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Facebook and Instagram Users Being Asked To Upload IDs To Regain Access — Over the past week, a number of users of the popular photo sharing app Instagram and parent company Facebook have been locked out of their accounts and prompted by both services to upload images of their government issued photo IDs … | The Verge: |
Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution — The new Google way is weird, but it's working — Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Review: jOBS is an entertaining, if impressionistic, portrait of Steve Jobs as a young man — jOBS opens with the introduction of the iPod on October 23, 2001 at an Apple Town Hall meeting. In the audience are a somewhat slimmer Jony Ive and other Apple employees.
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Facebook Might Owe You $10 — A class action suit about Facebook's Sponsored Stories feature resulted in a $20 million settlement. Up to $10 of that money might be coming to you. — Image by Robert Galbraith / Reuters — Last month, Facebook offered to settle a class action lawsuit …
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Internet Explorer ad tugs at heartstrings of Gen-Y users — Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good. — Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst.
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The Pope urges Catholics to flock to Twitter — Pope Benedict XIV may be one of Twitter's recent and most surprising converts. — Today, he asked Catholics to spread the word on Twitter and other social networking sites like Instagram and Tumblr to convert atheists to the faith, 140 characters at a time.
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Watch Vine videos sprout in real time with Vinepeek — Following in the footsteps of Instagram aggregators such as This Is Now, Vinepeek is a simple, one-page site showing newly-posted vines in real time. It's a basic concept, but the restrictions of Twitter's new video system …
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Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User E-Mail — Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands — Yahoo and Ymail, the Web giant said Friday. — The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's … | Edward Moyer / CNET: |
In Swartz protest, Anon hacks U.S. site, threatens leaks — Saying “a line was crossed” with the treatment of tech activist Aaron Swartz, the group hacks a government site related to the justice system and distributes encrypted files it says it will decrypt unless demands are met.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Unlocking new phones now banned under DMCA, the EFF weighs in — It was great while it lasted, but the days of users legally unlocking their own phones is over. Back in October of last year, the Library of Congress added an exemption to the DMCA to allow folks to free their new phones for 90 days.
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“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers” — A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent company, CBS. — I wasn't all that interested in the story at the time.
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Time Spent In Retailers' Mobile Apps Grows More Than Five-Fold In A Year, Flurry Finds — Consumers spent six times as much time in retailer apps in December compared to a year earlier, showing that shopping and commerce is finally beginning to take off on mobile platforms.
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