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| Dom Esposito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's MacBook Air lineup updated with new Haswell processors, now starts at $899 — In line with our recent reporting, Apple has updated its Macbook Air lineup. The refresh features Intel's Haswell processor and is now $100 less than the previous model.
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| Chris Urmson / The Official Google Blog: |
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: |
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
With Microsoft Deal Done, Nokia Names Rajeev Suri CEO, $6.9 Billion in Buybacks, Dividends and Debt Cuts — Nokia late Monday said it was naming former networking unit head Rajeev Suri as its new chief executive. — With the sale of its flagship device business to Microsoft …
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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.| 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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| Fortune: |
Disney tried to buy Buzzfeed but talks broke down over price; Buzzfeed sought more than $1B — Disney tried to buy BuzzFeed — The merger conversations happened several months ago, but fell apart over price. — FORTUNE - The Walt Disney Co. was in talks to acquire online content …
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See also Mediagazer| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo to Stream a Daily Concert From Live Nation — Ad-Supported Web Channel Is Part of Plan to Compete With YouTube — Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are unveiling plans to let couch potatoes watch live concerts every day, without a ticket.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
| Steven Musil / CNET News: |
Samsung posts $8.2B profit; second straight quarterly drop — South Korean electronics giant posts an operating profit of $8.2 billion for the first quarter, a 3.3 percent decline from the year-ago period. — Samsung's Galaxy S4. — Samsung — Samsung reported its second consecutive quarter … | 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 …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft increases OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user, including for Office 365 ProPlus — Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. This also affects all Office 365 ProPlus customers: they will now get 1TB …
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
FreedomPop to Sell First Apple Devices, Offering iPhone 5 With Its Free and Low-Cost Plans — Upstart mobile carrier FreedomPop is announcing this week its first support for the iPhone, offering a variety of free and low-cost plans in conjunction with Apple phones that work on Sprint's network.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, Gigaom, AppleInsider and iMore
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Most websites patched Heartbleed, but tens of thousands of connected devices remain vulnerable — It's Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed — Western Digital makes a tiny box where you can store all your photos and other digital stuff. It's called My Cloud, and you've probably seen the TV ads hawking the thing.| Gerry Conway / Comicbook.com: |
Comic book writer: Amazon sabotaged Comixology's near-perfect venue for discovering new comics — The ComiXology Outrage — Known forever to fandom as “the man who killed Gwen Stacy,” Conway is also the co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Power Girl, Man-Thing, Werewolf-by-Night … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Galaxy K Zoom smartphone packs a 20 megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens — Samsung made the leap into high-end camera smartphones when it launched the Galaxy S4 Zoom last year, and now it is adding to that range after it announced the Galaxy K Zoom, a smartphone that sports … | 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 …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
White House details interagency decision-making process on zero-day vulnerability disclosures — White House Details Thinking on Cybersecurity Flaws — WASHINGTON — In a rare insight into the government's thinking on the use of cyberweapons, the White House on Monday published a series … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
AT&T to Take On Gogo With In-Flight LTE Service — AT&T on Monday said it plans to get into the in-flight Internet access business by building a new air-to-ground technology based on its LTE wireless service. — “Everyone wants access to high-speed, reliable mobile Internet wherever they are …
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Consolidation looms in business intelligence, as TIBCO buys Jaspersoft for $185M — Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company, for approximately $185 million. It's not an earth-shaking deal, but it could be a sign of things to come … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Research Special Projects group tipped to take on Google X — Summary: Microsoft is building a Special Projects team expected to be headed by former DARPA innovation boss Norman Whitaker, which will focus on ‘disruptive next-generation technologies.’
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The Register, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Geek.com, Neowin, Pocketnow, Windows Phone Central and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Alexander Howard / E Pluribus Unum: |
U.S. House passes historic open government bill, sending it on to the White House — This afternoon, the United States House of Representatives passed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) of 2013, voting to send S.994, the bill that enjoyed unanimous support in the U.S. Senate earlier …
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Thanks:@digiphile| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Wins Antitrust Case as Top Court Rejects Novell — The U.S. Supreme Court ended a lawsuit that accused Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) of illegally protecting its Windows computer operating system from competition 20 years ago by undercutting a rival word-processing program.| 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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