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Oculus founder: joining Facebook is “the clear and obvious path to delivering virtual reality to everyone” — The Future of Virtual Reality — I've always loved games. They're windows into worlds that let us travel somewhere fantastic. My foray into virtual reality …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Will Facebook ruin Oculus? Kickstarter backers voice concerns — “We promise we won't change,” Oculus founder tells donors — Once upon a time, the Oculus Rift headset was a prototype with a blurry screen bound with gaffer's tape. But 9,522 people saw the device's potential …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Ahead of Samsung patent case, Apple engineer recalls the marathon to create the iPhone — Jobs gave the engineer an ultimatum: Lay out a vision for the iPhone fast or lose the job — In February 2005, Apple Inc. 's then chief executive, Steve Jobs, gave senior software engineer Greg Christie an ultimatum.
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| Vijaya Gadde / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter files petitions for lawsuits in Turkish courts to challenge ban — Challenging the access ban in Turkey — It's now been six days since the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter. Throughout this time, we've been engaged in discussion with Turkish authorities to hear their concerns …
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Turkish court orders stay of execution on government's Twitter ban — Ankara court grants stay of execution for government's Twitter ban — An Ankara administrative court has issued a stay of execution on an executive decision adopted by Turkey's telecommunication's authority (TB) …
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| Derek Kessler / iMore: |
Apple hires BlackBerry's top software VP, BlackBerry wins court battle over departure — Sebastien Marineau-Mes, BlackBerry's SVP of Software, is leaving the ailing smartphone manufacturer for brighter and warmer pastures: Apple. Or at least that's what he's trying to do, if it weren't for those pesky contracts.
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| Hassan Hosseini / RightScale Blog: |
Google Slashes Cloud Prices: Google vs AWS Price Comparison — Today Google threw down the gauntlet to challenge AWS public cloud supremacy by announcing significant price reductions across its Google Cloud Platform. The eye-opening price cuts covered compute (32-percent reduction), storage … | Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Google General Counsel to Arrington Allegation: We Don't Snoop on Gmail to Find Leakers — In an unusual move, Google is responding directly to former TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's allegation that it accessed his Gmail account to root out his source for a major story.| Joey Parker / MTV Act: |
Apple plans to add more diversity to Emoji character set — What Does Apple Think About The Lack Of Diversity In Emojis? We Have Their Response. — When you browse through the emojis on your phone, there are very few non-Caucasian ones to choose from. I mean, they have a water buffalo but no representation of people of color?| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator W14 Demo Day — While today saw Paul Graham physically pass the reins to new Y Combinator president Sam Altman, the bigger buzz at Demo Day was about how most investors thought this was the best YC class yet.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
New NYT Now App Marks The Grey Lady's First Step Into Native Ads On Mobile, Dedicated Mobile Editors — “All the News That's Fit to Print” was a viable business model for many years at the New York Times, but these days, as newspaper costs rise and readers look elsewhere for their information … | Dan Jones / Light Reading: |
Sprint's Hesse: HD Voice Goes Nationwide in July — BOSTON — Oracle Industry Connect — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse revealed in his keynote here Tuesday that the operator is ready to launch its HD Voice service across the US in July. — HD Voice increases the clarity of a voice call across seven octaves …
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| William Alden / New York Times: |
Candy Crush maker King Digital falls 8.9% below IPO price in trading debut — Candy Crush Maker King Falls in Trading Debut — King Digital Entertainment, the game maker behind the addictive Candy Crush Saga, had a muted debut on Wednesday as it began life as a public company.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Takedown Notices Surge 711,887 Percent in Four Years — Signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1998, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) aimed to ready copyright law for the digital age. — The law heightened punishment for copyright infringement over the Internet and criminalized circumvention of DRM.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram now has 200M active monthly users, 20B total photos shared — Instagram Today: 200 Million Strong — Today, we're excited to share that the Instagram community has grown to more than 200 million Instagrammers capturing and sharing their lives every month.| Jonathan Zittrain / The New Republic: |
U.S. Withdraws from ICANN: Why It's No Big Deal — The misguided freakout over ICANN — On March 14, the U.S. government announced that it would seek to relinquish a privileged role in the management of Internet names and numbers. An organization called ICANN—the non-profit Internet Corporation … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Fleksy keyboard for Android now has achievement badges and cloud syncing — Even though Fleksy's predictive touch typing is fairly easy to learn, not everyone is familiar with all that this alternative keyboard has to offer. That's one of the reasons the company has incorporated …
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
House Intel leaders unveil surveillance reforms — House Intelligence leaders on Tuesday unveiled a plan to curtail the NSA's ability to collect phone call data in bulk, but the effort differs from proposals from other top lawmakers and the White House. — Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) …
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