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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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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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| Jon Gertner / Fast Company: |
Inside Google X: lab reveals it experimented with space elevators and hoverboards — The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors — Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference.| 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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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Carriers Back Anti-Theft Measures for Smartphones — With several states and municipalities considering various mandatory “kill-switch” laws for mobile devices, the wireless industry announced a voluntary commitment to include new anti-theft technology on phones starting next year.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's Q1 Earnings as Meh as Expected, But China's Alibaba Doing Great! — Yahoo pretty much came in on target in the first quarter with what Wall Street had been expecting, earning 38 cents a share on $1.087 billion in revenue. Minus traffic acquisition costs, that meant a pretty weak one percent increase in revenue.
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Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL — This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press.
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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 … | Hunter Walker / Business Insider: |
NY state senator: NY Post report on prostitutes using Airbnb points to gambling, drug activity next — New York Lawmaker Warns That AirBNB Could Be Used For Gambling And Drugs Next — New York State Senator Liz Krueger issued a statement saying a New York Post report published Monday …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Automattic seeking to raise more than $100 million — The round will value the company behind WordPress.com at north of $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Automattic, the company that runs blogging platforms WordPress.com and WordPress VIP, is out raising between $100 million and $150 million …
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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,” … | 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.
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Intel Meets In Q1 With Revenue Of $12.8B, EPS Of $0.38 On Back Of Recovering PC Market — Following the closing bell today, Intel reported its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
LaCie's online store was compromised for nearly a year, exposing credit cards and contact info — Hardware Giant LaCie Acknowledges Year-Long Credit Card Breach — Computer hard drive maker LaCie has acknowledged that a hacker break-in at its online store exposed credit card numbers …
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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.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Website-Building Platform Squarespace Raises Another $40M — Squarespace, which offers tools for individuals and small businesses to build websites and online stores, just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. — The funding comes from growth equity firm General Atlantic.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Toshiba's first 4K laptop arrives next week for $1,500 — After launching its first 4K laptop in the UK, Toshiba has just announced US availability. It'll be the P55T rather than the P50T, but as before, it's a 15.6-inch laptop with a 3,840 x 2,160 pixels resolution — a staggering 282 PPI, if you're scoring at home.Sponsor Posts
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