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Apple wearable to be revealed September 9 won't ship until early 2015 — Code/red: Apple Wearable Won't Ship Until Next Year — // HAPPENING TODAY — The 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters. — Beloved cryptographer Hal Finney is being cryopreserved following his recent, tragic death from ALS.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
An inside look at Apple's media strategy, its earlier control-obsessed regime, and the transformation with the departure of Jobs disciple Katie Cotton — Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple's Mastery of the Media — “Beautifully, unapologetically plastic.”
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Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive — 2.6m historic pictures posted online — The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet — An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils high-end Haswell-E chips, including its first 8-core desktop CPU, priced at $999 — Haswell-E arrives, bringing a $999 8-core desktop CPU with it — Most of Intel's announcements lately have focused on low-power chips, but every now and again it throws a bone to its high-end desktop users.| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Lyft says its drivers are losing up to 48% of their earnings from Uber's recruiting, due to shorter rides and cancellations — Lyft Says Uber's Recruitment Efforts Are Hurting Drivers — The saying “All is fair in love and war” apparently applies to recruiting employees now, too.
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| Julien Lecomte / Yahoo Engineering: |
Yahoo stopping all new development on YUI, citing waning developer interest in the open source JavaScript and CSS library — Important Announcement Regarding YUI — The Yahoo User Interface library (YUI) has been in use at Yahoo since 2005, and was first announced to the public on February 13, 2006.
| Teri Robinson / SC Magazine: |
Dell study: CryptoWall ransomware infected 625K computers, earning creators over $1.1M in about 5 months — CryptoWall surpasses CryptoLocker in infection rates — With CryptoLocker seemingly out of commission, its less well-known twin CryptoWall has stepped out of the shadows and thrived …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
IDC lowers tablet year-on-year growth forecast from 12.1% to 6.5%, expects 233M sales in 2014 — Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow — Summary: IDC's latest estimates show mature markets are leveling off, but emerging markets could still power some significant growth.
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission next Thursday — Exclusive: Bitcoin promoter to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission — (Reuters) - Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged … | Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Redesigns Signup Process to Entice New Users — Twitter is trying to ease the pain for new users to create an account, hoping it will persuade them to sign up and stick around. — The company on Friday redesigned the layout of the signup process to address common complaints among … | Reuters: |
Sony's next Xperia flagship phone will be sold on Sprint as Softbank targets US market — SoftBank's first Sony smartphone deal takes aim at U.S. market — (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp and its U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Corp will offer a Sony smartphone for the first time …
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| Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Hack Said to Span Months Via Multiple Flaws — Hackers burrowed into the databanks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and deftly dodged one of the world's largest arrays of sophisticated detection systems for months. — The attack, an outline of which was provided by two people familiar …
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