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Chinese hackers accessed personal details of US federal employees, targeted applicants for top-secret security clearances — Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers — WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency …
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge — The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator. The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.” — The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …
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Google sets up European venture capital arm with initial $100 million fund and four general partners — The beans have been spilled, courtesy of the FT: Google is creating a $100 million fund to invest in European startups. — The Internet behemoth's newest VC arm will have five general partners …
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Google, Canon, Dropbox and Others Pool Patents to Ward Off Trolls — A coalition of technology companies large and small has created a sort of arms-control treaty to prevent future abuses of their intellectual property. — Among Google, Canon, SAP, Newegg, Dropbox and Asana, there are nearly 300,000 patent assets on the line.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It's Getting Screwed By Google — Documents leaked to TechCrunch from inside Yelp allege that Google is manipulating its search results to favor Google+ content over Yelp content. The materials accuse Google of blatantly highlighting its own products …
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Business Insider, Search Engine Land, TheDomains.com, SlashGear, eWeek, 9to5Google, ZDNet and New York Times. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Forget “OK Glass,” MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts — Google Glass has made a name for itself (somewhat infamously) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio This Place in London …
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GitHub, The Register, Digital Trends, BBC, Softpedia News, Engadget, GSMArena Blog, Tnooz, The Next Web, Wired.co.uk and Android Central. Tweets: @sub8u. Thanks:@debrabenson
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Insiders offer a contrasting account to details in Whitney Wolfe's complaint against Tinder — The Story Of Whitney Wolfe Vs. Tinder — It's hard to write a story without a protagonist, but here goes. In the past week, Tinder's former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe filed a complaint …
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Medium and Valleywag. Tweets: @karaswisher, @joshconstine, @samfbiddle, @rmward, @ryanlawler and @abrams. Thanks:@alex
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Rear Shell Shown in High-Quality Photos and Video — Over the past six weeks, we've seen a few photos and even a video of what has been claimed to be the actual rear shell of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, showing a nearly all-metal design with separate bands presumably to accommodate the antennas at the top and bottom.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
How The EU Censors Google & Search Engines Just Like China — When it comes to censorship, the European Union generally isn't one of the political entities that immediately comes to mind. But it should, especially since its new Right To Be Forgotten mandate has the political union acting …
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Passenger claims he was “kidnapped” by an Uber driver and taken on a “high-speed” chase — Man visiting D.C. says Uber driver took him on wild ride … Well, the tweet pretty much says it all. — On Tuesday, Ryan Simonetti, CEO of New York-based Convene, had an Uber ride he won't soon forget.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Google faces German Motorola phone patent ban — Motorola uses a laser-based technology to help minimise the size of its phones' antennas — Motorola faces the prospect of being forced to remove its handsets from sale in Germany and to recall phones already bought by business customers.
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
10Gbps over a copper telephone line: A new world record set by Bell Labs — The telecommunications masters at Bell Labs have managed to deliver a world record connection speed of 10Gbps (10,000Mbps) over copper wires. Dubbed XG.fast, the new technology could be used to massively extend … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Samsung is only firm buying subsidiary's mobile-display tech — Samsung Display's AMOLED technology is often found in parent company Samsung's products, but according to the CEO, Samsung's rivals aren't interested. — Samsung's Galaxy S5 — Andrew Hoyle/CNET| Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: |
Dish tells FCC to block Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal — Satellite broadcaster Dish Network wants the government to block Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. In meetings with top Federal Communications Commission officials earlier this week, Dish said a combination …
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Scytl snags another $20M to put secure elections on the Web — Scytl is trying to modernize elections by killing the ballot box and moving the voting process online. SAP Ventures, a European based firm, just handed the startup another $20 million to help the company expand.| Patricia Laya / Bloomberg: |
Carlos Slim to break up telecom giant América Móvil in Mexico amid regulatory crackdown — Carlos Slim to Dismantle Mexican Empire — Billionaire Carlos Slim is bowing to imminent antitrust legislation by planning a breakup of America Movil SAB (AMXL)'s phone operations …
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Al Jazeera America, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, TheStreet.com, Gigaom, ValueWalk and Reuters. Tweets: @counternotions
| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
Singapore passes anti-piracy law enabling copyright owners to block sites like Pirate Bay — Singapore passes law to block illegal sites — The Singapore government has passed an amendment to the country's Copyright Act that will let content owners compel service providers to block infringing sites, like Pirate Bay.| Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
Google Camera Update Brings Remote Shutter Function to Android Wear Devices — A recent update to the official Google Camera app has brought new functionality to the Android Wear platform, which means your smartwatch can now act as a remote shutter button for your smartphone.
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Android Police, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ausdroid, CNET, TechHive, Engadget, 9to5Google and Ausdroid
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft brings video editing to Windows Phone 8.1 with Video Tuner — Windows Phone has always been missing good video editing tools, and Microsoft thinks it now has the answer. Available today, Video Tuner is the latest in a series of additional apps developed by the Nokia part of Microsoft.
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Windows Phone, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, CNET, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Gigaom, SlashGear, PC World, Softpedia News and Neowin. Tweets: @dujkan
| Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
The honeymoon is over: Expedia and Groupon no longer co-branding travel deals — Groupon and Expedia are scaling back a 3-year-old partnership that focused on selling heavily discounted travel deals together. A Groupon spokesman confirmed today that the daily deals company and the online travel agency … | David Shamah / The Times of Israel: |
“Red Alert: Israel” app now using Yo to deliver rocket attack alerts — Red Alert app offers a Yo! update on missile attacks — A mobile platform developed by two Israeli volunteers spreads the word on Israeli communities in danger- in real time
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The Verge, Digital Trends, The Independent, Valleywag, ABC News and Fox News. Tweets: @barryshrage. See also Mediagazer
| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Senator Asks FTC to Look Into Facebook Mood Experiment — Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to look into whether Facebook's experiment on the ability to manipulate emotions on Facebook using the data of 700,000 unwitting users may have violated …
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Mark R. Warner, PC World, Ubergizmo, Ashburn Patch News, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge and Business Insider
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Judge denies Silk Road's demands to dismiss criminal prosecution — Silk Road suspect Ross Ulbricht, as seen in his Brooklyn prison, in a newly-released photo. — FreeRoss.org — In a scathing opinion and order on Wednesday, the federal judge presiding over the Silk Road case denied …
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Wired, Reuters, RT, The Verge, CoinDesk, Deep Dot Web and Crowdfund Insider
| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
White House pulls plug on controversial Patent Office nominee after tech sector backlash — The Obama Administration has changed its mind over a plan to name pharmaceutical executive Phil Johnson as head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to multiple sources.
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Wall Street Journal, Patent Docs, Techdirt and The Hill
Tweets: @mpetricone, @iam_magazine, @xor and @jeffjohnroberts
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Makes Good On Its Braintree Acquisition With Launch Of New Developer Tools, The Braintree v.zero SDK — Payments gateway Braintree is making its first significant product announcement since its acquisition by PayPal last year, with the launch of a jointly developed Braintree SDK (software development kit) for developers.
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Blogtree, braintreepayments.com, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, VatorNews, PandoDaily, The Next Web and Gigaom. Tweets: @mdudas
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