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Steam ends support for bitcoin payments citing volatility as fees move toward $20 per transaction vs. ~$0.20 when support via Bitpay was enabled April 2016 — “It has become untenable to support Bitcoin as a payment option” — Valve is ending support for Steam purchases made with bitcoin …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches first self-driving car pilot in Boston; select riders will be paired with a nuTonomy autonomous car, human safety drivers will be behind the wheel — Robot taxis by NuTonomy — Lyft's first self-driving car pilot is officially underway. The company is sending autonomous vehicles …
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Google shuts down the app section of Chrome Web Store and emails developers saying Chrome Apps are deprecated, although they remain on Chrome OS — Google says Progressive Web Apps are the future of app-like webpages. — More than a year ago, Google announced that Chrome Apps would be removed … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
How new businesses, including 100K+ with $100K+ sales, are using Amazon to sell electronics and other products, often undercutting established competitors — A few weeks ago, Wyze Labs, a one-year-old start-up in Seattle, sent me its first gadget to try. It's a small, internet-connected video camera … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 845, the successor to 835: 30% faster graphics, better power efficiency and connectivity, 4K HDR, Secure Processing Unit, more — Qualcomm detailed its next-generation chipset, the Snapdragon 845, at a press conference in Hawaii this morning.
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NiceHash, a Slovenia-based marketplace for cryptocurrency mining, says it was hacked and 4700 bitcoins, worth about $60M+, were stolen from its wallet — (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency marketplace NiceHash said the contents of its bitcoin wallet had been stolen in a security breach and one executive said nearly $64 million had been lost.
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, joins Everipedia as CIO as the two-year-old encyclopedia moves to the blockchain and becomes a peer-to-peer resource — AT THE TIME of this writing, the opening sentence of Larry Sanger's Everipedia entry is pretty close to his Wikipedia entry.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches open-source projects Virtual Kublet and Open Service Broker to help connect Kubernetes containers to Microsoft Azure — Microsoft continued its support for the Kubernetes open source project today, with the unveiling of several enhancements to systems that are designed …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google announces updates to Sheets, including auto-suggesting pivot tables and natural language search for Explore tab, rolling out in coming weeks — The spreadsheet gurus in your organization know how to use pivot tables to pull meaningful insight out of a morass of numbers.
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How big tech companies, especially from the US, could be affected by upcoming trade and legal disputes over cross-border data transfers — Technology companies are facing growing international obstacles affecting how their most valuable asset — data — flows across borders.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: Oracle has lobbied against Google for past year, seeded negative stories on Android privacy, bought billboard spots denouncing internet companies, more — Oracle has lobbied aggressively — and seeded negative stories about its search foe — as the two battle in court.| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Political opposition firm files to dismiss Shervin Pishevar suit, says court will “see through his strategy of filing suits to intimidate women coming forward” — Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, who has been accused by multiple unnamed women of sexual misconduct in a recent news report …
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