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Google to shut down Orkut on September 30, will create archive of all public communities — Tchau Orkut — Ten years ago, Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking. Built as a “20 percent” project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never existed before.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid — Built for privacy, the Blackphone runs a beefed-up Android called PrivatOS. — Based on some recent experience, I'm of the opinion that smartphones are about as private as a gas station bathroom.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
More details on Microsoft's desktop-focused Windows ‘Threshold’ release; public preview expected in fall 2014, release in spring 2015 — Windows ‘Threshold’: More on Microsoft's plan to win over Windows 7 users — Summary: One of Microsoft's main goals with 'Threshold …
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| Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: |
Some LA schools choosing between six different laptops for students after botched iPad rollout — LAUSD shifts gears on technology for students — Los Angeles school district officials have allowed a group of high schools to choose from among six different laptop computers for their students …
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Thanks:@obrien| Adam Sherwin / The Independent: |
Google Glass to be banned from all UK cinemas — If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
New N.S.A. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable — FORT MEADE, Md. — The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance techniques revealed by Edward J. Snowden …
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| Tyler Hayes / Liisten: |
Fire TV's advanced streaming and prediction feature can consume 80GB a day — The Secret Little Problem With Amazon's Fire TV — I got a little nervous that something was wrong when I go a notice from my Internet service provider, Cox Cable, saying that I had hit my monthly download cap.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Rolls Out App Install And Engagement Ads, And New Click Pricing, Globally — Social networking platform Twitter says its MoPub ad network now reaches more than 1 billion iOS and Android users every month, and so today it is making its latest move to build out that mobile advertising business with more products.| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study — * Updated with an additional statement from Adam Kramer, the Facebook data scientist who conducted the study. — This weekend, the Internet discovered a study published earlier this month in an academic journal …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces iTunes U update with iPad Course Creation, Student Discussions & more — Screenshot showing new iTunes U “Student Discussions” feature — Apple today announced an update to its iTunes U educational app that includes a number of new features for iPad including course creation tools …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases iOS 7.1.2 With Mail Fixes, iBeacon Improvements — Apple today released iOS 7.1.2 to the public, more than two months after releasing iOS 7.1.1. iOS 7.1.2 is a minor update that focuses primarily on bug fixes and security improvements, repairing an email attachment encryption issue …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
MapR Raises $110 Million in Round Led by Google Capital — There's been another big round of funding for a player in the steadily growing world of Hadoop, the open-source big data technology. — MapR announced this morning that it had raised $110 million in combined equity and debt financing.
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Supreme Court Won't Hear Google's Street View Appeal — Search Giant Tried to Challenge Lower Court Ruling Saying It Violated Wiretap Law — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it wouldn't consider Google Inc. 's challenge to a class-action lawsuit alleging …
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