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No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. — The N.S.A.'s Evolution: The National Security Agency was founded in 1952, and its surveillance capabilities were limited by legislation in 1978. But with the attacks of September 2001 came a new sense of urgency.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Netflix starts testing 4K videos, wants to launch Ultra HD next year — Netflix quietly added a handful of 4K HD videos to its catalog this week to prepare itself for a wider launch of ultra high-definition video content in the coming months. So far, the titles added to the catalog …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot — A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display off and a single notebook tethered wirelessly to the iPad downloading at a constant 50KB/s …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life — Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states. I spoke with Microsoft after the update went live … | Aileen Lee / TechCrunch: |
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups — Editor's note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 …
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| David Grossman / The Verge: |
YouTube Live: a disastrous spectacle Google would like you to forget — On the eve of its next attempt, has the company learned from its mistakes? — This Sunday, November 3rd, the world will experience the first annual YouTube Music Awards, hosted by Jason Schwartzman and streamed live from New York City.| Dave Itzkoff / New York Times: |
YouTube Music Awards Are Readied for Webcast — “Does there really need to be another awards show?” Spike Jonze recently wondered aloud. “If there's going to be one, why?” — This was a reasonable sentiment that Mr. Jonze, the veteran director of music videos and feature films …
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| Cameron Graham / Technology Advice: |
Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally — Amazon will begin charging sales tax on goods purchased by customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin today, after fighting such regulation for years. That brings the total number of states which require sales tax …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Machinima, the YouTube Giant Looking for New Money, Is Also Looking for a New CEO — Machinima, the giant YouTube network that caters to gamers, is looking for a new chief executive — at the same time it is trying to close a big funding round. — Allen DeBevoise, the company's co-founder …
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Los Angeles Times, Variety, The Wrap, VideoInk, Gigaom Research and Tubefilter. Tweets: @pkafka
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google just pulled a “Facebook Home”: KitKat's primary interface is Google Search — One of the headline features of Android 4.4 is a revamped home screen and app launcher. The icons are bigger, there is more transparency, and the app drawer makes better use of the screen real estate.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
RIP iGoogle: Google's personalized Web portal service has now closed down — RIP another Google service: iGoogle, the company's personalized Web portal product, finally bit the dust today, some eight months after its shutdown was announced. — iGoogle has slipped into the darkness quietly …
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The Switch, SlashGear, iGoogle Developer Blog, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Google Operating System. Tweets: @qthrul
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
VEVO Relaunches Its Web And Mobile Sites To Streamline Music Video Search And Discovery — Music video powerhouse VEVO is launching a major redesign this week, after rebuilding its back end from the ground up. The online music video site has undergone a complete overhaul, which you can see here …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to spend $405 million on Windows marketing, aims for 16 million tablet sales — Microsoft started a huge advertising campaign for Windows 8 and Surface during its launch last year, but the company is reportedly planning to spend even more this year for Windows 8.1.Sponsor Posts
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