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ESPN Using @Tilt Payment Tech to Let Fantasy Football Leagues Collect Dues, Payout Winners Online - Digits - WSJblogs.wsj.com
The sports network’s Fantasy Football Web and mobile apps had previously relied on a patchwork of methods to take care of league dues. -
An Empire of Stars - Lapsed Historianlapsedhistorian.com
The story of how Great Britain became a member of the small club of nations to independently achieve space flight and of Prospero, its forgotten satellite. -
Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Centersoftwarefreedom.org
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. -
Two Tap Raises $2.7M Seed Round For Its “Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet” | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Two Tap, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to become the "shopping cart of the entire Internet," today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed.. -
Celkon Campus A35K: Android 4.4 Kitkat Smartphone Now Available Exclusively Via Snapdeal at Rs 2,999gizbot.com
Hyderabad-based company claims the Campus A35K to be the most affordable smartphone in the Indian market to ship with Android KitKat mobile OS. Read more -
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SourceForge Interview: A New Game Engine - Dice Newsnews.dice.com
Over at SourceForge, the August Project of the Month is the community-elected VASSAL Engine. -
Snowden gets 3-year residency permit in Russiausatoday.com
NSA whistleblower granted residency for three more years, but not political asylum. -
Why We Might Be Stuck With Passwords for a Whiletime.com
They certainly don't keep us safe from hackers—but none of the alternatives out there are free from their own host of problems yet either. -
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Video: Storm Chasing on Saturnnytimes.com
The sun is slowly rising over Saturn’s North Pole, exposing an immense six-sided hurricane. The storm, big enough to swallow four Earths, was first spotted by the Voyager missions in the early 1980s. -
Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valleybusinessweek.com
The tech industry’s elite have a reputation for arrogance. Do they deserve it? -
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The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | Business | WIREDwired.com
Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Stewart is hungry. He’s munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It’s a prominent piece of furniture in wh... -
B&N Partners With Google for Same-Day Deliverypublishersweekly.com
The bookselling chain is partnering with Google's new shopping service, Google Shopping, to offer same-day delivery in three U.S. cities. -
Casper, an Online Mattress Start-Up, Raises $13.1 Millionbits.blogs.nytimes.com
Casper deals in what is probably one of the least cool businesses around: selling mattresses. And that is why the company’s chief executive thinks that there is an opportunity. -
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