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After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count (Laura M. Holson/New York Times)

Laura M. Holson / New York Times: After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count  —  Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican … After Rep. Devin Nunes

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Dancing Arrows To Break Your Brain

Last year, mathematician and professional optical illusionist [Kokichi Sugihara] came up with an arrow that only points one way. Technically, it’s ‘anomalous mirror symmetry’, but if you print this arrow and look at it juuuussst right, it appears this arrow only points one way. [Ali] had the idea to turn this arrow illusion into something

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Survey: average US consumer subscribes to three streaming video services, 69% subscribe to at least one, up from 55%, and 47% experience subscription fatigue (Mike Snider/USA Today)

Mike Snider / USA Today: Survey: average US consumer subscribes to three streaming video services, 69% subscribe to at least one, up from 55%, and 47% experience subscription fatigue  —  Three streaming video subscriptions seems to be the ticket for cord cutters and binge watchers. Survey: average US consumer subscribes to three streaming video services,

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Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters (Yogita Khatri/CoinDesk)

Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn’t, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters  —  Two cryptocurrency benchmark indices from data provider CoinMarketCap will launch today on financial data feeds … Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes

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Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023  —  Microsoft has rolled out a patch that will warn Windows 7 users that security updates will soon come to an end. Microsoft says

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In its first quarter since going public, Tencent Music posts net loss of $127M on $785M revenue, mainly due to a one-off share-based charge to label partners (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: In its first quarter since going public, Tencent Music posts net loss of $127M on $785M revenue, mainly due to a one-off share-based charge to label partners  —  Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the Chinese answer to Spotify that Tencent spun out and floated on the New York Stock Exchange in December

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Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the "bitcoin/crypto ecosystem" (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem”  —  Payments startup Square plans to hire a number of engineers and a designer to work on its crypto initiatives, according to tweets from CEO Jack Dorsey. Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square

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Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated (Eugene Kim/CNBC)

Eugene Kim / CNBC: Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated  —  – In recent months, Amazon has been more aggressively enforcing its policy of suspending ads if the product being promoted doesn’t make money. Amazon vendors say

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Khronos Group releases OpenXR 0.90 specification for AR and VR hardware standards; supporters include Google, HTC, Microsoft, Oculus, Samsung, Unity, and Valve (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Khronos Group releases OpenXR 0.90 specification for AR and VR hardware standards; supporters include Google, HTC, Microsoft, Oculus, Samsung, Unity, and Valve  —  The Khronos Group has announced the ratification and public release of the OpenXR .90 provisional specification … Khronos Group releases OpenXR 0.90 specification for AR and VR hardware

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