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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
NSA Internet Spying Sparks Race to Create Offshore Havens for Data Privacy — Firms Tout ‘Email Made in Germany’ as More Secure; Brazil Wants Its Own Servers — Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and other American technology companies were put on the defensive when Edward Snowden's allegations …
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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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| 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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| 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).
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Craig Grannell / Guardian: |
iOS 7's visual effects are reportedly making some users dizzy or nauseated — Why iOS 7 is making some users sick — The introduction of fake zooms, parallax, sliding and other changes in Apple's new iPhone and iPad software has a very real effect on people with vestibular disorders
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Exclusive video: Steve Ballmer's intense, tearful goodbye to Microsoft — Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been a speaker and performer like no other — his absolute enthusiasm for his company is electric in person, turning ordinary corporate events into raw displays of emotion …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
JustFab's Checkout Tactics Are JustShady — This Hacker News complaint about JustFab scamming a user's girlfriend — which gets resubmitted whenever JustFab raises money — is a little off, because JustFab is not a scam in the traditional sense. — The company is, however, abusing a tricky UI …
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