Sunday, August 4, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 4, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 4, 2013

Hell No Moto X

Motorola unveiled its Motorola X smartphone last week, and our own Chris Velazco found the phone impressive enough. But the more I think about it, the less... read more

A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience

Twoo, "the fastest growing place to meet new people," has been spamming people for over a year.... read more

Examining The Effects Of Patent-Troll Legislation On Startups

Non-practicing entities (NPEs), or patent trolls, have largely stayed off the political radar for the 12 years since the term "patent troll" was coined. But the... read more

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

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Top Stories of the Day // August 3, 2013

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Disrupt SF returns in September with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now and save $1,000!
Today's Top Stories // Aug 3, 2013

A Look Into What The Manning Verdict Means For The Tech Industry

The long-running trial of Wikileaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning came to a key (if preliminary) conclusion this week, with Judge Denise Lind announcing a... read more

University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free

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CBS Blocks Time Warner Cable Subscribers From Watching Full Episodes On CBS.com

A dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable over retransmission fees for its broadcast content has spilled over onto the web, with a blackout of television... read more

In Mastering Machine Intelligence, Google Rewrites Search Engine Rules

Google has produced a car that drives itself and an Android operating system that has remarkably good speech recognition. Yes, Google has begun to master... read more

Verizon Reportedly Provides British Spy Agency Access To Its Undersea Internet Cables

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The Business Of Fear

I spent much of this week at the Black Hat information security conference, after attending the head of the NSA's keynote speech; and I am pleased to report, O... read more

Developed By Literacy Experts, Learn With Homer Launches On The iPad To Change How Kids Learn To Read

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 2, 2013

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Disrupt SF returns in September with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now and save $1,000!
Today's Top Stories // Aug 2, 2013

FBI Can Remotely Activate Android Smartphone And Laptop Mics, WSJ Reports

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI employs a number of high-tech hacker tactics in its efforts to round up information on suspects, including the... read more

Clue, Or, The Story Of How We Got Pregnant And Broke Up In The Same Day

It had been more than a year since John and Asia began trying to get pregnant. The failure of one, or both, of them to produce an heir to the Biggsian throne... read more

New Project Will Let You Scan 3D Objects Using Your Browser

As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require... read more

Facebook News Feed Event Aug 6 Will Give Much-Needed Rankings Explanation And Reveal What's Next

Facebook plans to clear up confusion about what appears in the news feed, announce a ranking algorithm change, and preview the future of the feed at a press... read more

NetBeez Is An Enterprise Network Monitoring Startup Using Raspberry Pis To Simulate Users

Raspberry Pi has unsurprisingly been a smash hit with the maker community. But here's an enterprise startup that is using the $35/$25 microcomputer -- or rather... read more

Social Media Aggregator RebelMouse Raises $10.25M

RebelMouse, the startup that allows users to combine updates from across social networks into what it calls a "social front page," is announcing that it has... read more

The New Motorola Is Focusing On "Very Few" Devices, And A Low-Cost Phone May Be Next

Motorola has never been the most prolific smartphone maker, but there's no question that they've churned out a lot of hardware over the years. Now that Motorola... read more

Codementor Is An Open Marketplace That Provides Developers With One-On-One Programming Help

It's a scenario all programmers are familiar with: you are coding alone, only to have something go awry and no one to ask for help. Codementor wants to prevent... read more

Andreessen-Backed Tutor Matching Service Is Working With Colleges To Upend The Tutoring Industry, Starting With Cost

Of the many ways that technology is disrupting education, one area that's changing a lot, is rife with potential, but doesn't get as much play as it should is... read more

Transactional Big Data Startup ERN Bolsters Its Analytics By Acquiring Elucidata, Inspired Analytics

ERN, the London-headquartered startup that's planning to use Big Data to enable banks and merchants to create loyalty-based offers for cardholders, has... read more

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CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP

A Majority Of The Public Still Approves Of NSA Dragnet, 4 Graphs

CrunchGov Essential is a scannable roundup of technology’s influence on the day’s big issues. Below a feature post, we present the most thoughtful,… read more

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 1, 2013

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Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000!
Today's Top Stories // Aug 1, 2013

Netflix Makes Recommendations More Personalized By Adding Individual User Profiles

Netflix is rolling out its long-anticipated user profiles, allowing multiple members of a household to create personalized accounts and get personalized... read more

Apple Reportedly Ramping Up For New iPad Mini With Retina Display Later This Year

Apple is indeed gearing up to put a Retina display in next version of the iPad mini, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The new version of... read more

NoFlo Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Help Everyone To Understand And Visualize Code

NoFlo, a company that has built an open-source visual programming tool based on "flow-based programming," a concept that came out of IBM in the 1970s, is... read more

The Pinterest Roadmap Revealed

The rise of Pinterest wasn't all cocktails and cupcakes. It conquered huge scaling challenges to become the world's keepsake box. Now as the we ditch the... read more

NSA Responds To New Reports On Top-Secret Spying Program, XKeyscore

The National Security Agency thinks we have been misled by The Guardian's report of a new tool, XKeyscore, that allows agents to read the content of email and... read more

With A Launch Fast Approaching, BlackBerry Pushes Out iOS & Android BBM Beta Invites

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed this past May that BBM would come to iOS and Android "this summer", which of course means that advertised launch window... read more

Shopify Acquires Toronto-Based Design Firm Jet Cooper To Help It Remake Ecommerce

Toronto based startup success story Shopify has acquired Jet Cooper, a design agency founded in 2009, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings together... read more

PC Obsolescence In Action: Users Who Own Smartphones And Tablets Are Dropping Their PC Usage In The UK

As the proliferation of smartphones continues to skyrocket, device owners are more and more eschewing their PCs, opting instead to use their smartphones as... read more

Despite Google's Gains, iPhone Still Edges Out Android Devices In App And Overall Smartphone Usage, Says Forrester

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Social Polling App Loop Debuts On iOS To Help You Crowdsource Everyday Decisions

Loop, the newest entrant in the social polling space, is launching in the App Store today to help people solve life's little dilemmas, such as which movie to... read more

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