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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major ICO platforms — - Chinese regulators are about to start a campaign related to the country's initial coin offerings (ICO), according to a Caixin report — In a document, authorities …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, ShanghaiDaily.com, TechNode, Financial Times, Axios, Bloomberg, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Crowdfund Insider, The Verge, Hacker Noon, CoinDesk, VentureBeat, Tech in Asia, and Cointelegraph.com News
Tweets: @chrismessina, @timdraper, @pt, @chrismaddern, @eiaine, @chamath, and @cryptosqueeze
| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million … | Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple says it is ending its ten-year-old annual Apple Music Festival in the UK; will likely concentrate on one-off events and original content efforts — Apple has confirmed to MBW that it will no longer be hosting the annual Apple Music Festival at London's Roundhouse.
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Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, NME, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @mrnicklevine
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 8.0 Oreo review: fundamentals improve with reined in background processes, a new notifications layout, and better vendor support via Project Treble — We take a 20,000 word deep-dive on Android's “foundational” upgrades. — Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system.
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Android Central, BetaNews, BGR, Tech Advisor, Nokiapoweruser, and xda-developers
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Paris Hilton backs ICO of Lydian, an AI marketing service run by Gravity4, joining other celebrities getting in on the cryptocurrency hype — Paris Hilton is getting in on the ICO hype. — Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, are the hottest new fundraising tool in tech right now.
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Bloomberg, HuffPost, Cointelegraph.com News, International Business Times, The Register, CoinDesk, The Memo, The Stack, MarTech Advisor, and Opalesque
Tweets: @parishilton, @ericnakagawa, @jstrauss, @nbougalis, @thestalwart, @adamdraper, @mattocko, @mdudas, @robaeprice, and @tonyromm
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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MacRumors, Financial Times, The Verge, BetaNews, Inquirer, The Independent, Engadget, TechSpot, and The Next Web. Tweets: @tymoss
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Carpooling service Via raises new round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a joint venture with Via — As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around …
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VentureBeat, marsMediaSite, Engadget, Globes Online, Financial Times, Reuters, The Verge, and Bloomberg. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Ben Arnold / NPD Group: |
900K totally wireless headphone units were sold in US in 2017; AirPods accounted for 85% of dollar sales in the US — So far, 2017 has been a great year for headphones. Through July, U.S. dollar sales and average prices increased 22 percent, and 18 percent, respectively, over the same period a year ago.
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia and IDG Capital to invest in Beijing-based Bitmain, the world's largest bitcoin mining organization, which is raising a $50M round — Bitmain is said to raise $50 million for AI expansion — Bitmain produces bitcoin mining machines, runs mining pools| Violet Blue / Engadget: |
Tests show phrases like “I am a gay black woman” deemed “toxic” by Google Jigsaw's Perspective AI tool that's used by some publishers to filter abusive comments — A recent, sprawling Wired feature outlined the results of its analysis on toxicity in online commenters across the United States.
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Fast Company. Tweets: @mr_trout, @paulbernaluk, @chriseng, @elronxenu, @hiddencybfigure, @jessamyn, and @jessamyn
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Most of Bitcoin's components had been described in the 80s and 90s; Satoshi Nakamoto's true genius was in assembling them to work in the real world — The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature. — Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Seven months after inauguration, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology still has no members; Trump admin says it'll resume work soon — Months later, there's still no one sitting on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.Sponsor Posts
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