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Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks” — Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
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Jelly, Biz Stone's New Q&A Platform, Uses Images To Find Answers — Jelly, a new question-and-answer platform from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, is coming out of stealth today. The app, available on both iOS and Android worldwide, will go head-to-head with the likes of Quora and ChaCha … | Apple: |
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 — Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.
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How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same. — Washington Post reporters called …
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Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …
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Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year — Sony wants to launch its own online TV service with a cloud DVR and live TV feeds. The service will scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. later this year. — Not discouraged by Intel's failure to launch …
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Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time — Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab CEO Jason Goldberg's 3,500-Word Mea Culpa: “We Had Started to Dream in Billions” — A new year, a new Jason Goldberg? After watching himself and his e-commerce company Fab take a very public beating in the second half of 2013, Goldberg kicked off the new year today with a 3,500-word blog post …
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Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore” — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.
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Oracle buys Corente, pushes into networking more — Summary: Corente will add wide area networking virtualization technology to Oracle's red stack. — Oracle has acquired Corente, which provides software defined networking applications for networks. The move gives Oracle another piece of its networking puzzle.
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Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynoteÚ that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen.
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Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor — Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.
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China suspends ban on sale of foreign video game consoles — (Reuters) - (Adds context, size of China's video game market, company comments) — China's State Council said it has temporarily lifted a ban on selling foreign video game consoles, paving the way for firms like Sony Corp … | Peter Rubin / Wired: |
The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype — Every time virtual-reality company Oculus brings a prototype of its Rift headset to a show, it takes another big step forward. And the prototype at this year's CES may be the biggest leap yet. — Last January, Oculus arrived at its first CES with a degree of uncertainty.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Cyanogen will partner with OnePlus on its debut phone, the ‘OnePlus One’ — Ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau has just announced that his new company OnePlus will partner with Cyanogen on its first smartphone, which will be called the “OnePlus One.” He and Cyanogen's Steve Kondik announced … | Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
John McAfee is “elated” that Intel will finally rebrand McAfee Security — Last night at Intel's CES 2014 opening keynote, CEO Brian Krzanich casually mentioned that the company is rebranding its McAfee Security team, henceforth to be known as Intel Security.
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Intel's Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card, runs Linux, has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth modules — Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants …
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Vimeo speeds its online videos, goes HTML5 by default — Vimeo has sped up its video-streaming technology and made the shift from Flash-powered video to HTML5 by default, the company said Tuesday. — The new player software improves performance, social links, and post-production capabilities … | Emerging Technology From the arXiv: |
Google identifies house numbers in Street View using a neural network for image recognition — How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View — Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that's just as good as human operators.| Danny Yadron / Digits: |
Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye — Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week. — The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye …
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