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Last week's IRS ruling means bitcoins are not fungible, therefore unworkable as a currency — Bitcoin Tax Ruling — The IRS has spoken: Bitcoins are property, not currency. This was hardly a surprise, but it has some important implication that tells us a lot about what it takes to make a currency work.
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| Marcella Bombardieri / The Boston Globe: |
Court documents reveal ambivalence in how MIT assisted Aaron Swartz's prosecution — The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz — More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT's handling of the hacking case persist
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Mashable. Tweets: @bostonglobe, @jesselynradack, @declanm, @mattblaze, @matthewkeyslive and @caleb_crain
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Longtime Windows and Office Executive Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft — Antoine Leblond, one of several Windows unit executives sidelined in a reorganization last year, is leaving Microsoft. — Leblond, who spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft, will leave the company after Monday — his 9,000th day at the company.| Laszlo Bock / Harvard Business Review: |
Google is two years into gDNA, a long-term study to understand employees' work-life balance — Google's Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance (and Much More) — More than 65 years ago in Massachusetts, doctors began a longitudinal study that would transform our understanding of heart disease.
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Business Insider, The Verge, BGR and GovExec.com
| Tim Harford / Financial Times: |
Big data's challenge: gain new insight without making the same old statistical mistakes — Big data: are we making a big mistake? — Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media
Tweets: @infoarbitrage, @dkthomp, @timharford and @dangillmor
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC wants to deliver great design regardless of price point, market the product not the brand — One more time: can HTC thrive in a Samsung world? — The new One is the best device HTC has ever made, but it doesn't erase the company's challenges — “If it wasn't for the One … | Eric Mack / CNET: |
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PC Magazine, I4U News, AmongTech, Engadget and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @geekyranjit. Thanks:@ericcmack
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Exclusive: Mt. Gox faced questions on handling client cash long before crisis — (Reuters) - Two years before Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy, a half dozen employees at the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange challenged CEO Mark Karpeles over whether client money was being used to cover costs … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
The Tech Bubble's Silver Lining: Cheap Services for Everyone — Box is losing money. A lot of money. In documents it filed for its initial public offering, the cloud-storage firm disclosed this week that it took in $124 million in 2013, but it spent $257 million.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox clarifies takedown policy, compares file hashes to identify infringing shared links — How Dropbox Knows When You're Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff) — Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file …
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ZDNet, Ars Technica, Electronista and Android Central
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Frustrated by popular fast following rip-offs like 2048, creators of Threes tout advantages of their 14-month development process — The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Game — It's been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny.| Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: |
In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents — If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it. But for decades, software has had the distinction of being eligible for both copyright and patent protection.
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New York Times, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @mattcutts, @seldo, @checker and @samaaron
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Review: Asus crafts a tiny $179 Chromebox out of cheap, low-power parts — The Asus Chromebox (bottom) is a mini desktop molded in the image of Intel's NUC. — Specs at a glance: Asus Chromebox CN60 OS — Chrome OS — CPU — 1.4GHz Celeron 2955U — RAM — 2GB 1600MHz DDR3 (should support upgrades up to 16GB)| Eat24: |
A marketer's amusing “Breakup Letter” to Facebook over News Feed algorithm changes — A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24 — Hey. It's Eat24. Look, we need to talk. This isn't easy to say since we've been together so long, but we need to break up.Sponsor Posts
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