Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M
The founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to life in prison without parole — The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium …
Sources: US tried deploying Stuxnet-style virus against North Korea five years ago to destroy equipment, but the campaign failed
Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed - sources — The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus …
Snapchat has raised $537M in sale of common stock, at a valuation of $16B according to sources
Snapchat Raises Another $500 Million From Investors — Investment from Alibaba, others values popular messaging service at $16 billion — The demand to own private shares in Snapchat Inc …
Google begins testing Hands Free mobile payments system that lets users pay with spoken commands at a handful of McDonald's and Papa John's in the Bay area
Google is making payments Hands Free Megan Geuss / Ars Technica : Android Pay is old news now: Google teases Hands Free Payments prototype
Google partners with Qualcomm on Project Tango reference phone, no longer requires preapproval to purchase Project Tango tablet
Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango — I'm standing in a strange, spartan space. There's a floor, but no walls.
In protest of NSA surveillance laws, more than 10K websites redirect visitors from congressional IP addresses to blackoutcongress.org
More than 10,000 websites ‘blackout’ Congress in protest of NSA surveillance laws — Fight for the Future provides code to block access …
Google partially automates launches of Project Loon balloons, expands their range by passing Internet signals between them
Google Details New Project Loon Tech to Keep Its Internet Balloons Afloat — Google's Mike Cassidy describes two advancements that could help Project Loon become commercial as soon as next year
Google's Project Vault Is A Secure Computing Environment On A Micro SD Card, For Any Platform
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Google's Project Soli brings gesture control to wearables by using radar to recognize motion
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Google releases Polymer 1.0, a core library used to build and style Web components
Google's Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development — Signaling Polymer's production readiness, Google announced release 1.0 at its annual I/O developer conference.
Proposed Wassenaar export restrictions on cyberweapons endanger security researchers, don't make the world any safer
Some notes about Wassenaar — So #wassenaar has infected your timeline for the past several days. I thought I'd explain what the big deal is. — What's a Wassenaar?
AT&T wants to choose which online video services count against data caps
AT&T fights proposed ban on data cap exemptions in DirecTV merger. — AT&T doesn't want any rules preventing it from choosing which online video services count against its customers' data caps.
Kindle gets a new font and layout engine with better text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and more
The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck — Amazon's Kindle e-reader is a lovely single-purpose gadget, with an industrial design ethos that …
Google Sells 17 Million Chromecast Devices, Clocks 1.5 Billion Casts
Google has finally announced actual sales figures for its Chromecast streaming stick: Consumers have bought 17 million Chromecasts ever since the device got first introduced two years ago, announced G...
Uber revises privacy policy, asks for users' permission to track location when app is running in background and to access contacts
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Leaked presentation details plans for $100M hardware startup fund Formation 8 is raising
Inside Formation 8's Secret Strategy To Invest In Hardware — The venture capital firm Formation 8 wants to raise $100 million to invest in hardware makers. BuzzFeed News obtained a confidential sli...
Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs
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Apple's HomeKit platform will see first accessories launch next week
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Salesforce acquires smart calendar app Tempo AI, will shut it down on June 30
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Google acquires mobile app performance startup Pulse.io
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Google Partners With Udacity To Launch Android Development Nanodegree
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Google moves forward with the Charleston East development in Mountain View, a 595K-square-foot glass canopied building
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Jessica Verrilli, Twitter's Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, leaving for Google Ventures after six years
Dan Primack / Fortune : Tweets: @eringriffith and @jacob Tweets: Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : Google Ventures gets a female partner http://fortune.com/... Jacob Mullins / @jacob : BIG win for @Goo...
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