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NSA collected Americans' email records in bulk for two years under Obama — • Secret program launched by Bush continued ‘until 2011’ — • Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days — • Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata| Guardian: |
How the NSA is still harvesting your online data — Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating ‘one trillion records processed’ — A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Can't Add Galaxy S4 to Samsung Patent Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid in a lawsuit to add Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it alleges to infringe its patents. — The decision yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal …
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Windows 8.1 in-depth hands-on: features, apps, impressions and screenshots — The last time we wrote about Windows 8.1, we had lots to talk about, but very little to share in the way of hands-on impressions. You see, though Microsoft unveiled loads of new features, apps and UI tweaks …
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Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels — Ahead of its launch of an online radio service, Apple circulated terms to independent record labels last week, many of them more generous to the music companies than what rival Pandora Media currently pays.
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Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet — Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors. — The company, which has been in stealth mode since …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood — A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today announcing a major makeover for one of its flagship properties, Yahoo News.| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Air attack: Aereo CEO talks up his tech, prepares Chicago launch — Armed with his DVRs and tiny antennas, Aereo says the shift in TV has begun — Chet Kanojia, Aereo's founder and CEO, strolls past the rows and rows of DVRs, TV antennas, and transcoders, and smiles when he recalls …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App — Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to make its debut in the next three to four weeks.| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 includes the ability to control your iPhone or iPad using head movements [video] — Discovered by an anonymous tipster, iOS 7′s “Accessibility” section now includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone or iPad with left or right head movements.
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| Tim Westergren / Pandora Blog: |
Pandora and Royalties — (Warning: This is long, but I'd really like to fully articulate Pandora's perspective on royalties, which is simply impossible to do in just a few sentences.) — Over 13 years ago when I started this company, we set out with a singular mission …
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Verizon wraps up LTE rollout; plans all-VoIP phone launch for late 2014 — Verizon Wireless's LTE juggernaut has hit its 500th market, leading the carrier to declare on Thursday its rollout is “substantially complete.” Verizon's 4G network now covers 298 million people and covers 95 percent of the U.S. population.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Geek.com: |
Cloudsweeper tells you how much your Gmail is worth to a hacker — The value of your data is the driving force behind much of the malware and malicious behavior on the internet. If an attacker can gain access to a store of information, it can be sold off piece by piece until the evildoer …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft: Kinect for Xbox One will not work on PCs — This Kinect is designed to only work on an Xbox One. You'll need a different one to plug in to your PC. — When Microsoft announced a special next-generation Kinect for Windows pre-release developer program earlier today …
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| Grant Gross / Network World: |
FTC commissioner calls for way to ‘reclaim your name’ — Consumers should be able to retake control of data collected by websites and data brokers, Brill says — IDG News Service - U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Drug Enforcement Agency seizes 11 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road dealer — The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized 11.02 Bitcoins worth $814.22 from an accused drug dealer in South Carolina, according to a government press release spotted by Bitcoin bloggers.
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Mark Suster's GRP Partners goes big: Announces new $200M fund and rebrands as Upfront Ventures — Venture capitalists GRP Partners announced today that it has closed its fifth fund, bringing in $200 million to help early stage startups grow. With news of the fund the Los Angeles-based firm … | Scott Lowe / IGN: |
Sony Sacrificed the PlayStation 4 Camera to Beat Microsoft on Price — How the camera was cut last minute and left with an uncertain future. — When Sony announced that PlayStation 4 would be priced at $399 to an uproar of applause from the audience at its E3 press conference, it secured a critical edge over the Xbox One.| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI — On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport.| Mike Williams / GamesIndustry International: |
PS4 and Xbox One high volumes no problem for AMD — AMD's Saeid Moshkelani on his company's next-gen “clean sweep” and high-end PCs driving innovation — AMD owns the next-generation of consoles. In the past, game consoles were more custom and piecemeal: a little IBM here, some AMD there, a tiny bit of Nvidia.
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| Haris Ramic / Google LatLong: |
Google Earth 7.1 for Android and iOS, now with Street View — Whether you're on foot looking for the best sushi place in a new neighborhood or you'd like to do some virtual archaeology around Pompeii, we're all explorers of the world around us in our own way.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Gets A Little More Watchful, Now Tells You Who's Viewed Your Updates, And Where You've Been Looking — LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its creepier …
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Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years — NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million … | Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records — Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a ‘Bigger, Faster and Better’ Biometrics System — San Francisco - As the FBI is rushing to build a “bigger, faster and better” biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet …
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South Korea's SK Planet to Invest Up to $1 billion in U.S. — SK Planet, the Internet services arm of wireless giant SK Telecom , is trying to establish a new home in the U.S. — Jinwoo So, chief executive of SK Planet, said in a recent interview that the maker of popular e-commerce …
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