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January 18, 2015, 7:20 PM

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Spiegel Online:

New Snowden documents show scope of United States' cyber war plans: infiltrate and control or destroy enemy systems and networks — NSA Preps America for Future Battle — The NSA's mass surveillance is just the beginning. Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency …

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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:

KGI: Apple likely to launch simple stylus to enhance upcoming 12.9-inch iPad user experience — Previous Comments — Stylus, eh? — Well... I guess people will probably quote Jobs' opinion about the merits of a stylus (he was against it). — But a few thoughts:

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Uber Wants to Create 50,000 Jobs, Take 400,000 Cars Off the Road in Europe This Year — Uber chief Travis Kalanick said he wants to expand operations in Europe and, in the process, create 50,000 jobs and take 400,000 personal vehicles off the road. — Kalanick said the ride-sharing service …

More: New York Times, Uber Blog, CNET, Reuters, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and USA Today

Tweets: @felixsalmon, @amcafee, @bill_gross, @amcafee and @bill_gross

Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:

Turkey threatens to block Twitter unless Twitter blocks the account of a newspaper that circulated leaked documents — Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless …

More: PC World, The Huffington Post, Gigaom, The Register, Engadget, Techdirt, Gizmodo and SlashGear

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Raffi Khatchadourian / New Yorker:

How Rana el Kaliouby and her company Affectiva developed software to sense emotions from video — We Know How You Feel — Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can't wait. Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history …

Tweets: @jasonsilva, @vaughanbell, @interfluidity and @laurenthaug

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Microsoft begins wide rollout of Lumia Denim update that brings big improvements to camera app — Lumia Camera plays a starring role in Windows Phone Denim update — Microsoft has been sharing details on its Demim update, the next step up for Windows Phone, since September.

More: Lumia Conversations, The Verge, Engadget, Recombu, Inquirer, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and VentureBeat

Brian Crecente / Polygon:

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was the top selling game of 2014 as industry sales grew just 1% — Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare top selling game of 2014, Destiny number three — It appears the only thing people like to do more in video games than run around shooting each other …

More: Variety. Tweets: @mikemcwhertor

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Genius is beta testing a feature allowing users to annotate any web page — Genius tests ‘annotate everything everywhere’ feature — Genius, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that made headlines earlier this week when it poached pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones from The New Yorker …

More: Vox and Gigaom. Tweets: @steph3n, @jhagel, @robeirne, @balajis, @jayrosen_nyu and @petersterne

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Hutchison owner of mobile operator Three in talks to buy UK's O2 from Telefonica for $13.6B — Hutchison May Bid $13.6 Billion for U.K.'s O2, Sunday Times Says — Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (13), the conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, is in early talks to bid …

More: Engadget, RTTNews, TelecomLead, Seeking Alpha, The Register, Yorkshire Post, This is Money, Telegraph and Reuters. Tweets: @st_eppel

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Elon Musk planning low-orbit Internet satellite system to compete with OneWeb, based out of SpaceX's new Seattle office — Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet — Because he doesn't have enough going on, Elon Musk—he of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, SolarCity, and the Hyperloop—is launching another project.

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Neowin, Re/code, CNET, PC Magazine, VatorNews, The Next Web, Business Insider, Union Gazette, BBC, Engadget, GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat and Light Reading

Tweets: @valleyhack, @jeff_foust, @marshallk, @trengriffin, @rolfewinkler, @bldgblog and @mikeisaac

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sources: Google is interested in buying mobile payments company Softcard, price could be less than $100M — Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard — Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet.

Paul Carsten / Reuters:

Alibaba is beta testing DingTalk, a communications app for small and medium sized businesses — Alibaba's latest mobile messaging effort: social networking for businesses — (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest e-commerce company …

More: VoIP Watch, SlashGear, Chinatopix and The Tech Portal

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