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In a cache of 160K conversations intercepted by NSA, 90% of those surveilled were not the intended targets — In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are — Files provided by Snowden show the extent ordinary Web users are caught in the net
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Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin — At the annual KV CEO Summit, we were fortunate to have both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was (although not for lack of trying!) …
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| Quartz: |
Following Netflix, YouTube shames ISPs delivering slow video with message underneath videos — YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video — When videos blur, buffer, or won't play altogether, YouTube is now pinning the blame on your internet service provider.
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| Benedict Evans: |
Android L and iOS 8 mark the first true mobile platform philosophy divergence since the iPhone — The next phase of smartphones — It's now 7 years since the iPhone reset the phone business, and indeed the entire computing and internet businesses. But it was pretty clear …
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Google sets aside as much as $500M to expand Shopping Express nationwide, fend off Amazon — Inside Google's Big Plan to Race Amazon To Your Door — Google is the undisputed king of search in all but one lucrative and vital category: product searches. — Over the past decade … | New York Times: |
With Revenue Roaring, Twitter's Advertising Team Is Untouched by Turmoil — Twitter's top executive ranks have been transformed in the past year, from its general counsel to, most recently, its chief financial officer. — Many of the executives have left or been pushed out as Twitter's chief executive …
Tweets: @karaswisher, @sacca and @ashleymayer
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
$1,099 iMac review: lose 50% of your performance to save 18% of the money — Technically, this is the $1,299 iMac, not that you'd be able to tell the difference. — Apple's new $1,099 iMac will undoubtedly be a popular computer. People in the know who want the most computing bang … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
TSA blocking uncharged mobile devices from flights at some international airports — International travelers will have to make sure they charge all their devices before boarding their flights. In an announcement made Sunday, the TSA now plans on blocking flyers with uncharged phones …
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| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Data Science group has run hundreds of tests with few boundaries until recently — Inside Facebook's Data-Science Team — Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight — Thousands of Facebook Inc. users received an unsettling message two years ago …
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Mashable, Andrew Ledvina, Ubergizmo, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Jay Rosen, Dave Winer, The Verge, Tech Times, CNET, The Register, Engadget, Ubergizmo, BGR, PandoDaily and USA Today
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| John Callaham / Android Central: |
50,000 units of Xiaomi's MiPad sold in just under four minutes — China-based Xiaomi started selling its Android-based tablet, the MiPad, in its home country earlier this week and the company claimed that 50,000 units were sold in its first 3 minutes and 59 seconds.
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| Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
Daimler demonstrates prototype “Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025” with highway autopilot — Daimler Demonstrates a Self-Driving Truck — MAGDEBURG, Germany — For Daimler, the truck driver of the future looks something like this: He is seated in the cab of a semi, eyes on a tablet and hands resting in his lap.
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Engadget, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Transport Topics, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Daily Mail, NBC News, Bloomberg and Rough Type
Tweets: @parislemon and @_alexlawrence
| Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity: |
Amazon's Fire Phone is an experiment to mitigate mobile's threat to traditional e-commerce — The Real Meaning of the Fire Phone — People have been asking my opinion of the new Amazon Fire Phone, but I've had a lot of trouble answering. My first reaction was overwhelmingly blah.
Tweets: @stevecheney, @hugh_w_forrest, @michaelmace, @fuelcut and @hunterwalk
| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Google beefs up enterprise efforts with Drive for Work, Android Work, and executive hires from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, AWS — Google beefs up its enterprise chops — With a new crop of executives from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, the company is quickly building partnerships.
Tweets: @mdkail and @milesward
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab's CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting The Next 20 Years — Forget what you know about the old Fab. This time CEO Jason Goldberg thinks he's finally got it right with a new furniture site called Hem. — Investors can be forgiven for demanding Goldberg's head given the sheer number of pivots the e-commerce site has endured.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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