|
August 20, 2014, 11:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter to Remove Images of the Deceased Upon Families' Request — Twitter said on Tuesday it will remove images of deceased individuals at the request of family members, a move that comes a week after Robin Williams's daughter said she is quitting the platform after being sent disturbing photo-shopped images of her father's death.
More:
The Register, Engadget, PC World, ABC News, The Next Web, Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters, SocialTimes, SlashGear and The Verge. Tweets: @wexler. See also Mediagazer
| Siraj Datoo / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter To Suspend Accounts Of Anyone Tweeting Graphic Images Of Journalist's Alleged Execution — A video emerged last night appearing to show photojournalist James Foley being beheaded by a member of ISIS. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced in a tweet on Wednesday morning that any users … | Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow — Many Twitter users have noticed that Twitter is now inserting tweets into their timelines that seemingly don't belong. This is not an accident. Twitter has updated its help document, “What's a Twitter timeline?”
More:
The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET, USA Today, Guardian, BetaNews, Business Insider, Fox News, WebProNews, ReadWrite, Marketing Pilgrim, Gizmodo, memeburn, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, Neowin, Engadget, The Verge, Pocket-lint and TheDomains.com
Tweets: @jafurtado, @lukew, @ayjay, @kairyssdal and @tomtomorrow
See also Mediagazer| Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
Ballmer's exit from Microsoft's board expected, boosts Nadella's standing, analysts say — The former CEO cited a busy schedule, particularly involving his LA Clippers basketball team, for the board resignation — It's not surprising that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer abruptly gave …
| Microsoft Corporation: |
More:
New York Times, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, Boing Boing, Gigaom Research, TheStreet.com, Softpedia News, memeburn, AppleInsider, Inquirer, NPR, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Tech Report, Quartz, BetaNews, VatorNews, CITEworld, TechSpot, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, Electronista, DailyTech, CIO.com, Wired, TechnoBuffalo, PC World, The Register, EE Times, Ubergizmo, The Mac Observer, Gigaom, CNBC, Forbes, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, BBC, WinBeta, ZDNet, bit-tech.net, SlashGear, Gamasutra, Engadget, Ars Technica, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Guardian, PC Magazine, Associated Press, The Next Web, Mashable and Windows Phone Central
Tweets: @stevebmicrosoft, @jeffweiner, @cnbctopstories, @harrymccracken, @geekwire, @alex, @mattrosoff, @jguynn and @secboffin
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung's first Nook tablet arrives at Barnes & Noble today for $179 — Samsung is becoming Barnes & Noble's first partner to create a Nook-branded tablet today with the unveiling and release of the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. The name is a mouthful, but it basically means that the tablet …
More:
BGR, Gigaom, LAPTOP Mag, ABC News, ZDNet, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Re/code, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, TabTec and SlashGear
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8 turns up evidence of another possible iPhone 6 resolution: a larger 828 x 1472 — Early this year, we heard from a source that Apple had been testing multiple resolutions for the iPhone 6's larger display, including a resolution of 960 x 1704. As we outlined, the benefit of that resolution …
More:
MacRumors, G 4 Games, Gigaom, MacRumors, BGR, NEWS.com.au, Guardian, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, Redmond Pie, AppleTell, Inquirer, Forbes, Geeky Gadgets, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Cult of Mac, BGR, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Gigaom, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, iLounge and TechnoBuffalo
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Verizon Preps Challenge to Google's App Store — After years of watching Google and Apple dominate the business of selling smartphone software to consumers, Verizon Communications is aiming to alter the playing field by building an industry coalition to launch a new, global online store for mobile applications.| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Netflix is now paying Time Warner Cable for direct access and faster streams — Netflix, the online streaming giant, has signed a paid peering deal with Time Warner Cable, meaning that it now has deals with the four biggest U.S. ISPs. — Time Warner Cable signed a direct interconnection deal with Netflix …
More:
Macworld, DSLreports, Electronista, Digital Trends, The Verge, Variety, Engadget, Ars Technica, Consumerist and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@mathewi. See also Mediagazer
| Reed Hastings / Wired: |
How to Save the Net: Don't Give In to Big ISPs — The next Netflix won't stand a chance if the largest Internet service providers in the US are allowed to merge. — The Internet has — already changed how we live and work, and we're only just getting started.| TrustedSec: |
Hackers used Heartbleed vulnerability to exploit 4.5M patient records at Community Health Systems — CHS Hacked via Heartbleed Vulnerability — As many of you may have already been aware, a breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) affecting an estimated 4.5 million patients was recently revealed.| Paul Ingrassia / Reuters: |
Google's driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit by up to 10mph for better safety — Look, no hands! Test driving a Google car — (Reuters) - The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn't lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was that it was utterly unremarkable.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sharp's Aquos Crystal: a 5-inch, 720p, edge-to-edge display smartphone lacking premium specs — Sharp's new phone for Sprint looks like something out of a sci-fi fantasy — And it's only $239 — This week, Sharp, Softbank, and Sprint announced a new line of devices called Acquos Crystal … | Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
More:
Sprint, LAPTOP Mag, GadgeTell, Geeky Gadgets, CNET, Gigaom, BGR, AndroidOS.in, Gizmodo and PhoneNews.com
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Delaware becomes first state to give heirs broad digital assets access — Delaware has become the first state in the US to enact a law that ensures families' rights to access the digital assets of loved ones during incapacitation or after death. — Last week, Gov. Jack Markell signed House Bill … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google Made 890 Improvements To Search Over The Past Year — In a Google+ post from Google head of search Amit Singhal, Google shares they have made “more than 890 improvements to Google Search last year alone.” — In 2009, Google told us they made between 350 to 400 changes to search and in 2010 …
More:
Amit Singhal, Re/code, TIME, Quartz, Fortune, WebProNews, Beyond Search, Daring Fireball, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, NBC Bay Area and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @sengineland
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Introducing User Journey in Zoho PageSense — Your visitors have a path. Now you can see what it actually is. You've built a website journey. Product page to pricing to signup.
Introducing User Journey in Zoho PageSense — Your visitors have a path. Now you can see what it actually is. You've built a website journey. Product page to pricing to signup.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
The Atlantic's CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Meta's biggest AI bet yet
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Lenny's Podcast:
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Invest Like the Best:
Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:00 AM ET, August 20, 2014.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
David Friend / Vanity Fair:Joe Sonka / Louisville Public Media:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
More:
Chitika, SlashGear, CIO.com, Business Insider, Forbes, AndroidHeadlines.com and Gigaom
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
More:
Re/code
| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
More:
Gigaom, Reuters, GeekWire, The Register and Re/code
Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @davidspitz and @valleyhack
| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
More:
iFixit and 9to5Google
Earlier Picks
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
Techvibes Global News
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
More:
Uber Blog, New York Times, Politico, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, PandoDaily, BetaBoston, Salon, TechCrunch, TIME, NationalJournal.com, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, The Wire, USA Today, Gigaom, Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Mercury News, Mediaite and Valleywag
Tweets: @jessicalessin, @travisk, @messina2012, @bradstone, @danprimack and @jowyang
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
PC Magazine, Inquirer, iMore, Laughing Squid, 9to5Mac, Good E-Reader, GSMArena Blog, TUAW, MacStories, 9to5Google, Gigaom, The Next Web, SlashGear, CNET, Cult of Mac, BGR, iMore and iClarified
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
More:
Mailbox, TechCrunch, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Macworld, BGR, ReadWrite, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gigaom, Wired and The Next Web
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
More:
SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, SlashGear and Fortune