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Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown — Orca, the Romney campaign's “killer” app, skips beta and pays the price. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — It was supposed to be a “killer app,” but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Teenage Hacker ‘Cosmo the God’ Sentenced by California Court — “Cosmo the God” in a park near his home in Long Beach, California. Photo: Sandra Garcia/Wired — The 15-year-old UG Nazi hacker known as Cosmo* or Cosmo the God was sentenced in juvenile court on Wednesday in Long Beach, California.
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| Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: |
Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments — Facebook isn't just testing a sound-alert function on the site — it's also experimenting with a reply option for comments posted to Timeline, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed. — “We are testing a new way to add comments to a post on Facebook …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs, Analytics, Drive, more — The Chinese government has blocked access to Google.com, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google Drive, and many other Google services as the Communist Party of China holds the 18th Party Congress … | Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me: Yahoo's Latest New Homepage Redesign Tries Dramatic Interactive Tile Look — Another week and yet another new design for the Yahoo homepage is being tested out on users — this time, it appears to be one (which you can see below) that looks a lot …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface users report Touch Cover splits and audio issues — Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has been available for just two weeks, but users are starting to notice some early issues with the device. We noted in our original Surface review that performance was a little hit or miss … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
ToyTalk, the AI toy company founded by Ex-Pixar talent, gets $11.5M from Charles Rivers Ventures — ToyTalk, the artificial intelligence toy company founded by ex-Pixar and SRI talent has recieved $11.5M in Series-A funding from Charles Rivers Ventures. The funding round was discovered … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
After $368.2m award in patent lawsuit, VirnetX files another complaint against Apple — VirnetX, the Internet security software company that was awarded $368.2 million after a jury decided that Apple had infringed several of its patents, has filed another complaint against the Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics giant.
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| Chris Taylor / Mashable!: |
NASA Builds Interplanetary Internet, Controls LEGO Robot From Space … In the annals of geeky space experiments, it's going to be hard to top this one. — NASA and the European Space Agency announced Thursday that it had successfully tested a new kind of communications protocol — the backbone of a future interplanetary Internet.
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| Rob Williams / HotHardware.com News: |
Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising — Despite the fact that I've been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we're not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen …
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Spotify Nears Financing at Over $3B Valuation — Spotify Ltd. is in the midst of closing a round of financing that will value the Internet music service at slightly more than $3 billion, said people with knowledge of the matter. — The U.K.-based company is raising more than $100 million …
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