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The Bitcoin Broker and the 13-Year-Old Girl in the Bikini
Last year, successful startup CEO and Bitcoin community hero Tony Gallippi testified before Congress on behalf of the oft-maligned crypto-libertarian dream currency. Gallippi, head of the virtual...
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Just dropped almost $1k on chocolate at @chocolategarage. Not an addict, no. — Sam Schillace (@sschillace) April 12, 2014 Read more...
View Article"Sorry About the Rent Stuff," Kevin Rose Tells Anarchists In New Video
The anti-capitalist activists behind the Counterforce finally released footage of the protest they staged outside the San Francisco home of Google Ventures investor Kevin Rose. The video confirms that...
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Google Glass Wearer in L.A. Gets Robbed at Taser-Point
One good reason to avoid buying a $1,500 privacy-degrading headset is that people will hate you because of it. Another good reason is that you might get threatened with a stun device and robbed.Read...
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Is Mark Zuckerberg Too Old to Run Facebook?
The fable of the dropout prodigy is so widely-told in Silicon Valley that it even came back to bite the enfant terrible who inspired it. In a new Q&A in the New York Times, Farhad Manjoo asks...
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Mt. Gox, the beleaguered Bitcoin exchange, reportedly told a Tokyo court that it's giving up the ghost. It will shut down entirely and pay creditors out of what's left. That means its creditors are...
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Why AOL Let AIM Die Even Though Everyone Loved It
As a company, AOL has made some horrible decisions. Slightly worse than its merger with Time Warner—one of the biggest disasters in American business history—was its decision to let its incredibly...
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Techies: Just Leave Homeless People Alone
Last year, the tech community was stunned by the realization that teaching a homeless man to code did not solve the larger issues of homelessness and American income inequality. Now, they've...
View ArticleThe Singapore-based* software company Jasper got a valuation of more than $1...
The Singapore-based* software company Jasper got a valuation of more than $1 billion to usher in the Internet of Things. So many kinds of things, like "autos, baby pajamas, airplane engines and so on."...
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New Bay Area rules: every tech company demonstration must have a gimmick.
New Bay Area rules: every tech company demonstration must have a gimmick. The Tax Day protest outside Twitter had stick-on mustaches mocking Mayor Ed Lee; the one outside Apple had $15 billion...
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You May Not Have Paid the Right Taxes for Airbnb
The gig economy seems a lot less cuddly come tax season, especially for the underemployed who provide raw material and have come to depend on startups like Airbnb for income. Read more...
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Panicked Investors Insist Tech Stock Nosedive Is Just a Phase
The "pounding" tech stocks have been taking in the public market is making Silicon Valley wonder if a startup's ability to make a profit really does matter after all. But don't expect a moment of...
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Marissa Mayer's Sidekick Made $58 Million Just by Getting Fired
A new SEC filing out of Yahoo! confirms two sad things we already knew: it's tremendously easy for a man to make more than a woman , and it's stupid simple to be filthy rich and also be bad at your...
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Why You Should Be Careful What You "Like" on Facebook
Looking to sue a corporation? Quick, check your Facebook interests. The New York Times reports today that now your innocent thumbs-up on a brand on Facebook—or the downloading of a coupon—could limit...
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Rupert Murdoch, the same futurist who bought MySpace and funded The Daily, is...
Rupert Murdoch, the same futurist who bought MySpace and funded The Daily, is turning his head to tech's next great moment—literally! Here he is with his face stuck in an Oculus Rift , perhaps using...
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Facebook Lets You Track Friends' Precise Location Through Their Phones
Just because Facebook has moved on to virtual reality face gear and drones doesn't mean they've forgotten their core competency: stalking. The company just launched an optional "Nearby Friends"...
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This Subway Creepshot Guy Is Your Google Glass Nightmare
The only thing surprising about this gentleman in Shanghai, who seems to be using his face computer primarily for taking covert pictures of women he encounters on the subway, is that it took so long...
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Twitter's Ghost Notifications Haunted Users
This week, a number of Twitter users reported a strange phenomenon. The alarm bell icon on the notifications tab displayed a number for favorites, follows, and retweets when there was nothing new to...
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