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Google acquires Boston Dynamics, maker of BigDog, Petman, and other research robots — Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots — SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie. — Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed …
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Officials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden extracted from classified government computers …
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Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal — (Reuters) - IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market value to plunge more than $12 billion.
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Twitter Test Shows ‘Nearby’ Tweets — Twitter has an eye on your location — and is testing ways to share it with other nearby users. — The short-messaging service appears to be testing a new timeline for its mobile app, called “Nearby.” It shows recent nearby tweets, whether you follow the tweeter or not.
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| Damon Lavrinc / Wired: |
Ford Unveils Its First Autonomous Vehicle Prototype — Ford has thrown its hat into autonomous car ring with the debut of its Automated Fusion Hybrid Research Vehicle, the latest in a series of steps the automaker is taking to realize its grand vision of transportation in 2025.
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Instagram senders can delete their messages from recipients' phones — The Instagram Direct interface, which allows you to share photos directly to a subset of those you follow, rather than to all your followers. — The surface read of Instagram's announcement of a messaging-like feature today was a bit underwhelming.| Jennifer Golbeck / Slate: |
Facebook collects metadata on “self-censorship”, updates you begin typing but don't publish — Facebook wants to know why you didn't publish that status update you started writing — Facebook wants to know why you didn't publish that status update you started writing.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS nabbed 76% of small & medium business device activations in 2013, study says — According to SMB email management company Intermedia, some 190,000 iPhones and iPads were activated on its network in the first ten months of 2013, grossly outpacing No. 2 Samsung's 29,000 activations.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
New Google Tips is surprisingly helpful — Google has launched Google Tips, a site which uses clickable cards to explain the features and capabilities of Google's biggest products. The cards explain concepts such as sharing photos with specific people in Google+ circles …
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| Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat: |
Evernote for the enterprise: Huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned iOS app — Huddle Note is now generally available. — Over the last few years, cloud-based services like Google Drive and Evernote have changed the way people create and collaborate on documents.
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| Marc Graser / Variety: |
Microsoft to Launch First Original Shows on Xbox in Early 2014 — At Dealmakers breakfast, Tellem says Xbox isn't Netflix or Amazon but its ‘own animal’ — Developing original series for Microsoft has taken a little longer than veteran TV executive Nancy Tellem had hoped …
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Tech Billionaires Spend Millions on ‘Science Oscars’ — You may have heard that billionaires Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Jack Ma have sponsored something called the Breakthrough Prizes. These are $3 million awards handed out each year to people—generally world-class scientists …
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