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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.
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Cointelegraph.com News, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, NEWSBTC, Investor's Business Daily, and Bitcoinist.com
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| Ars Technica: |
Best 2017 Cyber Monday deals on smart home and media streaming devices, HDTVs, computers, smartphones, and other electronics and software — Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have a big round of Cyber Monday deals to share. Well, at least some of the deals … | 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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Engadget, Fortune, Business Insider, CNET, Gizmodo, Hit & Run, and SiliconANGLE
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Sumerian, a browser-based tool to build AR, VR, and 3D apps quickly with minimal coding, available in preview starting today — We'd heard months ago that Amazon would be using its Re:Invent AWS event to roll out some a new service related to building in mixed reality — augmented reality and virtual reality.
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AWS News Blog, GeekWire, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Amazon.com, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, Forbes, and VentureBeat. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| 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.
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Fortune, Forbes, and Signal v. Noise
Tweets: @shaig, @pesmou, @nytimesbusiness, @allafarce, @sapna, @dhh, and @dhh
| 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.
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SSRN, Inquirer, The Register, Digital Trends, and Axios
Tweets: @emollick, @carnage4life, and @marshacollier
| BBC: |
UK gov't previews draft Drone Bill coming in 2018: would give police power to seize drones, mandate pilot training and registration of drones heavier than 250g — Drone users in the UK may have to take safety awareness tests under legislation planned by the government.
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GOV.UK, The Guardian, Inquirer, Engadget, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, iNews, The Indian Express, City A.M., HeraldScotland, London Evening Standard, Financial Times, Xinhua News Agency, The Sun, Yahoo! News, DeathRattleSports.com, dailyrecord, and BALPA
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube's search autofill found to surface disturbing results like “how to have s*x with your kids”, which YouTube says it quickly removed and is investigating — Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for “how to have” is auto-completing with pedophiliac phrases.| 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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Dan Rayburn, TechSpot, Fortune, Salon, The Merkle, Labnotes, Washington Post, and Hacker Noon
Tweets: @mcuban, @mcuban, @justinwedes, @mcuban, @mcuban, @stevecase, and @pomeranian99
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
UK's Balderton Capital raised $375M for its sixth fund to invest in Series A startups in Europe; source: some backing was secured from European Investment Fund — - UK venture capital firm Balderton Capital has raised $375 million (£281 million) for its sixth fund to invest in Series A startups in Europe.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Tech.eu, and TechCrunch
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
How SSNs plus birthdates can still be leveraged to access tons more data via US FAFSA site, after an IRS tool with a similar flaw was disabled in March — KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful … | 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.
Tweets: @gischethans, @sounakmitra, and @bgmahesh
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