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New report from Vodafone reveals secret wires across 29 countries for govt surveillance — Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance — Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a ‘nightmare scenario’
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Safari in iOS 8 uses camera to scan and enter credit card info — In iOS 8, Apple has a new feature in Safari that allows users to scan a credit card with the device's camera rather than manually entering the number when making a purchase online. — When entering a credit card number …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to use modified version of OKAO Vision face sensing technology for its new 3D smartphone — This Is The Face Tracking Tech Powering Amazon's New 3D Smartphone — Rumor has it - and we've confirmed - that Amazon will launch its first smartphone on June 18.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Verizon sends Netflix cease and desist over streaming quality warnings — Verizon has sent a cease and desist order to Netflix demanding that it stop presenting its subscribers with messages blaming Verizon's network for poor streaming performance, according to CNBC.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on the Facebook deal, user privacy, and more — WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Talks About Not Getting “Swallowed By The Borg” At StartX — In his first speaking engagement ever, at tonight's StartX event, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talked …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Inside the new Healthcare.gov set to debut at the beginning of the next enrollment period, November 15 — Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time — The drama of the HealthCare.gov Ad Hoc team is now a modern tech fable: a small cadre of young geeks from Silicon Valley … | Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
How China's Xiaomi became the world's fastest-growing phone maker — Xiaomi's Phones Have Conquered China. Now It's Aiming for the Rest of the World — On May 15, behind the curving, imperial facade of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, a veteran technology executive named …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Grab the remote: Chromebooks can now watch Play Movies, TV shows offline — After what seemed an eternity, Google Chromebook owners can finally watch Google Play video content offline on their devices. Earlier last month Google announced this requested feature was coming and on Thursday night … | Motherboard: |
How Sabu as FBI informant directed hackers to attack Brazilian government and corporate sites — Exclusive: How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil — In early 2012, members of the hacking collective Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on government and corporate websites in Brazil.| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin VC Investment This Year Already 30% Higher Than 2013's Total — The amount of venture capital raised by bitcoin startups this year has already surpassed the total amount raised in 2013 by more than $27m. — So far in 2014, $115.2m has flowed into bitcoin businesses …
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| Chris Crum / WebProNews: |
Facebook Says Your Organic Reach Would Be Worse If It Showed Everything In The News Feed — Facebook's Brian Boland wrote a lengthy blog post about the much talked about decline in organic reach of Facebook Page posts. It's happening for two main reasons, he said: more and more content …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple acquitted in Mexican ‘iFone’ lawsuit, but local telecoms to be fined — The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) on Thursday announced it has absolved Apple of wrongdoing in a trademark lawsuit surrounding the iPhone's infringement of a local telecommunications company marketing …
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Sociedad, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, App Advice, MacNN, MacRumors, SlashGear and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
LinkedIn upgrades its search engine and ditches an array of open source extensions — LinkedIn has overhauled its search engine infrastructure in favor of a new system dubbed Galene, a homegrown engine designed to improve search results and problems with maintenance, the company plans to announce Thursday.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
EU Court Of Justice: Just Viewing Stuff Online Isn't Infringing On Copyright — It's kind of ridiculous that it's taken this long, but the EU Court of Justice has now made it clear that viewing stuff that is legally on the internet is not copyright infringement.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk — Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android applications.
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