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N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens — WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times …
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| Jason Calacanis / LinkedIn Today: |
Jason Calacanis touts power of AngelList Syndicates, boasts that his own now exceeds $300k — The Great Venture Capital Rotation — A couple of years ago, I was chatting with a guy named Naval, who had a site called AngelList. He had a fiery passion for helping founders and an outsider's chip on his shoulder.
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail — Leading vs Following — Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.
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| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
[APK Teardown / What's Really New] Gmail 4.6: Ads Are Coming To Gmail For Android, Unsent Messages Warning, And More — Now that the insane week of Google app updates has passed (gotta love those Rollout Wednesdays, right?), I've had some time to dig into the APKs and have found a number of interesting things in some of them.
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| Globe and Mail: |
Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt — This investigative report reveals that: — Shortly after the release of the first iPhone, Verizon asked BlackBerry to create a touchscreen “iPhone killer.” But the result was a flop, so Verizon turned to Motorola and Google instead.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
How the FBI found Miss Teen USA's webcam spy — RATer's moniker was “cutefuzzypuppy.” — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — The sextortionist who snapped nude pictures of Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf through her laptop's webcam has been found and arrested, the FBI revealed yesterday. 19-year …
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| John-Michael Bond / TUAW: |
EU bureaucrats want to force Apple to adopt micro-USB adapter — Since the concept was first introduced, consumers have complained about proprietary chargers. Regardless if they're needed or not for a given product, they can be annoying and inconvenient. But are they bad for the environment?
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
In an App Store full of free alternatives, it's over for paid-up-front apps — Underscore Price Dynamics — Every iOS developer needs to listen to _DavidSmith's most recent podcast episode, Real World Price Dynamics with Lauren Smith (it's just 22 minutes).
| BBC: |
UK to create new cyber defence force — The UK is to create a new cyber unit to help defend national security, the defence secretary has announced. — The Ministry of Defence is set to recruit hundreds of reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in the creation of the new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Steam Controller in use: game developers sound off on the beta version's highs and lows, how it feels — We've only known about the Steam Controller for 24 hours, but it turns out a variety of developers already got a chance to put the controller to use ahead of the lucky 300 beta participants later this year.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
iOS 7 apps are prettier, but are they better? — A few new apps prove beauty doesn't have to be skin deep — Apple design chief Jony Ive loves to preach about how design isn't just how something looks, but how it works. Yet, in the first wave of app updates for iOS 7 …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage — Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.Sponsor Posts
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