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• Silicon Valley Warriors: Draymond Green discusses technology’s growing influence on the NBA

  29-03-2017 23:50 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green told us how the NBA embraces technology to help players properly recover and how HotelTonight helps him find the best deals on last-minute hotel rooms.
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• Amazon Kills Quidsi, Announces It Will Buy Middle Eastern Site SOUQ.com

  29-03-2017 23:49
  
  Amazon is shutting down its Quidsi division and announces it will buy SOUQ.com.
  
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• Electra Meccanica introduces a roadster and a Solo performance edition

  29-03-2017 23:48 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Electra Meccanica announced two new electric vehicles at the Vancouver Auto Show, the Solo R performance variant and the Tofino roadster. The variant is set up for EMV racing while the roadster is planned for delivery by 2019.
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• Report: Android app purchases could overtake iOS this year

  29-03-2017 23:37 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Thanks to dominant market share and a rapidly growing install base in burgeoning markets, Android may finally pass iOS this year in terms of app revenue, according to a report from analytics firm App Annie.The post Report: Android app purchases could overtake iOS this year appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Android apps could rake in more cash than iOS this year — but there's a catch

  29-03-2017 23:37 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Thanks to dominant market share and a rapidly growing install base in burgeoning markets, Android may finally pass iOS this year in terms of app revenue, according to a report from analytics firm App Annie.The post Android apps could rake in more cash than iOS this year — but there's a catch appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• The Galaxy S8 ships with 646 new emoji for all your texting needs

  29-03-2017 23:35 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung's new flagship comes with a not-so-hidden feature: 646 new emoji, including a group of laptop-wielding technologists, a pretzel, chopsticks, a scientist, judge, pilot, teacher, and more.The post The Galaxy S8 ships with 646 new emoji for all your texting needs appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Samsung is upping its emoji game with 646 new icons for the Galaxy S8

  29-03-2017 23:35 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung's new flagship comes with a not-so-hidden feature: 646 new emoji, including a group of laptop-wielding technologists, a pretzel, chopsticks, a scientist, judge, pilot, teacher, and more.The post Samsung is upping its emoji game with 646 new icons for the Galaxy S8 appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Tesla Is Almost Worth As Much As Ford, And It's Been Around For A Fraction Of The Time

  29-03-2017 23:23
  
  Tesla's innovation is being rewarded, the company is now close to being worth more than Ford.
  
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• The new Search app for iOS app includes Gboard, Google’s third-party keyboard

  29-03-2017 23:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google's adding a third-party keyboard to the Search app for iOS. Now, installing the Search app automatically installs Gboard, Google's alternative to the default iOS keyboard option.The post The new Search app for iOS app includes Gboard, Google’s third-party keyboard appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Google's updated Search app comes with Gboard, Google's third-party keyboard

  29-03-2017 23:19 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google's adding a third-party keyboard to the Search app for iOS. Now, installing the Search app automatically installs Gboard, Google's alternative to the default iOS keyboard option.The post Google's updated Search app comes with Gboard, Google's third-party keyboard appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Go get these crazy MacBook deals while you can

  29-03-2017 23:04
  
  Apple's computers don't come on sale very often, so if you can't weasel a student discount, you're probably going to be stuck paying full retail price. Even when prices do drop, it's normally on old models that are being discontinued.
  So, when a store has a sale on every version of the new MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini, you'd be well advised to take note and go find your credit card.The 13-inch MacBook Pro, with and without Touch Bar, is likely going to be the most popular deal here. Apple positi
  
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• U.S. Generals Warn of More Civilian Casualties, As ISIS Wages Desperate Fight in Mosul

  29-03-2017 23:03
  
  American military commanders are warning that more civilians will likely be put at risk during the fight to dislodge the Islamic State from Mosul, underscoring a harsh truth of urban warfare.
  
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• First lady helps present courage awards to 13 women

  29-03-2017 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump helped present State Department awards Wednesday to 13 women from around the globe who were recognized for demonstrating courage and leadership in the face of adversity, a group she praised as "true heroes."
  
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• Argentinian Immigrant Blasted After Shaming Trump in Facebook Post That Shows She Pays Her Taxes

  29-03-2017 22:55
  
  She received several hate messages afterward.
  
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• Amazon sets mass layoffs at Quidsi products unit after losses

  29-03-2017 22:53
  
  The e-commerce giant plans to terminate 263 employees in New Jersey this summer, according to a notice filed with the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development.Quidsi operates Diapers.com and other websites."We have worked extremely hard for the past seven years to get Quidsi to be profitable, and unfortunately we have not been able to do so," an Amazon spokeswoman said in a statement.
  
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• Samsung takes aim at Google and Eero with new smart home Wi-Fi system

  29-03-2017 22:49 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Aiming to get in on the smart Wi-Fi market, Samsung announced its own home router system complete with mesh network support and a host of unique features -- including support for your smart home devices.The post Samsung takes aim at Google and Eero with new smart home Wi-Fi system appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Turkey ends 'Shield' military operation in Syria, PM says

  29-03-2017 22:46
  
  Turkey has ended the "Euphrates Shield" military operation it launched in Syria last August, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday, but suggested there might be more cross-border campaigns to come.Turkey sent troops, tanks and warplanes to support Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels, push Islamic State fighters away from its border and stop the advance of Kurdish militia fighters."Operation Euphrates Shield has been successful and is finished.
  
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• See the cyborg system that lets humans control turtles with their minds

  29-03-2017 22:46 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The human-turtle interface combines features from brain-computer interfaces and computer-brain interfaces, which send signals from brains to computers and computers to brains respectively.
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• US senator warns of Russian interference in French election

  29-03-2017 22:45
  
  The head of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee warned Wednesday that Russia is interfering in the French election just as it did in the US presidential campaign last year.Senator Richard Burr, who has access to some of the most highly classified US intelligence, said Moscow has shown a clear will and ability to disrupt elections in Western democracies."I remind you that we're within 30 days of the first French election, with four candidates.
  
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• Mysterious carving found at church where John F. Kennedy wed

  29-03-2017 22:44
  
  NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A mysterious carving of a woman's face has been discovered at the church where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in 1953, the church announced Wednesday.
  
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• Exclusive: Republicans mostly blame Congress for healthcare reform failure - Reuters/Ipsos poll

  29-03-2017 22:38
  
  By Chris KahnNEW YORK (Reuters) - Republicans mostly blame the U.S. Congress, and not President Donald Trump or party leaders, for failing to pass their party's healthcare overhaul, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday.The March 25-28 poll asked who should take responsibility for the failure of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which Republican leaders pulled from consideration last week without a vote.
  
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• The ‘Silicon Valley’ season 4 trailer teases fraud, division, and crazy ideas

  29-03-2017 22:33 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The Pied Piper gang is coming back with just as many problems as ever. With Silicon Valley season 4 premiering April 23, HBO has released the official trailer, and it teases plenty of ridiculous and hilarious crises.
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• Targeting flatbed scanners could allow hackers to break into secure "air-gapped" computer systems

  29-03-2017 22:33 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Researchers from Israel's Cyber Security Research Center have conceived of a method by which hackers could bypass firewalls by hacking a flatbed scanner using a laser-toting drone.
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• Laser-toting drone could hack secure computers via their flatbed scanner

  29-03-2017 22:33 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Researchers from Israel's Cyber Security Research Center have conceived of a method by which hackers could bypass firewalls by hacking a flatbed scanner using a laser-toting drone.
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• Woman Survives Vicious Attack by Her Husband

  29-03-2017 22:30
  
  The following material contains graphic images that may be disturbing. Parents are advised that these images may not be suitable for young children.
  
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• New version of Google Calendar makes the most of the iPad's larger screen

  29-03-2017 22:21 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google has released a new version of Google Calendar optimized for the iPad. It's the Google Calendar you know and love -- there aren't many new features to speak of -- but takes advantage of the increased real estate in novel ways.The post New version of Google Calendar makes the most of the iPad's larger screen appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Circle this date: Google Calendar app is finally optimized for iPad

  29-03-2017 22:21 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Google has released a new version of Google Calendar optimized for the iPad. It's the Google Calendar you know and love -- there aren't many new features to speak of -- but takes advantage of the increased real estate in novel ways.The post Circle this date: Google Calendar app is finally optimized for iPad appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Magellan MiVue 420 review

  29-03-2017 22:20 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Magellan's MiVue 420 is an easy-to-use and high definition dash camera but limitations to the new safety features may have you looking elsewhere for your next co-pilot.
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• John McCain is not sorry for calling Kim Jong Un ‘fat’

  29-03-2017 22:16
  
  “What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid?” Sen. John McCain quipped via Twitter on Wednesday in response to a report by the Korean Central News Agency that the dignity of North Korea’s supreme leadership was hurt by McCain’s recent description of Kim Jong Un as the “crazy fat kid that’s running North Korea.”What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid? https://t.co/Ym3juRfBev
  
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• Xerox brings touch interfaces, apps, and personalization to office printing

  29-03-2017 22:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  In an effort to redefine an entire product category, Xerox is launching 29 new printers and multifunction devices that share a renewed approach to how users interact with them, complete with tablet-like interfaces and apps.
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• The 45 best songs about friendship

  29-03-2017 22:09 via digitaltrends.com
  
  From Biz Markie to Bette Midler, friendship is a theme that spans all eras and all genres of music. Check out our Spotify playlist of the best songs about friendship, with a friend of course.
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• ‘Tom Clancy’s ShadowBreak’ brings tactical first-person shooting to mobile devices

  29-03-2017 22:08 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak is a tactical sniping and strategy game built exclusively for iOS and Android devices. Its the second Clancy game of 2017 following March's launch of Ghost Recon Wildlands.The post ‘Tom Clancy’s ShadowBreak’ brings tactical first-person shooting to mobile devices appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Elizabeth Thomas Case Is A Kidnapping, Not A Romance: Authorities

  29-03-2017 21:57
  
  Cummins and Elizabeth vanished March 13, a month after a student saw them kissing at school and a week after the man searched the internet for "teen marriage."
  
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• Satellite navigation systems switch off parts of our brain, new study says

  29-03-2017 21:50 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A new study suggests that drivers who use technology like satellite navigation (sat-nav) systems don’t benefit from memory-associated boosts to the brain because sat-navs effectively turn off parts of our hippocampus.
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• Lost in navigation: Sat-navs switch off parts of our brain, study suggests

  29-03-2017 21:50 via digitaltrends.com
  
  A new study suggests that drivers who use technology like satellite navigation (sat-nav) systems don’t benefit from memory-associated boosts to the brain because sat-navs effectively turn off parts of our hippocampus.
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• Cortana-powered personal assistant devices will support 2-way Skype calling

  29-03-2017 21:49 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Microsoft will be joining the competitive "headless" personal digital assistant device market soon with a "premium smart speaker" produced by Harman Kardon and it will offer two-way Skype calling.
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• Austria Refuses To Accept Refugees

  29-03-2017 21:47
  
  Austria delivered another blow to the EU's refugee resettlement program.
  
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• Miner Bo Copley: Trump’s executive order on climate is ‘a good start’

  29-03-2017 21:46
  
  Bo Copley, the out-of-work coal miner who famously confronted Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, said he thinks President Trump’s executive order rolling back environmental protections are “a good start” for following through on his election promise of putting coal miners back to work.In conversation with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Copley said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated the coal industry differently than its competitors, such as natu
  
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• Samsung debuts Galaxy S8 halo phones with Bixby AI along for the ride

  29-03-2017 21:45 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Also today: Windows 10 Creators Update sort of forgets about the creators out there, and a bizarre foiled kidnapping crime story involving a dead Italian automotive icon.The post Samsung debuts Galaxy S8 halo phones with Bixby AI along for the ride appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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• Samsung’s 34-foot Cinema Screen is the world’s first HDR LED theater display

  29-03-2017 21:44 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung has announced the Cinema Screen, a 34-foot screen meant to be used in theaters that the company says is the world's first LED display for cinemas to offer High Dynamic Range.
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• Samsung jumps from home theater to movie theater with 34-foot Cinema Screen

  29-03-2017 21:44 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung has announced the Cinema Screen, a 34-foot screen meant to be used in theaters that the company says is the world's first LED display for cinemas to offer High Dynamic Range.
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• 2020 Census To Ignore Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Questions

  29-03-2017 21:41
  
  The questions disappeared from a "corrected" draft of proposed topics posted on the Census Bureau website.
  
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• Arab leaders denounce 'foreign interference'

  29-03-2017 21:40
  
  Arab leaders meeting Wednesday at a summit in Jordan denounced "foreign interference" in their affairs, in reference to Iran, and called for the settlement of conflicts that are tearing the region apart.As at previous summits, the leaders of the 22-member Arab League criticised Iran, but without naming the Shiite-dominated main regional rival of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia."We reject any intervention in the internal affairs of Arab countries," they said in a declaration at the end of their one-day
  
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• Photos of the day - March 29, 2017

  29-03-2017 21:27
  
  A protester wearing a European Union flag themed beret takes part in an anti-Brexit demonstration after Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May triggered the process by which the United Kingdom will leave the European Union, in Birmingham, Britain; sunrise is seen behind a streetlight pole in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and Malaysian tiger cubs play with resident nursery dog Blakely at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Cincinnati. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reut
  
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• Congress agrees to nuke the FCC’s privacy rule but your data remains safe

  29-03-2017 21:06 via digitaltrends.com
  
  The House voted to repeal privacy rules imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, but there is no cause for mass hysteria. Washington is essentially preventing two agencies from regulating the same privacy issues.
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• Why the Senate Russia Probe Is Trouble for Trump

  29-03-2017 21:03
  
  Unlike the House Intelligence committee’s Russia investigation that was thrown into chaos by its chairman, the Senate investigation is being taken very seriously by the Republican Chairman and Democratic Vice-Chairman.
  
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• Former coal miner’s reaction to Trump’s executive order unwinding Obama’s climate policies

  29-03-2017 21:02
  
  On Wednesday, March 29, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric spoke with Bo Copley, an out of work coal miner, who got the attention of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail when he pressed her on her policies concerning coal mining jobs. Copley and Couric discussed President Trump’s new executive order that unwinds former President Obama’s policies to curb carbon emissions that contribute to climate change and his thoughts on the future of the coal mining indust
  
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• India's parliament passes key tax reform bills

  29-03-2017 21:01
  
  India's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed four supporting bills that will pave the way for a landmark tax reform and transform the world's fastest growing economy into a common market.The government aims to launch the goods and services tax (GST) law by July 1, replacing the decades-old patchwork of federal and state taxes, in one of the biggest economic reforms under right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government."It is a landmark tax reform since independence.
  
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• Samsung DeX Station: 5 steps to release Galaxy S8’s desktop experience

  29-03-2017 20:49
  The Samsung DeX Station is a dock for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus which allows the “Samsung DeX” desktop software to work. This software is active within the Samsung Galaxy S8 family of devices and allows the owner of a Galaxy S8 smartphone to plug their phone in and compute on a larger scale. This system runs a desktop-like … Continue reading
  
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• SAM is a construction robot that can lay bricks 6 times faster than you can

  29-03-2017 20:44 via digitaltrends.com
  
  You can’t throw a rock in 2017 without finding some new area where robots are being employed. The latest? A bricklaying robot called SAM100 that is capable of building walls six times faster than a human bricklayer.The post SAM is a construction robot that can lay bricks 6 times faster than you can appeared first on Digital Trends.
  
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