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Civil to launch its blockchain on March 6 with individual and newsroom memberships and the ability to buy CVL tokens accessible via Civil's website (Matthew Iles/Civil)

Matthew Iles / Civil: Civil to launch its blockchain on March 6 with individual and newsroom memberships and the ability to buy CVL tokens accessible via Civil’s website  —  Civil is back and better than ever.  Full details below.  But let’s put first things first: Civil is a community-owned platform … Civil to launch its

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Microsoft to shut down its Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health Dashboard apps and services on May 31, will offer refunds to some active Band users (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft to shut down its Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health Dashboard apps and services on May 31, will offer refunds to some active Band users  —  Microsoft Band apps and services end on May 31st  —  Microsoft has announced today that it plans to kill off its Microsoft Band …

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Austin-based SpyCloud, which says it has a repository of 32B+ decrypted, compromised credentials and uses it to fight account takeovers, raises $21M Series B (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Austin-based SpyCloud, which says it has a repository of 32B+ decrypted, compromised credentials and uses it to fight account takeovers, raises $21M Series B  —  Identity theft hit a record high in 2017, according to Javelin Strategy and Research — the year 16.7 million victims … Austin-based SpyCloud, which says it

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eBay will add two directors from activist shareholders Elliott and Starboard to its board, will consider possible sale of StubHub and the Classifieds Group (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: eBay will add two directors from activist shareholders Elliott and Starboard to its board, will consider possible sale of StubHub and the Classifieds Group  —  – StubHub, Classifieds have been targeted for potential sales  — Elliott’s Jesse Cohn and Marvell’s Matt Murpy join board eBay will add two directors from activist shareholders Elliott and

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Coinbase's acquisition of Neutrino, co-founded by the key people behind the controversial hacking tools vendor Hacking Team, sparks a #DeleteCoinbase campaign (Jordan Pearson/Motherboard)

Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: Coinbase’s acquisition of Neutrino, co-founded by the key people behind the controversial hacking tools vendor Hacking Team, sparks a #DeleteCoinbase campaign  —  Users trying to #DeleteCoinbase are having trouble after the exchange acquired a startup staffed by former Hacking Team members. Coinbase's acquisition of Neutrino, co-founded by the key people behind

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Grape Plasma Explained

You’ve probably seen the videos of a grape — cut almost totally in half — in a microwave creates a plasma. A recent physics paper studies the phenomenon with a lot of high-tech gear and now the actual mechanism is known. [Veritasium] interviews the scientists and explains the grape plasma phenomenon in plain language. You

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Microsoft now lets Microsoft 365 users on Android take a picture of a printed data table and automatically convert it into a fully editable Excel spreadsheet (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft now lets Microsoft 365 users on Android take a picture of a printed data table and automatically convert it into a fully editable Excel spreadsheet  —  Microsoft uses AI to boost Excel features  —  Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and

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Sources: Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores, distinct from Whole Foods, in several major US cities (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores, distinct from Whole Foods, in several major US cities  —  Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores in several major U.S. cities as the retail giant looks to broaden its reach in the food business beyond its specialty Whole Foods

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