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Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.
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See also Mediagazer| Dennis Kish / Google Fiber Blog: |
Google confirms Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham — Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham — It's been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Snapchat launches ad-supported Discover feature to show off videos and stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers, and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.
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See also Mediagazer| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 software update w/ stability improvements, reduces space required to update — Apple released the iOS 8.1.3 software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users today. The update is available over-the-air through the Software Update section of the Settings app.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with fixes for security and WiFi issues, adds support for iCloud Drive in Time Machine — Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 With Security Fixes, iCloud Drive Browsing Options in Time Machine — Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay coming to 200,000 vending machines, kiosks, paid parking & other self-serve locations — While individual retailers have been announcing support for Apple Pay as more NFC terminals enable the service, it's still hit and miss on vending machines and other self-serve, unattended hardware.
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| Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press: |
Cut off from Internet, Cuban youth link more than 9K computers to create private network — Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban — HAVANA (AP) — Cut off from the Internet, young Cubans have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network … | Jacob Rossi / Smashing Magazine: |
How Microsoft created EdgeHTML, the rendering engine powering the Spartan browser — Inside Microsoft's New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan” — Last week, Microsoft made its biggest announcement for the web since it first introduced Internet Explorer in 1995: a new browser, codenamed “Project Spartan31.”| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance — We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. — The entity that's conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world's communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.
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| Costin Raiu / Securelist: |
Researchers say Qwerty keylogger used by Five Eyes governments and Regin malware are developed by the same entity, or by entities working closely together — Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger — On January 17 2015, Spiegel.de published an extensive article based on documents obtained from Edward Snowden.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
F.T.C. Calls for Strong Data and Privacy Protection With Connected Devices — As consumers increasingly adopt devices that can collect information and transmit it to the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday called on technology companies that sell those products …
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| Bloomberg: |
France seeks to sanction web companies as hate-speech accomplices if they host extremist messages — France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror — The French government is stepping up the pressure on Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Facebook Inc. (FB) to help in the struggle against terrorist groups.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Former Opera CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Browser For Power Users — Opera's former CEO Jon von Tetzchner is launching the first preview of Vivaldi today, a new Chromium-based browser that is squarely aimed at power users. Vivaldi features tools like Quick Commands for using written commands instead …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Perceptions aside, Groupon, with a market cap of $4.9B, has seen revenue and EBITDA consistently climb since going public — Let's stop laughing at Groupon — When we began work on our Age of Unicorns cover for Fortune, one internal conversation was about cautionary tales. Fab? Sure. Box?
Tweets: @startupljackson and @fortunemagazine
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Canalys: Apple shipped the most smartphones in China during Q4 2014 — For the first time, Apple has beaten local smartphones vendors in China. During Q4 2014, the company's iPhone line nabbed first place by units shipped in the Chinese smartphone market.
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