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Facebook's Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life — Constant, close contact with your friends. That's the promise of a “Facebook phone.” The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes …
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The “Facebook Phone” Lives — Nice scoop by Josh Constine of TechCrunch: … Others have since backed this up as well. — I was a few months off, but this is basically what I had heard back in January as well. — There seems to be some disagreement over whether or not this would constitute a “fork” of Android.
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| Luke O'Neil / Slate: |
Boston police catfishing indie rockers: Cops pose as punks on the Internet. — The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city's most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows. — As anyone who's watched a single crime story on TV or film knows, undercover detective work is dangerous business.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Google's ‘If I Had Glass’ winners list dominated by celebrities, popular Twitter accounts — Google's “If I Had Glass” competition has always been a public affair: applications were submitted using a hashtag on Twitter and Google+, and winners offered the opportunity to be among …
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Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole — For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow. We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …
| Junko Yoshida / EE Times: |
Exclusive: Lenovo to design own chips — BEIJING, China- Lenovo, the second largest smartphone supplier in China, will get into the chip design business with a special focus on smartphones and tablets, EE Times has learned. — The company, which has maintained a small IC design team consisting … | Morgen Peck / IEEE Spectrum: |
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion — Bitcoin, the world's first open source cryptographic currency, which has been on a tear since the beginning of this year, set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92.| New York Times: |
After Cyberattack, Sven Olaf Kamphuis Is at Heart of Investigation — Sven Olaf Kamphuis calls himself the “minister of telecommunications and foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker.” Others see him as the Prince of Spam. — Mr. Kamphuis, who is actually Dutch … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M — Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland. Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo … | Edward Felten / Slate: |
DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research — The outdated copyright law doesn't just hurt consumers—it cripples researchers. — Stacked CDs — It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company …
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| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Leaked roadmap shows off BlackBerry's new iPad competitor, phablet — Canadian manufacturer BlackBerry appears to be readying another go at the tablet sector, as an image purporting to be a leaked product roadmap shows a potential iPad competitor slated for a late 2013 release.
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
It's Big TV vs. Big Telecom Over Broadcast Spectrum … The government's plan to auction off broadcast spectrum to expand wireless services has pitted Big TV against Big Telecom at the FCC and in the halls of Congress. Some say the nation is facing an apocalyptic capacity crunch due …
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