10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
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Here's what you need to know as you head into the weekend.
1. Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual "male" and "female" options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves out of more than 50 options, including "cisgender," "transgender" and "intersex."
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4. Silk Road has been hacked. Someone stole all of its bitcoins.
6. Farhad Manjoo begins his job at the New York Times, and tells us what to buy. (Hint: Apple, Google, Amazon.)
7. Not on Manjoo's list? Microsoft. And they were pretty ticked about that.
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