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Hands-on with Magic Leap's AR technology, which augments your vision by projecting light into your eyes — What It's Like to Try Magic Leap's Take on Virtual Reality — A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.
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Equation Group shows US already has a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity, but like the original, it's purely offensive — Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks — “What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity.”| 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.| Fusion: |
How the JOBS Act, investor demand, and private securities markets allow Uber to stay private — How can Uber raise so much money without going public? — Yesterday, Uber announced that its latest round of venture capital financing will total $2.8 billion dollars.
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| Leslie Price / Racked: |
What the Tech World Doesn't Understand About Fashion — The tech world is infatuated with fashion. This is because fashion has something tech seriously wants: the ability to create and sustain demand for products that are—let's face it—kind of useless. — “We desperately need … | Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Spanish shoeshine guards Twitter handles like @Canada and @Japan until he can give ownership to governments — Meet the Spanish shoeshine guy who secretly guards Twitter's greatest real estate — Officially, Javier Castaño is a 50-year-old shoeshine guy at a cafe in Malaga, Spain.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Trivia Crack led App Store for 66 days, and now struggles to process a glut of user-created questions — Can an App Be Too Successful? Ask ‘Trivia Crack’ — Mobile game has topped the charts with user-generated questions, but now players gripe of a glut
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| Dan Froomkin / The Intercept: |
FBI Flouts Obama Directive to Limit Gag Orders on National Security Letters — Despite the post-Snowden spotlight on mass surveillance, the intelligence community's easiest end-run around the Fourth Amendment since 2001 has been something called a National Security Letter.
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XO-Infinity is a modular laptop for students, picks up where OLPC left off — The One Laptop Per Child project introduced the idea of small, low-cost, low-power durable laptops that could be used by students around the world, with a special focus on developing markets.| Bloomberg Business: |
JPMorgan strengthens cybersecurity after last year's data theft by staffing up with ex-military experts — JPMorgan Hires Military-Grade Cyberwarriors to Fend Off Data Thieves—and Foreign Powers — The bank is building a new facility near the NSA's headquarters to attract new talent| Bloomberg Business: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Internet.org: barriers to connectivity, why ads are not a priority at current stage, more — Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: The Full Interview on Connecting the World — The Facebook chief executive officer talks drones, lasers, and debates with Bill Gates — Don't Miss Out —| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Lenovo has just released an automatic Superfish removal tool — The company updated its statement on the bug today — Lenovo has released a tool to help users remove Superfish, according to a statement released today by the company. — Superfish is an adware program that was pre-installed … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
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