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Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.'s Bulk Data Collection — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
HTC announces the new One with depth-sensing camera and larger screen — The “all new” HTC One has been one of the worst kept secrets of 2014, but today it's a secret no more. The Taiwanese manufacturer has taken the wraps off its latest flagship and fans of last years model (count us among them) won't be disappointed.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit Partnership With HTC Gives It A Leg Up In The Fitness Tracking Space — Smartphone manufacturers are increasingly focusing on health and fitness as part of their platform offerings, but HTC didn't build its own homegrown health tracking solution with the new HTC One (M8).| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
The new HTC One is available in Google Play and Developer editions — Do you lust after the machined aluminum body of the new HTC One but hate locked bootloaders? Would you rather vanilla Android instead of Sense? Well, good news it'll be available in both a Developer and Google Play edition.| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Testing Related Search Suggestions On The App Store — As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7. — The new menu, a scrollable bar with suggestions …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sony won't use Android Wear, will stick with Smartwatch — The head of Sony Mobile's US arm also tells CNET that sales of its Xperia Z1s has exceeded expectations at T-Mobile. — Sony's SmartWatch 2. — Sarah Tew/CNET — ATLANTA—Sony will continue to strike its own path when it comes to its wearable products.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Spotify Pitches College Kids: Half Off Subscriptions While You're in School — Streaming music services are getting more popular. How much more popular would they be if they were cheaper? — Spotify will start finding out today. The subscription music company is cutting the price …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
E-book price fixing settlements land in Amazon customers' inboxes — There may be still more money to come from other e-book retailers. — As of Tuesday morning, Amazon has begun issuing account credits to Kindle book buyers as a result of legal settlements with book publishers including Harper Collins …
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Hortonworks raises $100M to scale its Hadoop business — Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has raised $100 million in a new round of venture capital led by BlackRock and Passport Capital. The company's existing investors — Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures and Yahoo — also participated in the latest round.
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| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
Box files IPO: Big losses mask bigger ambitions — Cloud storage and collaboration platform provider Box published its long-awaited IPO filing [1] this afternoon, and the main revelation is how much cash it's burning. — Box's cash burn has long been part of Silicon Valley gossip … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Adam Greenberg / SC Magazine: |
Attackers get cash out of ATMs by sending SMS messages — Criminals are using SMS messages to get cash out of ATMs, according to Symantec. — The crooks begin by loading ATM malware into the cash machine. In the Monday post, Symantec used Ploutus, a piece of malware observed circulating Mexico …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
YC-Backed Gbatteries Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks & Other Gadgets — Over the years, users of portable consumer electronics have just come to accept that battery life gets worse over time. But it doesn't have to: Gbatteries, which is in the current batch …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
New research may show quantum models fit the data from D-Wave computer, not classical — Quantum Computing Research May Back Controversial Company — In the fight to prove it really has developed a quantum computer, D-Wave Systems may have won a big round.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Expands Its Marketing Cloud With Predictive Tools, iBeacon Support, And More — As Adobe kicks off its Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, the company is announcing a number of new features and products in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, its suite of products for digital marketers.
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Survey shows people who quit Twitter want more filtering and sorting of relevant content — Why people quit Twitter — In short, it comes down to not knowing who to follow and not having enough followers. — On Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, people are increasingly concerned … | Dawn C. Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Mobile apps eclipse file-sharing services, digital lockers as most widely used source for pirated music — Music Piracy Goes Mobile — The music industry faces a new front in its long-running battle against piracy: The smartphone. — Mobile applications have eclipsed file-sharing services … | Aloysius Low / CNET: |
Hugo Barra on Xiaomi culture, commitment to Android, and plans to enter the Indian market — Xiaomi's Hugo Barra: True world phones in 2 years, Android all the way — The Xiaomi global vice president, and former Google VP, sits down for a chat with CNET in Beijing to talk … | Bruce Houghton / hypebot: |
Nokia MixRadio becomes first global music streaming service to launch in China — Nokia MixRadio Becomes 1st Global Music Streamer Launches In China — Nokia MixRadio will become the first Global music streaming service to launch in China when it launches in the world's market this week.
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Secure Domain Foundation Debuts to Fight Internet Domain-Based Threats — With more than 265 million domain names registered globally, and that number growing every quarter, domain registrars must ensure that new registrations are not used for fraudulent and malicious intent.
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Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million — (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a person familiar with the deal.| Ellen Huet / San Francisco Chronicle: |
How tech, an object of protest in 1999 San Francisco, reemerged as a convenient target in 2014 — How tech became the enemy - then and now — The flyer tucked on the windshield of a tech worker's car on South Van Ness didn't mince words: “The Mission has been colonized by pigs with money. ...
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