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| Max Raskin / Bloomberg: |
DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing — U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits — The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments …
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| John Phillips / CNBC: |
Bitcoin surges above $600 ahead of key week — Bitcoin touched a fresh all-time high on Monday as the digital currency continued to gain favor with investors. — The virtual currency rose to just under $619 on Mt. Gox exchange Monday afternoon in Asia, up by over 25 percent from the same time on Sunday.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.| Jon Matonis / CoinDesk: |
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| Marissa Mayer / Yahoo: |
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW — Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that … | Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker: |
Inside Google's Driverless Car — Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple wins another chance to ban Samsung phones for infringing its patents — In a ruling delivered today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has given Apple another chance at halting sales of Samsung smartphones that infringe on its patents.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 1520 review: the best Windows Phone device yet — Windows Phone has never looked this good. The latest update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, known as Update 3, added support for 1080p displays, large smartphone screens and state-of-the-art processors.
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The Verge, ZDNet, BGR, The Next Web, WMPoweruser, CNET, Gizmodo and My Nokia Blog. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company's search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify children being abused in YouTube videos.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal: |
Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.
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Gigaom, Bijan Sabet, New York Times, The Switch and Business Insider
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350 — Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month. The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market on December 2nd.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks — Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information, in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IBM and Nvidia Team Up on Supercomputing and Servers — Here's a second bit of interesting news on the supercomputing front. Computing giant IBM and chipmaker Nvidia will today announce a significant partnership that will have them teaming up on the design and building of new supercomputing systems and servers.
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