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February 2, 2015, 3:43 AM

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Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Hashtags featured in 50% of Super Bowl ads; 4 Facebook mentions, 3 Twitter, 1 Snapchat — Super Bowl Commercials With Hashtags Slipped To 50% In 2015 — Facebook is the most mentioned social network with four; Snapchat makes its debut. — Fifty percent of 2015 Super Bowl ads carried hashtags …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Re/code, msnbc.com and CNET. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Lester Haines / The Register:

Raspberry Pi 2 is 6x faster than its predecessor, features a quad-core SoC with 1GB of RAM, available today for $35 — Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed: Global geekgasm likely — El Reg lays claws on surprise new quad core chipped fruity minicomputer

More: Slashdot

Andy Baio / Medium:

As Google leaves archival projects in limbo, the Internet Archive steps in to preserve digital history — As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory — Google wrote its mission statement in 1999, a year after launch, setting the course for the company's next decade:

More: Feld Thoughts, Beyond Search and inkdroid

Tweets: @birgittaj, @valerielopes, @akshatrathi, @harikunzru, @bfeld, @kevingoldsmith, @dubroy, @message, @chrishagan, @smc90 and @anildash

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Louis CK's latest digital-only comedy special outsells his first with little buzz or promotion — Louis CK's New Straight-to-Fan Special Has No Buzz - and It's Doing Better Than His First One — Three years ago, Louis CK filmed his own stand-up comedy special, then sold it on his own Web site.

More: The Inquisitr News. Tweets: @pmarca, @fmanjoo and @reformedbroker

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay is now back online after December 9th raid by Swedish police — The Pirate Bay Is Back Online! — Early December The Pirate Bay was raided at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm. — After being down for two weeks …

More: VentureBeat, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, The Register, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, Techaeris, BGR, PC World, Hollywood Reporter, Newsweek, Variety, PC Magazine, Mashable, The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, SlashGear, BetaNews, The Next Web, Neowin, Engadget, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, Polygon and Slashdot. Tweets: @mathewi

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Newsweek's cover sexualizes and degrades women in tech, perpetuating the problems its article denounces — What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek — I have thoughts on this Newsweek article. — Tech has some issues. You read trade pub stories about sexual harassment and assault allegations so often its absurd.

John Bohannon / Science:

Researchers correlate anonymized credit card transactions with as few as 3 piece of outside data, like location info, to trace an individual's transactions — Credit card study blows holes in anonymity — Attack suggests need for new data safeguards. — For social scientists …

More: New York Times, Science, NBC News, ZDNet, Popular Mechanics, Phys.org, PBS NewsHour and Tech Times

Benedict Evans:

Huge smartphone supply chain producing small, cheap, low power components enables new products like drones, wearables, and other connected devices — The home and the mobile supply chain — For the last 30 years PCs and the PC supply chain dominated the technology industry …

More: Union Square Ventures. Tweets: @dsaezgil and @gassee

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Sundance hit Tangerine was shot with an iPhone 5s, an $8 app, special lenses, and a Steadicam — How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S — Tangerine, a breakout hit from this year's Sundance Film Festival, is full of surprises.

More: Cult of Mac. Tweets: @jenbrea

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Just 5.6% of senior partners and 10% of investment professionals at 191 US VC firms are women — Women are not making progress in male-dominated VC world, data shows — One year ago, Fortune published research showing that just 4.2% of decision-makers at venture capital firms were female.

More: TechCrunch and bizjournals. Tweets: @danprimack

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:

AOL officially plans to shut down TUAW and Joystiq, both among the earliest tech blogs — Farewell To TUAW—And To A Whole Era Of Tech Blogging — I was hoping that the ugly rumors were false. But TUAW—The Unofficial Apple Weblog, which has long been one of the most dependable sources of Apple news …

More: The Verge, TUAW, Electronista, iMore, MacNN, The Mac Observer and Boing Boing. Tweets: @harrymccracken

Mic Wright / The Next Web:

Luna's smart mattress cover monitors your sleep and adjusts your Nest thermostat — If you're not satisfied with a standard sleep tracking app, Luna's smart mattress cover could be just what you've been waiting for. The smart cover monitors your sleep, controls your bed's temperature …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, NBC News, Komando.com, Lifehacker UK, Forbes, TechSpot, SlashGear, PC Magazine, Forbes and BGR. Tweets: @gerireid

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