Photo of LG's Nexus 5 leaks online, after renders of both LG and Huawei Nexus devices surfaced over the weekend
This could be Google's new Nexus 5 smartphone, built by LG — We waved goodbye to the Nexus 5 when Google stopped selling its 2013 flagship Android smartphone earlier this year …
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace”
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Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads
The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
IBM to build LinuxONE mainframes running Ubuntu Linux in partnership with Canonical; IBM joins Linux Foundation's new Open Mainframe Project
IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes — You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence …
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms
The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors …
New privilege escalation exploit discovered in OS X Yosemite, also affects just-released 10.10.5
Just days after patching the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release, Apple's desktop operating system has been hit with yet another zero-day exploit that would allow …
Former Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen, others launch Bitcoin XT fork amidst heated community discussions over how to avoid 1MB block “capacity cliff”
Bitcoin ‘Forked’ in Controversial Bid to Resolve Scalability Question — Two of bitcoin's best-known developers …
Facebook Notes revamp set to battle Medium and Twitter
Facebook Notes has been one of the sprawling social network's least looked after features. It has sat there for years largely unloved and useless, like Facebook's appendix, serving no purpose yet apt...
QVC to Acquire Online Shopping Site Zulily for $2.4 Billion
The owner of home shopping network QVC is acquiring five-year-old Internet retailer Zulily for $2.4 billion in cash and stock.
Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR lab
I'm on Industrial Light & Magic's motion capture stage, standing inside what they call “the cave.” It's not much to look at: two big screens angled at 90 degrees, awash in a smeary blur of images.
Rambus, known for its many patent infringement lawsuits against chip makers, plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time
Rambus Expands With Its Own Chip Brand — Rambus is announcing plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time in its 25-year history.
FAA says there has been 650 pilot reported encounters of drones through August 9 up from 238 for all of 2014
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Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance
Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.
How distributed reflective DoS can amplify attacks while hiding the attacker's identity by exploiting weaknesses in the open BitTorrent protocol
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Expedia extends termination date for Orbitz deal from August 12 to November 12
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Salesforce Adds E-Commerce To Its Community Cloud
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Fleksy Adds Deep-Linking To Its Keyboard App, Opening New Revenue Opportunities
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New Dark Web study shows drug market turns over $100M+/year in illegal substances, and the ecosystem is becoming more resilient to crackdowns, setbacks
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