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Google could be building a massive floating data center near San Francisco's Treasure Island — Is Google building a huge floating data center in SF Bay? — This large structure, which is likely being built by Google, could be a floating data center. It is located on a barge …
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SiliconBeat, The Register, Gizmodo, Valleywag, Mashable, TIME, Gigaom and Portland Press-Herald. Thanks:@paulsloan
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Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation — Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
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| Peter Cohen / iMore: |
Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation — On Tuesday evening Apple posted updates to its iWork apps for Mac - Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Featured during Apple's iPad and Mac event in San Francisco, the new versions of iWork apps sport new features …
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Thanks:@jgkunzler| iFixit: |
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown — We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model. Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.
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Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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PC Magazine, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, InfoWorld, DSLreports, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, dailywireless.org, Guardian, SiliconBeat and I4U News. Tweets: @froomkin
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Galaxy Gear support coming to Samsung phones amid concern over 30% return rate — Samsung is planning a staged rollout of support for their Galaxy Gear watch to four of the most popular devices in the Galaxy family, as they promised earlier this month. — If you've been waiting …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton's Twitter Book A Movie — Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton's book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal”, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million In Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht, Alleged Owner Of Silk Road — The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web's biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs. As of Friday, at least one $28.5 million chunk of that fortune now belongs to the FBI.| Bloomberg: |
DirecTV, Time Warner Cable Said to Consider Aereo-Type Services — DirecTV (DTV), Time Warner Cable (TWC) Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), taking a page from Aereo Inc., are considering capturing free broadcast signals from TV networks to avoid paying billions of dollars … | Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers …
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The Verge, StrictlyVC, Holtz Communications …, SlashGear, Gigaom, Business Insider, Techdirt and The Raw Story
Tweets: @legalnomads, @eegilbert, @jonfortt, @johnpollock and @bryanappleyard
See also Mediagazer| Jordan Mallory / Joystiq: |
PlayStation 4 day-one features outlined, internet required for first Blu-ray/DVD playback — When the PlayStation 4 launches in North America on November 15, some (but not all!) of its swanky new features will be available for use by the disheveled, exhausted consumers that spent all night waiting …
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PlayStation.Blog, The Verge, Engadget, The Escapist, Digital Spy, Massively, Eurogamer.net • … and Neoseeker Hardware …. Tweets: @kyleorl
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Comcast's latest bundle, Internet Plus, still requires you to pay for TV to receive HBO — Dear Internet: You Still Can't Get HBO Without Paying for Cable — Lots of people who read sites like this site love the idea of paying for HBO without paying for cable.
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Gizmodo, Reuters, Wired, CNET, Variety, BestTechie, BGR, Gigaom, Light Reading, TheStreet.com, PC Magazine, WebProNews, SlashGear, The Verge, Digital Trends and Engadget
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See also Mediagazer| Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google makes CAPTCHAs consider users' engagement in assessing whether they're human — reCAPTCHA just got easier (but only if you're human) — For over a decade, CAPTCHAs have used visual puzzles to help webmasters keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on their sites.
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The Next Web and Ars Technica
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
NSA director says journalists should be stopped from “selling”, “giving out” Snowden documents — Keith Alexander Says The US Gov't Needs To Figure Out A Way To Stop Journalists From Reporting On Snowden Leaks — Apparently not satisfied with just setting fire … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
World's First Bitcoin ATM Set to Go Live Tuesday — Three high school buddies from a tiny Canadian town say that they will flip the switch on the world's first bitcoin ATM next week. It will operate near the entrance of a downtown Vancouver coffee house. — Built by a Nevada company … | Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post: |
Obamacare Website Will ‘Work Smoothly’ By Late November, Official Says — HealthCare.gov, the online portal to Obamacare enrollment, will reliably allow consumers to shop and sign up for health coverage by late November, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama said Friday.
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Quartz, New York Times and Wonkblog
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NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack — The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. — NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement …
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET, Digits, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @harper
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue … Sponsor Posts
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