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Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, four head-tracking infrared cameras — This is Amazon's smartphone — BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months — After years of development …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Smartphone To Feature Unique But Limited 3D Effects — TechCrunch has learned that Amazon's upcoming flagship smartphone, running a forked version of Android, will have head-tracking capabilities offering up limited 3D effects. This key feature will be reserved to just a few built-in gestures …
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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip, plans to offer more sophisticated data sets — Twitter welcomes Gnip to the flock — Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests and what's happening in the world. These public Tweets can reveal a wide variety of insights …
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| Jon Gertner / Fast Company: |
Inside Google X: lab reveals it experimented with space elevators and hoverboards — The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors — Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone — A handful of Google engineers and designers are building a phone the DARPA way — In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed together into a makeshift model of a shipping container.
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| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when — Ever since the “Heartbleed” flaw in encryption protocol OpenSSL was made public on April 7 in the US there have been various questions about who knew what and when. Fairfax Media has spoken to various people and groups involved and has compiled the below timeline.
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ProPublica, The Register, SiliconBeat, Digital Trends and Fedor Indutny's blog. Tweets: @stshank. Thanks:@bengrubb
| Thijs van As / Gmail Blog: |
Gmail makes it easier to email photos automatically backed up from your smartphone — The photos from your phone, now one click away — Unless you're a budding Ansel Adams, odds are you take most of your photos using your phone. And whether it's photos of your hiking trip or a night out … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Teardown Shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 Costs About $256 to Build — The Galaxy S5, Samsung's new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build according to a teardown analysis by market research firm IHS that will be published later today. — Released over the weekend, and winning praise … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) — A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …
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The Verge and Global Nerdy. Tweets: @joshelman, @jedkolko, @kevinroose, @davemcclure and @jeffjarvis
| Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt: |
Google Invents Micro Camera System for Future Contact Lenses — Last month Google surprised the market with a new wearable Glass off-shoot project relating to future smart contact lenses. Our report that was titled “Google Takes their Glass Vision to Smart Contact Lenses,” … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
AngelList's Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors — A new experiment in startup funding could have widespread ramifications for the way venture capitalists place bets on young companies. — On Tuesday, crowdsourced fundraising site AngelList unveiled a new fund … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Twitter Taps Google Maps Director Daniel Graf for Product VP Role — Twitter announced Tuesday it had named Daniel Graf as its new vice president of consumer product. — Graf most recently comes from Google, where had he led efforts on the company's Google Maps project since 2012.| Tom Lavell / Bloomberg: |
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B — Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion — Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile computing …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL — This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire, MSDN Blogs and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft launches Office 365 Personal subscription: One PC/Mac and one tablet for $69.99/year or $6.99/month — Microsoft today launched its Office 365 Personal subscription, a cheaper alternative that is limited to just two devices: one PC or Mac and one tablet.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Website-Building Platform Squarespace Raises Another $40M — Squarespace, which offers tools for individuals and small businesses to build websites and online stores, just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. — The funding comes from growth equity firm General Atlantic.
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The Official Squarespace Blog, Re/code, PR Newswire and PE Hub Blog
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Control In The Cloud: ItsOn Raises $12.5M From Tenaya And Andreessen Horowitz — ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it has raised …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Toshiba's first 4K laptop arrives next week for $1,500 — After launching its first 4K laptop in the UK, Toshiba has just announced US availability. It'll be the P55T rather than the P50T, but as before, it's a 15.6-inch laptop with a 3,840 x 2,160 pixels resolution — a staggering 282 PPI, if you're scoring at home.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans major expansion in New York, is seeking space for more than 3,000 workers — Space Quest: Google Needs More Offices in New York City — Internet Giant Launches Search for Room to Hold More Than 3,000 Workers — Google is doing a search: It wants to expand further … | Klint Finley / Wired: |
Tails: the privacy-focused Linux version Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras used to communicate — Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA — When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox One update rolling out with Kinect improvements and friend notifications — Microsoft seems to be improving its Xbox One software on a monthly basis, and April is no different. Starting today, the software maker is rolling out its latest update to Xbox One consoles, bringing some new features and improvements along the way.| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Digital financial advisers bulk up: Betterment raises $32 million — Funding comes on the heels of competitor Wealthfront raising $35 million. — FORTUNE — A crop of new websites is fighting to help manage your money. They're offering lower fees than traditional financial advisers … Sponsor Posts
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