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Google Urges Foreign Intelligence Court to Let It Release Data – Businessweek

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New York Times Google Urges Foreign Intelligence Court to Let It Release DataBusinessweekGoogle Inc. (GOOG) urged the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to publish the aggregate numbers and scope of national security requests it receives from the U.S. government. The filing with the secret court, which issues warrants for …Google challenges US gag order, citing First AmendmentWashington PostGoogle challenges Fisa… Read more →

Candy Crush Soon to Hit the Stock Market; Developer Hired Analysts to Pursue … – Headlines & Global News

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Headlines & Global News Candy Crush Soon to Hit the Stock Market; Developer Hired Analysts to Pursue …Headlines & Global NewsCandy Crush Saga, a puzzle game developed by King, made its way to Facebook back in 2012 and now has an average of 45.6 million active monthly users. Who would have thought that this game may soon have its own… Read more →

Huawei Won't Be a Big Player in the U.S. Mobile Market: 10 Reasons Why – eWeek

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eWeek Huawei Won’t Be a Big Player in the U.S. Mobile Market: 10 Reasons WhyeWeekNEWS ANALYSIS: Huawei might be the world’s second-largest networking gear maker, but it has run up against huge barriers to entry into the U.S. market. Huawei, the embattled China-based telecom equipment maker, is back in the news. But unlike the …Huawei Takes on Samsung, Apple With World’s… Read more →

PlayStation 4 games will continue to cost $59.99 – StickSkills

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E! Online PlayStation 4 games will continue to cost $59.99StickSkillsEarlier this week, Microsoft took some time to confirm that their first-party games would continue to be priced at the standard $59.99. With Sony having been tight lipped so far, Shacknews reached out to them for a comment, to which a representative said, “We …Buy, trade, borrow: How Sony is winning the… Read more →

Facebook server outage makes everyone freak out – Herald Sun

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WFAA Facebook server outage makes everyone freak outHerald SunSTAND down. Facebook appears to be back online after a few minutes of a server-wide outage. Everyone can stop losing their minds. Users logging on for a social network break a bit after 11am AEST freaked out when they faced an error message instead of …Facebook back online after global outageThe Australian Financial… Read more →

Vine Will Survive! – TechCrunch

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New York Daily News Vine Will Survive!TechCrunchInstagram is planning to launch video functionality in two days. But don’t go deleting Vine just yet. Before shoving Vine’s into the deadpool, let’s just calm it down a second. Vine has been declared by many as the “Instagram for Video.” Instagram’s own video …Rumor: Facebook to Announce Vine-like Feature for InstagramTom’s GuideFacebook may be… Read more →

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 benchmarked, sports extremely fast GPU – Ars Technica

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Ars Technica Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 benchmarked, sports extremely fast GPUArs TechnicaAt this point, almost every high-end Android phone we’ve seen this year has arrived sporting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 SoC, which combines four of the company’s Krait 300 CPU cores with the Adreno 320 GPU used in last year’s Snapdragon S4 Pro.Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 is a speed demon, but battery impact… Read more →

Oculus lands $14 million in VC cash for Rift virtual reality glasses – Christian Science Monitor

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Christian Science Monitor Oculus lands $14 million in VC cash for Rift virtual reality glassesChristian Science MonitorLast year, Oculus, the makers of the Oculus Rift VR headset, raised almost $2.5 million in a massively successful Kickstarter campaign. (The original fundraising goal was a relatively paltry $250K.) Today, the company announced that it had raked in an … and more »

Journalist Michael Hastings dead at 33

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Michael Hastings, the award-winning journalist whose explosive 2010 Rolling Stone profile of U.S. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (“The Runaway General”) led to McChrystal’s resignation, died Tuesday in an early morning car accident in Los Angeles, the magazine said. He was 33. “Hard-charging, unabashedly opinionated, Hastings was original and at times abrasive,” Rolling Stone, where he [...]