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Source: Apple is gathering advice from carmakers and automotive suppliers about parts and production methods as it learns to build a self-driving electric car — Apple learning to make self-driving car: source — (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is learning …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team — WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it
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| Kevin Roose / Fusion: |
Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day — Snapchat Discover could be the biggest thing in news since Twitter — A few weeks ago, Snapchat updated its app. The new version had a little purple dot in the upper-right corner of the app's Stories screen.| New York Times: |
Kaspersky says sophisticated malware was used to steal at least $300M from 100+ financial institutions in 30 nations since late 2013 — Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware — PALO ALTO, Calif. — In late 2013, an A.T.M. in Kiev started dispensing cash at seemingly random times of day.| Emily Bazelon / New York Times: |
Behind the Stanford investigation preceding the sexual harrassment and rape lawsuit against Formation 8 and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale — The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor — Credit: From left: Elinor Carucci for The New York Times. Ian Allen for The New York Times.
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Google's co-founders are about to sell $4.4 billion worth of shares — Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to sell about $4.4 billion worth of company shares, according to a new filing with the SEC (which we first spotted thanks to Footnoted).
Tweets: @footnoted
| Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
South Carolina prisons have imposed heavy penalties on over 400 prisoners for using social media, mostly Facebook — Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook — In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Kara Swisher Interviews President Barack Obama on Cyber Security, Privacy and His Relationship With Silicon Valley — President Barack Obama took the hot seat with Re/code's Kara Swisher Friday as the two talked about a range of tech-focused topics, including cyber warfare …
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Flickr beta-testing Camera Roll, a sleeker interface for browsing, editing, and organizing photos — Flickr Rolling Out Camera Roll: A New Way to Browse, Edit, and Organize Your Shots — Flickr is rolling out a new feature called Camera Roll that's designed to make it even easier for users to browse … | Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Wink's promise of a simple, affordable smart home proves false; not one product worked as advertised out of the box — Why Is My Smart Home So F**king Dumb? — A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment.| Casey Johnston / Motherboard: |
How Pavel Durov lost control of Russia's largest social network VKontakte to the Kremlin — Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network — Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent … Sponsor Posts
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