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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesA new pigmy grasshopper found in amber is named for Sir David Attenborough.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital TrendsLogitech just took the wraps off of the G402 Hyperion Fury, which looks like something a Transformer would use to play PC games with. Learn more about it here. The post Logitech unveils G402 Hyperion Fury, claims it’s the ‘wo...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EngadgetWhile competitors are busy cloning Snapchat in an attempt to replicate its success, Evan Spiegel and co. have continued to forge their own path. The company is already experimenting with new features in an attempt to generate revenue, bu...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchDetour is basically the SF tech version of your typical walking tour. It’s an iPhone app designed to guide you through different parts of a city and introduce you to new places and people that live there. The app takes a very...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchSnapchat’s decision to reportedly rebuff Facebook’s $3 billion acquisition offer doesn’t look as silly today: according to a new report from Bloomberg out this morning, the ephemeral messaging application may now ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Slashdotschwit1 writes: New research by astronomers suggests that the Milky Way is about half as massive as previously estimated. It was thought to be roughly the same mass as Andromeda, weighing in at approximately 1.26 x 10^12 solar masses (PD...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchDstillery, the marketing company formerly known as Media6Degrees, is announcing that it has raised $24 million in Series C funding. This basically doubles Dstillery’s total funding. It raised a Series B almost four years ago ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeBloomberg : Snapchat Said in Funding Talks With Alibaba at $10 Billion Value — Snapchat Inc., the company that makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages, is in talks with investors including Alibaba Gr...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital TrendsEric Kim, a prominent young street photographer, has penned a letter to himself when he was 18, if he had a chance to start over. Kim offers suggestions, encouragement, and warnings that apply to anyone interested in doing street photogr...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Geek.comIn the end, what LG has accomplished here is nothing less than a top tier smartphone.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EngadgetEA revealed its new Access subscription service for the Xbox One yesterday, which lets you play a bunch of EA titles, take advantage of discounts and get upcoming games early in exchange for a small monthly (or yearly) fee. While it migh...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNET Reviews - Most Recent ReviewsThe 4.5-inch Android smartphone goes on sale starting today.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeBloomberg TV / @bloombergtv : BREAKING: Snapchat said in financing talks with Alibaba at $10B valuation
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNET Reviews - Most Recent ReviewsFor anyone tired of working day to day on a small screen but still wants a high-end, thin-and-light with a long, long battery life, the Book 9 is one sweet system.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeKevin Fitchard / Gigaom : Virgin Mobile intros a blank-slate smartphone plan you can customize any way you like — Virgin Mobile's new prepaid plan can be anything you want it to be from a bare-bones emergency calling s...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital TrendsThe Oscar-winning 1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis will be digitally remastered for a one-week re-release in IMAX theaters beginning September 5. The post Forrest Gump receives one-week IMAX release for 20th anniversary appeared fir...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SlashdotAndreas Kolbe writes: The Daily Dot's EJ Dickson reports how she accidentally discovered that a hoax factoid she added over five years ago as a stoned sophomore to the Wikipedia article on "Amelia Bedelia, the protagonist of the eponymou...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchTwitter is out of the woods — or so it seems. Following yesterday’s impressive earnings report, the company has had a quick and clear reaction from the stock market. Yesterday evening, Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) was up 30 perc...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeBrad Smith / Wall Street Journal : Microsoft's general counsel on how the government wants the right to access emails stored abroad — We're Fighting the Feds Over Your Email — Governments want the rig...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EngadgetThree and EE jostled for attention last month when they announced, on the same day, their customers would soon be able to make calls and send texts over WiFi connections. While EE is working on a fancy system the user will be all but obl...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandSprint suffered another big subscriber loss last quarter as both prepaid and postpaid customers departed. Sprint continues to blame the exodus on its ongoing network upgrade. Different quarter, same story: Sprint customers flee as networ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Digital TrendsFrench carmaker Renault introduced its Twingo city car in March, and Renault Sport has confirmed the development of a hotter performance version. Using turbocharged .9-liter three cylinder, the Twingo Gordini may pack more oomph than its...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandMicrosoft announced a major update to Windows Phone at a event in China. Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 will bring localized Cortana support to both China and the UK. With Windows Phone 8.1 update, Cortana is going international originally p...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechNewsWorld
An Android vulnerability that exists in every version from v2.1 Eclair to v. 4.3 Jelly Bean could expose millions of users, Bluebox Security has warned. The flaw lets attackers fake the certificates of specially privileged parties, such ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeRoger Cheng / CNET : Sprint stems customer bleeding in return to Q1 profit — Sprint's core wireless brand and prepaid service continued to lose customers as a result of its network upgrade. — Sprint C...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Ever look at a 100-ton train and wonder what would happen if your iPhone happened to be on the rail when the locomotive was passing by? You don't have to consider that scenario any longer now that the folks from TechRax have recreated it...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsThe Samsung Galaxy Alpha is still somewhat of an enigma, but things may become a lot clearer next week. It seems the Galaxy Alpha will end up being slightly shrunken Galaxy S5 with the body shape of the Galaxy S2 , and according to SamMo...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Geek.comAdam Savage is at it again, creating some of the most meticulous replicas in all of nerdery. This time, we get an extended look at his stab at the Mecha-Glove from Hellboy.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EngadgetBeing hip to PR is certainly part of the job description for NASA astronauts, but some are especially social media-savvy. Take fresh ISS resident Gregory "Reid" Wiseman: the man knows he's in a privileged position to take photos and vide...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesSquare first came to fame with a credit card reader you could plug into your iPhone jack. But next year, the company’s signature device will be on its way to obsolescence as the U.S transitions to a new kind of credit card that ver...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThe British government has given the all-clear for driverless cars to take to public roads from January 2015, when trials will begin in 3 cities. UK driverless car trials to begin within months originally published by Gigaom , © cop...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNET Reviews - Most Recent ReviewsThe ActiVocal Vocca is designed to transform old light bulbs into intelligent and voice-activated ones.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comSquare has unveiled plans to release a new Square Reader – a smartphone and tablet dongle that allows businesses to easily accept credit card payments – that supports ‘chip-and-PIN’ cards in the US. The refreshed Square Reader will be co...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeEric Jackson / Forbes : After several costly errors by CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo could use another activist investor — How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marissa? — [Disclosure: Author was long YHOO at ti...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes: Earlier this year, just over half of the military officers put in charge of U.S. nuclear launch facilities were implicated in an exam cheating scandal. The Air Force conducted regular exams to keep officers cu...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Wired Top Stories“On the internet,” says Ron Gutman, “every headache becomes a brain tumor in four clicks or less.” For Gutman and his colleagues in the world of health tech, this has become a running joke, a cheeky nod to just ho...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThe Atlanta-based payment processor plans to announce today that it's dropped the 1 percent transaction fee on all starter plans. BitPay cuts transaction fees on starter plan, making bitcoin payment processing free (and unlimited) for me...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EngadgetUnless you're rich, run a hospital or have medical professionals in the family, it's not likely that you have instant access to a doctor whenever you need. That's why HealthTap is joining the growing field of telemedicine apps that, for ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comMicrosoft’s Xbox One will arrive in China on September 23. The video game console will be available for ¥3,699 RMB ($599 USD) and confirmed launch titles include Forza Motorsport 5, Kinect Sports Rivals, Powerstar Golf, Zoo Tycoon and Ma...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchMake way for (yet) another messaging app. Fling, for that is its name, has a twist — as all messaging apps must now have — in the form of a random message-flinging interface which sends your photo or text (or captioned ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Geek.comMicrosoft has continued to improve and update Windows Phone, but the first major update to version 8.1 still feels like its catching up to the competition. Over the last year, Windows Phone has […]
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchLast month, I wrote a post asking people working in startups to seek help if they are dealing with depression. It was a personal plea, because I have dealt with depressive episodes since I was a teenager and hate thinking about oth...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechCrunchSquare is set to bring its payment card reader for mobile devices in line with modern tech used most places in the world outside of the U.S. – today it revealed its upcoming EMV and chip-compatible dongle, which will be avail...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TechmemeJonathan Vanian / Gigaom : AT&T, IBM Research and ACS create faster way to distribute bandwidth in the cloud — The new SDN prototype, developed as part of the U.S. Government's DARPA CORONET program, is basically a...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThe EU court ruling that gives people the "right to be forgotten" by search engines is misguided in principle and unworkable in practice, said a U.K. House of Lords subcommittee Wednesday.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandA day after Flipkart announed $1 billion in new funding for its Indian e-tail juggernaut, Amazon says it will invest $2 billion in its own Indian operations. Amazon to pour $2B into its Indian retail business originally published by Giga...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Geek.comIt’s not news that Nintendo isn’t doing well. The Wii U hasn’t sold as expected, and while a list of great games to play on the console there are few titles on that […]
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comWhen Google first announced its Project Tango initiative for 3D-sensing smartphones and tablets, one of the key components was Movidius’ Myriad 1 vision processing chip. Building on its accomplishments, Movidius today announced a next-ge...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandFreedomPop today started selling the iPad mini and the Samsung Tab 3, offering the same free voice and data plans available to its smartphone users. FreedomPop starts selling tablets with free data and voice plans originally published by...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comTablet owners in the US have cause for cheer as they can now get free mobile access from freemium mobile network FreedomPop, which announced that it is now supporting the iPad Mini and Samsung Tab 3. The iPad Mini will sell for $319 and ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsThe app lets you snap and send short-lived photos and videos to friends with a single tap.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsFrom speedier Retina MacBook Pros to revamped Asana iOS apps, here's what you missed on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsHuawei and Lenovo shine during a record-setting second quarter for the worldwide smartphone market, IDC reports this week.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comIt has been an awesome second season of Hardwired and I'm back for one last bonus episode! In this bonus episode of Hardwired 2.0, I got to travel to the set of one of my favorite video games ever - CALL OF DUTY! As you all probably alre...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comToday's college students are mobile. Whether in class, relaxing in their living group, exercising in the gym, studying in the library, shopping in town, traveling to sporting events, or even sleeping in their dorms, they are always conne...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsSamsung's devices and the iPhone remain the big players in the worldwide smartphone market, but there is intense competition in emerging territories.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsThe U.S. is going to be whacked by demographics and an aging population, workforce participation and declining productivity. Accenture argues that real-time labor analytics could be a fix.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsSprint lost 245,000 net contract subscribers during the quarter, slightly better than last quarter's loss of 383,000.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsCanada's science and technology research centre is hit by a sophisticated hacking attack blamed on China.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc Chief Executive Hubert Joly said tablets sales were "crashing" and the PC business was seeing a revival in sales, according to the website, Re/code.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsFacebook, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are often used to promote suppliers' products and services. Here are a few interesting patterns I've noticed about how different companies utilize these tools.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comEvery person should fight for what they believe in. Some are forced to, some are called to, and some do it because it is inherently the right thing to do. Aaron Swartz is a hero. Aaron changed the course of information freedom. Had SOPA ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyRead full story for latest details.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsRed Hat and its partners are betting that 64-bit ARM processors are ready for the data center.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsIf driverless cars become widespread on Britain's roads then insurance premiums are likely to drop, insurance experts say.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.com"Crude oil wasn't supposed to explode, until it started exploding," says Oregonian reporter Rob Davis in a new investigative report from Vice News. Producer Spencer Chumbley's video looks into the startling factors that have contributed ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comSarah Palin just learned a valuable lesson about starting your own web channel: make sure to buy up any similar domain names, such as, say, one that simply puts "The" in front of your URL. On Tuesday, after taking a look at Palin's new p...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyRestrictive immigration policies prevent talented entrepreneurs from launching businesses in the U.S. So, they're moving to Canada.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsI just passed the 30-day return period and thanks to Microsoft's speedy updates and several other factors, the Surface Pro 3 is now serving as my primary home and road computer.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyMicrosoft spreads Cortana to China, UK, Australia, Canada, India in Windows Phone 8.1 update
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comThis month I'm posting questions from Baylor University 2014 Finance/Entrepreneur Major, Brice McKee who is considering technology consulting jobs and wants to make the best short and long-term decision. He is a technology and a business...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsTwitter's quarterly losses widen - but the number of active users has risen by 24% and sent share prices soaring.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.com - TechnologyThese "techno archaeologists" are using DIY engineering to revamp NASA's early moon pics.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.com - TechnologyWould you pick up a hitchhiking robot? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a robot hitching cross-country all by itself.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.com - TechnologyFor mobile users who text with friends via Facebook, it's almost time to download the social-media giant's dedicated app for doing so, or lose the ability.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.com - TechnologyNeil Patrick Harris teams with LG Electronics' "Art of Pixel Campaign" as a competition adviser for digital art students.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsMicrosoft announced it has shipped the first version of Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU) since acquiring Unity gaming platform maker SyntaxTree.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyNintendo's share price drops after the company reports a bigger than expected loss despite the release of Mario Kart 8 over the period.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsMore than a third of S&L agencies have matured their mobile strategy in the past year, and those that did not will invest going forward.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc were set to soar on Wednesday as surprisingly strong user growth eased investor concerns that the popularity of the micro-messaging site was waning.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyThe UK government will shortly outline measures to permit driverless cars to use public roads by next year.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comWarning: This may destroy cheeseburgers for you forever. Hydrochloric acid is a strong compound that has many industrial uses, from removing rust from steel to processing leather. It's also found in your stomach. In fact, a stomach-churn...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comThe icy Saturn moon Enceladus sports at least 101 geysers, which reach all the way down to the satellite's subsurface ocean, new research suggests. Scientists mapped out 101 geysers of water vapor and ice near Enceladus' south pole after...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe report also indicated organizations that adopt supply chain software still prefer hosted or on-premises applications.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsThe chip maker has acquired EmpoweredU, a company which focuses on mobile, cloud-based learning tools for the education sector.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNN.com - TechnologyWould you pick up a hitchhiking robot? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a robot hitching cross-country all by itself.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyAmazon to invest $2 billion in India after local rival Flipkart raised $1 billion in capital
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsWith one week until the eve of America's biggest and most controversial hacker conference, we've got a hotlist of explosive talks set to go off at DEF CON 22.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsEarlier this week Apple acquired Concept.io presumably for its fabulous Swell app for iOS. While I was hoping that Apple would keep Swell alive post-acquisition, my worst fears have come true.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Infoworld NewsAn open-source project has released the first free application for the iPhone that scrambles voice calls, which would thwart government surveillance or eavesdropping by hackers.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsEurope's right to be forgotten is unworkable, unreasonable and wrong, according to a UK House of Lords subcommittee.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSHANGHAI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will launch its Xbox One gaming console in China on September 23, making it the first foreign company to start selling consoles in the world's third-biggest gaming market after a ban on the devices was...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsMore than one in 10 people questioned say they have heard noises or voices after sessions playing video games.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukElectronic Arts has announced a new subscription service giving access to a range of recent titles for £3.99 a month Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukThe US technology company says it complies with Chinese law after 100 officials visited offices, seizing computers and digital files Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Infoworld NewsSymantec's Endpoint Protection product has three zero-day flaws that could allow a logged-in user to move to a higher access level on a computer, according to a penetration testing and training company. The three flaws, all known as priv...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Latest NewsCan search trends tell us whether Apple hobbles old iPhones to spur consumers into upgrading? Unsurprisingly, the answer is complex.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Infoworld NewsSamsung and Apple, in the second quarter, sunk to their lowest shares of the global smartphone market in recent years as Chinese smartphone vendors came on strong, market research firm IDC said Tuesday. "Samsung and Apple are both seeing...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyRead full story for latest details.
