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Facebook plans to intrude into your smartphone’s photo collection

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Facebook already has enough trouble with its reputation for intrusion into people’s private lives, but it’s not letting up. BuzzFeed reports that a new feature will examine your photos without asking and encourage you to share them.

People take photos with their smartphone and upload them to Facebook all the time. Now the company isn’t waiting for users to get around to it. A feature called Photo Magic uses facial recognition technology to scan your smartphone’s camera roll and find pictures you haven’t uploaded yet. 

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Surveillance court extends NSA’s phone records collection

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A U.S. surveillance court has extended a controversial telephone records dragnet while the National Security Agency works to wind down the program on orders from Congress.

Congress voted in June to rein in the NSA’s mass collection of U.S. telephone records, but the USA Freedom Act allowed for a six-month transition away from the program. On Monday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved an FBI application to continue the records collection program until December.

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How to hack an Apple TV to play your entire home media collection without jailbreaking

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Some smart and enterprising hackers have created a way of getting Plex Media Server … this guide assumes that if you’re running Apple TV, you’re probably a mac user. If you’re a windows user most of this will work, but you may have to Google …
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iWork Automation Is a Massive Collection of iWork AppleScripts

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AppleScript is an easy way to automate just about anything on your Mac and that includes Apple’s own productivity suite, iWork. iWork Automation is a site that shows you how to make the most of that AppleScript support. iWork Automation details all the new …
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