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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ — Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. — The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo …
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The Verge, The Register, Reuters, Business Insider, Daily Dot and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @qthrul and @jesselynradack
| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report — Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers — The National Security Agency is telling its story like never before. Never mind whether that story is, well, true.| Sara Morrison / The Wire: |
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Poynter, CBS News, Errata Security, The Nation, emptywheel and Computerworld
Tweets: @jbrodkin, @qhardy, @csoghoian, @nickbilton, @benpopper, @tonyromm, @pourmecoffee and @ggreenwald
See also Mediagazer| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional — A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. — U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found …
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Guardian, Ars Technica, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engadget, The Raw Story, Motherboard, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, Mashable, ACLU, U.S. News, Hit & Run, Daring Fireball, iMore, Gigaom, The Huffington Post and USA Today
Tweets: @trevortimm, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @greenfield64, @pourmecoffee, @laughingstoic, @ronwyden, @tonyromm, @politico, @ggreenwald, @senatorenzi, @attackerman, @tulsigabbard, @micahflee and @aclu_mass
See also Mediagazer| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Photosynth creator and architect of Bing mobile and mapping leaves Microsoft to join Google — A Microsoft Star Goes to Google — SEATTLE — Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google.
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BGR, Computerworld, eWeek, bizjournals, Geek News Central, SlashGear, Search Engine Land, GeekWire, The Verge and IntoMobile. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant — Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, GadgeTell, My Nokia Blog, xda-developers, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, MacNN, WMPoweruser, MobileBurn.com, TechSpot, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint, TechHive, Gotta Be Mobile, WinBeta, iClarified and TechCrunch
| Zeke J Miller / TIME: |
Obama To Meet Tech Execs Over NSA Spying, Obamacare Website — President Barack Obama will meet with many of Silicon Valley's best-known executives Tuesday at the White House to discuss the troubled Healthcare.gov website and controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, the administration announced.
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| Garett Sloane / Adweek: |
Apple pushes iTunes Radio ad sales, builds real-time bidding exchange for in-app ads — Apple Is Building an RTB Platform to Sell In-App Ads — Apple leadership has given the iAds team a new mission: always be selling iTunes Radio. And while the sales team is busy pushing Apple radio inventory …
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Keys / The Desk: |
Exclusive: Twitter working on “edit” feature for tweets — Twitter is working on a new feature that would allow users to edit tweets once they are published, three sources close to the project have confirmed to The Desk. — Those sources, who asked to be identified only as Twitter employees …
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Reportedly Buys Mobile Payments Startup Gopago, Working On An ‘Ambitious’ New Project — Looks like Amazon may have quietly made another acquisition, and another move to expand its role in the world of mobile: Italian newspapers are reporting that the e-commerce giant has acquired Gopago …
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Digits, Business Insider and VCPOST
| Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: |
Avago to Buy LSI for $6.6 Billion — Avago Technologies plans to make the biggest acquisition in its history — with the help of a former owner. — Avago, a semiconductor company, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the LSI Corporation for about $6.6 billion in cash …
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bizjournals, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, ABC News, USA Today, Bloomberg and Reuters
| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits: |
As Walt Mossberg exits, WSJ's new personal tech team includes Geoffrey Fowler and new hires Joanna Stern, Wilson Rothman, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles — WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team — Today we are announcing expanded Wall Street Journal coverage of personal technology … | John Coté / San Francisco Chronicle: |
S.F. rolls out 3 miles of free Wi-Fi along Market Street — It's a bit like free citywide Wi-Fi on the installment plan. — After announcing a deal in July to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco's public parks, the city will officially roll out free wireless connectivity Monday along a main transit spine - Market Street.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, sfmayor.org, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, News, The San Francisco …, Computerworld, Engadget and nbcbayarea.com. Tweets: @zseward
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Sprint launches LTE in St. Louis, San Diego; wraps up 2013 with 300 4G cities — Sprint on Monday announced a new batch of 70 markets receiving its LTE network. Sprint filled in a few big holes in its metro coverage map, including San Diego and St. Louis, but mostly these rollouts …
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CNET, Android Central, DSLreports, Droid Life and Engadget
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Khosla Ventures Replaces Yuri Milner In Y Combinator's YC VC Program — Khosla Ventures is joining Y Combinator's YC VC program, which provides $80,000 to each startup that goes through the seed stage accelerator. According to a Y Combinator blog post, the firm will be taking the place of Yuri Milner … | Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Facebook No. 1 Mobile App Of 2013 But Google Has 5 Of Top 10 — Nielsen published a range of year-end data today. Among other things the measurement firm said that 65 percent of American cell phone users now own smartphones. By comparison comScore says the figure is 62 percent.
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Nielsen, Engadget, WMPoweruser and Marketing Land
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches “Donate” Button For Non-Profits That Also Collects Billing Info For Itself — Facebook unveiled a “Donate Now” button today to make it much easier for non-profits to take contributions. A nice side effect for its business? The button will collect credit card numbers …
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Facebook, CNET, PandoDaily, ReadWrite, Marketing Land, SlashGear, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Daily Dot, Marketing Pilgrim, AllFacebook, AllThingsD, Gigaom and TechHive
Tweets: @mikeisaac and @joshconstine
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Ho Ho No! Amazon Apologizes After Customers Lose Access to Christmas Content. — If you buy a digital song, book or movie, do you really own that song, book or movie? — Or are you just renting a collection of bits, which are never really going to be yours?
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Boing Boing, Guardian, TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, BestTechie, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, Examiner, DSLreports, BetaNews, internetretailer.com and TechHive. Tweets: @chartier
| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Google reportedly testing smart thermostats in ‘EnergySense’ program — Google called it quits on a smart thermostat two years ago, but it looks like the company couldn't resist circling back to the idea. According to two of The Information's sources and a document reviewed by the outlet …
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The Information, The Verge, 9to5Google and SlashGear
| Chris Smith / BGR: |
Video: Steam Machine beta unboxing, gameplay, teardown and specs — Valve on Friday shipped Steam Machine beta units to 300 lucky developers, with some of them already posting details - including image galleries and hands-on videos - about the new console in town.
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Ars Technica, Engadget, ExtremeTech, PC World, Gamasutra, The Verge, YouTube and Geeky Gadgets
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon will release original shows in 4K — Amazon is planning to make 4K content a little bit easier to come by. This morning, Amazon Studios announced that it will shoot all of its 2014 series — both comedies and dramas — in the ultra high-resolution format, and that it will at some point …
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