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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Before He Died, Steve Jobs Told Top Executives Apple Would Not Be Making A TV — Ever since Apple released the iPad, people have been speculating about what Apple would do next. — After revolutionizing the mobile phone with the iPhone, and the PC with the iPad, many expect Apple to revolutionize the TV.
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AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors and Pocket-lint
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| Kevin Rose / TechCrunch: |
Foundation: Secret's David Byttow Talks Privacy, Security, and Company Origins — Today is an exciting day for Secret, one of the most talked about new startups in Silicon Valley which just raised another round of funding. — I sat down with Secret's co-founder David Byttow this week …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps — VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning “anonymish” app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb and violence threats have pushed the volume of the debate to eleven.
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Tweets: @parislemon, @msquinn, @nrrrdcore, @davidbyttow, @msuster, @ginab, @mikeisaac, @lauraglu, @tolles, @mm, @samfbiddle, @pmarca and @pmarca
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit — The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture …
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Re/code, ReadWrite, The Verge and Business Insider
Tweets: @mims, @pchap10k, @paulg, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @cbracy, @zedshaw, @aredridel and @nrrrdcore
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Alibaba Confirms It Will Begin I.P.O. Process in U.S. — The Alibaba Group, China's online commerce giant, confirmed early on Sunday that it planned to begin the process of becoming a public company in the United States. — In a post on its corporate blog, the company said it planned …
| Enda Curran / Wall Street Journal: |
How Hong Kong Lost the Alibaba IPO — Exchange, Chinese E-Commerce Giant Fell Out Over a Rule — HONG KONG—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s planned listing in New York is a blow to Hong Kong's stock exchange, which failed in an effort to change its rules so as to accommodate … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Popcorn Time service for pirated movies refuses to stay shut down — Last week, a movie-watching service called Popcorn Time hit the internet — it promised a Netflix-like experience for any movie you might want to watch, but used the expansive network of pirated BitTorrent movies to deliver content to users.
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TorrentFreak, TechCrunch, GitHub, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Engadget and Daily Dot. Tweets: @zseward
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Ukrainian hackers claim they took down NATO websites ahead of secession vote — Ukrainian hackers are claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that brought down a pair of NATO websites today, in an act of protest against Western powers on the eve of a major vote that could see a portion of Ukraine handed over to Russia.
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ZDNet, Reuters, Motherboard, CNN, Reuters, RT, SecurityWeek, NPR and SlashGear
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Warner Brothers to “Veronica Mars” Backers: Okay, Okay — Use iTunes or Amazon if You Want — “Veronica Mars” was supposed to be a triumphant mix of Hollywood and crowd-sourcing: Fans of Kristen Bell's old TV show, aided by Kickstarter, helped fund a movie version, in conjunction with Warner Bros.| Moisés Chiullan / TechHive: |
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ZDNet, Kickstarter, Gigaom, The Kickstarter Blog, The Wrap, Engadget, IGN, Hollywood Reporter, Boston Herald, iMore, The Wrap, Deadline.com and The Next Web. Thanks:@jsnell. See also Mediagazer
| Nicholas Weaver / Wired: |
How the NSA's QUANTUM internet attack system works — A Close Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool — We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling it to “shoot” exploits at anyone it desires. A single web fetch, imitated by an identified target …
Tweets: @ncweaver, @normative, @normative and @scribandotcom
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| Jesse Lichtenstein / Atlanta Magazine: |
A profile of Glass tech lead Thad Starner, who built his first head-mounted computer in 1993 — Magnifying glass — Thad Starner has been wearing some kind of computer on his head for twenty years. Now the Georgia Tech professor and Google Glass pioneer wants the world to join him.| New York Times: |
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen: “it's possible to end repressive Internet censorship within a decade” — The Future of Internet Freedom — OVER the next decade, approximately five billion people will become connected to the Internet. The biggest increases will be in societies that … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi launches MIUI for tablets, new Nexus 7 gets first dibs (Update: WiFi version only) — While Xiaomi has yet to launch its very own tablet (the Eden Tab doesn't count), you can now get a first taste of its tablet-friendly MIUI Android ROM, which is available as an open beta for the 2013 edition Nexus 7.
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MIUI, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Phones Review, Phandroid, I4U News, IntoMobile, Gizchina.com and Liliputing
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