Techmeme: How Facial Recognition Technology Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number (Kashmir Hill/The Not-So Private Parts)

3:05 PM ET, August 1, 2011

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Launching New iPhone in October, Not September — So those rumors claiming the iPhone 5 will debut in late September? They're wrong. — Instead, it's going to be an October surprise — the month in which Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Apple TV Adds Support for Cloud-Based Storage of Purchased TV Shows — Apple hasn't updated the Apple TV release notes page yet, but I just ran software update on my Apple TV 2 and got a new update that adds support for a major new feature: purchased TV shows.

Discussion: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, Engadget, Gizmodo, This is my next, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Mashable!, I4U News, eHomeUpgrade, OS X Daily, iDownloadBlog.com and iLounge

Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:

Apple TV update introduces show streaming, Vimeo support — Apple rolled out an update to its Apple TV software Monday that introduces a bunch of new features. (Hat tip to Daring Fireball.) The update is available now and allows you to stream TV shows you purchase through iTunes …

Discussion: Ars Technica, CNET News, AppleInsider, Macworld, Electronista, TUAW and The Next Web

Bloomberg:

Apple Suit Puts Samsung Tablet Sales in Australia on Hold — Apple Inc. escalated a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics Co. and won an agreement that the South Korean company won't sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a lawsuit is resolved.

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Galaxy Tab 10.1 down under: Apple has Samsung on the defensive in Australia

Discussion: TechEye and MacStories

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple — Nicholas Allegra, better known by the hacker handle Comex. — A version of this story will appear in the upcoming issue of Forbes, published later this week. — Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York.

Discussion: Betabeat, Gizmodo, MacPost, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Redmond Pie, MacStories and iDownloadBlog.com, Thanks:forbestech

The Dealmap:

Deal of the Day: Google Buys The Dealmap — We're thrilled to announce that The Dealmap has been acquired by Google. — Since launching The Dealmap in May 2010, our team has worked to build a great product where people can find and share all the best local deals, all in one place.

Discussion: GigaOM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, CNET News, DealBook, The Atlantic Wire, The Business Insider, IntoMobile, Pulse2 and WebProNews

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:

How Facial Recognition Technology Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number — What does your face give away? — Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people's social security numbers …

Discussion: All Facebook, msnbc.com, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal and TechEye

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool “Adobe Edge” — Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.

Discussion: Engadget, The Register, PC World, Ars Technica, Fast Company, TUAW, GMSV, Digits, Inquirer, Webware.com, PC World, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Electronista, Pulse2, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, thinq_, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, MacStories, iClarified, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, eWeek, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat and ExtremeTech

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
First look: Adobe Edge promises Flash-style animation with HTML5

Discussion: The Loop and Between the Lines Blog

Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:

Why Google is a Better Apple Friend than Enemy — A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that to Apple, Google is Enemy #1. Apple's most profitable (and therefore important) businesses center on the iPhone and iPad. The most serious competitors in both these product categories run on Google's Android platform.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Halo Effect: All AngelPad Companies Will Get $100K Investment Offers From 2 VC Firms — Earlier this year, Yuri Milner, SV Angel, and Y Combinator shook the early-stage investment world with Start Fund, a $150,000 investment offered to every startup in every new Y Combinator class, no questions asked.

Discussion: AllThingsD, VatorNews and Pulse2

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Google Chrome overtakes Firefox to become UK's second most popular web browser — Internet browser passes Firefox, with speed and a nationwide advertising campaign credited for the rise in popularity — Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, eWeek, TUAW, The Register, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, The Next Web, PC World, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, T3.com News, TechEye and ITProPortal

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

BREAKING: Twitter Might Have a New York Office! — We need to be very careful here. Because the last time we thought that Twitter might have opened a New York Office, Twitter said there was no such thing. It was just an office in New York where people from Twitter went to work. — But!

Discussion: Betabeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, The Business Insider, ClickZ, Pulse2 and The Next Web

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day — Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily …

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, SplatF, Between the Lines Blog, Betabeat, SocialTimes.com, The Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile and Sramana Mitra

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

NTP Wins Court Ruling on 7 Patents From Apple, AT&T Cases — NTP Inc., the patent licenser that extracted a $612.5 million settlement from Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) in a dispute over wireless e-mail technology five years ago, won an appeals court ruling in a battle over the validity …

Discussion: CNET News

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Foursquare to Users: Nice Check-in, Now Please Write Something — Mobile-Sharing Startup Wants Its Users to Share More Tips in Stealth Content Initiative — Mobile startup Foursquare wants its users to go beyond checking in and vying for virtual badges — it wants its 10 million users to do more writing.

Discussion: About Foursquare, WebProNews and The Next Web

Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:

Windows Phone revenue “abysmal”, still better than Android — The Seattle PI has done some sleuthing in Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and found out that by subtracting a few figures, you get a rough $600 million dollars in revenue for fiscal year 2011 for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

Discussion: IntoMobile, ZDNet, CNET News, Computerworld, FierceWireless, PhoneArena and Fortune

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Twitter Confirms “Significant” New Funding Round Led By DST — After weeks of speculation, Twitter has just published a blog post confirming that it has indeed raised a “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.”

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, The Business Insider, GigaOM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Twitter Blog, @mediaredef, WebProNews, NBC Bay Area, AllTwitter, Mashable!, Mashable! and The Next Web

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

iOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls — Move over Apple: some independent app developers plan to begin banding together to fight off lawsuits brought by Lodsys and its ilk on their own. On Monday, renowned iOS developer Mike Lee announced the Appsterdam Legal Defense Team …

Discussion: 9to5Mac and TUAW

John Markoff / New York Times:

Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected — SAN FRANCISCO — Data centers' unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global recession and by a combination of new power-saving technologies, according to an independent report on data center power use from 2005 to 2010.

Discussion: CNET News, Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., Data Center Knowledge, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, GeekWire and GigaOM Pro

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Premium Video Commerce Site Joyus — Headed by Top Ex-Googler — Gets $7.9 Million in Funding — Joyus, a new start-up which is launching an invite-only public beta of its new premium video commerce site today, has raised $7.9 million in venture funding to pioneer a new way to shop online.

Discussion: The Business Insider

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Alleged LulzSec hacker released on bail — Jake Davis, allegedly known online as ‘Topiary’, released on bail after being charged with five offences — Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail on Monday after being charged with five offences relating …

Discussion: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Disruptors, Daily Mail, TG Daily, THN : The Hacker News, Gizmodo, @anonymousirc, Computerworld, Softpedia News, LulzSec Exposed and Gawker

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