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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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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” …
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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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Secret Launches In China With A ‘Secret’ Partner, Adds Language Preferences As It Blows Up In Russia — Anonymous social sharing app Secret opened up to new users around the globe a few weeks ago, becoming available pretty much everywhere except China. The company corrected that this weekend …
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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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| Shane Harris / Foreign Policy: |
Exclusive: Inside the FBI's Fight Against Chinese Cyber-Espionage — SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German solar panel manufacturer knew that its Chinese competitors, backed by generous government subsidies, were flooding the American market …
Tweets: @kashhill and @sarahjeong
| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Making Glass cool: Google can learn from Beats by making endorsement deals with athletes — Why Only Beats Can Teach Google Glass How to Be Cool — When Apple dropped $3 billion on Beats this week, it was pretty clear Cupertino was more interested in the software and people than the hardware.
Tweets: @evelynrusli and @caseynewton
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Comcast's Internet Essentials program barely impacts broadband adoption rates among the poor — Comcast-Time Warner deal may hinge on anemic low-cost Internet plan — Merger conditions poor substitute for national strategy — As Comcast Corp. tries to convince the federal government …
Tweets: @publici, @tonyromm, @kytja and @anneschwieger
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
MOG Is Dead, Corpse Now Points To Its Acquirer Beats — After 9 years in the game, MOG has completely shut down its streaming music service and now directs users to Beats, which acquired it in July 2012 for $14 million...and which was itself acquired by Apple this week.| Adario Strange / Mashable: |
Justin.tv will stop archiving live streams, delete all existing archived videos after June 8 — Quick, Save Your Work: Justin.tv to Delete All Video Archives — Justin.tv, one of the web's most popular video-streaming sites, announced this week that it will no longer offer video archiving, and will delete existing archives in June.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HP announces new Chromebook and 14-inch Android laptop — Last year, HP and Google partnered to introduce the Chromebook 11, a slick looking, if underpowered laptop that bore a striking resemblance to Apple's old plastic MacBooks. The best part of the Chromebook 11 was its bright, vivid 11.6-inch display.
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| Larry Seltzer / ZDNet: |
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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