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Equation Group shows US already has a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity, but like the original, it's purely offensive — Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks — “What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity.”| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Vice Presidents of product and engineering discuss how Twitter makes product decisions — Twitter's Dilemma — Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that's so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing.
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| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Spanish shoeshine guards Twitter handles like @Canada and @Japan until he can give ownership to governments — Meet the Spanish shoeshine guy who secretly guards Twitter's greatest real estate — Officially, Javier Castaño is a 50-year-old shoeshine guy at a cafe in Malaga, Spain.
Tweets: @alexhortontx, @luefkens and @digiphile
| Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review: |
Hands-on with Magic Leap's AR technology, which augments your vision by projecting light into your eyes — What It's Like to Try Magic Leap's Take on Virtual Reality — A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.| Leslie Price / Racked: |
What the Tech World Doesn't Understand About Fashion — The tech world is infatuated with fashion. This is because fashion has something tech seriously wants: the ability to create and sustain demand for products that are—let's face it—kind of useless. — “We desperately need …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
How flash sale site Gilt Groupe overextended and lost focus after rapid growth and fundraising — Four years ago Gilt Groupe was the hottest startup in New York — Here's what happened — Four years ago, luxury flash-sales startup Gilt Groupe was one of the buzziest e-commerce startups in the world … | Tony Romm / Politico: |
White House to work with tech companies to develop digital content to discredit extremist messages — Using social media to counter Al Qaeda, ISIL messaging — The White House plans to work closely with tech companies to counter groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL online …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber must mature, but its victory over competitors and regulators seems certain in the US — It's Already Over And Uber Has Won — Money isn't everything, but it's certainly a useful metric for keeping score, especially when you're measuring it in the billions.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
How Line fused messaging, gaming, and merchandising into a pop culture phenomenon in Japan — How Japan's Line App Became A Culture-Changing, Revenue-Generating Phenomenon — IT'S ALREADY A POWERHOUSE IN MESSAGING, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MERCHANDISE, WITH PAYMENTS AND MORE ON THE WAY. NEXT STOP: AMERICA.| Dan Froomkin / The Intercept: |
FBI Flouts Obama Directive to Limit Gag Orders on National Security Letters — Despite the post-Snowden spotlight on mass surveillance, the intelligence community's easiest end-run around the Fourth Amendment since 2001 has been something called a National Security Letter.
Tweets: @the_intercept and @marshallproj
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC One M9 pictures and specs leak out — As usual with HTC, the next great Android smartphone from the Taiwanese company has apparently been leaked days ahead of its official announcement. The guys over at Mobile Geeks have come across online listings of HTC's new flagship … | Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Snapchat launches Safety Center website offering advice to parents and teachers, links to community guidelines telling teens not to share nudes — Snapchat tells teen users: No nudes! — When Snapchat first hit the scene, many people assumed that it was primarily a “safe sexting” …
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Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @kevinroose, @kashhill and @kashhill
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Trivia Crack led App Store for 66 days, and now struggles to process a glut of user-created questions — Can an App Be Too Successful? Ask ‘Trivia Crack’ — Mobile game has topped the charts with user-generated questions, but now players gripe of a glut
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