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Sony three-year plan to focus on PlayStation and camera sensors; company may exit smartphone and TV markets — Sony sees 25-fold profit jump by 2018; could exit TVs, phones — (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) aims to boost operating profit 25-fold within three years by growing its camera sensors …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist — It's finally official: The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy. — Yes, that's a mouthful. Even as an acronym, Patil's new title is ten letters long: CDCaDCTODT.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber expands Series E round by $1B, bringing the total capacity for round up to $2.8B — Facing Demand, Uber Expands Funding Round by $1 Billion — Uber, the ride-hailing service, likes to trumpet its popularity with consumers. Their fervor is surpassed, perhaps, only by investors'.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung will buy Apple Pay competitor LoopPay — Samsung will buy LoopPay, a mobile payments company. — LoopPay's technology allows mobile payments through traditional magnetic credit card readers. That means it can theoretically work in a lot more places than Apple Pay, which requires special payment pads to work.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung — Big patent trolls see court wins, twice in two weeks. Will it matter for reform? — Gordon Bremer didn't invent Bluetooth 2.0. In fact, as he admitted on the stand last week in an East Texas federal court … | Dustin Volz / National Journal: |
Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat — Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said. — Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts …
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| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs — Ray Wants to Change Your TV Experience, With a Touchscreen Remote Control (Video) — As more set-top boxes, game consoles and sticks that stream Web video crowd the main television set in the home …
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Snapchat Now Lets You Shoot Video And Play Music At The Same Time — Snapchat has solved one of the most annoying problems with mobile video so you can finally record your dance parties, even if you're the DJ. — The startup been experimenting for some time with ways to better integrate music into its application.
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Microsoft debuts its Azure Machine Learning service with support for Python, R languages and a preview of its Hadoop-based HDInsight tool that runs on Linux — Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools — Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit — Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Breath analysis startup Breathometer announces partnership with Uber, now prompts drunk users to order Uber or a cab — Breathometer Now Calls Ubers To Drive The Drunks Home — Breathometer and Uber are teaming up to get the drunks home safely. — We wrote before that Breathometer … | Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect — Samsung does not encrypt voice recordings that are collected and transmitted by its smart TVs to a third party service, even though the company has claimed that it uses encryption to secure consumers' personal information.| Ryan Merket / reddit: |
Reddit opens voting for users to choose 10 charities to receive 10% of 2014 $8.2M ad revenue — reddit donate - 10% of our 2014 advertising revenue will be donated to 10 charities you choose. Voting begins now! — Here at reddit, one of the things that gets us out of bed every morning …
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Software maker K2 raises more than $100M to help businesses build custom applications … K2 may not be the best known software company in the Seattle area. In fact, most people hearing the name probably first think of the Seattle-based ski manufacturer. — But in the shadow of companies …
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TechCrunch, Brier Dudley's blog, Forbes, Xconomy and www.k2.com
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Storvisor Emerges as Springpath With $34 Million to Simplify Data Storage — Springpath Inc. emerged from stealth Wednesday with $34 million in funding and a new software platform that is intended to dramatically simplify how data storage is done. — Formerly known as Storvisor …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US carriers still stink at unlocking phones, analysis finds — Sprint is especially bad, while Verizon is the most customer-friendly. — A consumer rights activist who led the charge against restrictions on phone unlocking has graded the four major US carriers and found three … Sponsor Posts
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