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November 16, 2014, 6:40 PM

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

How the Russian Anonymous Marketplace has maintained a thriving dark web drug trade for more than two years — How a Russian Dark Web Drug Market Outlived the Silk Road (And Silk Road 2) — Silk Roads come and Silk Roads go. But after every law enforcement crackdown shakes the dark web …

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent — A panel of Goldman Sachs employees spent a recent Tuesday night at the Columbia University faculty club trying to convince a packed room of potential recruits that Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, was the place to be for computer scientists.

More: Facebook, Valleywag and Business Insider

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The Physics arXiv Blog:

As scientific publishing goes digital, researchers increasingly cite older work in papers — The Extraordinary Growing Impact Of The History Of Science — Old scientific papers never die, they just fade away. Or they used to. Now electronic publishing has made old papers as easy to find as new ones …

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Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Unshackled raises a $3.5M angel fund to provide visas and paychecks for immigrant entrepreneurs while they build their companies and fundraise — Unshackled, a New Angel Fund, Forms to Back Immigrant Entrepreneurs … Some of the U.S.'s most successful tech companies …

Tweets: @charliebeckett, @mikalfm, @raju, @legatuminst and @andresbarreto

Joshua Goldman / CNET:

Toshiba Chromebook 2 review: one of the best screens on a Chromebook at a great price — Toshiba Chromebook 2 review: Impressive Chromebook for the cost — Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Apple MacBook Air (13-inch) — Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2013, 15-inch screen)

More: Computerworld, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Android Central and TechRadar.com

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose launches Watchville, an app for luxury watch enthusiasts, and looks to launch more luxury ecommerce apps — Kevin Rose Plots A Luxury Ecommerce Empire Starting With New App Watchville — “I did not like watches my entire life,” Digg co-founder Kevin Rose tells me.

More: PC Magazine and SlashGear. Tweets: @kevinrose, @producthunt and @gedeon

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Craftsy raises $50M, bringing total funding to nearly $100M for paid crafting video tutorials — Craftsy, an E-Learning Site for Makers, Raises $50 Million — The executives at Craftsy want to make one thing clear: Arts and crafts aren't just for children anymore.

More: Business Wire, SocialTimes, EdSurge, Xconomy and StrictlyVC

New York Times:

Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald's, increases awareness of Google Wallet and Softcard — Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments — For years, tech companies have dreamed of a future in which people ditch …

More: Electronista, Tech Times, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, http://patriciahandschiegel …, SlashGear, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, 9to5Mac and App Advice

Tweets: @bxchen and @mikeisaac

Rachel Metz / MIT Technology Review:

Startup Knightscope building 5 foot-tall robotic security guards to patrol campuses and malls — Rise of the Robot Security Guards — Startup Knightscope is preparing to roll out human-size robot patrols. — As the sun set on a warm November afternoon, a quartet of five-foot-tall …

More: SlashGear, Tac Anderson, Gizmodo, ReadWrite and Laughing Squid

Tweets: @julien, @grok_, @peterwsinger and @mccrory

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix shuts down its public API, partners with select developers for continued data access — Netflix is shutting down its public API today — Netflix is shuttering its public API today, effectively ending support for a number of third-party apps that made use of the API to get TV …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget and SlashGear

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality — The corporate battle lines over the new federal rules for the Internet have been well established. Vocal technology startups have been leading the charge for muscular regulations for broadband access …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, Business Insider and InfoWorld. Tweets: @alexisohanian

Wall Street Journal:

HealthCare.gov Reopens With Few Glitches — Early Enrollees Point to Smoother Process and Fewer Problems Than Last Year — HealthCare.gov launched its second enrollment effort under the Affordable Care Act on Saturday to largely positive reviews, suffering from fewer of the logjams …

More: Vox, Fox News, The Hill, Politico and Washington Post

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