NSA spying relies on AT&T's “extreme willingness to help” tap Internet communications, say newly-disclosed Snowden documents
NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …
Nextbit, led by Android and HTC vets, will launch its Android smartphone on September 1 priced at $300-$400
Google, HTC vets prep ‘friggin’ awesome' smartphone for Sept. 1 launch — Nextbit makes the bold claim that its smartphone will actually get better over time thanks to software tweaks.
FAA says there has been 650 pilot reported encounters of drones through August 9 up from 238 for all of 2014
Drone-Plane Safety Incidents Seen Quadrupling, U.S. FAA Says — Pilot encounters with drones are on pace to at least quadruple to more than 1,000 this year …
Alleged sexual assault by Airbnb host highlights need for the company to improve safety policies
Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions — Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles's mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie beg...
Salesforce Adds E-Commerce To Its Community Cloud
Customers of Salesforce's Community Cloud will soon be able to add their own buy buttons. — The Community Cloud allows businesses to build sites where customers can interact with the company and wit...
Mozilla tests private browsing mode with tracking protection in pre-beta versions of Firefox
Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox, Adds Tracking Protection — Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn't just keep no trace of your browsing habits …
Twitter says it has received 1,391 copyright takedown requests for Periscope through June 30 and complied with 71% of them
Periscope complies to 71 percent of copyright takedown requests — Periscope's live streaming capability is increasingly becoming a bigger magnet for copyright takedown requests.
US Court of Appeals rejects Samsung's request for rehearing of patent case against Apple
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Google bans 8chan-hosted domains from search, displaying warning about child abuse content
8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches — Domain-specific searches contain warning about “suspected child abuse content.” — Google appears to have taken an unprecedented step …
New Dark Web study shows drug market turns over $100M+/year in illegal substances, and the ecosystem is becoming more resilient to crackdowns, setbacks
Crackdowns Haven't Stopped the Dark Web's $100M Yearly Drug Sales — After more than four years and two giant law enforcement busts …
Google Play Services v7.8 Completes Rollout, Adds New Mobile Vision API With Face Detection And Barcode Reader, Improves Cloud Messaging
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Inside Pinterest's ambitious e-commerce platform: buyable pins, recommendations, and easier mobile shopping
The Inside Story Of How (And Why) Commerce Came To Pinterest — Inside the power move that could give today's biggest online businesses a run for their money. — Pinterest's Buyable Pins team. Thank...
New iCloud.com feature lets users restore recently deleted files, contacts and calendars
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Kaspersky CEO: False positives affected us too, Reuters report does not contain ‘a shred of evidence’
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Wildcard relaunches app to focus on presenting news from thousands of sources in card format
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Yahoo's Audio-Free Video Messaging App Livetext Is Now Available Worldwide
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Swiss researchers working to make two-factor authentication easier with Sound-Proof, which replaces numerical codes with digital signatures from ambient sound
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Sources: Watchable to be available on the web for Comcast subscribers and and non-subscribers, in addition to set-top-boxes, Android, and iOS
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Slack now allows Standard and Plus plan users to integrate email into channels
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Akamai Wins Appeal in $45.5 Million Limelight Patent Case
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