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I thought Square would kill off the credit card. Will Jack Dorsey's company save it instead?
— The Square Stand in action Courtesy of Square Inc. — This morning Square announced a new product that took me by surprise: the Square Stand, an iPad holder and credit card reader that's meant …
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Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer
— I first came across Google's interest in Star Trek back in the summer of 2010. A company spokesman wanted to show me the firm's rapidly improving visual search and speech-recognition technology.
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The Facebook phone is not as dumb as I thought it was going to be.
— Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. — People have been waiting for the Facebook Phone for years. Not real people, mind you, just technology reporters.
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Boston police catfishing indie rockers: Cops pose as punks on the Internet.
— The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city's most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows. — As anyone who's watched a single crime story on TV or film knows, undercover detective work is dangerous business.
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DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research
— The outdated copyright law doesn't just hurt consumers—it cripples researchers. — It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company, Sony BMG …
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FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
— For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time — Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time.
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The Google Graveyard
— It's hard to lose a loved one, especially if that loved one is a Google service. That's why we're opening the gates of the Google Graveyard, a virtual space for grieving. Buried in these hallowed grounds are some of Google's ill-fated services.
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Why Did Google Reader Die?
— And what free Web service will be next? — Google Reader — Screenshot via Google — I've made it pretty clear that I don't like RSS readers. When you subscribe to your favorite sites and read all their articles in a single, text-heavy interface …
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Wiretapping Firm Says Telecom Providers Could Be Handing Over More Data Than Authorized
— Do telecom companies sometimes give law enforcement too much information on users' communications? — Wiretapping emails and phone calls has always been a contentious law enforcement tactic.
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Uber, Lyft, Sidecar: Can the FTC fight local taxi commissions?
— Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps. — In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.