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Seeking to map the entire internet, NSA and GHCQ have broken into Deutsche Telekom networks — The NSA Breach of Telekom and Other German Firms — According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet, including end-user devices.
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Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z — Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we're hearing.| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Source: Microsoft will announce $2.5B deal to buy Minecraft maker Mojang on Monday — Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions — (Reuters) - Microsoft's impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game … | Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Steve Jobs and several other tech execs have imposed time limits on their kids' use of gadgets — Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent — When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong.
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
A requiem for the click wheel iPod, discontinued after almost 13 years — On Death and iPods: A Requiem — Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss.
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| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Facebook is under fire from gay and transgender users who are being forced to use real names — There have been multiple reports that Facebook is forcing gay and transgender users to use their legal names instead of their online personas or chosen names, as part of a crackdown on pseudonyms, despite the danger this poses to some users| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Motorola to restock the Moto 360 and open preorders for Moto X (including “Pure Edition") and Moto Hint on Tuesday — Motorola to open pre-orders for new Moto X, restock Moto 360 on Tuesday — Last week, Motorola finally took the wraps off of a handful of new products.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Vox: |
Since Supreme Court's Alice decision, 11 lower court rulings have invalidated software patents — Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court — The Supreme Court's June ruling on the patentability of software — its first in 33 years — raised as many questions at it answered.| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
The ATM and the Battle for Bitcoin's Physical Interface — Two years ago, Zach Harvey and his brother, Josh, were saddled with a failing guitar shop selling vintage and handmade pieces in New Hampshire. The guitar venture had once been a roaring success, but that had been in Tel Aviv …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable: |
Russian social network VKontakte starts shutting down accounts that promote ISIS — Russia's ‘Facebook’ Cracking Down on ISIS Accounts — The Islamic State may soon be running out of social networks — When Twitter ramped up its crackdown on several accounts in the wake of the brutal beheading …
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| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
How Google set some test parameters when it passed Nevada's autonomous vehicle testing license exam in 2012 — How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test — Regulations governing Google's experimental self-driving cars will come into effect on California's roads starting 16 September.| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Tim Cook on Charlie Rose: no plans for social networking; Apple's top competitor is Google — Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone ‘years ago’ — Apple CEO tells Charlie Rose the company's been patient — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company could have made a larger iPhone long ago …
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