AFP

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By encouraging news publishers to post directly onto new channels, such as Facebook Instant Articles and Snapchat Discover, tech companies are now actively involved in every aspect of journalism.
Hackers have diverted more than $50 million in digital currency from an experimental fund meant to demonstrate that such money is safe for use, according to a New York Times report.

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Didi is locked in a war of attrition with Uber over drivers and riders but claims almost 90 percent of the market in the world’s most populous nation, with about 300 million registered passengers and more than 14 million rides a day.

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The arrival of PlayStation VR will come later than expected, to provide time to get games ready and to build up an ample supply of headsets for launch, according to Sony.

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Twitter on Thursday was adamant that its computer systems had not been broken into by hackers, and that it was not the source of any account information being hawked on the Internet.

Twitter denies system breach for leaked passwords

Twitter on Thursday was adamant that its computer systems had not been broken into by hackers, and that it was not the source of any account information being hawked on the Internet.
But while VR is currently aimed at gamers, its evangelists forecast it will eventually be about much more than entertainment.

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But while VR is currently aimed at gamers, its evangelists forecast it will eventually be about much more than entertainment.
Microsoft will not be manufacturing (phone) devices, at least for the time being. It will do software, however.

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