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Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon — Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages …
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| Charlie Rose / CBS News: |
Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future — Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller …
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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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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 …
Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @abrams and @hunterwalk
| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
A Fond Farewell to the Craziest, Longest, Most Eventful Console Generation Ever — He called it the “HD Era.” — On March 9, 2005, the gaming press crowded into a ballroom in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to witness the birth of a new era of game machines.
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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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| 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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| Martha Mendoza / Associated Press: |
Encryption products, now proliferating after NSA revelations, may leave users no more secure — Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — You are here — Home » Edward Snowden » Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) …
| Ted Greenwald / MIT Technology Review: |
Profile of Aaron Levie, Who Is Trying to Make the Startup Box Vital for Work — The CEO of Box is building an online file storage system designed to reshape industries. — Aaron Levie bounds onstage with the swagger of a standup comic. But he's not performing at the Comedy Store.| Thomas Schulz / Spiegel Online: |
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.| 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.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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