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Macintosh 128K Teardown — Join us as we live the time-traveler's dream—the deep, lucid, Orwellian vision of hope, fear, and nostalgia that is 1984. Just in time for its 30th anniversary, we laid hands on an '84 original: the Macintosh 128K. And, you guessed it—we're tearing it down like it's the Berlin Wall.
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Interview with Schiller, Federighi and Tribble on the future of the Mac on its 30th birthday — Apple executives on the Mac at 30: ‘The Mac keeps going forever.’ — Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn't going to be like 1984.
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Thanks:@jsnell| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple takes over its homepage to celebrate 30 years of Mac, with accompanying video, timeline and poll — In addition to interviews with the press, Apple is celebrating 30 years of Mac with a full-bleed graphic on its homepage, which links to a minisite that plots how the Mac evolved over the years.
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| Hanni Fakhoury / Wired: |
The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs — Before Edward Snowden showed up, 2013 was shaping up as the year of reckoning for the much criticized federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"). The suicide of Aaron Swartz in January 2013 brought the CFAA … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft beats earnings, ships 7.4 million Xboxes, doubles Surface revenue — Microsoft posts record revenue of $24.5B, beats earnings expectations in holiday quarter — Microsoft just announced revenue of $24.5 billion for the December quarter, up 14 percent from the same quarter a year ago …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users — Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017. But now Facebook's data scientists have turned the study's silly “correlation equals causation” …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics — There is a new ubiquitous media brand on Twitter. — No, I'm not talking about Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media or BuzzFeed or The Verge, or any other investor-backed startup. — I'm talking about @HistoryInPics …
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Samsung Misses Estimates as IPhones Win Sales, Won Gains — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates as new Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones won high-end smartphone customers and gains in the South Korean won curbed the value of sales.| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
TigerDirect Becomes the Latest Retail Giant to Pounce on Bitcoin — Another major online retailer has announced that it is now accepting bitcoin. This time it's TigerDirect. — The company revealed the news on Thursday to much fanfare on its site, with an educational guide to bitcoin …
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The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages — In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push …
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Neiman Marcus now says security breach puts 1.1 million cards at risk — Neiman Marcus Data Breach Worse Than First Said — The theft of consumer data from Neiman Marcus appears far deeper than had been disclosed originally, with the luxury retailer now saying that hackers invaded … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources say new Apple TV box likely coming soon, App/Game Store possible — We've learned that Apple is making progress on its development of a successor to the current Apple TV and that the device is well into testing. We are led to believe that the new device, which is said to be a set-top box rather … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google: We do not charge licensing fees for Android's Google Mobile Services — Earlier today a report from The Guardian claimed that Google was charging manufacturers a per device fee to have access to Google Mobile Services (GMS). Android has long been split into two distinct pieces … | Bloomberg: |
Founders Fund aiming to raise $750M in Q1 for fifth fund, 20% increase over previous pool — Facebook-Backer Thiel's Venture Firm Raising $750 Million Fund — Founders Fund, the venture firm started by Facebook Inc. (FB) backer Peter Thiel, is aiming to raise about $750 million for its fifth fund …
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