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Silicon Alley Insider  3 hours ago:

These 12 Startups Prove Angry Birds Isn't The Only Hot Tech Product To Come Out Of Finland -

When you think of Finnish startups, Rovio likely comes to mind. 

The Angry Birds game maker is insanely successful and has been the subject of IPO rumors since early 2011.

Silicon Alley Insider  4 hours ago:

Report: China Now Has The World's Fastest Supercomputer -

A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second.

Silicon Alley Insider  4 hours ago:

Microsoft Is Making Its Version Of Siri A Faster, Better Listener (MSFT) -

In the quest to make speech recognition tech faster and more accurate, Microsoft researchers traveled inside the human brain, so to speak.

Silicon Alley Insider  5 hours ago:

This Kleiner Perkins VC Says Google Glass Turned Her Into A Super Mom -

Trae Vassallo wants to "dispel the myths" about Google Glass.

Vassallo is a Glass owner and a general partner at venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Silicon Alley Insider  5 hours ago:

Corning Is Working On A Bendable Version Of Its Gorilla Glass (GLW) -

One of the cool new technologies coming soon from the labs at Corning is a type of glass that's so bendable, you'd swear it was plastic.

Silicon Alley Insider  6 hours ago:

EX-NSA DEVELOPER: Hackers Can Take Over Security Cameras To Spy On You -

BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. security expert says he has identified ways to remotely attack high-end surveillance cameras used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military, something that potentially would allow hackers to spy on facilities or gain access to sensitive computer networks.

Silicon Alley Insider  7 hours ago:

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Is Really Freaked Out By The NSA Spying Scandal (AAPL) -

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is really, really concerned about about the NSA spying scandal.

Silicon Alley Insider  7 hours ago:

The New Rules For Thinking In A Digital World -

Is technology making us stupid — or smarter than we’ve ever been? Author Nicholas Carr memorably made the case for the former in his 2010 book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains.

Silicon Alley Insider  8 hours ago:

A Fake Beef Jerky Kickstarter Campaign Almost Got Away With Taking $120,000 -

Popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter just shut down a fake campaign for beefy jerky.

Over $120,000 was raised before Kickstarter froze the funds.

Silicon Alley Insider  8 hours ago:

You Can Take Stanford's Course On Startup Engineering Online -

Interested in joining or founding a startup but have no idea where to begin? Or perhaps you're interested in walking a mile in the shoes of a developer at a startup to see what it's like?

There's a (free) class for that, and it's taught by two of the best computer science professors in the Silicon Valley.