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Google's Project Vault Is A Secure Computing Environment On A Micro SD Card, For Any Platform — Project Vault is a secure computer contained entirely on a micro SD sized device. Google's ATAP said the micro SD format made sense because there's already advanced security features on your phone …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Google partially automates launches of Project Loon balloons, expands their range by passing Internet signals between them — Google Details New Project Loon Tech to Keep Its Internet Balloons Afloat — Google's Mike Cassidy describes two advancements that could help Project Loon become commercial as soon as next year
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google partners with Qualcomm on Project Tango reference phone, no longer requires preapproval to purchase Project Tango tablet — Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango — I'm standing in a strange, spartan space. There's a floor, but no walls.
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Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M — The founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to life in prison without parole — The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat has raised $537M in sale of common stock, at a valuation of $16B according to sources — Snapchat Raises Another $500 Million From Investors — Investment from Alibaba, others values popular messaging service at $16 billion — The demand to own private shares in Snapchat Inc …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Sources: US tried deploying Stuxnet-style virus against North Korea five years ago to destroy equipment, but the campaign failed — Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed - sources — The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple vans are gathering data for in-house mapping database, collecting street-view imagery and taking stills of business storefronts to replace Yelp photos — Mystery solved: Apple vans gathering next-gen Maps data, grabbing Street View storefronts + 3D images
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Jessica Verrilli, Twitter's Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, leaving for Google Ventures after six years — Exclusive: Jess Verrilli leaving Twitter for Google Ventures — Jessica Verrilli is stepping down as director of corporate development and strategy at Twitter TWTR … | Steven Max Patterson / CIO.com: |
Google releases Polymer 1.0, a core library used to build and style Web components — Google's Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development — Signaling Polymer's production readiness, Google announced release 1.0 at its annual I/O developer conference.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T wants to choose which online video services count against data caps — AT&T fights proposed ban on data cap exemptions in DirecTV merger. — AT&T doesn't want any rules preventing it from choosing which online video services count against its customers' data caps.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs — Facebook this afternoon confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed. Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the update is still rolling out.| Alan Yuhas / Guardian: |
In protest of NSA surveillance laws, more than 10K websites redirect visitors from congressional IP addresses to blackoutcongress.org — More than 10,000 websites ‘blackout’ Congress in protest of NSA surveillance laws — Fight for the Future provides code to block access … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google SVP Sundar Pichai lays out his plan to deliver computing capabilities to billions through Project Loon and improve products through machine learning — Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai — Inside the mind of the man behind Google's most important products| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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