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		<title>MIT wishes it could deliver acceptance letters via drone</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/09/mit-recruitment-video-parlays-drone-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/09/mit-recruitment-video-parlays-drone-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[delivery drones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT wants prospective students to know that it's fully aboard the drone bandwagon, parlaying an army of delivery drones (and computer-generated imagery) for a tongue-in-cheek admissions video, complete with Wagnerian orchestration. MIT sends&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with two elusive entrepreneurs: The Yik Yak founders</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/07/qa-with-two-elusive-entrepreneurs-the-yik-yak-founders/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/07/qa-with-two-elusive-entrepreneurs-the-yik-yak-founders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as founders go, the Yik Yak fellas are some of the quietest. Georgia-based Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll stayed out of the Silicon Valley limelight during the early days&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>How PayPal uses deep learning and detective work to fight fraud</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/how-paypal-uses-deep-learning-and-detective-work-to-fight-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/how-paypal-uses-deep-learning-and-detective-work-to-fight-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derrick Harris]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hui Wang has seen the nature of online fraud change a lot in the 11 years she's been at PayPal. In fact, a continuous evolution of methods is kind of the nature of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook is removing likes from deactivated accounts</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/05/facebook-is-removing-likes-from-deactivated-accounts/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/05/facebook-is-removing-likes-from-deactivated-accounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Pages may lose some of their likes soon. Thursday the company  warned businesses it’s removing likes from deactivated or memorialized accounts. The like dip would be more of an ego hit for companies&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Airbnb open sources SQL tool built on Facebook&#8217;s Presto database</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/05/airbnb-open-sources-sql-tool-built-on-facebooks-presto-database/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/05/airbnb-open-sources-sql-tool-built-on-facebooks-presto-database/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derrick Harris]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Airpal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called Airpal that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Gear VR slated for full release by the end of the year</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/04/samsungs-gear-vr-slated-for-full-release-by-the-end-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/04/samsungs-gear-vr-slated-for-full-release-by-the-end-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signe Brewster]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john carmack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Oculus is still "baby stepping" out its app store for the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus CTO John Carmack said the company plans to do a broad release of the virtual reality&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why emerging markets need smart internet policies</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/04/affordability-report-shows-why-emerging-markets-need-smart-internet-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has released its latest study into, well, the affordability of internet access. The study shows how big the challenge is on that front in emerging&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FCC official says Google, Facebook had little say on net neutrality</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/fcc-official-says-google-facebook-had-little-say-on-net-neutrality/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/fcc-official-says-google-facebook-had-little-say-on-net-neutrality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Roberts]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chairman Tom Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gigi Sohn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FCC's landmark decision on net neutrality has produced all sorts of speculation about the degree to which well-known tech giants shaped the outcome. Gawker, for instance, claimed that Americans can thank a benevolent Facebook-Google cabal for the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T&#8217;s privacy plan may be short-lived and may not even be as bad as we think</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/atts-privacy-plan-may-be-short-lived-and-may-not-even-be-as-bad-as-we-think/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/atts-privacy-plan-may-be-short-lived-and-may-not-even-be-as-bad-as-we-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Higginbotham]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T hit a nerve with its privacy-eroding Internet Preferences Plan, which lets customers surf the web at gigabit speeds but also lets the telecom giant see what sites they visit in order to serve&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FCC&#8217;s Wheeler makes net neutrality case before global carriers</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/fccs-wheeler-makes-net-neutrality-case-before-global-carriers/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/fccs-wheeler-makes-net-neutrality-case-before-global-carriers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler said on Tuesday that he doesn’t put much credibility in claims that U.S. carriers would stop investing in their networks in his new era of network&#8230;]]></description>
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