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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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| Associated Press: |
US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — You are here — Home » United States government » US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
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See also Mediagazer| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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See also Mediagazer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku — Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compare to the likes of the Apple TV … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy — If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @mrlerner, @davidsackman, @nytimesbusiness and @charlesgoulduk
| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Cortana (yes!) and Many, Many Other Great Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1 — Whew, what a day! What a week! I've just gotten off the stage at Build in front of 5,000 of our beloved developers talking about the future of the Windows platform. And now I'm here to tell YOU about the stuff we've …
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Thanks:@brandonleblanc| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale — This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're not coming from one place.
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| Tim Stevens / CNET: |
Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen gets candid on the evolution of Windows 8 — Chaitanya Sareen, who has managed every version of Windows since 7, shares his thoughts with us about the always-evolving state of the desktop operating system. — Chaitanya Sareen — Josh Miller/CNET
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| Brandon LeBlanc / Windows Experience Blog: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M — UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online … | Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks — Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswell chip could find its way into future Chromebooks.
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| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Microsoft open sources Windows Library for JavaScript — Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. — Now that the library is open source …
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ZDNet, The Windows Blog, GitHub and BetaNews
| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued — New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Open-source laptop Novena launches crowdfunding campaign, allows hacking its hardware — The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale — The Novena open source laptop. Photo: Crowd Supply — Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust.
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Crowd Supply, bunnie's blog, Liliputing, Mashable, Geeky Gadgets, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Wall Street Journal: |
Vkontakte CEO in U-Turn After Announcing Departure — Pavel Durov Said on His Vkontakte Page That Resignation Was an 'April Fool's Joke' — MOSCOW—The unpredictable founder of Vkontakte, Russia's largest social-networking website, who earlier this week announced he was quitting his job … | Charles Luzar / Crowdfund Insider: |
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo allows campaign nearing $1M for a dubious calorie-counting device — Indiegogo's Reputation May Hinge On Outcome Of GoBe Campaign … The above excerpt is from Dr. David Ahn's writeup today in iMedialApps, and it does a great job in outlining some of the concerns surrounding … | Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Rumored Galaxy S5 mini specs: 4.5" 720p Super AMOLED, quad-core Snapdragon 400, 1.5GB RAM — EXCLUSIVE: Galaxy S5 mini (SM-G800) specs leaked — We exclusively confirmed that the Galaxy S5 mini would be launching after the Galaxy S5 (not that we needed that confirmation …
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BGR, Pocketnow, Geek.com, IntoMobile, Electronista, BGR, Fudzilla and Droid Life
| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
New Kinect for Windows arrives this summer — Amid the volley of announcements from Microsoft's Build conference, is word that the new Kinect for Windows has a near-future release time-frame for both the hardware and its SDK. The desktop version of Microsoft's do-all sensor will be available …
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The Windows Blog, MSDN Blogs and Electronista
| Bobby Yip / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532M for controlling stake in financial software firm Hundsun Tech — Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532 million in financial software firm — (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the founder of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce firm …
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