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Google Maps and Waze, outsmarting traffic together — We've all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated that you chose the wrong route on the drive to work. But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out “fender bender …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Officially Closes Waze Deal; Will Keep It Independent — Google this morning said it had acquired mapping startup Waze, as we had expected it would. — Brian McClendon, who is the company's vice president of geo, paid tribute to the Waze community multiple times in a blog post.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Connecting The PRISM Dots: My New Theory — The PRISM story firmly changed course yesterday when The Guardian published a video interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. If you haven't watched the interview, you should. It's historic and fascinating.| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying — Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union … | New York Times: |
How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story — WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.| Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: |
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic — Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy — OVERVIEW — A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
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Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA — Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information …
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| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation 4 Will Cost $399, Launch “This Holiday Season” — With More Than Just Games in Tow — The PlayStation 4 will cost $399 and will go on sale “this holiday season,” Sony announced at its E3 press event tonight in Los Angeles. — That's $100 less than the Xbox One … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
The design of iOS 7: simply confusing — The new iOS is better and worse all at once — What I saw today at Apple's annual WWDC event in the new iOS 7 was a radical departure from the previous design of the company's operating system — what CEO Tim Cook called “a stunning new user interface.”| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
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All Macs capable of running OS X Mountain Lion likely compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks — According to the release notes accompanying Monday's OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview, the OS is compatible with all Macs able to run the current version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside — This morning Apple updated its MacBook Air to Intel's Haswell ULT silicon. The chassis itself didn't get any updates, nor did the displays. Both the 11 and 13 inch models retain their non-Retina 1366 x 768 and 1440 x 900 displays.
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Letterpress, Evernote, Procreate top Apple's list of best-designed apps of 2013 — As part of its role as a design-centric company and so it can continue to encourage the best practices of appmakers, Apple on Monday evening announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2013.
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
The Rest of the World Will Have to Wait for Apple's iTunes Radio — Apple Introduces ITunes Radio at Conference — ITunes Radio, the streaming-music service Apple announced yesterday at the company's developers conference in San Francisco, is set to hit the digital airwaves this fall.| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
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| Shibani Mahtani / Digits: |
Microsoft Plots 2014 Launch for Xbox One in Asia — Asian gamers will have to wait a year longer than their American counterparts to get their hands on Microsoft's Xbox One, which will only be available in the region in late 2014, a year after its U.S. launch this November.
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