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Apple continues hiring raid on medical sensor field as it develops eye scanning technology — Apple is moving to expand its personnel working on wearable computers and medical-sensor-laden devices by hiring more scientists and specialists in the medical sensor field.
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Former Yahoo COO De Castro was paid more than CEO, made at least $88M for 15 months of work — Yahoo's No. 2 Executive Made More Than His Boss (and Virtually Everyone Else) — It's hard to shed too many tears for Henrique de Castro, who was fired this week as Yahoo's No. 2 executive.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Why Obama's NSA Reforms Won't Solve Silicon Valley's Trust Problem — When Barack Obama announced his reforms of National Security Agency surveillance programs today, few people were as interested as Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, and Steve Ballmer. — And the president knew it.| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
Obama's restrictions on NSA surveillance rely on narrow definition of ‘spying’ — President Obama said Friday, in his first major speech on electronic surveillance, that “the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don't threaten our national security.”
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Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic — E-Commerce Not Only Siphons Off Sales, but Changes Shopping Habits — Best Buy Co. on Thursday became the latest retailer to chime in with weak holiday results. Like other chains, the electronics retailer blamed the race to offer … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates — One of the coolest things about Chrome is the silent, automatic updates that always ensure that users are always running the latest version. While Chrome itself is updated automatically by Google … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft re-releases latest Surface Pro 2 update following initial issues — Microsoft is re-releasing its latest Surface Pro 2 firmware update today. Following issues with the update last month, the software maker pulled it to investigate and correct the problems.
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43% of websites on Techmeme's leaderboard are powered by WordPress, 42% use a custom CMS — WordPress & Techmeme 100 — Whenever I visit a site I can usually tell whether it's WordPress or not within an instant — there's just something about a WordPress site that is distinctive.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Lightroom for iPad briefly appears on Adobe's website, coming soon with $99/year cloud subscription — Adobe will soon make the iPad an even more viable solution for mobile content creation: the company will soon unleash a version of its popular Lightroom photo editing suite that is optimized for tablets.
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Security firm IntelCrawler says it has identified Target malware author — Security firm IntelCrawler said Friday that it has identified a Russian teenager as the author of the malware probably used in the cyberattacks against Target and Neiman Marcus, and that it expects more retailers to acknowledge that their systems were breached.
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Dropbox Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation — BlackRock Is Leading the Deal Alongside Previous Backers — Dropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.
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Cisco's Security Report finds that 91% of attacks in 2013 were Java exploits — Java Primary Cause of 91 Percent of Attacks: Cisco — There are many different risks and attacks that IT professionals had to deal with in 2013, but no one technology was more abused or more culpable that Java … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Storehouse, an iPad app by a former Apple designer, lets users create stories from media — Storehouse: An Apple Vet Tries To Move The Needle On Long-Form Visual Communication — The way we communicate is increasingly visual. The devices that we carry with us are uniquely suited … Sponsor Posts
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