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Delhi Government bans Uber, says it is misleading customers — NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has acted after the rape incident involving a 25-year-old woman in Delhi and has issued an order on Monday banning the services of Uber India in Delhi, saying it is misleading customers.
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| Sabine Devins / The Local: |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks out against net neutrality, says internet needs a fast lane for some services — Merkel speaks out against net neutrality — Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for preferential services for certain providers on the web at her keynote speech at a conference in Berlin on Thursday.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Brings Graph Search To Mobile And Lets You Find Feed Posts By Keyword — Facebook is finally getting serious about search. Today it's challenging Google for finding answers and Twitter for checking real-time chatter with the launch of keyword search.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures Is A Fund For Investing In ‘World-Positive’ Startups — Serial entrepreneur Ev Williams has made a fortune over the years, and now wants to invest some of his riches into startups. But not just any startups — the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter is looking … | Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
To make CompSci more relevant and inclusive, we should add it to general curriculum in schools — To address tech's diversity woes, start with the vanishing Comp Sci classroom — In May 2014 at the all-girls Emma Willard School in upstate New York, nearly a third of the school's 300+ students …
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| AppleInsider: |
Pixelmator, Beyonce, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ & ‘Fargo’ lead Apple's iTunes Best of 2014 awards — Apple on Monday debuted its curated list of the best content available from its various digital platforms, including apps, music, movies, books, podcasts and more.
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| Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid: |
[Update] Samsung Gear VR now available for $200 at Samsung.com and AT&T … Samsung has always listed December 2014 as the landing date for their virtual reality wearable Samsung Gear VR, and unless my calendar is bugged that window has arrived. While Samsung has yet to formally announce a solid date … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Vimeo starts offering 4K downloads, but shies away from streaming — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Vimeo-loving video producers can finally put that expensive Red camera to good use: Vimeo is now allowing Pro subscribers …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
PlayStation Network taken offline again for more than two hours by DDoS attack; hacking group Lizard Squad takes credit — Hackers Hit Sony, Again — Hackers hit a second division of Sony today. Sony's PlayStation online gaming network was offline for more than two hours as a result of an apparent cyber attack.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud Platform now supports Microsoft server app licenses, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition — Google today announced it has expanded Windows support on the Google Cloud Platform. New additions include Microsoft License Mobility, support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition …
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| Bruce Schneier / MIT Technology Review: |
Antivirus Companies Should Be More Open About Their Government Malware Discoveries — Antivirus companies had tracked the sophisticated—and likely U.S.-backed—Regin malware for years. But they kept what they learned to themselves. — Last week we learned about a striking piece …
| Douglas Martin / New York Times: |
Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92 — Ralph H. Baer, who turned television sets into electronic fantasy lands by inventing and patenting the first home video game system, died on Saturday at his home in Manchester, N.H. He was 92. — His death was confirmed by his family.
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