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US cloud services caught in the middle, as activists use them to route around China's Great Firewall — U.S. Cloud Providers Face Backlash From China's Censors — Free-speech activists rely on cloud computing to get around China's Great Firewall — U.S. tech companies are caught …
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GreatFire experiencing severe DDoS attacks, with 2.6B requests/hour, 2,500 times normal levels, affecting all mirror sites — We are under attack — We are under attack and we need help. Likely in response to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), we've experienced …
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FTC report from 2012 reveals key staff recommended filing lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive tactics — FTC Staff Sought Antitrust Suit Against Google — Key FTC staff wanted to sue Internet giant after finding ‘real harm to consumers and to innovation’
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
FTC Report: Google Purposely Demoted Competiting Shopping Sites — Details from an FTC investigation into Google on anti-trust accusations have emerged, suggesting the search giant specifically worked to keep competitors out of its top results. — Google deliberately blacklisted competing shopping sites …
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Google, Intel and TAG Heuer Partner on Luxury Smartwatch — Watch industry, consider yourself warned — Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers, particularly the much-hyped watch by Apple.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
FAA gives Amazon permission to start outdoor research and testing of Prime Air delivery drones in US — Amazon just got permission from the FAA to start testing its delivery drones in the US — The e-commerce giant had threatened to take its research and development overseas| Wall Street Journal: |
HBO, Showtime, and Sony Corp. have talked to ISPs about treating streaming TV as “managed” services in separate lanes, avoiding congestion and data caps — Streaming TV Services Seek to Sidestep Web Congestion — HBO, Sony and Showtime ask for separate lanes, opening question on net neutrality| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Windows 10 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, supports phones up to 8 inches and requires that they have at least 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage — Windows 10 hardware specs allow for huge phones and teeny tablets — If you thought the six-inch Lumia 1520 was a monster phone …
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| Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Tech: |
Facebook Engineering Director David Recordon joins White House as Director of Information Technology, a newly created position — Exclusive: Facebook's Engineering Director Is Headed to the White House — The White House just added another Silicon Valley veteran to its growing roster of tech experts.
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White House.gov Blog, SiliconBeat, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Hill, Re/code and E Pluribus Unum
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Magic Leap demos its augmented reality tech in YouTube video showing in-office gameplay experience — Watch Magic Leap's Video Of Seamless Augmented Reality Office Game Play — Magic Leap is showing what it might look like to use its hardware for augmented reality gaming in the future …
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YouTube, The Next Web, Re/code, Engadget, SlashGear, Benzinga, VentureBeat, NY Daily News, Gizmodo and The Verge
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NYC has 14K cars affiliated with Uber, outnumbering 13.5K medallion cabs, 4 years after launch — More Uber cars than yellow taxis on the road in NYC — Black is the new yellow. — Uber has thrown down the gauntlet in the Big Apple taxi wars — overtaking the yellow-cab industry …
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BBC, The Daily Dot, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Engadget, Business Insider, CBS San Francisco and Entrepreneur. Tweets: @ericnewcomer
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US government launches open-source dashboard built on Google Analytics and AWS that allows anyone to view government website traffic — Feds release public analytics dashboard for .gov websites — Call it Google Analytics for the U.S. government: An open-source dashboard that allows … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android Device Manager now lets you find your lost phone using your Android Wear watch — Google today updated its Android Device Manager service with support for Android Wear. In other words, you can now find your lost smartphone using your smartwatch. — The company says watch owners … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
GIF search engine Giphy acquires Nutmeg, a GIF messaging app, as part of focus on mobile; app will remain alive — Giphy's First Acquisition, Nutmeg, Is A Big Step Towards Mobile — Giphy, the betaworks-backed Google of GIFs, has today announced its first acquisition.| Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project: |
Pew: Users in 32 emerging nations deem Internet a positive influence for education but negative for morality — Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in Emerging and Developing Nations — As more people around the world gain access to all the tools …
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