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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft likely to announce job cuts this week; may be biggest restructuring in its history — Microsoft Said to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans holiday assault on Chromebooks with $199 HP laptop, $249 laptops from Acer and Toshiba — Microsoft launches a price assault on Chromebooks — Microsoft is aiming straight for Google's Chromebooks this holiday season. At the company's partner conference today …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Nest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home — Samsung, ARM, Nest and four other companies have gotten together to build a new radio standard for the smart home. Dubbed Thread, it is a low-power, mesh network protocol that also supports IPv6.| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
USPTO Refuses to Register Apple's “Touch ID” Trademark — Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published an official letter that was sent to Apple regarding their trademark application for “Touch ID” having been refused by their trademark examiner. Noteworthy is the fact that the letter … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts iTunes Pass in Japan, allows Passbook-based iTunes credit refills at Apple Stores — Apple today has launched an interesting new service for iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore users in Japan with iPhones and iPod touches. The new service, called iTunes Pass (no …
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| Rob Knies / Inside Microsoft Research: |
Microsoft to integrate academic data into Bing, hopes to improve Cortana for use in research — Making Cortana the Researcher's Dream Assistant — Cortana, the personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, certainly has received plenty of attention since being announced in April.| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
The Eric Schmidt email confirming Google's one-hour window to counter Facebook job offers — More fascinating emails continue to trickle out of the Google/Apple/Intel/Adobe wage-conspiracy case in California. In one exchange revealed last week, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed … | Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
| Daniela Hernandez / Wired: |
Microsoft says its deep learning project “Adam” is faster than Google Brain in benchmark test — Microsoft Challenges Google's Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’ — Microsoft's new artificial intelligence system, Project Adam, can identify images, including photos of a particular breed of dog.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Data Breaches in New York Hit Record High in 2013, State Attorney General Says — Last year was a record-setting one for the state of New York — and not in a good way. — Public and private institutions in New York experienced more than 900 data breaches in 2013, according to a report released …
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| Todd Hoff / High Scalability: |
Bitly: Lessons Learned Building a Distributed System that Handles 6 Billion Clicks a Month — Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can't be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly …
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| Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: |
GCHQ developed tools to manipulate online polls, inflate pageviews, censor videos, more — Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet — The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Exclusive: Google Prepping Play Store Update That's One Step Closer To Material With Beautiful New Listing UI — When we first wrote about Quantum Paper (the internal name for the material in Material Design), we noted that Google was anticipating a series of updates to its own apps between …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle legalizes Uber, Lyft to operate without caps — Transportation startups like UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar will finally be able to legally operate in Seattle. The City Council today voted 8-1 to approve legislation that provides a new regulatory framework for the San Francisco-based startups …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Dish Anywhere streaming stays alive, despite Fox's win over Aereo — Appellate court denies Fox's request to impose a preliminary injunction. — A federal appeals court has denied Fox's bid to immediately shut down the Dish Anywhere streaming platform. The United States Court of Appeals …
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| Gavia Baker-Whitelaw / Daily Dot: |
Tumblr culture enthusiasts convention DashCon 2014 becomes a disaster over the weekend — Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos — It only took a few hours for DashCon 2014 to degenerate into the most catastrophic fan convention in recent memory.
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Boing Boing, The Beat, CraveOnline, Boise Weekly and Jezebel
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| Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal: |
Swedish author and his bot created 2.7M Wikipedia articles; some editors object to methods — For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work — In Sweden, Sverker Johansson and His ‘Bot’ Have Created 2.7 Million Articles; Some Purists Complain
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| Secret / Medium: |
Secret raises $25M series B, launches ‘Collections’ feature and anonymous Facebook login — Onward — The next six months — Six months into growing and evolving Secret, our community has shown us how much demand there is for a social network centered around honest conversations.
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Index Ventures, Forbes, Redpoint Ventures, GeekTime, Secret Notes, NextBigWhat, Daily Dot, SiliconANGLE, VatorNews, CIO.com, SecurityWeek, YourStory.com, VentureBeat, The Next Web and TechHive
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Twitter Is Cracking Down On Companies That Provide Stats About Its Users — Twitter has taken the unusual step of shutting off its datapipe to certain companies that have published their own stats on how big Twitter's user base really is, according to two sources.| Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice: |
PayPal for iOS now lets you carry virtual versions of your loyalty cards — PayPal has just updated its flagship iOS app with a major new feature and a couple of welcome improvements. — In September last year, just ahead of the launch of iOS 7, PayPal for iOS was updated with a new design …
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9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Geeky Gadgets, The Next Web and iClarified
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
ScribbleLive Acquires CoveritLive, Will Still Operate Both Brands — Once bitter rivals ScribbleLive and CoveritLive are now family. Scribble Technologies is today announcing the acquisition of CoveritLive from Demand Media, effectively bringing two of the largest live content creation companies under one roof.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches in-store iPhone trade-in program in Australia, offers A$250 toward upgrade — Late last month 9to5Mac reported that Apple would soon be launching its iPhone trade-in program in Australia. Today the Apple Store app started notifying Australian users that the offer is now available in that country.
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