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Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps — Big Data Analytics and Security Capabilities Arrive on iPhone & iPad — Apple® and IBM today deliver the first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS solutions in a new class of made-for-business apps and supporting cloud services …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
HBO launching web-only service in April 2015, will outsource streaming tech to MLB Advanced Media — Exclusive: HBO to outsource streaming technology in blow to ‘backstabbing’ CTO — In a major strategic shift, HBO will license the technology underpinning the standalone streaming service it plans to offer in 2015.
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HBO's CTO Otto Berkes, co-creator of Xbox, resigns after HBO outsources the tech for its planned streaming service — HBO CTO Otto Berkes Resigns, as Network Enlists MLB to Build OTT Platform — HBO chief technology officer Otto Berkes is leaving the premium cable network … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Hangouts For Android Gets Smarter, Adds Video Filters And More — Google's Hangouts app for Android is getting a major update today, as the company's VP of Product for Google+ Bradley Horowitz announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. Some of these new features … | Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
LastPass follows Dashlane in letting you change loads of your passwords at once — Just a few hours after Dashlane incorporated automatic password changing, popular password manager LastPass can now do the same. — Now when you use the password manager, you'll see an option to change …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber's Background Checks for Drivers Come Under Scrutiny — Uber champions its “industry-leading standards” for vetting its drivers. On its website, it describes its background checks as “often more rigorous” than those in the traditional taxi industry. — But in statehouses across the country …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's one-year-old Artificial Intelligence Research lab, led by Yann LeCun — Facebook Envisions A.I. That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics — Let's say you're out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they're doing with it) — The General Motors OnStar command center is shown in Detroit in this 2006 file photo. (Photo/Carlos Osorio, file) — If you use a road service like OnStar, you know that your car can track …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Confirmed: Bose speakers returning to Apple Stores after removal earlier this year — It looks like Apple will indeed be cashing in on Bose speakers and headphones sales in time for the remainder of the holiday shopping season. Yesterday rumors surfaced that Apple was readying its retail stores … | Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Locked Apple ID accounts with two-factor authentication enabled require recovery keys, not just password and trusted device details, to be reactivated — The dark side of Apple's two-factor authentication — Earlier this week, a strange message popped up on my Mac that I thought nothing of.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline — For many years The Pirate Bay has been sailing by the seat of its pants so any downtime is met with concern from its millions of users. — This morning, for the first time in months, The Pirate Bay disappeared offline.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Blackphone launching world's first privacy-focused app store — Firm says new software store will allow users to increase Blackphone's functionality while protecting data and communications — Privacy-first smartphone company Blackphone is launching its own app store for users concerned about privacy and security.
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| Jason Pontin / MIT Technology Review: |
Interview with Shanley Kane, whose Model View Culture publication offers a feminist critique of Silicon Valley — Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley — Shanley Kane challenges the assumptions and practices of the tech industry.
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Wall Street Journal, BREITBART.COM and Re/code
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| Facebook: |
Facebook bringing Trending Topics to mobile, organizes topic stories in sections for news coverage, posts from people nearby, and more — Updates to Trending — People gather on Facebook to talk about what's happening in the world. In January, we introduced Trending to help people discover timely …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Re/code
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
The New York Times open-sources its Hive crowdsourcing platform — A couple of months ago, the New York Times rolled out an interesting project called Madison, in which the newspaper asked readers to help the paper identify old print ads by going to a website and answering questions …
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nytlabs ← Research … and Nieman Lab
| Greg Gardner / Cromulent Labs: |
Behind Apple's rejection of Launcher, and why it may never return to the app store — Launcher Followup and Thoughts on the App Store Review System — Since I still receive a few emails every week asking me if Launcher is ever coming back to the App Store, I figured it would make sense …
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant Reservation Service Reserve Launches In San Francisco — Reserve, a mobile app that makes it easy to find reservations at top restaurants, announced today that it's now available in San Francisco. — The service, which launched in October, came out of Expa, the “startup studio” …
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VentureVillage, Associated Press, Reserve, PandoDaily and The Next Web
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Europe's right to be forgotten rule is dangerous for history and free speech — Web founder: Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ rule is dangerous — Tim Berners-Lee believes thinks scrubbing false information off the Web is fine, but the truth should be preserved for reasons of free speech and history.
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VentureBeat, CNET, NEWS.com.au and ARC
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Unencrypted Data Lets Thieves ‘Charge Anywhere’ — Charge Anywhere LLC, a mobile payments provider, today disclosed that malicious software planted on its networks may have jeopardized credit card data from transactions the company handled between November 2009 and September 2014.
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CHARGE Anywhere, PandoDaily, Threatpost and Ars Technica
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