|
November 18, 2013, 12:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Max Raskin / Bloomberg: |
DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing — U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits — The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments …
More:
SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TIME, TheStreet.com, Bitcoin Blogger, USA Today, SlashGear, CoinDesk, Wired, Mashable and Union Square Ventures. Tweets: @jonmatonis
| John Phillips / CNBC: |
Bitcoin surges above $600 ahead of key week — Bitcoin touched a fresh all-time high on Monday as the digital currency continued to gain favor with investors. — The virtual currency rose to just under $619 on Mt. Gox exchange Monday afternoon in Asia, up by over 25 percent from the same time on Sunday.
More:
MoneyBeat, ValueWalk, Tech in Asia, MarketWatch, CoinDesk, Mashable, Singularity Hub and Business Insider
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
More:
The Verge, WebProNews and Union Square Ventures
| Jon Matonis / CoinDesk: |
More:
The Next Web, Tech in Asia, TechNode, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Trends
| Marissa Mayer / Yahoo: |
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …
More:
Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Tweets: @csoghoian, @mikeisaac and @mattbuchanan
| Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker: |
Inside Google's Driverless Car — Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
More:
The Verge, AllThingsD and Softpedia News
| James Chapman / Daily Mail: |
Google and Microsoft to improve filtering of results for child porn queries — Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign — Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.
More:
Daily Mail, Guardian, BBC, CNET, Microsoft Corporation, VatorNews, Forbes, Open Rights Group, Digital Trends, GOV.UK, Search Engine Land, CNNMoney.com, 9to5Google, The Verge, ZDNet, WebProNews, BetaNews, Guardian, The Next Web, TechEye, Mashable, The Register, Yahoo! News, Electronista, Search Engine Roundtable, memeburn, Wired.co.uk, Gizmodo, T3 News, Inquirer, Business Insider, Engadget, The Independent and AllThingsD
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
More:
Washington Post, Telegraph, PC Magazine, Threatpost and Reuters
| Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal: |
Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.
More:
Bijan Sabet, The Switch, Business Insider and New York Times
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mat, @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @drew, @fmanjoo, @drew, @reddy, @ezraklein and @alex
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW — Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …
More:
Engadget, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Verge, CNET, PetaPixel, pocketnow.com, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in, PhoneArena, Android Beat and AndroidGuys
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 1520 review: the best Windows Phone device yet — Windows Phone has never looked this good. The latest update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, known as Update 3, added support for 1080p displays, large smartphone screens and state-of-the-art processors.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350 — Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month. The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market on December 2nd.
More:
PR Newswire, Ars Technica, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechHive, ReadWrite, 9to5Google, The Register, CNET, Digital Trends, The Next Web, ZDNet, TechCrunch, blog.laptopmag.com, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Community, MobileSyrup.com, AndroidOS.in, GSMArena Blog, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, HotHardware.com News and Yahoo! News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks — Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information, in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability …
More:
Krebs on Security and Inquirer
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IBM and Nvidia Team Up on Supercomputing and Servers — Here's a second bit of interesting news on the supercomputing front. Computing giant IBM and chipmaker Nvidia will today announce a significant partnership that will have them teaming up on the design and building of new supercomputing systems and servers.
More:
Engadget, Digits, CNET, Computerworld, Computerworld, The Register, TechEye, VentureBeat, AnandTech and SlashGear
| New York Times: |
CIA and DOD seek to block Russia from building US-based monitoring stations for GPS competitor — A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears — WASHINGTON — In the view of America's spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon … Sponsor Posts
Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
Recruiters, be that zeroth candidate — Welcome again! Earlier, we looked at how personality assessments are evaluation tools that help look at candidates beyond resumes. Let's look at how to use …
Recruiters, be that zeroth candidate — Welcome again! Earlier, we looked at how personality assessments are evaluation tools that help look at candidates beyond resumes. Let's look at how to use …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
Microsoft CPO: If you aren't prototyping with AI you're doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Techmeme Ride Home:
(Bonus) World Cup Of Entrepreneurs Part 2
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Hard Fork:
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Great Chat:
Are VC jobs truly AI Proof? (Marc thinks so)
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Workday's new head of product wants you to like Workday as much as he does
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Qasar Younis from Applied Intuition
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:30 PM ET, November 18, 2013.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Financial Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Rob Dubbin / New Yorker: |
| Paul Mozur / Digits: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
Twitter, The Register, AllThingsD, BBC, Guardian, BetaNews, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Digital Trends, I4U News, Telegraph, SocialTimes, Inquirer, Financial Times, Mashable, The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @glennf
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox …
More:
NYT Bits, Bloomberg, CITEworld, The Register, Forbes, PC World, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Next Web, Little Bird, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bnara75
Earlier Picks
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
More:
Dare Obasanjo's weblog and Erik McClure. Tweets: @nilofer, @owenthomas and @felixsalmon. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
More:
ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Guardian, Reuters, TechCrunch, bizjournals, TechSpot, The Register, Business Insider, TheStreet.com, I4U News, Inquirer, Digits, iLounge, Polygon, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekTime, CNET, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Mashable, App Advice, PE Hub Blog, WinBeta, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, The Verge and Softpedia News
Tweets: @danprimack and @jyarow