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Sony hackers offer to withhold posting emails from specific employees if they write in and ask — Sony Hackers Offer to Withhold Stolen Data From Promised Leak — A group claiming responsibility for the devastating hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment on Sunday offered … | Om Malik: |
Why I'm excited about photos, the visual web, computer vision and the far reaching impact of visual sensors — On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words — Photos, photos and more photos! Photos are the atomic unit of social platforms. Photos and visuals are the common language of the Internet.
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| Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post: |
Uber pressures regulators by mobilizing riders and hiring vast lobbying network — OUTSIDE IN: A new era of influence — On a Thursday in June, bureaucrats from Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles made their move against Uber Technologies. The fast-growing ride-for-hire company … | Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report: |
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Xiaomi made $56 million profit in 2013: filing — (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology Ltd Co [XTC.UL] made a profit of 347.48 million yuan ($56.15 million) on 26.58 billion yuan ($4.30 billion) in revenue in 2013, Chinese securities filings dated Monday show.
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Tech in Asia, AppleInsider and The Tech Portal
| Chine Labbe / Reuters: |
Ahead of taxi protest, France says UberPop to be banned — (Reuters) - The UberPop transport service will be forbidden in France beginning Jan. 1, the French interior ministry said on Monday, the latest regulatory hurdle for the controversial car service company.
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
Alienware Alpha Review: A shockingly good tiny PC and console complement — AT A GLANCE — Hardware has a shelf life like a gallon of milk. If it sits on the store shelf too long, it ends up getting poured down the drain. — That's ultimately the ugly story behind Alienware's Alpha game console.
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| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Consumer-focused Windows 10 build 9901 leaks with Cortana integration, numerous app and feature updates — First Look at an early version of the Windows 10 Consumer Preview (video) — Microsoft is yet to announce any consumer features which will be available in Windows 10 …
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Gizmodo, SuperSite for Windows, SlashGear, WinBeta, SuperSite for Windows, WinBeta, The Tech Portal, Myce.com, Neowin, Latest and WinBeta
| M.G. Siegler / Medium: |
As tweeting screenshots of text goes mainstream, maybe it's time for Twitter to officially support posting of longer text snippets — Hacking The Tweet Stream — With pictures of text. Weird, I know. — The single greatest strength of Twitter has always been its simplicity.
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @rjonesy, @m2jr, @stevesi, @mgsiegler, @martinsfp, @joshconstine and @davewiner
| TechRadar.com: |
Google says Play Store will still sell Nexus 5 through Q1 2015, amid reports production halted — Nexus 5 sales are limited right now, but will continue into early 2015 — UPDATED Nexus 6's little buddy hangs on into next year … Update: Google in the US has reached out to clarify … | Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Inside Uber & Lyft's fight in Tampa: both operate illegally despite lawsuits, driver citations — Uber And Lyft's Bitter Battle For Tampa — When it comes to new cities, Uber and Lyft aren't afraid to operate illegally. — Uber Tampa Bay blog / Via blog.uber.com
Tweets: @jmbooyah
| Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: |
iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba — Building and maintaining robots is one of the biggest obstacles in robotics research: when you're spending all of your time just figuring out how to get a robot to work and then keeping it working, you end up spending none of your time teaching that robot to do anything useful.
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