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How Amazon's Fire TV compares to Roku, Apple TV
The Post's Hayley Tsukayama tests out Amazon's new video streaming device to see how some of its main functions stack up against Roku and Apple TV. (The Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and Fire TV offers a PostTV app.)
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How Amazon's Fire TV compares to Roku, Apple TV
The Post's Hayley Tsukayama tests out Amazon's new video streaming device to see how some of its main functions stack up against Roku and Apple TV. (The Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and Fire TV offers a PostTV app.)
MAP: Undersea Internet cables mapped like London Underground
A different way to look at global Internet infrastructure
Google: The word ‘glass’ belongs to us. Just Google it.
The company sent a 1,928-page letter to the trademark office. 1,900 pages were news clippings about Google Glass.
Simple and fun, this game puts players in control
QAR 2 is mesmerizing and easy to pick up.
Nest disabling feature on Nest Protect alarms
The high-tech home monitoring device company Nest Labs is disabling a feature on its smoke alarms due to the risk that owners could unintentionally deactivate it with the wave of a hand.
When robots play soccer
A tournament in Germany demonstrates that machines still have a lot to learn.
The biggest issue in government
A pay scale that doesn’t reward star employees makes hiring the best tech talent impossible.
Switchboard: Could Google soon offer cell phone service?
Plus, Mozilla’s CEO steps down, and Microsoft open-sources .NET.
Yahoo’s uphill battle to secure its users’ privacy
Yahoo is playing catch up after years of being criticized for lagging behind the competition on privacy and security.
Suddenly, Microsoft is interesting again.
CEO Satya Nadella is revealing more and more of what his Microsoft will look like.
Mozilla’s CEO steps down amid gay marriage furor
Brendan Eich initially refused to quit over his support for Prop 8. Now he’s apparently reconsidered.
The U.S. thinks it can invent a Cuban Spring? Puh-leez, say Internet freedom scholars.
Technology can facilitate organizing. But it can’t overthrow governments, much less on a timetable of your choosing.
Twitter still blocked despite Turkish court ruling
The fact that Twitter remains blocked raises questions about whether the government will flout the ruling.
TV’s future: E-commerce in your living room
Amazon’s new Fire TV is about more than just watching your favorite shows.
Robots go to work on solar energy
At a solar field in Israel, robots automatically awaken at night and clean the panels.
Switchboard: USAID created a subversive ‘Cuban Twitter’
Plus, Yahoo adopts end-to-end encryption and computer companies line up behind Aereo.
U.S. secretly funded ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest on communist island
The program evaded restrictions by creating a texting service that can be used to organize political protests.
Amazon fires up battle for TV viewers
Tech giant’s set-top device features WiFi antennas, other smartphone-type components.
NASA suspends cooperation with Russia over Crimea conflict
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