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Saturday, 5 October 2013

7 Stories to read this weekend

by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 5 2013, 6:11am PDT
The Galaxy Note 3 is a superb device for digital inkers, not to mention a great all-around phone. My Moto X camera got a software update; take a look at sample photos to see the differences: Better but still room for improvement.
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by Om Malik
Oct 5 2013, 12:00am PDT
On the menu this week: A profile of The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Lewis Lapham on selling death, where is Hemingway and the Return of warlords. Plus some fun lessons about reputation, saying NO and why making money is easy for bankers.
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by Janko Roettgers
Oct 4 2013, 4:01pm PDT
Activist investor Barry Rosenstein has bought a 14.5 percent share in Outerwall, the parent company of Redbox, for around $204 million, reports Forbes. Rosenstein, who made the investment through his Jana Partners outlet, believes Outerwall to be undervalued, declaring in an SEC statement that options include […]
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 4 2013, 3:33pm PDT
The United States paid to build the Tor network, which provides a secure way to communicate for everyone, including the military and dissidents. Why, then, is it also trying to compromise it?
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by Katie Fehrenbacher
Oct 4 2013, 1:36pm PDT
Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially responds to the Model S fire this week.
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Oct 4 2013, 12:48pm PDT
The smart home is getting smarter every day, but what it really needs help with is fine-grained presence detection to deliver more context. Thankfully, we're getting closer.
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by Barb Darrow
Oct 4 2013, 10:00am PDT
If the perpetrators are truly evil-doers, their theft of Adobe source code could mean bad things for the company and its customers, security experts said.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 4 2013, 8:37am PDT
A dash of color doesn't seem to be moving Apple's new iPhone 5c: Retailers are already discounting the device with Best Buy the latest to offer a $50 price promotion.
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by Barb Darrow
Oct 4 2013, 7:49am PDT
Here's a robot that will be able to run you (or anybody) down, fresh out of Boston Dynamics (and DARPA.)
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by Alex Colon
Oct 4 2013, 7:17am PDT
A new rumor suggests that Google might be planning to introduce a smartwatch later this month alongside Android 4.4 KitKat.
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by Miranda Hill, Wells Fargo
Oct 4 2013, 6:00am PDT
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industry. In this essay Wells Fargo's Miranda Hill tackles the topic of retail banking.
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by Alex Colon
Oct 4 2013, 5:26am PDT
Apple’s Siri voice assistant is now two years old. Susan Bennett claims she recorded the now-iconic vocals back in 2005.
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by Derrick Harris
Oct 3 2013, 3:00pm PDT
A group of researchers from Stanford has been working on deep learning models that can make sense of whole sentences at a time, and has recently trained its models on a large collection of online movie reviews.
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by Katie Fehrenbacher
Oct 3 2013, 2:54pm PDT
The viral video showing one of Tesla's cars on fire, might not be a major safety problem for the car maker. But it could be a significant issue for the company's brand.
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by Janko Roettgers
Oct 3 2013, 11:59am PDT
TiVo recently launched three new devices that promise closer integration of streaming services and personal recordings. Check out our video review of the TiVo Roamio.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 3 2013, 11:39am PDT
It's hard to find consumers that have embraced Chromebooks. The education market is a different story as 5,000 U.S. school districts now use Chromebooks according to Google. Is Microsoft on the way out of the classroom?
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 3 2013, 11:32am PDT
A court ruling last week may have opened the door for non Gmail users to sue Google over email scanning. Now, a similar lawsuit has hit Yahoo.
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by Alex Colon
Oct 3 2013, 10:48am PDT
After widespread complaints about inaccurate motion sensors on the iPhone 5s, Gizmodo ran a number of simple tests to investigate. The results are pretty dramatic.
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by Barb Darrow
Oct 3 2013, 10:06am PDT
In the aftermath of PRISM-gate, and outages at Google, AWS, Microsoft, vendors should just shut up about cloud already. At least if they want to sell stuff.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Oct 3 2013, 7:46am PDT
If you're not going to buy a Samsung TV, the company wants to at least sell you a Samsung media server. That's what the new $299 HomeSync is and like other recent Samsung products, works best with Galaxy smartphones and tablets.
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