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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach — Programs Cover 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications …
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See also Mediagazer| Julian Borger / Guardian: |
NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files — A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London — Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed …
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The Verge, TechnoLlama, Pressthink, TechCrunch, Digital Trends and Wired
Tweets: @youranonnews and @markseibel
See also Mediagazer| NBCNews: |
US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say — HONG KONG - 2013: In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed details of top-secret surveillance conducted …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook And 6 Phone Makers Launch Internet.org To Bring Affordable Access To Everyone — Facebook has just announced a partnership with Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, and Qualcomm to launch Internet.org, a project aimed at bringing affordable Internet access to the five billion people without it.| newsroom.fb.com: |
Technology Leaders Launch Partnership to Make Internet Access Available to All — Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung to be founding partners — MENLO PARK, CA, — Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, today announced the launch of internet.org …
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access — MENLO PARK, Calif. — About one of every seven people in the world uses Facebook. Now, Mark Zuckerberg, its co-founder and chief executive, wants to make a play for the rest — including the four billion or so who lack Internet access.
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| John McDermott / AdAge: |
iTunes Radio to Debut in September With McDonald's, Nissan, P&G, Pepsi — Launch Partners Sign 12-Month Deals Worth Tens of Millions of Dollars — iTunes Radio, Apple's answer to Pandora, is set to debut next month with a handful of high-profile brand partners including McDonald's, Nissan …
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Tweets: @pkafka, @jherskowitz and @learmonth
See also Mediagazer| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
PlayStation 4 hitting shelves on November 15th in the US for $399, November 29th in Europe and Latin America — There isn't much we don't know about the PlayStation 4 at this point. Sony has let the details slip out in drips and drabs, dragging out the mystery as long as possible.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator's Summer '13 Demo Day — Convenience tech, developer assistance, and services for senior citizens were the big trends amongst the 45 startups that pitched on the record today at Y Combinator's Summer 2013 Demo Day.
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Mattermark, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat and Valleywag
Tweets: @amir, @brianp, @arrington and @startupljackson
| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Siri vs. the Android: The Sequel — “Your review was the dumbest thing I've ever read. It strains me to avoid profanity in describing how stupid you sound.” — That's the kind of e-mail that brightened my day after I reviewed Google's Moto X phone two weeks ago.
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google and Waze Start Mixing Their Maps for the First Time — Google today is introducing the first integrations between its homegrown Google Maps for mobile and its newly owned Waze. — Google adds Waze — The traffic tab on Google Maps for iOS and Android will now include accidents …
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| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is stepping up a warehouse building spree, signaling the urgency of getting products to customers more quickly amid rising competition from EBay Inc. (EBAY) and Wal-Mart (WMT) Stores Inc.
Tweets: @jordanr1000
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix inks exclusive deal for first-run Weinstein films — The Internet's biggest on-demand video service will stream movies from the indie film studio before any other pay-TV providers starting in 2016, the same year it kicks off a similar Disney deal. — Follow @@joan_e| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
LG Display claims a world's first with 2,560 x 1,440 LCD for smartphones — Full HD displays? Eat your heart out, handset manufacturers. LG Display has just laid claim to the world's first Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440) smartphone display, which also boasts the highest pixel density of a mobile device, clocking in at 538ppi.
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CNET, Gizmodo and Electronista
| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online: |
This Software Won't Let You Look Away — The creepiest educational technology yet — Updated, 3:45pm. — It's hard to imagine a creepier educational technology than “FocusAssist,” a new feature announced by online training company Mindflash last week.
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CNET, Nextgov and ROUGH TYPE
| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
Vevo in Deals With Apple, Samsung for TV Programming — Online Music-Video Company to Deliver On-Demand Programming Via Set-Top Boxes, Television Sets — Music-video company Vevo LLC is migrating from YouTube to the boob tube in a back-to-the-future attempt to recreate something akin to the original MTV.
| Lindsey Turrentine / CNET: |
Welcome to CNET, Tim Stevens — Starting this September, one of tech's best-known comes to CNET. He'll bring his storytelling skills with him. — Tim Stevens — Two years ago, Tim Stevens and I met for a few minutes after work one day not long after he had taken the helm at Engadget.
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Digital Displacement. Tweets: @lturrentine, @tim_stevens, @theromit, @darrenmurph and @tim_stevens
| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Barnes & Noble totally reverses strategy in train wreck of an investor call — Want to know what Barnes & Noble's plan is for the future? In that case, it would be wise to ignore pretty much everything the company has said it was going to do in recent months. — Getting out of the tablet business?| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
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Tweets: @sarahw and @peterlauria3
See also Mediagazer| Pamela Jones / Groklaw: |
Forced Exposure — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.
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Tweets: @privacyint, @puellavulnerata, @piecritic and @rsingel
See also Mediagazer| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Coursera Adds Kleiner Perkins Partner Lila Ibrahim as President — Lila Ibrahim, an operating partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will become president at the online education startup Coursera. — That's a lot of leadership at the top of the growing startup, which was founded less than two years ago.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Stealthy Helpouts Live Video Commerce Service Makes Its First Public Appearance, Landing Page Now Live — Last month, our own Rip Empson broke the news that Google was working on Helpouts, a Hangouts-based marketplace “ that enables individuals and small and large businesses to buy and sell services via live video.”
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Not OK, Cupid: dating site email security gaffe leaves your account wide open — Users may be exposing themselves without realizing it — A friend who recently started using OKCupid just forwarded me an email she got from the site, containing a funny message from a prospective suitor: “You seem nice.
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