  05-04-2019 01:46 via zdnet.com
  The new hire comes just a few months after Apple made John Giannandrea, another former Google AI expert, a part of its executive team.
  
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• Cyber-attacks 'damage' national infrastructure

  05-04-2019 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Power plants, hospitals and other key installations are regularly being hit by hackers, finds a report.
  
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• The nations of the Amazon want the name back

  05-04-2019 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Rainforest nations have opposed the creation of a new .amazon internet domain name. Why?
  
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