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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency” — The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-nominee for Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler …
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Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's turnaround efforts …
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91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies — Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era — Summary of Findings — Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans …
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YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 previews, free Visual Studio Community 2013 — In addition to announcing that .NET is going open source and cross-platform, Microsoft today also unleashed a torrent of Visual Studio news at its Connect() developer event in New York City.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS … In a major strategy change designed to expand its horizons in the cloud, Microsoft will take its key software development technologies into areas that the company has long considered enemy territory …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google's ad server suffers global failure, causing millions of ads to disappear from web — An unusual glitch struck Google's ad serving tool on Wednesday morning, causing blanks spaces to appear in place of advertisements on websites like BuzzFeed, Time, Forbes and VentureBeat.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Beats Debuts $300 Solo2 Wireless Headphones, First New Product Since Apple Deal Closed — Beats by Dre is launching a new pair of headphones today, a Bluetooth-powered wireless version of the Solo2 headset it introduced back in June this year. The wireless edition was tipped by an FCC document last week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Square Eschews Free, Starts $29 Pre-Orders For Chip-Based Card Readers — Mobile payments company Square is today kicking off pre-orders for its new chip-based card readers, which were first announced earlier this year and intended to replace the current devices that read cards' magnetic stripes.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Is Expanding Its R&D In Cambridge, U.K., With A Focus On Prime Air Drones And Speech Tech — Amazon is expanding its R&D operations in Cambridge, U.K., with a plan to staff out a large research lab — expanding on the foothold it acquired when it bought Cambridge-based speech tech …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft Band review: short two-day battery life, not waterproof, bulky and expensive, but collects valuable data and is easy to use — Microsoft Band review — What will happen when we know everything about ourselves? — I slept terribly last night.
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Microsoft posts critical patch for huge Windows vulnerability that affects all modern machines — Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amid M&A Reports, FreedomPop Adds International Calls To Its Free Mobile Service — FreedomPop — the U.S. startup disrupting the carrier world with free mobile and broadband services, and now apparently catching the attention of carriers that want to buy it — has added two more international features …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Stuxnet worm infected high-profile targets before hitting Iran nukes — List of “patients zero” shows cyber weapon broke into—not out of—Natanz. — The Stuxnet computer worm that attacked Iran's nuclear development program was first seeded to a handful of carefully selected targets …
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Facebook launches Say Thanks, a tool for creating personalized video cards for your friends — Introducing Say Thanks — Millions of people use Facebook every day to connect with the people and things that matter to them most. Your friends are at the core of your Facebook experience … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Samsung Files Counter-Suit & Patent Infringement Claims Against NVIDIA & Velocity Micro — Back in September NVIDIA filed patent infringement complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm. The crux of the issue being that NVIDIA believes that GPUs from Qualcomm, ARM, and Imagination all violate several of NVIDIA's patents.
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