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The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin — According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.| Wall Street Journal: |
Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders: Officials — NSA Stopped Surveillance of Merkel, Others After White House Review — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency ended a program used to spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a number of other world leaders …
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| Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire: |
The NSA Collected Data on 60 Million Phone Calls in Spain — Here's another item for the list of NSA projects that will likely make for awkward U.S. foreign relations. According to a report in El Mundo, the NSA collected data on 60 million phone calls in Spain over a 30-day period in December, 2012.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's curved-screen G Flex smartphone coming to South Korea with 13MP camera, Snapdragon 800 — LG officially announces curved-screen G Flex smartphone — After a series of leaks, LG has announced officialdetails of its curved-screen smartphone, the G Flex.| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy — [DISCLOSURE: As always when I write about Amazon, I'll note I worked there from 1997-2004 and that I still own some shares in the company. I still have many friends who work there, though I have no more idea what Amazon is working on now than any of you in the public.]
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| James Somers / The Atlantic Online: |
Disappointed with application-driven AI, Douglas Hofstadter seeks to recreate mind in software — The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think — Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, thinks we've lost sight of what artificial intelligence really means.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Google: |
Upcoming Nexus 5 leaks in white, Nov. 1 launch date reported — After leaking a clear image of the black model yesterday, prolific leaker @evleaks has posted a render of the upcoming Nexus 5 in a white color option. As can be seen in the image above, the white model is actually a two-tone device … | Bruce Schneier / The Atlantic Online: |
The Battle for Power on the Internet — Distributed citizen groups and nimble hackers once had the edge. Now governments and corporations are catching up. Who will dominate in the decades ahead? — We're in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace.| Allen Martin / CBS San Francisco: |
Barge in SF Bay may be a marketing center for Glass if Google gets a waterfront permit — Massive Barge On San Francisco Bay Likely Secret Google Facility — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The U.S. Navy had its share of secrets on Treasure Island, but few were better kept than what's taking place …
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Digital Trends, CNET, Portland Press-Herald, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Electronista and The Verge. Thanks:@_trendspotter
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Livescribe 3 smartpen digitizes notes straight to your iPad, starts at $150 — Livescribe broke new ground last year with the Sky WiFi pen that could transfer handwritten and audio notes straight to the cloud (well, to your Evernote account anyway), so that they'd be accessible anywhere there's an internet connection.
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Inquirer, The Next Web, Electronista, VentureBeat, Macworld, Gearburn, The Verge and LAPTOP Magazine
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's Q4 2013 — The forecasts of 48 Apple analysts — 27 Wall Street professionals and 21 independents — FORTUNE - The results of Fortune's quarterly survey of Apple (AAPL) analysts are in, and the results are mixed — in more ways than one.
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USC Study: Google Search Serves Users From 600% More Locations than A Year Ago — In a shift in strategy, Google reuses existing content delivery infrastructure to speed up searches — Contact: Robert Perkins at (213) 740-9226 or perkinsr@usc.edu — Over the past 10 months … Sponsor Posts
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