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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Superfish adware reportedly pre-installed on new Lenovo computers, affecting Chrome and Internet Explorer, posing a major security threat — Lenovo caught installing adware on new computers — It looks like Lenovo has been installing adware onto new consumer computers from the company …
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The Register, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Forbes, Errata Security and TechSpot
| Ritsuko Ando / Reuters: |
Sony three-year plan to focus on PlayStation and camera sensors; company may exit smartphone and TV markets — Sony sees 25-fold profit jump by 2018; could exit TVs, phones — (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) aims to boost operating profit 25-fold within three years by growing its camera sensors …
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Sony Global, New York Times, TechnoBuffalo, SiliconANGLE, Good E-Reader, BBC, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, PC World, Image Sensors World, PhoneDog.com, Mashable, bgr.in, Billboard, Forbes, Politico, ReadWrite, AfterDawn.com, FierceWireless, ZDNet, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Forbes, Android Central, Fortune, Polygon and Android Authority. Tweets: @mgsiegler. See also Mediagazer
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
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Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Network World, CNET, The Next Web, TechSpot, PC Magazine and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @reckless
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist — It's finally official: The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy. — Yes, that's a mouthful. Even as an acronym, Patil's new title is ten letters long: CDCaDCTODT.
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The White House, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Engadget, Nextgov and Gigaom
Tweets: @aral, @jess, @loic, @johnbattelle, @whitehouseostp, @dpatil and @joshelman
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber expands Series E round by $1B, bringing the total capacity for round up to $2.8B — Facing Demand, Uber Expands Funding Round by $1 Billion — Uber, the ride-hailing service, likes to trumpet its popularity with consumers. Their fervor is surpassed, perhaps, only by investors'.
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, Forbes, GeekWire, Business Insider, Re/code and silicontap.com
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore pleads guilty to hacking, ID theft — Moore, once deemed the “most hated man on the Internet,” ran IsAnyoneUp.com. — On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com pleaded guilty [PDF] …
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Gizmodo, The Smoking Gun, PC World, NBC News, Forbes, Associated Press, LawFuel, The Inquisitr News, AfterDawn.com, KTLA and The Verge
| Serenity Caldwell / iMore: |
Astropad is a $50 sketching app that mirrors a Mac display on an iPad at a high frame rate with functionality similar to a Wacom tablet — Astropad brings the Cintiq experience to your iPad — The iPad's made great progress in the sketching world, but it's still been hampered …
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SlashGear, The Verge, Macworld, Gigaom, connect.dpreview.com and The Next Web
Tweets: @lobau, @reneritchie, @settern and @imore
| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs — Ray Wants to Change Your TV Experience, With a Touchscreen Remote Control (Video) — As more set-top boxes, game consoles and sticks that stream Web video crowd the main television set in the home …
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Digital Trends, PC World, PC Magazine, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Virtual Press Office, Gigaom and Variety
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit — Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.
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Law360, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews and iMore
| Johnathan Nightingale / meandering wildly: |
Mozilla's VP in charge of Firefox Johnathan Nightingale to step down at the end of March — Home for a Rest — Earlier today, I sent this note to the global mozilla employees list. It was not an easy send button to push. — One of the many, many things Mozilla has taught me over the years is not to bury the lede, so here goes:
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pandora testing a message service that lets artists send audio messages to fans — Pandora to Let Music Artists Like Lenny Kravitz Send Audio Messages to Fans (Video) — Even Pandora wants in on the messaging boom. — The music streaming service is launching a pilot test this week …
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Pandora Blog, Fortune, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Ubergizmo and iMore
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Capital's first international expansion set for India — Google Capital Sets Sights on India — More evidence of global investors' growing interest in India's startups: Google's new investment arm is setting up shop in the country. — In what will mark the first such expansion outside the U.S. …
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and SiliconBeat
| Dustin Volz / National Journal: |
Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat — Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said. — Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts …
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Google Public Policy Blog, PC World, The Next Web, Guardian, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, SiliconBeat, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Hill and Slashdot
Tweets: @declanm, @mattcutts and @csoghoian
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
DeSoto, SF's oldest taxi firm, ditches 82-year old name for Flywheel, as part of co-marketing agreement with e-hailing app company — DeSoto, S.F.'s oldest taxi firm, rebrands itself as Flywheel — San Francisco's oldest taxi company is changing the name it has held since the 1930s … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung will buy Apple Pay competitor LoopPay — Samsung will buy LoopPay, a mobile payments company. — LoopPay's technology allows mobile payments through traditional magnetic credit card readers. That means it can theoretically work in a lot more places than Apple Pay, which requires special payment pads to work.
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Re/code, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Next Web, New York Times, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Forbes, PC World, MacRumors, PC World, SiliconANGLE, ReadWrite, Ars Technica, iMore, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, Gigaom, The Verge and BGR. Tweets: @nytimesbits
| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: |
UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility — A world-class country should have world-class Internet access. — A new report, published by the upper house of UK parliament—the House of Lords—has called for Internet access to be reclassified as a public utility.
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Financial Times, dtg.org.uk, GamePolitics blogs, The Hill and ITProPortal
| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect — Samsung does not encrypt voice recordings that are collected and transmitted by its smart TVs to a third party service, even though the company has claimed that it uses encryption to secure consumers' personal information.
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Pen Test Partners, BetaNews, Fusion, SlashGear, GSMArena Blog, BBC and Gizmodo. Thanks:@bradchacos
| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest is trying to raise another $500M, valuing the company at $11B (report) — The image bookmarking site Pinterest is reportedly in talks to raise another $500 million in venture capital, which would put the company at a valuation of about $11 billion.
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, CNET and Mashable
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NewCo, John Battelle's Event Startup, Raises $1.7M From Obvious, True Ventures And More — NewCo, the latest venture from Federated Media co-founder John Battelle and Brian Monahan that focuses on creating city-based “festivals” as a new approach to more standard startup and tech confabs …
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NewCo Blog, Fortune, NewCo Blog, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Gigaom and silicontap.com
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Ethertronics unveils active steering chip that helps Wi-Fi navigate obstacles, boosting range — Active antennas could mean more powerful Wi-Fi networks — Smart antenna maker Ethertronics is taking active antenna technology it originally developed for mobile phones and applying it to Wi-Fi routers and gadgets.
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Engadget, BGR, RCR Wireless News, EE Times, TechSpot, FierceWirelessTech News and Engadget
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