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Robotic kitchen will be your own personal chef

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Experimenting with different flavours and techniques to produce something delicious can be as satisfying as sitting down and eating it — but if you don’t have the time to cook every night, it can quickly become just another chore. We’re not sure that Moley Robotics‘ solution would be appropriate for the time-poor working class, at least …

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Sony unveils Xperia Z4 at 5.2 inches with Snapdragon 810

Sony Mobile has today unveiled its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Xperia Z4. The announcement arrived with little fanfare on the company’s Japanese website, outlining specs for the new flagship and slating it for a mid-year release in Japan. As yet, the smartphone maker has not announced an international launch date. Following on from last year’s flagship Xperia Z3, the …

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Yahoo’s new search pact with Microsoft includes opt

Yahoo’s search partnership allows either company to terminate the deal. Yahoo Yahoo’s recently renewed search pact with Microsoft includes a termination clause that allows either company to walk away from their years-long partnership. The clause, part of an amended search partnership announced last week between the two companies, allows either company to terminate the arrangement at any time after October …

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Six delivery sites that will change the way you shop

Forget Amazon and Diapers.com. A new breed of concierge services for desktop and mobile apps far outpaces these now-common doorstep delivery outfits to ferry things like beer and handpicked clothing — even takeout from shops that don’t normally deliver. Right now, the trend is mostly locked to metropolitan cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. According to …

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Nokia’s next act: A return to smartphones, report says

The Nokia N1 tablet might have a smartphone complement in 2016. Nokia A remnant of onetime phone giant Nokia could be planning to come back to a business the Finland-based company famously abandoned not so long ago: smartphones. Nokia Technologies is working on a secret project that will result in the company announcing a new smartphone as early as 2016, …

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Are crowdfunding sites becoming too political?

A crowdfunding campaign for South Carolina police officer Michael Slager raised more than $1,300 before it was shut down by Indiegogo. Screenshot by CNET Moments after Oklahoma reserve deputy Robert Bates was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a suspect, a $25,000 fund-raising campaign to pay for his legal bills kicked off on Indiegogo. By the next day, …

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Netflix accounts for 25 percent of iiNet traffic, but are networks ready?

Image by Claire Reilly/CNET After locking down a deal to give its customers unlimited and unmetered access to the US-based streaming service, iiNet now says that one quarter of its total traffic comes from users accessing Netflix. Speaking at the CommsDay Summit in Sydney, iiNet chief technology officer Mark Dioguardi said households across Australia were now all saying the same …

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