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| James Galbraith / Macworld: |
Intel's Iris graphics boost 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro GPU performance by more than 50% — Benchmarks: Upgraded graphics boost new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro — The first of the new MacBook Pros unveiled on Tuesday are in the Macworld Lab, and the results show that the internal updates …
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| Cory Scott / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn explains security features behind Intro, its controversial email routing product — The Facts about LinkedIn Intro — This blog post is intended to provide more information and address inaccurate assertions that have been made as a result of a product we launched on Wednesday called LinkedIn Intro.
| Jim Newell / Guardian: |
Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ rally — Statement from whistleblower Edward Snowden read to crowd featuring groups from left and right of political spectrum — Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help? — Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat. — Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation …
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Social sharing service Buffer has been hacked, pauses all shares temporarily — Users of Buffer — the tool that allows you to schedule your social media across timezones — may need to remove the app after Buffer was hacked today and the service began spreading scam links.
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Qualcomm marketing exec Chandrasekher reassigned after calling Apple's 64-bit A7 a “gimmick” — After Apple 64-bit A7 criticism, Qualcomm exec reassigned — The 64-bit Apple A7 chip is now being used in all of Apple's marquee iOS products, including the newest iPhone and iPad.
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| Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
AT&T's Plan Revamp Signals the End of Voice Minutes — The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone. — As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling … | John McCrank / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test — (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter's highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook's initial public offering on rival Nasdaq.
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Is Google building a hulking 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 just off Treasure Island, between San Francisco and Oakland. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET)
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| John Knefel / Rolling Stone: |
Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters — Promotional materials for private spy companies show that mass surveillance technology is being sold to police departments as a way to monitor dissent — The documents leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Sanjay Bhatt / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon's plans for spherical building in downtown Seattle approved by city design panel — Amazon's bubble building gets OK from design panel — A city panel on Tuesday signed off on Amazon.com's design for a five-story office building formed by three intersecting spheres … | Bloomberg: |
Apple, Google Must Face Group Antitrust Hiring Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and two other Silicon Valley companies must face a group lawsuit representing more than 64,000 technical employees claiming their incomes were held down by the companies' agreements not to recruit one another's workers.
| Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble — When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here. The company announced in May of that year … | 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 … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
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