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Secret-Sharing App Whisper Raising Another $30 Million at $200 Million Valuation — Whisper, the popular anonymous sharing app, is reeling in more money from venture capitalists, only six months after its last funding round. — The round is worth just shy of $30 million … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 7.1 on the iPhone 4: As good as it's going to get — iOS 7.1 on the iPhone 4 is a step forward, but it's the last one we're likely to get. — We weren't impressed by iOS 7 on the iPhone 4. The Apple A4 that powers the phone is now nearly four years old, and you can feel it from the moment you turn the phone on.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Intel's 800Gbps cables headed to cloud data centers and supercomputers — Intel's pitch for Silicon Photonics. — Intel and several of its partners said they will make 800Gbps cables available in the second half of this year, bringing big speed increases to supercomputers and data centers.
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| Christine Magee / TechCrunch: |
Investors are pouring millions into travel startups globally as mobile usage increases — Travel Tech Investors Are Ready For Takeoff — (Editor's Note: Christine Magee is an analyst for CrunchBase.) — Despite the popularity of travel booking sites like Kayak, TripAdvisor, and Expedia … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Surface power covers available for pre-order today for $199.99, will ship March 19 — Microsoft Surface Power Covers get a mid-March ship date — Summary: Microsoft will begin shipping its battery-life-extending Power Covers for its Surface devices starting March 19 for $199.99.| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
A closer look at Titanfall's not-so-secret weapon: Microsoft's cloud — While you were busy running along walls and throwing missiles back at your opponents during the Titanfall beta, countless data centers across the world were making sure that each AI-controlled Titan bodyguard had your back.
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| Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac: |
Steve Jobs Hated The Idea Of A Multi-Button Mouse, Designer Claims — From “no-button” design and multi-touch controls, to wireless technology and laser tracking, Apple mice have seen a lot of changes over the past decade or so. — Although Apple computers have come with mice since the Lisa … | James Surowiecki / New Yorker: |
King Digital should have remained private; of 100+ games, 80% revenue comes from Candy Crush — ONE-HIT WONDERS — For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets to arrange colorful candy icons in rows.
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| Karen Gullo / Bloomberg: |
Judge orders NSA to retain call data that was scheduled to be destroyed Tuesday — NSA Phone-Record Destruction Halt Won by Privacy Group — The National Security Agency was blocked by a judge from carrying out plans tomorrow to begin destroying phone records collected for surveillance …
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Baljeet Singh, developer of skippable pre-roll ads for YouTube, joins Twitter — Twitter poaches YouTube executive in new push for video ads — Twitter has hired former YouTube executive Baljeet Singh as a product director in its revenue organization, where he will work to improve … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Audi's in-vehicle 4G LTE from AT&T will cost $99 for 5GB/6-month or $499 for 30GB/30-month — Audi's in-car LTE from AT&T will cost at least $16 a month — Audi and AT&T have announced pricing details for LTE connectivity in the 2015 A3 sedan, which will be the first automobile …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Research's new project to study how hyper-local content can spur civic engagement — Microsoft researchers launch new hyper-local project with a Twitter connection — Summary: Researchers at Microsoft's FuSE Labs have launched a second project that investigates the intersection of hyper-local content and civic engagement.
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
eBay's John Donahoe talks Icahn, conflicts, and $100 stock price (someday) — “It's the fundamental direction and the fundamental opportunity we're going after.” — FORTUNE — eBay has started to go on the offensive. — The e-commerce giant began taking swings of its own following …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix got a bit faster on Comcast after opening its wallet — Netflix performance on Comcast, which had been deteriorating for months, finally got a little better in February according to Netflix's latest speed rankings.Netflix streamed at an average of 1.68Mbps on Comcast in the US in February, up from 1.51Mbps in January.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
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