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Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time — Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It's very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India …
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Google Search app for iPad and iPhone adds voice-based answers, available in the ‘next couple of days’ — Google has updated its search app for iOS to include voice-based questions and answers. You can “ask for the weather in a natural way” and it will provide results.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search — In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said today. — So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information …
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Zynga's COO John Schappert Steps Down, Effective Immediately — Zynga has announced that the company's COO John Schappert has stepped down from the company and its board of directors, effective immediately. — This comes as perhaps no surprise given that last week it leaked …
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Let's Clear Up Some Details About Square's Big Partnership With Starbucks — Last night, Square announced that it would take over credit-card processing for Starbucks stores and that Starbucks would now accept Square as a payment tool. It's a big deal, but it left more questions than answers.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The New York Times Is About to Say Goodbye to About.com — The New York Times' time with About.com may be coming to an end. The paper has been looking to get rid of the struggling Web site, which produces high-volume, low-cost content, and has a deal in place to sell it to Answers.com.| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.
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NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft — “Wait, can't I just Google the address?” — Just last week, news broke that the NYPD would soon begin rolling out new tech that brings together information streams like CCTV footage and criminal databases.
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| Dalton Caldwell: |
App.net is not vaporware — We shipped an alpha version of App.net. You can browse the global feed at alpha.app.net. This is a webapp that we built in the last two weeks on top of our documented API. Think of this web application as a “proof of concept”.
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Nikon rumored to launch Android-based Coolpix S800 with Google Play access on August 22nd — If you've been waiting for something new from the compact camera market, Nikon might have a doozy coming soon — if the latest rumors are to be believed. Nikon Rumors is reporting that the company …
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HP incurs $8 billion Q3 impairment charge, as it tries to limit damage from 27,000 job cuts — As part of its ongoing restructuring plans, HP announced today that it has appointed Mike Nefkens to lead its Enterprise Services division, also appointing Jean-Jacques (JJ) Charhon as the new COO … | Alan Henry / Lifehacker: |
Current Caller ID Supercharges Your Phone's Caller ID with Social Info, Best Times to Call, and More — Android: Current Caller ID is a free utility for Android that turns every incoming call into a dashboard full of information about the caller, complete with social updates, weather where they are …
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Watch: The moment Kim Dotcom's mansion got raided by police — A New Zealand news outlet has released video footage of the controversial police raid of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom showing multiple helicopters and several police vehicles converging on his mansion.
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Valve to sell non-gaming software on Steam starting September 5th — Valve is opening up Steam to non-gaming software, the company announced today, bringing applications ranging from “creativity to productivity” to the digital distribution platform. The first software titles will be released on September 5th.
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| Anita Li / Mashable!: |
Mars Landing Broadcast on Ustream Outperforms Cable TV — New stats from Ustream suggest that more people are forgoing television for online sources when it comes to getting news. — More than 3.2 million people tuned in to the live streaming platform to see Sunday night's landing …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
After 5 Years With Facebook, Ben Blumenfeld Leaves To Beautify The Future At Designer Fund — A designer's eye can change the world, but some don't know how to build a company. So today, veteran Facebook designer Ben Blumenfeld revealed to me that he's moving on to co-direct Designer Fund … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
IDC: Android and iOS now power record 85% of all smartphones shipped, as RIM hits 3-year low — If you own a smartphone, the chances are it is an iPhone or powered by Google's Android operating system. That observation has rung true for some time but the two platforms have taken their domination … | Groklaw: |
SCO Files for Chapter 7: “There is no reasonable chance of ‘rehabilitation’” — SCO Group has now filed [PDF] for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. They are in Chapter 11 now. What is the difference? Chapter 11 means you are trying to reorganize and survive as a corporate entity.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up — Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address.
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @semil
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Stable and safe: Google Chrome for Windows gets improved Flash support — Flash has long been the enemy of web browsers and users alike thanks to security and stability issues, but the plug-in should be less of an issue now for Chrome users on Windows, according to Google.
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YC-Backed Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age — Popular wisdom has it that tablets are great for consuming content but aren't that useful for creating it. Don't tell that to Josh Leong, though. His Y Combinator-backed startup, Grid, is based around the idea that a tablet should be a great place for spreadsheets.
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