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Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketing — This is a story about how the future gets weird. — It's about how humans interact with each other, and machines, and systems that can only properly be called cyborg. — Let's start, though, with a man sitting on a couch.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
News Corp's Storyful Buy Proves Old Media Still Loves Tech — Tech history is littered with the wreckage of startups acquired and ruined by old media companies. To a certain extent, old media realizes the error of its ways, but that doesn't stop it from trying again.| Eric Calouro / newsBTC: |
Overstock.com to Begin Accepting Bitcoin Second Half of 2014 — In late October, there was a brief mention of retailer Overstock.com in a New York Times piece that noted the online retailer was considering accepting bitcoin, but decided they would put a hold on that objective … | David Auerbach / Slate: |
San Francisco tech workers rarely resemble the ruthless techo-libertarians portrayed in media — The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco — The press portrays a ruthless band of techno-libertarians taking over the city. The reality is much different.
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Crowley on Foursquare's plans: scale ad products, useful alerts for users who don't open app — Why Do People Keep Giving Foursquare Money? — Foursquare just raised a bunch of money, again. This time it's a Series D round of $35M, back in April of this year it was $41M in debt financing.| Etay Maor / Trusteer: |
Gameover malware variant steals BTC China users' credentials to gain control of accounts — Bitcoin Exchange In China - Gameover? — Cybercriminals' interest in Bitcoin has continued to grow alongside the mainstream media's heavy coverage of the currency and its high rate of adoption by both consumers and businesses.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default — Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
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Music-Discovery Service ExFM Pulls the Plug — After a four-year-run, music startup ExFM is throwing in the towel. — The company, which operates a music-discovery website, as well as iPhone and Android apps, says it will shut down its apps, as well as the guts of its site, on Jan. 15.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Microsoft gifts 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage to Windows Phone users for a year — Microsoft is distributing some holiday cheer to Windows Phone owners today with an email inviting them to activate a bonus 20GB of SkyDrive storage. The bump in cloud storage will be active for a year … | Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Details of the ‘Mega Conspiracy’ Behind Megaupload … Some lively new details arrived today in the long saga of Megaupload, the file-sharing site whose founder, Kim Dotcom, is currently suing the New Zealand police while the U.S. government attempts to extradite him to face charges of criminal conspiracy.| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Intel Robot Puts Touch Screens through Their Paces — A robot able to play touch screen games like Cut the Rope can judge whether humans will find a new device responsive. — In a compact lab at Intel's Silicon Valley headquarters, Oculus the robot is playing the hit game Cut the Rope on a smartphone.
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Amazon Bought GoPago's Mobile Payment Tech And Product/Engineering Team, DoubleBeam Bought The POS Business — Last week, we wrote about how Amazon had quietly acquired mobile payments startup GoPago. Today, some more details about the deal: A source close to the situation confirms … Sponsor Posts
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