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• Verizon cerrará centros de llamadas en cinco estados

  13-10-2016 23:58 via cnet.com
  
  La telefónica más grande del país anunció que unas 3,200 personas en Nueva York, Maine, Nebraska, Connecticut y California serán afectadas cuando comience a consolidar sus operaciones.
  
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• The Apple Watch and your heart are very nearly in sync

  13-10-2016 23:55 via cnet.com
  
  A recent study published in JAMA Cardiology tested just how accurate wearables are when it comes to monitoring heart rate.
  
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• 'Fantastic Beasts' to be first of five movies, J.K. Rowling says

  13-10-2016 23:51 via cnet.com
  
  Magical news! Load up on popcorn, Potterheads, and plan to get to know Newt Scamander as well as you know Harry and Hermione.
  
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• Debate darling Ken Bone becomes Uber sellout

  13-10-2016 23:50 via cnet.com
  
  The man who "won" the presidential debate is now pushing Uber's new uberSELECT luxury service in his hometown of St. Louis.
  
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• HP Inc to cut 3000-4000 jobs over next three years

  13-10-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - HP Inc , the hardware business of former Hewlett-Packard Co, said it expects to cut about 3000 to 4000 jobs over the next three years.
  
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• 'Spinal Tap' meets 'Dr Strangelove' in a quirky blocumentary

  13-10-2016 23:31 via cnet.com
  
  Mock-documentary "Houston, We Have a Problem" comically exposes the secret history of the Cold War, with some stunning drone footage thrown in.
  
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• U.S. Treasury issues final inversion rules on earnings stripping

  13-10-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration issued final "earnings stripping" regulations on Thursday in a bid to reduce the benefits of corporate tax inversions, which occur when U.S. companies seek to reduce their tax bill by rebasing abroad.
  
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• Over a million Galaxy Note 7 phones still on after recalls

  13-10-2016 23:01 via cnet.com
  
  The Galaxy Note 7 is dead, and Samsung wants its potentially explosive phones back. But data shows plenty of owners are ignoring the warnings.
  
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• Verizon says Yahoo data breach had a 'material' impact

  13-10-2016 23:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Verizon's top lawyer says it now has reason to believe Yahoo's recently disclosed data breach has a "material" impact on its pending $4.8 billion US acquisition of Yahoo. That leaves open the possibility that Verizon could seek a change in the price or other terms.
  
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• Wall Street dips with financials, weak China data

  13-10-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday led by falls in financial shares and following weak Chinese economic data but a late-day rebound in oil prices limited the day's decline.
  
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• Battlefield 1 Play First Trial Is Now Available For EA Access And Origin Access Members

  13-10-2016 22:24 via ibtimes.com
  
  If you’re an EA or Origin Access member, you can start playing Battlefield 1 on Xbox One or PC right now.
  You will have access to five different maps and four modes, including St. Quentin Scar, Amiens, Sinai Desert, Fao Fortress and Suez in the Conquest, Rush, Operations, and, Domination modes. You’ll also get a taste of the single-player campaign, which features the missions “Storm of Steal” and “Through Mud and Blood.” If you decide to buy the full game afte
  
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• Who wouldn't want to visit a Japanese owl cafe? Who?

  13-10-2016 22:20 via cnet.com
  
  Like owls? Whooo doesn't?
  
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• Netflix books two Chris Rock stand-up specials

  13-10-2016 22:11 via cnet.com
  
  The first show will tape in 2017, following a world tour being planned now.
  
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• Wall Street ends lower on China data; financials drag

  13-10-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday, led by declines in financial shares and following weak Chinese economic data, but a late-day rebound in oil prices limited the day's decline.
  
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• White House announces $300M in tech funding for digital health, smart cities, AI, and getting us to Mars

  13-10-2016 22:03 via techrepublic.com
  
  On Thursday, President Barack Obama hosted the White House Frontiers Conference, where he discussed America's initiatives to leverage tech for health, smart cities, and space travel.
  
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• Yahoo hack gives Verizon pause in $4.8B deal

  13-10-2016 22:00 via cnet.com
  
  Verizon is leaning toward finding Yahoo's huge data breach was "material," which could end up being a deal-breaker.
  
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• Verizon says Yahoo hack 'material,' could affect deal

  13-10-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Verizon Communications Inc said on Thursday it has a "reasonable basis" to believe Yahoo Inc's massive data breach of email accounts represents a material impact that could allow Verizon to withdraw from its $4.83 billion deal to buy the technology company. Verizon's general counsel Craig Silliman told reporters the data breach could trigger a clause in the deal that would allow the U.S. wireless service company to not complete it. "I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that th
  
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• ‘Teen Wolf’ Season 6 Spoilers: Tyler Posey Reveals Scott’s College Concerns

  13-10-2016 21:56 via ibtimes.com
  
  College is a big step for any teenager. However, it’s significantly more worrisome when you’re the protector of your hometown. In MTV’s “Teen Wolf” Season 6, Scott will be preparing to graduate. His portrayer, Tyler Posey, revealed to reporters at New York Comic Con that the alpha werewolf will trying to make sure Beacon Hills remains protected while he is in college.
  
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• Muslims In America: Voters Favor Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump

  13-10-2016 21:56 via ibtimes.com
  
  Muslims are expected to get out and vote in large numbers on Election Day — and they're largely voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a poll released Thursday from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It's perhaps an unsurprising revelation, since the other major-party nominee, Republican Donald Trump, called for a ban on Muslim immigration into the United States during the GOP primaries. 
  
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• ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’ Star Stevie J Posts Shirtless Selfie After Leaving Drug Rehab Program [PHOTO]

  13-10-2016 21:51 via ibtimes.com
  
  Stevie J has checked out of a drug rehab program, and celebrated his freedom by sharing a shirtless photo of himself. The “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star has been seeking treatment since last month for a reported cocaine addiction and was allowed to leave in order to go to court for his ongoing child custody case.
  
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• Twitter's Periscope Producer takes live streaming to the pros

  13-10-2016 21:46 via cnet.com
  
  Content companies can now shoot Periscope videos on professional gear, and not just with a smartphone.
  
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• How electric Bob Dylan made it OK to rock the folk

  13-10-2016 21:41 via cnet.com
  
  Commentary: In '65, Bob Dylan officially melded folk and rock with a controversial live electric gig. The Nobel winner's move still resonates through hearts and guitar strings today.
  
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• HTC Vive tendrá nuevos controles de la mano de Valve

  13-10-2016 21:40 via cnet.com
  
  Durante la conferencia Steam Dev Days en Seattle, Valve dio a conocer un prototipo de los posibles mandos nuevos para el sistema de VR.
  
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• Shawne Merriman Talks Life After Football, NFL Contracts, Partnership With Bellator MMA & More

  13-10-2016 21:37 via ibtimes.com
  
  Despite the millions of dollars they are paid during their time in the NFL, most football players need a second career when their days as professional athletes are over. The nature of the sport often forces them to retire at an early age, and many have trouble finding a new source of income.
  Shawne Merriman is one of the former NFL players that has been fortunate enough to make a seamless transition after retirement. The former All-Pro linebacker has pursued multiple ventures away from football,
  
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• Valve shows devs new hands-like Vive controller

  13-10-2016 21:32 via cnet.com
  
  The controllers for HTC's VR device let users mimic more natural hand motions, say developers who tried them.
  
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• Nate Silver sparks electoral map meme: What if bears voted?

  13-10-2016 21:32 via cnet.com
  
  Oh, Nate Silver, what have you started? The statistician's maps showing only women or only men voting inspires a comic craze that nosedives fast.
  
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• ‘Dance Moms’ Sneak Peek For ‘JoJo Is A No Show’ Teases The Beginning Of The End For JoJo Siwa

  13-10-2016 21:27 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Dance Moms” viewers might be seeing a lot less of JoJo Siwa in upcoming episodes. Lifetime’s synopsis for next week’s Season 6B installment, “JoJo Is A No Show,” reveals it will include “the most dramatic turn of the season.”
  
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• New Google VR App ‘Sprayscape’ Offers Android Users ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Experience

  13-10-2016 21:22 via ibtimes.com
  
  Google’s Android Experiments announced a new project on Wednesday:Sprayscape. It’s a VR camera app for Android devices and it offers more than what traditional VR apps provide. According to Google, they combined two things they love—virtual reality (VR) and taking pictures—and calls the app “perfectly imperfect.”
  
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• HTC's virtual-reality accelerator is taking new submissions

  13-10-2016 21:20 via cnet.com
  
  Vive X, a $100 million fund for VR companies, is rounding up its next batch of startups.
  
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• U.S. swaps regulator delays expansion of dealer oversight

  13-10-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since 2012, any dealer with more than $8 billion in swap activity has been required to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which subjects it to stricter federal oversight. CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said in a statement that the commission had found that lowering the threshold would not make more interest rate and credit default swaps subject to regulation, but would require many firms with a small role in the market to register.
  
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• Toyota to hire 1,000 more employees at new U.S. headquarters in Texas

  13-10-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp on Thursday said it will hire 1,000 additional staff for its new U.S. base under construction in a Dallas suburb. Toyota's new 100-acre (40.5-hectare) headquarters campus in Plano, Texas is set to open in mid-2017, and will employ about 4,000, including the new hires, Toyota said. “We will be hiring more than 1,000 new team members across numerous functions, and our hope is that they will help us in Toyota’s mission to address mobility challenges for eve
  
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• Joe Budden Weighs In On Meek Mill-Beanie Sigel Beef, Has A Problem With Sigel Diss

  13-10-2016 21:04 via ibtimes.com
  
  When Joe Budden isn’t rapping, he’s delivering his comments about the rap game on his podcast. In the latest episode, Budden and his co-host discussed Beanie Sigel’s recent appearance on Power 105’s The Breakfast Club as well as his diss records aimed at Meek Mill.
  
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• ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 13 Spoilers: Episode 4 Photos Tease Marriage Problems For Amelia, Owen And More

  13-10-2016 20:59 via ibtimes.com
  
  Friendships were put to the test during Season 13 of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” now romances within Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital will have to weather the storm or prepare to be washed away.
  The synopsis for episode 4 — titled “Falling Slowly” — suggests that Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Riggs (Nathan Henderson) will finally decide whether to define their secret relationship or let it fall by the wayside. It is unclear how their decision will
  
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• Boeing opens first commercial aircraft plant in St. Louis

  13-10-2016 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Thursday it opened its first commercial airplane plant in St. Louis that is expected to add about 700 jobs by early 2020, when the company is scheduled to start deliveries of the 777X. Boeing opened a $1 billion factory in Washington state in May that will make carbon-composite wings for the 777X. Boeing had 306 orders for the 777X through September.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fires put water on Fiat Chrysler talks

  13-10-2016 20:52 via cnet.com
  
  That stinks for all parties involved, for a variety of reasons.
  
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• Top 10 Best Upcoming Xbox One Games For 2017

  13-10-2016 20:50 via ibtimes.com
  
  Are you looking for some new Xbox One games to play? Here’s a list of the top 10 best upcoming games for Xbox One in 2017. 
  1. Halo Wars 2
  
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• Love or hate it: Marmite becomes symbol of Brexit impact

  13-10-2016 20:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Marmite has become the most visible sign yet of Britain's decision to leave the European Union after consumer giant Unilever sought to raise wholesale prices for its products by a reported 10 per cent following a sharp drop in the pound.
  
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• Stanley Black & Decker working with Goldman on sale of locks unit: sources

  13-10-2016 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The sale process comes as the New Britain, Connecticut-based company has reignited its deal-making engine, breaking a two-year acquisition lull with a $1.95 billion agreement this week to acquire Newell Brands Inc's tool business. Stanley and Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
  
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• Game of (leather) thrones: Tesla Model S is the king of luxury sedans

  13-10-2016 20:27 via cnet.com
  
  Its Q3 2016 sales nearly double that of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
  
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• New Wells Fargo CEO faces challenges

  13-10-2016 20:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Tim Sloan, the newly installed chief executive of Wells Fargo, faces a plethora of challenges following a sales practices scandal that felled his predecessor John Stumpf.
  
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• Best budget Blu-ray players you can buy right now

  13-10-2016 20:23 via cnet.com
  
  HD Blu-ray players are cheaper than ever -- but they're not all created equal.
  
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• Cheap, easy and tech-savvy: Why millennials like robo-advisers

  13-10-2016 20:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Robo-advisers sound appealing because they're advertised as offering professionally managed portfolio advice at a relatively low cost. Equally enticing to tech-savvy millennials is the fact that accounts can be conveniently set up through her smartphone within minutes.
  
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• Cheap, easy and tech-savvy: Why millenials like robo-advisers

  13-10-2016 20:13 via cbc.ca
  
  Robo-advisers sound appealing because they're advertised as offering professionally managed portfolio advice at a relatively low cost. Equally enticing to tech-savvy millenials is the fact that accounts can be conveniently set up through her smartphone within minutes.
  
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• Hover Camera Passport is ready to take your aerial selfies

  13-10-2016 20:11 via cnet.com
  
  Following its initial launch in April, the foldable 4K-resolution camera quadcopter is now shipping.
  
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• Wells Fargo complaints show flaws in federal whistleblower program

  13-10-2016 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Wells Fargo & Co general manager Claudia Ponce de Leon filed a whistleblower complaint in December 2011 with federal labor regulators, alleging she was fired for telling superiors about employees opening unauthorized accounts. Nearly five years later, she has not been interviewed by investigators at the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), said her attorney Yosef Peretz. As of Oct. 6, the agency had yet to close out 34 of the 91 complaints it has re
  
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• Fed's Harker says might want to wait on policy changes until after U.S. election

  13-10-2016 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Federal Reserve might want to wait on policy changes until after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said on Thursday, adding he was in favor of a rate increase at the Fed's September policy meeting. "What I'm worried about is depending on the outcome of the election and what happens after that, if there are polices that would have distortive effects that we would have to respond to, we'll have to respond.
  
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• The top Instagram posts and trends from the 2016 presidential campaign

  13-10-2016 19:50 via techrepublic.com
  
  The big picture on big data about the election from mobile photo social network Instagram.
  
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• Tesco confirms pricing row with Unilever has been settled

  13-10-2016 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco , confirmed on Thursday that a pricing row with Unilever had been settled, confirming a statement issued by the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant. "We always put our customers first and we’re pleased this situation has been resolved to our satisfaction," a Tesco spokesman said. ...
  
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• 'The Big Bang Theory' intro rebuilt in Lego

  13-10-2016 19:20 via cnet.com
  
  Bazinga! Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Raj, Amy and Bernadette get the Lego treatment in this fan-made intro to the geeky TV sitcom.
  
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• Sprint will pay AAA Classic members' annual renewal fees

  13-10-2016 19:04 via cnet.com
  
  A new promotion from Sprint throws some discounts toward members of the AAA motor club.
  
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