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Top US government officials meeting with Silicon Valley CEOs to discuss whether tech firms can do more to thwart terrorists online — Top U.S. Officials to Meet With Tech CEOs on Terror Concerns — Discussion to focus on whether social-media firms can do more to thwart terrorists
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Motorola name to be slowly phased out, products to carry label “Moto by Lenovo” instead — Goodbye, Moto(rola). Iconic brand to be phased out — Motorola, where wireless got its start, will see its name disappear from its products. It'll soon be Moto by Lenovo.
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ProPublica becomes first major news site on the dark web, running as a hidden service on the Tor network, offering stronger privacy than SSL to readers — ProPublica Launches the Dark Web's First Major News Site — The so-called dark web, for all its notoriety as a haven for criminals and drug dealers … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google removes 13 apps from Play Store after researchers found they made unauthorized downloads and tried to gain root privileges — Malicious apps in Google Play made unauthorized downloads, sought root — Apps with as many as a million downloads removed following their discovery.
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German Publishers Still Upset That Google Sends Them Traffic Without Paying Them Too; File Lawsuit — from the your-honor,-how-dare-they-send-us- traffic dept — Oh boy. Remember VG Media? That's the consortium of German news publishers who were so damn angry that Google News sends …
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Sprint set to join other major US carriers in killing two-year contracts for smartphones, according to leaked internal document — Sprint kills 2-year contracts for smartphones — Sprint has gone through with its plans to 2-year contracts for smartphones, according to an internal document sent to us by an anonymous tipster.| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Jide announces Remix OS 2.0, a fork of Android Lollipop that is designed to run on x86 PCs, alpha build will be available as a free download on January 12 — The excellent Remix OS is bringing Android to every old x86 PC (and Mac) for free — When I first tested the Remix Mini at the end of last year, I was blown away.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google teams up with Lenovo on smartphone with Project Tango's augmented reality — Lenovo and Google announced a partnership today to create a new smartphone that makes use of a 3D augmented reality technology known as Project Tango. — Johnny Lee, a member of the Tango team at Google … | Adam Gaffin / Universal Hub: |
Publishing and tech consulting firm IDG, which published Macworld, Computerworld, and PCWorld, retains Goldman Sachs to prepare for sale — Global publishing and consulting company in Framingham could be up for sale — Former IDG exec Colin Crawford reports that IDG has retained Goldman Sachs … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter submit evidence to UK legislative committee on Investigatory Powers Bill, warn of ramifications of spying if passed — Facebook, Microsoft, and Google say UK spying laws are ‘a step in the wrong direction’ — America's biggest tech companies …
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Mozilla reinstates support for SHA-1 certificates temporarily after some Firefox users experienced problems accessing HTTPS sites — Firefox ban on SHA-1 dropped after many locked out of HTTPS sites — Mozilla reinstates support for the vulnerable SHA-1 crypto on a temporary basis until … | Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
YouTube CBO announces GoPro partnership, HDR video support during CES keynote — YouTube's chief business officer Robert Kyncl took the stage today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss the future of the video platform, its growth over recent years, and much more.
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