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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
In another supplier confrontation, Amazon stops taking preorders for forthcoming Warner movies — Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos — The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies — Up to 12,000 black-cab drivers (cabbies) are expected to fill the streets of London today, in protest against technology-enabled services such as Uber. Their gripe? Uber allows its users to beckon a cab … | Bloomberg: |
Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic From London to Berlin — Uber Technologies Inc., the car-sharing service that's rankling cabbies across the U.S., is fighting its biggest protest from European drivers who say the smartphone application threatens their livelihoods.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory — With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Twitter restores TweetDeck service after XSS vulnerability allowed pop-up windows, unwanted retweets — TweetDeck vulnerability lets attackers execute code remotely — A newly discovered vulnerability in TweetDeck is allowing attackers to remotely execute javascript code.
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| Ray Kurzweil / KurzweilAI: |
Ray Kurzweil, who predicted a computer would pass the Turing test by 2029, does not think chatbot Eugene Goostman passed — Response by Ray Kurzweil to the announcement of chatbot Eugene Goostman passing the Turing test — Two days ago, on June 8, 2014, the University of Reading announced … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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Apple's Irish tax avoidance schemes come under formal European investigation — European authorities have launched a probe into whether Apple's corporate income tax arrangements in Ireland are legal, or whether they qualify as unlawful state aid. — Ireland is the base of choice …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
The Verge announces This Is My Next, a Wirecutter-like buying guide that's “all about the best things” — Welcome to This Is My Next, your buying guide for the future — If you write about technology, work in technology, or just spend regular time near technology, the questions come early and they come often.
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| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
SwiftKey Ditches Paid App, Goes Free With Launch of New Themes Store — SwiftKey, the popular predictive keyboard for Android, is going free today — and not just for a limited time. — The change is part of an update rolling out to the app now, which also includes the launch … | Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog: |
Wheeler: state laws hurt broadband access in places like Chattanooga; FCC could preempt rules — Removing Barriers to Competitive Community Broadband — If any city understands the power of networks to drive economic growth, it's Chattanooga, Tennessee.| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Alibaba's 11 Main online mall bids to lure U.S. shoppers — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is setting up a virtual shop on Main Street USA. Alibaba, which is set to score the biggest IPO in U.S. history, on Wednesday is opening 11 Main, an online mall of boutique …
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| Leslie Picker / Bloomberg: |
GoPro Seeking Value of Up to $3 Billion in Camera Maker's IPO — GoPro Inc., which made about $1 billion last year selling cameras to surfers, skiers and sky divers, is seeking a market valuation as high as $3 billion in its initial public offering. — The company intends to sell 17.8 million shares …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Becomes More Search Engine-Like With The Launch Of Guided Search On The Web — In April, Pinterest introduced a new way to narrow down what you're looking for on mobile with the addition of a feature called “Guided Search,” which pops up related terms at the top of the screen after you enter in a keyword to start a search.| Caitlin McGarry / TechHive: |
New social network Fatdoor uses robots to connect neighbors (yes, really) — Fatdoor is the kind of neighborhood social network that would work perfectly in a small, tech-friendly town like Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founder Raj Abhyanker envisions a day when neighbors …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Expedia Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Hotel Bookings … Expedia , the big online travel site, announced on Wednesday it will begin accepting bitcoin for hotel bookings through its website, becoming the first major travel-agency to take the digital currency. If the reception is good … | Reuters: |
Synaptics to buy Renesas SP Drivers, the sole supplier of iPhone display chips, for $475M — Synaptics to buy iPhone display chipmaker for $475 million — (Reuters) - Touchscreen chipmaker Synaptics Inc (SYNA.O) said it would buy the sole supplier of display chips for the iPhone for $475 million …
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Lowercase Capital Is Raising A New $25M Fund, Led By Matt Mazzeo — Lowercase Capital is raising another $25 million, we're hearing. This is notable for a couple of reasons: Due to its Uber investment, Lowercase Capital's very first fund — a modest $8.5 million raised in 2010 …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Amazon Prime music streaming could launch as early as this week, without Universal Music Group — Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service — Amazon is planning to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as this week, according to several people briefed on the company's plans.
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| Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle: |
Comcast turning 150k routers rented by Houston customers into public Wi-Fi hotspots by July — Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot [Updated] — Update: Comcast has turned on the first 50,000 residential hotspots. — Original post:
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server — Microsoft, one of the world's largest e-mail providers, is resisting a government search warrant to compel the firm to turn over customer data held in a server located overseas.
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New York Times, Techdirt, Inquirer, Help Net Security, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, TIME, WinBeta, Engadget and PC World. Tweets: @bradsmi
| Electronista: |
Evernote, Feedly servers affected, hit with denial of service attacks — Evernote recovers from multi-hour DDoS attack, Feedly continues to suffer — Two prominent web properties have come under fire from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the last 24 hours.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
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