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Spotify's new Fresh Finds playlists leverage hundreds of music blogs and review sites it crawls and its own early adopter users — Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song — Spotify's personalized Discover Weekly playlist has won millions of fans … | Brian Armstrong: |
Coinbase CEO: Core team is a systemic risk that can lead to Bitcoin collapse this year; switch to Bitcoin Classic now, then look for more scalable solutions — What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable — Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee …
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Amazon reverses course, says it is bringing back support for device encryption to tablets running Fire OS via a software update due this spring — Amazon reverses course on encryption for its Fire tablets — It's been only one day since — in the midst of a debate over encrypted devices …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid — It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center …
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Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead — Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role …
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As Bitcoin approaches its 1MB block size limit, transaction processing takes 10+ hours for some, while transaction fees rise several times — Bitcoin's Capacity Issues No ‘Nightmare’, But Higher Fees May Be New Reality — While bitcoin may not be facing a “nightmare” scenario as indicated by the media …
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New experimental feature allows select local businesses to display custom content directly in Google search as cards below its website result — Google Experimenting With Local Business Cards In Search Results — Google is experimenting with new “Local Business Cards” in search results.| Selina Wang / Bloomberg Business: |
Experts: FBI could crack terrorist's iPhone without Apple's help, but wants to set a legal precedent that would give them access to phone data with a warrant — Who Needs Apple When the FBI Could Hack Terrorist iPhone Itself — Experts say Feds could access data without going to court| Tyler Cowen / New York Times: |
New research shows slowdown in productivity growth since 2005 not the result of unmeasured gains from information technology — Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us From a Productivity Slowdown — American middle class wages haven't been rising as rapidly as they once were … | Bloomberg Business: |
China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts — China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime — Beijing wants to identify subversives before they strike. — Shai Oster — China's effort to flush out threats …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Samsung says it has no plans to buy Tidal — Samsung Says It Won't Buy Tidal (EXCLUSIVE) — Samsung has no plans to acquire Jay Z's Tidal music service, the company told Variety Friday. — “The rumor of Samsung acquiring Tidal is not true,” said Samsung spokesperson, breaking the company's silence on the matter.
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How Snapchat brings celebrities millions of views and offers advertisers a young audience — Advertisers want the $16 billion social network's young users
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| Olivia Solon / Guardian: |
DARPA's upcoming $2M Cyber Grand Challenge wants teams to build AI-based hacking software that can exploit rival teams' vulnerabilities while fixing their own — These engineers are developing artificially intelligent hackers — In a sign of the autonomous security of the future … | Tim Sweeney / Guardian: |
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney says Microsoft wants to lock PC game distribution and commerce with Universal Windows Platform, urges industry to fight it — Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it — Developers must oppose this, or else cede control of their titles
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