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Interactive notifications in iOS 8 are a new interface frontier — Why Notifications Are About to Rule the Smartphone Interface — When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 8 Extensions: Apple's Plan for a Powerful App Ecosystem — Amidst the variety of announcements from WWDC 2014, Extensibility — a new set of technologies for developers to extend their apps — has been mainly regarded as Apple's solution to the lack of inter-app communication on iOS.| Matthew Yglesias / Vox: |
Uber could be worth $18B if it greatly expands the size of the paid rides market — Why Uber just might be worth it at $18 billion — Uber, the pioneering taxi-hailing app and ride dispatch service, scored an impressive $18.2 billion valuation last week as it raised $1.2 billion in new venture capital.
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Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA — In January, the math community had its big event of the year — the Joint Mathematics Meeting — where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and jostle for jobs.
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How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying — Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …
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Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US — Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung.| Lee Fang / VICE: |
Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality — Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue …
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Flaw in millions of TVs lets researchers hijack digital broadcasts, inject malicious code — Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs — It's 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in New York City. People in their apartments in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan …
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After seizure of CryptoLocker botnet, new ransomware Cryptowall spreads through ad networks — We “will be paying no ransom,” vows town hit by Cryptowall ransom malware — The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom … | Ruth Spencer / Guardian: |
Creator of @everyword explains the life and death of a Twitter experiment — In 2007, Adam Parrish created an enormously popular account to tweet the English language a word at a time. He explains why he did it and what he learned — Creator Adam Parrish: 'It's kind of a magical writing experiment.'| Forbes: |
Arista Networks cofounder and storied investor David Cheriton sues his former company over IP — Arista Networks Faces Lawsuit From A Billionaire Cofounder Who Is ‘Suing Himself’ — Arista Networks' initial public offering was supposed to be a triumph for a pair of old school technologists.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon — Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent … Sponsor Posts
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