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Apple is reportedly testing camera-equipped minivans in the Bay Area, possibly for a Street View-like mapping system — Apple testing mysterious camera-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area — A number of minivans with what appears to be camera equipment and a LiDAR sensor mounted to the roof … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Taboola Gets $117M From Comcast, Other Strategics To Boost Its Content Recommendation Platform — Taboola — the recommendation platform that provides 200 billion content suggestions to 550 million users each month, and analytics to publishers and brands about what's getting people clicking …
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Inside the prison system's illicit cell phone trade, and prison officials' battle to end it — Inside the prison system's illicit digital world — In this three-part Tech Behind Bars series, we're exploring the points of intersection between digital culture and America's correctional system.| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Microsoft launches Picturesque, its second free lock screen replacement app for Android — Microsoft quietly launches a free lock screen replacement app for Android — Things are busy at Microsoft Garage, where the company's employees share experimental projects they've been working on.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Serious bug in fully patched Internet Explorer puts user credentials at risk — Microsoft engineers are working to patch universal XSS vulnerability. — A vulnerability in fully patched versions of Internet Explorer allows attackers to steal login credentials and inject malicious content into users' browsing sessions.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Pono Player review: FLAC does not sound noticeably better than high-quality MP3 audio, poor portability, sluggish touchscreen — Pono Player review: A tall, refreshing drink of snake oil — We give Neil Young's high-res music player a spin and do a few cochlea kegels.
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| Andrew McMillen / Backchannel: |
Almost all 47K edits by a top Wikipedia editor were to fix incorrect uses of “comprised of” — Meet the ultimate WikiGnome. — On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization's annual conference.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
1,800 Domains Overtaken by Flash Zero Day — When the Blackhole exploit kit went away after the arrest of its alleged creator and maintainer Paunch, there were questions about which kit would rise up as its successor. — It seems that the Angler exploit kit has ascended to the throne.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
California becomes first state to convict someone for operating a revenge porn website — A California jury has convicted the operator of a revenge porn website in what the state believes is the first conviction of its kind nationwide. The operator, Kevin Bollaert, was found guilty … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter is testing a new landing page featuring curated tweets for people without accounts — Another Twitter Update! This One's a New Homepage, Designed to Lure New Users. — Twitter is experimenting with yet another new product tweak — a homepage designed for people who visit Twitter but don't have their own account.| Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia: |
Alibaba is testing drone delivery in China with a 3-day pilot program — Alibaba is now in the testing phases of delivering packages by drone, according to a post on Taobao's website (h/t 36kr). Bringing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' dream into reality, Alibaba's major online marketplace Taobao …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Kindle Convert in the US, a $19 Windows app for scanning, turning paper books into e-books — Amazon's Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books — If you've been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting … | Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
Obama wants $105M in budget to replicate the US Digital Service at 25 agencies — Obama wants $105M to improve agencies' digital footprint — President Obama's budget request includes $105 million to expand a digital strike force modeled on the team that turned around HealthCare.gov.
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Yahoo to declare Small Business unit a separate entity as part of the plan to spin out Alibaba stake tax-free — Yahoo's Small-Business Unit Draws Short Straw in Alibaba Spinoff — For some Yahoo employees, this year is playing out like a plotline from the NBC sitcom, “The Office.”
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PC World, ZDNet, Re/code, Yahoo Small Business, SiliconBeat, bizjournals, Bloomberg Business and Reuters
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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Report: Silicon Valley powers to record job boom, but surge produces income gap — SAN JOSE — The Silicon Valley economy is red hot and the growth looks like it will intensify, with technology leading the employment and investment boom in the region, according to the latest Joint Venture Silicon Valley Index …
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| Jessica Plautz / Mashable: |
Groupon founder Andrew Mason launches Detour, an iPhone app for location-aware walking tours in cities, starting with San Francisco — Groupon's ex-CEO launches audio tour app in San Francisco — Audio tours, often associated with museum field trips, are taking to the streets.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alan Eustace, Google's SVP Of Knowledge, Is Leaving The Company — Another management change is underway at Google: TechCrunch has learned that Alan Eustace, a longtime Google employee and its SVP of Knowledge — and also the current world-record holder for making the highest-altitude free-fall jump — is leaving the company.
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Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, bizjournals and Re/code. Tweets: @sacca
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
SAP revamps Business Suite with new UI, HANA analytics — SAP says its Business Suite 4 on HANA has been “reinvented for the digital age.” Adoption of the suite, which includes a new UI, is likely to be critical to SAP's 2020 outlook.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality — AT&T says Title II proponents “are only deceiving themselves.” — AT&T seems resigned to the near-certainty that the Federal Communications Commission will reclassify broadband as a common carrier service in order to enforce net neutrality rules.
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