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November 2, 2014, 3:50 PM

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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

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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 …

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With Pay, Apple partners with and simultaneously destabilizes payment incumbents like Chase — Apple Pay, partnerships and software as disruption — With Apple Pay just launched and some sort of TV product floating on the horizon, it strikes me that there are three ways to think about how Apple changes industries.

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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.

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Danny Crichton / TechCrunch:

As the biggest winners get bigger, VCs accelerate their valuations of companies like Slack — Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis — There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform …

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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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Wall Street Journal:

New EU Commissioner for Digital Economy is considering “Google-tax”, EU-wide data protection agency, was strong Google antitrust settlement opponent — New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations — Incoming European Commissioner for the Digital Economy …

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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 …

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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.

More: New America, CNNMoney.com, Consumerist, DSLreports, New York Times, Kotaku and The Hill. Tweets: @upshotnyt

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 …

More: BetaNews, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, CNET and WinBeta. Thanks:@epro

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.

More: The Verge, Boing Boing, DSLreports, The Hill, Backchannel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumerist, HotHardware.com News, Re/code and Dan Rayburn

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