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Reported Bitcoin “founder” Craig Wright's home raided by Australian Federal Police in relation to Australian Tax Office investigation — Reported ‘Bitcoin founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police — Exclusive: Police search home belonging to Australian entrepreneur … | Gizmodo: |
Leaked documents, corroborating interviews point to two likely Bitcoin creators: Australian Craig Wright and deceased US computer forensics expert Dave Kleiman — This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin — A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling … | Wired: |
Blog posts and unverified leaked documents suggest eccentric 44-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius — Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd …
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Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board — Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
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CBS CEO Les Moonves says Apple puts live TV plans on hold; source says media firms want more money for their programming — Apple Said to Suspend Effort to Develop Live TV Service — Focus instead will be on App Store as platform for others — Media companies resist channel package at $30 to $40 a month
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HTC delays Vive VR launch until April, plans to make 7K dev kits available in early 2016 — HTC officially delays Vive virtual reality system launch to April 2016 — Says “an additional 7,000” dev kits will ship to creators at the “start” of 2016. — Earlier this year …
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One-fifth of Americans report going online ‘almost constantly’ — As smartphones and other mobile devices have become more widespread, some 21% of Americans now report that they go online “almost constantly,” according to a Pew Research Center survey. — Overall, 73% of Americans go online on a daily basis.
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Amy Hess, chief of FBI's Operational Technology Division, admits using zero-day exploits to hack targets — Meet the woman in charge of the FBI's most controversial high-tech tools — In the aftermath of Wednesday's shooting rampage in San Bernardino, FBI teams recovered computer hard drives … | Ben Brown / Official Google Blog: |
Google offers three interchangeable shells to customize TP-LINK OnHub routers, for $29-$39 — Make your home Internet look like your home with OnHub — Chances are, somewhere in your home, there's a tangled mess of wires and blinking lights that make your Wi-Fi work.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Microsoft patches 71 flaws, two for Office and Windows kernel vulnerabilities currently under attack, warns of leaked Xbox Live certificate — Microsoft Patches 71 Flaws, Two Under Attack; Warns of Leaked XBox Live Cert — Forgive your local Windows admin if they're a little shy on holiday cheer in the coming days.
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Augmented reality startup Magic Leap raising $827M Series C at a post-money valuation of $3.7B — Secretive Augmented Reality Startup Magic Leap Raising $827 Million — Magic Leap wants to change your reality. And apparently they need a lot of money to do it.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Airbnb dethrones Google in Glassdoor's top 50 places to work 2016, Google now 8th, behind Facebook, LinkedIn, Hubspot — Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in the U.S. — Career website Glassdoor today released its eighth annual Employees' Choice Awards …
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Facebook changes advertising policies for Instant Articles to allow publishers to include more advertising in each article and to sell Facebook-only campaigns — Facebook Bends to Publishers, Tweaks Instant Articles Advertising — Publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue| Official Google Blog: |
Google's Pixel C Android tablet now available on the Google Store, starting at $499 — Meet the Pixel C, our take on the tablet — This holiday season, there's no shortage of electronics to choose from. When it comes to picking out what device to use, sometimes you want a laptop to hammer out a lengthy document.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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