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ALL DEALS 
November 17, 2017 Vive’s motion trackers up the VR ante with nifty new accessories and games
Remember shooting ducks with the NES Zapper? HTC today announced preorder availability of several Vive Tracker bundles, one of which comes with a similar looking Hyper Blaster to relive (or experience for the first time) Duck Hunt-style gameplay in VR. The Vive Tracker is a motion accessory designed to bring real-world peripherals into the virtual […]
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ALL DEALS 
November 17, 2017 The logo on this phone case is what powers its suite of accessories
Though it looks pretty unassuming, this phone case has nine different attachments. Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. At first glance, this just looks like a regular iPhone case, but in fact that logo is composed of some pretty cool tech. The Case By Case […]
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ALL DEALS 
November 17, 2017 Treasure tome: Yves Saint Laurent Accessories showcases designer’s iconic finishing touches
Yves Saint Laurent Accessories features 400 images spanning the designer’s nearly 50-year career. “One can never overstate the importance of accessories,” said legendary French designer Yves Saint Laurent. Coinciding with the recent openings of both the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, Yves Saint Laurent Accessories is the first book to […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
November 14, 2017 ‘I just needed to feel the real world’: gardening writer Anna Pavord describes crawling onto lawn after cancer
Anna Pavord at her home in Dorset CREDIT: CHRISTOPHER JONES FOR THE TELEGRAPH Barely out of intensive care and unable to walk after treatment for stomach cancer, Anna Pavord quite literally “crawled” on her hands and knees onto a patch of grass, desperate to reconnect with nature. The much-loved gardening writer has told how she dragged herself along a […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
November 14, 2017 Inside the ‘spaceship’ house in Highgate longlisted for Grand Designs: House of the Year
The house looks as if a spaceship has docked in north London, wedged in between the houses on either side CREDIT: NICK KANE If you go down to Highgate Wood today you’re sure of a big surprise. On a leafy lane just behind the Tube station it looks as if a spaceship has docked in north London, […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
November 14, 2017 Carolyn Singer: November in my garden — Savoring fall, preparing for spring
My kitchen counter has transitioned from the tomatoes and tomatillos of late summer. The new arrangement of hops, shallots, “Sunshine” kabocha and “Trombetta” squashes, walnuts, red serrano peppers, along with a branch of sweet bay, is both a celebration of fall and an anticipation of Thanksgiving family visitors from Boston, San Francisco, Irvine and Sacramento. […]
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November 14, 2017 Manitowoc homeless man claims to work at Menards, asks to use store computers
MANITOWOC – A homeless man was arrested early Sunday morning at Menards after pretending to be an employee and tried to access the store computers. A report from Manitowoc Police Department said Jazzmar A. Turner, 23, entered the store, 5120 Calumet Ave., at about 6:30 a.m. from an employee entrance, and said he was a worker “from the […]
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November 14, 2017 What life will be like when the computers disappear
What happens when the computers around you all but disappear? Tiny sensors built into walls, household products, what you’re wearing, and perhaps your own body will make computers invisible to the eye, but responsive to a gesture, voice, and perhaps your movement as you walk into a room. It is still very early, but the era of ambient […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 14, 2017 IBM announces new advanced quantum computers
IBM has announced hitting a big milestone in the ongoing race of building the most powerful quantum computer. Dario Gil, who leads IBM’s quantum computing and artificial intelligence research division, said last week that the company’s scientists have successfully built and measured a processor prototype with 50 quantum bits, known as qubits. Gil says it’s […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 9, 2017 Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin, but fixes are available now
An international group of quantum boffins reckons Bitcoin could be broken by the year 2027. The researchers from Singapore, Australia and France say that scenario represents the worst case, and would see a quantum computer able to run Shor’s algorithm against the cryptocurrency’s protective elliptic curve signature quicker than the 10 minutes Bitcoin needs to […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 9, 2017 Computers trained to solve crimes by bingeing on TV drama
Computers are being trained to solve problems by bingeing on episodes of a popular TV crime drama. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh mapped footage, script and background sounds from five seasons of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) into a machine-readable format. The data was fed into a computer model that learned to process the plot as each episode unfolded, […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 9, 2017 Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digital currency is a secure payment platform that anybody can use. It is free from government interference and operated by an open, peer-to-peer network. This independence is one reason Bitcoin has become so popular, causing its value to rise steeply. At the beginning of 2017, a single […]
