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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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| 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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9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Engadget, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and App Advice. Tweets: @oosadcha
| 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. — linkedin — googleplus — tumblr — stumble — Sony's SmartWatch 2. — Sarah Tew/CNET| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | Ronald Grover / Reuters: |
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.
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See also Mediagazer| 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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| 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 … | Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
HTC app listing outs Google Play edition HTC One (M8) — Official app description reveals stock Android version of unannounced flagship — With many HTC Sense 6 apps now appearing on Google Play, further details of the HTC One (M8) features are starting to leak out through HTC's own app listings.
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Android Police, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Google, MobileBurn.com, Phones Review, MobileSyrup.com and GSMArena Blog. Thanks:@alexdobie
| 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 … | 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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| 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. ...
Tweets: @cmarinucci, @elcush, @stvnflngn, @ellenhuet, @stvnflngn and @dvaldosf
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Gets More Secure With Addition Of Two-Factor Authentication — Tumblr today added a very important security feature to its service, with the addition of two-factor authentication - an option available within the blogging service's “Settings” section as of now.
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Tumblr Staff, PC Magazine, TechHive, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Business Insider, Engadget, Pocket-lint, gHacks Technology News, The Next Web, ZDNet, Help Net Security and iMore. Thanks:@alex
| Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security: |
10,000 GitHub users inadvertently reveal their AWS secret access keys — GitHub developers who are also Amazon Web Services users are advised to check the code they made public on their project pages and to delete secret access keys for their AWS account they may have posted inadvertently.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Coursera Brings In Longtime Yale President Rick Levin as CEO — Coursera, the massive-open-online-course provider with the most funding and the most students in the space, is shaking up its leadership. — The company has named Rick Levin, formerly president of Yale University for two decades, as CEO.
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