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Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too — 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 …
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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.| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Review: While “jOBS” fawns over subject, film falls flat — The eagerly awaited biopic of the Apple founder aims to capture a legend, but neglects the world he lived in. — PARK CITY, UTAH—The eagerly awaited biopic “jOBS” opens in 2001, when Apple's iconic co-founder arrives at Town Hall on Apple's Cupertino campus with good news.| 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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“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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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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| 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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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Group Commerce Has Laid Off 28% Of Its Staff — Group Commerce, an e-commerce platform for publishers that made its name in the daily-deal market, has fired 31 people. — The company confirmed the layoffs to Business Insider. The cuts amount to 28% of its 109-person staff.
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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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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
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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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks — The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.| Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: |
Twitter suspends account of Somali Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda — Two days after a group of Somali islamist militants vowed to execute Kenyan hostages, and tweeted a video of a captive pleading for the Kenyan government to help free them, the Al-Shabaab Twitter account @HSMPress was suspended.
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