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December 14, 2014, 9:05 PM

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Om Malik:
Why I'm excited about photos, the visual web, computer vision and the far reaching impact of visual sensors  —  On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words  —  Photos, photos and more photos!  Photos are the atomic unit of social platforms.  Photos and visuals are the common language of the Internet.
Gordon Mah Ung / PC World:
Alienware Alpha Review: A shockingly good tiny PC and console complement  —  AT A GLANCE  —  Hardware has a shelf life like a gallon of milk.  If it sits on the store shelf too long, it ends up getting poured down the drain.  —  That's ultimately the ugly story behind Alienware's Alpha game console.
TechRadar.com:
Google says Play Store will still sell Nexus 5 through Q1 2015, amid reports production halted  —  Nexus 5 sales are limited right now, but will continue into early 2015  —  UPDATED Nexus 6's little buddy hangs on into next year … Update: Google in the US has reached out to clarify …
M.G. Siegler / Medium:
As tweeting screenshots of text goes mainstream, maybe it's time for Twitter to officially support posting of longer text snippets  —  Hacking The Tweet Stream  —  With pictures of text.  Weird, I know.  —  The single greatest strength of Twitter has always been its simplicity.
Bloomberg:
Watershed event in cyberwar: how in 2008 hackers sabotaged a fortified oil pipeline in Turkey  —  Mysterious '08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era  —  The pipeline was outfitted with sensors and cameras to monitor every step of its 1,099 miles from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.
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Eric Limer / Gizmodo:
Samsung Gear VR: a better, simpler version of the original Rift that lacks content at launch  —  Samsung Gear VR Review: Hell Yes I Will Strap This Phone to My Face  —  The Oculus Rift is an awesome virtual reality headset.  Google Cardboard is an awesome one too.  But what if you could have the best of both?
Caleb Garling / Backchannel:
The rise and fall of Internet Underground Music Archive, a file sharing site founded in 1993  —  How Digital Music Missed Its Big Chance  —  Before MySpace, Napster, Spotify or Soundcloud, there was IUMA. … IUMA, co-founded by Patterson, was the first major online outlet where fans …
Tweets: @calebgarling
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
The Story Behind AOL's Iconic Yellow Running Man  —  This is the first in an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons.  —  It was spring of 1997.  “Mmmbop” was the pop song of the moment and unlimited access to AOL cost $19.95 a month.  Dial-up Internet had finally tipped mainstream.
Tweets: @adriennelaf

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