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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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| 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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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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See also Mediagazer| Dan Lyons / Inbound Hub: |
Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip ‘Hit Us in the Gut’ — In public, Apple's rivals in the smartphone market have tried to downplay the technological advances Apple introduced in the iPhone 5s. But it turns out that one breakthrough — Apple's speedy, 64-bit A7 microprocessor — has set off a panic inside its competitors.
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| 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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| 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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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality — In May 2012, a programmer named John Carmack—who, as a cofounder of id Software and the man behind games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, is widely seen as the father of 3D gaming—tweeted a picture of what looked like steampunk bifocals made out of a black shoebox.
Tweets: @cdixon
| 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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Federal Circuit affirms Microsoft's import ban against Motorola Mobility's Android-based devices — The Unitd States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today ruled against Google's (Motorola Mobility's) appeal of an import ban Microsoft won from the United States International Trade Commission …
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| 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, MobileSyrup.com, IntoMobile, TechSpot, xda-developers, MobileBurn.com, GadgeTell, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, LAPTOP Magazine, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, WMPoweruser, ReadWrite, SlashGear, My Nokia Blog, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint, TechHive, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified and WinBeta
| 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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| Landon Robinson / BestTechie: |
We Didn't Get One of Valve's Steam Machines, So We Built One Ourselves — Late last week, computer game company Valve released its much anticipated game-centric, Linux-based operating system, SteamOS. Alongside it, they sent out their own custom-built Steam Machines to 300 lucky beta testers across America … Thanks:@jeffweisbein
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| 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Intellectual Ventures reveals list of 33,000 patents, in move toward (partial) transparency — Intellectual Ventures, under increasing pressure to be more transparent about its patent holdings, this morning released a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its patents … | 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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| 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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Tweets: @mikeisaac and @joshconstine
| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook plans to start selling video ads on Thursday, people say — Facebook Inc. will begin selling video advertisements later this week, according to people familiar with the matter. — The ads, which will play automatically in users' news feeds may help Facebook capture a share … | 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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