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Uber, facing public backlash, will rethink privacy

As Moore’s Law approaches 50, Intel battling to keep up

With sale to Africell, Orange starts to pull back from East Africa

AT&T to pay $23.8 million to settle California dumping complaint

Comcast app lets customers track service techs in real time

The app, being tested in Boston, is expected to roll out next year

SAP talks up Hana but small companies slow to sign on

Mozilla tells Google, it’s not you (anymore), it’s Yahoo

Analysts counter Mozilla's ideological explanation, see money behind Firefox's default to Yahoo

SDN groups respond to Cisco’s “game over”

ONF, ONUG take exception to Chambers' victory claims

Data exchange talks lag, jeopardizing US firms’ ability to operate in Europe

NSA director: No changes in telephone record collection coming

Citadel malware now targets password management applications

Black Friday: Microsoft slashing Surface, laptop, Xbox prices

Surface Pro 3, Dell and Acer laptops, Xbox bundles all marked down by Microsoft

Does being first in supercomputing still matter?

The goal of building an exascale system is compared to the U.S. effort to go to the moon

Why I am not deleting my Uber app

I no longer use Uber, but I would never delete the app.

Google Internet balloon drops in on farmer

Activists release Detekt tool that finds surveillance malware

Gartner’s cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure

AWS is the market-leader in the public cloud, but Azure is giving it a run for its money

Facebook bus drivers unionize amid concern about work conditions

Microsoft Azure thrown out of gear during a performance update

USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices

Yahoo dethrones Google as default Firefox search tool

Wozniak still aims to simplify: Now, all of enterprise storage

US intelligence unit launches $50k speech recognition competition

Director of National Intelligence researchers at IARPA want speech recognition technology that can handle a variety of acoustic situations

Uber’s rider-controlled Spotify jams could cost drivers

Walmart brings Black Friday early to iPhone, iPad fans

Apple preps its website before Black Friday for iPhone, iPad and Mac shoppers, too

This is how Google is dealing with ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

Apple iOS App Store swaps out FREE for GET

Move seen as likely effort by Apple to make clear which iPhone and iPad iOS apps are really free, which include in-app purchases

Attackers trading malware for privilege

Access is everything to most criminals

Court shuts down tech support ‘scams’ targeted by FTC

New cruise ship a floating heaven for tech geeks

Why the Moto 360 is winning the smartwatch race

Market researcher Canalys reports another spike in wearables, Gartner predicts health and fitness wearables will disappoint in 2015.

Long-running Android botnet evolves, could pose threat to corporate networks

Open-source devs vote down anti-systemd measure, sponsor steps down

Ian Jackson resigns from technical committee after measure to slow systemd adoption fails.

FTC gets federal court to shut down $120M tech support scam

Priori digs deep to find the truth about mobile app stores

What it’s like living on a Chromebook, Part 2

Trying to tackle media editing on a Chromebook.

BitTorrent dismisses security concerns raised about its Sync app

Tesla Model X will feature dual-motor system and ability to tow

Uber and Google are abusing user data for fun

Recent revelations about Uber and Google suggest that web companies may have their own purposes for your data.

China’s Xiaomi makes $300 million investment in Baidu’s online video site

Next year’s DDoS attacks to come from Vietnam, India and Indonesia

Growth in Internet infrastructure, and susceptible users are a problem

The next great leap in supercomputing coming by 2023

That's assuming Congress allocates the money for it

Fidelity peers into the future of investing by building customers virtual cities

To ‘read’ this fashion magazine, fire up your image-recognition app

Jolla pitches Sailfish tablet against fleet of Android products

Blocked messaging app Line looks for comeback in China

US Senate fails to move forward on NSA reform bill

Now you can search every tweet that was ever sent

Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears

Clashes over systemd continue, with final voting deadline in hours

How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years?

The disclosure of a two-decade-old bug in Windows exposes the realities about software development.