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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 … | Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
RebelMouse relaunches as a full-fledged publishing platform that's tuned for viral content — Two years ago, former Huffington Post chief technology officer Paul Berry launched a site called RebelMouse to give media companies and users of all kinds a way of aggregating the various pieces …
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RebelMouse, Capital New York, Fast Company and The Next Web
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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.'
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The Verge, Neowin, decontextualizedecontextualize, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo and Kotaku
Tweets: @kathrynschulz and @bgzimmer
| 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.
Tweets: @ernmando, @greglinden and @danielmwolf
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Guardian and Slate. Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @edwardnh, @levie, @semil, @ktbenner, @ys, @martinsfp, @stevesilberman, @innonate, @sama and @davegirouard
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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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Business Insider and TIME. Tweets: @paulszoldra, @jpbarlow, @marymad, @kenroth, @the_intercept, @ggreenwald, @granick and @csoghoian
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Tweets: @papakipos, @profkeithdevlin, @leeannmcadoo, @forbestech, @kenwsmith54 and @kashhill
| Nick Kokonas / Alinea: |
Inside the development of Alinea's restaurant ticketing system built to replace reservations — Tickets for Restaurants — Resos vs. Access Apps vs. Tix: More Than You'd Ever Care to Know — Ticketing for restaurants has been in the news a lot lately. Here are just a few articles:
Tweets: @stoweboyd, @dansinker, @therealfitz, @waxpancake and @anildash
| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Meet the new Apple: Fitter, happier, and ready to play — Fitter, happier, and ready to play — While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding.| Bruce Upbin / Forbes: |
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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Gizmodo and SlashGear. Tweets: @forbestech, @dfmag, @dabeaz and @kashhill. Thanks:@thealexknapp
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
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.
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MacDailyNews, PR Newswire and SeekingAlpha.com
Tweets: @bowbrick, @sampullara, @reftpt, @smenor and @xor
| 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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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Electronista and DSLreports
Tweets: @zimbalist, @pogue, @hntweets, @lhfang and @dangillmor
Thanks:@themadhacker| 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.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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