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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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| New York Times: |
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.| Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: |
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic — Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy — OVERVIEW — A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
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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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CNET, Mercury News, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Waze Blog, ReadWrite, New York Times, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Inc.com and Mashable
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Officially Closes Waze 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.
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
| 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.”| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @parislemon and @matty8r
| Peter Ha / Gizmodo: |
| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation 4 Will Cost $399, Launch “This Holiday Season” — With More Than Just Games in Tow — The PlayStation 4 will cost $399 and will go on sale “this holiday season,” Sony announced at its E3 press event tonight in Los Angeles. — That's $100 less than the Xbox One … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
| 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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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside — This morning Apple updated its MacBook Air to Intel's Haswell ULT silicon. The chassis itself didn't get any updates, nor did the displays. Both the 11 and 13 inch models retain their non-Retina 1366 x 768 and 1440 x 900 displays.
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Primate Labs Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacNN and CNET
| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Letterpress, Evernote, Procreate top Apple's list of best-designed apps of 2013 — As part of its role as a design-centric company and so it can continue to encourage the best practices of appmakers, Apple on Monday evening announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2013.
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| Shibani Mahtani / Digits: |
Microsoft Plots 2014 Launch for Xbox One in Asia — Asian gamers will have to wait a year longer than their American counterparts to get their hands on Microsoft's Xbox One, which will only be available in the region in late 2014, a year after its U.S. launch this November.
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VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, wpxbox.com, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, VG247 and Geeky-Gadgets
| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Can Apple and Longtime Ad Partner “Think Different”? — Apple Stock a Buy Ahead of New Products: Munster — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and TBWA\Chiat\Day, the agency behind the company's most memorable advertisements, are embarking on a new campaign designed to revive interest in an aging product line …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and Open IT Strategies
| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Next-generation Apple Mac Pro eyes-on at WWDC 2013 (video) — Historically, Apple hasn't been one to offer sneak peeks of anything. That changed today with the next-generation Mac Pro — likely a function of the fact that teasing such a machine couldn't possibly weaken sales of a desktop … Sponsor Posts
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