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Uber exec, at NYC dinner with CEO present, suggested digging up dirt on critical journalists — Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists — Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.
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Snapchat's new Snapcash feature, rolling out on Android now and iOS soon, lets you send money to friends via Square — Snapchat to Let You Send Money to Friends, Thanks to Square — Snapchat unveiled Snapcash on Monday, a new payments feature that allows users to send and receive money …
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TRUSTe, which certifies websites for privacy protections, settles with FTC for failing to audit companies — TRUSTe Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers Through Its Privacy Seal Program — Company Failed to Conduct Annual Recertifications, Facilitated Misrepresentation as Non-Profit
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| Larry Seltzer / ZDNet: |
Wirelurker site in China taken down, suspects arrested — Summary: The Mac/iOS malware was able to install on non-jailbroken iOS devices, but was quickly neutered. Three suspects are in custody. — Chinese authorities have shut down the web sites responsible for the Wirelurker malware … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Podcasts are neither exploding nor dying - they've been steadily growing for a decade — Why podcasts are suddenly “back” — Did you hear? Podcasts were dead, and now they're back! — This story is suddenly everywhere. It's not extremely accurate, but I'll take it.
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel's MICA smart bracelet with built in GPS and sapphire touchscreen will be available in December with 2 year AT&T contract for $495 — Intel Reveals Details of MICA Smart Bracelet … Intel CEO Brian Krzanich visited New York's Fashion Week festivities in September to drum up interest in MICA …
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Dropbox, Evernote, Aol, LinkedIn, Twitter lend support to NSA Freedom Act in open letter to US Senate — Facebook, Google and Apple lobby for curb to NSA surveillance — A coalition of the biggest names in consumer technology have backed a US bill … | Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
NYC announces LinkNYC a free gigabit speed wi-fi network; construction will start in 2015 — The Plan to Turn NYC's Old Payphones Into Free Gigabit Wi-Fi Hot Spots — Today, the New York City mayor's office announced the winning bid to transform the city's existing payphone infrastructure.
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| Jane L. Levere / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Pineapple, a quarterly print magazine focused on travel; $12 at select stores — Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple — Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business.
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hidden In Spotify's App Code Alongside Uber, Plans To Launch Podcasts And Something ‘Magic’ — Spotify's upcoming integration with Uber — getting announced formally today — is not the only development the music streaming service has planned to grow its business.
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| Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order: |
Large Number of Tor Hidden Sites Seized by the FBI in Operation Onymous were Clone or Scam Sites — This post is the fist in a series dealing with the takedown of Silk Road 2.0 and Operation Onymous. The data in this post was put together with @secruedmh and @imposter.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Autoscaling To Compute Engine — Google continues to build out its cloud computing platform and today the company announced that its autoscaling service for Compute Engine, its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, is now available in beta. — Using this new feature … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1.1 w/ bug fixes & performance improvements for iPad 2, iPhone 4s — Apple has released iOS 8.1.1, a minor update to last month's iOS 8.1 release for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The public release for iOS 8.1.1 follows a beta release to members of Apple's developer program.
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Tweets: @mikebeas and @reneritchie
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Biz Stone's new app Super prompts users to share opinions and recommendations with images either with a username or as “anonymish” — Biz Stone's Jelly Launches Super So You Can Express Your Best, Craziest, Sexiest Opinions — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's Q&A app Jelly didn't quite blow up …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Luxe's on-demand valet parking service expands to Los Angeles — Luxe Valet App Eliminates the Headache of Finding a Parking Spot — Every few years, I come across a new tech service that completely upends how I navigate urban life. — It happened with Amazon Prime … | Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
FCC will propose raising annual cap on spending for school Internet needs by $1.5B to $3.9B — F.C.C. Chief Aims to Bolster Internet for Schools — WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Swedish ISP protects customers from surveillance with free VPN — Bahnhof was the last Swedish ISP to resist the enforcement of a data retention law that is arguably illegal under EU law. Now it's technically giving in, but it intends to make the retained data useless to spies and law enforcement.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom — Personal injury cases are prime targets for manipulation and conjecture. How do you show that someone who's been in a car accident can't do their job properly, and deserves thousands of dollars in compensation?| Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Deutsche Bank to set up joint innovation labs with IBM, Microsoft in Berlin, London, Palo Alto — Deutsche Bank Setting Up Innovation Labs With IBM, Microsoft — Deutsche Bank AG is working on setting up joint innovation laboratories with technology firms IBM Corp. …
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