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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 …
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| 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
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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 … | 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.| 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 …
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| 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:
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| 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.
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See also Mediagazer| 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.
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| 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 … | 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.| 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 …
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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 …
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