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Chaos Computer Club Bypasses Apple's Touch ID System (with copy of original fingerprint) — The Chaos Computer Club claims to be able to bypass Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor with a photo of the original user's fingerprint. The bypass is demonstrated in this short video:
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
AngelList raises $24M at $150M valuation from Atlas Venture, Google Ventures, and over 100 others — Exclusive: AngelList raises $24 million at a heavenly valuation — AngelList builds its war chest, as the SEC prepares to lift its ban on general solicitation.| Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
A look at the booming business of live sex cams, via interviews with models and execs — Intimacy on the Web, With a Crowd — A 25-YEAR-OLD woman whose fans know her as Lacey or Miss Lollipop, neither her real name, dipped an index finger into a small glass jar.
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PayPal Nears Deal for Braintree Payments — EBay's PayPal is near a deal to buy Braintree Payments Solutions, according to people familiar with the discussions, potentially thrusting the online payments pioneer into the center of the burgeoning mobile commerce market.
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LG Vu 3 official: 5.2-inch 4:3 display, Snapdragon 800, 13MP camera, LTE-A — Considering LG's G2 was leaked many times before it became official, we're a little surprised that the company managed to keep the Vu 3 under wraps before today (more or less, anyway).
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Electronista, Fone Arena, BetaNews, Inquirer, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, I4U News, Gearburn and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Retail Giant Tesco Follows In Amazon's Footsteps With Hudl, A Cut-Price, Own-Brand Android Tablet — Tesco, the UK-based retail giant with 20 million customers in 12 countries across Europe and Asia, today took its biggest step yet into digital commerce and content: the company launched Hudl … | Benedict Evans: |
Startups have an opportunity to unbundle the features of a dated and bloated LinkedIn — Unbundling: AOL, Facebook and LinkedIn — One of the recurring themes of the consumer internet is the cycle from aggregation to disaggregation - bundling to unbundling.| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV 6.0 update pulled after reports of bricking and networking issues — After Apple TV 6.0 was released on Friday with iTunes Radio and other enhancements, there were many reports of botched updates that required the user to restore their Apple TV. In some particular instances …
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FAA likely to relax rules on electronic devices effective sometime next year — F.A.A. Nears New Rules on Devices — The rules on when to turn off electronic devices on airplanes have long been a sour, and sometimes contentious, point for travelers. But faced with a surge of electronics … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year — Apple has just issued a press release revealing it sold 9M iPhones during the launch weekend of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. As is typical for the company with new hardware …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
In online TV first, Netflix wins Emmy for drama directing — David Fincher wins an Emmy for directing Netflix's “House of Cards,” and the Internet TV provider breaks ground — again — for online only programming. — Netflix won its first Emmy award — the kind doled out at the flashy …
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The Next Web, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Mashable. See also Mediagazer
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Oracle announces in-memory database option, new server and backup cloud service — Larry Ellison: Oracle's New Products Make Data Fly Around ‘At Ungodly Speeds.’ — As expected, on Sunday night, Larry Ellison revealed several new products to make data flow faster across corporate data centers and the Internet.
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NYT Editorial Board: NSA's “back doors and special access routes are a terrible idea” — Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors — In 2006, a federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, helped build an international encryption system to help countries and industries fend off computer hacking and theft.
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