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Snowden’s Alleged Email Provider Shuts Down, Warns Against Trusting U.S. Companies

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN The alleged email provider of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has suddenly shut down, leaving just an ominous message in its absence. “I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision,” writes Lavabit owner Ladar Levison on the company’s front page. “I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.” The…

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ASUS pulls out of Windows RT due to financial losses and ‘industry sentiment’

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr This isn’t a huge shock, given that ASUS has already publicly expressed woes about poor sales of its Windows RT products, but CEO Jerry Shen‘s latest comments have a surprising edge of finality to them. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, he repeated that “Windows RT has not been very successful” and said that the company took a writedown on its stock of RT tablets, although he didn’t reveal the size of the…

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How Marvel Unified Its Movie Universe (And Why That Won’t Be Easy for DC)

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM ROGERS Kevin Feige. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED   In the midst of the massive geek Mecca that is San Diego Comic-Con, the big Marvel Studios movie panel had all the theater of a presidential campaign rally. Tom Hiddleston appeared in costume as Loki, the bad guy from Thor, and rallied the crowd in character. Then: so many movie stars, including the full casts of the upcoming Captain America sequel and Guardians of the Galaxy. And just…

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FlightCar Offers Users Up To $400 To Rent Their Cars Out For A Whole Month

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Got a car you don’t ever really drive? Wanna not pay for parking or worry about shuffling it around on the street every couple of days? Have an interest in actually making some money from that car that you’re not actually using while it’s sitting around on the street? Well, car rental startup FlightCar might be able to help you out with the launch of a new program in which it…

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As PC sales slump, Intel’s new CEO claims cheap, convertible tablets are the way forward

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister The PC industry is in its steepest, longest decline in history, but Intel’s new CEO Bryan Kraznich thinks there might be a way out. In his first quarterly earnings call — where the company reported flat revenue and declining profits — he just told investors that Intel is about to flood the tablet market with inexpensive devices, and that building “ultramobile” chips is now the company’s highest priority. “INTEL WAS SLOW TO RESPOND TO THE…

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Samsung announces 3,000MB/s enterprise SSD, shames competition

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala The ink has barely dried on Samsung’s last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn’t for us regular Joes, but if you thought the company’s EVO 840’s 540MB/s was zippy, hold on to your desk chair. The newly announced NVMe SSD XS1715 reads data at a mind-numbing 3,000MB/s. Hitting these absurd numbers isn’t without a caveat, though, as this SSD…

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Apple patent hints at possibility of Liquidmetal iPhone and iPad

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr For all its tough chemical properties and unusual capacity for intricate molding,Liquidmetal apparently still can’t be turned into anything much bigger than Apple’sSIM ejector tool or, perhaps, the chess pieces rendered above (for illustrative purposes only!). Attempts to use so-called “metallic glass” to manufacture larger objects, like the bodies of phones or tablets, have been hampered by difficulties in creating large sheets of controllable thickness, because stretching and other traditional techniques…

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Apple allegedly working with Samsung again on chips for 2015 devices

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As reported on Engadget. By Stefan Constantinescu Samsung has been exclusively making chips for Apple’s iOS devices since the first iPhone started shipping in 2007 — we don’t need to tell you that makes for an odd relationship. Several months ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple wouldswitch to TSMC for next year’s iOS portfolio, but now there’s some strange news coming out of Korea. According to a local publication, Apple’s 2015 iOS devices will use Samsung’s 14 nanometer FinFET technology,…

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The Plight Of The Intrapreneur, Or How To Be An Innovator From Within.

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON At Startup Festival in Montreal this week, one of the noteworthy pieces of data so far is how many non-startup folks are attending workshops ostensibly designed for startups. Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll went out of their way to direct part of their talk regarding their book Lean Analytics to attendees who might want to take steps to innovate, but are doing so within an established business as “intrapreneurs” instead of from the vantage…

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Gartner: IT Spend Will Hit $3.7 Trillion In 2013; PC Declines Drag On Growth

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN IT spend globally — from devices through to data center investments and the services that run on them — it set to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, but that represents shrinking growth of only 2% on 2012, as more expensive items like PCs and on-premise software continue to get pushed out by less expensive, newer things like lower-cost tablets and cloud services.Gartner, the analyst house publishing these numbers today, projects spend…

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