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NSA has collected millions of images of faces from intercepted communications for use in facial recognition — N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images — The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through …
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Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP — Summary: A single registry setting makes Windows Update think your XP system is Windows XP POSReady, which will receive updates for another five years. — As reported by Wayne Williams at Betanews and confirmed by us …
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One of Medium's first paid Collection Editors leaves the platform after one year, citing wage disparity, rocky product changes, poor analytics, more — LadyBits' First and Last Year on Medium — So long, folks. It's been real. — In May of 2013, I signed on as a Collection Editor with Medium to launch LadyBits on Medium.
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| Mia Shanley / Reuters: |
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden to serve outstanding sentence for copyright violation — Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence — (Reuters) - One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden …
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| Adam Satariano / Businessweek: |
Apple's Beats Deal Sealed by Ex-Banker Adrian Perica — Apple (AAPL) is arguably the most famous company in the world, but its top dealmaker prefers to stay in the shadows. Adrian Perica, a former Goldman Sachs (GS) banker, sometimes holds meetings with executives of companies he's interested … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
WWDC 2014 Roundup: Enhanced iOS 8, redesigned OS X 10.10, new hardware (plus fresh details) — Despite Apple CEO Tim Cook teasing that Apple would introduce new products “across 2014,” so far this year the company has simply released a cheaper version of the iPhone 5c in select markets …
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Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette — Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette. — FORTUNE - As a fight over ebook pricing intensifies between French book publisher Hachette and online retailer Amazon … | Nitasha Tiku / New York Times: |
Some educators believe gaming can get girls interested in coding, and mentors can be key — How to Get Girls Into Coding — WHEN I was 7 years old, I knew the capitals of most major countries and their currencies. I had to, if I wanted to track down a devious criminal mastermind in the computer game …
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| Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine: |
Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race — Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes better, faster, and cooler. This is not a metaphor. Unless, you know, it is. — T — here was a problem with the cookies. — When Jordan Metzner and Juan Dulanto launched Washio …
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
In Chile, mobile carriers can no longer offer free Twitter, Facebook or WhatsApp — The Chilean telecommunications regulator Subtel has banned mobile operators from offering so-called zero-rated social media apps - services like Twitter and Facebook that, through deals with the carriers …
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Median net income for UberX drivers is decent: over $75k a year in NYC — The economics of “everyone's private driver” — What happens when cab drivers stop being employees and start being sole proprietors — Uber, the car service which launched as “everyone's private driver” …
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
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