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Nvidia to license graphics technology: CEO
Reuters
By Noel Randewich. SAN FRANCISCO | Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:54pm EDT. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said he will license graphics technology to other companies, a new model for the chipmaker that could lead to ...

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The Guardian
Google challenges Fisa court's gag orders on reporting user surveillance
The Guardian
Google has called on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to relax its gag order on tech companies targeted in US security investigations. The search giant stepped up its campaign for greater transparency from the US courts Tuesday in the ...
Google challenges US gag order, citing First AmendmentWashington Post
Google challenges DOJ's surveillance gag orderCNET
Google petitions Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court over data requestsZDNet
Los Angeles Times -Wall Street Journal -USA TODAY
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CBS News
Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire
Fox News
DETROIT – Chrysler avoided a showdown with government safety regulators Tuesday, agreeing to recall 2.7 million older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire. Earlier this month the company defiantly refused the ...
Chrysler caves, recalls 2.7 million JeepsUSA TODAY
Chrysler Will Recall JeepsWall Street Journal
Chrysler backs down, recalls 2.7 million Jeeps for fire riskLos Angeles Times
NBCNews.com (blog) -Forbes -BBC News
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New York Times
Prism: Yahoo reveals US data requests
BBC News
Yahoo is the latest company to reveal its dealings with the US authorities, following revelations about the Prism surveillance programme. It said it had received between 12,000 and 13,000 US government requests for user data in the past year and a half.
Yahoo, Apple Disclose Government Data RequestsSci-Tech Today
Yahoo joins other technology giants in revealing US surveillance requestsThe Guardian
Yahoo says it received up to 13000 user data requests from US government ...Minneapolis Star Tribune
Timesonline.com
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Auto World News
Tesla Plans Model S Battery Swap as Fast Refueling Option
Bloomberg
Tesla Motors Inc., already adding a network of fast-charging stations for its luxury electric cars, is readying a service to rapidly swap a car's battery with a charged pack for added convenience. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, announced last week ...
Elon Musk plans Tesla battery-swapping tech demo for June 20VentureBeat
Elon Musk: Tesla to demo battery swap technology on ThursdayGigaOM
Elon Musk to Demonstrate Battery Swap Technology for the Tesla Model S on ...Auto World News
SiliconBeat -Wall Street Journal- India
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CBS News
Mashable: Yahoo Received Over 12000 Requests for User Information from ...
Digital Media Wire
yahoo lunchbox button cc ft Mashable reports that Yahoo has released a statement, revealing the number of requests received for user information from government agencies in the last 6 months. According to Yahoo, law enforcement agencies made ...
Yahoo Joins Google In Fight Over FISA Data DetailsInvestor's Business Daily
Yahoo joins other technology giants in revealing US surveillance requestsThe Guardian
Yahoo discloses number of US govt data requestsThegardenisland.com
Christian Science Monitor
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Haaretz
Google's Billion Dollars For Waze Is Worth Every Penny (Take It From An LA ...
Forbes
Google Google recently paid more than a billion dollars to partner with Waze, a company unfamiliar to most people. My first reaction was, “Are you crazy, Google?” followed immediately by, “Why so little?” Living (and driving) in the land of freeways and Sig ...
Google's Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More ScrutinyNew York Times (blog)
Digital Traveler: A Waze beyond plain map appsUSA TODAY
Google (GOOG) Takes Waze Off the Table for $1.3 BillionInvestorGuide
TechNewsWorld -DirectionsMag.com -Haaretz
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The Full Signal
BlackBerry Release Date For BBM On Android And iPhone This Summer, Set To ...
International Business Times
BlackBerry is set to release a cross-platform version of its BBM messaging service sometime this summer for competing devices running iOS and Android. BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) is also going to be releasing at least two smartphones in addition to the ...
RBC raises BlackBerry 10 sales estimates, says 14 million phones to ship by the ...Financial Post
BlackBerry security advisory details critical bug on Z10 phonesArs Technica
BlackBerry (BBRY +4.3%) gets a lift from a positive note from RBC's Mark Sue ...Seeking Alpha
The Full Signal -The Utah People's Post -Barron's (blog)
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Christian Science Monitor
Oculus lands $14 million in VC cash for Rift virtual reality glasses
Christian Science Monitor
Last year, Oculus, the makers of the Oculus Rift VR headset, raised almost $2.5 million in a massively successful Kickstarter campaign. (The original fundraising goal was a relatively paltry $250K.) Today, the company announced that it had raked in an ...

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iTech Post
Oculus virtual reality headset secures $16 million in funding
iTech Post
Software designer Julian Kantor (L), who created "The Recital" takes a picture of Jonathan Feng (R) as he uses the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset to experience his program during E3 in Los Angeles, California June 12, 2013. Credit:Reuters.

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It's a limited offer that runs through the end of August
DailyTech
Windows RT-hasn't been the most popular Microsoft product, but the tech giant is looking to remedy this by slashing the price of its Surface RT tablet for schools and colleges. Microsoft will soon introduce the "Microsoft Surface for education limited time offer" ...

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Windows IT Pro
Microsoft Takes Surface RT to School
Windows IT Pro
Taking a page from the Apple playbook, Microsoft this week revealed special new educational pricing for its Surface with Windows RT tablet. But this isn't a tiny savings like you see at the Apple Store for Education: With Surface RT, at least, Microsoft is offering ...
Review - Microsoft Surface ProClickonline.com
Microsoft Surface Pro combines tablet, computerSan Diego Source (subscription)

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BBC News
Huawei says Ascend P6 is world's 'slimmest' smartphone
BBC News
The Android-based Ascend P6 is 6.18mm (0.24in) thick and is also unusual in that it has a 5 megapixel front camera for "high quality" self-portraits. The Chinese firm has said it expects the handset to do "miracles" for its brand. One analyst praised its design, ...
Huawei Smartphone Launch Reflects New ConfidenceWall Street Journal
Huawei Ascend P6: Meet Huawei's new, super-skinny smart phoneCNET
Huawei Ascend P6 introduced as world's slimmest phone with quad-core ...Mobile Burn
Inquirer -Telegraph.co.uk -Android Police
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The Guardian
Paper maker FiftyThree raises $15 million to build the Office suite of the future
The Verge
A couple years ago, Microsoft vet Georg Petschnigg set out to redefine the way we draw, paint, and sketch on iPad. He assembled FiftyThree — a team of individuals — some of whom were left over from Microsoft's scrapped Courier project, and began work ...
FiftyThree, Makers of Hit Sketching App 'Paper,' Score $15M in VC FundingWired
FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen ...TechCrunch
Paper iPad app gets $15M for more productivity software, services — and ...GigaOM
USA TODAY (blog) -The Guardian -Co.Design
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Economic Times
Battery charged: AT&T, Goal Zero, and a Brooklyn design firm bring solar ...
The Verge
When Hurricane Sandy tore through New York City last year, some of the most stirring photos — aside from those chronicling the storm's devastation — were of city residents helping one another keep their smartphones charged up and powered on.
Goal Zero And AT&T Install Solar Charging Stations In New YorkCult of Mac
AT&T solar-powered charging stations land in New YorkSlashGear
NYC To Install Free Cellphone-Charging StationsCo.Design
LAPTOP Magazine (blog) -The Full Signal -Bend Bulletin
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Co.Exist
Solar-Powered Public Charging Stations Will Keep New Yorker's Phones Running
Co.Exist
The ATT-powered devices will make their debut in the city's parks today, ensuring no calls or texts get missed. 0 Comments. 92. 67. A year ago, when we covered the design firm Pensa's pilot project to bring a solar-powered phone-charging station to a park in ...

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Microsoft hopes to win over students with cheap Surface RTs
InfoWorld (blog)
Microsoft has found a face-saving way to put a dent in its stacks of unshipped Surface RTs: The company has confirmed it will sell the ARM-based tablet to students at a steep discount starting later this month, according to Microsoft maven Mary Jo Foley.

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Wired
Nvidia CUDA 5.5 release candidate adds ARM support
Inquirer
CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has made its CUDA 5.5 release candidate supporting ARM based processors available for download. Nvidia has been aggressively pushing its CUDA programming language as a way for developers to exploit the floating point ...
Nvidia's graphics brawn powers supercomputing brainsCNET
Now You Can Build Google's $1M Artificial Brain on the CheapWired
Want cheap high-performance computing at scale like Google? Look to GPUsGigaOM
SlashGear -TechWeekEurope UK
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PetaPixel
Blackmagic Design Releases Support for Adobe Creative Cloud
TV Technology
Blackmagic Design today released Desktop Video 9.7.5 software update which adds full support for Adobe® Creative Cloud™ software across its desktop video products. The Desktop Video 9.7.5 software update allows users to take advantage of many new ...
Adobe's Subscription-Only CC Release Carries Obvious Upside But Big RiskForbes
Can Adobe Maintain Its Momentum?TheStreet.com
Ready or not, compulsory Creative Cloud comethCNET
Apple Insider -MarketWatch -PetaPixel
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Yahoo discloses user data requests from US law enforcement agencies
PCWorld
Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, ...
Yahoo Received Up to 13000 Data Requests From US AuthoritiesBloomberg
Yahoo Also Discloses US Government Data RequestsWall Street Journal
Yahoo reveals US government requests for user dataCNET
TechCrunch -Ubergizmo -New York Times (blog)
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