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Samsung Plans Galaxy S5 by April With Possible Eye-Scan Security — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will release its Galaxy S5 smartphone by April and is considering using iris scanning technology for the first time as it readies the new high-end handset to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhones.
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Snapchat apologizes for leaked user data, updates app to let you opt out of ‘Find Friends’ — Snapchat today rolled out the security fix it promised last week, which lets users opt out of the app's “Find Friends” feature. The feature, which let users plug in their phone number to find friends … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone On Google+ To Email You & Vice Versa, But Opt Out Is Provided — Google is today making a change to Gmail that will further bake in Google+ to its webmail product in a way that's actually somewhat practical, though also potentially invasive.
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Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s top privacy official said the European Union's “flawed” attempt to overhaul data-protection rules is “dead” and urged politicians to go back to the drawing board. — “Europe's much-ballyhooed, and much-flawed …
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The Bitcoin-Mining Arms Race Heats Up — Joel Flickinger's two-bedroom home in the hills above Oakland, Calif., hums with custom-built computing gear. Just inside the front door, in a room anyone else might use as a den, he's placed a desk next to a fireplace that supports a massive monitor …
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Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation in U.S. patent fight: court filing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents.
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Yahoo malware turned European computers into bitcoin slaves — Search firm remains silent on how its ad servers infected Windows PCs of visitors to homepage — As many as two million European users of Yahoo may have received PC malware from virus-laden ads served by its homepage over a four-day period last week.
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Social calendar app Sunrise finally comes to iPad — Launching on iPhone in February 2013, Sunrise changed our perception of calendar apps with its ability to provide more context to daily events. By connecting to Google, iCloud, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare accounts …
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Facebook To Sunset Sponsored Stories April 9 — Facebook's sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class-action lawsuit, but sponsored stories will be history after April 9, according to a list of breaking changes …
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Google's master plan for Android: More Internet users paying $6.30 a pop — The mobile industry is headed to Google, who is in an ideal position to clean up at roughly $6.30 per Internet user per year. — Forget today's smartphone profits: Apple and Samsung increasingly split those relatively evenly … | Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal: |
Lenders Use Social Media to Screen Borrowers — Regulators Have Concerns About Lenders' Use of Facebook, Other Sites — WASHINGTON—More lending companies are mining Facebook, Twitter and other social-media data to help determine a borrower's creditworthiness or identity … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Uber Slashes UberX Fares In 16 Markets To Make It The Cheapest Car Service Available Anywhere — Riding Uber just got a lot cheaper — at least for most customers using its low-cost UberX option. That's because Uber has committed to slashing fares for its on-demand car service in a majority … | Lauren Orsini / ReadWrite: |
The Most In-Demand Tech Skills: Why Java And The Classics Ruled 2013 — If you're a Java developer, chances are you did pretty well for yourself in 2013. — At least, that's according to statistics from Stack Overflow. Thousands of companies use the website's Careers 2. search in order … | Facebook: |
The evolution of memes on Facebook — A meme is an idea that is readily transmitted from person to person. But we humans are not perfect transmitters. While sometimes we repeat the idea exactly, often we change the meme, either unintentionally, or to embellish or improve it. — Take for example, the meme:
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Barnes & Noble Reports Steep Drop in Holiday Sales — Barnes & Noble, the nation's last remaining major bookstore chain, experienced steep sales declines in its digital division during the nine-week holiday period, the company announced on Thursday. — Revenue in the Nook division …
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T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horsesh**” — T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has had an eventful week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He was thrown out of AT&T's CES party Monday night after the company detected his presence.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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