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Q&A with Melinda Gates on her new initiative to promote women in tech — Philanthropy's first lady returns to her roots to tackle gender inequality in computer science. — Melinda Gates has spent the past 16 years seeding social change through the world's largest private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Li-ion batteries powering gadgets made by Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies — Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work.| Adam Howell: |
Apple threatens to pull top-grossing iMessage sticker pack Phoneys, which overwrites your friends' messages — Wednesday night of this week, John Gruber wrote, “This is very clever, and I can see how it could be damn funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Phoneys gets pulled from the App Store.”| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime and other applications infringed on patents — A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
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To cut costs, Mozilla begins testing alternative plugins like Chrome's PDFium in Firefox to replace its own internal implementations — Mozilla testing PDFium and Pepper Flash integration — Mozilla announced today Project Mortar, an initiative to explore the possibility …
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Arduino.cc and Arduino.org settle trademark dispute, announce Arduino Holding for product distribution, and Arduino Foundation for managing IDE and community — For the last two years, Arduino LLC (the arduino.cc, Massimo one) and Arduino SRL (the arduino.org, Musto one) … | Dave Lee / BBC: |
ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1 — A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more — So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
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How CFAA hampers investigating discrimination online by potentially criminalizing actions such as scraping or submitting fake CVs, banned by website ToS — In November of 2007, Richard Villarreal applied for a job with the tobacco company R. J. Reynolds. He was forty-nine years old at the time … | Business Day Live: |
WeChat testing new feature called “little program” that lets service providers build apps within the messaging app, instead of linking to webpages as before — TENCENT Holdings built a hugely successful messaging platform with its WeChat app. Now an experimental new service … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user — The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line invests $45M for 25% of Asia-focused Snapchat-like app Snow — Line, the messaging company that went public in the year's highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat clone focused on Asia.Sponsor Posts
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