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US officials concerned that increased Russian naval operations indicate plans to cut undersea cables carrying most of global Internet data in times of conflict — Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns U.S. — WASHINGTON — Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near …
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EverythingMe, which raised $35M+ and made an Android launcher with 15M installs, shuts down after failing to find a business model, lays off all 36 employees — Israeli startup Everything.me shuts down, despite $35 million in funding and 15 million app installs
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Behind the rise and fall of .Ly, Libya's top level domain — The Rise and Fall of .Ly … In 2012, the US imposed sanctions on Syria, for, among other things, their occupation of Lebanon, their apparent support for terrorist groups, and an intent to pursue weapons of mass destruction.| Mark Suster / Bothsides of the Table: |
A quantitative case for how outsiders to traditional VC have contributed to a bubble in private technology valuations — Venture Outlook 2016 — There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them.| Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Hands-on with Apple TV dev unit: easy setup, cleaner UI, but Siri is buggy and games must support Apple's remote — Hands-on with the brand new Apple TV — Tomorrow, Apple opens pre-orders for its long-overdue Apple TV relaunch. Today, we got a closer look at the developer edition of the device.
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How the Strater family endured 3 years of online harassment, hacked accounts, and swatting — Haunted by hackers: A suburban family's digital ghost story — The systematic destruction of Paul and Amy Strater's lives began with pizza. — Several years ago, pizzas began showing …
Tweets: @codinghorror
| Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones: |
After billions spent, lack of interoperability among electronic health record providers like Epic still hampers data exchange for many doctors — Epic is like the Microsoft Office of health care software—more comprehensive than its competitors, even if its individual parts are kind of meh.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Toshiba is close to selling its image sensor business to Sony for $165M — Toshiba Said Near $165 Million Sale of Sensor Business to Sony — Companies said to announce deal as early as next week — Toshiba selling assets after $1.3 billion accounting scandal| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Sources: Time Warner Cable will start testing $10 to $50 internet-only TV service in New York City next week — Time Warner Cable will test internet-only TV in NYC next week — If you want cable TV without the cable box, Time Warner Cable may have something for you soon.| Jonah Bromwich / New York Times: |
Inside the Unicode Consortium and how it decides which emojis to officially support — How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones — An obscure organization that standardizes the way punctuation marks and other text are represented by computer systems has in recent years found itself at the forefront … | Andrii Degeler / Ars Technica UK: |
Hands on with the modular smartphone Fairphone 2, which ships in December for €525 — Fairphone 2 hands-on: Modular phones are finally here — AMSTERDAM—With more and more similarly priced and specced Android smartphones arriving on the market, unique selling points are becoming increasingly rare.
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Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer's Turnaround Flounders — The departures of a number of high-profile executives at Yahoo has accelerated in recent months, so much so that many inside the company are becoming worried about strategy and execution of key initiatives aimed at turning around its core business.Sponsor Posts
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