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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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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess — Apple today released the first update to OS X Yosemite that included fixes for unspecified Wi-Fi problems and improved reliability for connecting to Microsoft Exchange corporate email servers. — But Mac owners who had said that Yosemite crippled …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google and Stanford researchers create image recognition software that goes beyond recognizing individual objects, teaches itself to identify entire scenes — Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently … | 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.
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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?
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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 … | Federal Trade Commission: |
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
| 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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| Shawn De Cesari / Android Police: |
Android TV Apps Will Be Screened And Approved By Google Before Being Available In The Play Store — In a somewhat surprising, but completely understandable, move, Google has added a pretty large caveat to Play Store app submissions for Android TV. According to the Android developer documentation page …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cisco launches new telepresence system, Project Squared mobile app — Summary: Cisco is busy retooling its collaboration portfolio with a telepresence system that uses less bandwidth and power and Project Squared, a mobile app that offers video conferencing, document sharing and other tools.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google has free speech right in search results, court confirms — A San Francisco court ruled last week that Google has the right to arrange its search results as it pleases, which confirms the company's long-held view, while underscoring the stark difference in how U.S. and European seek to regulate the search giant.
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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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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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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