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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Says Tech PRISM Denials Were “Misleading”

In a live online Q&A at the Guardian today, Edward Snowden, the man who revealed the PRISM documents and much more, said the leaks were having his desired effect.

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Until the Self-Driving Car for All, What Is Tech Doing Now to Drive Us to Non-Distraction?

Before we get autonomous cars, apps like voice news readers and context-dependent personal assistants might help drivers be a little more safe.
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San Francisco and New York City Mayors Team on Tech

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will on Friday announce a technology partnership between their cities. A press conference is scheduled at the offices of Square at 1:30 pm PT, with a livestream here.

Sequoia Leads $12.5M Funding Round for Thumbtack Local Services Marketplace

Founded in 2009, Thumbtack has been working at the local marketplace problem for a while.
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Udacity Hires Former Zynga COO Vish Makhijani to Lead Operations

“This company is more missionary than mercenary,” Makhijani said.
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The Pinterest API Is Coming; Head of Marketing Developer Partnerships Joins Up

The broader social media industry eagerly awaits the Pinterest API. The popular social collection service recently launched various retailer tools, and it has said for a while (years now) that a fuller API will be available to outside developers. But now it has hired John Yi to lead marketing developer partnerships, per his LinkedIn profile (and confirmed by a Pinterest spokesman). Yi previously headed similar efforts at Facebook, where he worked for the past four years.

What Did You Expect the Austrian Founder of a Fitness App Startup to Be Like?

Runtastic CEO Florian Gschwandtner would be happy to demo his apps for you.
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Now You Can Play Old-School Pong Via Newfangled Web Video Tech

Google has made another one of its nifty “Chrome Experiment” demos to show off new Web technology. It’s called Cube Slam and, using WebRTC, you can play the arcade game Pong face to face with a friend without installing any plugins (on desktop Chrome or Chrome OS, not mobile yet). Since you control the Pong paddle via off-camera arrow buttons, the live video part is kind of odd — so make sure to psych yourself up to trash-talk and be extremely visually expressive before you send your friend an invite link.

Google Officially Buys Waze in a $1 Billion-Plus Deal, Will Keep It Independent

Google now owns map startup Waze.
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CustomMade Raises $18M for Commissioned Crafts Market

This is not like many other e-commerce sites; the average CustomMade transaction is $1,000.
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What Does a Bing-Powered Siri Mean for Google?

If voice is the future of search, and Bing becomes Siri’s go-to search engine come fall, what does that mean for Google and its place in iOS?
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Google Glass in Everyday Life: Now That’s a Little More Like It

Can Google Reroute Around Regulatory Concerns About Waze Buy?

Anki Launches Real-World Videogames With $50M in Funding and a Primo Slot at WWDC

This Time It’s Real: Google to Buy Waze And Keep It Independent

FlightCar Is the Latest Sharing Economy Startup to Face Legal Trouble

Google, Apple and Facebook Outright Deny They’re Helping the NSA Mine Data

New York’s Taxi E-Hail Finally Gets the Green Light

Yahoo Mulling Buy of Address Book App Maker Xobni

NationBuilder Community Organizing Platform Raises Another $8M

Strava Sport Tracking App Cleared in Cyclist’s Death

Airbnb Will Fight in New York City

Boxer App Has Some More Ideas About Fixing Mobile Email

A Fitbit for Fido: Whistle Will Help Track Your Dog’s Activity

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The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.

— Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”