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    • Tech companies seeking real estate are asking local officials to sign NDAs, keeping economic and environmental risks hidden from the public and some lawmakers (Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed News)

    Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed News: Tech companies seeking real estate are asking local officials to sign NDAs, keeping economic and environmental risks hidden from the public and some lawmakers  —  Less than a week before Amazon officially announced it had chosen New York City and Crystal City, Virginia … Tech companies seeking real estate are

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    • Profile of Mike Novogratz, whose merchant bank Galaxy Digital has raised $242M on Toronto Venture Exchange in August and is a major investor in crypto startups (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

    Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Profile of Mike Novogratz, whose merchant bank Galaxy Digital has raised $242M on Toronto Venture Exchange in August and is a major investor in crypto startups  —  Mike Novogratz keeps crossing his fingers that this year’s bitcoin crash, which has seen the cryptocurrency lose three-quarters … Profile of Mike Novogratz,

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    • How lip-syncing video app TikTok got to 6M+ users in the US, in part by relieving job stress for workers like firefighters, military, and nurses (Abby Ohlheiser/Washington Post)

    Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post: How lip-syncing video app TikTok got to 6M+ users in the US, in part by relieving job stress for workers like firefighters, military, and nurses  —  Camille Gates’s husband would stare at his phone for long stretches of time, laughing at amateur music videos on an app called TikTok. How

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    • OpenSignal: average data speeds on mobile networks now outpace customer's Wi-Fi connection, on average, in 33 countries like Australia, France, Turkey, Lebanon (Andrew Orlowski/The Register)

    Andrew Orlowski / The Register: OpenSignal: average data speeds on mobile networks now outpace customer’s Wi-Fi connection, on average, in 33 countries like Australia, France, Turkey, Lebanon  —  And that means smartphones will need to get smarter  —  Ofcom’s top tech bod, Mansoor Hanif, recently gave the Wi-Fi industry a roasting … OpenSignal: average data

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    • UK parliament seizes documents, first obtained in a US civil case, allegedly shedding light on Facebook policies that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Carole Cadwalladr/The Guardian)

    Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: UK parliament seizes documents, first obtained in a US civil case, allegedly shedding light on Facebook policies that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant … UK parliament

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    • Adobe: online sales rose to $6.2B on Black Friday, up 23% YoY, 33% of sales came from mobile devices; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $7.8B, up 18% YoY (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)

    Lauren Thomas / CNBC: Adobe: online sales rose to $6.2B on Black Friday, up 23% YoY, 33% of sales came from mobile devices; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $7.8B, up 18% YoY  —  – Online sales Black Friday jumped 23.6 percent from a year ago, according to a new report from Adobe Analytics.

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    Agilent LCR Meter Teardown

    Since 1999, one of the more popular manufacturers of test equipment has been Agilent, the spun-off former instrument division of Hewlett-Packard. From simple multimeters to fully-equipped oscilloscopes, they have been covering every corner of this particular market. And, with the help of [Kerry Wong] and his teardown of an Agilent LCR meter, we can also

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    • Jeff Bezos' Day One Fund announces its first grants, worth $97.5M, awarded to 24 non-profits that provide emergency shelter and access to permanent housing (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

    Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos’ Day One Fund announces its first grants, worth $97.5M, awarded to 24 non-profits that provide emergency shelter and access to permanent housing  —  – First awards distributed from the $2 billion Day One Fund  — Grant awards those who do ‘needle-moving work’ for families Jeff Bezos' Day One Fund

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    • Sheryl Sandberg deserves much blame for the bad decisions at Facebook but, with most criticism directed at her, Mark Zuckerberg largely escapes scrutiny (Kara Swisher/New York Times)

    Kara Swisher / New York Times: Sheryl Sandberg deserves much blame for the bad decisions at Facebook but, with most criticism directed at her, Mark Zuckerberg largely escapes scrutiny  —  Perhaps it’s only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure. Sheryl Sandberg deserves much blame for

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