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Vodafone connects the internet of seals

@ 2016/04/01 read/post comments(0)

Orkney’s harbour seals will be connected to Vodafone’s M2M network as researchers try to work out why populations are falling. The move to connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is part of a study will be… Go To Full Article

Apple to send lawyers after the FBI

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The fruity cargo cult Apple is furious with the FBI for hacking its iPhone and is unleashing its mighty briefs on the FBI to force them to explain how they did it. Apple says it wants to… Go To Full Article

Valve’s past lack of customer service gets it into trouble

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The software distribution outfit Valve has found itself in hot water down-under after its sales policy and customer service policy fell foul of civilised consumer law. In 2014, Valve was dragged into court by the Australian Competition… Go To Full Article

Microsoft's Tay AI makes brief, baffling return to Twitter

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Microsoft's Twitter AI experiment -- Tay -- briefly came back online this morning. Tay was initially switched off, after learning the hard way that, basically, we're all terrible people, and cannot be trusted to guide even a virtual teenage mind.… Go To Full Article

Phanteks Enthoo Mini XL DS Chassis review (2 systems in one case)

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When Phanteks first launched its Enthoo Mini XL case we were, in almost equal measure, impressed and confused. This was an enormous Micro-ATX case that offered the option of installing two systems at the same time in one PC chassis.… Go To Full Article

Amazon bans crappy USB Type-C cables

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One Google engineer's quest to test USB-C cables sold on Amazon ended in a disaster when a particularly shoddy one fried his gadgets. Thankfully, Amazon has decided to take a stance against subpar adapters to prevent more people from going… Go To Full Article

Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro to go official today, pricing leaks

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It has been rumored that Samsung is working on a Galaxy A9 Pro, a more powerful variant of the regular Galaxy A9. According to MyDrivers, the Korean giant will be officially unveiling the Galaxy A9 Pro today. Its standout feature… Go To Full Article

Gionee P5 mini goes official with a 4.5-inch display and quad-core SoC

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Gionee today silently launched a new entry-level Android smartphone, the P5 mini. The smartphone sports a 4.5-inch IPS display with 480 x 854 FWVGA resolution and is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6580M chipset clocked at 1.3GHz. In terms of… Go To Full Article

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD V5 8TB SATA III Review

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Compared to its predecessor the latest Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v5 8TB model by not only packs twice the amount of DRAM cache (256MB) but it's also certified for an MTBF of 0.6 million hours more (2 million total). Go To Full Article

J&J's anesthesia-bot loses against its human counterparts

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Just because robots can be more efficient than humans and can make certain processes cheaper doesn't mean they'll always come out on top. Case in point: Johnson & Johnson is pulling its anesthesia robot called Sedasys from the market over… Go To Full Article

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