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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, unveils Spectacles, glasses that record up to 10 seconds of video at a time with a tap of a button, to be sold this fall for $130 — Snap decisions — Snapchat's first hardware product is coming to the market sooner than anyone expected.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
The potential opportunities and pitfalls of Snap's new Spectacles — Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off …
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Thanks:@joshconstine. See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
As insecure IoT devices make large-scale DDoS attacks more potent, the Internet community should work to adopt standards and tools to prevent these attacks — John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
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Thanks:@cauchon| Cade Metz / Wired: |
A look at Microsoft's Project Catapult, a multi-year effort to design FPGA chips in-house to power cloud services including Bing, Azure, Office 365, more — It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future.| Hollywood Reporter: |
California enacts law, effective Jan. 1, 2017, requiring some entertainment sites with paid subscriptions like IMDb to remove actors' age info upon request — “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked …
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Sex cam site Megacams implements face search using Microsoft facial recognition API to let you “find a live sex doppelganger of someone you know” — Welcome to the future, where you can face search for a live sex webcam performer and be served real-life humans to your telescreen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pay-per-mile auto insurance firm Metromile has raised $191.5M in 3 rounds since late 2014, will acquire Mosaic Insurance to start underwriting policies itself — The automotive industry is in flux with the rise of self-driving and electric cars, and the concept of car ownership altogether being thrown into question.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Reporter follows all of Facebook's prompts and suggestions for weeks, leading to extreme oversharing, polluted news feeds, and awkward encounters — Facebook is lousy with opportunities for embarrassment. An offhanded political remark that silently — and completely unbeknownst to you … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Online grocery service FreshDirect, popular in New York, raises $189M round led by JPMorgan Asset Management to expand in new cities — One of the oldest online grocers gets a huge cash infusion. — FreshDirect, an online grocer that has a large following in the New York metropolitan area …
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| Palmer Freeman Luckey / Facebook: |
Palmer Luckey says he contributed $10K to Nimble America, but isn't employee or founder of organization and isn't “NimbleRichMan”, doesn't plan on giving more — I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.The recent news stories …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
How Apple and IBM's partnership to develop hundreds of enterprise apps actually works: IBM does the app building, and Apple enforces design standards — This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.| Mike Prospero / Tom's Guide: |
Samsung Gear IconX earbuds review: good sound, accurate heart rate and distance tracking, useful 4GB storage, but bad battery life, pricey, and requires Android — There is an inherent conflict between running light, and yet still wanting to track your mileage and listen to music.
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