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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes — The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past five days. Graph via Bitcoincharts.com. — It's Bitcoin-madness today. — On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency is skyrocketing.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation — Dropbox has always had a flair for the dramatic. Its CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, for example, appeared on a YouTube clip in 2012, belting out “Rocket Man” with a pint in hand at a Swiss bar—just one of several bravura performances.| 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 …
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Salesforce.com buys cloudconnect just in time for Dreamforce — Salesforce.com has purchased cloudconnect, a startup founded by Heroku and Salesforce.com alum Adam Gross who is now, I guess, back in the fold. — The news was posted — with scant details — on cloudconnect's web page which read:
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| 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 …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time — Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way — A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agency of Americans' email …
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / Gigaom: |
Special report: Apple's ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos — Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Office Remote lets you control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a Windows Phone — Microsoft has just unveiled Office Remote, a new app that lets users control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with any Windows Phone 8 device. It's basically SmartGlass …
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Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch flops with just 50,000 units sold - report — Since its debut in late September, Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch has mustered sales of just 50,000 units, suggesting the device has not managed to gain sizable interest from the mass market.| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Uber adds PayPal payment option to drive user adoption — Uber users can now pay for on-demand car service with PayPal, kicking off a partnership that lends PayPal some mobile cred while potentially driving new users to Uber's services. — Uber is releasing new versions of its Android … | Ted Johnson / Variety: |
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Google Completes Upgrade of its SSL Certificates to 2048-Bit RSA — Google announced today that it has completed the upgrade of all its SSL certificates to 2048-bit RSA or better, coming in more than a month ahead of schedule. — “We have completed this process which will allow the industry … | Grant Gross / Computerworld: |
Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case — State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser — Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over its unauthorized placement …
| Ryan Block / Engadget: |
Engadget is getting a whole lot bigger: profiles, forums, product database, and so much more! — A few days ago we launched the best designed version of Engadget ever, and today we're about to get bigger. A lot bigger. — Years in the making, today we're launching dozens of new features to Engadget …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Sling overhauls its TV-streaming app for iOS, adds Roku channel; Windows 8.1 app planned for December — Sling only refreshes its TV-streaming set-top boxes once every few years, and indeed, the current models only came out 13 months ago. So, it's a bit early for new hardware …
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| Derek Khanna / Slate: |
Obama's Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It — Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House has been secretly negotiating with other nations and 600 special interest lobbyists. The draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty …
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