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NBCUniversal Jumps Into The Streaming Fray
NBCUniversal will launch an ad-supported streaming service in 2020, free for anyone who pays for a cable service.
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Techlife News
‘Game Of Thrones' Final Season To Debut On April 14
"Game of Thrones" fans get ready.
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Rockstar Defends Pinkerton Name In 'Red Dead Redemption 2'
Rockstar Games is firing back in a legal tussle over the use of a Pinkerton security company’s name in its video game “Red Dead Redemption 2.”
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Jason Reitman To Direct Ghostbusters Sequel For Summer 2020
Ivan Reitman is passing the Ghostbusters torch to his son.
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BYU Blockchain Summit Seeks To Explain Blockchain Technology
As comedian Ellen DeGeneres explained last week on her television show: “Everybody is talking about bitcoin, nobody understands it.”
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Techlife News #374
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Worth A Cook: Making And Ordering Food With Apple Devices
Many of our readers likely fondly remember when, in early 2016, Apple debuted an iPhone 6s screen commercial in which that Sesame Street favorite, Cookie Monster, used the device in his attempt to bake a batch of succulent cookies.
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Oxford Suspends Research Funding From China's Huawei
Oxford University says it is suspending research grants and funding donations from Huawei amid growing security concerns about the Chinese telecom giant.
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Google Opens New Office In Berlin With Eye On Expansion
American tech giant Google has opened a new office in Berlin that it says will give it the space to expand in the German capital.
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Big Tech Firms Pledge Training For Workers In Southeast Asia
Microsoft, Google and other major technology companies have promised to help provide training in digital skills for around 20 million people in Southeast Asia by 2020 to make sure the region’s burgeoning working-age population is a fit for the future job market.
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November 25,2018
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Ivanka Trump, Apple CEO Tim Cook Visit Idaho School
Ivanka Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook visited a heavily Hispanic Idaho school district on Tuesday to trumpet her workforce development initiative promoting science, technology, engineering and math.
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Supreme Court Could Allow Suit Over Apple iPhone Apps' Sales
The Supreme Court seemed ready to allow an antitrust lawsuit to go forward that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps.
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Review: ‘Arctic' Is A Solid, And Solitary, Survival Tale
The premise for ”Arctic ” is so simple it’s almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive. It’s also been done more than a few times in movies, so it’s understandable if hearing that invokes a yawn. And yet with barely any dialogue, traditional storytelling methods or even a cute pet or inanimate object to help, director Joe Penna and star Mads Mikkelsen have made a riveting and precisely plotted film worthy of other greats in the genre.
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Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Everything Is Pretty Good In ‘The Lego Movie 2'
“The LEGO Movie” is a hard act to follow. Its world was so fresh and vibrant and unexpected, it’s no wonder that it spawned a number of spinoffs of varying quality. But the big test was always going to be the sequel and whether or not it could recreate the magic of the first. And I’m pleased to report that ”The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ” is pretty darn good, but also you can’t help shake the feeling that it’s just never going to live up to the exciting newness of the first.
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Toshiba Unveils Robot To Probe Melted Fukushima Nuclear Fuel
Toshiba Corp. unveiled a remote-controlled robot with tongs that it hopes will be able to probe the inside of one of the three damaged reactors at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and grip chunks of highly radioactive melted fuel.
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Researchers Say Amazon Face-Detection Technology Shows Bias
Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto.
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Facebook Merging Instagram and Whatsapp
With Facebook announcing plans to merge its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messaging services, we take a closer look at the giant’s stronghold on the ways in which we communicate, and explore whether the new changes will bring us closer together, or give Facebook access to more data to sell advertising and increase its dominance in the market.
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Q1 2019 - Services Vs Devices - Apple Opens New Chapter
Apple hoped to offset slowing demand for iPhones by raising the prices of its most important product, but that strategy seems to have backfired after sales sagged during the holiday shopping season.
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Watching Tv Is Free And Easy With Under-The- Radar Locast
You canceled cable long ago. Your TV antenna has trash reception for ABC. But you want to host an Oscars viewing party. What to do?
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Eu Urges Internet Giants To Work Harder Fighting Fake News
European Union authorities warned leading tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter this week that they need to work harder to combat fake news ahead of upcoming blocwide parliamentary elections.
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A Deluge Of Drones Fly Over Super Bowl Stadium, Despite Ban
The sky above the stadium that will host Sunday’s Super Bowl is being “inundated” with an alarming number of drones, raising the specter of injuries to tourists or others — or a possible collision with aircraft, the FBI said.
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How Apple May - Or May Not - Be A Leader On Privacy And Data Use
There has been big news on the battle for privacy and data recently, as Apple took action against some of the other biggest names in the business.
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What Comes Next In Facebook's Major Data Breach
For users, Facebooks revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next?
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October 7, 2018
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Science Fiction Into Reality: Nobel Prize Honors Laser Work
Scientists from the United States, Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for revolutionizing the use of lasers in research, finding ways to make them deliver more powerful flashes of light and even to act like tiny tweezers.
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October 7, 2018
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Scrawny Dwarf Planet, Named Goblin, Found Well Beyond Pluto
A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto.
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October 7, 2018
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Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns
Heated streets will melt ice and snow on contact. Sensors will monitor traffic and protect pedestrians. Driverless shuttles will carry people to their doors.
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October 7, 2018
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Foxconn Giving $100 Million To UW-Madison For Partnership
Foxconn Giving $100 Million To UW-Madison For Partnership
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University Of New Mexico Adds $3b In Economic Output
University Of New Mexico Adds $3b In Economic Output
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Nasa Anxious To Hear From Mars Rover As Dust Storm Clears
NASA is anxious to hear from its dust-silenced Mars rover, Opportunity, as the planet’s red skies clear.
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September 8, 2018
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One More Thing...looking Back At Apples iPhone Events
THE NEXT SPECIAL EVENT IS COMING.
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September 8, 2018
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Fans Rejoice: Subscription Free Streaming For NFL Games
The good news for football fans: It’s going to be much easier to watch NFL games online this year.
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