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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Dogecoin market cap hits $1B+; price has risen 400%+ in the past month; creator says it's a sign of broader market excess as it hasn't been updated in 2 years — Dogecoin, the parody coin named for an internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog, has broken off the leash.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Epic Games blames Meltdown CPU performance issues for Fortnite downtime, releases chart showing CPU usage rise from ~17% to ~44% after patching one server — As the technology industry continues to react to two major CPU bugs, we're starting to see early signs of performance issues from security patches designed to fix the problems.| Vinny Lingham: |
Thoughts on surprisingly successful Bitcoin Cash fork of Bitcoin that allowed 2 strongly opposed communities to pursue their visions without hurting each other — Nobody could have summed up my thoughts on 2017 any better than Charles Dickens. It was the year where the totality of eventualities …
Tweets: @sirgrantfleming, @robmay, @e_barojas, and @rsg
| Wall Street Journal: |
US Customs conducted 30,200 searches of devices at the border in FY2017, up from 19,051 in FY2016; fewer than 20% of devices belonged to US citizens — Customs and Border Protection also unveils new policy for searching and seizing electronic devices — WASHINGTON—The Customs …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
The unprecedented power of technology companies is prompting calls for the rethinking of decades-old US antitrust laws focusing on consumer protection — TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES WITH unprecedented power to sway consumers and move markets have done the unthinkable: They've made trust-busting sound like a good idea again.
Tweets: @gerrymcgovern, @dk_munro, and @jaberman
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Recent public outcry against Alibaba's Sesame Credit and Tencent's WeChat over user privacy point to a growing demand for online data protection in China — SHANGHAI — China's biggest online payment company offers its hundreds of millions of users a breakdown on their spending each year …
Facebook: Yohko Hatada. Tweets: @davidakaye, @profchesterman, @paulmozur, @shanthikalathil, @amberatherton, @chinalawtransl8, and @paulmozur
| Anders Fogh / cyber.wtf: |
Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time — Introduction — In this blog post I'll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU's concurrently.
Tweets: @roundtrip
| Ryan Selkis / TwoBitIdiot: |
Thoughts on cryptocurrencies for 2018, including prices and investing, people involved, taxes, ICOs and crypto funds, promising applications, and more — Happy new year, everyone! — The post-Christmas, pre-New Year's period is always one of my favorites.
| Masha Borak / TechNode: |
DJI president Luo Zhenhua said he expects the company's 2017 sales to reach $2.7B in an interview with China's Phoenix News — Updated: A previous version of this post stated that Luo Zhenhua is the vice-president of DJI. Luo Zhenhua is now the president of DJI.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Digi-Capital report: AR/VR startups raised more than $3B in 2017 with Magic Leap, Improbable, Unity, and Niantic accounting for ~$1.6B — Tech companies working with augmented reality and virtual reality technologies raised more than $3 billion in venture funding in 2017.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
Amazon shutters its Anime Strike streaming service, launched in Jan. 2017 for $5/month for US Prime members, moves Anime Strike's curated catalog to Prime Video — After just a year, Amazon has gutted its hard-to-love anime service Anime Strike, rolling the dozens of anime shows … | Max Yuryev / AppleInsider: |
iMac Pro (8-core, 32GB RAM): same great screen, RAW video editing is a big plus, awesome space gray color, good value, but no access to RAM, upgrades are costly — Apple's new, high-end iMac Pro packs a ton of power into a svelte, all-in-one desktop machine.
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