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Twitter Vice Presidents of product and engineering discuss how Twitter makes product decisions — Twitter's Dilemma — Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that's so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing.
Tweets: @travisbernard, @alexia, @valaafshar, @chartier, @sub8u and @mdudas
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Apple to invest €1.7B for new data centres in Ireland and Denmark running on 100% renewable energy — Apple to Invest €1.7 Billion in New European Data Centres — State-of-the-art facilities in Ireland and Denmark will run on 100 percent renewable energy
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The Verge, Gigaom, iMore, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and MacStories
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HTC One M9 pics and specs leak ahead of March 1st launch, will feature a 2GHz Snapdragon 810 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 5-inch 1080p display, and a 20MP camera — HTC One M9 pictures and specs leak out — As usual with HTC, the next great Android smartphone from the Taiwanese company has apparently …
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Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, Mashable, TechRadar.com, GSMArena.com, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Android Authority, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, Pocket-lint, Neowin and TechnoBuffalo
Tweets: @reckless and @detroitborg
| Kevin Roose / Fusion: |
Meet the tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct — Like most media workers, Matthew Lazin-Ryder, a Vancouver-based producer with CBC Radio, spends a fair amount of time on Twitter. When he tweets, his messages are seen by some percentage of his 3,470 followers.
Tweets: @kevinroose, @sfiegerman, @digiphile, @hunterwalk, @digiphile, @alexjamesfitz, @zseward, @antderosa, @cpen, @arainert, @nkulw, @travelfish and @jnpayne. See also Mediagazer
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Android Auto and CarPlay-enabled cars are coming, but some auto manufacturers are slow to adopt either platform — Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Dell XPS 13 review: fast with class-leading 15 hour battery life on low-cost 1080p model — Dell XPS 13 Review — Dell launched the 2015 version of their XPS 13 at CES in January, and it made a big impression because of something that was very small. The first thing you see when you look …
Tweets: @dell, @mims and @jeffjarvis
| Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
President Obama's doomsday encryption scenario doesn't align with how the tech actually works — What President Obama is getting wrong about encryption — President Obama meets with business leaders at a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection on Feb. 13 at Stanford University in Palo Alto …
Tweets: @runasand, @kansasalps, @matthew_d_green and @headhntr
| Angie Han / /Film: |
Oliver Stone to direct an Edward Snowden biopic, set for a Christmas 2015 release — Oliver Stone's ‘Snowden’ Sets Christmas Release; Adds Timothy Olyphant and More — Every year, the studios release approximately 8 million prestige dramas between November and December … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Tumblr adds “torrent” to adult content filter hiding related posts and searches from non-logged in users — Tumblr Censors “Torrent” Related Tags and Searches — It appears that piracy is becoming a growing concern for micro-blogging platform Tumblr.
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gHacks Technology News, PC Magazine, SlashGear, ResearchBuzz and Neowin
| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
How flash sale site Gilt Groupe overextended and lost focus after rapid growth and fundraising — Four years ago Gilt Groupe was the hottest startup in New York — Here's what happened — Four years ago, luxury flash-sales startup Gilt Groupe was one of the buzziest e-commerce startups in the world …
Tweets: @borthwick
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, which adds interactive notifications, a customizable “Action Center”, new Photos and File Explorer apps — An in-depth look at the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones — By now, you will have heard at least something about Windows 10 …
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TechCrunch, PC World, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint and windowsphone.com
| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
AT&T charges at least $44 more per month for GigaPower plans if you opt out of web monitoring, and makes this pricing hard to discover — Don't let AT&T mislead you about its $29 “privacy fee” — This week AT&T got a lot of media attention for its expansion of its GigaPower service to Kansas City announced on Monday.
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Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Tweets: @gigastacey, @elissabeth, @mweinbergpk and @gigastacey
| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber must mature, but its victory over competitors and regulators seems certain in the US — It's Already Over And Uber Has Won — Money isn't everything, but it's certainly a useful metric for keeping score, especially when you're measuring it in the billions.
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New York Times. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @jonrussell, @chrisgeidner, @dnvolz and @jspeedymorris22. Thanks:@jmbooyah
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