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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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Google considered acquiring connected camera maker Dropcam through its Nest division, 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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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| 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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| 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.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Razer Blade review: 2014 model trades battery life for a high-res touchscreen, more horsepower — Razer Blade (2014) review: laptop gaming never looked so good — The resolution is high, the battery life is not — I feel spoiled. Ever since I started playing games … | 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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