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Drive: Portland tried to run from Uber. Then the mayor grabbed the wheel.wweek.com
Brooke Steger had never met Steve Novick before they attended a September event at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Steger is the regional general manager of Uber, the $41 billion company whose,Cover Story -
FTC finalizes privacy settlement with Snapchat over 'deceived' userstheverge.com
Few expected any obstacles, but the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling its charges against Snapchat that will see the popular ephemeral messaging startup held to stricter... -
Supreme Court, in Big Leap, Plans to Put Filings Onlinenytimes.com
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the changes would come “as soon as 2016” in his annual year-end report on the condition of the federal judiciary. - treswalsh.com
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How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm | WIREDwired.com
Matt Dorfman We live in a world made of computers. Your car is a computer that drives down the freeway at 60 mph with you strapped inside. If you live or work in a modern building, computers regulate its temperature and respiration. And we're not just ... -
Fraud causes disappearance of 99% of Mt. Gox bitcoinsthe-japan-news.com
Among about 650,000 bitcoins that went missing from failed Mt. Gox’s exchange system, about 7,000 bitcoins, or only about 1 percent of the total, were lost due to cyber-attacks and it is highly suspected that the remaining 99 percent disappeared after ... -
War on General Purpose Computers is the difference between utopia and dystopiaboingboing.net
My Wired op-ed, How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm, warns that we've learned the wrong lesson from the DRM wars: we've legitimized the idea that we can and should design computers to disobey their owners and hide their operati... -
U.S. cancer deaths fell 22 percent since 1991reuters.com
(Reuters Health) - More than 1.5 million Americans avoided death from cancer since 1991 thanks to falling smoking rates and better cancer prevention, detection and treatments, according to a study from -
We're Coach.me now and we're all in on Coaching. - Coach.me - Instant Coaching For Any Goalblog.coach.me
Today, we’ve changed our name from Lift to Coach.me. The changes are live on the web, on iPhone, and on Android. If you’re a coach (or want to be a coach) and want a fancy coach profile like mine, then make sure to reserve your coaching URL. Why we cho... -
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Medical schools don’t teach these key lessons — and it’s ruining our healthwashingtonpost.com
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Snapchat Has Raised $485 Million More From 23 Investors, At Valuation Of At Least $10Btechcrunch.com
Back in the day, we reported that messaging app Snapchat* was raising over $100 million in a round led by Kleiner Perkins. And then the WSJ reported that it.. -
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Acearchive.wired.com
S.O.S. When a massive freighter packed with a $103 million cargo tilts onto its side in the North Pacific, a team of deep-sea cowboys gets the call. Inside the epic struggle to save the <cite>Cougar Ace</cite>. - christophermeiklejohn.com
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Late to the NoSQL Party with FoundationDBmedium.com
Building a database-independent application framework in ruby