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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.| 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 … | 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 …
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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)
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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.| 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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … | 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 …
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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 …
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Facebook reducing promotional posts from Pages in News Feed is just the latest blow to businesses — Facebook to Cut Unpaid Posts by Marketers on News Feeds — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's executives are not terribly worried about upsetting people these days.
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