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Profile of Tim Cook describes him as projecting “quiet consideration” towards design, details his involvement in iWatch development, more — Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn't forget.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power — In a first, one player got a monopoly of Bitcoin's total computational power. — For the first time in Bitcoin's five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than half …
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Tony Fadell reflects on his time at Apple, building Nest, and working at Google — Is Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or ... the next Larry Page? — At Apple he masterminded the iPod and was once seen as a potential CEO. Now the founder of Nest-which he recently sold to Google … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions — On Feb. 10, Jason Fyk received a strange Facebook message. — “Bro.” — The message had been sent by someone who wasn't his friend on the social network, someone using the alias “Anthony. *” It was a name Fyk had come to know and dread.Thanks:@waqasaday
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Edward Snowden experiments with BeamPro telepresence robot to make appearances outside Russia — Inside Edward Snowden's Life as a Robot — Snowden appears via Beam bot in the ACLU's New York offices with (from left) journalist Laura Poitras, Freedom of the Press Foundation director Trevor Timm and security technologist Micah Lee.| Matthew L. Wald / New York Times: |
To combat distracted driving, DoT seeks authority to regulate navigation aids, including apps — Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles — Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some cars.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers — Hold the phone: Amazon wants to burrow even deeper into your life. — The retailer is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close any remaining gap between …
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| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Wallet, Apps Re-Enter iOS Store After Apple's Policy Shift — Apple is making good on its recent bitcoin policy shift, with a new bitcoin wallet app appearing for download in the iOS App Store. — The ‘Coinpocket’ app is described by its developer as a wrapper … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Tech Isn't All Brogrammers, It's Still Nerds Building New Things — R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Tesla's plan to share its tech is bold, exciting, and a sign of weakness — Big bets are nothing new for CEO Elon Musk — “This is actually good for Tesla and EV industry, that's really important to appreciate, and I really do believe that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a call today.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Behind the rise of The Wirecutter and This Is My Next, which simply tell you what to buy — Just Tell Me What To Buy — Yesterday, tech and culture website The Verge revived This Is My Next, a brand that the core team had used to transition away from their places at Engadget into their new home at Vox Media.| Tom Whitwell / Guardian: |
Inside Shenzhen: China's growing technology hub for hardware startups — Inside Shenzhen: China's Silicon Valley — Just 30 years ago this Pearl River Delta megacity was a mere fishing village. Now home to up to 15 million people it hopes to become a tech nirvana for the world's hardware startupsThanks:@srikardr
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