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Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too — Over the past week, a number of users of the popular photo sharing app Instagram and parent company Facebook have been locked out of their accounts and prompted by both services to upload images of their government issued photo IDs … | The Verge: |
Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution — The new Google way is weird, but it's working — Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Might Owe You $10 — A class action suit about Facebook's Sponsored Stories feature resulted in a $20 million settlement. Up to $10 of that money might be coming to you. — Image by Robert Galbraith / Reuters — Last month, Facebook offered to settle a class action lawsuit …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Review: jOBS is an entertaining, if impressionistic, portrait of Steve Jobs as a young man — jOBS opens with the introduction of the iPod on October 23, 2001 at an Apple Town Hall meeting. In the audience are a somewhat slimmer Jony Ive and other Apple employees.
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Review: While “jOBS” fawns over subject, film falls flat — The eagerly awaited biopic of the Apple founder aims to capture a legend, but neglects the world he lived in. — PARK CITY, UTAH—The eagerly awaited biopic “jOBS” opens in 2001, when Apple's iconic co-founder arrives at Town Hall on Apple's Cupertino campus with good news.| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Watch Vine videos sprout in real time with Vinepeek — Following in the footsteps of Instagram aggregators such as This Is Now, Vinepeek is a simple, one-page site showing newly-posted vines in real time. It's a basic concept, but the restrictions of Twitter's new video system …
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| Jared Newman / PC World: |
Internet Explorer ad tugs at heartstrings of Gen-Y users — Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good. — Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst.
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| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers” — A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent company, CBS. — I wasn't all that interested in the story at the time.
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Unlocking new phones now banned under DMCA, the EFF weighs in — It was great while it lasted, but the days of users legally unlocking their own phones is over. Back in October of last year, the Library of Congress added an exemption to the DMCA to allow folks to free their new phones for 90 days.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
RIM cuts minimum app price ahead of BlackBerry 10 launch; now £0.75/€0.89, others TBC — Fresh from adding video and music content to its BlackBerry World app store last week, RIM has announced new pricing for its content. In a move to be more competitive in the run …
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| Edward Moyer / CNET: |
In Swartz protest, Anon hacks U.S. site, threatens leaks — Saying “a line was crossed” with the treatment of tech activist Aaron Swartz, the group hacks a government site related to the justice system and distributes encrypted files it says it will decrypt unless demands are met.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Yahoo! Good Morning America, CNN, Reuters, Ars Technica, Gawker, CBS News, Mashable!, Computerworld, Slate, VentureBeat, The Hacker News, The Verge and E Hacking News
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Group Commerce Has Laid Off 28% Of Its Staff — Group Commerce, an e-commerce platform for publishers that made its name in the daily-deal market, has fired 31 people. — The company confirmed the layoffs to Business Insider. The cuts amount to 28% of its 109-person staff.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Square Executive Resigns Amid Sexual-Harassment Claims — Square Inc. said its chief operating officer Keith Rabois resigned from the mobile payments company on Thursday, amid accusations from a Square employee of sexual harassment. — A New York attorney, Steven Berger …
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