After moderators protested dismissal of a key employee by taking down popular subreddits, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologizes for how the transition was handled
Reddit Moderators Shut Down Parts of Site Over Employee's Dismissal — Hundreds of sections of Reddit, the popular online message board …
New documents show XKEYSCORE, NSA's Google-like tool, collects more data than previously reported including web searches and router configuration information
XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications — Illustrations by Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept
Apple Pay expected to go live in the U.K. on July 14th, £20+ transactions starting this fall
Apple appears to be planning to enable its Apple Pay iPhone mobile payments service in the United Kingdom on July 14th, according to sources at multiple retailers.
Minecraft for Windows 10 beta launching July 29 for $10; Minecraft for PC owners get it for free
Minecraft for Windows 10 beta arrives on July 29th launch day — Microsoft is bringing a “whole new version” of Minecraft to Windows 10 later this month.
22 Towns in Massachusetts Are Building Their Own Gigabit Fiber Network
Large swaths of rural Western Massachusetts are about to get gigabit fiber internet after residents in 22 separate towns decided to join a government cooperative designed to bring high speed broadband...
Apple Music Connect has a clunky uploading interface, lacks standard social networking features for artists
Disconnect — [Update: I got an email from Trent Reznor this afternoon. Apple is aware of the growing pains and is working to address them.] — When Apple announced Connect at WWDC last month, I wa...
How the NSA's XKEYSCORE system for collecting and searching Internet data works
A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA's XKEYSCORE — Second in a series. Part 1 here. — The sheer quantity of communications that XKEYSCORE processes, filters and queries is stunning.
Apple is falling behind other browser makers in implementing web standards in Safari
Safari is the new IE — Last weekend I attended EdgeConf, a conference populated by many of the leading lights in the web industry. It featured panel talks and breakout sessions with a focus …
Nearly all major subreddits are set to public again after going private in protest
Nearly all major subreddits are back online following Reddit protests — Just a day after a massive revolt tore down parts of Reddit, the site now appears to be mostly back to normal.
Render shows Android-powered BlackBerry slider phone codenamed “Venice” reportedly bound for AT&T
Venice is actually quite the looker. pic.twitter.com/ToFgYNOuLw Evan Blass / @evleaks : The Android-powered BlackBerry Venice slider is AT&T-bound.
Nielsen: songs streamed in the US up 92.4% YoY to 135.2B, digital song sales down 10.4% to 531.6M, in the first half of 2015
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The next Google Glass is ‘Enterprise Edition,’ expanded testing later this year
We told you yesterday about a new device that passed through the FCC—codenamed GG1—and many have speculated that it's the next generation of the Google Glass hardware. While it's often suggested that...
OnePlus' Google Cardboard viewer is now available for $0 + shipping
and you only pay for shipping Dana Wollman / Engadget : OnePlus is giving away Google Cardboard for $0 plus shipping (update: out of stock) IBNLive : Rs 99 only! OnePlus announces price of Google Card...
New iPhone 6S images show updated NFC, 16GB base storage, fewer chips + design tweaks
storage Chris Smith / BGR : Huge Leak: iPhone 6s Might Not Fix the Worst Thing About the iPhone 6 István Fekete / iPhone in Canada Blog : iPhone 6s Logic Board Images Reveal Updated NFC Chip, 16 GB Fl...
Lifetime launches SVOD service, drawing on archive of movies, will charge $3.99 a month
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Chinese consumer protection group sues Samsung and Oppo over bloatware on smartphones
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Netflix and Amazon seek to hook viewers early with high-quality content for kids
Why Netflix and Amazon want your kids … Luke Matheny keeps getting pulled away. We are on a rented soundstage on the outskirts of Los Angeles's Koreatown, sitting in director's chairs in front of a t...
India's BankBazaar Raises $60M Series C Led By Amazon
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Two Pirate Bay co-founders say FBI is seeking site logs to see whether Prenda law firm tried to lure copyright violators
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Russia's parliament passes a bill requiring search engines to remove users' personal information from their results upon request
How tech entrepreneurs are forging ahead in Cuba even without widespread Internet access
No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution — Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government's office of periodicals … Tweets: @d...
What delayed IPOs and higher private valuations mean for tech startups and public investors
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In Battle of Streaming Music Services, Simplicity Is the Killer Feature
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.