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Apple's U.S. and Canadian Black Friday Sales Go Live Online With Gift Card Deals — Apple's online stores for the United States and Canada have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and like its stores in Australia and New Zealand, the company is using bonus gift cards rather …
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| J.D. Levite / The Wirecutter: |
The Best Deals We Can Find — Because we think we can make a small difference by being picky, here are some great deals on solid pieces of gear. … We'll always put the newest deals at the top of the page. We've also redesigned the deals page to be a more permanent addition to the site …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website — Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “Bitcoin Black Friday.”
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| Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg: |
Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …
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Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’ — (Reuters) - Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by the country's communist rulers.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them — On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched. Now it has 50 million monthly unique readers. — Almost all of its readers come from Facebook. The headlines, which Upworthy's editors toil over … | Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android — Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators.
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| Chris Bell / Telegraph: |
The internet mystery that has the world baffled — For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Thinkspace Pioneers hunt for the next teenage Mark Zuckerberg — A group of Plymouth teenagers is hoping to ‘mould and inspire the next generation of digital thinkers, makers and doers’ — Thinkspace Pioneers aims to find the next digital Richard Branson or Mark Zuckerberg.
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The Next Web and Telegraph
| Kevin Begos / Phys.org: |
New research aims to teach computers common sense — Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. — The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning.
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Who Will Own The Next Great Instant Messaging Service? — The social media era was about what we make public. Now, it's about what we don't. The race to own the next great back channel. — Instant messaging is the center of the internet. Everything else is a temporary distraction.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Bitcoin payments with a simple tap? Multi-purpose nio Card gets added functionality — A British startup called Bluenio has revealed what it claims is the world's first Bitcoin payment smartcard - or at least it will be if no others have popped up by the time it ships in March.Sponsor Posts
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