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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Glorious Images Of Apple's New Spaceship Headquarters — As we noted in June, Apple is building what is sure to be the coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA. The building is so important to the company that no less than Steve Jobs went to a Cupertino City Council meeting a couple months ago to seal the deal.
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PC World, @dannysullivan, PadGadget, gHacks Technology News, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, techeblog.com and AppleInsider
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here's What an iPad Looked Like in 1994 (Video) — Yesterday we saw what AT&T thought the future would look like, way back in the early '90s. Pretty accurate! — Today we can see what newspaper publisher Knight Ridder thought about future, way back in the early '90s. Also accurate!
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Hands-on with Edgeworld and other Google+ games — Since the battle of the social game giants has begun, I decided to try out some of the games available on Google+ to see if the newcomer has an edge on incumbent Facebook. — So far, Google+ is working fine. The interface is well-organized and pretty simple.
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Search Engine Watch, Thanks:deantak
Kimi Yoshino / L.A. NOW:
Twitter timeline of The Game's ‘telephone flash mob’ — Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials are continuing their investigation into rapper The Game and the tweets that sparked a “telephone flash mob” Friday night that jammed emergency phone lines. — Authorities say the rapper sent …
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Dale W. Eisinger / NBC New York:
The Game Tweets up a Telephone Flash Mob
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Technically Incorrect, Examiner, Associated Press, ktla.com, CNN, New York Magazine and L.A. NOW
California Beat:
BART BACKLASH GROWS | “Anonymous” group plans commute hour protest, website attack — (8/13) — 2241 PDT UPDATE — An online group of international hackers said Saturday that they would hold a protest against the Bay Area Rapid Transit District's recent decision to temporarily cut underground …
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CNET News, Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Your Anon News, VoIP Watch, SF Appeal, Associated Press, Yahoo! News, ZeroPaid.com, Your Anon News and Newser
Jason Cross / PC World:
Windows Laptop Makers Can't Catch Up to the MacBook Air — The PC world is buzzing lately about how laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with Apple's MacBook Air, which has exploded in popularity since the introduction of the third-gen model in 2010.
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Computerworld, Fortune and ZDNet
Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:
Repressing the Internet, Western-Style — As politicians call for more online controls after London and Norway, authoritarian states are watching — Did the youthful rioters who roamed the streets of London, Manchester and other British cities expect to see their photos scrutinized …
Discussion:
Epicenter and Marvin Ammori &
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Apple To Eliminate Printer Drivers — Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. Software drivers have been one of the big inconveniences in mainstream computing.
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@kevinmarks and Slashdot
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take Over The World — The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and Gawker
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Suspected Chinese spear-phishing attacks continue to hit Gmail users — Researcher details more bids to hijack high-value email accounts — Computerworld - Months after Google said that Chinese hackers were targeting the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. government officials …
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contagio and The Register
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
Reddit and community journalism — I've come to love Reddit. What started as a better Digg (and is yet another happy outcome of the remarkable Y Combinator) has turned into a way of sharing and interrogating news. Reddit as it stands is not the future of news. It is, however, a hope for news.
Discussion:
Ryan Sholin
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
How the NYT paywall is working — When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in the comments and on Twitter. Here's a sample: … But of course the paywall is working — with the emphasis very much on the “pay” rather than on the “wall”.
