Amazon reverses course, says it is bringing back support for device encryption to tablets running Fire OS via a software update due this spring
Amazon reverses course on encryption for its Fire tablets — It's been only one day since — in the midst of a debate over encrypted devices …
Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74
Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson. — Raymond Tomlinson, the godfather of email, died Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack. He was 74. — Tomlinson, who was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fam...
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead
Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the rol...
Spotify's new Fresh Finds playlists leverage hundreds of music blogs and review sites it crawls and its own early adopter users
Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song — Spotify's personalized Discover Weekly playlist has won millions of fans …
As Bitcoin approaches its 1MB block size limit, transaction processing takes 10+ hours for some, while transaction fees rise several times
Bitcoin's Capacity Issues No ‘Nightmare’, But Higher Fees May Be New Reality — While bitcoin may not be facing a “nightmare” scenario as indicated by the media …
New experimental feature allows select local businesses to display custom content directly in Google search as cards below its website result
Google Experimenting With Local Business Cards In Search Results — Google is experimenting with new “Local Business Cards” in search results.
Coinbase CEO: Core team is a systemic risk that can lead to Bitcoin collapse this year; switch to Bitcoin Classic now, then look for more scalable solutions
What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable — Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee …
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid
It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarp...
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney says Microsoft wants to lock PC game distribution and commerce with Universal Windows Platform, urges industry to fight it
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Samsung says it has no plans to buy Tidal
Samsung Says It Won't Buy Tidal (EXCLUSIVE) — Samsung has no plans to acquire Jay Z's Tidal music service, the company told Variety Friday. — “The rumor of Samsung acquiring Tidal is not true,” sa...
Experts: FBI could crack terrorist's iPhone without Apple's help, but wants to set a legal precedent that would give them access to phone data with a warrant
Who Needs Apple When the FBI Could Hack Terrorist iPhone Itself — Experts say Feds could access data without going to court
Sources: Samsung has reduced jobs at Milk Music, likely to shut down service soon
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Avegant Glyph review: solid design, bright and clear display, but high price of $699 and nausea issues make it hard to recommend
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New research shows slowdown in productivity growth since 2005 not the result of unmeasured gains from information technology
Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us From a Productivity Slowdown — American middle class wages haven't been rising as rapidly as they once were …
China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts
China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime — Beijing wants to identify subversives before they strike. — Shai Oster — China's effort to flush out threats … Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subrahmanyam KVJ / @sub8...
Tinder is testing a button that lets you directly share other people's profiles via text message; links expire after five clicks or 72 hours
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Google will extend right-to-be-forgotten to all Search domains for searches from EU country where request was filed, beginning next week
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Sources: Microsoft to detail plans to open the Xbox platform to developers at Build on March 30, unveil universal Xbox apps
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DARPA's upcoming $2M Cyber Grand Challenge wants teams to build AI-based hacking software that can exploit rival teams' vulnerabilities while fixing their own
These engineers are developing artificially intelligent hackers — In a sign of the autonomous security of the future …
How Snapchat brings celebrities millions of views and offers advertisers a young audience
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Twitter Editorial Director Karen Wickre Is Leaving the Company
About four and half years ago … Queenie Wong / SiliconBeat : Twitter Editorial Director Karen Wickre leaving tech firm Tweets: Sree Sreenivasan / @sree : One of the smartest, kindest souls you'll meet...
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