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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TechCrunchThe humble business card still hasn’t been killed off by digital alternatives. Being handed a piece of dead tree with contact details printed on it in ink arguably increasingly stands out in an age when digital data is so che...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comAutomatic ‘diary’ app Rove has been gradually iterating on iOS for some time, and today it’s made the leap to Android. Rove is designed to bridge the gap between apps like Facebook’s Moves (that track your activity) and those like Timeho...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EngadgetLook, there are some people out there who wouldn't bother returning your lost phone, and the best you can do is try to appeal to their conscience. One way to do that is through Android Device Manager, which now has the capability to add ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsAn Apple patent published this week suggests we're edging ever closer to seeing Siri land on OS X. Titled "Intelligent digital assistant in a desktop environment," the document describes how the voice-activated feature could serve as a "...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsWhat's white and invisible? The iPhone 7! We're not just resurrecting our favourite joke: as we discovered this week, future smartphones could actually be invisible thanks to some seriously cool technology. Come with us as we discover th...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesA new book of John Alvin's art sheds new light on his classic creations of the 1980s and ’90s.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesRobots have loomed over the future of labor for decades—at least since robotic arms started replacing auto workers on the assembly line in the early 1960s. Optimists say that more robots will lead to greater productivity and econom...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesCopenhagen has long been leading the world in citizen-pleasing infrastructure, and the country has yet again outdone itself. In June, it welcomed the Cykelslagen, or Cycle Snake, an elevated cyclist roadway over the harbor to eases conge...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesTo mark its 30th birthday, Swatch has produced an automatic mechanical watch movement with exactly 51 parts, the same number of components used in the company's first quartz timepiece.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesA new iridescent plastic that reveals hidden images with a breath is described in a paper published today in Advanced Materials. Researchers at the University of Michigan hope to use this technology for anti-counterfeiting purposes, repl...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesImagine if DDR were brought back—resurrected from the dead, if you will—but not as a dance simulator.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesRiding your bike to work is a good way to reduce your carbon footprint. But how green is the place you ride your bike to?
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesLast month, NASA researchers dropped news with potentially huge consequences for space travel and science as a whole: They ran an experiment whose results seem to defy the very laws of physics, and could change how we travel through oute...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesWe show you all the new features in the beta version of Apple's native email client, Mail for Mac OS X Yosemite.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesAll signs indicate that Apple is working on a bigger iPhone this year. If it's really in the works, which consumers are Apple targeting?
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Keeping kids occupied can be a job in itself. That is, unless your house is one big adventure playground. Jerry House, designed by Thai architecture firm Onion, has nets, ladders and tunnels that provide both an environment in which kids... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Slashdotjfruh writes Not everyone has a job like Homer Simpson, who's been replaced at various times by a brick tied to a lever and a chicken named Queenie. But many IT workers have come up against mind-numbing, repetitive tasks that probably co...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GizmodoEver wondered if you're paying for the bed linen or the Wi-Fi? The network-analyzing super-wonks at OpenSignal have crunched through some data about public Wi-Fi, and analyzed in detail the network performance in different hotel rooms. H...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsWith a new academic year just around the corner, Google's addition of Street View imagery for 36 more universities – Georgetown University in DC, the University of Miami among them – could be of interest to incoming students. The post St...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsCars are not smartphones. A simple enough notion, but not one that most motor manufacturers seem to grasp. For proof, observe the rush to implement irrelevant and maybe even dangerous apps in the latest cars. You're nobody today without ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EngadgetSmall, eco-friendly optical supercomputers may soon be crunching quadrillions of calculations per second (exaflops) if a company called Optalysys has its way. It claims to be months away from demonstrating a prototype optical computer th...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GizmodoYesterday, Facebook tweaked its Platform Policies , and while some of the changes are subtle, there's one which is very welcome: from now, the concept of offering access to apps or content in return for Likes is banned. Read more...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsIt may still be some way behind Apple's iOS store and Google's Play store for Android, but the Windows Phone store is growing steadily, with Microsoft revealing this week it now offers users of the platform more than 300,000 apps. The po...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsWe've had the high-end Nokia Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520 , plus the budget focussed Lumia 630 , 635 and 530 , but things are looking pretty bare in the middle of the range for Microsoft and its newly acquired mobile division. The gap could ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsSony usually delivers greatness in its marketing. But not today. Today Sony is delivering creepiness and a big dollop of WTF. Its new Gamescom teaser is like a 30-second, neon-fuelled trip into the subsconscious mind of a serial killer. ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SlashdotLucas123 writes An AMD website in China has leaked information about the upcoming release of a line of SSDs aimed at gamers and professionals that will offer top sequential read/write speeds of 550MB/s and 530MB/s, respectively. AMD conf...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CNET NewsPeter Capaldi describes his twelfth Doctor as "funny, joyful, passionate, emphatic, and fearless" in the new series.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comI was struck by a recent blog post from two US founders who explained that their startup would have died had they not moved it from San Francisco to St. Louis. The primary reason is that the new location is cheaper, they argue, but there...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsMicrosoft said Thursday it's planning to drop support for all versions of Internet Explorer except the latest one available. It's something of a long-term plan for the computer giant, however, as the change won't come into effect until J...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThe office for national statistics has deployed a new release of their API to make it easier for developers to create applications for their statistics.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from VentureBeat
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GizmodoEbola has been hitting the headlines hard recently . But while you shouldn't be freaked out about it , now is a wonderful moment to learn more. This video tells you everything you need to know about the deadly virus in just four minutes....
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TechmemeEric Johnson / Re/code : Exclusive: Twitter-Mining News App SmartNews Raises $36 Million from Atomico and Gree — Japanese newsreading app SmartNews has raised $36 million in new funding, in a round led by growth-stage ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsLike us, you might find the idea of cellular smartwatches a bit dubious. But not Samsung. If there's an empty space on the wall of ideas, Samsung's going to fling something at it. The Gear Solo, the Samsung smartwatch that's said totally...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EngadgetFolding robots are nothing new, but scientists from Harvard and MIT have taken it to the next level, by designing one that assembles itself and walks away to do its job with zero human input. The robots start out as a flat sheet of paper...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsSamsung could be working on a new smartwatch called the Gear Solo. Instead of acting as a companion device to your smartphone, it could accept a SIM card to make and receive calls, thus replacing your phone entirely. The post SamsungR...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsLas Vegas -- The U.S. government should pay 10 times the going rate for zero-day software flaws in order to corner the market and then make those vulnerabilities public to render them less potent for attackers, Black hat 2014 attendees w...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GizmodoGoogle has been working towards offering end-to-end encryption for Gmail . But now, it's teaming up with Yahoo to make both webmail services encrypted in such a way that they both work together. Read more...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Digital TrendsA new Lumia smartphone, complete with Windows Phone 8.1 installed, is being rumored for release over the coming months. It's codename Superman, and it may have an extra special front camera for super selfies. The post Images of rumored s...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThere was a strong growth in demand for permanent and temporary IT workers in July, according to the monthly Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)/KPMG Report on Jobs for July.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsA lawsuit filed Tuesday in Connecticut Superior Court accuses tech analyst firm Gartner Research of demanding kickbacks in exchange for favorable placement in the company's famous Magic Quadrant report.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandRussia's clampdown on internet freedom continues, this time with a measure designed to counter "those interested in destabilization." However, there is some confusion over the details. Public Wi-Fi users in Russia will have to log on wit...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsIntroduction YouTube is a phenomenon unto itself and possibly the most successful product for Google after Google search. Launched back in November 2005, the website attracts more than 1 billion visits from unique users every month, and ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EngadgetVerizon's push-to-talk services already existed, but it was a pretty creaky service. It's now upgraded its offering (for five bucks a month), with a free six-month trial to anyone that signs up now. Right now. Supported Android devices r...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from GizmodoEver since the Snowden revelations, honest (and some dishonest ) efforts have been made in Congress to try to scale back at least some of the NSA's spying. It's a complex problem, since the NSA has overstepped reasonable bounds in so man...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comChinese microblogging service Weibo, typically known as ‘China’s Twitter,’ has just introduced video recording and direct video playback to its iOS and Android apps. This comes as a likely move by Weibo to increase user activity on its p...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SlashdotDaniel_Stuckey writes You've maybe heard a bit about Stingray. Over the past couple of years, it has emerged that police forces in the US have been using the powerful surveillance tool, which tricks phones into connecting to a dragnet, t...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandWhile carrying some amount of risk and a high amount of resistance from entrenched vendors, modular handsets may present a viable economic and ecological alternative as we look toward the inevitable post-smartphone world. How the persona...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from CNET NewsDidn't win last week's Comic-Con gold mine? Try again this week for more free comics, action figures, and T-shirts from the show floor. Plus, a poster signed by Multiversity writer Grant Morrison.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Technology - chicagotribune.comDear Mr. Lucas,
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc products such as laptops and tablets are not banned from Chinese government procurement lists, according to the country's chief procurement center, refuting a report claiming Apple was blacklisted on nationa...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyAnyone using older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser will soon no longer get security updates and bug fixes for the software.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukFrom frontline pets to the gun that fired the first British shell, this app is a treasure trove of first world war stories and artefacts Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyMore than a million properties in the UK now have superfast broadband speeds following a government-backed rollout, says the culture secretary.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukA team of Harvard engineers who designed a self-assembling, walking robot say the design could be utilised in harsh environments such as space or the battlefield. The robot, which can build itself in four minutes and walk away at 5cm per...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyCaroline Hepker asked Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales if he is concerned that the majority of contributors are Western men.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Technology NewsRoboticists have created a robot that can transform and walk by itself
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsSam Sung, from Vancouver, Canada, worked at the city's Apple store and is selling his staff lanyard and business card for charity.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsBitcoin exchanges and trading posts have been hacking targets over the past year, but now one hacker has taken on ISPs to loot Bitcoin from mining pools.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infoworld NewsSay what you will about Satya Nadella's first six months as Microsoft CEO, but no one can deny the man jumped in with both feet from day one and has led the company with decisiveness. Some of his moves have been met with applause and oth...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyA fish playing Pokemon in real time has been viewed by more than one million people on live-stream channel Twitch.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukTheyve changed the way we talk, shop, eat, run and even ovulate. Now smartphones are changing the way we dress. The announcement that Apple is launching a new iPhone 6, possibly on 9 September, is exciting news. Except for one detail the...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsFind out what applications are consuming your Mac's battery the heaviest.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukGuy Clapperton discusses the strengths and weaknesses of four different brands of smartphone Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: TechnologyThat is the hot question at 2 conferences in Las Vegas this week. White-hat hackers are considered ethical because they work to discover security flaws but their intentions aren't always appreciated.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukWikipedia Zero inspired by Facebook Zero targets the new mobile-centric audiences around the world Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyNew research calls into question the security of using USBs to connect devices to computers
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Technology NewsYahoo is reportedly working with Google on a new encryption system for emails
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsChinese regulator visits Accenture's Dalian office to access Microsoft-related documents as part of an ongoing anti-monolopy investigation on the software vendor. The U.S. consulting firm insists it's "not part of the antitrust probe".
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsThe Australian federal government has called for expressions of interest in a bid to offload the trouble human services payment processing system into the private sector.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsAustralia's Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has warned that the retention of large amounts of data will inevitably increase the chances of a privacy breach occurring.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyScientists. led by a team at IBM, develop a new computer chip that mimics the organisation of the human brain.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukA game about the Gaza conflict was pulled from Googles app store this week, but there are constructive ways to explore sensitive subjects through gaming Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukEuropes data protection laws clash with the US view of free speech, yet outside of public interest we should be able to have a say in the public memory of who we are Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsThe new cards take aim at the high-performance supercomputing market with up to 16GB GDDR5 memory and 2,816 stream processors.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc will on Monday begin selling its latest flagship smartphone in China, a market where it has struggled to make a dent and that has become increasingly tough for makers of high-end handsets other than A...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukPlus, Siri for Mac, wireless charging from across the room, Emu app and piracy arrest Continue reading...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsSnowden's Russian lawyer says the former US intelligence contractor will be free to travel abroad under the terms of a residency permit he has received.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsIt's possible to build a cloud botnet using free trials, but thanks to a new effort from security firm Bishop Fox, there is now a framework to limit the risk.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsUsing a collection of pattern-matching techniques, researchers from security firm Invincea have created a system to better classify malware and identify code reuse among cyber-criminals.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyHawaii bracing as 1st hurricane in 22 years brings rain to Big Island and second storm looms
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsSince Lifeline Australia partnered with LivePerson to introduce a web chat service as an alternative medium to seek crisis support, the organisation has answered more than 33,000 chats.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comDr. Eric Schulman proposed the contention that "the purpose of science is to get paid for doing fun stuff if you're not a good enough programmer to write computer games for a living." I disagree with that statement. Science can be a good...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsApple has filed a patent in the United States for a Siri-like digital assistant interface for a desktop environment.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it will join Google Inc to create a secure email system by next year that could make it nearly impossible for hackers or government officials to read users' messages, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyOnline game maker Zynga cuts its outlook for 2014 as its losses continue to widen, and due to delayed launch of new games and features.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Stratasys Ltd reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its profit and revenue forecast for the year, driven by strong demand for its 3D printers.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsYONGIN South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean smartphone camera makers are tapping the surging yet more technologically demanding market for vehicle cameras to dull the impact of slowing growth in global handset sales.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsUnder more stringent censorship, WeChat promises to stop "rumors" from spreading on its IM platform.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Latest NewsFrom the people who brought you Process Explorer and Autoruns comes a new diagnostic tool that logs certain events which can be signs of an malicious activity.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsDell is going the way of EMC, IBM and HP in positioning itself as a one-stop enterprise storage IT shop.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tango, the mobile messaging company, is arranging a financing transaction that would value its business at around $1.5 billion, roughly one-third more than the valuation it received just five months ago, accordi...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp posted higher fiscal second-quarter earnings on Thursday and gave a forecast for current-quarter revenues that exceeded Wall Street's estimates, sending shares of the graphics chipmaker higher in aft...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - SolarCity Corp, the largest installer of residential solar panels in the United States, reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, citing "unprecedented demand."
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc on Thursday reported unexpectedly weaker second-quarter bookings, and slashed its 2014 forecast after saying it had delayed several games including a revamped version of "Zynga Poker."
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BetaNews
Nerds and exercise are like oil and water. This is why it is fairly comical that Google is planning a fitness platform. Even though Android enthusiasts will probably line up to take advantage of Google Fit compatible apps and devices, I ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest NewsCommunications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has moved to correct the record on what telecommunications companies will be required to retain under a mandatory data retention regime.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsWith global citizens and governments dealing with cyber-surveillance and its impact on personal freedom, classified document leaks will continue and that's not a bad thing, say security and law experts.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: TechnologyIn 2011, a macaque took over wildlife photographer David Slater's camera — and took a striking image. Now Slater is clashing with Wikimedia over who owns it.
