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Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid — Built for privacy, the Blackphone runs a beefed-up Android called PrivOS. — Based on some recent experience, I'm of the opinion that smartphones are about as private as a gas station bathroom.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping for $630 — If you missed our coverage during Mobile World Congress, then here's what you need to know about Blackphone: it's a mid-spec Android smartphone that comes pre-subscribed to (and pre-installed with) a bunch of privacy and anti-surveillance services, for a price of $629 off-contract.
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Google Glass to be banned from all UK cinemas — If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study — * Updated with an additional statement from Adam Kramer, the Facebook data scientist who conducted the study. — This weekend, the Internet discovered a study published earlier this month in an academic journal …
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| Paulo Golgher / Orkut Blog: |
Google to shut down Orkut on September 30, will create archive of all public communities — Tchau Orkut — Ten years ago, Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking. Built as a “20 percent” project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never existed before.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Launches $100M Global Investment Fund — June is barely over, but Rakuten has already had a busy year. In addition to purchasing messaging app Viber for $900 million, the Japanese consumer Internet conglomerate also made investments in several companies based …
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| Tyler Hayes / Liisten: |
Fire TV's advanced streaming and prediction feature can consume 80GB a day — The Secret Little Problem With Amazon's Fire TV — I got a little nervous that something was wrong when I go a notice from my Internet service provider, Cox Cable, saying that I had hit my monthly download cap.
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Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features — Starting this week, Bing users are going to see even more Twitter content in search results. — As a result of an exclusive partnership between the two companies that started in 2009, tweets have been showing up in Bing search results for some time.| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Android Wear lacks mass market appeal given current software, hardware, design, and ecosystem — These are not the wearables we've been waiting for — Google presented its vision for smartwatches—one of the first waves of wearable computers—this week at its I/O conference in San Francisco.| Carlos Bueno / Quartz: |
How insular Silicon Valley companies exclude good job candidates by enforcing a “culture fit” — The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture — There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it.| Bill Wasik / Wired: |
Inside Highway1, PCH's incubator to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture products — The Man Making Silicon Valley Go Crazy for Hardware — Liam Casey, the founder and CEO of PCH, which is trying to create a platform to take hardware startups from “zero to Apple.” Ian Allen
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