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October 30, 2013, 6:15 PM
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
PRISM already gave the NSA access to tech giants. Here's why it wanted more. — reveals that the NSA has been tapping into the primary communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. That allowed the agency to collect metadata and content from hundreds …
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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the third quarter, which ended September 30, 2013. — “For nearly ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to connect the world,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Q3 '13 Beats With $2.02B Revenue, $0.25 EPS, With 49% Of Ad Revenue Now Via Mobile — No, Madam Secretary, Prices On Healthcare.gov Are Not A “Hypothetical Situation” — Facebook announced its Q3 2013 results today, posting $2.02B in revenue with earnings of $0.25 a share.
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iPad Air Geekbench: Over 80% faster than iPad 4, A7 processor 100MHz faster than iPhone 5s — iPad Air Benchmarks — Geekbench 3 results for the new iPad Air are starting to appear on the Geekbench Browser. I've charted the results for all iOS 7 capable iPads below.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Air light enough to supplement a laptop, fast enough to replace one for most people — The iPad Air — There are so many millions of iPad users that no simple explanation can cover all use cases. But my take, since last year, has been that the full-size iPad is best seen …
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| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
California Woman Gets the First Ticket for Driving with Google Glass — This is history: the first known case of a Glass Explorer getting a ticket for driving while wearing Google Glass. — Cecilia Abadie told her story on Google+ late Tuesday night, and shared this image of the citation …
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Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources say the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service …
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| Steve Rosenbush / The CIO Report: |
Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen — Risk-based authentication solutions can help thwart cyber intruders' attempts to access enterprise systems. By learning users' expected log-in patterns, and by setting appropriate risk thresholds for various systems …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Neustar Buys Aggregate Knowledge, One of Facebook's Ad Tech Favorites, for $119 Million Cash — Neustar, which makes most of its money managing databases for phone companies, is buying Aggregate Knowledge, an analytics company best known recently for its work with Facebook.
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| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Ashton Kutcher Ditches His iPhone, iPad in New Role as Lenovo Product Engineer … Alicia Keys has been the creative director of BlackBerry. Shakira was named T-Mobile collaborator last month. And now the latest celebrity tech hire? Ashton Kutcher is now a product engineer at Lenovo.
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| Reuters: |
Twitter hit with $124 million lawsuit over private stock sale — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc was sued for $124 million on Wednesday by two companies that said the social media darling defrauded it into pushing forward with a doomed private sale of its shares to stoke investor interest for its initial public offering.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint swings to profit of $383M, but loses a net 313,000 customers — Sprint swung to a third-quarter profit its first period under new ownership. — The company, which reports for the first time after the completion of the SoftBank takeover and Clearwire acquisition …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC's future — Cisco staged a major coup Wednesday by announcing a new initiative that is meant to turn H.264 into the default codec for real-time communication on the web: the company open-sourced its H.246 codec implementation … | Jean-Baptiste / Forbes: |
Exclusive: Intel Opens Fabs To ARM Chips — As the old adage goes, if you can't beat them, join them! Well, that's exactly what Intel finally decided to do relative to its lagging mobile business. — At the ARM developers' conference today, Intel partner Altera announced …
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Dell users: Latitude 6430u laptops ‘smell of cat urine’ — A number of Dell users have complained that their Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks “smell of cat urine”. — Dell engineers have ruled out biological contamination, and said the smell was not a health hazard.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Lavabit And Silent Circle Join Forces To Make All Email Surveillance-Proof — In recent months, Lavabit, based in Texas, and Silent Circle, based in Washington, D.C., both shuttered their encrypted email services. The companies said they couldn't keep them running knowing they were vulnerable …
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nintendo sells 300,000 more Wii U consoles, but over two million more 3DS handhelds — Nintendo's just released its financial results for the last three months, and while hardware sales have increased substantially, it still made a loss. Wii U sales have rebounded significantly.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal — Earlier this month some pretty surprising news hit the file-sharing scene. After many years battling aggressively with the MPAA, Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt suddenly agreed to a settlement with the MPAA.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Sprint promises 60Mbps LTE today, demos gigabit cellular in the lab — Sprint today said it has demonstrated 1Gbps “over-the-air speed at its lab,” in an early preview of things to come. — The cellular company calls the technology “Sprint Spark.” Sprint claims that Spark …
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