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Breaking: Google announces Google Play Music All Access subscription service. Demoing the service — playlists curated by music editors; top albums; etc. Access to millions of songs. Anything you’re listening into can be turned into a “radio” station. “This is radio without rules.”  Can blend your personal music library with Google Play Music All Access. It’s $9.99 per month. If you start a trial by June 30, you pay only $7.99 per month. Launching today in the U.S.

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“Bitcoin is the Internet applied to money.” Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill survived her week of living on BTC — and ended her adventure by treating 60+ redditors to a #ForbesBitcoinRager at a San Francisco sushi restaurant that accepts the digital currency. Read her Day 7 report and stay tuned for a “lessons learned” followup — when she’s less exhausted.
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“Bitcoin is the Internet applied to money.”

Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill survived her week of living on BTC — and ended her adventure by treating 60+ redditors to a #ForbesBitcoinRager at a San Francisco sushi restaurant that accepts the digital currency. Read her Day 7 report and stay tuned for a “lessons learned” followup — when she’s less exhausted.

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lainnafader: “For me, it’s through running, running every single day, that I grieve for those whose lives were lost and for those who were injured on Boylston Street. This is the only personal message I can send them. I know it’s not much, but I hope that my voice gets through. I hope, too, that the Boston Marathon will recover from its wounds, and that those twenty-six miles will again seem beautiful, natural, free.” - Haruki Murakami, to the Boston Marathon runners, via the New Yorker. 
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lainnafader:

“For me, it’s through running, running every single day, that I grieve for those whose lives were lost and for those who were injured on Boylston Street. This is the only personal message I can send them. I know it’s not much, but I hope that my voice gets through. I hope, too, that the Boston Marathon will recover from its wounds, and that those twenty-six miles will again seem beautiful, natural, free.”

- Haruki Murakami, to the Boston Marathon runners, via the New Yorker. 

Living On Bitcoin For A Week: The Journey Begins

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Many journalists have been writing about the mechanics of buying Bitcoin and the dramatic rises and falls in the digital currency’s worth. But that’s just a story about gambling. Kashmir Hill’s editor issued a different challenge to test the currency’s legitimacy: “Don’t just buy Bitcoin. Live on it for a week.”

Can she do it? Follow Kashmir’s story, here. And feel free to send tips… She’s hungry and desperate for coffee. 

(Photo: Getty Images)

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America’s love affair with barbecue has never burned hotter than right now – and the opening of new specialty barbecue restaurants where you’d least expect them is fanning the fire.

Hope you’re hungry! Here are 10 finger-lickin’ good BBQ joints across the USA. 

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