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Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired Over Tasteless Comments on Santa Barbara Shooting — Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired from the annotation service after posting appalling comments on the memoir of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a shooting spree earlier this week.
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See also Mediagazer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal — Apple is going to make a big play in the connected smart home space, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The company is planning a platform that would turn its iOS devices, including the iPhone …
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Financial Times, 9to5Mac, The Verge, CNET News, WearablesArena, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, iMore, BGR, MacNN, Business Insider, Mashable, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, GeekWire, NEWS.com.au, DailyTech, MacRumors, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Engadget, Digital Trends, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Network World, PandoDaily and MobileSyrup.com
| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Google through Nest considered acquiring connected camera maker Dropcam, in a push into home security — Google Eyes Home Security, Dropcam — Google's Nest division is plotting a move into the home-security market and has considered acquiring connected camera-maker Dropcam to accelerate the push …
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The Next Web, Business Insider, CNET News, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo and App Advice
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google releases VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, hopes more malware submissions will beef up Mac security — Google today announced the release of VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, allowing Mac users to upload suspicious files for scanning. You can download it now directly for OS X 10.8 and 10.9 from VirusTotal (8.52MB).
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
DARPA proof-of-concept lets cyberwarriors visualize and attack networks with the Oculus Rift — Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar — For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it's about to get a lot more in-your-face.
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| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Line sees growing sticker adoption across Asia and Latin America, still struggling to crack US — No Time to Text? Apps Turn to Stickers — On the messaging app Line, a late-afternoon conversation between colleagues might involve a series of colorful icons, or stickers … | Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
Researchers transmit data from Earth to Moon at 19.44mbps, 4800 times the previous record — Wireless broadband can reach the moon, and maybe Mars — Aside from air, water and fresh vegetables, what would need to survive on the moon? One thing that would likely of feature high on the list is a decent, reliable wireless internet.| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox's Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin's Price? — There is more speculation today that bitcoin's November 2013 surge and Mt. Gox's trading volume's were built in part on fraudulent trading activity - specifically via a bot that serious traders have dubbed “Willy”
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The Willy Report, Gigaom, CryptoCoinsNews, The Market Oracle, newsBTC, TechCrunch, CoinTelegraph.Com News, TechSpot and Forex Minute. Tweets: @coindesk
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Amazon is inviting some customers to try its Fire TV set-top box free for 30 days — Amazon Now Has Plenty of Fire TVs, and May Let You Try One for Free — Remember when Amazon sold out of its Fire TV boxes, just a few days after introducing them? — Now they have more.| Quinn Norton / Medium: |
Why security is terrible: computers, software, and the people who use them are broken — Everything Is Broken — Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it.
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Tweets: @securityninja, @rachelannyes, @runasand, @ioerror and @emptywheel
| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Samsung patent filings show gesture-controlled wearable device with round interface — Samsung unveiled a handful of new wearable devices earlier this year, but according to some recently discovered patent filings, the company still has some more ideas in the pipeline.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
HTC One mini 2 review: A worthy new addition to the premium One clan — HTC created what was undoubtedly one of the best smartphones of last year with the original One. That was later followed up by the One mini, which was surprising in the sense that the handset maker hadn't before attempted … | Bloomberg: |
U.S. Companies Hacked by Chinese Didn't Tell Investors — Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn't report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. — Two of the companies …
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