Top Stories for the Week of May 17, 2017

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Channel: Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson · 2017 · Science & Technology

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- Would you pay more to get your Netflix fix? How about on weekends, when the urge to binge strikes hardest?

- It sounds like science fiction, but smartphones with batteries that fully charge in just five minutes could be available to consumers next year.

- MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking.

- Games company ZeniMax, which successfully sued Facebook-owned Oculus for $500 million earlier this year, has filed a new lawsuit over Samsung’s Gear VR headset.

- To say 2017 is a dangerous year to be online is an understatement. With reports of 200,000 computers infected in 150 countries this past weekend, mankind’s newest cyber enemy, WannaCry, takes online threats to a new level.

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