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HTC One (M8) review: a gorgeous, fast, long-lasting phone with a weak, inconsistent camera — The new HTC One review — The best or nothing — My first car was a 1997 Saturn SL1, a tiny black box with headlights that were too close together and a 0-60 time in the neighborhood of three and a half hours.
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Tweets: @mattlynley and @reckless
| 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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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
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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| Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public — The following post is from Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director, Microsoft Research. — On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows.
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| Rob Wile / Business Insider: |
IRS: Bitcoin Is Property [FULL RELEASE] — The IRS has ruled Bitcoin should be treated as property, not as currency, for tax purposes. — The agency says anyone who holds the currency will have to calculate its value from the date it was received to determine whether a gain or loss was realized, and report the result.
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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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Announces Massive Price Drops For Its Cloud Computing Services And Storage, Introduces Sustained-Use Discounts — At its Cloud Platform event in San Francisco today, Google announced a number of massive price drops for virtually all of its cloud-computing services.
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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.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils next-generation graphics processor with 3D memory — Above: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang with a Pascal chip — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled his company's latest graphics-processor architecture, code-named Pascal, that will put a “supercomputer in the space of two credit cards.”
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cathy Edwards, Co-Founder Of Chomp, Is Leaving Apple On April 11 — A notable personnel departure is coming up in Cupertino: Cathy Edwards, the co-founder and CTO of app search and discovery platform Chomp, is leaving Apple on April 11, TechCrunch has learned.| 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 … | Serena Saitto / Bloomberg: |
Waze co-founder Uri Levine, declining to join Google, launches finance-planning startup FeeX — Waze Co-Founder Skips Google to Try Startup World Again — Uri Levine still has the entrepreneurial bug. After selling map-software provider Waze to Google for $1.1 billion last June …
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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.| 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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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Gmail Promotions Tab Gets Visual Punch: Google Testing Image-Driven Grid View — It's like Pinterest for your inbox. Today, the Visual Web is coming to email with Google's latest test of a grid view in the Gmail Promotions tab. The grid presents marketing emails in a “pin-like” …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Facebook's Open Compute guru Frank Frankovsky leaves to build optical storage startup — Frank Frankovsky, Facebook's vice president of hardware design and supply chain optimization, who helped oversee the development and growth of the company's custom server effort, has left … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Big-Data Startup RelateIQ Raises Another $40 Million — Big data continues wooing big money. — RelateIQ Inc., a relationship management software startup, has raised $40 million in fresh capital at a valuation of $245 million. The round, led by Redpoint Ventures also includes several new investors …
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Instagram Testing Facebook Places Integration To Replace Foursquare — Popular photo-sharing app Instagram is testing integration with Facebook Places, Facebook's venue database. Facebook, of course, owns Instagram. The experiment signals that Instagram may eventually wean itself off … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google is reportedly building new Android business features: APIs, enterprise apps, data encryption, and more — As part of Google's development of the next Android version, the company is working on developing business-specific features to take on leader BlackBerry as well as newcomers Apple and Samsung.
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