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| Greg Miller / Wired: |
How the Google Maps team refines their maps with a combination of algorithms and meticulous manual labor — The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps — Inside Atlas, Google's map-editing program, operators can see where Street View cameras have captured images (colored dots), and zoom in with a spyglass tool.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Typo Ships New iPhone 6 Keyboard, Plans iPad Product for Next Year — Typo, the Ryan Seacrest-backed iPhone keyboard, has returned with an iPhone 6 keyboard it says is designed to avoid incurring the legal challenges that forced the company's first product off the market. — Typo
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores recruiting fashion/luxury experts ahead of Apple Watch debut — We've already seen how Apple is presenting the upcoming Apple Watch, which it calls its most personal device yet, as not just another technology device but also a piece of jewelry that the fashion world will be proud to embrace.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Portland files lawsuit against Uber, asks company to stop operating illegally … The Uber vs. Portland showdown continues to progress, with the city filing a lawsuit on Monday afternoon against the transportation startup. — As we reported earlier today, Portland regulators spent … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Linux rootkit spyware has targeted governments, pharmaceutical companies in over 45 countries for years — Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years — Researchers have uncovered an extremely stealthy trojan for Linux systems that attackers have been using …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat Poaches Star Tech Banker Imran Khan From Credit Suisse — Snapchat, the mobile messaging app that's popular with teens, has hired a star tech banker to help young chief executive Evan Spiegel justify the startup's multi-billion-dollar valuation. — The startup named Imran Khan … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube offers some of its stars bonuses to post exclusively to the service for a limited time before posting to rivals — YouTube Offering Its Stars Bonuses — Google Inc.'s YouTube unit is racing to lock up its top stars as rival online video services court them aggressively.
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See also Mediagazer| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
DataGravity raises $50M Series C round led by Accel Partners to sell and support smart storage — DataGravity nets $50M more to sell, support smart storage — DataGravity, the startup founded by Paula Long of EqualLogic fame, now has $50 million in new funding, bringing its total to a healthy $92 million.
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Version 1.0 of VLC for Android exits beta, fixes lots of Lollipop bugs — VLC (Video LAN Client) has long been one of the choice media players for Android users, but—while every release has been basically stable—the company hasn't been in any rush to push the app out of beta and on to version 1.0.| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
Hands on: How Android 5.0 will soon keep your Chromebook unlocked — One of the most intriguing features of Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop OS is one we've yet to see surface: the ability to have your Android phone act as a wireless key for your Chromebook and automatically keep it unlocked when the devices are together.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New variation of POODLE TLS attack is easier to execute, with 10% of websites vulnerable — Meaner POODLE bug that bypasses TLS crypto bites 10 percent of websites — Some of the world's leading websites—including those owned or operated by Bank of America, VMware … | 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.
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Facebook, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, Digital Trends, ITProPortal, MobileSyrup.com, Tom Stocky, iMore, New York Times, Network World, CNET, Pocket-lint, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, Marketing Pilgrim, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, Seeking Alpha, Lifehacker, Re/code and Marketing Land. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Brandon Bailey / Associated Press: |
US District Judge denies Apple's request to dismiss class action suit despite lack of plaintiff, orders prosecution to identify new class representatives — Apple trial continues, without a plaintiff for now — OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In an unusual legal twist, a federal judge decided Monday …
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WSJ, eWeek, NASDAQ.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and Mercury News
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Hackers responsible for Sony breach demand the “movie of terrorism” be pulled, likely referring to “The Interview” — Sony Pictures attackers demand: “Stop the terrorist film!” — New data dump on SPE execs along with a helping of malware.
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gist.github.com, Fusion, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Re/code, Guardian, Fortune, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Jezebel, App Advice, iMore, Business Insider, Gawker, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, SC Magazine, ReadWrite, Newsweek, The Hill, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Hollywood Reporter and CNET
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
YouTube Boss Susan Wojcicki Joins Salesforce.com Board — Susan Wojcicki, a Google veteran and currently the head of Google's YouTube business, has joined Salesforce.com's board of directors, the company said on Monday. The move happened last Friday. — Wojcicki has been with YouTube …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Forces Transmit to Remove Send to iCloud Drive Feature, Blocks All Share Sheet File Transfers in the Process — Panic's file management app Transmit made its way to iOS with the launch of iOS 8, bringing several useful capabilities that took advantage of iOS features, including …
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Panic Blog, MacStories, Cult of Mac, TUAW, AppleInsider, App Advice and Gigaom
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its IDE — After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at Android developers. You can download it right now for Windows … | Sriram Krishnan / Medium: |
Uninformed reactions to the Uber rape case in India play to existing biases — In defense of Uber in India — It's pretty frustrating to follow the press coverage of Uber rape case in India on sides of the world. What is a terrible tragedy—the details are awful and stomach churning …
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