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The US Congress won't limit the NSA: individuals, courts, and other nations must step up — Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here's What Matters Instead. — The “USA Freedom Act”—which its proponents were heralding as “NSA reform” despite its suffocatingly narrow scope … | Jerome Groopman / New Yorker: |
How 3-D printing is revolutionizing medicine — In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month-old boy. The baby had been born with a rare condition called tracheobronchomalacia …
Tweets: @mfordfuture and @sub8u
| Alissa Walker / Gizmodo: |
Google and Garmin altered directions to the Hollywood sign on behalf of nearby homeowners to keep tourists away — Why People Keep Trying to Erase the Hollywood Sign From Google Maps — The Hollywood Sign might be one of the most recognizable things on Earth. In Los Angeles, it's also one of the most visible.
Tweets: @norton_tim and @dannysullivan
| Felix Gillette / Businessweek: |
Behind PayPal-owned mobile payments app Venmo, which processed $700M in payments in Q3 2014 — Mobile Payment Startup Venmo is Killing Cash — Kristen Geil, a writer for an Internet marketing firm in Chicago, heard about Venmo for the first time two summers ago.
Tweets: @avinash and @kaylatausche
| Ken Dilanian / Associated Press: |
Internal NSA debate led Obama to consider plan to stop gathering US phone records in 2009 — AP Exclusive: Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency …
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| Ben Huh / Backchannel: |
How Cheezburger survived 3 years of turmoil to create a platform for remixing funny images — Rewriting Cheezburger Saved My Life — Please You Download It … I want to tell you the entire story of how this app came to be, with all the guts and gore.
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Inc.com. Tweets: @cindygallop, @mathewi, @caro, @lazerow, @jguynn, @paulsingh, @backchnnl, @randyjhunt and @eamonleonard. Thanks:@themadhacker
| Ian Urbina / New York Times: |
Passwords don't just protect data, they reveal our hopes, dreams, secrets, fears, and memories — The Secret Life of Passwords … Play Videos — Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world's largest financial-services firms, still cries when he talks about it.
Tweets: @nytmag, @aldaily, @amiraaah, @megan, @stammy, @nicoleperlroth, @digiphile, @ethanz and @nickbilton
| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Europeans Have Authority To Seek Google Break Up Though Unlikely To Do So — Break Google up. That's the thrust of a “non-binding” resolution the European Parliament is expected to adopt at some point in the near future, according to a report on Friday from Reuters.
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PC Magazine and Slate
| AnandTech: |
Full disk encryption on Nexus 6 leads to 62.9% drop in random read performance — Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop — As alluded to in our Nexus 6 review, our normal storage performance benchmark was no longer giving valid results as of Android 5.0.
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PC Magazine, TechSpot, Android Beat, Electronista, Digital Trends, Droid Life, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, BGR and Android Authority
| Laura Hudson / New York Times: |
How Twine, a creation tool for text-based video games, brought more diverse voices to gaming — Twine, the Video-Game Technology for All — Perhaps the most surprising thing about “GamerGate,” the culture war that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that touched it off.
Tweets: @john_brindle, @bryfitz, @laura_hudson and @nytmag
| Lauren Schwartzberg / Fast Company: |
The Oral History of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop to America) — Everyone's favorite emoji began in Japan. But without Google, it may have stayed there. — If the story of the poop emoji's rise were told in emojis, it would look like this:| Lane Wood / Medium: |
Pando founder Sarah Lacy's allusions to physical threats distort media narrative on Uber scandal — Here ego again. — There's something unsettling about all this Uber stuff. — Maybe it's the fact that I have to wade through all the technorati tweets about “#Ubergate” …
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Both Sides of the Table, The Huffington Post, PandoDaily, VatorNews and Business Insider
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @goodberger, @jlgolson, @kyungmsong, @rsarver, @emilychangtv, @paulcarr, @mccarthyryanj, @summertomato, @paulcarr, @sarahcuda, @williams, @adholden, @marcymassura and @liberationtech
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