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Graph Search Now Includes Posts and Status Updates — Starting today, Graph Search will include posts and status updates. Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you. — Search for the topics you're interested …
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An anecdotal look at the enabling role of social apps in the sexual interactions of teens — Friends Without Benefits — This year, 81 percent of Internet-using teenagers in America reported that they are active on social-networking sites, more than ever before.
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NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show — • Vast amounts of data kept in repository codenamed Marina — • Data retained regardless of whether person is NSA target — • Material used to build ‘pattern-of-life’ profiles of individuals
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Settle With Friends? Zynga and Bang With Friends End Trademark Dispute. — Sometimes, even the rockiest of relationships end up parting ways amicably. — Social gaming giant Zynga and the makers of Bang With Friends, the casual sex matchmaking application, have reached a settlement on Monday …
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Dropbox Continues Its One-Click Campaign To Be Your Default Photo Library — If you've been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you'll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today. The apps on Mac have gained the ability to automatically detect … | Tracey Kaplan / Mercury News: |
John McAfee teases D-Central, a sub-$100 gadget that creates surveillance-proof local networks — John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA — SAN JOSE — John McAfee lived up to his reputation Saturday as tech's most popular wild child, electrifying an audience with new details …
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Why the blue screen of death no longer plagues Windows users — Summary: The dreaded blue screen of death is familiar to any long time Windows PC user, but Microsoft has been developing tools to keep the dreaded BSOD at bay. — Nick Heath — Remember the blue screen of death …
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Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads — Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since.
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Google launches Android game vending machines, puts first ones in Tokyo (naturally) — In a country that has no shortage of vending machines, Google Japan has decided to join the fray. The company has announced three dedicated Google Play machines that will sell 18 different gaming titles … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Details SkyDrive's Smart Files Feature, Prepares To Roll Out Bing-Powered OCR Search — One of the more interesting but relatively unknown features of Windows 8.1 is its deep integration with SkyDrive and Microsoft's new smart files system for keeping your online and offline storage …
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BitTorrent experiments with secure chat — Does the solution to secure instant messaging from prying eyes lie in how torrents work? BitTorrent thinks it might, and is testing out a server-free messaging system. — The aftermath of the NSA spying scandal has people and companies scrambling … | Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Square Competitor Leaf Scores $20 Million Investment From Payments Giant Heartland — For a while, it wasn't clear how payments startup Leaf would get the distribution it needed to compete against Square and others trying to reinvent point-of-sale technologies for small and medium-size businesses.| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess — The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.
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Windows Azure obtains FedRAMP certification needed to sell cloud services to government — Microsoft follows Amazon in gaining critical US gov certification — Redmond zooms onto FedRAMP, but where's Google? — Microsoft has gained a US federal government certification that makes …
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Samsung's ChatON messaging service passes 100 million registered users — Samsung has today announced that ChatON, its cross-platform mobile messaging service, has passed 100 million registered users. The company claims it has added 50 million new sign-ups over the last four months.| Electronista: |
Kantar: Verizon gains in US, Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe — Verizon extends smartphone dominance — Verizon has reportedly established a solid lead in US smartphone sales over the previous three months, while Windows Phone devices are nearing 10-percent market share in European markets … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Huawei is rotating its CEO every six months to stay fresh — Huawei, the multi-billion dollar Chinese telecom infrastructure and mobile device maker, just announced a new CEO — but only for the next six months. Eric Xu will be the acting CEO of Huawei from October 1st to March 31st under …
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Dave Eggers' poor grasp of Silicon Valley and social media impairs dystopian novel The Circle — How Dave Eggers gets Silicon Valley wrong — Dave Eggers' new book, a dystopian fantasia about social media, is excerpted in the NYT Magazine this weekend. The mag's editor, Hugo Lindgren …
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New Kinect can understand two people talking at the same time — The technology powering the new built-in Kinect peripheral for Xbox One can discern between two people talking at the same time, it was revealed during a talk by Microsoft's Phil Harrison during the Eurogamer Expo in London.
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The Verge, ExtremeTech, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Escapist and Gizmodo UK
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AngelList Syndicates By The Numbers: 12 Deals, $3.5M Raised, 199 Angels Activated Syndication With $5.6M Committed — This weekend, the Twittersphere and news cycle was dominated with the reactions of a number of VCs and angels to AngelList Syndicates. According to the data we've collected …
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