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Facebook study disputes the ‘echo chamber’ effect

Fitbit’s IPO filing shows a strong pulse

AMD puts faith back in x86, downgrading its ARM effort

Facebook’s software smarts put cold storage on a power diet

FAA: Big tech challenges for massive Washington, DC warbirds flyover

Celebrating 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with 56 WWII aircraft buzzing the city

Money aside, who’s the best fit to buy Salesforce?

Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP?

Mark your calendar: Java 9 finally has a release date

The long project to rewrite and modularize Java finally has an end date.

Cloud companies argue their case at Demo Traction

The recent event gave up-and-coming companies four minutes to explain why they matter, followed by Q&A with judges.

Cheating by colleagues deflates morale of failed Cisco cert candidate

AMD developing mega-chip that combines CPUs and GPUs

Appeals court judge shoots down DOJ’s defense of NSA phone program

This $9 computer might be more useful than Raspberry Pi

A Kickstarter campaign promises a $9 computer with a larger processor than Raspberry Pi and the ability for cheap and easy mobile computing.

Google killing PageSpeed website service

Google sets Aug. 3 as deadline for PageSpeed users to change their DNS or else lose site access

LightCyber upgrades to speed the shutdown of malicious activity

Software links malicious activity to specific processes and renders them harmless

What’s really behind Salesforce acquisition rumors

Some analysts belief Salesforce would be better off part of a larger company

Cisco ACI users up, TCO down

SDN customers double but cost benefits appear to plummet

Appeals court rules against NSA phone records collection

Cisco: Deal for Tropo will ease integration of communication into cloud apps

Cisco announced plans to acquire Tropo, a developer of software designed to embed real-time communications within cloud applications.

Alibaba names new CEO as revenue jumps

UK gang arrested for exporting $10 million of fake Cisco gear to US

Superfish injects ads in one in 25 Google page views

SAFETY Act liability shield starts showing cracks

Full protection for FireEye customers requires a set it and forget it approach to security, make too many changes and the liability shield is gone

Pssst! Office 365 customers pay Microsoft up to 80% more over long haul

Tells Wall Street that when it turns a customer into a subscriber, it gets 1.2 to 1.8 times the revenue compared to old-school licensing

Battle over app analytics accelerates with Apple’s entry

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, May 7

Uber’s Indian rival Ola being probed for ‘predatory pricing’

Companies are falling behind on securing their SAP environments

Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness

Intel increases its hiring among women, minorities

AMD’s Zen chips to square off against Intel’s Skylake next year

With IoT projects come financial benefits, but also security risks

Google says mobile now dominates search

Where will Microsoft find 1 billion devices for Windows 10?

Even if it got the new OS on every Windows 7 PC, Microsoft would still come up short

AMD slims PC chip lineup, hopes to return to profitability by year end

Here’s the full NFL Deflategate Report, incriminating texts and all

Wells report tosses around lots of probables in direction of locker room attendant, equipment assistant and New England Patriots QB Tom Brady himself

Apple, IBM partner to help Japan’s elderly survive on their own

iPad apps developed for medical use are being repurposed to provide support for the nation's elderly population.

Civil liberties groups oppose bill ending NSA’s bulk phone records program

ZTE’s bezel-less phone tosses away black border for more touchscreen function

SAP sets its sights on the IoT with new cloud services

Cisco’s Chambers: A retrospective

Cisco CEO John Chamber’s 20 year tenure marked by success and global influence

NASA will award you $5,000 for your finest Mars city idea

NASA Journey to Mars Challenge crowdsources human Mars mission survival

Lawmakers move to end warrantless surveillance of US residents

Snake, the original mobile game, is coming to Android and iOS

The game's original creator is launching an updated version, called Snake Rewind, for iOS and Android on May 14.

The UK is ‘running out of internet,’ pundit says

Britain, the world's No. 6 nation in Gross Domestic Product, is about to run out of internet capacity, according to pundits. Lack of fiber capacity and power generation to blame.

Google launches a service for storing big data

Economist: The Internet of Things will deliver surge of productivity

Google senior VP talks about when the company nearly failed

Urs Holzle talks at Collision conference about near failure, the cloud, startups and laziness.

Hospital group criticized for emailing health information

Partners should have known better than to allow employees to send sensitive patient data via email

Microsoft aims to increase confidence in cloud services with better networking

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, May 6