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The Mysterious Creator of Bitcoin Is the One Person Nobody Expected
It's long been taken as a given that Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious "person or entity" who created Bitcoin, the world's best-known digital currency, is a pseudonym—probably for more than one person....
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Eric Schmidt: Robots Will Be "Omnipresent In Our Lives In A Good Way”
Besides air, nothing good can come from having something present in all places at all times. Not even Wi-fi. But that didn't stop Eric Schmidt from trying to make a case for Google's artificially...
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The Silicon Valley creation myth is now Diet Coke advertising fodder.
The Silicon Valley creation myth is now Diet Coke advertising fodder. [via Paolo Sambrano]Read more...
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Sean Parker Is Unemployed
Facebook billionaire conservationist Sean Parker just stepped down from his investor gig at Founders Fund, where he worked for years within one of tech's most prominent venture capital machines. So,...
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The "King of the East Bay Polyamory Scene" Promotes a Kinky Facebook
As anyone who scrolled through Secret knows, California's polyamorous roots are alive and licking with the early adopter set. Naturally, someone had find way to scale that, and who better than William...
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Truck Yeah! Ted Nugent Was An Off-Road Racer | Defamer Finally We Can Watch Justin Bieber Pee In Jail | Paleofuture The Most Retro-Futuristic DMV In America | Regressing NFL Won't Chip In On A $100...
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The LIVR Hoax: Everybody's Favorite New Drunkbro App Is Fake
Yesterday, the developers of an app called LIVR began cold-calling tech writers. The pitch was fun! A social network you can only access when you're drunk, thanks to a breathalyzer accessory. If it...
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Google Execs Arrived At SXSW on a Private Jet With Android Plushies
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, just began their South by Southwest panel addressing "issues of technology and privacy, war and intervention, diplomacy and...
View ArticleOn stage at SXSW, Wired's Steven Levy asked Eric Schmidt whether companies...
On stage at SXSW, Wired's Steven Levy asked Eric Schmidt whether companies like WhatsApp lead to more inequality. Here's Schmidt's response: "Let us celebrate capitalism," he said, opening his arms....
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Privacy Watchdog: Don't Trust Facebook with WhatsApp
The corporate narrative around WhatsApp's obscurity-to-billions story centers around values. The company's founders, we're told, respect our privacy above all else—except $19 billion dollars from a...
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Whistleblower Threatens to Expose Corruption at Bitcoin Foundation
If a breathless car chase wasn't cinematic enough to make you care about Bitcoin, how about a whistleblower threatening to publish an expose about corrupt elders and ominously signing off: "You have...
View ArticleSXSW has morphed into spring break for marketers, but Secret and its...
SXSW has morphed into spring break for marketers, but Secret and its investors are working real hard to #win it anyways. The same hour that the app launched a feature to see anonymous confessions...
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Did Google Just Snatch Back Its Funding From Bryan Goldberg's Bustle?
All does not necessarily end well just because your startup scored $6.5 million and a profile in The New Yorker. TechCrunch reports that Google Ventures pulled its $100,000 investment in Bustle...
View ArticleHow LIVR Fooled the World (And Why the World Probably Deserved It)
One of the hottest new apps set to debut this week at SXSW, that annual intermingling of tenuous ideas and easy money, was LIVR, a social network exclusively for drunk people. Media and investors...
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SXSW In One Photo: Shingy on a Wrecking Ball
Austin, TX — All the brands are here, and form a chorus of undignified pleas for your attention. But why are they bothering? Nothing will beat AOL's race to the bottom like Digital Prophet and escaped...
View ArticleMike Arrington Says Bryan Goldberg Is Kinda Fucked
His name was already mud, but there are plenty of things worse than mud (poop, toxic waste, mud with spiders in it, etc.). Even Michael Arrington wouldn't touch Goldberg after The Bustle's latest bit...
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Ben Horowitz Is Desperate for You to Think He's Cool
Austin, TX — Today, after weeks of media aggrandizement, millionaire tech investor Ben Horowitz sat down on a stage in Austin with the rapper Nas and made a large room uncomfortable. Read more...
View ArticleThere is a stirring debate on Hacker News right now about the ethics of...
There is a stirring debate on Hacker News right now about the ethics of "growth hacking ," the grandiloquent term for getting users by any means possible. Weigh in on what is "scummy" and what is...
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Drunk Googlers Are the New Popular Kids
Austin, TX — Strip away the pretension of the panels, and SXSW is pure leisure time. This rowdy crew swapped contraband wine bottles through the end of the night at one of this week's high budget...
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Is San Francisco America's New Worst Place?
There are bad people in every town, but New York has long managed to stay at the top of the prick-heap, despite steep competition from L.A and Portland. But the latest issue of New York mag raises the...
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