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Google announces End-to-End Chrome extension alpha for sending secure emails with OpenPGP — Making end-to-end encryption easier to use — Your security online has always been a top priority for us, and we're constantly working to make sure your data is safe.
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| Brandon Long / The Official Google Blog: |
Google warns that 40-50% of messages sent between Gmail and other services are unencrypted — Transparency Report: Protecting emails as they travel across the web — When you mail a letter to your friend, you hope she'll be the only person who reads it.
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PC World, Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, USA Today, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, FT.com and Electronista
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Touch-first Microsoft Office for Android to beat Windows 8 version to market — Summary: In another example of Microsoft's mobile-first strategy, the company is expected to make the Android version of its core touch-first Office apps available months ahead of the Windows 8 variant.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram 6.0 Seduces Pro Photographers With Adjustable Filters And 9 New Effects — “People come to Instagram today to post their photos but haven't come back to edit their photos” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells me. So today Instagram is adding sliders to control 9 new photo effects and the intensity of its existing filters.
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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
What's Apple Really Up To? Keeping You in Apple World. — Today, at its annual developers conference, WWDC 2014, Apple laid out the first step in its latest plans — new versions of its mobile and Mac operating systems, iOS and OS X, respectively. The second step will come in the fall …
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| Duncan Campbell / The Register: |
Details of GCHQ's secret base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East revealed — REVEALED: GCHQ's BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE — Snowden leaks that UK.gov suppressed — Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britain's covert surveillance programme … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Kickstarter simplifies rules for campaigns, allows any project that isn't illegal or dangerous, offers “Launch Now” option to skip approval process — Kickstarter's next campaign — The original crowdfunder is loosening its rules and opening the floodgates
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google launches 64-bit version of Chrome, starting with Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Google today announced the debut of a 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows, starting with the introduction of 64-bit Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.| William Alden / New York Times: |
K.K.R. to Buy Internet Brands for $1.1 Billion — The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has agreed to buy Internet Brands, which operates a portfolio of websites and software, in a bet that it can help the company expand its services. — The deal, which Internet Brands is expected … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Intel bets on Surface Pro 3-like 2-in-1 devices with “mobile PC” reference design — Intel Bets On Surface Pro 3-Like “2-In-1″ Devices — Today at the Computex event in Taiwan, Intel unveiled a reference design '2-in-1′ device, raising the profile of tablet-hybrids.| Brad Foreman / Google Chrome Blog: |
Gooooooaal!: Chromecast scores WatchESPN, Major League Soccer and Google+ Photos — Soccer, fútbol, football, jogo bonito—however you say it, there's a good chance you'll be tuning in to watch when the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ kicks off next week.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorgs its Office business to focus on four new investment areas — Summary: Microsoft's OneNote business is getting a big push in the newly reorganized Office business. Here's what else the company is prioritizing with its latest moves. — Up until last month …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Netflix ditches Silverlight for HTML5 on Macs too: Available today in Safari on OS X Yosemite beta — Netflix today furthered its plans to ditch Silverlight for HTML5 on Macs, having already done so last year in IE11 on Windows 8.1. HTML5 video is now supported by Netflix in Safari on OS X Yosemite … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
AirPlay on iOS 8 doesn't need a network to stream your media — Right now, Apple's AirPlay media streaming requires an established WiFi network to fly. That's fine when you're at home, but do you really want to ask for a friend's hotspot password just to show vacation photos on their Apple TV?
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| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
Google Glass frames and shades designed by Diane von Furstenberg for women launch June 23 — Diane Von Furstenberg Launches 13 New Ladies' Frames & Shades for Google Glass — A collaboration between Google and legendary designer Diane von Furstenberg will bring more than a dozen …
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Cloudera acquires big data encryption specialist Gazzang — Hadoop software company Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption software for big data environments. It's Cloudera's first significant acquisition (it bought machine learning startup Myrrix in 2013 in more of an …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Online Tutoring Center InstaEDU Acquired By Chegg For $30 Million — Chegg, the textbook resale site turned all things student hub, today announced a $30 million cash acquisition of student tutoring marketplace InstaEDU. — An acquisition like this makes sense for Chegg.| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Nexus Q replay: Motorola's $50 Moto Stream flings music wirelessly in your home — Google tried and failed to create a wireless home music streamer two years ago for $200. Now, Motorola may have the answer for one-=quarter of the price. Even better: It doesn't just work with Android devices.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable: |
Turkey Unblocks YouTube After 2 Months — Turkey has finally restored access to YouTube, 67 days after the government blocked the video-sharing website. — The Turkey's telecommunications authority (TIB) lifted the ban on Tuesday, removing YouTube from the “blocked sites” listed on its website.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Raises Another $66.5M From Andreessen Horowitz and IVP At A $500M Valuation — Well that was fast. — It was a little more than four months ago that Zenefits raised a $15 million Series A Round from Andreessen Horowitz to power explosive growth in its cloud-based HR platform.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Inks $500M Wireless Patent Deal With InterDigital — Some more closure in the ongoing, foot-dragging world of patent infringement, at a very lucrative price: Samsung and InterDigital have signed a patent license agreement and dropped all litigation, active and pending, against each other.Sponsor Posts
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