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NSA spies on Germany as much as it does China and Saudi Arabia: Der Spiegel

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon Since details of the NSA’s massive phone and internet spying programs first came to light, America’s allies in the EU have been demanding for Washington to explain what it’s doing with Europeans’ data. Now, a new report from German news weekly Der Spiegel provides some more insight into the size of Washington’s telecommunications dragnet, claiming that US intelligence compiles metadata on half a billion German data connections (including phone calls, emails,…

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Fired Reuters Employee Previews No-Nonsense Premium Breaking News Site MatthewKeysLive

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Matthew Keys is getting back into the news game. He previewed the beta of his new, paid-subscription worldwide breaking beta news site Matthewkeyslive.com tonight, but has since taken it down. The site focuses on delivering facts fast, and features Keys pulling in news from Twitter, App.net, local news affiliates, and video feeds while adding his commentary. Keys famously was fired from his social media editor job at Reuters after allegedly assisting hackers to attack…

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What Went Wrong in the Deadly America’s Cup Crash

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM FISHER The Artemis Racing AC72 catamaran, an America’s Cup entry from Sweden, lies capsized after flipping over during training in San Francisco Bay. Artemis Racing said Andrew “Bart” Simpson, an Olympic gold medalist from Great Britain, died after the capsized boat’s platform trapped him underwater for about 10 minutes. Photo: Noah Berger/Associated Press   Another America’s Cup boat crashed today, this time with fatal results. The team is nominally Swedish,…

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Overheating HTC Evo Shift Burns Owner

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS A Columbus, Ohio woman found that her HTC Evo Shift had branded her after overheating while it was under her waistband. The woman, Jennifer Grago, reported that she was using the phone’s FM radio while she did yard work. “I didn’t have pockets so I just put the phone in the band of my sweats. Seemed like an alright option… I felt my phone getting warm so I moved…

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My lockdown: here’s what it was like living in Boston this week

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Two wanted men kept a major American city — and my family — on high alert I’ve lived in Boston (or one of its neighboring towns) for almost 14 years, and I can’t remember a time that the entire MBTA, our public transportation system, shut down. No trains, no buses, no commuter rail. Maybe on 9/11, and parts of the system have been out of service during particularly…

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Staying safe: how can we find and defend against explosives?

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen New technology ranges from handheld bomb detectors to impromptu blast walls It’s hard to protect large crowds, as Monday’s attacks made painfully clear, but it’s a problem that has inspired a host of technological solutions from a wide range of groups. The biggest difficulty, according to many, is the tension between protecting the public and respecting the event itself — but as security questions circulate with newfound urgency, it’s…

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Titan supercomputer to be loaded with ‘world’s fastest’ storage system

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos If you figured Titan’s title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer would give the folks at Oakridge National Laboratory reason to rest on their laurels, you’d be mistaken. The computer is set to have its fleet of 18,688 NVIDIA K20 GPUs and equal number of AMD Opteron processors paired with what’s said to be the planet’s speediest storage system, making its file setup six times faster and giving it three times more capacity. Dubbed Spider…

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Facebook Home And The Promise Of Android

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ If you’re an iPhone user, you might be feeling a little left behind, because Facebook launched an application called Facebook Home, touted by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the “next version of Facebook.” In fact, you might be feeling this way if you’re an Android user, too. For now, only a handful of select devices can even run Home (officially) — notably missing from the lineup is Google’s Nexus 4, the latest in the lineup of…

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Verizon intros new $35 prepaid plan for basic phones, for those not keen on the ‘smart’ era Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez For some time now, Verizon and other carriers have slowly but surely shifted focus from “dumb” handsets to ones that are much more intelligent, with data-drivenshared plans being one of the strategies that corroborate this move. Today, however, Big Red’s gone back to basics, announcing a novel prepaid plan for folks without a smartphone — which will go alongside the company’s existing $50, all-you-can-have offering. With the new Basic Plan, Verizon’s…

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One more time: can Daft Punk make albums matter again?

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As reported on The Verge. By Trent Wolbe Pop’s mystery men return for another futuristic gaze into the past If you are old enough think back to a time before Napster, before music taxonomy became a full-time job for hashtaggers and your record store had only four categories to guide your music discovery: rock / pop, hip hop / R&B, classical, and country. You were dialing into local BBS’s at 28.8k tops and WAVs and MODs…

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