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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Interview is a pirate hit with over 750K estimated torrent downloads, with restricted availability outside the US a possible driving factor — The Interview Is A Pirate Hit With 200k Downloads (Updated) — Facing a “terrorist” threat theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview last week.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
The Interview now available to rent for $5.99 or purchase for $14.99 through YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video, and SeeTheInterview.com — Where To Watch ‘The Interview’ Online Right Now — Sony will release “The Interview” online Wednesday, the company announced.
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| Eric Meyer / Thoughts From Eric: |
Facebook's Year in Review suggestions may in some cases be inadvertently tactless, hurtful — Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty — I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook.
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| David Lerman / Bloomberg: |
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade — U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans — The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law …
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| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
PlayStation Network And Xbox Live Are Down, And The Notorious Hacker Gang ‘Lizard Squad’ Is Taking Credit — Hackers don't take a holiday, it seems. Hours after Microsoft's Xbox Live went down Wednesday, Sony's PlayStation Network went down, too. These are the two networks that users of consoles access to play games online.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung shutters flagship London store amid falling sales — Closing down a marquee location in one of Europe's biggest malls — What are Samsung Experience Stores? Why, they're a dying species, if the latest development in Samsung's efforts to establish its own retail empire are any indication.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
NFL to post game highlights and other video clips on Facebook with Verizon Wireless ads, share ad revenues with Facebook — Facebook Scores NFL Video Clips With Ads From Verizon — Facebook has scored a big partner as it ramps up its online video ambitions: the National Football League.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook bringing playlists, featured videos, YouTube-inspired layout to videos tab on Pages — Facebook Challenges YouTube Channels With New Features For Pages — Twitter's not the only one Facebook is battling for control of news and content distribution.
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| Robin Sinha / NDTV Gadgets: |
Mozilla and Japan's KDDI launch Fx0, the first Firefox OS phone with 4G LTE, NFC; made by LG, costs about $420 — LG Fx0 Firefox OS 2.0 Smartphone With Transparent Body Launched — LG, Mozilla and KDDI have launched Japan's first Firefox OS smartphone, the Fx0, which will go on sale Thursday.| Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Delhi High Court lifts ban on sale of OnePlus handsets — NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today lifted the December 16 ban on sale of OnePlus handsets embedded with Cyanogen software and asked its single judge who had passed the earlier order, to hear it afresh two weeks from now.| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service — Prosecutors in South Korea charged Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and the head of its domestic business partner MK Korea Co. with violating a transportation law. — San Francisco-based Uber …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
FTC charges data broker LeapLab with selling consumers' financial details to fraudsters — Data Broker Is Charged With Selling Consumers' Financial Details to ‘Fraudsters’ — Federal regulators are cracking down on information resellers who hawk personal details about consumers to companies …
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