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Truck Yeah! 1978 Crash Test Will Make You Thankful For The Safety Of Modern Cars | Defamer Justin Bieber's Deposition Video Proves He's World's Funniest Asshole | Paleofuture Glenn Beck Is Making a...
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Bas Bosschert, the CTO of Double Think, claims that hackers can access your WhatsApp database using any Android app, even after today's update. "Facebook didn't need to buy WhatsApp to read your...
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Inside the Tasteless Private Clubhouse San Franciscans Love to Hate
There was a valet stationed outside The Battery on Sunday night. Even for private clubhouse with a $2,400 annual fee, this seemed superfluous. San Francisco's Financial District turns into a ghost...
View ArticleThe revolving door from public service to finance usually only benefits the...
The revolving door from public service to finance usually only benefits the person who walked through it, so this is a welcome change. Former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous is joining Kapor Partners...
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Paleofuture This 1920s Shockwatch Was Like a Taser For Your Wrist | Regressing Would A World-Class Sprinter Be The Best Baserunner In MLB? | Truck Yeah! I Set Two Cars On Fire Last Night, Here's What I...
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Facebook Headquarters Were Locked Down While Cops Investigated Threat
Facebook's 57-acre campus at 1 Hacker Way was temporarily sealed off Tuesday night while police investigated a threat that was later declared unsubstantiated and "non-credible." Re/Code called it the...
View ArticleCandy Crush Says It's Worth $7.6 Billion as Public Company
Money has no meaning. What is money? Put money in a bowl and drizzle with milk and granola for a tasty healthy treat: the New York Times says Candy Crush's parent company will seek a $7.6 billion...
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Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Speak to SXSW: A Tale of Two Rebels
Julian Assange appeared, as we told you before, by Skype at SXSW over the weekend . Set against a green-screened Wikileaks logo, wearing a scarf straight from the Doctor Who wardrobe department and an...
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How Google's Top Couple Turned into a Tangled-Up Cheating Foursome
Google's websites are safe, sterile, and boring. Its executives are anything but. Vanity Fair looked inside the secret affair that ended Silicon Valley's most prominent power couple, and found that...
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NSA Used Facebook As a Trojan Horse to Infect Targets with Malware
Glenn Greenwald's Snowden files are like a the bottomless mimosas of cyber-security scares. The latest dispatch from The Intercept describes how the National Security Agency exploited Silicon Valley...
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The Only Two Ben Horowitz Book Reviews You Need
Legendary rapper Ben Horowitz has a new book of platitudes out, and everyone is scrambling to buy their own copy—sometimes in print! But what do the critics say? Read more...
View ArticleYour Secrets Are Safe With Us
Sam Biddle and Valleywag hosted an 'off-the-record' breakfast at SXSW on Saturday morning. There was lots of gossip, food, gossip, booze, and gossip. It was great. Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture 24 Hours of UberFacts: So Many Lies, So Little Time | Regressing...
Paleofuture 24 Hours of UberFacts: So Many Lies, So Little Time | Regressing Some Gorgeous Visualizations Of All Movement In An NBA Game | Defamer Is This Lindsay Lohan's Celebrity Fuck List? | Truck...
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Brit Morin Doesn't Know What the Internet Is
Brit Morin , technologist and "the" "Martha" "Stewart" "of" "Silicon" "Valley," baked a cake to celebrate the birthday of the internet. Except the internet is almost half a century old, not 25, and it...
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Tumblr Penalizes Woman for Doxxing Creep Who Issued Rape Threat
On Wednesday, Tumblr user Misandry Mermaid put up a post doxxing a man who sent her a rape threat. Tumblr removed that post, telling her, "We do not allow harassment on Tumblr."Read more...
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Tencent sees your sprawling corporate campuses and raises you a 55-floor...
Tencent sees your sprawling corporate campuses and raises you a 55-floor skyscraper in Shenzhen connected by "swirling sky bridges." The Chinese Internet megalith, which kicked off the bidding war for...
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Silicon Valley Money Men Are Now Serving "Artisanal Venture Capital"
Benchmark Capital is in ascendance, thanks to investments in Uber, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. Thus the VC firm can afford to say ridiculous things like: "Our belief that this is more of a guild...
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SXSW Swag Bags Are Causing Airport Security Delays In Austin
As if the check-in lines aren't bad enough, the Austin American Statesman is reporting that swag bags received by South By South West (SXSW) attendees are causing security slow-ups at Austin Bergstrom...
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Ed Snowden, You Wasted Your Time at SXSW
To recruit jihadis, you don't go to the Mall of America. Anyone who thinks a marketing conference is the right place for a pro-privacy speech is equally delusional.Read more...
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Mark Zuckerberg Gave Obama an Angry Phone Call
Today in the occasional internet diary blog of Mark Zuckerberg: the cherubic chief executive is cranky with the federal government, and is telling the rest of us about his spat with the president.Read...
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