Tuesday's Top 100 Technology News & Stories
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Rob Knies / Inside Microsoft Research : Microsoft to integrate academic data into Bing, hopes to improve Cortana for use in research — Making Cortana the Researcher's Dream Assistant — Cortana, the pe...
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Today MedXT launches its cloud platform for medical imaging, which brings the workflows of radiologists and technicians in line with the rest of us by bridging imaging equipment already installed at hospital and clinics with our el...
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A 42-year-old artist named Megumi Igarashi has been arrested in Tokyo for transmitting 3D models of her vagina which, under Japanese obscenity laws, is considered illegal. She sent the files via email to customers who bought copies...
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Google and healthcare firm Novartis have announced they will be collaborating on making the smart contact lens a reality. It's designed to help manage a range of medical conditions including diabetes. The post Novartis teams up with Goog...
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This post may not be suitable for readers of a sensitive disposition. No one likes to think too much about where we go when we've passed on, but you probably imagine crematoriums to remain the same as they have done for the last century....
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Xiaomi will launch its flagship Mi 3 smartphone in India on July 22. The Android handset will be sold for Rs 13,999 (roughly $230 USD) exclusively through Flipkart; starting today, customers can register online to buy the device on the d...
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The road to Captricity’s latest $10 million financing from Battery Ventures began nearly 10,000 miles away in the AIDS clinics of Tanzania. That was where Captricity chief executive Kuang Chen was doing research on data scien...
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Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean announced its third expansion into Europe today with a new data center in London. The company added two facilities in the Amsterdam region earlier this year. This new center will be located on the...
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch : ScribbleLive Acquires CoveritLive, Will Still Operate Both Brands — Once bitter rivals ScribbleLive and CoveritLive are now family. Scribble Technologies is today announcing the acquisit...
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Even though it has roughly a year until Ofcom's new rule comes into effect, Three has decided it will no longer charge SIM-only customers for making calls to 0800 numbers. The company today unveiled new plans that mirror its pay-monthly ...
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British fast-food ordering and delivery service Just Eat has announced it’s acquired London-based takeaway app Orogo. The latter allows users to place an order at a variety of different restaurants in the UK capital and then collect it w...
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The agreement will make it easier for companies using Thinfilm's NFC barcodes and sensor-equipped labels on their products to manage the data flowing from those items, through Evrythng's identity management platform.
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For Ari Tulla, the chief executive officer in NEA’s newest portfolio company, BetterDoctor, the decision to launch a company was a matter of more than just money. Almost ten years ago, Tulla’s wife began treatment for a...
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When the gorilla Willie B. had to move to a tiny cage at the Atlanta Zoo for six months, the vet staff decided to put Thorazine in the Coca-Cola he drank in the morning. Willie responded to the drug as many institutionalized humans do: H...
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Like most urban drivers, Nikki Sylianteng was sick of getting tickets.
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The fight to bring the entire planet online has reached new extremes. On one hand, we have Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Internet.org, the non-profit he founded to bring the developing world online through drone and satellite technolo...
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Here’s something nice: Researchers working out of a Yahoo lab in Barcelona are building a maps application that doesn’t just spit out the fastest path from A to B but instead endeavors to show you the most enjoyable one. What...
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After delivering the first 787-9 Dreamliner jet to Air New Zealand last week, Boeing took a victory lap on Monday, showing off exactly what the plane can do when pushed to its limits. The plane’s maneuvers during a six and a half m...
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The new Slingbox M1 doesn't offer a huge jump in terms of functionality over the entry-level Slingbox 350 it replaces. It will, however, be the cheapest Sling-branded way to stream from your home TV to a laptop or mobile device.
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Archive tools buried deep inside social networks make it easy to save a copy of your Digital Self. Take a look at the best (and worst) backup services built into Facebook, Google, Twitter, and MySpace.
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Google is getting ever closer to making its Project Ara modular smartphone a reality. Now, it is inviting developers to get in touch with their module ideas, and will send a development board to those with the best concepts. The post Dev...
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Five months after Satya Nadella was installed as CEO of Microsoft, the computer giant is said to be close to announcing job cuts that sources say could mark the single biggest round of layoffs in the company's history. The post Microsoft...
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Yes, we're all excited to finally get our hands on the consumer version of Oculus' VR gear, but that doesn't mean that the company doesn't take too kindly to scalpers. After banning any orders from China after resellers tried to buy them...
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The disintegrating ceramics in Marin Klimas' ongoing series Porcelain Figurines seem full of more energy than their bodies can handle, and there's a certain dignity to them as they shatter into shards and dust.
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You run into the grocery store to quickly pick up one ingredient. You grab what you need and head to the front of the store. After quickly sizing up the check-out lines, you choose the one that looks fastest. You chose wrong. People you ...
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Michael Jones is on a mission to save coffee. The self-described serial entrepreneur says that swift action is required to ensure ready access to the world’s favorite way of consuming caffeine. Earlier this year in Brazil, a drough...
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Today Google plans to publicly reveal the team, known as Project Zero, a group of top Google security researchers who will be given the sole mission of finding and neutering the most insidious security flaws in the world’s software.
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All eyes were on the carefully designed—and carefully publicized—corporate memo from new CEO Satya Nadella. But that same morning, Microsoft released a far better illustration of the way Nadella has so significantly changed t...
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Culminating what the executive team at the automated customer service management service provider FiveStars calls three years of development work, the company is launching its latest feature — AutoPilot. The new product FiveS...
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Grooveshark, an online music streaming service for playing back individual tracks, artists or albums, is now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment via Stripe. The payments firm announced that it would add support for Bitcoin only a few ...
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Todd Hoff / High Scalability : Bitly: Lessons Learned Building a Distributed System that Handles 6 Billion Clicks a Month — Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can't be that hard to writ...
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Google is teaming up with Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis – specifically its Alcon eye care division – to bring its smart contact lens to market. Originally unveiled in January, the futuristic lens analyzes the user’s tears to cons...
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A new way of crediting money into iTunes has been launched in Japan. It's called iTunes Pass, and instead of using a gift card, Apple Store employees simply need to scan a pass inside the Passbook app on your device. The post Japan waves...
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Shazam users on iOS can now listen to full-length tracks in-app instead of previews thanks to a new partnership with music streaming service Rdio. The feature is also on its way to Android. The post Shazam does deal with Rdio to bring fu...
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A group of tech companies including Samsung, Google's Nest Labs and chipmaker ARM are teaming up to create a unified system to run all of your connected home gadgets. Thread uses low-power mesh networks to run all of your devices, promis...
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : USPTO Refuses to Register Apple's “Touch ID” Trademark — Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published an official letter that was sent to Apple regarding their trade...
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Google will now indicate when a page listed in its search results won’t load properly on your device. For instance, if a site requires Adobe Flash you’ll see the following message on your iPhone, iPad or Android device running version 4....
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CEO Satya Nadella last week gave what amounted to a public tongue-lashing to Microsoft's 127,000 employees, which was followed up by an analyst's report that the company plans to announce layoffs of up to 10% o that number at its quarter...
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The likes of Samsung, Google and ARM have teamed together to form and develop Thread, an IP-based wireless networking protocol. This follows the announcement of Open Interconnect Consortium, which too has been backed by major industry ...
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Lyft has bowed to pressure from New York City officials in order to get its ride-sharing service off the ground there. The startup said Monday it now plans to use TLC-licensed drivers for its NYC service, which it hopes to launch soon. T...
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A newly-published list of GCHQ tools that were in operation or being developed a couple years back, provides a fascinating insight into modern propaganda and disinformation techniques.
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mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that Germany may be joining Russia in a paranoid switch from computers to typewriters for sensitive documents. From the article: Patrick Sensburg, chairman of the German parliament's National Security Ag...
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Google is on track for mobile search queries to overtake those on desktop this year, and today it took one more step forward in how it is will control that experience on behalf of its users — for better or for worse. The comp...
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Google hopes to launch its ‘build-it-yourself’ Project Ara smartphone next year and in preparation, the technology giant is accepting applications for its first development boards. With these, developers can begin prototyping and constru...
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London Venture Partners (LVP) has announce a new early stage seed fund focused primarily on the European games sector. The eponymously named ‘LVP Seed Fund I’ is LVP’s first fund raised from third party investors....
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With Glass and Android Wear, Google has already invested a lot of time and resources into developing the next-generation of wearables, but it's another of its eye-focused projects that has today received its first major boost. The search...
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The government is giving £18 million of funding to support the industry-led Tech Partnership, which aims to bolster the nation's digital skills development and create new jobs.
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Scratch-cards are fun. Inputting lengthy serial codes, less so. We're not sure why Apple's testing this out in Japan first, but iTunes Pass marks another effort in the direction towards smoothing mobile payments -- something that country...
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HP staff who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted to take industrial action over the company's plans to move hundreds of jobs out of the north west of England.
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Google's modular phone is moving closer to a reality with the first developer boards shipping by the end of this month.
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Oracle's latest big idea for big data aims to eliminate data silos with new software connecting the dots between the Oracle Database, Hadoop, and NoSQL.
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Ray Zinn, founder of chip company Micrel, started his career when Silicon Valley was just starting.
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The Internet of Things, cognitive technology, 3D printing, wearable technology and similar innovations represent challenges which IT manager must face up to if they are not to be marginalised, says Gartner.
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IBM's AlphaZone accelerator has kicked off its 24-week bootcamp for Israeli startups
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has struck an agreement with Google to develop "smart" contact lenses that would help diabetics track their blood glucose levels or restore the eye's ability to focus.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi said it intends to invest heavily in India as the budget smartphone maker launched on Tuesday its flagship Mi phone and other products in the world's third largest smartphone market, currently dominated ...
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Growth is evident in the cloud financial software space. Recent earnings, customer announcements and other data points continue to reinforce the shift to a new solution style.
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A document that appears to list a wide variety of GCHQ's cyber-spy tools and techniques is leaked online.
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Amazon fleshes out AWS Marketplace with annual software subscriptions for instances running on its cloud infrastructure.
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Every time I pull out the Acer C720 Chromebook I am reminded again just how good a value this laptop is to me.
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Backlash against Silicon Valley and tech culture
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National parks in England are getting improved mobile phone coverage, following an agreement with the four main UK network operators.
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If you're searching for a new smartphone among the dizzying number of choices, here is our guide to the top five budget phones worth buying Continue reading...
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Report reveals software giant planning biggest round of job cuts in its history, with chief exec saying 'nothing is off the table' Continue reading...
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Lessons on how to code will be offered to primary school kids from the next school year.
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A new type of material could be used to create a robot similar to the morphing T-1000 in Terminator 2.
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A Morgan Stanley analyst predicts that Apple will sell between 30 and 60 million "iWatches" - a product that the tech giant hasn't even announced yet.
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Google gets a lot of things right with Android Wear but there are still some areas that could be improved Continue reading...
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The Segway inventor talks about turning innovation into a competition and why failure is a critical part of the formula for success.
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If you are looking for low cost efficiency this tablet is a worth a second look.
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Microsoft doesn't just want users for Azure, it wants full-blown partners who will develop and deploy apps inside Azure for other users, turning it into an enterprise app store.
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Between 2010 and 2013, there was a 25 percent drop in small business processing online orders as traditional credit card merchants. Instead, they turned to third-party payment services, primarily due to concerns over cybersecurity and costs
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Windows aficionados expecting (or at least hoping) for some insight about the next version of Windows were le
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Even in a cloud and tablet world, lots of businesses are going to keep using systems designed for the on-premise world - and that's just fine.
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News and review website CNET has been targeted by a team of Russian hackers called W0rm. CNET's servers were hit over the weekend, but details have only just been released. Although CNET has not given a concrete confirmation of exactly w...
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In the past IT departments have always been about crunching numbers and processing data. But emerging technologies are beginning to take IT into unfamiliar areas that in turn have an impact on the wider operation of the business. Researc...
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Microsoft says Project Adam has given it the world's best image classifier.
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Jay Carney - who worked as White House press secretary until last month - is in the frame for one of Silicon Valley's top jobs.
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Now NetApp has direct private connections to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for hybrid data center deployments.
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While most Chrome-based laptops have Intel inside, new competition could push prices even lower on these low-cost notebooks.
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Sports programming network 120 Sports has announced that its free app is now available in the Google Play store. Already available for iOS, the (US-only) 120 Sports app offers what the company calls "hosted programming delivering timely ...
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The actress is to launch Style Thief, an app that lets you take a photo of an item, find it online and then buy it in just a few clicks
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LONDON (Reuters) - Online gambling company Bwin.Party, under pressure from an activist shareholder to boost its performance, said an additional 10 million euros ($13.6 million) of cost cuts would help it to meet its targets for the year.
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MADRID (Reuters) - (The July 14 story has been corrected to show Garcia Martin did not have his passport seized and was not banned from leaving Spain)
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's Nest Labs on Tuesday unveiled an industry group to encourage makers of smart home gadgets like locks and light bulbs to use Thread, a new standard for devices to communicate on a network.
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EA Sports announces that Fifa 15 will be released on 26 September in the UK and will feature Lionel Messi as its cover star.
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A fresh set of documents leaked by Edward Snowden show how the UK intelligence agency can manipulate online polls and debates, spread messages, snoop on YouTube and track Facebook users.
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Luke Wood, the president of the headphone manufacturer Beats by Dre, says he "disagrees" with the view that its headphones are too bass-heavy.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese messaging app operator Line Corp applied for an initial public offering (IPO) valued at over 1 trillion yen ($9.85 billion) around two weeks ago at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a person with knowledge of the matte...
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Germany's demolition of Brazil was biggest match on social network, but final victory saw peak tweets-per-minute Continue reading...
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The public disclosure of emails by former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, could be an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy", according to a letter fro the US Department of State responding to a FOIA request by online publication, Th...
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Oracle has been ordered to pay AU$130,000 in damages to former employee, Rebecca Richardson, which will be enough to cover her legal costs.
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The Redmond giant is expected to announce a round of job cuts which could be the largest in the company's history.
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Pankhurst, born Emmeline Goulden in 1858 into a radical Manchester family, helped women win right to vote from 1918 Continue reading...
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A new report suggests that smartphone manufacturers will be bending over backwards to create flexible screens in the next few years. According to market research firm DisplaySearch, flexible smartphones will constitute 40 percent of the ...
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Stephen Frede has been in the thick of IT security management for over 20 years. In this interview he shares some security management principles and practices with ZDNet's readers.
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Hamas and Israel engage in online battle for hearts and minds
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Company will list on Australian Securities Exchange by the end of 2014 in attempt to raise £2.5m from investors Continue reading...
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A council praises a parking campaigner who is posting images on Facebook to embarrass drivers.
