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| Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Maps and Waze, outsmarting traffic together — We've all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated that you chose the wrong route on the drive to work. But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out “fender bender …
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| Noam Bardin / Waze Blog: |
Waze Joins Google! — I am excited to announce today that we have accepted an offer to join Google. I'd like to share some information about what this means for Waze. — Larry Page, Brian McClendon and the Google Maps teams have been following our progress closely and are excited about what we've accomplished.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Officially Buys Waze in a $1 Billion-Plus Deal, Will Keep It Independent — Google this morning said it had acquired mapping startup Waze, as we had expected it would. — Brian McClendon, who is the company's vice president of geo, paid tribute to the Waze community multiple times in a blog post.
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| David Drummond / The Official Google Blog: |
Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data — This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read the full text below. -Ed. — Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Connecting The PRISM Dots: My New Theory — The PRISM story firmly changed course yesterday when The Guardian published a video interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. If you haven't watched the interview, you should. It's historic and fascinating.| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying — Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings — Bill would compel government to disclose opinions of secret Fisa court whose judgments underpin US surveillance programs — A bipartisan group of eight senators will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would force …
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How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story — WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.| Alex Fowler / The Mozilla Blog: |
StopWatching.Us: Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance — Last week, media reports emerged that the US government is requiring vast amounts of data from Internet and phone companies via top secret surveillance programs. The revelations, which confirm many of our worst fears …
| AppleInsider: |
All Macs capable of running OS X Mountain Lion likely compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks — According to the release notes accompanying Monday's OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview, the OS is compatible with all Macs able to run the current version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
How OS X “Mavericks” works its power-saving magic — Apple execs talk up the new features in OS X Mavericks. — At yesterday's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote, Apple made some bold claims about the future of battery life in its laptops. A new 13-inch Macbook Air, for instance …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Analysis: The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013 — Used game support and lower-priced hardware create a PR coup. — Over the past ten years attending events like E3 and the Game Developers Conference, I have been to at least 40 press conferences held by console makers or game publishers both major and minor.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
The design of iOS 7: simply confusing — The new iOS is better and worse all at once — What I saw today at Apple's annual WWDC event in the new iOS 7 was a radical departure from the previous design of the company's operating system — what CEO Tim Cook called “a stunning new user interface.”
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
The Rest of the World Will Have to Wait for Apple's iTunes Radio — Apple Introduces ITunes Radio at Conference — ITunes Radio, the streaming-music service Apple announced yesterday at the company's developers conference in San Francisco, is set to hit the digital airwaves this fall.| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
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