By Kelly Faircloth 3/27 8:03am

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Booting Up: Blame Intuit (in Part) for Your Complicated Tax Return

Part of the reason your tax return makes you want to cry is that Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied against a simpler option. [ProPublica]

Breaking: Hashtags are useless and, more importantly, ugly. [Nieman Journalism Lab]

Why would Marissa Mayer want Dailymotion? Because it would let Yahoo sell a hell of a lot more video ads. [Business Insider]

“App kid ridiculed: Silicon Valley disses teen’s Yahoo! deal” is a headline today. [New York Post]

Aaand tourists can no longer access mobile Internet in North Korea. That 3G lasted longer than we expected, to be honest. [Wired]

By Kelly Faircloth 3/15 4:35pm

Visiting Dignitaries

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Will.i.am’s New Song Has a Hashtag In the Title, Naturally

Recording artist Will.i.am, as you may know, is something of a self-styled technologist. Besides holding down a sweet gig as Intel’s director of “creative innovation,” he pops up in pro-coding propaganda and once featured a Makerbot in one of his videos, because why not. Now he’s further demonstrating his devotion to technology in the title of his latest track: “#thatpower,” released today.  Read More