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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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Google plans to spend over $1B to deploy low altitude satellites for internet access in remote areas — Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access — Company Projects Spending More Than $1 Billion to Connect Unwired Reaches of the Globe — Google Inc. plans to spend …
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The Information, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Google and TMF Associates MSS blog
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| 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
| Felix Salmon / Medium: |
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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| 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
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable: |
Micah Lee: the man hired to keep First Look Media and the NSA documents secure — Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the Snowden Docs Aren't Hacked — In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald's computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA, perhaps by foreign spies.
Tweets: @jpbarlow, @mashable, @dangillmor and @trevortimm
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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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Iranian hackers posed as former UN ambassador John Bolton to extract information on LinkedIn — Iran Is Using a Neocon to Hack Its Foes — John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, is playing an unexpectedly prominent role in an Iranian cyberspying campaign.| 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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adafruit industries blog and Scripting News. Tweets: @jenniferhollett, @pippinbarr, @caroljago, @jessicalustig and @jessicalustig
| 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.| Allan Holmes / Center for Public Integrity: |
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
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Rumor: Google Exploring ‘KITT’ For Eyes-Free Functionality In The Car, Always-On Listening — A while ago, we posted about information we'd received indicating that sometime soon, Google's search functionality (and other actions) would be expanding beyond the Search app …
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