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Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy — What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? — The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback. — Shares — In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod … | Matter: |
A 17-year-old tells her father what might get more girls like her into learning to program — A Teenager Gets Grilled By Her Dad About Why She's Not That Into Coding — Sylvie Rosen, 17, is a high school senior in New York. Her father, Jay Rosen, 58, is a journalism professor at New York University.
Tweets: @readmatter
| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Tinder is seeing users on average opening app 11x a day, quickly approaching 50M active users — Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth — As I sat in the lobby of a drab office building here, waiting to be led up to the penthouse loft of Tinder, the fast-growing dating app …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows 8 and 8.1 finally pass 15% market share, Windows XP drops below 20% mark — Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent … | Susan Crawford / Backchannel: |
Study: how ISPs squeeze Netflix traffic and create network jams that affect all their users — Jammed — The proof is in: Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals and catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire—legally.
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The Verge, Boing Boing, DSLreports, The Hill, Backchannel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumerist, HotHardware.com News, Re/code, Dan Rayburn and TechPresident
Tweets: @stevenlevy, @alexstamos and @dangillmor
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google's Copresence Looks Like A Contactless, Cross-Platform Version Of Android Beam — Several months ago, we discussed something called Nearby, a project that - at the time - seemed to be Google's effort to let “people, places, and things” know when a user is, well, nearby.| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Report: US lags on internet speed & affordability due to economic policy, lack of competition — Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability — America's slow and expensive Internet is more than just an annoyance for people trying to watch “Happy Gilmore” on Netflix.
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New America, CNNMoney.com, Consumerist, DSLreports, New York Times, Kotaku and The Hill. Tweets: @upshotnyt
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Evernote rolls out new “Work Chat” feature for discussing collaborative notes — Evernote Rolls Out Its New “Work Chat” Feature — Evernote has rolled out a new “Work Chat” feature to its web and mobile applications which allows users of its online note-taking and collaboration software … | The Intercept: |
Manuals from government spyware vendor Hacking Team show how to use its software to infect devices — Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide — When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officials complained …
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SC Magazine and Schneier on Security. Tweets: @kansasalps, @apblake, @astepanovich, @headhntr, @coracurrier, @csoghoian and @dangillmor
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Police in London trial software designed by Accenture to predict gang violence based on gathered intelligence and historical data — London police trial gang violence ‘predicting’ software — Accenture says the software identifies high risk groups rather than specific individuals
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GeekTime, Digital Trends, Design & Trend, CloudTech, ABC News, Engadget, SlashGear, ITProPortal and Gizmodo UK
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page — Even the search engine's original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind — Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?
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Business Insider, Beyond Search, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, AppleInsider, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jyarow and @nikolasburk
| Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom: |
Amazon's diversity report reveals 63% of employees and 75% of managers are men, but doesn't break out numbers for technical roles — Late to the party, Amazon finally publishes its diversity numbers — Amazon's employee demographics numbers are more diverse than most of their tech counterparts.Sponsor Posts
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