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Google tweaks image search to make porn harder to find — The company says the move is designed to ensure adult content is shown only to those who explicitly request it. — Search for porn using Google Image Search today and you might come up empty-handed.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Chairman Says Android Winning Mobile War With Apple: Tech — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android is extending its lead over Apple Inc. (AAPL) in the mobile-software market at a rate that compares with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s expansion in desktop software in the 1990s, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Moves Closer to Making TV Set — TAIPEI—Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test several TV-set designs, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the U.S. company is moving closer to expanding its offerings for the living room.
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again — Stop me if you've heard this one before: Facebook is making changes to its privacy settings. — First, it is improving some privacy protections. The company is adding a new top-level control, called Privacy Shortcuts, that will allow people …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Yahoo launches Instagram-inspired Flickr iPhone app update, adds simple sign-ins, 16 filters and more — Confirming Marissa Mayer's commitment to a mobile-first strategy, Yahoo has announced the second major overhaul of one of its apps in as many days (following its Yahoo Mail refresh) …
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My master plan for revolutionizing the future of publishing and saving tablet-native journalism — I have a lot of respect for the publishing industry and the futurists who try to predict where it's heading. Nobody in that business has it particularly easy.
| Stephen Gandel / Fortune: |
Marc Andreessen: We're in a tech depression — Netscape founder says tech stocks are cheap. — FORTUNE — Marc Andreessen, co-head of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and founder of Netscape, says the slump in technology stocks is as bad as he has ever seen it. And now might be the time to buy in.| Reuters: |
Guatemala deporting software pioneer McAfee to U.S — (Reuters) - Guatemala said on Wednesday it would deport to the United States software pioneer John McAfee, a former Silicon Valley millionaire who is wanted for questioning in Belize over the murder of a fellow American.
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| Facebook Newsroom: |
Facebook Year in Review 2012 — Today we're releasing Facebook's Year in Review, a look back at the people, moments and things that created the most buzz in 2012 among the billion people around the world on Facebook. — We took the pulse of the global community on Facebook in 2012 to assemble …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
SnapChat is getting funded. By Instagram backer Benchmark — Yesterday, Dan Primack pointed out that like Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Matt Cohler, who backed Instagram for Benchmark Capital, hasn't done a deal in 2012. Well, that is all set to change, for Benchmark is very likely …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Bringing Free Slots to Facebook First Before Gambling Takes Hold — Casino games, like poker and slots, make up one of the most popular categories on Facebook — even though players never get to cash out their winnings. — Today, Zynga is announcing that it will soon launch its newest casino title, Elite Slots, on Facebook.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon finally gins up dedicated push messaging system for Kindle Fire apps, now in beta — Amazon has announced its new Device Messaging Beta today, bringing a full push notification system to Kindle Fire devices using Amazon's cloud. The messaging system is necessary as Amazon's forked Android version …
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| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Eric Schmidt says Google Fiber 'isn't just an experiment,' company ‘trying to decide where to expand next’ — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at The New York Times' Dealbook conference today, and he's made a bit of news concerning the company's big broadband effort, Google Fiber.| Dan Worth / V3.co.uk: |
Google rules out Gmail and Drive apps for Windows 8 — Google has revealed that it has no plans to develop dedicated apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 for its business app products such as Gmail or Drive. — Speaking to V3, the firm's product management director at Google Apps …
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| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
Zeitgeist 2012: What piqued your curiosity this year? — As 2012 comes to a close, it's time for our 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist—an in-depth look at the “spirit of the times” as seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past year. — On our 2012 Zeitgeist website …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
The LeWeb Conference Sold to Reed Midem — Reed Midem, an international trade show organizer, has bought a majority stake in the well-known European Internet conference, LeWeb. — The event, which now has two annual gatherings, recently attracted 3,500 people in Paris …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FreedomPop launches free home wireless to compete with low-end DSL — FreedomPop's new Hub Burst will begin shipping in January 2013. — FreedomPop — Just over three months after launching its free portable hotspot, FreedomPop now says its ready for the second phase of its expansion plan—a free home wireless connection.
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| AppleInsider: |
iTunes now selling and renting movies in 42 newly-opened stores — Apple on Wednesday activated iTunes movie sales for a bulk of the countries in which the online media storefront launched earlier in December, though film selection and availability is somewhat limited and varies from region to region.
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| Tim Schiesser / Neowin: |
Intel next-gen Haswell CPU line-up leaked, Core i7-4770K the flagship — VR-Zone has managed to get their hands on the line-up for Intel's upcoming 22nm Haswell desktop processors, revealing that there will be initially 14 CPUs across the Core i7 and Core i5 brands.
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Acer quietly outs $300 boosted C7 Chromebook — Acer has quietly rolled out a second version of its C7 Chromebook, a $299.99 premium model that boosts the specification and almost doubles the notebook's runtime. The Acer C710-2605 keeps the 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 display and 1.1GHz dualcore Celeron processor …
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Searching without searching: Expect Labs taps Nuance for bold predictive computing tech — We're now getting the first taste of a world where our computing devices fetch us relevant information without our asking. Google Now is the most notable example, Google's Siri-esque competitor …
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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, The Next Web and GigaOM
| Edwin Chan / Reuters: |
Facebook helps FBI bust cybercriminals blamed for $850 million losses — (Reuters) - Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than $850 million …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Revamps Its Currents Mobile Newsreader App To Make It Smarter And More Scannable — Google just launched an update to Google Currents, the company's Flipboard competitor, that makes it easier to scan through categories and editions from Google publisher partners like The Guardian and Forbes in the app.| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
EMC follows VMware, rest of world into OpenStack — EMC has joined the OpenStack open-source cloud effort. The news hits three months after VMware — 80 percent owned by EMC — signaled its intention to back the initiative. EMC joins as a corporate-level member while VMware is a higher-level gold member.
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| Keith Laing / Hillicon Valley: |
McCaskill threatens legislation on airplane electronic device rules — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) called on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Tuesday to relax its rules for electronic device use on airplanes or face legislation from her forcing it to do so.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook confirms it will ‘monetize’ Instagram — Since Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, people have wondered how the service might be changing. We're still not sure, but Facebook VP of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson has confirmed that monetization is coming in some form.
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