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Google partially automates launches of Project Loon balloons, expands their range by passing Internet signals between them — Google Details New Project Loon Tech to Keep Its Internet Balloons Afloat — Google's Mike Cassidy describes two advancements that could help Project Loon become commercial as soon as next year
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Google partners with Qualcomm on Project Tango reference phone, no longer requires preapproval to purchase Project Tango tablet — Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango — I'm standing in a strange, spartan space. There's a floor, but no walls.
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Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M — The founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to life in prison without parole — The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat has raised $537M in sale of common stock, at a valuation of $16B according to sources — Snapchat Raises Another $500 Million From Investors — Investment from Alibaba, others values popular messaging service at $16 billion — The demand to own private shares in Snapchat Inc …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Sources: US tried deploying Stuxnet-style virus against North Korea five years ago to destroy equipment, but the campaign failed — Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed - sources — The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus …
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Kindle gets a new font and layout engine with better text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and more — The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck — Amazon's Kindle e-reader is a lovely single-purpose gadget, with an industrial design ethos that … | Steven Max Patterson / CIO.com: |
Google releases Polymer 1.0, a core library used to build and style Web components — Google's Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development — Signaling Polymer's production readiness, Google announced release 1.0 at its annual I/O developer conference.| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
Proposed Wassenaar export restrictions on cyberweapons endanger security researchers, don't make the world any safer — Some notes about Wassenaar — So #wassenaar has infected your timeline for the past several days. I thought I'd explain what the big deal is. — What's a Wassenaar?
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple vans are gathering data for in-house mapping database, collecting street-view imagery and taking stills of business storefronts to replace Yelp photos — Mystery solved: Apple vans gathering next-gen Maps data, grabbing Street View storefronts + 3D images
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| Alan Yuhas / Guardian: |
In protest of NSA surveillance laws, more than 10K websites redirect visitors from congressional IP addresses to blackoutcongress.org — More than 10,000 websites ‘blackout’ Congress in protest of NSA surveillance laws — Fight for the Future provides code to block access … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs — Facebook this afternoon confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed. Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the update is still rolling out.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google Sells 17 Million Chromecast Devices, Clocks 1.5 Billion Casts — Google has finally announced actual sales figures for its Chromecast streaming stick: Consumers have bought 17 million Chromecasts ever since the device got first introduced two years ago, announced Google's senior VP …
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