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Introducing our smart contact lens project — You've probably heard that diabetes is a huge and growing problem—affecting one in every 19 people on the planet. But you may not be familiar with the daily struggle that many people with diabetes face as they try to keep their blood sugar levels under control.
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Google's Latest Moon Shot Is a Smart Contact Lens for Diabetes Patients — Google has shrunk down a chip and sensor system so small it can be embedded in a contact lens. — Instead of a circuit board, the tiny pieces are connected to a circular gold foil antenna mounted on a flexible plastic …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's New Smart Contact Lens Is Old News For Microsoft — Google today announced its smart contact lens project, but it's not the first by a long shot (or even a moon shot). Other companies have long been working on smart lenses — including Microsoft Research, which unveiled a similar project …
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NSA collects almost 200 million text messages a day in global “untargeted” sweep — NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep — The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe …
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Yahoo's Bumps on a Road to Revival — SAN FRANCISCO — It looks as if the Google pixie dust isn't so easy to spread around. — Marissa Mayer's arrival at Yahoo as chief executive a year and a half ago was widely hailed as an opportunity to infuse the struggling Internet pioneer with the smarts …
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Apple to begin in-store iPhone 5c screen repairs next week — We've gotten word from multiple sources that Apple will begin repairing/replacing broken iPhone 5c displays in its retail stores next week. The current plan is to begin offering replacements on Monday, January 20th.
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| Marty Graham / Reuters: |
California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket at trial — (Reuters) - A California woman ticketed for driving while wearing Google Glass, a tiny computer mounted on an eyeglass frame, had her citation dismissed on Thursday by a San Diego court commissioner who said he found …
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Casually-dressed security guards seen monitoring Google commuter buses in San Francisco — Latest perk on Google buses: security guards — (Reuters) - First, San Francisco-based commuters to Google Inc got buses with plush seats and free WiFi. Now, they are getting security.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Twitter Gets Serious About Commerce, Nears Deal With Payments Startup Stripe — Twitter is close to letting its users purchase products directly through the social network and is nearing a deal with payments startup Stripe to help it accept credit card payments from its users, according to a person familiar with the deal.| Computerworld: |
IBM pumps $1.2 billion into global cloud data centers — Dispelling any lingering doubt that IBM sees cloud computing as the way of the future, the company announced that it will invest US$1.2 billion this year in expanding its global cloud infrastructure. — Dispelling any lingering doubt …
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T-Mobile expands ETF payment program to include US Cellular, other regional carriers — T-Mobile Broadening Its Program to Pay Switchers — T-Mobile plans to expand a recently introduced program that pays new customers up to $350 for breaking their contract with a rival carrier.
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| Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC: |
Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson says Google, not Apple is the greatest innovator in the world — Google steals innovation crown from Apple: Isaacson — iPhones begin selling at China Moblie on Friday — This is a big deal, says Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute, discussing Apple's deal …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
China reveals COS: a government-approved operating system designed to break the monopoly of foreign software — China's tried to create its very own mobile OS ecosystem in the past, but let's face it, the attempt with OPhone was hardly something that would make the nation proud.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo warns of loss after slashing Wii U sales forecast by 69 percent — Throughout the past year, Nintendo CEO and president Satoru Iwata has maintained his belief that the company will turn an operating profit of ¥100 billion yen in 2014, even in the face of disappointing Wii U sales.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Breach at Neiman Marcus Went Undetected From July to December — The computer network at Neiman Marcus was penetrated by hackers as far back as July, and the breach was not fully contained until Sunday, according to people briefed on the investigation. — The company disclosed the data theft … | Wall Street Journal: |
NTT DoCoMo shelves plans to launch Tizen phone, dealing a blow to Samsung, a key backer — Japan's NTT DoCoMo Shelves Plan to Launch Tizen Phone — Carrier Says Smartphone Market Not Growing Fast Enough for a Third Operating System … NTT DoCoMo Inc. has shelved indefinitely plans …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Farhad Manjoo heads to NYT after 4 months at WSJ to replace David Pogue — The New York Times Gets its David Pogue Replacement from the Wall Street Journal — The New York Times has found a replacement for David Pogue, its high-profile reviewer: Sources say the Times is filling his old slot …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
AngelList Grabs Philipp Moehring From Seedcamp To Launch Syndicates In Europe — Startup fund-raising and hiring tool AngelList has swooped into Europe and hired one of the eco-system's most respected players. Philipp Moehring, who as a long-time associate at the Seedcamp accelerator … Thanks:@mikebutcher
| Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
December 2013 NPD: While both supply constrained, Xbox One outsells PlayStation 4 — The Xbox One Day One edition controller. — The Xbox One and and PlayStation 4 both sold well, but Microsoft's latest console bested its Sony counterpart ... although both are behind Nintendo's 3DS.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's Android phone includes Windows Phone-like UI — Images of Nokia's Android phone, codenamed Normandy, were originally published in November, but a number of recent leaks have provided a closer look at the hardware and its software. Vizileaks has published what appears …
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China's pirates turn their backs on wearable tech — Shenzhen, China (CNN) — From futuristic Google Glass headsets to smart watches like Samsung's Galaxy Gear, wearable gadgets are billed as the next big thing in technology. — But China's tech counterfeiters — notorious for having … | Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
China Mobile starts selling Apple's iPhones today, but subsidies don't seem that attractive — After Apple struck a long-awaited deal with China Mobile in December last year, the iPhone is finally on sale both in China Mobile stores and Apple's own Chinese stores today.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Digg Is Experimenting With Original Content — Digg is currently testing a system which would see the viral news aggregator running its own original content on the Digg.com homepage, the company confirms to us today. This would be a new direction for the betaworks-backed service … Sponsor Posts
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