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Top Stories of the Day // August 2, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 2, 2013

FBI Can Remotely Activate Android Smartphone And Laptop Mics, WSJ Reports

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI employs a number of high-tech hacker tactics in its efforts to round up information on suspects, including the... read more

Clue, Or, The Story Of How We Got Pregnant And Broke Up In The Same Day

It had been more than a year since John and Asia began trying to get pregnant. The failure of one, or both, of them to produce an heir to the Biggsian throne... read more

New Project Will Let You Scan 3D Objects Using Your Browser

As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require... read more

Facebook News Feed Event Aug 6 Will Give Much-Needed Rankings Explanation And Reveal What's Next

Facebook plans to clear up confusion about what appears in the news feed, announce a ranking algorithm change, and preview the future of the feed at a press... read more

NetBeez Is An Enterprise Network Monitoring Startup Using Raspberry Pis To Simulate Users

Raspberry Pi has unsurprisingly been a smash hit with the maker community. But here's an enterprise startup that is using the $35/$25 microcomputer -- or rather... read more

Social Media Aggregator RebelMouse Raises $10.25M

RebelMouse, the startup that allows users to combine updates from across social networks into what it calls a "social front page," is announcing that it has... read more

The New Motorola Is Focusing On "Very Few" Devices, And A Low-Cost Phone May Be Next

Motorola has never been the most prolific smartphone maker, but there's no question that they've churned out a lot of hardware over the years. Now that Motorola... read more

Codementor Is An Open Marketplace That Provides Developers With One-On-One Programming Help

It's a scenario all programmers are familiar with: you are coding alone, only to have something go awry and no one to ask for help. Codementor wants to prevent... read more

Andreessen-Backed Tutor Matching Service Is Working With Colleges To Upend The Tutoring Industry, Starting With Cost

Of the many ways that technology is disrupting education, one area that's changing a lot, is rife with potential, but doesn't get as much play as it should is... read more

Transactional Big Data Startup ERN Bolsters Its Analytics By Acquiring Elucidata, Inspired Analytics

ERN, the London-headquartered startup that's planning to use Big Data to enable banks and merchants to create loyalty-based offers for cardholders, has... read more

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