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Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets — How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year — Early one morning last December, Glenn Greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his e-mail, and made a decision that almost cost him the story of his life.
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Baidu and China Telecom Stop Accepting Bitcoin, Price Slumps Again — The bitcoin price has continued to drop overnight on major bitcoin exchanges. The price on exchanges included in the Bitcoin Price Index all currently sit below $700, with the BPI overall having dropped almost 20% … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Verizon Is Acquiring Content Delivery Network EdgeCast For More Than $350 Million — Verizon is looking to get deeper into the content delivery business with the acquisition of Los Angeles-based CDN provider EdgeCast Networks, TechCrunch has heard. Owning EdgeCast, and combining … | Washington Post: |
FBI's search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance — The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform.
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Hundreds of thousands of already deployed iOS devices can be configured as iBeacon transmitters by retailers — The Open Secret Of iBeacon: Apple Could Have 250M Potential Units In The Wild By 2014 — Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology …
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Too many startups are now building poorly differentiated messaging apps — Overrun With Messaging Apps — Because I'll install almost any app on my iPhone just to take a look, I've got a jam-packed folder called “messaging apps” that's now five pages deep.| Bloomberg: |
Japan's SoftBank moves to undercut Square's lower payment processing fees for small retailers — Twitter's Dorsey Vies With SoftBank's Son for Japan Shops: Tech — Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey sparked a price war over Japanese credit-card transactions with SoftBank Corp. (9984)'s Masayoshi Son.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks? — Something has Redmond spooked — “It's pretty much a brick,” says Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison as he rejects a Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft really doesn't want you buying this thing. — But why?
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Teardown estimates Moto G components cost $123, leaving a profit margin of less than 5% — Google Squeezes Margins on Moto G Phone — A ‘Teardown’ of $199 Device Pegs Component Costs at $123 — Google Inc. 's Motorola unit is selling its new Moto G smartphone at starkly thinner profit margins … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
White House promises more transparency in second Open Government plan — Earlier this week, the Obama administration released its second Open Government National Action Plan, building on an earlier initiative to make government more transparent. Both documents were published to help meet … | Graham Cluley: |
Check if you're the victim of a database breach with ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ — It seems to me that there is almost always a website making the news headlines, attempting to explain to innocent users that hackers breached its security, and stole the email addresses and passwords of innocent users.
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Prescription Google Glass pictured in the wild gives us our best look at the eyewear yet — Up until now, we haven't gotten a real good look at Google's plans for prescription eyewearers looking to outfit themselves with Google Glass. Sure there was the scruffy looking fella from months ago …
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