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Senate blocks USA Freedom Act and extensions to key provisions of Patriot Act, will reconvene just hours before expiration on May 31 — Senate blocks extension of Patriot Act provisions — WASHINGTON - Three key sections of the Patriot Act are set to expire on June 1 unless the Senate resolves … | Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
NSA bulk phone records collection to end despite USA Freedom Act failure — Even as the Senate remains at an impasse over the future of US domestic surveillance powers, the National Security Agency will be legally unable to collect US phone records in bulk by the time Congress returns from its Memorial Day vacation.
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| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry to Lay Off Undisclosed Number of Employees in Device Business — Arm focused on development of smartphone software, applications to be affected — BlackBerry Ltd. said Friday it is laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its device business including those focused …
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Re/code, WMPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, CBC News, Business Standard, CTVNews, ABC News, Business Insider and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Young Saudis increasingly rely on mobile apps and social media to circumvent conservative strictures — Young Saudis, Bound by Conservative Strictures, Find Freedom on Their Phones — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Life for many young Saudis is an ecosystem of apps. — Lacking free speech, they debate on Twitter.| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Google Maps rolls out traffic alerts and alternate routes — Memorial Day is just around the corner and for some, nay many, that means a lot of traveling. And when traveling is involved, especially by land, then headaches and tempers caused by traffic are as well.| Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine: |
Four years after ‘Jeopardy’ win, IBM's Watson program has seen applications in 75 industries including finance, healthcare, molecular biology — How Afraid of Watson the Robot Should We Be? — On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers …
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AOL's MapQuest Inks UI Deal With Mapbox As It Prepares To Overhaul The Product — AOL, which is in the process of getting acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion, says it has no plans to divest itself of its content operations (which include TechCrunch) as part of that deal. But it's not leaving them on autopilot, either.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Social+Capital raises $600M in third investment fund, confirms Kleiner Perkins was interested in acquiring them — Is Social+Capital's Chamath Palihapitiya the future of venture capital? — Here's an irony of Silicon Valley startup culture: While many new tech companies are conceived …
Tweets: @deborahgage, @bersonperson and @om
| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Chrome for Android goes almost “entirely open source” — Launched in September 2008, Google's Chrome browser is now dominant in its share of the desktop web browser market, with approximately 1 in 4 Internet users interfacing with the web using the browser.
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VentureBeat, TechFrag, OMG!, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Liliputing, Android Police and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Promo for Zedd's new album on Tinder lets you swipe right on a fake profile for the artist to get a discounted download price of $3.99 — Tinder Gets Into Music by Offering Zedd's New Album for $3.99 — As Tinder continues to ramp up its marketing appeal for brands …
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Magnetic Magazine, Billboard, TechCrunch, PAPERMAG, Music Times, Music Ally, Mashable, Engadget and Guardian. See also Mediagazer
| Simon Bowers / Guardian: |
Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales — From the start of this month the online retailer has started booking its sales through the UK, meaning resulting profits will be taxed by HMRC — Amazon has become the first technology company to abandon controversial corporate structures …
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BetaNews, Slashdot, International Business Times, The Drum, Daily Mail, Financial Times and The Independent. Tweets: @willcritchlow
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
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