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How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirated streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night — I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future — Like millions of others across the world, I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a living room surrounded by other boxing fans.| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, dies suddenly — Beloved Silicon Valley Entrepreneur David Goldberg Dies Suddenly — David Goldberg, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile entrepreneurs, died suddenly last night of undetermined causes.
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Remembering Dave Goldberg — Here are some of the descriptions you'll be hearing in coming days about Dave Goldberg, who died suddenly Friday at 47: friend, dad, husband, brother, Midwesterner, entrepreneur, poker player, mensch, investor, mentor. — It is with no hyperbole to say Goldberg … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that Windows Media Center will not be updated for Windows 10 — R.I.P., Windows Media Center — Summary:Microsoft discontinued development of Windows Media Center in 2009, but enthusiasts have held out hope that the feature would get one more reprieve for Windows 10.
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How Silicon Valley became a unique, self-perpetuating culture that will continue to dominate the high-tech economy — Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule — William Shockley's employees toast him for his Nobel Prize, 1956. Photo courtesy Computer History Museum.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Instacart's sustainability questioned as it rapidly expands, restructures deals with retailers — Instacart's Bet on Online Grocery Shopping — SAN FRANCISCO — Let's take a trip to crazy town, shall we, and pretend for a moment that we are in a precarious tech industry bubble.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's Dart language on Android aims for Java-free, 120 FPS apps — Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. — Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart …
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| Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal: |
Demand for Artificial Intelligence experts grows at universities and tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand — Tech firms, universities stock research centers amid push in hot area of computer science| Ian King / Bloomberg Business: |
As Samsung grabs contracts from Apple, other chipmakers reliant on Apple will take big blow — Apple and Samsung Are Friendly Again, and the Competition Should Be Terrified — As the relationship thaws, winter may be coming for SanDisk, TSMC, and other chipmakers
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Germany is investigating BND, its foreign intelligence agency, for helping NSA spy on public officials and companies — German prosecutors launch investigation of spying charges — (Reuters) - Germany's top public prosecutor will look into accusations that the country's BND foreign …
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Facebook Tests Feature Letting Users Pick Pages, Friends They'd Want To See Atop News Feed — Facebook is testing a feature on mobile that allows users to select friends and pages whose posts they'd want to see atop News Feed. — For some mobile users, a box with an animated puppy shows up …
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