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"We thought about this decision long and hard, since we do value reader opinion," co-executive editor Kara Swisher wrote. "But we concluded that, as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and
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When you surf the web, you may have noticed that links (URLs) usually begin with HTTP or HTTPS. I won’t go into what HTTP actually is or how it works, but it’s enough to say that the extra “S” stands for “Secure.” Basically, when you use HTTP, everything that is sent or received by your browser is i
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Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world’s largest financial-services firms, still cries when he talks about it. Not long after the planes struck the twin towers, killing 658 of his co-workers and friends, including his brother, one of the first things on Lutnick’s
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A particularly nasty mobile malware campaign targeting Android users has hit between four million and 4.5 million Americans since January of 2013, according to an estimate by Lookout, a San Francisco mobile security company that has been tracking the malware for about two years. Lookout first encoun
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New episodes of “The Big Bang Theory,” which is now in its eighth season, appear on CBS, while reruns are shown on the cable channel TBS as well as broadcast stations in local markets around the country. For instance, a viewer in New York could have watched six episodes on Thursday night: a new one
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Earlier this week, Mozilla released Firefox Developer Edition — a web browser with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) built right in. If you’re in the web development business, this means that Firefox just became relevant again. So, what’s new in the Developer Edition? Undoubtedly, the firs
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Back in December 2013, Russia launched a trio of Rodnik military communications satellites, and a fourth unknown object, on board a Rokot/Briz-KM rocket. At the time, Russia didn’t acknowledge the presence of the fourth object — known only as Kosmos 2499 — but for obvious reasons launches are very c
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There’s no word on how this might affect Intel’s future PC and mobile products, but presumably this might be the end of either the Atom or Core line of chips — which, to be honest, is probably a sensible move given how the latest Atom and ultra-mobile Core chips are fairly close in terms of performa
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The company announced its plan to roll out its video-streaming platform in Australia and New Zealand in a carefully designed tweet posted Wednesday…. “Internet-connected users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch a curated selection of popular movies
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Dataspelsbranschen, or the Swedish Games Industry, has been awarded a $36,672 grant by Vinnova – an “innovation agency” funded by the Swedish government – to work directly with game developers to take a look at ways in which video games depict gender issues. Still in its conceptual phase, the projec
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Researchers at Google have created software that can use complete sentences to accurately describe scenes shown in photos—a significant advance in the field of computer vision. When shown a photo of a game of ultimate Frisbee, for example, the software responded with the description “A group of youn
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Buzzfeed reports that one of its journalists, Johana Bhuiyan, used Uber to travel to a meeting with Josh Mohrer last month. On arriving, he was waiting for her, then casually said "I was tracking you" as he pointed to his iPhone. Buzzfeed has since learned from two ex-Uber employees that a tool know
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