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An in-depth look inside the top-secret lab where Jonathan Ive's design team created the Apple Watch — The Shape of Things to Come — How an industrial designer became Apple's greatest product. — I. Launch Day … “We can do this the easy way or we can do this the cute way.” — »
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Extensive Kasperky Lab report details advanced spy capabilities of Stuxnet-linked threat actor dubbed “Equation Group” — How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last — “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered.
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NSA-linked “Equation Group” can infect computers repeatedly via spyware inserted in hard disk firmware — Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …
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Securelist, The Verge, Krebs on Security, Engadget, Boing Boing and VentureBreak
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple, while capable of building a car, would face low margins and challenges developing autonomous driving tech — The Fantastic Apple Car — Forget the iWatch, Apple Pay, and the iPhone 7...the next big thing from Cupertino will be the Apple Car. — At first, I didn't pay much attention to the Apple Car rumors.
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| Neil Savage / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers working on a light-based “Li-Fi” wireless system capable of 100 Gbps speeds, requires direct line of sight to a receiver — Li-Fi-like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer — The light that zips data across the Internet's backbone used …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson — A company called Elemental Path is developing a new line of smart toys for children which will be powered by the super computing system IBM Watson, enabling the toys to engage in real and personalized conversations with kids, and evolve with the child as he or she grows.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AT&T to sell Blackberry Passport for $200 and Classic for $50 on contract, starting Feb. 20th — BlackBerry's new phones finally come to a US carrier this month — AT&T to sell the Passport and Classic starting on February 20th — BlackBerry's latest devices …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Samsung's first 14nm SoC is a 64-bit, 8-core Exynos aimed at high-end phones — New manufacturing process extends to other Exynos and third-party chips soon. — Samsung has just announced a new high-end Exynos 7 Octa SoC. It uses eight CPU cores—a combination of four high-end Cortex A57 cores …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Infosys Acquires SaaS Provider Panaya In Deal Valued At $200M — Consulting and IT services provider Infosys announced today that it will acquire Panaya, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company. Worth an enterprise value of about $200 million, the deal is expected to close by the end of March.| James Temperton / Wired.co.uk: |
After UK court ruling, Privacy International website allows you to ask if GCHQ spied on you — You can now find out if GCHQ spied on you — People from around the world can join a campaign to find out if British intelligence agency GCHQ illegally spied on them — and force it to delete the data.
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The Next Web, Medium, TechCrunch, TechRadar.com, PC World, BetaNews, The Independent, Newsweek, Forbes, Mirror.co.uk, Recombu, htxt.africa, TrustedReviews and VentureBreak. Tweets: @rj_gallagher
| Jeffrey Wu / Central News Agency: |
Asus is working on non-Android Wear smartwatch with better battery life — Asustek may leave Android Wear behind on future smartwatch — Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. (.) could turn to a second mobile operating system for a future smartwatches in order …
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G 4 Games, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, xda-developers and Digital Trends
| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Small MVNOs FreedomPop and Republic Wireless rely primarily on Wi-Fi, fall back on cellular to reduce costs; new entrants like Google may do the same — Small Phone Companies Use Wi-Fi to Punch Above Their Weight — SAN FRANCISCO — It would not be an insult to say Republic Wireless and FreedomPop are obscure little companies.| faa.gov: |
Regulations will facilitate integration of small UAS into U.S. aviation system — WASHINGTON - The Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) …
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