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Our Secret Society Where Everyone Knows Everyone's Business...
From Discover magazine 1988.It's ironic that with all our technologies for keeping things secret our secrets have a way of coming out into the open. We now know so much about the super-secret NSA and...
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Startups Doing Good: How Urine Can Save Lives
Fosmo Med is a Silicon Valley startup using a technology called forward osmosis to dramatically reduce the costs of shipping IV bags used to fight outbreaks of cholera.Here's more details and a plea to...
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Wolff's Much Ado About Kara Swisher
I've known Kara Swisher for many years, back when I was at the Financial Times and she was "Boomtown" columnist at the Wall Street Journal. She's a tenacious and persistent journalist and those are...
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Everything You Know About Infographics Is Wrong
Infographics have become a popular way for companies to produce quality content that is easily shared and in the process, it is assumed, it is a good thing for the company.However, Google sees...
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Intel Outside: New Initiative With Wearable Computers
Steve Holmes, vice president of Intel’s New Devices Group.By Intel Free PressIntel has quietly hired two high-profile engineers who have joined the company’s secretive “new devices” group run by Mike...
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Intel's New CEO Pledges To Wrestle Mobile Markets From ARM
At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's new CEO Brian Krzanich spoke about the future strategy for the world's largest chipmaker, predicting $100 tablets, and large markets for wearable computers.Dean...
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Role Models: Big Challenges Fuel Max Levchin's Ambitions
Max Levchin, the co-founder of PayPal and a serial entrepreneur, spoke about his ambitions at Techcrunch Disrupt conference.Rebecca Grant reported: PayPal cofounder Max Levchin aims to ‘move the needle...
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What Have You Bought That Was Marketed To You Online?
I've recently been asking people a simple question at parties: "What have you bought lately that was marketed to you online that you probably wouldn't have bought anyway, like a favorite brand of...
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New Brooms At Intel Want Change - Good Luck With That
Diane Bryant, senior vice president heads Intel's Datacenter business group.The Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco, is Intel's most important event of the year because it's a chance for...
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Beating Up VCs: The Majority Harm Startups Says Leading Silicon Valley VC
Vinod Khosla is a veteran VC and a very successful one. He doesn't think much of other VCs reports Kim-Mai Cutler: Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups | TechCrunch.Speaking on...
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Pet Owners Protest Facebook Culling
I had no idea this was happening but Mitzi Szereto drew my attention to this:Facebook Cull Harming the Harmless | Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog
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Spies In Disguise: NSA Pretends To Be Google
Above from Mother Jones.The NSA Edward Snowden revelations are getting worse and worse for the reputation of leading Silicon Valley companies as the latest information shows that the US spy agency has...
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Neil Postman Is A True Futurist…Great Interview From 1995
Superb interview here with Neil Postman about technology and the Faustian bargain we make with it. He manages to predict the issues that we face today with social networks, online education, and who...
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Upcoming: A 'Live Historic TED Talk' From Paris 1915 By 2 Nobel Prize Winner...
This is well worth seeing. It's best described as a live historic TED talk from 1915 Paris. Marie Skłodowska-Curie was the first to win two Nobel prizes. The performance by Susan Marie Frontczak is...
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F5 Acquires Israeli Startup Versafe For Its Security Software
Versafe, the Israeli security startup acquired today by F5 Networks, in Seattle, Washington, recently introduced its TotALL online fraud protection suite, which claims to protect financial institutions...
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Vanity Fair Struggles To Find Silicon Valley's 'Best Dressed'
Vanity Fair struggled to come up with ten examples of stylish Silicon Valley executives for its slideshow: The Top 10 Best-Dressed Execs in Silicon Valley | Vanity FairIn fact, a couple of them aren't...
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Twitter Claimed Vastly Inflated Advertising Metrics As IPO Interest Grows
Twitter claimed that an advertiser received 25 times the number of tweets it actually received and it inflated another metric by 680 million until the San Francisco Chronicle double checked the...
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[Updated] Prediction: AllThingsD Name Will Be Retired - Deal Almost Done
[Updated from Kara Swisher with traffic numbers and compensation. Also: She reports that a deal is almost done.]I'm a big fan of the AllThingsD editorial team because of its old school insistence on...
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Google's Life-Extension Venture Is About Employee Retention
Imagine if you had a choice: work at a company for a decent salary and benefits, or work at a company with decent salary, benefits, and the opportunity to live longer?The latter offer is the one that...
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AngelList Plans Expansion As It Raises $24m Ahead Of SEC Changes
AngelList, the company that brings angels and startups together, is planning an expansion taking advantage of a novel affiliate model, and changes in SEC rules on how private companies can raise...
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