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Apple Confirms Acquisition of 3-D Sensor Startup PrimeSense — Apple has completed its acquisition of PrimeSense, the Israel-based company focused on 3-D sensor technology, for a price sources said was around $360 million. — Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet confirmed the PrimeSense deal … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite To Feature 300ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year — Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen …
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Study of Bitcoin transactions suggests link between Silk Road operator and Satoshi Nakamoto — Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto — Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht …
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Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash — WASHINGTON — On a sultry day in late August, a dozen staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered at the agency's Baltimore headquarters with managers from the major contractors building HealthCare … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
FindTheBest destroys “matchmaking” patent, pushes RICO case against troll — FindThe Best employees Aly Dupuy and Meghan Harris dressed up as patent trolls for Halloween. — Six months ago, a shell company called Lumen View Technology told Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest that it should pay $50,000 …
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Marc Benioff Is the Ron Burgundy of Tech — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is an egomaniacal buffoon who laughs at the plight of underpaid Walmart workers and flies the prime minister of Haiti up to San Francisco so he can thank Benioff in person, in front of 15,000 people, for being such an amazing human being.
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A spurned techie's revenge: Locking down his ex's digital life — Ads for software packages marketed specifically for stalking a partner. — NNEDV — The e-mail's subject line was “Interested in hiring you.” The sender, a woman, said she had seen me on a local Baltimore news show talking … | Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Waze debuts new feature where celebrities give you driving directions — Now you can have a celebrity give you driving directions. — Waze is partnering with Universal Pictures to roll out a celebrity voice navigation feature. The first celebrity to guide you from point A to point B is comedian and actor Kevin Hart.
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Like minds meet online and then travel to meet offline. Will this reorganize the world? — Software Is Reorganizing the World — For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug's $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing — You may know Pogoplug as the maker of little “personal cloud” devices for streaming media from your home to your smartphone, or, if you're more up to speed with what the company's been doing, you may be aware of its Dropbox-battling cloud storage services.
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Reports Of Xbox One Disc Drive Issues Increase — As we continue to hear from more and more brand new Xbox One owners who say their disc drives don't work, Microsoft's solution remains the same: contact customer service. — That's unfortunate news for affected gamers who thought … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday — As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on its home page.
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