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Penny Arcade artist: Surface Pro 3 is “close to being perfect” but has performance issues in some programs, Windows button is poorly placed — Surface Pro 3 — Gabe: The Surface Pro 3 does a lot of stuff right. The device is ridiculously light and thin.| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy — While onstage at the Surface Pro 3 event, Microsoft vice president and Surface creator Panos Panay cited a pretty surprising statistic: 96 percent of iPad owners also own a laptop. Tablet and laptop ownership relationships …
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US may use visa restrictions to prevent Chinese nationals from attending Def Con, Black Hat — U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event — (Reuters) - U.S. officials are considering using visa restrictions to prevent Chinese hackers from attending popular summer hacker conferences …
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Cox will start its gigabit internet rollout in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Omaha — Bandwidth-hungry internet users can register a few new cities as potentially acceptable places to live. Following Google Fiber and AT&T, Cox Communications is one of the first big cable companies to announce plans … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Spotify lands another hot integration, this time with mixing app Djay — Could Made For Spotify be the new Made For iPod? — Spotify isn't profitable quite yet, but with 10 million paid subscribers, the company is likely closer than anyone else in the on-demand music space to breaking even.
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Government Seeks Seven-Month Sentence for LulzSec Leader ‘Sabu’ — As a reward for his extensive cooperation helping prosecutors hunt down his fellow hackers, the government is seeking time served for the long-awaited sentencing of top LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as “Sabu.”
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Facebook spent a year building an audio ID system to make referencing pop culture frictionless — Why Facebook Spent a Year Learning to Listen in on Your TV Shows — If you're watching TV or listening to music and you feel like discussing it online, Facebook believes, nothing should stand in the way.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Twitter experiments with suggesting videos to include when composing your tweet — Twitter Experiments With a New Video-Sharing Feature — So it doesn't look like Twitter is going to get into the audio business, after all. But Twitter has liked video for quite a while.
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Apple seeking U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung based on this month's jury verdict — Surprise. Not. In a follow-up to this month's $119 million jury verdict in the Northern District of California, Apple filed a motion for a U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung late on Friday by local time.
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11 Main, Alibaba's US marketplace, to aim at upscale buyers, take 3.5% commission from vendors — Alibaba Plans Online Market Geared to Americans — Herb and Martha Oberman have made a good living on eBay for 17 years, selling paper collectibles like a $5,000 limited-edition menu from the Hotel Bel-Air … | Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Sony's PlayStation 4 is already profitable and on course to beat the PS2's success — If Sony is to reverse its heavy losses, big-selling products like the PlayStation 4 need to turn a profit. The good news is that the company's newest console is already fulfilling that requirement … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Amazon's Tactics Confirm Its Critics' Worst Suspicions — Amazon is confirming its critics' worst fears and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. — For years, authors and publishers have warned that Amazon, Jeff Bezos' book-selling giant, would one day use its power for ill. Sure, so far …
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