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  Closest since Galileo's time, Jupiter and Saturn to form 'Great Conjunction' on Dec 21 | How to watch

  indiatoday.in - India Today Web Desk

  First time in over 400 years, Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky on Monday, December 21, appearing closer to one another than they have …

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  Android’s Nearby Notifications led to too much spam, so Google is turning it off

  The Verge - Shannon Liao

  Google is discontinuing Nearby Notifications later this year it said, after it noticed Android users were receiving too much spam from the feature. Since Nearby’s launch in 2015, the feature has become a target for marketers and less of a user-friendly information guide. Your Android device could …

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  Here’s what quantum computing is and why it matters

  TNW - Tristan Greene

  Researchers for IBM, Google, Intel, and others are in a fantastic scientific arms race to build a commercially viable quantum computer. They already exist in laboratories, and we’re only a few years away from the beginning of what may turn out to be an entire shift in how we think about computing. A …

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  The virtual reality dream is dying

  theoutline.com - Joshua Topolsky

  We were promised better worlds, and all we got was this lousy headset. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of the studio CCP Games (responsible for the …

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  New Wi-Fi attack cracks WPA2 passwords with ease

  ZDNET - Charlie Osborne

  The common Wi-Fi security standard is no longer as secure as you think. A new way to compromise the WPA/WPA2 security protocols has been accidentally …

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