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Forced Exposure — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.
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| Alan Rusbridger / Guardian: |
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly with a four-letter expletive …
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See also Mediagazer| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
U.K. government thought destroying Guardian hard drives would stop Snowden stories — In a remarkable post, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger describes how the British government raided the Guardian's offices in order to destroy hard drives containing information provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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See also Mediagazer| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
What's inside Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch? Here are some key details — It was about a week ago when Bloomberg reported that Samsung was getting ready to launch its smart watch called Galaxy Gear. Since then we have been calling around and our sources have come back with enough details …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
TiVo Launches New ‘Roamio’ Family Of DVRs, With Up To 6 Tuners, 3 TB Of Storage, & Out-Of-Home Streaming — TiVo is unveiling a whole new family of DVRs today with more tuners, more storage, and soon the ability to stream live and download pre-recorded video to mobile devices outside of the home.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
TiVo Roamio Pro review: this is the ultimate cable box — But it comes at a price — There is nothing more instantly dangerous to the average relationship than screwing up the TV. — It's just a fact, crystallized in 50 years of jokes about remote controls: who's holding it, how complicated it is, how many there are.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using “Insta” And “Gram” — Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word ‘Insta’ or ‘Gram’ in their names, and it has begun sending emails to existing apps requesting that they change those components ‘within a reasonable period’.| Wall Street Journal: |
Supplier to Ship Two Apple iPhones in September — Apple Inc. has asked assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to begin shipping both a new high-end and low-end iPhone in early September, people familiar with the matter said. The shipping plans suggest that two new iPhone models …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Dropbox gives users 1GB of extra space just for linking their account with Mailbox — Cloud storage service Dropbox has revealed a nice little easter egg that is gives users 1GB of additional space for free. All that's required to take advantage of this offer is to link your Mailbox account with Dropbox.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Key Nike FuelBand developer and fitness expert Jay Blahnik confirms new job at Apple, likely working on iWatch — Jay Blahnik, a globally recognized fitness expert and instrumental consultant in the development of several Nike fitness products, has confirmed his new role at Apple.
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| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Tech industry slips into a surprising slump — After a six-year boom ignited by the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, tech firms are in the unusual position of being laggards in the U.S. economy's recovery. — Microsoft is among the tech industry's biggest players struggling to navigate … | Evan Selinger / Wired: |
The ‘Mood Graph’: How Our Emotions Are Taking Over the Web — Recently, URL shortener Bitly announced a beta version of its tool for “Feelings”, a “fun bookmarklet to express how you feel about the content you're sharing”. Its tagline, however, is even more telling: “Because you don't ‘like’ everything.”
Tweets: @culturerevealed
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Motorola pulls engraving features from Moto X for now, cites quality control issues — One of the allures of the Moto X is the ability to customize the appearance of the device to your own specifications — even down to having your own message printed on the back of the phone (provided you adhere to Motorola's guidelines, of course).
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Wacom outs Intuos Creative Stylus with revamped Bamboo Paper app in tow for iPad sketching — If you're the type to digitally doodle on the slate that you already own rather opt for a professional-grade unit, Wacom just announced its latest accessory for doing just that.
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Feds seized $2.9M in Bitcoin funds from Mt. Gox, court docs show — The federal government sent a strong signal to Bitcoin traders earlier this year when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seized an account belonging to Mt. Gox, the most popular exchange for people to buy and sell the crypto-currency.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
CIRP survey: Where Apple and Samsung get their customers — For Apple, 42% from previous iPhone owners. For Samsung, mostly 'droids and dumb phones. — FORTUNE — Twenty percent of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone customers over the past year were switching from an Android phone …
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AppleInsider, Android Beat, pocketnow.com, MacRumors, The Register, Electronista, 9to5Mac and TUAW. Tweets: @matsbs. Thanks:@philiped
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils ID@Xbox plan to lure indie developers to Xbox One — After unveiling its plans to support self-published games on Xbox One, Microsoft is detailing some of its additional efforts to support indie developers today. As Sony continues to woo indie developers ahead …
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