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Julian Assange: I’m not unwell, but Google is sleeping with the NSA

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JULIAN ASSANGE has complained that he is under constant surveillance and the victim of smears and falsehoods.

Although Assange has been living in a room for over a year now, this week he ventured out as a hologram to appear at an event and spoke out about his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. It seems that living in a room at a foreign embassy is not the high life that Google chairman Eric Schmidt wants us to believe.

According to report at CBC News, Assange claims that Google is in bed with the US government and is just as snooptastic as its buddy.

He claimed that Eric Schmidt met with him a couple of years ago and took along a girlfriend of his. That girlfriend, he claims, set about creating a dossier on Assange and his whistleblowing and began sharing it with the US authorities. It is all in the book that he has coming out.

"What we do know is that the information collected as a result of the interview, very quickly, some parts of it, went to the US State Department, to the top of the US State department," he said.

"She doesn't formally work for the US State Department, she has no formal role in being the back channel for the US State Department, but of course, within the State Department, they had known about this visit. This got me very interested in how was it that the chairman of Google was literally in bed in a way with the US State Department."

Assange added that Google and the NSA have been cosy since 2002 and that if that agency says "jump", Google jumps.

"This close connection between Google's business activities, its business model, which it can't get away from, and the US government, created an opportunity for the NSA to stick its fangs into everything that Google was collecting," he added.

Assange, who we should remember does not get out much, claimed to be the picture of health, despite reports or rumours to the contrary.

"I'm pretty hard to kill. And I come from a very long-lived family line," he said.

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Reddit Plans To Create Cryptocurrency

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Reddit looks to create its own cryptocurrencyIBTimes UK

Reddit, the self-anointed front page of the internet, has announced its intention to create a cryptocurrency after fundraising 30 million.

The fundraising round, which saw the company valued at 308 million, will go toward staff expansion for product development, community management and improved tools for moderation and community, according to an official blog post.

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In a comment below the line, Reddit CEO said the site would allocate 10% of their shares back to the Reddit community as a cryptocurrency.

Prefacing this revelation with a warning that the plan could fail, Wong said: "We are thinking about creating a cryptocurrency and making it exchangeable (backed) by those shares of reddit, and then distributing the currency to the community. The investors have explicitly agreed to this in their investment terms.

"Nothing like this has ever been done before. Basically we have to nail down how to do each step correctly (it is technically, legally, and financially complex), though in our brief consultation with an ex-SEC lawyer, he stated he could find nothing illegal about this plan. Nevertheless, there are something like 30 different things we have to pull off to make this work, so we're going to try."

Among the investors in the first is Sam Altman, CEO of Y Combinator, who was in the same 2004 accelerator batch as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman.

In an AMA, Altman said he'll be patient before putting money back into the community, backing Reddit to appreciate in value: "I don't have any particular timeframe in mind. I believe that the community is very valuable and that the value will continue to increase."

With more than 115 million unique monthly visitors, and more than 5 billion monthly page, Reddit is one of the world's biggest websites.

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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange turns up on stage in Nantucket – as a hologram

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Julian Assange turned up on a stage in Massachusetts on Sunday, even though hes still firmly holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

So how did he do that?

Thanks to tech company Hologram USA, the Wikileaks founder was able have his image reconstructed live on stage at The Nantucket Project, an annual bash thatbrings together the worlds leading thinkers, visionaries, and performers for some informal chit-chat and social shenanigans.

If the name of the company rings a bell, that might be because it was also behind the famous reappearance of Tupacin 2012. Alegal spatconcerning theMichael Jacksonholographic performance in May also landed it in the news just the other day.

While Tupac and Jacksonare sadly no longer with us, Assange is most definitely still knocking around, albeit within an Ecuadorian-owned building in London. However, due to his self-imposed confinementat the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden where he faces questioning over alleged sex assaults Assange doesnt get out much, or at all, to be exact.

Related:Your next smartphone could have a holographic projector inside it

While hes been able to do print interviews and appear online from the embassy via services like Skype, this is the first time since he turned up at the embassy two years ago that hes gone all 3D on us.

Interviewed by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, the feat (excerpt below) involved a camera at the embassy, satellite trucks in London and Nantucket, and some very powerful projectors. The live interview saw a life-size Assange (well, it wouldve looked a bit silly if he was only 30 cmtall) appearing on stage alongside Jarecki.

Related:Hologram replaced human receptionist at London office

From what weve seen of it, the talk seemed to go smoothly enough, apart from the very end when an attempt at a high fivewas scuppered by the six-second satellite delay, leaving both interviewer and interviewee looking a little uncomfortable.

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