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Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data — All of those questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report. — Yesterday, we raised concerns about some fuzzy disclosures in Siri's privacy policy.
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing — Whether the pilots get the green light for a season of episodes will depend on what the data says. “The goal is to get customer feedback,” says studio head Roy Price. — After evaluating more than 4,000 submissions and commissioning …
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Reddit, Boston and the missing student — When crowdsourcing goes wrong. — The FBI's two suspect photos. … On 16 March, Sunil Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, went missing, leaving behind a cryptic note. His whereabouts are still unknown …
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Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks about ending the work-from-home policy, saying it was “wrongly perceived as industry narrative.” — FORTUNE — In the closing keynote at the Great Place to Work conference at the Hyatt Regency Century City … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
Julian Assange's secret chat with Google's chairman — Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. — Eric Schmidt met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret in 2011, according to the transcript … | WikiLeaks: |
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Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack — Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. — Anyone who did manage to access the site meanwhile was greeted with a warning stating that: “Site availability is being impacted by a malicious DDoS attack.
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IBM in Talks to Sell Part of Its Server Unit to Lenovo — International Business Machines Corp. is looking to part ways with the servers that have powered much of the Internet. — The company is in advanced discussions to sell its so-called x86 server business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.
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Penguin offers to scrap Apple e-book deals to end EU antitrust case — (Reuters) - British media group Pearson's Penguin unit has offered to scrap e-book deals with Apple that imposed price restrictions on Amazon and other retailers, EU antitrust regulators said on Friday.
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After Apple's Rise, a Bruising Fall — Where's the old love, Apple? — Wall Street has turned viciously on its one-time iDarling. The rout in Apple's share price — it fell nearly 2.7 percent on Thursday, bringing the damage since late September to 44 percent — has many wondering when, and where, all of this will end.
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LulzSec hacker receives year in prison for Sony breach — A hacker who pleaded guilty last year to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was sentenced on Thursday in Los Angeles to a year in prison, followed by home detention, federal prosecutors said.| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store — KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jailbreak-needed alternative …
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M.I.C. Gadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, AppleInsider, Examiner, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iPhone, MobilesPie, The Register, Geek.com, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Thanks:@williswee
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
AMD nabs Apple graphics chip designer — The PC and server chipmaker will soon announce Raja Koduri is joining AMD's team to work on graphics chip design, CNET has exclusively learned. — Advanced Micro Devices will soon announce it has hired a former Apple graphics chip designer to bolster …
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HTC One available at AT&T and Sprint, Developer Edition delayed — Summary: HTC needs to hit it out of the ballpark to turn the financial tide and it comes to two US carriers today. However, the Developer Edition is delayed and the Galaxy S4 is coming around the corner. — Matthew Miller
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Tech's Rust Belt Takes Shape — Technology has long distributed its riches unequally. But the sector has seldom seemed so sharply divided between disrupters and the disrupted. — Computing pioneer International Business Machines Corp. on Thursday reported its revenue dropped 5% after failing …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Osito for iPhone: can this minimalist Google Now clone make a splash before the real thing? — There is no shortage of Google Now clones for iPhone, but none of them successfully emulate Google's concise and tasteful representation of data. Tempo focuses too much on being a “smart” calendar …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number … | Angela Haggerty / The Drum: |
Simon Rogers quits data journalist role at the Guardian to become Twitter's first data editor — Guardian data journalist Simon Rogers has quit his role after 15 years to become Twitter's first data editor, it was revealed on Wednesday. — Rogers will move to the US to take up the position … | Alex Howard / Strata: |
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