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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip, plans to offer more sophisticated data sets — Twitter welcomes Gnip to the flock — Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests and what's happening in the world. These public Tweets can reveal a wide variety of insights …
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
With Gnip Buy, Twitter Starts Taking Its Data Business Seriously — Twitter announced it has acquired Gnip, a Colorado-based startup that has worked closely with the microblogging service — and its wealth of user-generated data — for years. — If you're an average Twitter user … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, four head-tracking infrared cameras — This is Amazon's smartphone — BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months — After years of development …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Smartphone To Feature Unique But Limited 3D Effects — TechCrunch has learned that Amazon's upcoming flagship smartphone, running a forked version of Android, will have head-tracking capabilities offering up limited 3D effects. This key feature will be reserved to just a few built-in gestures …
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| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when — Ever since the “Heartbleed” flaw in encryption protocol OpenSSL was made public on April 7 in the US there have been various questions about who knew what and when. Fairfax Media has spoken to various people and groups involved and has compiled the below timeline.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vicious Heartbleed bug bites millions of Android phones, other devices — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library via Wikipedia — The catastrophic Heartbleed security bug that has already bitten Yahoo Mail, the Canada Revenue Agency … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) — A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …
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| Thijs van As / Gmail Blog: |
Gmail makes it easier to email photos automatically backed up from your smartphone — The photos from your phone, now one click away — Unless you're a budding Ansel Adams, odds are you take most of your photos using your phone. And whether it's photos of your hiking trip or a night out … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Teardown Shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 Costs About $256 to Build — The Galaxy S5, Samsung's new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build according to a teardown analysis by market research firm IHS that will be published later today. — Released over the weekend, and winning praise …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft launches Office 365 Personal subscription: One PC/Mac and one tablet for $69.99/year or $6.99/month — Microsoft today launched its Office 365 Personal subscription, a cheaper alternative that is limited to just two devices: one PC or Mac and one tablet.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
AngelList's Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors — A new experiment in startup funding could have widespread ramifications for the way venture capitalists place bets on young companies. — On Tuesday, crowdsourced fundraising site AngelList unveiled a new fund …
Tweets: @kevinroose
| Tom Lavell / Bloomberg: |
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B — Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion — Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile computing …
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Twitter Taps Google Maps Director Daniel Graf for Product VP Role — Twitter announced Tuesday it had named Daniel Graf as its new vice president of consumer product. — Graf most recently comes from Google, where had he led efforts on the company's Google Maps project since 2012.
Tweets: @danielgraf and @caseynewton
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans major expansion in New York, is seeking space for more than 3,000 workers — Space Quest: Google Needs More Offices in New York City — Internet Giant Launches Search for Room to Hold More Than 3,000 Workers — Google is doing a search: It wants to expand further …
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google's updated terms of service clarifies how emails are analyzed for targeting ads — Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service — (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails … | Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Samsung exec at trial: marketing drove our sales; designer denies influence of slide-to-unlock — Samsung Designer Denies Apple Influence: “Absolutely Not” — Did Samsung steal its slide-to-unlock feature from Apple's smartphone software? — “Absolutely not,” said Samsung senior UI designer Youngmi Kim …
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| Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt: |
Google Invents Micro Camera System for Future Contact Lenses — Last month Google surprised the market with a new wearable Glass off-shoot project relating to future smart contact lenses. Our report that was titled “Google Takes their Glass Vision to Smart Contact Lenses,” … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Control In The Cloud: ItsOn Raises $12.5M From Tenaya And Andreessen Horowitz — ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it has raised …
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| Michael Brown / PC World: |
Quantenna promises to deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015 — Today's fastest 802.11ac routers deliver throughput speeds on par with hardwired gigabit-ethernet connections. That might seem slow by next year, when Quantenna Communications launches its new Wi-Fi chipset.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox One update rolling out with Kinect improvements and friend notifications — Microsoft seems to be improving its Xbox One software on a monthly basis, and April is no different. Starting today, the software maker is rolling out its latest update to Xbox One consoles, bringing some new features and improvements along the way.| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
BlackBerry buys minority stake in healthcare IT company NantHealth, moves into niche markets — BlackBerry buys minority stake in healthcare IT firm — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Tuesday it bought a minority stake in privately held healthcare IT firm NantHealth …
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| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now — If you've long lusted over a pair of the world's geekiest glasses, today all your Christmases come at once. For one day only, Google is allowing any United States resident to buy Glass. — The folks at Mountain View still expect … | Klint Finley / Wired: |
Tails: the privacy-focused Linux version Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras used to communicate — Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA — When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone — A handful of Google engineers and designers are building a phone the DARPA way — In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed together into a makeshift model of a shipping container.
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