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Silk Road website creator gets life term for drug plot

May 30, 2015 publisher 200-million, behind-the-silk, certain-period, enabled-more, forrest, manhattan, memorial, prevent-attacks, representatives, ulbricht, undated-handout, usa, york

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin. Ross Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan after a federal jury in February found him guilty of charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering

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Creator of Silk Road website faces sentencing for drug scheme

May 29, 2015 admin digital, enabled-more, photo-shows, roberta-rampton, said-on-friday, three-months, underground, virtual-reality, york

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road will be sentenced on Friday for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.

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Google shows off virtual reality collaboration with GoPro

May 28, 2015 admin 200-million, are-popular, enabled-more, help-create, its-developer, manhattan, representatives, system-at-its

By Julia Love SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Action camera maker GoPro Inc and Google Inc introduced a virtual reality system using 16 cameras and Google software, sending GoPro shares up nearly 7 percent on Thursday. GoPro's helmet- and body-mounted video cameras are popular with adventure sports enthusiasts, and the new GoPro system will use Google’s new Jump technology to help create a 360 degree view.

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Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas

May 27, 2015 publisher axact, enabled-more, federal-bureau, help-create, international, investigation, karachi, pakistani, software-firm

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday.