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Exclusive: Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’ — Google Inc., which has been working on software to help major automakers build self-driving cars, also is quietly going around them by designing and developing a full-fledged self-driving car, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography — On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. — He had just one meeting to go. — That meeting was a board meeting …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more — Summary: I had 15 minutes today to ask Microsoft's outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer a few questions. We talked his biggest regrets, his thinking on what's next and more. Here's Part 1. — Mary Jo Foley
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Motorola Moto X Teardown — What does $12.5 billion dollars buy you nowadays? In Google's case, it buys Motorola, Inc. and all of its designs and patents. Is it what we would have spent the money on? Probably not, but the result of the acquisition is Motorola's first smartphone …
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| Jennifer Granick / Forbes: |
My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander — On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA's activities “criminal” …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma — Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon.
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search — Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company …
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IQ Engines, The Next Web, I4U News and Softpedia News
| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Netflix May Need to Accelerate Its Spending for Original Shows — Binge viewing of original series might end up accelerating expenditures — Binge-viewing may lead to binge-spending at Netflix, which could eventually see the impact in its stock price. — What went unmentioned among …
Tweets: @monkbent and @christytanner
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google updates Play policies to ban apps and ads modifying devices, require games use its in-app billing service — Google today sent an email to third-party Android developers regarding a significant change to its Google Play Developer Program Policies. The changes affect both apps and the advertising practices that many apps use.
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Google Operating System, T3 News, Android Beat, PC Advisor and Engadget. Tweets: @vijayshekhar. Thanks:@epro
| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times — Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched — Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade …
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Slice, The Shopping Companion Powered By Email Inbox Data, Raises $23M From Rakuten & Others — Slice, the technology startup whose mission is to organize all commerce data by tapping into the information buried in your inbox, has closed on $23 million in Series B funding led by e-commerce giant Rakuten … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax — Inside a research lab at the University of Michigan, there's an Intel chip covered in wax. — It's a Core i7 microprocessor — the same chip that runs many of today's desktop and laptop PCs — and the wax is stuffed into a metal mesh surrounding this tiny sliver of silicon.
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