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1. Google Now Has an Official Virtual Reality Boss to Take On Facebook’s Oculus (Mark Bergen / Re/Code)
2. The State of the Union Was About Tech Because Everything Is About Tech (Jason Koebler / Vice Motherboard)
3. The New Republic Meltdown and Why the Media World Cares So Much, Explained (Matthew Yglesias / Vox)
4. A Quarter of People Won’t Make a Single Call on Their Cell Phones This Week (Ina Fried / Re/Code)
5. Can ‘Slow Journalism’ Work? Delayed Gratification Is Finding Out. (Lucinda Southern / Digiday)
6. The Sorry Legacy of Internet Explorer (Klint Finley / Wired)
7. SoundCloud and Universal Music Agree to Licensing Deal (Ben Sisario / New York Times)
8. African Startups Are Defying the Global Tech Slowdown (Lily Kuo / Quartz)
