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Kim Dotcom tweets outrage after LeaseWeb deletes all Megaupload data

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Kim Dotcom's Megaupload file-sharing service has been essentially erased from the web. After being taken offline by the Department of Justice last year, data uploaded to Megaupload has now been deleted from the servers it was stored on by Dotcom's former hosting service, LeaseWeb. Dotcom, who has since launched another storage service called Mega, took to Twitter on Wednesday to express his...

Facebook adding ability to post images in comments

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Facebook comment threads are about to get quite a bit more crazy. A new camera button is rolling out that allows users to reply to posts with a picture. It's a simple feature, but it's one that hasn't been available on the social network to date. Facebook hasn't yet officially announced the new functionality, but the company has informed The Verge that the new commenting feature will be rolling out globally today to both the desktop and mobile websites. Users on Facebook's apps will be able to view photo comments, but they will not be able to upload such comments until a later date. In the past, Facebook has included automatically-generated image previews when users post a URL in a comment, but with today's addition the picture is uploaded from your computer to Facebook's servers. The new photo comments add on to recent improvements to...

Leave your animated GIFs at the door

Microsoft's social network updated with animated GIF feature and other creation tools

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Microsoft opened the doors to its Socl social network back in December, but the company has kept fairly quiet about its plans for the site ever since. After launching as a limited beta, Socl's mix of Facebook and Pinterest-like features has left Microsoft's social experiment in a research state with little focus on promoting its existence. Microsoft is aiming to keep Socl somewhat relevant with the addition of some new creation tools to help users share video and image content on the service.

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Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything'

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The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View for the most important meeting of his life. Weiner — he pronounces it "WINE-er," and yes, junior high was a rough time for him — made a mixtape for the occasion, something to boost his confidence before he sat down at his first negotiating table. As Sam Sparro's "Black and Gold" played over the car speakers, he went through the slide deck in his head once...

Microsoft's iAd-like Windows 8 ads could entice clicks within apps

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Microsoft has been experimenting with various new ways to create ad platforms on Windows 8 and Xbox, but this week the company is launching a new format designed to create interactive and panoramic adverts within applications. The software giant has teamed up with a number of agencies to create concepts that show off the potential for the new "Ad Pano" ad format.

The new ads are a big change from the traditional pop up and banner ads found on...

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