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How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card, which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims — Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling.
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
A look back at Google Goggles, an early precursor to modern mobile AR-infused camera apps like Snapchat — GOOGLE'S FIRST PUBLIC foray into augmented reality began with an argument in a bar. It was 2008, and David Petrou, a longtime Google engineer, was sitting in a Brooklyn watering hole explaining …
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| Matt Ranen / NewCo Shift: |
Augmented reality poses difficult legal and ethical questions about virtual graffiti, private and public property rights, and data verification — Let's not repeat the mistakes we made with social media — With recent product and SDK announcements by Apple and Facebook …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art — NSFW Warning: This story may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. — On October 17th, crowdfunding website Patreon amended the terms of its acceptable use policy as part of a wider program of reform.
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US drug giant Merck says NotPetya cyberattack cost ~$310M in Q3, affecting its global manufacturing, research, and sales operations, may cost ~$300M more in Q4 — The NotPetya cyberattack has cost the American pharmaceutical giant Merck more than $135 million in sales and $175 million … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google will use location, not country code domains, by default for localizing search results; users can still change the country service in settings — google.whatever — You've long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains — like google.com for the US …
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| Simon Mundy / Financial Times: |
India's startups have raised almost $10B in 2017 compared to $4.4B in 2016 and $7.9B in 2015 — The megabucks are back for Indian tech start-ups. Last year, the funding environment darkened after two years of exuberant investment followed by warnings that growth forecasts had been far too optimistic.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Unofficial “@RepublicanParty” Instagram account, which is not in violation of community guidelines, has four times more followers than the official GOP account — There's an Instagram account that uses the Republican Party name — and it's four times as popular as the official one.| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Sogou, a Chinese search engine backed by Tencent, sets its US IPO price range to $11 to $13 per share, plans to raise up to $585M — Sogou Inc., the Chinese search engine backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., aims to raise as much as $585 million in a U.S. initial public offering.
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Human rights groups say false information spread on Facebook, which is dominant in Myanmar, is stoking violence against the Rohingya ethnic group — Myanmar's government has barred Ashin Wirathu, an ultranationalist Buddhist monk, from public preaching for the past year …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon Echo Plus review: falls short as a Zigbee smart home hub, and Alexa app's smart home controls need more refinement and features — The Echo Plus is a great smart speaker, but a mediocre smart hub. In most cases, you're better off just getting the Echo.| Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal: |
Amid talk of potential federal regulation, Facebook invests more in lobbying and tests messaging strategies regarding Russian interference with focus groups — Amid Russia probes and online ad scrutiny, social-media giant boosts lobbying spending and work on messaging
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