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An in-depth look inside the top-secret lab where Jonathan Ive's design team created the Apple Watch — The Shape of Things to Come — How an industrial designer became Apple's greatest product. — I. Launch Day … “We can do this the easy way or we can do this the cute way.” — »
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Extensive Kasperky Lab report details advanced spy capabilities of Stuxnet-linked threat actor dubbed “Equation Group” — How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last — “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
NSA-linked “Equation Group” can infect computers repeatedly via spyware inserted in hard disk firmware — Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Pebble's Android Wear support goes from beta to public release — Smartwatch maker Pebble now supports Android Wear notifications — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple, while capable of building a car, would face low margins and challenges developing autonomous driving tech — The Fantastic Apple Car — Forget the iWatch, Apple Pay, and the iPhone 7...the next big thing from Cupertino will be the Apple Car. — At first, I didn't pay much attention to the Apple Car rumors.| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Google X head Astro Teller says Neural Network Project, formerly Google Brain, produces value comparable to total Google X costs — Astro Teller, Google's ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ on Making Profits at Google X — Google is all over the place. From biotechnology and robots to satellites …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ: Apple struggled to find purpose for Apple Watch after many planned health features were cut — The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product.
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Toshiba developing rear 5MP and 13MP camera modules and a front-facing 2MP module for Project Ara — Toshiba Shows Off its Camera Module Prototypes for Google's Project Ara Phone — Google is hard at work on Project Ara, a modular smartphone that will allow users to swap critical components in and out, including the onboard camera.| Neil Savage / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers working on a light-based “Li-Fi” wireless system capable of 100 Gbps speeds, requires direct line of sight to a receiver — Li-Fi-like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer — The light that zips data across the Internet's backbone used …
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| James Temperton / Wired.co.uk: |
After UK court ruling, Privacy International website allows you to ask if GCHQ spied on you — You can now find out if GCHQ spied on you — People from around the world can join a campaign to find out if British intelligence agency GCHQ illegally spied on them — and force it to delete the data.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AT&T to sell Blackberry Passport for $200 and Classic for $50 on contract, starting Feb. 20th — BlackBerry's new phones finally come to a US carrier this month — AT&T to sell the Passport and Classic starting on February 20th — BlackBerry's latest devices …
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| Jeffrey Wu / Central News Agency: |
Asus is working on non-Android Wear smartwatch with better battery life — Asustek may leave Android Wear behind on future smartwatch — Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. (.) could turn to a second mobile operating system for a future smartwatches in order …
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