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Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers — Amazon Go allows customers to grab items and just walk out without stopping to pay. — Amazon's store of the future has been five years in the making. But the unveiling is just about here.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more — Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.”
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| Matthew Gault / Motherboard: |
A look at VRChat, a free app for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with over 1.5M installs on Steam, which lets users create and explore virtual worlds with other people — It was in the depths of the Mickey Mouse dungeon, the music of the Mouse's rap album coursing through my headphones, that I decided VRChat was brilliant.
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| Sandra Upson / Wired: |
How the developers of the Lightning Network plan to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper using private payment channels — IN 2014, JOSEPH Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco.| Alice Gregory / Wired: |
Profile of Yondr, maker of the lockable smartphone pouches used at concerts, shows, courtrooms, churches, and more to restrict smartphone use — LATE LAST FALL, in the gleaming white lobby of Madison Square Garden, uniformed attendants were posted at security stations to make thousands of smartphones stupid.
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| Samidh Chakrabarti / Facebook: |
Facebook lets inside and outside contributors weigh in on effect of social media on democracy, discusses people's draw to info that strengthens their narratives — Around the world, social media is making it easier for people to have a voice in government — to discuss issues, organize around causes, and hold leaders accountable.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Tile, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, lays off 30 after holiday sales disappoint — Tile, one of the best known item-tracking gadgets out there, has laid off some 30 people and reportedly stopped the potential hires of another 10, TechCrunch has learned.
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Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure — SoFi has been looking for a permanent CEO since Mike Cagney resigned in September — Anthony Noto, a top Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.58% executive … | Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE owner ICE partners with Blockstream to launch feed with price data from 15+ cryptocurrency exchanges by March, to be delivered via ICE's network to traders — Intercontinental Exchange is jointly launching data feed pulling information from more than 15 cryptocurrency exchanges| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Asian selfie app Snow, formerly a Snapchat clone, has removed its user-to-user communication features and raised $50M from SoftBank and Sequoia China — It's been a while since we heard from Snow, the Snapchat clone app in Asia that Facebook once tried to buy, but today the company behind …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers — “Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.| Eva Yoo / TechNode: |
WeChat says it now has 980M monthly active users, claims 170M daily active users for its Mini Program app platform, which now has 580,000 apps — January 9th was WeChat mini program's first birthday. Throughout the year, some startups picked it up and developed their mini program.
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