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• 'Fake accounts used my pictures to sell sex'

  01-03-2021 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Women tell BBC Scotland how scammers used their images on fake accounts advertising sex work websites.
  
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• Zoom sees more growth after 'unprecedented' 2020

  01-03-2021 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zoom boss calls working from home "new reality" and predicts growth - but not at last year's pace.
  
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• C3.ai shares sell-off despite fiscal Q3 revenue, EPS beat, higher forecast

  01-03-2021 22:52 via zdnet.com
  
  C3.ai said it added former SAP co-CEO Jim Snabe to its board of directors.
  
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• Zoom crushes Q4, gives strong Q1 outlook

  01-03-2021 22:29 via zdnet.com
  
  The communications company capped off its unprecedented year with another strong quarter and forecast continued growth in the current fiscal year, sending shares up in after-hours trading.
  
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• Best website builder in 2021: Your step by step guide

  01-03-2021 22:28 via zdnet.com
  
  A DIY website created with one of these point-and-click tools can look every bit as slick as one built and maintained by a web professional, at a fraction of the cost. Learn how to ask the right questions so you can choose a site-building service that's most appropriate for your needs.
  
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• Brazil expands government IT spending optimization model

  01-03-2021 22:06 via zdnet.com
  
  Aiming for double-digit cost savings in Microsoft deals, the approach is adopted by the legislative branch
  
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• SolarWinds security fiasco may have started with simple password blunders

  01-03-2021 21:12 via zdnet.com
  
  Many things came together to crack SolarWinds, but it may all have started with that classic mistake of leaking a lousy password.
  
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• Way beyond AlphaZero: Berkeley and Google work shows robotics may be the deepest machine learning of all

  01-03-2021 21:05 via zdnet.com
  
  With no well-specified rewards and state transitions that take place in a myriad of ways, training a robot via reinforcement learning represents perhaps the most complex arena for machine learning.
  
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• Best generator in 2021

  01-03-2021 20:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Give yourself peace of mind with these emergency backup generators that keep the power on at home or at work.
  
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• Backed to Business: Amazon asks us to help them Build It

  01-03-2021 20:22 via zdnet.com
  
  For years, Kickstarter and Indiegogo have dominated the device crowdfunding space. Now, Amazon is entering the fray with gadgets they will make if people vote with their wallets.
  
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• Backed to Business: Amazon asks us to help Build It

  01-03-2021 20:22 via zdnet.com
  
  For years, Kickstarter and Indiegogo have dominated the device crowdfunding space. Now, Amazon is entering the fray with gadgets it will make if people vote with their wallets.
  
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• Biden urged to back AI weapons to counter China and Russia threats

  01-03-2021 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A long-awaited report says the US president should ignore calls for a ban on autonomous weapons.
  
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• Singapore eyes more cameras, technology to boost law enforcement

  01-03-2021 18:35 via zdnet.com
  
  With 90,000 cameras already installed in major public locations across the island, the Singapore government is looking to deploy "many more" of the "game-changer" device as well as other technologies to improve service efficiencies.
  
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• Best accounting software in 2021

  01-03-2021 17:57 via zdnet.com
  
  We identify the accounting software best suited for companies in different situations -- from sole proprietors and one-person shops to small- and mid-size companies that could scale up to enterprise-level organizations.
  
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• C3.ai's chief technology officer explains the secret sauce

  01-03-2021 17:21 via zdnet.com
  
  The company is building industry-specific pipelines of machine learning to handle the toughest problems of a given domain.
  
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• Lenovo debuts ThinkEdge portfolio of edge devices

  01-03-2021 17:01 via zdnet.com
  
  The company said the ThinkEdge SE30 and ThinkEdge SE50 are designed for enterprise data processing, security and scalability at the edge.
  
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• Scientists have built this ultrafast laser-powered random number generator

  01-03-2021 16:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Using a single laser, scientists have built a new system that generates random numbers fast and at scale.
  
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• Microsoft Teams Panels wants to make your meetings easier when you're back in the office

  01-03-2021 16:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft announces general availability of Teams Panels which helps with booking meeting rooms.
  
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• Facebook, TikTok least trusted by Americans, Google most trusted, says survey

  01-03-2021 16:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Google tops Amazon, Microsoft and Apple on the trustworthy scores. Meanwhile, Facebook and TikTok were the most distrusted.
  
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• 'Drunk' robot vacuums spark complaints from owners

  01-03-2021 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some Roombas have been behaving strangely following a recent software update from parent company iRobot.
  
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• Startups are rushing towards IPOs in record numbers

  01-03-2021 16:06 via zdnet.com
  
  A Deloitte survey found an accelerated timetable to exit as startups struggle to grow during 2020 -- the year of COVID-19.
  
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• Free cybersecurity tool aims to help smaller businesses stay safer online

  01-03-2021 16:02 via zdnet.com
  
  NCSC tool aims to help small businesses develop a strategy to protect themselves from cyber crime.
  
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• Boingo Wireless goes private in $854 million deal

  01-03-2021 15:57 via zdnet.com
  
  A unit of Digital Colony Management will acquire Boingo Wireless for $14 a share in cash. Boingo Wireless' revenue in 2020 fell 10%.
  
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• Google customizes Workspace for frontline workers

  01-03-2021 15:54 via zdnet.com
  
  The rebranded G Suite portfolio is also getting new features aimed at the new WFA norm
  
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• Google: Bad bots are on the attack, and your defence plan is probably wrong

  01-03-2021 15:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Bot attacks are on the rise as businesses move online due to the pandemic, according to Google
  
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• Recipeasly: Food website removed after blogger backlash

  01-03-2021 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Copying content without consent could be a breach of copyright, lawyers say.
  
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• IBM Cloud Satellite goes GA

  01-03-2021 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The private and multi-cloud extension of IBM Public Cloud is now becoming available. What will differentiate it will be the IBM Cloud PaaS services that come to this platform.
  
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• Hackers exploit websites to give them excellent SEO before deploying malware

  01-03-2021 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Climbing up Google’s ranks is key to this new technique.
  
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• Amazon makes Alexa Conversations generally available

  01-03-2021 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Alexa Conversations, Amazon says, is the only deep learning-based dialog manager generally available for voice development.
  
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• Tether faces 500 Bitcoin ransom: We are ‘not paying’

  01-03-2021 14:50 via zdnet.com
  
  Updated: The cryptocurrency firm says “forged” documents attempting to undermine the ecosystem as a whole are also circulating.
  
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• The M1 Mac write issue: What's going on with Apple's SSDs?

  01-03-2021 14:13 via zdnet.com
  
  Some M1 Macs are seeing absurd levels of write activity on their - costly - internal SSDs. Here's my take.
  
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• Stratasys Q4 tops estimates as earnings, sales show improvement

  01-03-2021 13:51 via zdnet.com
  
  Dr. Yoav Zeif, CEO of Stratasys, said the company showed sequential revenue growth in the back half of the year.
  
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• Is the Omni Ultimate the world's best power bank? Yes

  01-03-2021 13:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Huge, massive capacity, rugged, features a crazy array of ports and outputs, and the display offers all the charging information you could ever need.
  
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• World's best headphones? The Cold War story behind these high-end products

  01-03-2021 13:02 via zdnet.com
  
  A small company's headphones, said by some to be the best in the world, can trace their roots back to the Soviet era.
  
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• Wanted: 1 million robots (as soon as humanly possible)

  01-03-2021 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  What a $1bn valuation says about the unstoppable transformation of world commerce.
  
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• Members should be heard and not seen. The rise of Clubhouse and social audio?

  01-03-2021 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Clubhouse is a phenomenon.It is overrun by noise and the signal is hard to find. Does it and its categorical parent -- social audio -- have a future? Read on and find out the good and the ugly/bad and you make the call.
  
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• Are in-app purchases ruining mobile video games?

  01-03-2021 12:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How mobile games make money is a big talking point on the latest episode of gaming podcast Press X to Continue.
  
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• Over 80 percent of iPhones running iOS 14

  01-03-2021 12:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Despite the bugs and the headaches, adoption of iOS and iPadOS 14 has been strong.
  
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• Linus Torvalds battles power cuts to keep Linux releases rolling out

  01-03-2021 12:14 via zdnet.com
  
  Linux kernel 5.12 first release candidate survives the snow storms hitting the US.
  
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• Judge approves $650m settlement for Facebook users in privacy, biometrics lawsuit

  01-03-2021 12:06 via zdnet.com
  
  Facebook users represented in the lawsuit may soon receive hundreds of dollars each.
  
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• TikTok removed 89M videos, most of which from US

  01-03-2021 11:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Video platform yanks 89.1 million clips in the second half of 2020, which accounts for under 1% of all content uploaded on TikTok and the majority of which -- at 11.78 million -- are from the United States.
  
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• What is Agile software development? Everything you need to know about delivering better code, faster

  01-03-2021 11:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Agile software development is more popular than ever - here's where it came from, how it's being used in major organisations, and how it's likely to evolve in the future.
  
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• Your USB-C dock could brick your MacBook; Apple releases an update to prevent this

  01-03-2021 11:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Using a third-party dock with your MacBook? It's a good idea to download and install macOS 11.2.2 now.
  
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• Minion privilege escalation exploit patched in SaltStack Salt project

  01-03-2021 11:04 via zdnet.com
  
  The bug permitted attackers to perform privilege escalation attacks in the automation software.
  
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• Businessman charged with intent to steal General Electric’s secret silicon technology

  01-03-2021 10:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Trade secrets worth millions on the market were the goal of the conspiracy.
  
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• Tencent Cloud looks to tap Middle East growth with Bahrain data centre

  01-03-2021 08:54 via zdnet.com
  
  Chinese internet giant plans to launch an internet data centre in Bahrain by year-end, marking its first facility in the Middle East and North Africa region, where it says is seeing strong growth opportunities.
  
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• Military trials training for missions in virtual reality

  01-03-2021 07:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC's Zoe Kleinman experiences software which creates virtual training simulations for the military.
  
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• TikTok has accidentally conquered the porn industry

  01-03-2021 07:00
  
  The video-sharing app bans explicit content, but TikTok-style videos, often filmed and edited in the app itself, are finding fans on other platforms
  
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• It’s time to start farming salmon on land in eco-friendly bluehouses

  01-03-2021 07:00
  
  It may not sound logical, but startup Atlantic Sapphire says that farming fish on land could actually be more sustainable
  
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• Couriers say Uber’s ‘racist’ facial recognition tech got them fired

  01-03-2021 07:00
  
  BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed facial recognition technology is costing them their livelihoods
  
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