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• How lifelogging will become easy and automatic

  19-11-2016 13:00
  
  Lifelogging is dying, right?
  Gordon Bell, who served as leader of the lifelogging movement since the 1990s, told me earlier this year that he had given it up.
  A couple of weeks after I dropped the news about Bell, the former editor-in-chief of Wired, Chris Anderson, tweeted that he had quit lifelogging as well.
  What is lifelogging? Definitions vary. But generally, lifelogging is the automated collection of personal documents, data (including biometric data), photos and videos that can be used l
  
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• Hands on: 15-in. MacBook Pro delivers on speed and design – for a price

  19-11-2016 12:57
  
  There's a lot to like in Apple's new laptop lineup, from the updated internal architecture to the twice-as-big multi- and force-touch trackpad and the brighter, more color-accurate Retina display.
  But the question I keep getting asked about the latest 15-in. MacBook Pro is whether the new Touch Bar is a gimmick.
  The Touch Bar is Apple's replacement for the Function key row. Instead of keys, there's a 2170-x-60-pixel OLED multitouch display that dynamically changes based on app use and context.T
  
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• Trump's national security pick is a cybersecurity hawk

  19-11-2016 00:32
  
  Michael Flynn, the man President-elect Donald Trump plans to name as U.S. national security advisor, believes the government is falling behind on cybersecurity.
  Trump named Flynn to his cabinet on Friday after the former military intelligence leader acted as the top military advisor to Trump's presidential campaign. Flynn previously was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and has served in U.S. intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  Flynn holds strong views on cybersecurity. H
  
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• The IRS wants to ID every US Coinbase user from 2013 to 2015

  19-11-2016 00:27
  
  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has asked a court in California to order Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange, to hand over the identities of active U.S. users of its service from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2015.In a filing Thursday to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the IRS said it's investigating whether virtual currency users failed to report income on transactions conducted in the Bitcoin virtual currency. It's targeting Bitcoin because it's the most commonly used of a number of
  
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