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November 18, 2013, 9:20 PM

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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Ben Bernanke's letter to Congress: Bitcoin and other virtual currencies “may hold long-term promise”  —  America's top central banker has given his cautious blessing to bitcoin, the virtual currency that famously requires no central bank.  —  In a letter ahead of today's congressional hearings …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Marissa Mayer / Yahoo:
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014  —  Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information  —  We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it.  —  As you know, there have been a number of reports …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW  —  Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot?  —  The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …
Barb Darrow / Gigaom:
Salesforce.com buys cloudconnect just in time for Dreamforce  —  Salesforce.com has purchased cloudconnect, a startup founded by Heroku and Salesforce.com alum Adam Gross who is now, I guess, back in the fold.  —  The news was posted — with scant details — on cloudconnect's web page which read:
Ted Johnson / Variety:
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts  —  The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Microsoft's Office Remote lets you control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a Windows Phone  —  Microsoft has just unveiled Office Remote, a new app that lets users control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with any Windows Phone 8 device.  It's basically SmartGlass …
Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker:
Inside Google's Driverless Car  —  Has the self-driving car at last arrived?  Human beings make terrible drivers.  They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right.  They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case  —  State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser  —  Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over its unauthorized placement …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube  —  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company's search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify children being abused in YouTube videos.
AppleInsider:
Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch flops with just 50,000 units sold - report  —  Since its debut in late September, Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch has mustered sales of just 50,000 units, suggesting the device has not managed to gain sizable interest from the mass market.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
DNI Clapper Declassifies Additional Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection Under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act  —  In June of this year, President Obama directed me to declassify and make public as much information as possible about certain sensitive programs …
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
SurveyMonkey Releases Business Version of Popular Questionnaire Software  —  Corporations have a few questions for you.  And then a few more.  That trend is likely to increase, thanks to the way they are trying to make sense of your every move.  —  SurveyMonkey, which makes the online technology …

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