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Dick Costolo of Twitter, an Improv Master Writing Its Script — WELCOME to the Dick Costolo Show. — The audience, le beau monde of cinema, has gathered at the Debussy Theater on this unseasonably cool May morning on the French Riviera. The event, officially the opening of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival … | Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
NY Times: Jack Dorsey role at Twitter reduced because he's “difficult” and indecisive — Nick Bilton has a nice profile of Dick Costolo today in the New York Times. But perhaps the most intriguing passages, for me, had to do with his characterizations of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Tweets: @qthrul
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Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work — A powerful new approach to artificial intelligence is ready to improve many Google products. — This summer Google set a new landmark in the field of artificial intelligence with software that learned how to recognize cats, people … | Wall Street Journal: |
Silicon Valley's Stock Funk — Sliding shares of newly public Internet companies are depressing employees—and their finances—after years of long hours and high expectations. — Rank-and-file workers at four of the highest profile Internet companies that began selling shares in the past 16 months …
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Apple Publicly Responds to Complaints of Purple Lens Flare on iPhone 5 Photos — Soon after the release of the iPhone 5, some users began noticing a purple flare or halo showing up in photos taken with the device's camera pointed at or near bright light sources.
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Foxconn denies China iPhone plant hit by strike — (Reuters) - Foxconn, the Taiwanese made-to-order electronics giant that assembles Apple Inc's products, denied reports that a plant in China was crippled by a strike, saying on Saturday that its production is on schedule at an important time for Apple.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft — The onetime Supreme Court nominee, who once attacked Microsoft over antitrust, says competitors are “seeking to use antitrust law” to punish Google. Meanwhile, the FTC is beginning to wrap up its probe. — Robert Bork, the fiery former …
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Why We'll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs is our era's Edison, Ford or Tesla. Illustration by Simon Lutrin — Let's talk about Steve Jobs. I know, I know. It's been a year since his death. What is there possibly left to say about him, and why are so many people still saying it?
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Worries Over Defense Dept. Money for ‘Hackerspaces’ — This fall, 16 high schools in California started experimental workshops, billed as a kind of “shop class for the 21st century,” that were financed by the federal government. And over the next three years, the $10 million program plans … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Android users outraged over Motorola's broken promise — Company concedes some customers got “a raw deal” in decision not to upgrade 2011 flagship devices to Ice Cream Sandwich — Doran Else bought his Photon 4G last October, lured by the fast dual-core processor and by the close relationship …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Unboxed: Making the Case for a Government Hand in Research — LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the millions of people learning languages online … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Why Zynga Failed — The year was 2008 and Zynga had it all figured out. Facebook became a portal to games for those who had never played. Viral growth there was unchecked. Facebook ad rates were low, so buying traffic was cheap. And most games were played on the desktop.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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