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Zip File: Technology news from the Guardian Thursday 08 May 2014 g
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Microsoft developing smartwatch to rival Samsung with fitness focus Patent reveals Microsoft smartwatch rival to Samsung, Pebble and expected Apple iWatch with heart rate and fitness functions. By Samuel Gibbs  Watch Dogs is a wake-up call on internet security Out at the end of May, Ubisoft's dark thriller is set in a world where everyone's data is available to warring tech factions. By Nick Cowen  Daniel Appelquist on web modernisation and net security The open-web advocate and early web pioneer Daniel Appelquist discusses the future of the internet with Jemima Kiss  Oculus Rift CEO: we want to put 1 billion people in virtual reality Powered by $2bn Facebook purchase, Oculus Rift wants to create a 1 billion-person virtual reality world beyond gaming. By Samuel Gibbs  Facebook defends new privacy policy on its activity tracker Moves According to the social network, 'sharing' data is not the same as 'commingling' it. By Alex Hern
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Google, Facebook and Amazon write to FCC demanding true net neutrality More than 100 companies write to US authorities warning that allowing fast lanes is 'grave threat to internet'  31 comments
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Nintendo reports annual loss as Wii U stalls The video game veteran finishes its financial year with net losses of $229m, but has plans to rejuvenate the troubled Wii U console. By Keith Stuart  Nintendo resists #Miiquality campaign to let Tomodachi Life gamers play gay Candy Crush developer shares slide 13% on Wall Street as players lose interest
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Boot up: Windows 8 in Venn, Windows Phone gets files, fake Earpods, and more Charles Arthur: Plus Xiaomi's real sales numbers, unwatched video ads, smartphones v featurephones in the US, and more  Boot up: OpenID security flaw, Strava heatmap, Google Glass cost?, and more Boot up: Sony's Blu-ray pain, Silicon Valley's wage cabal, tablet numbers and more Boot up: S5 camera hassles, iPhone 5 button woes, date night in Glass, and more PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales: will 2014 boom, or bust?
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Robotic ball Sphero points to a new era in computer games: Tech Weekly podcast Ian Bernstein, the co-inventor of Sphero, discusses the power of small scale and cheap robotics in the development of gaming
Technology video this week More » Decoded's Kathryn Parsons on demystifying the digital world – video Co-founder talks about teaching coding as a creative subject; equipping children and teachers for the future; and why we need more women in the technology world