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Google's self-driving cars get smarter at handling city driving conditions, log 700K miles — The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving — Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and your view.
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| Eric Jaffe / The Atlantic Cities: |
The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car. We've been cruising the streets of Mountain View for about ten minutes.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Refreshed MacBook Airs with latest Haswell chips likely launching tomorrow — New MacBook Airs likely launching tomorrow — Update: Here are the specs... Apple is preparing to launch a refreshed line of MacBook Air laptops as soon as tomorrow, according to multiple sources.| Xbox Wire: |
Xbox Originals launching in June on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and other Microsoft devices — Xbox Originals: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You — Starting this June, you'll have more reasons to love your Xbox: Xbox Originals - premium dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation, unscripted shows, and live events.
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| Chris Wanstrath / GitHub: |
GitHub CEO apologizes for lack of transparency, details findings of independent investigator — Follow up to the investigation results — Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. — We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm sorry.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia ‘Superman’ expected later this year is a 4.7" phone with a 5 megapixel front camera — Nokia ‘Superman’ will be the best Windows Phone for selfies — One of the first Windows Phone 8.1 devices due for release after Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's phone business … | Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Despite Big Ambitions, New York's Tech Scene Is Still Starting Up — Predicting that your city will be the next Silicon Valley is simple. But actually making it the next Silicon Valley is something else entirely — as New York is slowly finding out. — A few years ago … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Skype makes group video calling free on Windows, Mac, and Xbox One; coming to all platforms ‘in the future’ — Skype today announced it is making group video calling (GVC) available free of charge on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One. At the same time, the company is also promising …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Plastic HTC ‘M8 Ace’ aims at Galaxy S5 with same specs, lower price — HTC may have poked fun at its competitors' plastic flagship devices in the past, but it looks like the Taiwanese company will soon be offering one as well. And no, we're not talking about the Butterfly line here.| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Annual Profit Falls 52 Percent for Angry Birds Maker Rovio — LONDON - All is not well in the land of Angry Birds. — On Monday, Rovio, the Finnish gaming company behind the once-popular franchise, announced a more than 50 percent drop in its 2013 net profit, to $37 million, compared with the previous year.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple patches another major security hole in its website that allowed access to all developer personal information — Imagine our surprise when an email from a complete stranger showed up in our tips box containing the personal contact information—including cell phone numbers … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
New Relic brings in $100M more ahead of IPO — Software analytics company New Relic has raised $100 million in new funding, the company said today. That helps put off a debut on public markets. — The money will go toward more product enhancements and more expansion internationally, the company said.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Google: |
HP preparing to announce first Google-blessed touchscreen Android notebook — In a hidden video (embedded below) discovered on HP's website by Notebook Italia shows off HP's upcoming Slatebook 14. As the name implies, the machine comes with a 1080p 14″ touchscreen display.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's first Nokia ad plays on its underdog status — 25,000 Nokia employees are joining Microsoft today after the company acquired Nokia's devices and services unit last week. While many workers are tweeting their new employee badges in a series of selfies today … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
NBCUniversal research chief Alan Wurtzell says Twitter chatter does not increase TV viewership — NBC Pokes a Hole in Twitter's TV Story — You know how Twitter is supposed to be TV's friend? — Things look a little less congenial today. — That's after a pointed article in the Financial Times … | Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
InsideSales.com Raises $100M to Predict Sales; Valuation Close to $1 Billion — InsideSales.com Inc. has raised $100 million at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned, in what one investor called one of the most competitive deals he'd ever been involved in.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
U.S., UK advise avoiding Internet Explorer until bug fixed — (Reuters) - The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers used to launch attacks.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Won't Brand Its Own Phones ‘Microsoft Mobile’ — Nor Use Nokia's Name For Long — Now that Nokiasoft is (un)officially a thing, following the completion on Friday of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar purchase of Nokia's devices division, the question of which brand names Microsoft … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kantar: Windows Phone ‘Stutters’ Amid Android Price Competition, iPhone 5S Is Apple's Buffer — Last Friday, Microsoft finally took control as the new owner of Nokia's devices business, but it's coming into its new position as a mobile hardware maker with no less a challenge than Nokia has had for the last couple of years.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook Messenger 5.0 adds video sharing, faster photo and sticker access, more — Facebook today updated Messenger to version 5.0 bringing a list of feature improvements to the iPhone messaging app. The new version boasts a streamlined design for accessing and sharing photos …
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