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Government and Anthem data breaches pose indefinite threat of future harm as birthdate, full name, and SSN remain integral to identity in many systems — Data Theft Today Poses Indefinite Threat of “Future Harm” — Benjamin Nuss was one of the nearly 80 million people whose social security number …
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White House confirms hackers breached second computer system at OPM, says President is considering financial sanctions against attackers — White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System — WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday revealed that hackers had breached …
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Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Beats Electronics planned to introduce a WiFi speaker by the holidays in 2014, but effectively killed it post acquisition — Apple Music's Missing Link: How Beats Electronics Fumbled Its Sonos Killer (Exclusive) — Pop stars, live music, superlatives: The launch …
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| Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
DJI announces developer focused, expandable Matrice M100 drone, object-avoidance system, SDK allowing integration with Oculus, Leap Motion and other devices — PILOTS COULD FLY DJI'S NEW M100 DRONE FOR DEVELOPERS USING OCULUS VR GOGGLES — Imagine piloting a drone by seeing where it's ing using … | Ewen MacAskill / Guardian: |
Germany drops inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone — Prosecutors say they can find no actionable evidence to support claims German chancellor's mobile phone was tapped by US National Security Agency — German federal prosecutors have closed their investigation … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Expands Prime With Goods Shipped Directly From Merchants — Amazon.com has quietly begun rolling out a program that could dramatically increase the number of items eligible for two-day shipping through its Prime membership. — The e-commerce giant is now listing items in Prime …
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Google is taking additional steps to reduce Chrome's battery draw — Google recently implemented a new feature in Chrome that detects and shuts down any unnecessary Flash content on a web page. The intent was to free up some CPU cycles and ultimately, improve battery life on mobile devices and notebooks.| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Google will take on Amazon's Twitch by launching YouTube Gaming, an app and website for live-streamed and on-demand gaming video, this summer in US and UK — Google is launching a ‘YouTube built for gamers’ to take on Twitch — Google is now officially taking on Twitch.
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Amazon releases first transparency report, covering January 1-May 31: 813 subpoenas of which 66% were fully complied with, 0-249 national security requests — After years of silence, Amazon releases first transparency report — The cloud giant said it was never part of the government's PRISM surveillance program.
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Google Play Offers Its First Free App Of The Week—A PBS App Tucked Away In The Family Section — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FCC Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About PayPal's New Robocall Policy — PayPal and eBay's recent announcement that their terms of service are changing to allow them to make robocalls or send text messages to users has now caught the attention of both federal and state officials.
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