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Verizon sends Netflix cease and desist over streaming quality warnings — Verizon has sent a cease and desist order to Netflix demanding that it stop presenting its subscribers with messages blaming Verizon's network for poor streaming performance, according to CNBC.| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Safari in iOS 8 uses camera to scan and enter credit card info — In iOS 8, Apple has a new feature in Safari that allows users to scan a credit card with the device's camera rather than manually entering the number when making a purchase online. — When entering a credit card number …
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| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
New report from Vodafone reveals secret wires across 29 countries for govt surveillance — Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance — Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a ‘nightmare scenario’
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Inside the new Healthcare.gov set to debut at the beginning of the next enrollment period, November 15 — Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time — The drama of the HealthCare.gov Ad Hoc team is now a modern tech fable: a small cadre of young geeks from Silicon Valley … | Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
How China's Xiaomi became the world's fastest-growing phone maker — Xiaomi's Phones Have Conquered China. Now It's Aiming for the Rest of the World — On May 15, behind the curving, imperial facade of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, a veteran technology executive named …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to use modified version of OKAO Vision face sensing technology for its new 3D smartphone — This Is The Face Tracking Tech Powering Amazon's New 3D Smartphone — Rumor has it - and we've confirmed - that Amazon will launch its first smartphone on June 18.| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
A look at Google's Tegra K1-powered 3D-mapping Project Tango tablet dev kit, available for $1024 later this month — Google's secretive 3D-mapping project now has a tablet: here it is — Comprehending the world around us is something we humans take for granted, but it's not so easy for our technology.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Still reeling from Heartbleed, OpenSSL suffers from crypto bypass flaw — A researcher has uncovered another severe vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. It allows attackers to decrypt and modify Web, e-mail, and virtual private network traffic protected by the transport layer security …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk — Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android applications.
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How Sabu as FBI informant directed hackers to attack Brazilian government and corporate sites — Exclusive: How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil — In early 2012, members of the hacking collective Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on government and corporate websites in Brazil.| Chris Crum / WebProNews: |
Facebook Says Your Organic Reach Would Be Worse If It Showed Everything In The News Feed — Facebook's Brian Boland wrote a lengthy blog post about the much talked about decline in organic reach of Facebook Page posts. It's happening for two main reasons, he said: more and more content …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
LinkedIn upgrades its search engine and ditches an array of open source extensions — LinkedIn has overhauled its search engine infrastructure in favor of a new system dubbed Galene, a homegrown engine designed to improve search results and problems with maintenance, the company plans to announce Thursday.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Grab the remote: Chromebooks can now watch Play Movies, TV shows offline — After what seemed an eternity, Google Chromebook owners can finally watch Google Play video content offline on their devices. Earlier last month Google announced this requested feature was coming and on Thursday night …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M — Twitter has made another acquisition to build the social network's ad tech business — specifically in the area of native ads. It has acquired Namo Media, a specialist in “native ad” content that integrates with the site … | William Brawley / Imaging Resource: |
Canon takes on Dropbox, opens Irista cloud-based photo storage service including 10GB free — The market for photo cloud storage just added another big competitor — Canon. With what launched as the oddly-named “Project1709,” as a beta service a couple of years ago for its European market …
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eWeek, CNET News, Digital Photography Review, Engadget, PetaPixel, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo
| Cassandra Khaw / The Verge: |
Google Public Alerts now include Tweets to help answer important questions — Google Public Alerts now include Tweets to help answer important questions — Tech giants Google and Twitter have had difficulties seeing eye-to-eye since the end of their partnership in 2011 …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
EU Court Of Justice: Just Viewing Stuff Online Isn't Infringing On Copyright — It's kind of ridiculous that it's taken this long, but the EU Court of Justice has now made it clear that viewing stuff that is legally on the internet is not copyright infringement.
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple acquitted in Mexican ‘iFone’ lawsuit, but local telecoms to be fined — The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) on Thursday announced it has absolved Apple of wrongdoing in a trademark lawsuit surrounding the iPhone's infringement of a local telecommunications company marketing …
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Sociedad, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, MacNN, MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Lori Aratani / Washington Post: |
Virginia DMV sends Uber, Lyft cease & desist letters; companies continue operation regardless — Virginia officials order Uber, Lyft to stop operating in the state — This post has been updated. — The war between app-based ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft and the state of Virginia is escalating.Sponsor Posts
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