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| Chao Deng / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China plans to shut down domestic bitcoin exchanges and ban commercial trading of all virtual currencies — Authorities to ban commercial trading of all virtual currencies — BEIJING—Chinese authorities plan to shut down domestic bitcoin exchanges, delivering a final blow …
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
Investigation shows how suspected Russian operators used fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook to spread anti-Clinton messages and promote hacked material — Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice. So it was last year when Melvin Redick of Harrisburg …
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| The Daily Beast: |
Theoretically, how many people could Russians reach with $100K in Facebook ads? Up to 70M in the US, if smartly targeted — Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
What to expect from Apple on September 12: OLED iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus with LCD displays, Apple Watch with LTE, 4K Apple TV with HDR, more — This Tuesday, the first-ever event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Apple's iconic iPhone.
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @_inside, @macrumors, and @appleinsider
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked iOS 11 firmware indicates Apple's new phones are called iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Microsoft adds guest access to Teams, which it says is now being used by 125K organizations in 25 languages — Microsoft's software alternative to Slack is now open for guests. — Six months after the general release of its workplace messaging app Teams, Microsoft will now allow customers …
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Office Blogs, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Fire Hose, Petri, GeekWire, Business Insider, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, and Paul Thurrott. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Vladimir Putin says the nation leading in artificial intelligence will rule the world as Russia, China, and the US compete for the best AI tech — FOR MANY RUSSIAN students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin.| David Robinson / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Stack Overflow site metrics from high-income countries show Python is fastest-growing major programming language, with the highest trafficked tag on the site — We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world.| Financial Times: |
France, Germany, Spain, and Italy take aim at US tech giants in plan to tax on revenues instead of profits; passage requires unanimous approval by member states — Paris and Berlin are mounting a joint offensive to tax internet giants such as Google and Amazon based on revenues generated in EU countries …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, Engadget, Gizmodo, bit-tech.net, International Business Times, Neowin, and Politico
Tweets: @yascha_mounk and @kyrah
| Holly Hartman / Houston Chronicle: |
A first-person account of using the walkie talkie app Zello during Hurricane Harvey; app was used by the volunteer group Cajun Navy to coordinate rescues — After two minutes of training, I was talking to people desperate for help — After watching nonstop coverage of the hurricane … | Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Chinese AI and robotics startup Roobo raises $53M Series B, after raising $100M in September last year — Seven Seas Partners, a Chinese venture capital firm established by former Tencent Holdings Ltd's chief technology officer Jeff Xiong, has led a RMB350 million (US$53 million) … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
After settling with songwriters over mechanical rights, Spotify is now challenging the applicability of this copyright to its business in another lawsuit — Hold on tight: we're going to get down into the weeds a bit on a copyright issue. In early 2016, we wrote about the …
| Mike Shields / Business Insider: |
After bringing in more than $500M in 2016, Vevo says it expects 130% growth this year and has locked in nearly $200M in upfront ad buys — - Vevo - the so-called Hulu for music videos - is seeing a surge in audience, thanks to artists like Taylor Swift. — Since embracing a TV-like selling model … Sponsor Posts
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