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Dozens of people, rich from blockchain startups and cryptocurrency, try to build “Sol”, a Puerto Rican city where money is virtual and contracts are public — SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness …
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Bitcoinist.com and socalTECH.com
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches repair program for small percentage of iPhone 7 devices affected by a bug that shows no available cell service even when cell coverage available — Apple today launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service … | Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft to stop offering the lightweight Windows 10 S as a separate SKU, will offer “S Mode” in all Windows 10 versions instead — When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, it was immediately clear that this SKU didn't fit well into Microsoft's lineup.
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The Verge, Neowin, Engadget, On MSFT, ZDNet, Redmond, Petri, MSPoweruser, MSPoweruser, and SlashGear
| Paul Lewis / The Guardian: |
How YouTube's recommendation algorithm can promote divisive clips and conspiracy videos and may have spread disinformation during the 2016 election — An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency?
Tweets: @randfish, @lizpelly, @zeynep, and @profcarroll
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
YouTube CEO Wojcicki promises more transparency, better appeals process for demonetization, including more human reviews, and consequences for “egregious” cases — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took to the service's Creator Blog last night to issue some broad goals for the year forward.
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Ubergizmo, SiliconANGLE, YouTube Blog, Refinery29, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @scalelabnetwork
| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @carnage4life and @shannonzkiller
| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
How Amazon may prevent Alexa ads from activating Echo devices: acoustic fingerprint comparison and inaudible sound signals — Amazon.com Inc. is advertising its Alexa-powered speakers in the big game on Sunday. It's an amusing 90 seconds that features celebrities like Gordon Ramsay …
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Amazon Blog, Android Central, Neowin, Engadget, The Verge, International Business Times, SlashGear, and Deadline
Tweets: @drewharwell and @rachelmetz
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Zero-day vulnerability in the current version of Flash is being actively exploited in the wild; Adobe plans to patch it next week — Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw next week. — An increasingly sophisticated hacking group is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability …
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Talos Blog, Firstpost, Krebs on Security, and Neowin
| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
Amazon's warehouse expansion around San Bernardino, CA brought jobs but data shows Amazon's warehouse staff earn less than similar US workers employed elsewhere — SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—This community was still reeling from the recession in 2012 when it got a piece of what seemed like good news.
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Economic Policy Institute and VentureBeat
Tweets: @bentarnoff, @alexismadrigal, @gquaggiotto, @alanasemuels, @parismarx, @andykroll, and @dramandaforeman
| Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup halting credit card transactions with cryptocurrency exchanges; Bank of America debit card purchases not affected — A growing list of card issuers are declining crypto purchases — After recent price drops, JPMorgan doesn't want credit risk
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CNBC, Engadget, Cointelegraph.com News, Slashdot, Bitcoinist.com, Fortune, PaymentsSource, CoinDesk, The Hill, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, and Neowin. Tweets: @ranimolla
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Former employee of Ripcord, a paper record digitization service, says she was fired after reporting harassment, asserts CEO made lewd comments about her — - A former female employee of high-flying startup Ripcord said she was fired after reporting harassment and a toxic environment at the company.
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Perry Coneybeer and TechCrunch
Tweets: @ashleymayer, @kimlembo, @cindygallop, @katesegrin, @kurtvarner, @buzz, @cindygallop, @cindygallop, @mattocko, @ekp, and @smerity. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Users in India shed light on the dynamics of family WhatsApp groups, which have become an integral extension of the families themselves — A still from Hum Aapke Hain Koun, a high-grossing 1994 Bollywood film that tells the story of large Indian joint families grappling with their values.
Tweets: @sunnysingh_n6, @secondofhername, @anushkapatil, @pranavdixit, @pranavdixit, @pranavdixit, and @pranavdixit
| Nikkei: |
Foxconn to invest at least $342M in AI in 5 years to recruit top talent, deploy manufacturing applications, says it is partnering with Andrew Ng's Landing.AI — Chairman Terry Gou seeks new opportunities amid slowing mobile market — NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — Major iPhone assembler … Sponsor Posts
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