Myo Armband, The Future of Gesture Control (video)

Thalmic Labs' Myo armband turns electrical impulses in your muscles into commands for your electronics. Switch songs on Sonos or change slides in PowerPoint just by wiggling your fingers. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015 " series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/11)

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CNET
With its first Lumia, Microsoft aims low
CNET
That is, it's not exactly a flagship phone intended to go after the high-end likes of theApple iPhone, Google's Nexus 6 or Samsung's Galaxy line.

New York Times
Yahoo Buys Digital Ad Service BrightRoll for $640M
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer ... Meanwhile, ad revenue at Google andFacebook has been steadily rising by 20 percent or more in ...
Yahoo to Buy Ad Platform for $640 Million - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo bets big on video with $640 million BrightRoll acquisition - Fortune


Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China ... Chairman Jack Ma said at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD technology conference last ...
Jack Ma Will Take Alipay Public, Bullish On Apple Pay Partnership - Forbes


NPR (blog)
Facebook Friends Ebola Relief, Google Searches For Donations
NPR (blog)
If you're one of the billions of people who use Facebook and Google on a daily basis, you may have noticed some new messaging coming from the ...

BBC News
Facebook new Messenger service reaches 500 million users
BBC News
Social networking giant Facebook said its new messaging service now has more than 500 million users worldwide. ... In April, Facebook had told users that they would need to download a ... said Jack Kent, senior mobile analyst at the IHS Technology consultancy.... 

Reuters
Apple must face US lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
Reuters
"Apple takes customer satisfaction extremely seriously, but the law does not provide a remedy when, as here, technology simply does not function as ...

BBC News
Google to lease former Nasa airfield for space research
BBC News
Google latest "moonshot" is an apt one - it is investing in a Nasa-owned ... company has acquired firms working on satellite technology and robotics.

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Real Virtual Reality, Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck, No Oculus Rift Needed (video)

Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck: No Oculus Rift Needed: Video - Bloomberg:
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Remember the holodeck on "Star Trek: The Next Generation?" With no Oculus Rift or other headset required, Hyve 3D aims to bring virtual reality into rooms using projectors, motion sensors, and wraparound screens. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015" series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/10)

Obama Calls for Strict Net Neutrality Policy - NYTimes.com: "President Obama on Monday put the full weight of his administration behind an open and free Internet, calling for a strict policy of so-called net neutrality and formally opposing deals in which content providers like Netflix would pay huge sums to broadband companies for faster access to their customers."


CNN
Is it time for a new Google mission statement?
CNN
Back in 1999, Google came up with "ten things we know to be true" that ... Rather than a public service, Google is -- with Apple -- the most successful ...

San Jose Mercury News
Apple Security Bypass Can Turn Good Apps Into Data Thieves, Claims FireEye
Forbes
... iOS defences on non-jailbroken iPhones is the holy grail for anyone wanting to hack iDevices. Today, security ...
Apple iOS bug makes devices vulnerable to attack: experts - Reuters
Apple iOS Bug Makes Most Devices Vulnerable To Attack, Researchers Say - Huffington Post


TechCrunch (blog)
Here's What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Thinks Apple And Google Do Best
TechCrunch (blog)
When I think about what Apple does, what Google does and what Microsoft does, therein lies perhaps the simplest answer to why these three ...

The Atlantic
How Numbers on Facebook Change Behavior
The Atlantic
A "like" on Facebook is a treat. You get a little red pop-up on your notifications icon, you see the little box on the lower-left corner of your screen ...

TechCrunch (blog)
Microsoft Office Apps Skyrocket To The Top Of The App Store Following Pricing Changes
TechCrunch (blog)
The apps have shot up to the top of Apple's App Store after last week's ... That gave competitors like Apple and Google room to establish footholds of ...

New York Times
Apple releases new fix for lost iMessage texts
USA TODAY
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Apple has a released a new fix to its iMessage app that's supposed to solve a problem that has long irked cellphone users who ...
Apple finally delivers online iMessage tool for resolving SMS routing bugs - Pocketnow
How to deregister your phone number from iMessage and get your texts back - Gigaom


AppAdvice
iPad is Apple's unanswered revolution
The Verge
Google released the unsatisfying Nexus 9, which had posed the biggest threat of dethroning the iPad, and Microsoft made its Office suite of apps ...

New York Times
For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note
New York Times
As a mushroom cloud of discontent erupted, Bono engaged in what sounded like contrition in a video posted on the band's Facebook page as part of a ...

Facebook successfully makes over a half-billion people download Messenger app
Over 500 million people have now downloaded the standalone Facebook Messenger app ...

Amazon's Echo Video Gets Drowned Out by Parody
The video for Amazon's Echo speaker gets parodied on YouTube with a ... A slew of hilarious parodies have turned the Siri and Google Now-like ...

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Facebook Messenger, Payments Feature

TechCrunch (blog)
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger
TechCrunch (blog)
Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. AllFacebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots ...
Stanford student reveals Facebook Messenger payment feature - VentureBeat

Is Apple Nearing 20 Million iPhone 6 Sales Already? Signs Point To Yes
Forbes
The opening weekend for the iPhone 6 was Apple's best ever for a new smartphone, with 10 million sold in just three days. But with those initial totals ...


ZDNet
Feds only have themselves to blame for Apple and Google's smartphone encryption efforts
ZDNet
A "back door" for law enforcement — exactly the kind of back door that Apple, Google, and other Silicon Valley technology giants denied they installed ...

The existential mystery of the Apple Watch
Fortune
Nobody has worked harder — or more publicly — to figure out what the Apple Watch is for than Ben Thompson, an independent analyst who ...

How Facebook And Alibaba Are Turning The World's Poor Into Entrepreneurs
Forbes
After connecting more than a billion people, Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is teaming up with first Internet.org to help the world's ...


San Jose Mercury News
Quinn: Google turns security guards into Googlers and makes us think about accepting a two-tier ...
San Jose Mercury News
In a small move with potentially big implications, Google has quietly decided to hire its own ... Recently, groups staged protests at Apple stores.


The Guardian
How Apple's Cork HQ became the centre of a bitter global war over corporate tax avoidance
The Guardian
Apple, which employs more than 4,000 people in Cork, is under ... prestigious employers,technology giant Apple – not to mention the other IT .... A significant portion of Microsoft's intellectual property is located in exotic offshore locations. Google declares profits in Bermuda, where corporation tax is zero.

The psychological addiction behind Facebook's success
The truth is that Facebook allows us to connect not only with loved ones, but with our ... The psychological addiction behind Facebook's success ... site has even topped Google as the most visited site in the US suggests that Facebook has .... How you could track your sleep pattern with the Apple Watch.

Google Glass App Gives Conversations Real-Time Closed Captioning
Georgia Tech researchers have come up with an app that turns Google Glass into a ... Report: Apple's Showing Off Its New iPads on October 16th ...

Upgrade to LTE Will Let Phones Talk without Cell Towers, Allowing New Forms of Social Apps and Advertising | MIT Technology Review: "Qualcomm, Facebook, and other tech companies are experimenting with technology that lets smartphones use their LTE radio to connect directly to other devices up to 500 meters away."

Apple's Health App Is An Embarrassment - ReadWrite: "The challenge for Apple is that the Health app, by itself, doesn't do anything. It's dependent on other apps to feed it nutrition data, workout sessions, and vital signs via Apple's HealthKit software, which developers build into their offerings."

Allen Institute’s Christof Koch on Computer Consciousness | MIT Technology Review: "The world’s best-known consciousness researcher says machines could one day become self-aware."

Google's Schmidt: Tim Cook is wrong about us: ""Someone didn't brief him correctly on Google's policies," Schmidt said. "It's unfortunate for him." Google recently unveiled a system that allows Gmail users to fully encrypt their emails, and the company said Android phones -- like iPhones -- will be encrypted by default when the next version of the operating system comes out this fall. That makes it difficult -- though not impossible -- for governments and law enforcement to look at the content stored in your email and phones."

Facebook wins EU approval for $19 billion WhatsApp bid | Reuters: "Facebook (FB.O), the world's most popular social network, gained European Union clearance on Friday for its proposed $19 billion takeover of mobile messaging startup WhatsApp in a deal setting it against the telecoms industry. The landmark deal is the largest in Facebook's 10-year history and will give it a strong foothold in the fast-growing mobile messaging market."
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X-47B Drone and F-18 Fighter Jet Take First Flight Together (video)

X-47B Drone and F-18 Fighter Jet Take First Flight Together: Video - Bloomberg:
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) –- Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy conducted an historic first: operating manned and unmanned aircraft together from an aircraft carrier. The test was conducted on the USS Theodore Roosevelt and successfully saw an F/A-18 fighter jet and a a bat-winged X-47B drone take off and land in rapid succession. (Corrects cost.) (Source: Bloomberg)

iPhone 6: Doctors Raise Concerns Over Apple HealthKit
Forbes
The iPhone 6 launch is just weeks away, but there will be much more than just one or two new phones. Of greater importance to most iPhone and iPad ...


Wall Street Journal
Amazon.com Coming to Shanghai's Free-Trade Zone
Wall Street Journal
Amazon, operating in China for a decade and delivering to about 3,000 cities and counties, has been quietly building its presence in the region.


Economic Times
Facebook Messenger gives users more control of privacy options on iOS
TechRepublic
The Android and iOS versions of Facebook Messenger offer different ... Several years ago,Apple got into some hot water because of several apps that ...


TechCrunch
European Facebook Class Action Suit Attracts 60K Users As It Passes First Court Hurdle
TechCrunch
Some developments around the class action suit filed against Facebook in Europe earlier this month over alleged privacy violations: the Austria-based ...
Facebook forced to respond to privacy complaints of 25000 Europeans - ZDNet
Facebook ordered to respond to “class action” European privacy suit - Gigaom


USA TODAY
Report: Microsoft to reveal Windows 9 next month
USA TODAY
Might Microsoft be ready to reveal the latest version of its Windows operating system? The Verge reports Microsoft is planning an event Sept.


Re/code
A Video Startup Teaches Apple TV Some New Tricks
Re/code
AirPlay is Apple's system for beaming stuff from users' phones, tablets and laptops toApple TVs, and then onto actual TV sets. A couple of years ago, ...


The Guardian
Google lobbies to test self-driving cars in Matrix-style virtual world
The Guardian
Google has built a "Matrix-style" digital simulation of the entire Californian road system in which it is testing its self-driving cars – and is lobbying the ...


TechSpot
Google Chrome is now surfable in Cuba
CNET
Google Chrome is now downloadable in Cuba -- a country known for limited Internet access. The Web giant announced Wednesday that it made the ...

Twitter details its anti-spam system, BotMaker — Tech News and Analysis: "Twitter has developed a system called BotMaker to deal with its spam problem. Essentially, BotMaker scans messages before they’re posted, after they’re posted, and as part of bulk data analyses in order to determine what’s spam and then deal with them accordingly."

UPS: We’ve Been Hacked | TIME: "The United Parcel Service announced Wednesday that customers’ credit and debit card information at 51 franchises in 24 states may have been compromised. There are 4,470 franchised center locations throughout the U.S., according to UPS."

Can anyone stop Comcast? | The Verge: "..."other options are hardly worth the money," says Bonnie Smalley, who worked in customer service at Comcast and won an award for her work tweeting as @ComcastBonnie. She quit in 2011. "Right now, [Comcast] has little incentive to provide you with decent service. Who are you going to run to when you disconnect your service? Nobody, and they know it."..."

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Windows Phone Losing, Badly

Momentum is everything for smartphone platforms. Windows seems to be losing it: http://t.co/xSbebhOYdK via @tgryta
— Drew FitzGerald (@DrewFitzGerald) August 14, 2014

Windows Phone market share peaked a year ago, and has slipped back to 2.5%. pic.twitter.com/gOnamRC28k
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) August 14, 2014

If You Haven't Seen A Windows Phone Lately, It's Because They're Practically Disappearing: "Neither Microsoft nor Nokia can hide from the very, very ugly truth. Windows Phone is failing miserably to gain any important traction despite tremendous marketing support. It’s true that globally, Nokia’s Lumia line set a record with 7.4 million units sold in the quarter. But those numbers mask the grim reality. First, North American sales actually fell to just 500,000 units. Second, average selling prices actually fell almost 20% from the prior quarter. To boost sales, Nokia has become a low-end smartphone maker..."

Lenovo first quarter net profit climbs 23 percent as smartphone sales surge | Reuters: "Lenovo's core PC business, which still accounts for roughly 82 percent of sales, continued to tighten its grip on the market despite a prolonged decline in the broader industry. Lenovo's laptop sales rose 12 percent over the year while global laptop shipments fell 3.7 percent, the company said. The company this year struck agreements to acquire IBM's low-end server unit and Motorola's handset business from Google Inc. Both deals hinge on U.S. regulatory approval, which analysts say could come as early as the third quarter of 2014."

Do You Really Need Microsoft Office Anymore? - WSJ: "Word, Excel and PowerPoint Alternatives From Google and Apple Have Many of the Same Features...."


Wall Street Journal
Amazon Unveils Mobile-Payments Service for Local Shops
Wall Street Journal
Amazon unveiled Local Register, a new mobile-payment service that could threaten rivals like Square and PayPal. WSJ's Scott Thurm explains on ...


CNNMoney
Apple Bans Use of 2 Chemicals in iPhone Assembly
ABC News
Apple is banning the use of two potentially hazardous chemicals during the final assembly of iPhones and iPads as part of the company's latest ...
Apple Bans Two Nasty Chemicals From Being Used In iPhone - TechCrunch


ITProPortal
Google goes DARPA
Fortune
Google goes DARPA ... the Defense Department's prodigious technology research organization that gave .... user interface, only to see them commercialized by Apple and Microsoft.


Yahoo Travel
Stalk the Reefs With Google Maps for Under the Sea
Yahoo Travel
The basketball-shaped, triple-lens SVII cameras use the same technology ... Thetechnology also records GPS data and quickly stitches the images together into panoramic views or 360-degree views. ... Follow us on Facebook and Twitter so that we can inspire you every day. ... Yahoo Travel Editors ... https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/oceans
Google 'street view' goes undersea to map Florida Keys, reefs - Florida Today


Bloomberg
Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. (FB) will let advertisers know where a promotion was first viewed and when it led to a purchase by tracking users between their ...


Daily Mail
The Real Reason Facebook Is Forcing You To Download Messenger
Huffington Post
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken about his strategy to ... bought in the past,Facebook incorporated their technology into existing products ...

The Guardian
Orwell estate hits back at Amazon's corporate 'doublespeak'
The Guardian
George Orwell: 'If other publishers had any sense they would combine against [Penguin] and suppress them.' 

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Robot Tweeting Its Way Through Hurricane Iselle (video)

Check Out the Robot Tweeting Its Way Through Iselle: Video - Bloomberg:
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Liquid Robotics President and CEO Gary Gysin discusses how the company’s Wave Glider SV3 collects information for hurricane intensity forecasting. He speaks on "Bloomberg West.” (Aug. 8-Bloomberg)

The doctor will now see you -- on a smartphone - San Jose Mercury News: "The proliferation of doctor consultation apps, which allow patients to see a doctor through their desktop, smartphone or tablet camera for a flat fee of $40 to $50, has outpaced state regulators still grappling to figure out how to regulate telemedicine. The Federation of State Medical Boards recently offered a model policy for states -- aimed at supporting the growth of telemedicine -- but states still have varying and often difficult-to-interpret rules, creating a vague regulatory framework that some experts say these companies have exploited. Currently, 19 states, including California, have regulations that allow doctors to practice medicine over video in some form, yet most apps say they operate in more than 40."

John McAfee at Def Con: Don’t Use Smartphones - Digits - WSJ: "... On the subjects of privacy and security, McAfee said smartphones are spying on American consumers, who don’t bother to read user agreements. “The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones,” he said. “I’m dumping all my smart phones.”... One attendee asked if he could download Mr. McAfee’s app without downloading the Google Play Store, which the questioner said he doesn’t trust on his phone. McAfee was unsure of the answer. “I don’t know much about technology anymore,” he said."


New York Times
In a Fight With Authors, Amazon Cites Orwell, but Not Quite Correctly
New York Times
Amazon quoted a 1936 essay by George Orwell in a web posting and .... Glenn Fleishman, a technology journalist, addressed Amazon directly via ...
Dispute Erupts Between Amazon and Disney - Wall Street Journal
Amazon, Hachette E-Book Pricing Battle Continues - Wall Street Journal


NBCNews.com
Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
New York Times
In a class at the company's internal training program, the so-called Apple ... Steven P. Jobs established Apple University as a way to inculcate ... the iPod and its iTunes software compatible with Microsoft's Windows system. ... The Google TV remote serves as a counterexample; it had so many buttons, ...


Reuters
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites
New York Times
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites ... even Mr. Obama's government — with a leadership that embraced technology to win ... often have when they spend their mornings on Facebook, Amazon or Expedia. ... Mr. Dickerson, who was part of the team that helped keep Google's servers ...


CNNMoney
How to send Facebook messages without the Messenger app
CNET
Not happy that Facebook now forces you to use its Messenger app? ... It reminds me of when Apple ripped podcast management out of the Music app ...

Busted: 5 Myths About Facebook's Messenger App - ABC News
Don't Freak Out About the Facebook Messenger App - Mashable


KGUN 9
Apple factory in Mesa ramps up sapphire production
azcentral.com
GT Advanced Technologies is ramping up sapphire glass production for Apple at its factory in Mesa. Here are seven products that typically use the ...

Google is Backing a $300 Million High-Speed Internet Cable: "Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google, the $300 million project will be jointly managed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel, with NEC as the system supplier...."

If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're F**ked': Climatologist | Motherboard: ""We are 'sniffing' methane," Ulf Hedman, the science coordinator of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, wrote in a post highlighted by Climate Change SOS. "We see the bubbles on video from the camera mounted on the CTD or the Multicorer. All analysis tells the signs. We are in a Mega flare. We see it in the water column, we read it above the surface, and we follow it up high into the sky with radars and lasers. We see it mixed in the air and carried away with the winds. Methane in the air."  "Methane is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping infrared as part of the natural greenhouse effect," Box said. "Methane getting to the surface—that's potent stuff." "

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US Federal Judge Single-handedly Kills US Tech Global Market

"It's not like there was much left in the wake of the Edward Snowden disclosures, which threw nine Silicon Valley giants under the global surveillance bus more than a year ago... To the outside world, lack of trust [is] still a big issue. Particularly for Europe... But as relations were beginning to improve, the US judiciary decided that, for the purposes of its own law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the world was its oyster and data stored outside of its jurisdiction was fair game. US to Europe: We'll take what we want, when we want it... " (source infra)

The final nail in the coffin--there is now every incentive for the rest of the world to reject using US technology companies in almost every area--email and other communications, social media, search, cloud storage, etc. Which foreign tech companies will now capture the global market? Most likely Chinese and some European providers, and perhaps Indian, will take the world markets and leave the US in the dust of its "Patriot Act," institutional and governmental paranoia, and overreaching laws--

How one judge single-handedly killed trust in the US technology industry | ZDNet: "... that's certainly a phrase one US judge can nail on the casket of her career... Some people play video games. Some work tirelessly for 80 hours a week for the sake of their startup. Some destroy the global trust in the US technology industry... US District Judge Loretta Preska ruled on a case that has massive global implications for US technology giants.... " (read more at link above)


Reuters
Microsoft Privacy Case: What's At Stake?
InformationWeek
A ruling that Microsoft must turn over emails in a foreign data center could cost US businesses billions and make a mess of international law, experts say....

Microsoft sues Samsung for license violations, post-Nokia
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft sued Samsung Friday, saying Samsung violated the terms of a patent ...Microsoft has struck several licensing agreements with technology ...


Black Press USA
Amazon Fire: 5 Things Missing
InformationWeek
Amazon left out some important features in its splashy new Fire smartphone. ... Unfortunately, the high-end flagships of Samsung, LG, Apple, and HTC ... AT&T is most often willing to absorb such risks (remember the Facebook phone?) ... FireOS is an offshoot of Google's Android operating system.



Business Insider Australia
Google Said to Plan Separating Photo Service From Google+
Bloomberg
The world's largest search engine, grappling with competition from Facebook Inc. (FB), Twitter Inc. (TWTR) and Yahoo! Inc., is freeing up services from ...


E! Online
Facebook Messenger: 5 Things To Know
InformationWeek
Facebook will soon require users to download Messenger to chat with friends. Here's the lowdown on important privacy settings and features.


Chron.com
Yahoo's live concert streams could be cure for many ills
San Jose Mercury News
LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes the struggles of an industry can bring music to your ears. And your screens. Live Nation's partnership with Yahoo to ...


Reuters
Apple $450 million e-book settlement wins court approval
Reuters
Apple has been appealing Cote's July 2013 finding, in a case brought by ... to drive up e-book prices and impede rivals such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O). In June, Apple agreed to settle related class-action litigation brought on .... business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, ...


Tech2
Google, Apple & The Battle For Your Ears
InformationWeek

Android grabs record 85 percent smartphone share | PCWorld: "Google’s dominance of the smartphone market has reached new heights, with its Android operating system now accounting for a record 84.6 percent share of global smartphone shipments, according to research by Strategy Analytics..."

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Why More People Aren't Signing Up for Twitter? (video)

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Why Aren't More People Signing Up for Twitter?: Video - Bloomberg: "RBC Capital Markets' Mark Mahaney, Telsey Advisory Group's Thomas Forte and Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman discuss Twitter's stalling growth with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's 'Street Smart.'" (Source: Bloomberg June 12)

Will Facebook users just say no to targeted ads?
USA TODAY
Will users be open to sharing even more information with Facebook or will ... ​Facebookhas been able to target ads based on its users' interests for years. ... For Android users, go to Google Settings>Ads>Opt Out of Interest-Based ...

Google Glass moves into the hospital at Beth Israel
Boston Globe
Wearable computers may become routine in the future, but emergency department doctors already use Google Glass spectacles to gain fast, ...

Facebook Lifts Ban on Exposed Nipples in Breastfeeding Pictures
TIME
It does not apply to other images of female nipples. It appears Facebook has withdrawn its ban on female nipples in photos of breastfeeding mothers.

Facebook Fends off Patent Claims Over Van Der Meer Site
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. (FB), the world's biggest social network, won a trial in which it was accused of infringing patents for a “Web page diary” invented by a ...

Ex-Microsoft employee who leaked Windows secrets to be deported to Russia
Computerworld
Computerworld - A former Microsoft employee charged in March with leaking Windows updates and software that validates product key codes was ...

Amazon says the Mayday button on its Fire HDX is a hit
Computerworld
Computerworld - Amazon bragged Friday that its Mayday tech support button on the Fire HDX tablet has become the most popular way to get 24/7 ...

Facebook Messenger adds Big Likes and video messages
CNET
Log In to CNET; Sign In with Facebook Google Yahoo; Join CNET ... The latestFacebook Messenger update lets you "Like" things even more ... In its latest update,Facebook Messenger allows you to mark your enjoyment ... and apps built into phones such as Apple's iMessage and Samsung's ChatOn.

Apple recalls 'overheating' older European power adapter
CNET
An adapter sold with older models of the iPhone could overheat, says Apple, so you can swap it for a redesigned version. by Rich Trenholm.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon busy in Boston
Boston Globe
With Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Google's in nearby Mountain View, Apple's inland in Cupertino, and Twitter's up the coast in San ...

Amazon's New Music Streaming Service Not Exactly Ready For 'Prime' Time
Forbes
Spotify and Beats Music (now a part of the Apple family, as it was part of the over $3 billion deal that was just finally made public) both offer their users ...

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