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• Adobe discloses security breach impacting Magento Marketplace users

  27-11-2019 21:58 via zdnet.com
  
  Security breach was detected last week and traced back to a vulnerability in the Magento Marketplace website.
  
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• Brazilian supercomputer back on Top 500 list after funding boost

  27-11-2019 20:48 via zdnet.com
  
  After a period of funding struggles, the Santos Dumont complex is now back on the list of the world's best supercomputers.
  
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• Inbreeding, not humans, finally killed off the Neanderthals

  27-11-2019 20:00
  
  Neanderthal populations may have been so small that inbreeding was enough to wipe them out altogether, a new analysis has found
  
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• Best Amazon Black Friday 2019 deals: $19 Fire TV Stick, $22 Echo Dot, and $150 Acer Chromebook

  27-11-2019 20:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The very best early Black Friday deals on Amazon.
  
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• AI Meets CRM and BI: 15 Salesforce Einstein and Einstein Analytics Announcements from Dreamforce 2019

  27-11-2019 19:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Salesforce is pushing natural language and machine learning capabilities beyond the boundaries of its sales and service clouds. Here’s a closer look at the latest Einstein releases.
  
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• Down an invisible road: Service mesh’s unpaved path to practicality

  27-11-2019 19:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A solution to maintaining connectivity for thousands of microservices in a network, may have come just in time, or even a moment too late for some. Yet just behind it may be another solution to the traffic jam it’s expected to cause.
  
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• Wyze cameras set to lose person detection next month

  27-11-2019 18:54 via zdnet.com
  
  The company has said that person detection will be removed in the next firmware update, but it won't be gone forever.
  
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• AWS expands DeepRacer league, intros new Evo autonomous mini race car

  27-11-2019 18:15 via zdnet.com
  
  The new DeepRacer Evo car adds more ways to study reinforcement learning with a new stereo camera and LIDAR sensor.
  
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• Predictions 2020: More changes for software development

  27-11-2019 18:12 via zdnet.com
  
  The world of software development will see big changes. Learn Forrester Research's top 5 predictions for the software development market in 2020.
  
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• Honor 9X, hands on: Budget big-screen smartphone with pop-up front camera

  27-11-2019 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  For less than £300, the Honor 9X offers good battery life, a large notch-free screen, plenty of internal storage, acceptable cameras and a distinctive chassis.
  
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• Amazon pushes ahead with its healthcare master-plan: Now Alexa can remind you to take your medicine

  27-11-2019 15:57 via zdnet.com
  
  The voice assistant's new skill, which lets it manage users' medication, falls in line with Amazon's recent investments in healthcare.
  
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• Weird and super useful gadgets that make great gifts

  27-11-2019 15:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Let's take a look at some super weird gadgets that are useful. And since that gift-giving time of year is almost upon us, these will also make great holiday gifts.
  
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• Labour's explosive NHS documents appeared weeks ago on Reddit

  27-11-2019 15:40
  
  Tracking the trail of the leak reveals someone with access to some fairly incendiary material, but little idea of how to get noticed
  
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• The minds that built AI and the writer who adored them

  27-11-2019 15:37 via zdnet.com
  
  Pamela McCorduck produced a groundbreaking history of artificial intelligence forty-one years ago. Fortunately for the world, she's returned with another volume, one that emphasizes the humanity that creates AI in all its idiosyncrasies.
  
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• Android, Linux smartphone-computer: Dual-screen Cosmo Communicator is out

  27-11-2019 15:27 via zdnet.com
  
  Fans of PDAs with a QWERTY keyboard can now buy the quirky smartphone-computer from Planet Computers.
  
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• Hacker stole unreleased music and then tried to frame someone else

  27-11-2019 14:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Texas man stole more than 50 GBs of music and then published unreleased songs on public internet forums.
  
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• Tech jobs: These are the skills hiring managers are looking for now

  27-11-2019 14:15 via zdnet.com
  
  If you're smartening up your resumé, you might want to highlight these attributes.
  
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• Google: These Android phones will get new 'Ambient Mode' when charging

  27-11-2019 13:58 via zdnet.com
  
  Nokia, Xiaomi, and Sony Xperia devices should soon start displaying Google's new Ambient Mode when they're plugged into a power source.
  
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• Human players psyched out by a cute robot talking trash

  27-11-2019 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  "Your mother board is so old ..." Turns out getting dissed by a robot can seriously impair performance.
  
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• Street stunt rider Danny MacAskill breaks down his most epic tricks

  27-11-2019 12:44
  
  Want to go big on YouTube? Danny MacAskill explains how his epic stunts came to be
  
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• Now even the smallest, dumbest connected devices can be powered by Alexa

  27-11-2019 12:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Amazon has announced that developers will now be able to build Alexa into most devices. The magic trick? Make Alexa work in the cloud.
  
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• Microsoft: This new Windows Terminal preview gives you multiple panes

  27-11-2019 12:19 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft refines Windows Terminal ahead of its v1.0 release in April 2020.
  
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• Upbit cryptocurrency exchange loses $48.5 million to hackers

  27-11-2019 12:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Ethereum has been stolen from the company's main hot wallet.
  
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• Best gifts: 5 best TV streaming devices of 2019

  27-11-2019 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Forget about smart TVs for streaming. You need a streaming device for your internet video-viewing pleasure.
  
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• It's been a bad year for female entrepreneurs in Europe

  27-11-2019 11:30 via zdnet.com
  
  The latest numbers released by VC firm Atomico show that European tech has boomed in 2019. But numbers show no improvement for women – and that's when the situation hasn't actually got worse.
  
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• A late surge in registrations hints at a general election youthquake

  27-11-2019 08:40
  
  Huge numbers of young people registered to vote in the last few hours before the deadline closed ahead of the general election on December 12
  
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• The Irishman lays bare Scorsese’s Netflix-enabled hypocrisy

  27-11-2019 07:00
  
  It’s a beautiful piece of cinema. It’s just a shame that so few people will get to see it on the big screen
  
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• Need new headphones? These Black Friday deals are still live

  27-11-2019 07:00
  
  Our edit of early Black Friday deals on wireless, noise cancelling and sub-£100 headphones plus discounts on in-ears and wireless earbuds
  
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• Need new headphones? These Black Friday deals are just for you

  27-11-2019 07:00
  
  Our edit of early Black Friday deals on wireless, noise cancelling and sub-£100 headphones plus discounts on in-ears and wireless earbuds
  
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• Need new headphones? These Black Friday deals are already live

  27-11-2019 07:00
  
  Our edit of early Black Friday deals on wireless, noise cancelling and sub-£100 headphones plus discounts on in-ears and wireless earbuds
  
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• Fitness trackers and wearables are ignoring a $50bn market: women

  27-11-2019 07:00
  
  From apps that track health and wellbeing to smartwatches to monitor athletic performance, the tendency for ‘default male’ design is costing companies billions
  
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• Canberra concedes parts of robo-debt are unlawful

  27-11-2019 06:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Federal government concedes robo-debt averaging, 10% penalty fee, and tax return seizing were unlawful.
  
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• NBN pricing remains too high, too complex, and uncertain: Telstra

  27-11-2019 05:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Quite a bit of works remains on the pricing of the National Broadband Network, Telstra CEO Andy Penn has said.
  
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• Best Black Friday 2019 storage, SSD, and flash drive deals

  27-11-2019 03:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Getting short of storage on your PC or other devices? Pick up a deal this Black Friday and give yourself some extra space.
  
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• Best Microsoft Store Black Friday 2019 deals: $100 off Surface Go and up to $500 off Surface Book 2

  27-11-2019 03:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The best Microsoft Store deals for Black Friday 2019.
  
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• Telstra seeing one in four Android handsets sold being 5G capable

  27-11-2019 02:54 via zdnet.com
  
  Australia's incumbent telco also turns on 5G for 15 more regional centres in NSW, Victoria, and Queensland.
  
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• Best HP Black Friday 2019 deals: $199 HP Chromebook 14, $100 off Bose Home 500, and $299 AIO PC

  27-11-2019 02:45 via zdnet.com
  
  The best HP laptop and desktop deals for Black Friday 2019.
  
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• ACMA proposes three-point action plan to crack down on phone scams

  27-11-2019 02:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Immediate action to trial a 'Do Not Originate' list is already underway.
  
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• Best Lenovo Black Friday 2019 deals: $99 Lenovo PC, $450 off ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and $8 smart plugs and bulbs

  27-11-2019 02:30 via zdnet.com
  
  We combed through Lenovo's Black Friday 2019 ad and found the best tech deals from its sale.
  
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• Yet more DevOps trends for 2020

  27-11-2019 01:30 via zdnet.com
  
  What Forrester's predicting in the area of DevOps for 2020.
  
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• GE Healthcare launches program to speed up AI adoption among health providers

  27-11-2019 01:27 via zdnet.com
  
  The Edison Developer Program will integrate market-ready AI applications into existing GE Healthcare offerings, in the cloud cloud and at the network edge offerings as well as in medical devices.
  
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• Predictions 2020: Cloud computing sees new alliances and new security concerns

  27-11-2019 00:30 via zdnet.com
  
  In 2020, the cloud computing market will sees interesting new alliances and face new security concerns. Read Forrester's 2020 cloud predictions to find out more.
  
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