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Wealthy Egg Man Has Strong Opinion About Facial Computer
Mega-VC Marc Andreessen has a radical take on Google Glass: "I think people are going find they feel, basically, naked and lonely, when they don’t have this at some point.” The takeaway here is that...
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That Google Comedy Is Really an Advertisement in The Most Literal Way
At this point it's obvious that the latest Vaughn/Wilson chuckle vehicle was at least loosely organized by Google. It's a marketing video—as if the promise of $20,000 summers weren't enough to seduce...
View ArticleSteve Case Was Once Head of the Greatest Internet Company in The World
Steve Case's VC fund leads $20 million investment in kids' clothing maker Lolly Wolly Doodle http://t.co/j69D0tak59 — AllThingsD (@allthingsd) June 13, 2013
View ArticleMicrosoft Reports Bugs to US Government Before Fixing Them [UPDATED]
PRISM—whatever it is in all exactness—is far from the only way Microsoft tips off the American defense apparatus. Sometimes, Bloomberg says, it's just as simple as telling the feds what's broken....
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Path Might Somehow Be Worth One Billion Dollars
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a company that makes virtually no money at all might get a massive, billion dollar price tag out of thin air (but at least people use Tumblr!). According to...
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Facebook Reveals Government Spying Numbers [UPDATE: Microsoft, Too]
It's not enough, but it's sure a start: with post-PRISM privacy backlash still flaring, Facebook pressed the US government to allow some limited disclosure of gag order demands. This is our first...
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Apple Reveals Its Spying Numbers for 2013
Quickly following alleged PRISM pals Microsoft and Facebook, Apple just won government permission and disclosed a chunk of its data: here's a (very) rough idea of how many of our iPhones are touched by...
View ArticleAccording to an unnamed TechCrunch source, Facebook is getting ready to...
According to an unnamed TechCrunch source, Facebook is getting ready to launch video sharing on Instagram at the end of the month. The announcement could come at this Thursday's Facebook press event so...
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Yahoo's Cannes Party Doesn't Look Very Inviting
Mostly because you weren't invited, but also because there's a muzzled guard dog standing outside of it like a checkpoint on the Berlin Wall. The bash, thrown during the Cannes Lion beachside...
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Snowden Calls Silicon Valley's PRISM Denials "Misleading"
Edward Snowden is doing a live Q&A with the Guardian, and one of the most important questions has already hit: what's up with all of the very similar dismissals of "direct access" coming from...
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Silicon Valley Housing Explosion Means This Cottage Costs $1.1 Million
The little 7o-year-old house at 353 Carmelita Drive is about as unspectacular as American real estate gets: two bedrooms, one and a half baths, and a modest 960 square feet. Elsewhere in the country...
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Code Education Startup Will Scare You into Learning
Codeacademy is a pretty neat idea: learning the basics of a programming language shouldn't be so intimidating, so let's break it down into friendly, digestible online segments. Cool. What's not so cool...
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Napster Cofounder Threatens to Sue Ben Parr on Quora
If Quora's presumptuous plan to "grow the world's knowledge" doesn't work out, perhaps it can pivot into a Silicon Valley burn book. This insider spat between blogger-turned-investor Ben Parr and...
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Yahoo's Tumblr Already Shutting Down Some NSFW Sites
When Yahoo's billion dollar Tumblr pickup was nothing more than coquettish tech talk, we wondered if a new owner would start enforcing the site's own rules. You know, shutting down pages about...
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This Is What Creepy Tech PR Looks Like
The following email was sent in by a tipster at a large national newspaper. The real question, I think, is how many writers actually agree to "collaborate" on a story with a company? The answer is more...
View ArticleJezebel I Got Drunk on All Kinds of Celebrity Liquor So You Don't Have To |...
Jezebel I Got Drunk on All Kinds of Celebrity Liquor So You Don't Have To | io9 Everything You Know About Jules Verne is Probably Wrong | Jalopnik Meet The Amateur Rapper Who Got Fired For Trying To...
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Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo
Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website. It will sting a bit. It's...
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Yahoo's the Latest to Reveal Government Spy Numbers
I'm not sure how many of you still have Yahoo accounts that you actually remember the password for, but just in case, the company is on the heels of Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft with law enforcement...
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Today's Super Addictive iPhone Game Might Be Tomorrow's Disaster IPO
Zynga went public over the popularity of a few hit Facebook games, and is now in the process of collapsing into a mush pit. Now the makers of Candy Crush Saga, the jellybean puzzle game gripping the...
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Tumblr's Media Director Quits
Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers." Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition)...
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