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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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Arista Networks Jumps in Debut After Raising $226 Million in IPO — Arista Networks Inc., a provider of cloud-networking applications used by companies such as EBay Inc. and Facebook Inc., gained in its debut after raising $226 million in an initial public offering.
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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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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Co-Founders Break Up As Chad Hurley Spins Out His Own Company And Steve Chen Joins Google Ventures — Consider this the end of an era. After 15 years of working together, first at PayPal and then at YouTube and most recently at incubator Avos Systems, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley … Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Yahoo confirms it will remove Facebook and Google sign-ins from Flickr after June 30 — Yahoo earlier this year announced plans to phase out Google- and Facebook-based sign-in from its services. The feature was initially removed from a sports service and now it is Flickr's turn …
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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.| 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 … | 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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| 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 …
| 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 … | 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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