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Snapchat's first ad is movie trailer for Universal Pictures' Ouija, appears like other Stories — This Is What Snapchat's First Ad Looks Like — It's a trailer for the movie Ouija. — Snapchat made good on its plans to roll out its first ads this weekend, with one ad spotted …
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Snapchat will show one ad in “Recent Updates” of US users this weekend, says it would be “totally rude” to put ads in personal communications — Advertising on Snapchat — This weekend we're placing an advertisement in “Recent Updates” for Snapchatters in the United States.
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Thanks:@orbuch| Judith Newman / New York Times: |
How a 13-year-old autistic boy became best friends with Apple's Siri — How Apple's Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F. — Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple's “intelligent personal assistant” …
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Android Exec Says Google Will Loosen Reins on Watches, TVs and Cars Over Time — Google is taking its versatile Android operating system into new places, like cars and watches and TVs. As part of that process, it's also severely curtailing the degree to which hardware makers can tinker with the core parts of the software.
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Inside Pinterest: The Coming Ad Colossus That Could Dwarf Twitter And Facebook — The Cannes Lions advertising festival has become as big among the Madison Avenue crowd as the Riviera town's iconic film event is for Hollywood. So as Steve Stoute nursed a drink with a friend … | Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Rebukes DEA For Impersonating Woman Online — After BuzzFeed News revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration had created a phony Facebook page using a real woman's name — without her knowledge — the company has told the agency it committed a “serious breach” of Facebook's terms of service.
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Cops Need a Warrant to Grab Your Cell Tower Data, Florida Court Rules — Americans may have a Florida drug dealer to thank for expanding our right to privacy. — Police departments around the country have been collecting phone metadata from telecoms and using a sophisticated spy tool …
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Google stops taking Nexus Player preorders in US Play Store due to lack of FCC certification — Google's Nexus Player Hasn't Passed FCC Certification Yet, ‘Out Of Inventory’ On The US Play Store — Today was an extremely exciting day for Android fans. Besides brand new Lollipop preview images coming … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Flickr launches its first iPad app, exclusively for iOS 8 — Flickr finally launches for iPad — Good news for Flickr users today - the Yahoo-owned photo-storage and sharing app has finally been optimized for iPad, though it will only work for those running iOS 8.
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FBI director: Tech companies should be required to make devices wiretap-friendly — FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday called for the law to be changed to require technology companies to provide investigators with a way to gain access to encrypted communications, warning that without reform …
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Tweets: @mattblaze, @rozzie, @granick, @mattblaze, @attackerman, @sarahjeong, @nakashimae, @pmarca, @agidari, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @csoghoian
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NSA's current CTO allowed to work 20 hours per week for former director Keith Alexander's cybersecurity startup — Exclusive: NSA reviewing deal between official, ex-spy agency head — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has launched an internal review of a senior official's part … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iFixit Tears Down New Retina iMac, Internal Layout Largely the Same as Prior Generation — Though the new iMac with 5K Retina display was just released yesterday, iFixit has already acquired and disassembled one of the new machines, giving us a look at what's underneath the iMac's ultra thin display.
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