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• Eating disorder used to sell diets on Instagram

  31-01-2020 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kara Henry explains how Instagram accounts are using images of her eating disorder to promote weight loss.
  
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• Accenture buys Workday practice from Sierra-Cedar

  31-01-2020 21:46 via zdnet.com
  
  The company said the purchase will broaden its integration services for small and medium-sized education and government organizations.
  
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• Roku may pull Fox channels just ahead of the Super Bowl

  31-01-2020 21:21 via zdnet.com
  
  As Roku and Fox fight over Fox channel distribution rights, standalone Fox channels are scheduled to disappear from Roku devices and TVs just ahead of the big game. Fortunately, there are still ways to watch the game with or without Roku.
  
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• Burn, drown, or smash your phone: Forensics can extract data anyway

  31-01-2020 21:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Even if criminals try to destroy the evidence, NIST finds forensic experts can still extract data from a damaged phone. This is how they do it.
  
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• Ransomware hits TV & radio news monitoring service TVEyes

  31-01-2020 19:41 via zdnet.com
  
  Newsrooms, political campaigns, and PR agencies panic as they lose access to one of their crucial media monitoring tools.
  
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• Amarey A980 robot vacuum hands-on: Quiet and powerful, but only optimized for US

  31-01-2020 19:34 via zdnet.com
  
  The Amarey A980 performs well, operates to a cleaning schedule in the app, and can be controlled by voice. All you will need to remember is to empty the dustbin from time to time.
  
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• IBM's big bet on cloud computing, AI and open source needs to pay off soon

  31-01-2020 18:39 via zdnet.com
  
  Although the IBM has underwhelmed in recent years, outgoing CEO Ginni Rometty may have planted the seeds for future prosperity.
  
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• MEPs vote for universal charging cable for mobiles

  31-01-2020 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The decision will anger Apple which has argued against such a decision.
  
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• Netflix has a Goop problem

  31-01-2020 17:44
  
  Everything you need to know about coronavirus, we explore the weird world of The Goop Lab and skewer the corporate greenwashing hype
  
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• WhatsApp to stop working on millions of phones

  31-01-2020 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The messaging app will become obsolete on older operating systems from 1 Feb.
  
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• Hands on with resin 3D printers: We put the Elegoo Mars, Mars Pro, and Zortrax Inspire to the test

  31-01-2020 17:41 via zdnet.com
  
  We test three resin printers, including one that's almost 10 times the price of the other two.
  
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• Coronavirus and the iPhone: How the pandemic could disrupt China's supply chain

  31-01-2020 17:02 via zdnet.com
  
  If employees can't show up to work, then you can't build smartphones. How do we deal with the threat of global supply chain disruption by highly infectious pandemics?
  
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• Microsoft to shutter its Ad Monetization platform for Universal Windows Platform apps

  31-01-2020 16:29 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is continuing to try to clear up its muddled UWP messaging and strategy.
  
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• Amazon's insufferably smug Super Bowl ad is truly annoying

  31-01-2020 16:24 via zdnet.com
  
  For the Big Game, Amazon wants you to consider how great Alexa is. But once you start considering it, perhaps she isn't so great.
  
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• BDO survey: US tech firms fear trade war and Chinese innovation

  31-01-2020 16:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Tech company chief financial officers are bullish about their company'sshort-term futures but are distracted by numerous regulatory and data privacy issues.
  
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• Atari announces video game hotel and other tech news

  31-01-2020 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak looks at some of the week's best technology stories.
  
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• Three suspects arrested in Maltese bank cyber-heist

  31-01-2020 15:42 via zdnet.com
  
  Suspects used stolen funds to buy Rolex watches, along with a Jaguar and an Audi A5.
  
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• Coronavirus consequences: Will China still have a role in the next iPhone supply chain?

  31-01-2020 15:42 via zdnet.com
  
  If employees can't show up to work, then you can't build smartphones. How do we deal with the threat of global supply chain disruption by highly infectious pandemics?
  
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• Lightmeter will soon help you tune up your email server

  31-01-2020 15:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Lightmeter promises to significantly improve private email server performance.
  
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• Did Jony Ive jump or was he pushed?

  31-01-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Jony Ive is a brilliant designer. He helped bring Apple back from a near death experience with the original iMac and iBooks and, later, MacBooks. But he also accounted for a number of costly flops, that, while Apple would never admit it, would have sunk even more accomplished executives.
  
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• Huduma Namba: Kenya court halts biometric ID over data fears

  31-01-2020 14:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Judges says data protection laws need to be enacted to safeguard a wealth of sensitive information.
  
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• Tech gadgets that are good for the heart

  31-01-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Valentine's Day is on the way and you here you can find a variety of gifts that will not only lift the heart but can also be beneficial to health.
  
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• CERN: We're ditching Facebook Workplace. Here's why

  31-01-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  CERN is to demand that Facebook removes all its content from Workplace by January 31.
  
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• Apple's defense of iPhone Lightning fails: Standard charger law due by summer 2020

  31-01-2020 13:31 via zdnet.com
  
  European lawmakers have ignored Apple's arguments against a common mobile charger.
  
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• 2020 predictions: 5 telling trends in 3D printing

  31-01-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Hype or new hope? Is 2020 the year 3D printing actually disrupts high-volume manufacturing?
  
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• Japanese company NEC confirms 2016 security breach

  31-01-2020 12:57 via zdnet.com
  
  NEC needed seven months to discover the hack, did not disclose it publicly.
  
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• Tesla boss Elon Musk releases electronic dance track

  31-01-2020 12:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mr Musk posted a teaser picture of himself in a studio shortly before sharing the track, which he wrote.
  
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• ServiceNow aims to court CEOs, expand use cases beyond IT

  31-01-2020 12:41 via zdnet.com
  
  CEO Bill McDermott said he has all he needs to expand ServiceNow into a company producing $10 billion in revenue a year.
  
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• Russia's use of facial recognition challenged in court

  31-01-2020 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Moscow is rapidly expanding its use of live facial recognition technology.
  
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• Top cloud providers in 2020: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players

  31-01-2020 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The cloud computing race in 2020 will have a definite multi-cloud spin. Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves.
  
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• Robocall block: Now US wants to fine man $12.9m for making 'harmful' robocalls

  31-01-2020 11:56 via zdnet.com
  
  The man made thousands of calls to US households in the hope of boosting the profile of his podcast.
  
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• Quantum computing has arrived, but we still don't really know what to do with it

  31-01-2020 11:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Even for a technology that makes a virtue of uncertainty, where quantum goes next is something of a mystery.
  
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• FBI launches investigation into Pegasus spyware vendor over US citizen hacks

  31-01-2020 11:01 via zdnet.com
  
  NSO Group denies any knowledge of a probe taking place.
  
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• Hacker snoops on art sale and walks away with $3.1m, victims fight each other in court

  31-01-2020 09:59 via zdnet.com
  
  Each impacted party is claiming the other is responsible for not detecting the scam. The ownership of a valuable painting is at stake.
  
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• This is the year a major European city will ban cars from its centre

  31-01-2020 07:00
  
  E-scooters and e-bikes are making traffic-free cities a reality
  
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• Google, Microsoft and the strange world of corporate greenwashing

  31-01-2020 07:00
  
  Astrazeneca, Google, Microsoft, VW and even Sainsbury’s have unveiled net-zero targets. But how seriously should we take them?
  
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• Google, Microsoft and strange world of corporate greenwashing

  31-01-2020 07:00
  
  Astrazeneca, Google, Microsoft, VW and even Sainsbury’s have unveiled net-zero targets. But how seriously should we take them?
  
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• From Casper to Eve, all mattress companies are basically doomed

  31-01-2020 07:00
  
  2020 was meant to kick off with a blockbuster mattress IPO. Instead, Casper's downgrade has exposed the sleep market's biggest flaws
  
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• LG Display posts steep loss for 2019

  31-01-2020 05:24 via zdnet.com
  
  The South Korean display panel maker suffered an operating loss of 1.36 trillion won for the full year of 2019.
  
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• Over 22,000 tax refunds garnished this fiscal year by ATO for robo-debts

  31-01-2020 05:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Based off nearly 175,000 Centrelink debts between financial years 2017-18 to 2019-20.
  
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• Optus showcases 5G mixed reality sports streaming use cases

  31-01-2020 04:53 via zdnet.com
  
  Mixed reality use cases relying on 5G can be accessed by consumers, but the infrastructure is still yet to come, Optus 5G head says.
  
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• SK Hynix operating profit falls 87% in 2019

  31-01-2020 03:25 via zdnet.com
  
  The South Korean semiconductor company was hit hard by the downturn in the memory market.
  
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• Censorship claims emerge as TikTok gets political in India

  31-01-2020 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A TikTok influencer says his videos on Hindu-Muslim unity have triggered censorship on the app.
  
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• Making beautiful colours without toxic chemicals

  31-01-2020 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dyeing clothes uses a lot of water and chemicals, but new tech is drawing on nature for colours.
  
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• Britain 'doing the wrong thing' by letting in Huawei 5G: former ASD officer

  31-01-2020 00:16 via zdnet.com
  
  The hardest part of hacking is the access problem, he said. If you have the keys to 5G networks, you get to be 'The Borg'.
  
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• Australian government and opposition dismiss talk of revisiting Huawei 5G ban

  31-01-2020 00:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Canberra will not revisit the ban on Huawei supplying 5G equipment in Australia.
  
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