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Uber exec, at NYC dinner with CEO present, suggested digging up dirt on critical journalists — Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists — Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.
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Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories — Last week at Apple's yearly briefing for accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone/iPad (MFi) licensing program, the company unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs …
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Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
Intel to combine PC and mobile divisions as market shifts — Intel will combine its PC and mobile processor divisions under one roof, reflecting a changing market in which the line between tablets and laptops has blurred. — The chip maker will form a new division at the start of next year called … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google and Stanford researchers create image recognition software that goes beyond recognizing individual objects, teaches itself to identify entire scenes — Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code — The most recent update to WhatsApp's Android app includes a surprising feature: strong end-to-end encryption, enabled by default. It's the strongest security any major texting app has offered, even compared with similar tools …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess — Apple today released the first update to OS X Yosemite that included fixes for unspecified Wi-Fi problems and improved reliability for connecting to Microsoft Exchange corporate email servers. — But Mac owners who had said that Yosemite crippled … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Far from killing it, native apps have made the open web even stronger — Native Apps Are Part of the Web — Christopher Mims, writing in the WSJ, “The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It”: … I can't believe someone is still writing this in 2014. Users love apps, developers love apps …
| Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker: |
Inside 10x, a talent agency representing superstar programmers — The Programmer's Price — Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent. … “Technically, we have an open marriage, but so far there's just Michael and me.” — BUY OR LICENSE »
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BitTorrent Opens Its Paygate Premium Content Bundles To All Artists, Giving Creators A 90% Cut — BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file distribution network that has been repositioning itself as a legit friend and home to the creative industries, is today embarking on the latest phase of its strategy … | Lucy Teitler / Motherboard: |
Hackers are building and open-sourcing spy tools based on leaked NSA documents — Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools — Last August, at Defcon, the hacker conference in Las Vegas, a boyish 40-year-old engineer and security researcher named Michael Ossmann stood …
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| Shawn De Cesari / Android Police: |
Android TV Apps Will Be Screened And Approved By Google Before Being Available In The Play Store — In a somewhat surprising, but completely understandable, move, Google has added a pretty large caveat to Play Store app submissions for Android TV. According to the Android developer documentation page …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google Keep now lets you share notes and collaborate in real-time — Google Keep has proven to be a popular app in the productivity realm, letting users put down impromptu thoughts or create to-do lists on the fly. — Now, however, not only can you share them with others to view …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon has enough free cash flow to compete in the cloud arms race even if it lacks the cash of Microsoft and Google — Amazon's ability to invest in AWS: By the numbers — Summary: AWS chief Andy Jassy was asked whether Amazon had the funds to compete with the cash piles of Microsoft and Google in the cloud wars.| Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
Square launches old-school physical gift cards, replacing digital ones sent via email … Two years after Square announced it was offering a virtual gift card service, it's nixing the program in favor of physical ones. — That may sound counter intuitive in today's digital-first culture …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
More Than 90 Percent of U.S. Households Have Three or More Devices Pinging the Internet — How much do Americans love the Internet? — Well, Ericsson counted all the ways. — It turns out that 90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices … | Cho Mu-hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung to launch flexible display, cut number of smartphone models by 25-30% in 2015 — Samsung to launch flexible display, cut smartphone models in 2015 — Summary: Samsung Electronics will launch a flexible display for handsets and release 25 to 30 percent less handset models next year … | Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom — Personal injury cases are prime targets for manipulation and conjecture. How do you show that someone who's been in a car accident can't do their job properly, and deserves thousands of dollars in compensation?| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google has free speech right in search results, court confirms — A San Francisco court ruled last week that Google has the right to arrange its search results as it pleases, which confirms the company's long-held view, while underscoring the stark difference in how U.S. and European seek to regulate the search giant.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Tiiny 2.0. update makes images, video permanent by default; adds profiles — Kevin Rose updates his micro-photo sharing app with Tiiny 2.0 — Images are no longer ephemeral, still very tiny — Sharing photos of your day has become a ritual for billions of smartphone users around the planet.Sponsor Posts
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