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Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War
— As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips. — Forty-five years after Intel was founded …
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Retwact: A Tool for Fixing Twitter's Misinformation Problem
— Can an enterprising developer striking out on his own solve one of the social network's biggest flaws? — Even worse than the pornbots and trolls, one of Twitter's enduring drawbacks is that there's no reliable way to issue corrections with the service.
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The Myth of America's Tech-Talent Shortage
— And what it should mean for immigration reform. — So it turns out the United States is not, in fact, the educational wasteland tech industry lobbyists would have you think. — Companies like Microsoft often claim that America is suffering …
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Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... the Digital Public Library of America!
— Three questions with the project's executive director — Benjamin Sewall Blake jumping, ca. 1888. Francis Blake, photographer. (Massachusetts Historical Society) — Two-and-a-half years ago …
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Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation
— A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. — Once your life is inside a federal investigation, there is no space outside of it.
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Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition
— If you want to stop social networking services from exploiting your likeness for advertising, you've got to start paying up. — Instagram is changing its terms of use in January. Included in the new legalese is one section …
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How the UN's ‘Game-Changing’ Internet Treaty Failed
— German delegates on the fourth day of the 12-day-long World Conference on International Telecommunications (ITU/Flickr) — Did you know that, for the past two weeks, the future of the Internet has been at stake? — Yes, it has.
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Why Google Maps Is Better Than Apple Maps
— There's a simple answer: people. — For all of Google's reputation as a data-data-data company, the company's famed mapping product, which arrived on iOS early this morning, is good for a different reason: people.
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When the Nerds Go Marching In
— How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).
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David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail
— The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.
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