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| Tim Wu / New York Times: |
Net neutrality supporters have strong legal arguments to overturn Ajit Pai's proposed rules repeal in court — Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from making phone calls using the internet application Vonage.
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| Jeff Kao / Hacker Noon: |
Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules — I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Imgur confirms hackers stole 1.7M email addresses and passwords hashed with SHA-256 algorithm in 2014 hack — The hackers stole email addresses and passwords. — Imgur, one of the world's most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014. — The company confirmed to ZDNet …
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| Fortune: |
Chainalysis: between 17% and 23% of bitcoins mined to date have been lost forever; this estimate includes 1M, or about 6%, of bitcoins mined by Satoshi Nakamoto — Just as gold bars are lost at sea or $100 bills can burn, bitcoins can disappear from the Internet forever.| Sunny Sen / FactorDaily: |
How Alexa was trained for India, a multilingual country, to master local accents and common words in Indian languages — She is modern, speaks fluent English, helps you book a cab, finds recipes for cooking, plays your favourite music, and gets charmed by Shah Rukh Khan, her favourite actor.
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| Associated Press: |
FBI knew for more than a year that Fancy Bear was targeting hundreds of government officials and policy makers, but warned only a few of them — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts …
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| Angela Chen / The Verge: |
Study: in the 148 days after Pokémon Go's release, there were 286 more car crashes in one Indiana county than the period before; 134 happened near pokéstops — And that's just in one county in Indiana — For a brief, shining period last summer, Pokémon Go reigned supreme.| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Inside Etsy's transformation as it sheds its B Corp status, freewheeling culture, and idealistic business approach to appease shareholders — The first time Josh Silverman addressed the staff of Etsy as their newly installed chief executive, he tried to connect with a work force known for its diversity, idealism and sincerity.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: Thanksgiving day e-commerce sales were $2.87B, up 18.3% YoY, with 46% of all traffic to sites coming from smartphones — Black Friday, the day after a quiet Thanksgiving Thursday, traditionally has been thought of as the start of the holiday sales season, but the rise of e-commerce …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
KGI: iPhone X manufacturing bottlenecks largely resolved with Foxconn producing 450K-550K units per day compared to 50K-150K 1-2 months ago — Steady improvements in iPhone X supplies that have seen shipping estimates fall to 1-2 weeks are due to better-than-expected improvements … | Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal: |
Pokémon Go developer Niantic raises ~$200M Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, and others — Series B led by Spark Capital is secured as company prepares to release a ‘Harry Potter’ title
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TechCrunch, Road to VR, Recode, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, and Android Central
| Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
AltSchool, which raised $175M from Mark Zuckerberg, Founders Fund, and a16z to reimagine primary education, is closing over half its schools and losing students — - A new kind of school crafted by the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley influencers is struggling to keep parents happy and students in seats.| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
Yandex, Russia's main search engine, now mostly uses state licensed sources for news after law made big news aggregators responsible for content they link to — Google said it would demote Russia Today and Sputnik, but the Russian government has tried to control what news appears on Yandex for years.Sponsor Posts
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