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| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy — [DISCLOSURE: As always when I write about Amazon, I'll note I worked there from 1997-2004 and that I still own some shares in the company. I still have many friends who work there, though I have no more idea what Amazon is working on now than any of you in the public.]
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| 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.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week's Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini — The Show Itself — There is a certain sameness to almost every Apple event. A pattern, a formula, a structure, a rhythm and pacing. Does this make them boring?
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USC Study: Google Search Serves Users From 600% More Locations than A Year Ago — In a shift in strategy, Google reuses existing content delivery infrastructure to speed up searches — Contact: Robert Perkins at (213) 740-9226 or perkinsr@usc.edu — Over the past 10 months …
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| 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 … | Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Anonymity Network Tor Needs a Tune-up to Protect Users from Surveillance — Fixes are planned for Internet anonymity tool Tor after researchers showed that national intelligence agencies could plausibly unmask users. — When reports published earlier this month revealed …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Google: |
Upcoming Nexus 5 leaks in white, Nov. 1 launch date reported — After leaking a clear image of the black model yesterday, prolific leaker @evleaks has posted a render of the upcoming Nexus 5 in a white color option. As can be seen in the image above, the white model is actually a two-tone device … | John Lilly / Medium: |
Free software strengthens Apple's business - systems, while disturbing Microsoft's - software — Cups of Water … My partner Reid has a fun metaphor he uses when he's describing how companies think about their core strategies (which don't change very much).| Joel Gascoigne / Buffer Open: |
Buffer restores all sharing services after hacking incident — Buffer has been hacked - here is what's going on — Update: All posting should be working normally again, read more below! — I wanted to post a quick update and apologize for the awful experience we've caused many of you on your weekend.| Cory Scott / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn explains security features behind Intro, its controversial email routing product — The Facts about LinkedIn Intro — This blog post is intended to provide more information and address inaccurate assertions that have been made as a result of a product we launched on Wednesday called LinkedIn Intro.
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iMore, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and The State of Security
Tweets: @troyhunt, @digiphile and @jacobian
| Jim Newell / Guardian: |
Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ rally — Statement from whistleblower Edward Snowden read to crowd featuring groups from left and right of political spectrum — Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant …
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| 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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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help? — Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat. — Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
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