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| Spiegel Online: |
The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin — According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.
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Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders: Officials — NSA Stopped Surveillance of Merkel, Others After White House Review — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency ended a program used to spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a number of other world leaders …
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| Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire: |
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| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Another daylight saving time bug strikes Apple's iOS 7, affects calendar display — Owners of iOS devices running the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system awoke to a display error in iOS 7's calendar app caused by the switch to daylight saving time.| Allen Martin / CBS San Francisco: |
Barge in SF Bay may be a marketing center for Glass if Google gets a waterfront permit — Massive Barge On San Francisco Bay Likely Secret Google Facility — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The U.S. Navy had its share of secrets on Treasure Island, but few were better kept than what's taking place …
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CNET, Betabeat, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Portland Press-Herald, bizjournals, Glass Almanac, Softpedia News, Electronista, Ubergizmo and The Verge. Thanks:@_trendspotter
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone coming to South Korea with 13MP camera, Snapdragon 800 — LG officially announces curved-screen G Flex smartphone — After a series of leaks, LG has announced officialdetails of its curved-screen smartphone, the G Flex.| Bruce Schneier / The Atlantic Online: |
The Battle for Power on the Internet — Distributed citizen groups and nimble hackers once had the edge. Now governments and corporations are catching up. Who will dominate in the decades ahead? — We're in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's Q4 2013 — The forecasts of 48 Apple analysts — 27 Wall Street professionals and 21 independents — FORTUNE - The results of Fortune's quarterly survey of Apple (AAPL) analysts are in, and the results are mixed — in more ways than one.
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Digits, 9to5Mac, Reuters, AllThingsD, InfoWorld, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Fortune and USA Today
| Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Pursues Developers, Seeking Orbit of Apps — This week, Samsung Electronics Co. plans to hold its first global developers conference at a hotel in San Francisco, a big step in the South Korean smartphone maker's effort to cultivate a host of software and services for its devices that can compete with those offered by Apple Inc.| Robert Hof / Forbes: |
AI Startup Vicarious Claims Milestone In Quest To Build A Brain: Cracking CAPTCHA — Can machines think? Not yet. But there is one at least partial test: the CAPTCHA, or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” those distorted characters you have to type …
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Mashable, Rachel Metz, The Next Web and news.sciencemag.org
| Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
Historical Software Archive lets you use vintage software in your browser — The Internet Archive's new Historical Software Archive brings old software to your browser through the magic of JSMESS emulation. — The Internet Archive has protected and preserved old software for a while now … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Livescribe 3 smartpen digitizes notes straight to your iPad, starts at $150 — Livescribe broke new ground last year with the Sky WiFi pen that could transfer handwritten and audio notes straight to the cloud (well, to your Evernote account anyway), so that they'd be accessible anywhere there's an internet connection.
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MacRumors, Inquirer, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Macworld, Gearburn, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista
| James Somers / The Atlantic Online: |
Disappointed with application-driven AI, Douglas Hofstadter seeks to recreate mind in software — The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think — Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, thinks we've lost sight of what artificial intelligence really means.Sponsor Posts
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