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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes — The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past five days. Graph via Bitcoincharts.com. — It's Bitcoin-madness today. — On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency is skyrocketing.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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:
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / Gigaom: |
Special report: Apple's ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos — Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation — Dropbox has always had a flair for the dramatic. Its CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, for example, appeared on a YouTube clip in 2012, belting out “Rocket Man” with a pint in hand at a Swiss bar—just one of several bravura performances.| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 …
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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.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple wins another chance to ban Samsung phones for infringing its patents — In a ruling delivered today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has given Apple another chance at halting sales of Samsung smartphones that infringe on its patents.| Ryan Block / Engadget: |
Engadget is getting a whole lot bigger: profiles, forums, product database, and so much more! — A few days ago we launched the best designed version of Engadget ever, and today we're about to get bigger. A lot bigger. — Years in the making, today we're launching dozens of new features to Engadget … | 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 …
Tweets: @charlie_savage and @dangillmor
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Sling overhauls its TV-streaming app for iOS, adds Roku channel; Windows 8.1 app planned for December — Sling only refreshes its TV-streaming set-top boxes once every few years, and indeed, the current models only came out 13 months ago. So, it's a bit early for new hardware …
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| 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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| 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.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Second anti-patent-troll bill shows up as splits emerge on the first — Two weeks after an anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in the House, a different bill (PDF) on the same topic has been introduced in the Senate. — The new bill (overview, PDF) has one new thing that reformers wanted …
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