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Apple To Cease Development Of Aperture And Transition Users To Photos For OS X — With the release of OS X Yosemite later this year, Apple will cease the development of its ‘pro’ photo editing app. — “With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Instagram moved the service's more than 20 billion photos from AWS to Facebook servers — How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing — From left to right, Instagram and Facebook engineers Pedro Canahuati, Patrick Bozeman, Rick Branson, Nick Shortway … | Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite: |
Nexus program manager Dave Burke says Google has no plans to stop making Nexus devices — No, Google Isn't Going To Kill Its Nexus Devices — Rumors of the demise of Google's Nexus line of “pure Android” devices have been greatly exaggerated. When Google launches the official release …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has disbanded the original team of engineers working on Facebook Home — What Happened to the Facebook Phone? Not Very Much, It Seems — Facebook has long wanted to be a major part of how you use your smartphone. Now, it looks as if the company has all but abandoned one of its major strategies to do so.
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| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app — The “Internet of things,” the “Connected Home,” the “Smart Home,” whatever you want to call it, it's just a fancy way of turning your stuff on and off with your smartphone. Now GE has introduced a cheaper way to stay on the couch and control your lights.
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Exclusive: HP to settle suits over Autonomy deal; make claim against ex-CEO Lynch — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co and attorneys representing shareholders have agreed to settle litigation over its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of British software company Autonomy Corp, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The NSA just posted its first-ever transparency report — The National Security Agency has posted its first full transparency report. Posted on the official agency Tumblr, the report breaks out the total number of orders for 2013, broken out into FISA orders, National Security Letters, and government requests for business records.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Video Hangouts No Longer Require A Plugin On Desktop - If You're Running Chrome Dev Or Canary Channel — If you're a regular user of Google's video Hangouts service, you'll be glad to know that the experience on desktop for this service is about to get a little more stable (we hope).
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| Marc Ferranti / PC World: |
GoPro continues rise on day two of trading, now up nearly 50% from IPO price, as NASDAQ surges to highest point since spring of 2000 — Wall Street Beat: GoPro continues to soar after IPO as Nasdaq surges — Shares of action-camera maker GoPro shot up again Friday, a day after its IPO …
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Widespread outages leave Verizon customers without upgrades and online payments — Many Verizon Wireless customers are reporting that the carrier's online systems have been unavailable for well over 24 hours now. Complaints about the downtime are flooding Twitter; subscribers are currently unable …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
HP wins dismissal of lawsuit linked to ex-CEO Hurd's ouster — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the computer maker of securities fraud for misleading shareholders about its commitment to ethics while its chief executive was allegedly engaging in sexual harassment.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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