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Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment — Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden — The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. — On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a …
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| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily — Here's an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab,’ you say?” — “Inspiring.” — “Ballsy.” — “Ambitious.”
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Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7 — Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of the first beta of iOS 7.| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks: prepare for ludicrous speed — Today we had a chance to play with Qualcomm's latest dev tablet (MDP) which packs the company's mighty Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974). The device is slightly larger than last year's MDP and features a 11.6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel display …
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Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords — Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they are able to break these passwords in under a minute.
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The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi? A Scrap of Privacy — The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012. Since then, Facebook has gradually spread …
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Grasping for a Vine: Video for Instagram Will Be Sole Reveal at Facebook Event Thursday — Instagram plans to release a video product this Thursday at a press event at Facebook's headquarters, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the robust … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Amazon's Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing — The rumors are true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what's most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it — and what that means …
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Privacy authorities issue Google a ‘please explain’ on Glass — Summary: Ten privacy authorities from countries including Australia, Canada, and Israel have sent a joint letter to Google asking the company to address privacy concerns over Google Glass. — Josh Taylor
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Nvidia to license graphics technology: CEO — (Reuters) - Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said he will license graphics technology to other companies, a new model for the chipmaker that could lead to new business with Apple, Samsung and other mobile device makers.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Power Testing: Can Two New Laptops Really Last All Day? — Most consumers pay little or no attention to the processors and other chips that power their computers, and rightly so. In recent years, changes to the design of these chips haven't made major, noticeable differences in everyday computing tasks.
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Ubuntu phone OS has eight carriers signed on to boost development — Canonical has formed a “Carrier Advisory Group” of eight mobile operators who will collaborate to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. — Canonical said the first members of the group are Deutsche Telekom …
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Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows — Love Amsterdam? So does Netflix: The streaming service revealed that it's going to launch in the Netherlands later this year. — Netflix revealed the next target of its ongoing international …
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Wal-Mart's E-Stumble — After Years Giving Short Shrift to Web, Retailer Plays Catch-Up With Amazon — A Wal-Mart distribution center in Bentonville, Ark., serves stores in neighboring states. The company plans to add e-commerce distribution centers. — Amazon.com Inc. has become … | Reuters: |
Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire — (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the ‘DVR for everything’ — Nate Weiner turned down millions from Evernote to stay independent — but how big a business can you build off a bookmarklet? — The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Dell Committee Slams Icahn's Latest Offer, Saying It Falls Short — The special committee of Dell's board of directors overseeing its go-private process fired back at activist investor Carl Icahn's latest proposal today in a letter to shareholders, saying it is “not, in its present state …
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Last Telegram Ever Will Be Sent In India Next Month — The world's final telegram will be sent next month by India's state-run telecommunications company, the Christian Science Monitor reported. The July 14 stop date will be over 160 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in the U.S. in 1844.
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Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces “Predictivity” Platform, New Partnership With Amazon Web Services. — At the recent D: All Things Digital conference, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called …
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Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point — The do-it-yourselfers at Adafruit have provided step-by-step instructions for turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor proxy and wireless access point. A good project for users looking to anonymize their Internet traffic …
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Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project — Summary: Microsoft is enhancing its Socl social-search site with new creation tools, including an animated GIF creator. — Microsoft's FUSE (Future Social Experiences) Labs is adding new capabilities to Socl … Sponsor Posts
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