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• Google's pending Fitbit purchase, now a year old, may spill into 2021

  04-11-2020 23:27 via zdnet.com
  The company sold 3.3 million devices with an average selling price of $104, up 8% from a year ago.
  
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• GoDaddy Q3 revenue beats expectations on surge in business apps, stock jumps

  04-11-2020 22:46 via zdnet.com
  GoDaddy shares jumped after the provider of hosting services topped Wall Street expectations for its third quarter thanks to a nearly-20% surge in revenue from business applications.
  
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• Qualcomm reports strong Q4 results, shares jump

  04-11-2020 22:32 via zdnet.com
  Qualcomm's revenue for the quarter was $6.5 billion, up 35% year-over-year.
  
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• Pure Storage sees better than expected revenue, adds Delfino as chief revenue officer

  04-11-2020 22:20 via zdnet.com
  Dominick Delfino will become chief revenue officer and head of sales immediately and Chief Operating Officer Paul Mountford will step down.
  
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• Instant payments system PIX goes live in Brazil

  04-11-2020 20:54 via zdnet.com
  No serious incidents were verified but banks faced some technical glitches; the system will be fully operational on November 16.
  
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• Russian authorities make rare arrest of malware author

  04-11-2020 18:50 via zdnet.com
  Malware dev made the grave error of deploying his malware inside Russia's borders.
  
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• Pixel 5 users rage about a design flaw. Google sees nothing wrong

  04-11-2020 18:37 via zdnet.com
  
  Some Pixel 5 users are seeing a gap between the screen and the body of their phone. Nothing to see here, says Google.
  
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• These drones could beam down 5G from high in the sky

  04-11-2020 17:45 via zdnet.com
  Forget about building new masts: these drones carry 5G antennas into the stratosphere instead.
  
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• The experience equation: Happy employees and customers accelerate growth

  04-11-2020 17:34 via zdnet.com
  Research shows the relationship between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) and its impact on accelerated growth.
  
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• Microsoft 'Aquila': System Center Operations Manager in the cloud

  04-11-2020 16:53 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is readying a private preview release of 'Aquila,' which is SCOM spun up in Azure, according to my contacts.
  
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• Microsoft Teams to get multi-account sign-in support in December

  04-11-2020 16:10 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft Teams is finally slated to get multi-account sign-in as of December 2020, according to a new addition to its Microsoft 365 roadmap.
  
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• Spike in Emotet activity could mean big payday for ransomware gangs

  04-11-2020 15:51 via zdnet.com
  A big rise in Emotet attacks has provided hackers with more machines to offer up to other cyber criminals for ransomware and other malware campaigns.
  
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• Programming language Python's popularity: Ahead of Java for first time but still trailing C

  04-11-2020 15:34 via zdnet.com
  Python is now the second most popular language in the nearly 20-year-old Tiobe index.
  
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• Brainome launches product to optimize machine learning development process

  04-11-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Brainome's new product, Daimensions, seeks to eliminate brute-force aspects of machine learning model development, integrate with existing CI/CD infrastructure and generate small ML models that can run efficiently on commodity hardware.
  
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• Raspberry Pi 400: Its designer reveals more about the faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC's keyboard

  04-11-2020 14:47 via zdnet.com
  Raspberry Pi designer shows off the custom PCB for the Raspberry Pi 4 inside the new $70 Pi 400 keyboard computer.
  
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• As Maze retires, clients turn to Sekhmet ransomware spin-off Egregor

  04-11-2020 13:25 via zdnet.com
  The ransomware’s ‘retirement’ has left a hole that Egregor operators may capitalize on.
  
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• Super agile drone? Give it feathers

  04-11-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  A bird-inspired drone points to a lesson well-known to technologists: Nature knows best.
  
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• Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2, hands on: Good battery life and top-quality sound, at a price

  04-11-2020 12:57 via zdnet.com
  These are well-made wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation and a feature-rich companion app, but some may find them a tight fit.
  
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• Police launch pilot program to tap resident Ring camera live streams

  04-11-2020 12:22 via zdnet.com
  The small trial could herald a wider rollout with participating residents in the future.
  
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• Agile development: How to tackle complexity and get stuff done

  04-11-2020 12:13 via zdnet.com
  IT professionals face an almost never-ending to-do list of projects. IT leaders tell us how to make sure you focus on the right priorities.
  
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• Now Adobe strips Flash from Reader and Acrobat – pushes out critical security bug fixes

  04-11-2020 11:55 via zdnet.com
  Adobe officially deprecates all Flash components in its popular PDF products and fixes critical security flaws.
  
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• Adobe kills Flash in Acrobat and Reader – pushes out these critical security bug fixes

  04-11-2020 11:55 via zdnet.com
  Adobe officially deprecates all Flash components in its popular PDF products and fixes critical security flaws.
  
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• 23,600 hacked databases have leaked from a defunct 'data breach index' site

  04-11-2020 11:12 via zdnet.com
  Site archive of Cit0day.in has now leaked on two hacking forums after the service shut down in September.
  
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• Telegram ordered to pay over $620,000 in legal fees over GRAM cryptocurrency lawsuit

  04-11-2020 11:08 via zdnet.com
  The copyright case, now dismissed, requires Telegram to pay the legal fees of the firm it sued.
  
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• The pandemic has created a middle class private jet boom

  04-11-2020 07:00
  
  With commercial airlines grounded, holidaying households are booking business flights to beat local lockdowns
  
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• The best MagSafe accessories for your new iPhone 12

  04-11-2020 07:00
  
  Apple’s MagSafe does much more than just charge your iPhone
  
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• Artificial intelligence is making the beauty industry work for everyone

  04-11-2020 07:00
  
  The creator of Nudemeter is using artificial intelligence to bring the full spectrum of skin tones to the makeup counter
  
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• Full fibre cheaper for on-demand FttN upgrade model: NBN CEO

  04-11-2020 06:32 via zdnet.com
  
  While fibre to the curb is cheaper than fibre to the premises as a general rule, NBN has said this is not so when upgrading fibre to the node in a piecemeal fashion.
  
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• Gender parity in Aussie STEM by 2091 is ridiculous but not unrealistic

  04-11-2020 06:16 via zdnet.com
  Australia's chief scientist said there has been progress, but the rate of progress is 'very, very small'.
  
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• Australian Senator calls for blockchain adoption to lift financial regulatory compliance

  04-11-2020 05:31 via zdnet.com
  Senator Andrew Bragg also believes Australia needs to take advantage of Hong Kong's current turmoil in order to improve its global competitiveness.
  
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• Tasmanian government begins finance system shift to the cloud

  04-11-2020 04:05 via zdnet.com
  
  Kicks off the next step in the state's 'Our Digital Future' whole-of-government digital transformation strategy with a TechnologyOne deal.
  
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• Trivago loses appeal over misleading website algorithm ruling

  04-11-2020 02:53 via zdnet.com
  Federal Court decision upheld by the Full Federal Court.
  
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• Covid lockdown: 'Cut off' village still blighted by slow broadband

  04-11-2020 02:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One person says they live yards away from a pole carrying fibre broadband, but it is not connected.
  
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• Toy maker Mattel discloses ransomware attack

  04-11-2020 02:22 via zdnet.com
  Mattel said the ransomware attack had "no material impact to [its] operations or financial condition."
  
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• REvil ransomware gang 'acquires' KPOT malware

  04-11-2020 01:30 via zdnet.com
  Ransomware gang who claims to have earned $100 million buys the source code of the KPOT information stealer trojan for $6,500.
  
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• Twitter bans David Icke over Covid misinformation

  04-11-2020 01:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mr Icke's account was permanently suspended for breaking Twitter's rules on Covid misinformation.
  
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• Woolworths starts FY21 on a high by recording an 87% jump in total e-commerce sales

  04-11-2020 01:10 via zdnet.com
  A focus on improving the customer digital experience and an increase in network capacity during the quarter are the reasons behind the uplift, the company said.
  
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• TikTok star Emily Canham falls foul of UK ads watchdog

  04-11-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social media influencer Emily Canham is the first to be reprimanded over a video posted to TikTok.
  
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• Projector reviews: A 4K portable and a pocket-sized device

  04-11-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Lara Lewington compares some of the latest home projectors on the market.
  
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