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US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to implant spyware on smartphones — Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware — Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows
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Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping — Having originally planned to add a new transit directions feature to Maps last year, only to pull the feature before WWDC 2014, Apple now hopes to launch its Transit service with iOS 9, according to sources.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube live streams now support HTML5 playback and 60fps video — YouTube today announced it is enabling HTML5 playback for live streams. At the same time, live streams can now be viewed at 60 frames-per-second. — A few puzzle pieces had to come together to make this possible.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's planned iOS 9 ‘Home’ app uses virtual rooms to manage HomeKit accessories — Apple's plan to manage upcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories could revolve around a new iOS app called “Home,” according to sources familiar with the app. Introduced at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness — Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Shopify pops 65% on the NYSE, starts trading above $28 per share — E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night. — The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this morning …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Delta cuts off over a dozen travel sites including Hipmunk and TripAdvisor from its flight and fare data, as travel sites fear more airlines may follow suit — Travel Websites Allege Delta Air Lines Is Shutting Them Out — Carrier says it reserves right to decide where and how flight, fare data is displayed| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
QuizUp is trying to reinvent itself by turning into a social network — One of the strangest things any company can do is suddenly shove a social network in your face. It's even worse when a service you're used to suddenly gets socialized in a way that is unavoidable.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Troll uses Twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves — Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into Twitter users' timelines — Twitter users have expressed outrage at a troll's use …
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ITProPortal, Gawker, BuzzFeed, The Mary Sue, Softpedia News, International Business Times, Wired.co.uk, Telegraph, Raw Story, Fortune, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @caitlin_roper
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's Prime Now service will start delivering from local stores in Manhattan — Amazon announced today that its Prime Now service will now start delivering goods from local stores in Manhattan, with plans to expand soon to other communities later this year.
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iMore, Digital Trends, The Verge, Business Wire, CNET, The Next Web, SlashGear, GeekWire, Engadget and Gizmodo
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo Shipped Record 18.7M Smartphones in Q4 2014, But Profit Dropped 37% — Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 million smartphones in its most recent Q4 2014 quarter.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google Webmaster Tools Rebrands To Google Search Console — Google announced they have renamed Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console. — The ten year old name for the toolset designed for webmasters, publishers and business owners is changing to Google Search Console. Why?| Wall Street Journal: |
H-P to Sell 51% of Chinese Data-Networking Unit to Tsinghua Holdings — Buyer is expected to pay $2.3 billion for majority control of H3C Technologies — Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil sweeping changes to its business in China, including the sale of a majority stake …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Stripe is in talks to raise at a $5B valuation, just seven months after its last round that valued the company at $3.5B — Stripe to Land $5 Billion Valuation in New Investment — In Silicon Valley, the rich keeping get richer. — Stripe, the online payments company … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
US proposes tighter export controls limiting sales of zero-day flaw information outside US without special license — U.S. aims to limit exports of undisclosed software flaws — The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls Wednesday that would treat unknown software flaws …
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Federal Register, ZDNet, ExportLawBlog, The Register and Threatpost
Tweets: @cbekrar, @virusbtn and @csoghoian
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff — Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars — This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers …
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Bloomberg View, bizjournals, SiliconBeat, Daily Mail and Engadget. Tweets: @rsarver. See also Mediagazer
| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
FICO: theft of debit card data from bank ATMs is up 174% YoY, up 317% at nonbank machines — Theft of Debit-Card Data From ATMs Soars — Thieves are stealing information to make counterfeit plastic — Criminals are stealing card data from U.S. automated teller machines at the highest rate … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June — Netflix confirms today that it will roll out a new user interface on the web to all users worldwide beginning next month. A number of Netflix customers are already seeing the updated look-and-feel, however, according to various reports.
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