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• Use ItsMyData to stop ecommerce sites from abusing your valuable data

  29-01-2021 22:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Opting out can be easy with this new tool from ItsMyData.
  
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• Windows and Mac software: My 11 essential apps and services

  29-01-2021 22:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Here's a list of the apps and services I use day in and day out. It's an eclectic mix of desktop apps and browser-based tools, with some essential media players thrown in for good measure.
  
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• Microsoft's new Edge 'what's next' page is a good roadmap starting point

  29-01-2021 22:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is providing more details about some of the consumer and business features coming to its Edge browser via a new roadmap page.
  
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• Microsoft to highlight improvements to the 'employee experience' in February 4 event

  29-01-2021 21:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft may be ready to unveil new Teams, Workplace Analytics, learning, HR and other capabilities in the name of improving the employee experience.
  
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• Google deploys Chrome mitigations against new NAT Slipstreaming attack

  29-01-2021 21:16 via zdnet.com
  
  After the discovery of NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 attack this week, Google says it will block Chrome traffic on ports 69, 137, 161, 1719, 1720, 1723, 6566, and 10080.
  
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• Langogo Summit AI pocket translator review: Quick and accurate translation and transcription from a compact device

  29-01-2021 21:14 via zdnet.com
  
  If you regularly need translation services the Langogo Summit AI translator is the device you need on your travels around the world.
  
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• Stocks explained: What's going on with GameStop?

  29-01-2021 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Fox explains stocks, short-selling and what has been happening with GameStop shares.
  
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• Which MacBook should you buy in 2021?

  29-01-2021 19:21
  
  In this time of mass Mac upheaval, WIRED Recommends is on hand to help you decide which is the best MacBook for you
  
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• Brazilian women in IT negatively impacted by remote working

  29-01-2021 18:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Some female tech professionals believe operating from home during the Covid-19 pandemic fosters gender equality in the sector, but the majority struggles to balance domestic tasks and work, a new study has found.
  
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• Could 5G edge computing become 5G’s saving grace? [Status Report]

  29-01-2021 17:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Wait, wasn’t 5G supposed to be about greater bandwidth, faster service, and more options for consumer streaming? While we’re waiting for one revolution to start, perhaps another one can be jump-started downtown.
  
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• Open source at Facebook: 700 repositories and 1.3 million followers

  29-01-2021 17:02 via zdnet.com
  
  The company's review of 2020 shows promising results for the open-source community.
  
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• Disruptive Innovation 2021: These 15 big ideas are most likely to change the world

  29-01-2021 16:59 via zdnet.com
  
  ARK Invest Big Ideas 2021 annual research report seeks to highlight the latest developments in innovation and offers some of our most provocative research conclusions for the year.
  
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• A network of Twitter bots has attacked the Belgian government's Huawei 5G ban

  29-01-2021 16:51 via zdnet.com
  
  Twitter has now suspended the accounts.
  
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• How leading companies should be handling remote work

  29-01-2021 16:26 via zdnet.com
  
  Siddharth Rao, a staff software engineer and a technical lead in the revenue product organization at Twitter, tells Beth Mauder how companies can be confident in their remote employee hires.
  
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• I've just seen the future of technology and you may not love it

  29-01-2021 15:29 via zdnet.com
  
  It's one thing to ask what the future will be like. It's quite another to ask what it will feel like. Twelve minutes listening to someone who really knows may make you question the meaning of life. And what's left of it.
  
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• Trickbot is back again - with fresh phishing and malware attacks

  29-01-2021 15:11 via zdnet.com
  
  The Trickbot botnet was disrupted by a coalition of cybersecurity companies late last year - but researchers have detailed what appears to be a new Trickbot campaign.
  
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• Google halts Play Store 'review bombing' by GameStop traders

  29-01-2021 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A deluge of one-star reviews from aggrieved online traders has been deleted by Google.
  
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• Robert Downey Jr: Planet faces existential crisis

  29-01-2021 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood star says his role as Iron Man led him to think about climate change.
  
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• Ecommerce boom driving new robot helpers

  29-01-2021 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The pandemic has hastened the move online for retail and grocers. Robotics development is shifting into gear to meet the demand.
  
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• US, China or Europe? Here's who is really winning the global race for AI

  29-01-2021 12:59 via zdnet.com
  
  A new report shows that in the ever-more competitive race for AI, the US has a strong lead that China is catching up with, while the EU is falling behind little by little.
  
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• Telegram now lets you bring across chat history from WhatsApp

  29-01-2021 12:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Telegram offers a new chat migration tool to help the 100 million people it claims to have gained in January.
  
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• SolarWinds attack is not an outlier, but a moment of reckoning for security industry, says Microsoft exec

  29-01-2021 12:14 via zdnet.com
  
  Security companies need to be unified in their response, says Microsoft.
  
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• Has 5G made telecommunications sustainable again? :Status Report

  29-01-2021 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Our ongoing series on the progress of various technologies continues with a hard look at the most contentious, disputed, and geopolitically contentious system of communication since the telegraph.
  
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• Demand for Chromebooks is going through the roof

  29-01-2021 11:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Record sales for Chromebooks and tablets as businesses and consumers scramble to find the right kit for working from home.
  
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• Electronic health records provider Athena to pay $18m settlement in kickback lawsuit

  29-01-2021 09:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Athena was accused of paying under the table to push athenaClinicals software.
  
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• GameStop: Confused investors inundate Robin Hood society

  29-01-2021 09:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands mistake the group for a US trading platform that curbed the buying of shares in GameStop.
  
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• Singapore aims for global e-commerce excellence with focus on core infrastructures

  29-01-2021 08:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Government outlines its strategy to build up the country's footprint as a global e-commerce hub, which focuses on strengthening key underlying infrastructures such as 5G, logistics, and payment.
  
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• SAP Q4 2020: Steady results as the firm pivots to enterprise transformation solutions

  29-01-2021 07:51 via zdnet.com
  
  SAP's financial results remain stable despite COVID-19, travel and business disruption, and a recent shift in focus to business transformation solutions.
  
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• We asked coronavirus experts what summer 2021 will be like

  29-01-2021 07:00
  
  With festivals cancelled, flights grounded and some social distancing likely still in place, this summer will be far from normal. We asked leading epidemiologists what they’re expecting
  
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• Google bans another misbehaving CA from Chrome

  29-01-2021 07:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Digital certificates issued by Spanish certificate authority Camerfirma will stop working in Chrome 90, in April.
  
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• Get ready for the death of the global internet. It won’t be pretty

  29-01-2021 07:00
  
  The internet will become totally balkanised unless countries put aside differences and continue to develop standards and technology together
  
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• Antivaxx microinfluencers are Facebook’s next big problem

  29-01-2021 07:00
  
  A new breed of QAnon believers and antivaxxers is filling the gaps left by Facebook’s moderation crackdown
  
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• Scams, terror, and national security: Problems with Chinese microloan apps in India

  29-01-2021 06:07 via zdnet.com
  
  The pandemic, accompanied by job loss and pay cuts, has made many Indians even more desperate than they normally were for loans. This has made them easy targets for spurious loan apps whose origins lie across the border.
  
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• Too manys tabs are never enough as Vivaldi stacks tabs on tabs

  29-01-2021 04:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Browser makes its tab grouping feature more obvious, and despite the garish look, it is now much more useful.
  
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• OAIC asks Home Affairs to create 'information champ' role for overseeing FOI requests

  29-01-2021 03:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Commissioner described the department's governance for sharing non-personal information as part of the FOI Act as 'not adequate'.
  
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• Western Australia expands mandatory SafeWA QR code COVID-19 register

  29-01-2021 03:00 via zdnet.com
  
  From February 12, retail venues such as supermarkets and shopping centres, public and private hospitals, and takeaway food and beverage services will be required to register patrons using the SafeWA QR code.
  
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• SK Hynix saw 84% surge in profit for 2020

  29-01-2021 02:08 via zdnet.com
  
  The South Korean memory maker saw its market share in the server market increase despite the pandemic.
  
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• Google tells ACCC it just makes advertising easy

  29-01-2021 02:08 via zdnet.com
  
  In its latest ACCC battle, the search giant says ad tech is a competitive market with low barriers to entry and promotes a healthy ecosystem.
  
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• NSW taskforce wants Australia-wide cyber standards harmony

  29-01-2021 01:46 via zdnet.com
  
  Report has called for industry and all governments to follow the same standards to 'build a more secure Australia'.
  
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• Apple CEO sounds warning of algorithms pushing society towards catastrophe

  29-01-2021 01:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Tim Cook says there will be consequences to having 'rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms'.
  
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• Satellite boom attracts technology giants

  29-01-2021 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tech giants promise faster, wider access to data thanks to cheaper satellite launches.
  
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• Anger as trading in GameStop shares is restricted

  29-01-2021 00:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in the games firm dive as major trading platforms try to control frenzied buying.
  
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• Google launches VM Manager for automated infrastructure management

  29-01-2021 00:16 via zdnet.com
  
  The search giant unveils a suite of infrastructure management tools it says will drive efficiency through automation.
  
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