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Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Site, and Obama — WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.
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| Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog: |
Obama administration says HealthCare.gov uptime above 90% excluding scheduled maintenance, response time under 1 second — The White House says it met its Obamacare goal. There's still more work ahead. — Today is the day: Vast Majority Sunday! For weeks now, the Obama administration … | Bloomberg: |
Obamacare Website Getting Fixes as Repair Deadline Passes — President Barack Obama's administration was making more hardware and software fixes to the flawed federal health-insurance website as yesterday's deadline to repair it passed. — “The site is performing well today … | Sam Altman: |
Bitcoin will only succeed if legitimate transaction volume ramps up — Thoughts on Bitcoin — Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don't know how to weight the probabilities …
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Silk Road Competitor Shuts Down And Another Plans To Go Offline After Claimed $6 Million Theft — When a black market calls itself “Sheep,” it's no surprise when someone gets fleeced. But the effects of a purported theft of thousands of bitcoins from the drug-selling site Sheep Marketplace …
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Tech Giants Like Apple and Amazon Building Monuments to Digital Domination — Technology giants in the United States are building bombastic new headquarters to immortalize their grandiose ambitions, while inside they plan to turn traditional office culture on its head.| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA — Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better place to look … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent — For more than a decade the music industry has been struggling with online piracy. — To prevent music from spreading like wildfire all the major labels have experimented extensively by adding DRM to digital music files.| Jaclyn Trop / New York Times: |
Secret Weapon in Mall Battle: Parking Apps — Phoebe Scott of Orange County, Calif., has a new routine before heading to the mall. — She checks the parking lots on her ParkMe smartphone app “so that I can see what I'm up against, or if I need to change my plans.” If a lot is below 90 percent full, the trip is on.
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| Claire Gordon / Al Jazeera America: |
How Google is transforming disaster relief … Since Haiti, the Google Crisis Response team has responded to 25 more disasters. When Japan was ripped up in 2011 by the biggest earthquake in its history, Person Finder was live within 90 minutes. The tool compiled more than 600,000 names …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm — In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sony SmartWatch 2 review: attractive design let down by frustrating and clumsy software — Sony SmartWatch 2 review — Baby steps towards the watch of the future — Time and again we've heard the same story: wearables are the next big thing in personal technology.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Thanksgiving 2013 mobile shopping: PayPal sees 91% increase, eBay Enterprise sees orders rise 127% — PayPal and eBay Enterprise today revealed some statistics for yesterday's holiday craze. Between 2012 and 2013, both companies saw big jumps, although not as large as between 2011 and 2012.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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