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Names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, voting history for 191M US voters exposed by misconfigured database whose owner remains unidentified — Database configuration issues expose 191 million voter records — Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownership
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Pictures of Google Glass Enterprise Edition turn up at FCC, showing foldable design — This is Google Glass: Enterprise Edition in the flesh [Gallery] — Earlier this year, we told you across several exclusive reports that new Google Glass hardware was on the way, namely a device Google …
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Ars Technica, Guardian, ZDNet, Android Authority, The Verge, Computerworld, Telegraph, The Tech Report, Engadget, CNET, Wearable Tech Insider, ValueWalkValueWalk, Wareable, MobileSyrup.com, TechEye, Thurrott.com, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, The Next Web, Tech Insider, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, IR.net, Redmond Pie, SiliconANGLE, BGR, Digital Trends, Inc.com, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, PYMNTS.com, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Yahoo Tech, Fortune, Android and Me, TechSpot, Mashable, Droid Life, Android Police, Tech Times and Android Central. Tweets: @startupljackson. Thanks:@technacity
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook fights skepticism from net neutrality advocates over its Free Basics program in India — Facebook Confronts The Free Internet Neutrality Dilemma — What's more important? Restricted free Internet access for the poor? Or maintaining an open, neutral Internet without limitations?
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Times of India, Quartz, Techdirt, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Tech Insider, BuzzFeed, New York Post, Bloomberg Business, The Verge, Boing Boing, Breitbart, The Huffington Post, ValueWalkValueWalk, SiliconBeat, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, The Wire, International Business Times, Guardian, Tech Times, Fortune, CNNMoney, TIME and CNET
Tweets: @inetdemocracy, @joshconstine, @rafat, @kevinroose and @pandajay
See also Mediagazer| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Samsung plans to let US users pay online with Samsung Pay, expand it to lower-priced smartphones soon — Samsung Pay plans to enable U.S. online shopping in 2016 — Samsung Electronics Co plans to expand its fledgling mobile payment service in the United States next year …
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Tweets: @brianroemmele and @mdudas
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung's Bio-Processor chip that has built-in support for measuring body fat, muscle mass, heart rate, skin temperature, and more goes into mass production — Samsung's new processor is meant for building much better fitness trackers — Samsung thinks it's about time that fitness trackers did more than monitor your pulse.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon now covers up to $650 in early termination fees when switching mobile operators, joining other carriers in doing so — Verizon will give you up to $650 to switch from another carrier — Is the biggest US wireless carrier starting to feel some pressure from its rivals? Perhaps.
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Verizon Wireless Promotions, iMore, Tech Times, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, The Gadgeteer, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, Android Authority, Consumerist, Phandroid, iClarified, CCM, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, RCR Wireless News, Re/code, GeekWire, Droid Life, FierceWireless and BGR. Tweets: @verizonnews
| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
China passes controversial counter-terrorism law that requires tech firms to help decrypt information, doesn't require installing backdoors as initially planned — China passes controversial counter-terrorism law — China's parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday …
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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @ridt, @baldingsworld, @nytimesworld and @ggreenwald
See also Mediagazer| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon Prime adds more than 3M new members in 1 week at peak of holiday shopping season — Amazon said tonight that it added more than 3 million new Amazon Prime members globally in just one week at the height of the holiday shopping season this year. It's the latest sign of growth …
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Amazon.com, SiliconANGLE, Good E-Reader, The Daily Dot, The Verge, Guardian, Digital Trends, CNET, Gigaom, TIME, TechSpot, Pocketnow, Bank Innovation, SiliconBeat, Forbes, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Washington Post, Inc.com, RAIN News, Tech Times, Mashable, International Business Times, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, PYMNTS.com, bizjournals, The Next Web, Re/code and TechCrunch. Tweets: @om. Thanks:@kevinlisota
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
New York City starts installing LinkNYC public gigabit Wi-Fi access points in phone booths — New York is finally installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi — Today, workers began installing the first LinkNYC access points in New York. First announced in November 2014 …
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The Next Web, DSLreports, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Phandroid, Tech Times and SlashGear
Tweets: @daniel_bouhs, @mikeyavo and @marklevinenyc
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Every new Apple product or feature released in 2015 was essentially in beta — 2015: Apple's year in beta — The Gizmodo headline last week was blunt, in the way that the best Giz headlines are blunt: Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked. It's worth reading …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel completes $16.7B Altera deal, its largest acquisition ever — Intel Completes Acquisition of Altera — $16.7 billion deal underscores Intel CEO's plan to expand chip maker's business — Intel Corp. on Monday completed its biggest-ever acquisition, a deal that underscores Chief … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
North Korea's homegrown Red Star OS computers watermark all documents and media files on inserted USB sticks, to track underground sharing — Inside North Korea's Totalitarian Operating System — The goal of a totalitarian regime is to control everything in a country: information, resources, and power.
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