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MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown — We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model. Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.
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Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation — Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
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Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Google could be building a massive floating data center near San Francisco's Treasure Island — Is Google building a huge floating data center in SF Bay? — This large structure, which is likely being built by Google, could be a floating data center. It is located on a barge … | Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Galaxy Gear support coming to Samsung phones amid concern over 30% return rate — Samsung is planning a staged rollout of support for their Galaxy Gear watch to four of the most popular devices in the Galaxy family, as they promised earlier this month. — If you've been waiting …
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers …
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Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation — On Tuesday evening Apple posted updates to its iWork apps for Mac - Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Featured during Apple's iPad and Mac event in San Francisco, the new versions of iWork apps sport new features …
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Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton's Twitter Book A Movie — Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton's book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal”, TechCrunch has learned.
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FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million In Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht, Alleged Owner Of Silk Road — The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web's biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs. As of Friday, at least one $28.5 million chunk of that fortune now belongs to the FBI.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Medium quietly opens to all, requires Twitter to join and Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on the desktop to write — In its weekly digest email, publishing platform Medium today quietly announced that registration is open to all. You'll still need a Twitter account and an email address … | Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily: |
Uh oh, Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat — Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps. In North Carolina when 73,000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's edtech company … | Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post: |
Obamacare Website Will ‘Work Smoothly’ By Late November, Official Says — HealthCare.gov, the online portal to Obamacare enrollment, will reliably allow consumers to shop and sign up for health coverage by late November, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama said Friday.
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NSA director says journalists should be stopped from “selling”, “giving out” Snowden documents — Keith Alexander Says The US Gov't Needs To Figure Out A Way To Stop Journalists From Reporting On Snowden Leaks — Apparently not satisfied with just setting fire … | J. Glenn Künzler / MacTrast: |
Apple may be allowing Mac App Store updates of some pirated apps to reduce legacy support costs — The Truth About ‘Free’ Mac App Store Software Upgrades in OS X Mavericks — There have been a number of reports lately revealing that OS X Mavericks seems to be allowing users to …
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Thanks:@jgkunzler| Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google makes CAPTCHAs consider users' engagement in assessing whether they're human — reCAPTCHA just got easier (but only if you're human) — For over a decade, CAPTCHAs have used visual puzzles to help webmasters keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on their sites.
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| Jenny Hollander / Bustle: |
What Are Instagram's Rules For Photos? Gun, Drug Sales Good; Bikini Line Bad — The White House has picked a bad week to partner up with Instagram. The photo-sharing application, populated by more than 80 million users, is under fire for nixing a user's account after she posted a photograph …
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| Reed Albergotti / Digits: |
LinkedIn On Defensive About Security of ‘Intro’ — LinkedIn on Thursday faced criticism from security experts and confusion from members over Intro, a new software product that embeds public LinkedIn profiles into emails received by iPhone users. — In response, the online professional network published …
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Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue … Sponsor Posts
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