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Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.
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Snapchat launches ad-supported Discover feature to show off videos and stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers, and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.| Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press: |
Cut off from Internet, Cuban youth link more than 9K computers to create private network — CUBAN YOUTH BUILD SECRET COMPUTER NETWORK DESPITE WI-FI BAN — HAVANA (AP) — Cut off from the Internet, young Cubans have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network … | Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance — We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. — The entity that's conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world's communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Former Opera CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Browser For Power Users — Opera's former CEO Jon von Tetzchner is launching the first preview of Vivaldi today, a new Chromium-based browser that is squarely aimed at power users. Vivaldi features tools like Quick Commands for using written commands instead …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Perceptions aside, Groupon, with a market cap of $4.9B, has seen revenue and EBITDA consistently climb since going public — Let's stop laughing at Groupon — When we began work on our Age of Unicorns cover for Fortune, one internal conversation was about cautionary tales. Fab? Sure. Box?
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
F.T.C. Calls for Strong Data and Privacy Protection With Connected Devices — As consumers increasingly adopt devices that can collect information and transmit it to the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday called on technology companies that sell those products …
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| Jacob Rossi / Smashing Magazine: |
How Microsoft created EdgeHTML, the rendering engine powering the Spartan browser — Inside Microsoft's New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan” — Last week, Microsoft made its biggest announcement for the web since it first introduced Internet Explorer in 1995: a new browser, codenamed “Project Spartan31.”
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
WSJ: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Nashville and North Carolina — Rumors broke over the weekend that Google might bring its gigabit internet Fiber connection to Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, NC next, but it's not stopping there. The Tennesseean reports Nashville has an announcement planned … | Tom Krazit / Gigaom: |
Facebook and Instagram go down for almost an hour during Snowmadgeddon — Silent night: Facebook, Instagram go down for Snowmadgeddon — All those carefully crafted images of snowscapes will have to stay locked up for a bit, East Coasters, because Facebook and Instagram are down.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
1Password for iOS adds one-time password tool for two factor auth, new login creator, more — The popular secure password management app 1Password is out with a big update today adding new features on both iOS and Mac. Arriving in version 5.2 of 1Password for iOS is a new login creator tool …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus' First In-House VR Film “Lost” Is Cute, Immersive, But Hardly Interactive — Oculus just premiered its Story Studio's first virtual reality cinema experience “Lost” that's designed to demonstrate the narrative potential of VR to filmmakers. The experience features … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft reports $26.5B in FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B in Surface revenue, and 10.5 million Lumia units sold — Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue — Today after the bell, Microsoft reported the financial performance of the second quarter of its fiscal 2015 …
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