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NSA can somehow “tap” user data on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry phones — NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data — SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011 — The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately … | Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Long-shot bill forbidding NSA backdoors in encryption has renewed attention — In the wake of revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has broken through many Internet privacy protections, Representative Rush D. Holt (D-NJ) has introduced legislation to prohibit the NSA …
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme is now writing its own headlines — Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors. Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
TechCrunch Disrupt Kicks Off with “Titstare” App and Fake Masturbation — As a lovely followup to recent discussions of gender inclusivity in tech, here's the first presentation from the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 conference: an app called Titshare, presented by two grinning Australian dudes, exactly as tasteless as it sounds.
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| Paul Adams / The Intercom Blog: |
Why cards are the future of the web — Cards are fast becoming the best design pattern for mobile devices. — We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Ads are coming to Instagram within a year says COO — Instagram Pictures Itself Making Money — Leading the Charge to Woo Advertisers Is Facebook Veteran Emily White — MENLO PARK, Calif.—When Emily White joined Instagram from parent company Facebook Inc. in March …
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Microsoft's Belfiore: fewer secrets between us and Nokia will lead to better phones — For Microsoft and Nokia, fewer secrets — What can Microsoft do with Nokia in-house that it couldn't before? Share top-secret plans, says Joe Belfiore, the Microsoft corporate vice president in charge of Windows Phone.| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
The once-bright future of color e-paper — It's all too easy to dismiss the optimistic fantasies of yesterday: flying cars and robot servants may have filled the pages of Popular Mechanics in the 1950s, but today we're better grounded in reality, pinning our hopes on more reasonable futures based on technology we've actually developed.| Richard Nieva / Fortune: |
Ashes to ashes, peer to peer: An oral history of Napster — FORTUNE — Like the birth of most great music movements — Elvis on Ed Sullivan, Patti Smith at CBGB — Napster was rebellious of convention, threatening to established norms, and, well, really loud.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Twitter's tablet-optimized Android app leaks out — Even Google admits that Android tablet software has been lagging, but one key app might finally be catching up. At IFA 2013, a tablet-optimized copy of Twitter was spotted running on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
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