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December 2, 2013, 1:45 AM

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon — Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages …

Charlie Rose / CBS News:

Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future — Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller …

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New York Times:

Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Site, and Obama — WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.

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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:

Obama administration says HealthCare.gov uptime above 90% excluding scheduled maintenance, response time under 1 second

More: Gizmodo, NPR, Washington Post, Gigaom, ZDNet and Washington Wire. Tweets: @ezraklein

Bloomberg:

Obamacare Website Getting Fixes as Repair Deadline Passes

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Sam Altman:

Bitcoin will only succeed if legitimate transaction volume ramps up — Thoughts on Bitcoin — Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don't know how to weight the probabilities …

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Economist:

Bitcoin's success is putting it under growing strain

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Chris Kohler / Wired:

A Fond Farewell to the Craziest, Longest, Most Eventful Console Generation Ever — He called it the “HD Era.” — On March 9, 2005, the gaming press crowded into a ballroom in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to witness the birth of a new era of game machines.

Tweets: @mudron, @gameplaydev and @jellyscare

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Silk Road Competitor Shuts Down And Another Plans To Go Offline After Claimed $6 Million Theft — When a black market calls itself “Sheep,” it's no surprise when someone gets fleeced. But the effects of a purported theft of thousands of bitcoins from the drug-selling site Sheep Marketplace …

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John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm — In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer …

Tweets: @mikeolson, @dalmaer and @carlzimmer

Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:

Encryption products, now proliferating after NSA revelations, may leave users no more secure — Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — You are here — Home » Edward Snowden » Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) …

Ted Greenwald / MIT Technology Review:

Profile of Aaron Levie, Who Is Trying to Make the Startup Box Vital for Work — The CEO of Box is building an online file storage system designed to reshape industries. — Aaron Levie bounds onstage with the swagger of a standup comic. But he's not performing at the Comedy Store.

Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @stevesi and @jason_pontin. Thanks:@srikardr

Thomas Schulz / Spiegel Online:

Tech Giants Like Apple and Amazon Building Monuments to Digital Domination — Technology giants in the United States are building bombastic new headquarters to immortalize their grandiose ambitions, while inside they plan to turn traditional office culture on its head.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent — For more than a decade the music industry has been struggling with online piracy. — To prevent music from spreading like wildfire all the major labels have experimented extensively by adding DRM to digital music files.

More: Gizmodo and Boing Boing. Tweets: @schestowitz and @glynmoody

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA — Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better place to look …

More: StartupBook. Tweets: @om, @mdudas and @runchal

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