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Introducing LinkedIn University Pages — A few years ago, my daughter and I took a road trip to visit schools before she made her final decision about college. I was hoping she'd stay in California, but it wasn't looking good. She'd fallen in love with a university 2,500 miles away …
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Goldfinger: The Next iPhone — “Gold? All over?” M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964′s Goldfinger. While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of “skin suffocation”, the same fate will not befall the next iPhone.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
The gold iPhone 5S, fingerprint scanners, and the future of iOS — As Apple's September 10th event iPhone event approaches, we've learned some additional details and have independently heard some of the already-floating around information regarding the upcoming announcements.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter Hires Jennifer Prince from Google: Entertainment Ad Sales — Jennifer Prince to head social media company's ad sales efforts in movie, TV biz — Looking to win more Hollywood followers, Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, formerly Google's head of media and entertainment ad sales …
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Samsung, Sony Readying New Devices Ahead of Apple's Next IPhone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Sony Corp. (6758) are said to be unveiling new devices next month as two of Asia's biggest technology companies try to showcase their products before Apple Inc. (AAPL) releases new iPhones and iPads.| Raffi Krikorian / Official Twitter blog: |
New Tweets per second record, and how — Recently, something remarkable happened on Twitter: On Saturday, August 3 in Japan, people watched an airing of Castle in the Sky, and at one moment they took to Twitter so much that we hit a one-second peak of 143,199 Tweets per second.
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Beats By Dre Looks to Drop HTC — The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people familiar with the matter said. The moves come as the founders of Beats Electronics LLC …
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| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
Here's what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour — Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan to gather data on the use of encryption online.
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| Gary Marcus / New Yorker: |
Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand — Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google's voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven o'clock?,” but what about questions …
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren't Plugged In — The Obama administration has poured billions of dollars into expanding the reach of the Internet, and nearly 98 percent of American homes now have access to some form of high-speed broadband. But tens of millions of people are still on the sidelines of the digital revolution.| Arpit Kumar / BrowserFame: |
Upcoming ‘Supervised User’ Feature of Google Chrome — As we have seen earlier, Chrome is set to get less-privileged accounts soon. These user accounts, now termed as “Supervised Accounts”, would have less privileges as compared to the standard users and can be used for granting limited and controlled access to other users.| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
You have no mail: Yahoo's email service is now closed in China — Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) email service in China is now shut, in line with an announcement of its closure that came in April. After that four-month warning, yesterday was the final day for Yahoo China email users to login and migrate their email to an alternative service.
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| Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy: |
District Court Holds That Intentionally Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization” Under the CFAA — During the debate over the Aaron Swartz case, one of the legal issues was whether Swartz had committed an unauthorized access under the CFAA when he changed his IP address …
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