New dwarf planet discovered out past Neptune - CNET
Astronomers have found a new dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, with one of the largest orbits of any dwarf planet.
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Pokemon Go clone tops app charts in China - CNET
Pokemon Go hasn't yet been released in some countries around the globe, and developers in China are taking advantage of that.
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Monument Valley creator founds new game studio - CNET
The new Australia-based studio is called Mountains, and will be releasing its first game in 2017.
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Twitter increases maximum gif size to 15MB - CNET
The biggest gif you can upload to Twitter has gone from a tiny 5MB to a much more reasonable 15MB.
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Open-source Linux a step closer to automotive use - Roadshow
The Automotive Grade Linux project announced the release of its Unified Code Base 2.0, implementing support for audio stream routing, rear-seat entertainment and apps.
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Futuristic prosthetic officially headed to market soon (Tomorrow Daily 388 show notes) - CNET
LUKE (named after Luke Skywalker) is an advanced, modular prosthetic arm with over 10,000 hours of testing, and it'll finally be available later this year.
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Another Tesla crash blamed on car's Autopilot system - CNET
A Model X crashes Sunday morning after the car's auto-steer feature failed to identify an obstacle in the road, according to a thread on a Tesla enthusiasts forum.
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Gold bars awarded for top shots in annual iPhone photography competition - CNET
The applicants this year numbered in the thousands and spanned 139 countries around the world, but the grand prize was awarded to a Chinese photographer named Siyuan Niu for his work entitled "Man and the Eagle."
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Get a jump on Amazon Prime Day with these early deals - CNET
In the market for a 55-inch 4K TV for $550, or a Fire tablet for $33? Amazon offers a glimpse of what's to come during its sales event.
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SEC probing Tesla for potential securities breach with Autopilot fatality - Roadshow
Did Tesla incorrectly handle breaking recent Autopilot-related crash news to its investors?
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Disneyland's Star Wars expansion could look just like this - CNET
A new piece of concept art depicting Disney's new Star Wars park expansion gives would-be attendees a peek at what could be.
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Pokemon Go is a certified hit. What's Nintendo's next play? - CNET
The idea of Link or Mario running around on your phone seemed like a no-brainer to everyone but Nintendo. The success of Pokemon Go may be proof that it should rethink its stance.
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Amazon's Daily Deal is one of our favorite Bluetooth wireless sports earbuds - CNET
Amazon is running a half-price sale on the Jaybird X2 today, a popular wireless sports headphone model with a tough design that's sweat-resistant and boasts an 8-hour battery.
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Hilarious 'Chewbacca Mom' shows serious side, to mixed reviews - CNET
She became famous for laughing with a mask on. Her latest video is a heartfelt call for healing after the Dallas shootings, but some on the internet are rolling their eyes.
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What do we say to the god of death? Bring Syrio back to 'Game of Thrones' - CNET
The actor who plays Arya's sword-fighting teacher says 'of course' he would want to return to the HBO hit.
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Let the Pokemon Go pub crawls begin - CNET
Adult Pokemon fans are getting ready to come together, raise a few glasses and then catch them all!
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Pokemon Go: Gotta catch all your personal data - CNET
If you signed into Pokemon Go with your Google account, you might have just handed your digital life over to the game's developers.
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Watch a hydraulic press get the last bit of toothpaste and ketchup - CNET
See the awe-inspiring crushing power of a hydraulic press squeeze an impressive amount of condiment and toothpaste out of seemingly empty containers.
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Pokemon Go pumps up Nintendo's value by billions - CNET
Nintendo is part owner of Pokemon and the company is reaping the rewards of this mega hit. Meanwhile, criminals are using the game to their own advantage.
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Warner Bros. settles with FTC for not disclosing it paid PewDiePie, YouTubers - CNET
The government agency is slamming Warner Bros. Home Entertainment over how it handled its campaign for 2014's Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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Science finds fingerprints on Earth of distant exploding stars - CNET
New research finds prehistoric climate change and even a speeding of evolution on Earth could be blamed in part on the death of a (very) distant star.
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Cozmo the AI robot gets even more powerful - CNET
The palm-sized companion robot will have a software development kit available to makers and hobbyists.
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Flying an Airbus A380 like a fighter jet - CNET
To fly the world's largest airliner you need courage, patience and the skill to master a small control stick.
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Get a free Amazon Fire tablet with subscription to Texture (the Netflix of magazines) - CNET
The limited time deal ends July 21.
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All the Pokemon Go news from around the world - CNET
Pokemon Go has made headlines all over the world, and you can check them all out here.
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expansions. You can jump on the platform of your choice and pick up the
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source of a digital assault. Now DARP... 
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3D printing is all well and good, it can be frustrating if you need to
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Email
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to Reuters, a huge data breach consisting of some 273.3 million online
accounts has been reported b... 
Twitter
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February, and now the social network is bring the animated images to the
desktop. With an update to the Mac software, users can expect to
quickly find an appropriate GIF for the... 
Unless
you've been living under the proverbial rock for the last year or so,
you've likely heard of the musical sensation Hamilton (16-time Tony
nominee) and its creator / star Lin-Manuel Miranda. As it turns out,
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Would
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Netherlands has you covered with the McTrax Placemat, a sheet of paper
that allows you to connect with your smartphone to channel your inner
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Vine
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for free on the Windows Store. It offers everything you'd expect: A
selection of the latest trending Vine videos, as well as the ability to
explore videos in different category... 
So
much for US intelligence scaling back its curiosity in the wake of
Edward Snowden's leaks. An Office of the Director of National
Intelligence transparency report has revealed that the CIA and NSA
doubled the number of searches for the content of A... 
KFC
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chicken fast food chain made two "edible" fingernail polishes for its
fans in Hong Kong. Teaming up with ad agency Ogilvy & Mather and
food experts at McCormick, two shades w... 
A
group of researchers and aviators in Nevada have successfully completed
the first flight of an unmanned cloud-seeding aircraft, the state's
Desert Research Institute reports. 
DARPA's
has been responsible for countless advancements in cutting-edge
technologies since its founding in 1958. During a conference call on
Wednesday, DARPA's Deputy director Steve Walker announced that it is
partnering with Chicago's Museum of Scie... 
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flight manuals with iPads. But pilot teams still receive flight
information updates the same way they've been doing for decades: over
radio voice comms, as current wirel... 
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make it to Amsterdam, but producer Jonah Hirsch is taking that one step
further. He's creating a VR experience, Anne, that will tell the
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connected home gadgets. It plugs into any smoke detector to give you
alarm notifications on your smartphone, and it costs a paltry $35. Now,
the company is adding two new sm... 
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doubt that tools like Powerpoint and Google Slides are important to
large swaths of professional and educational users. Today, Google is
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team of scientists and engineers who confirmed the existence of
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million reward as part of a special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental
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website. Researchers have discovered relatively simple exploits in
ImageMagick, a common package for processing pictures on the web, that
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business. Wednesday afternoon sunlight spills through two massive open
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