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November 2, 2014, 12:05 PM

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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
How the NFL uses Zebra Technologies' RFID tags to track every player on the field  —  How the NFL tracks everything on the field but the ball  —  From Chinese women's soccer to the American big leagues, real-time motion tracking is coming to sports  —  Most people know radio-frequency identification …
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 …
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.

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