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Analysis of 1,450 ICOs finds 271 have red flags including plagiarized white papers, fake execs, promised returns; investors poured $1B+ into these 271 offerings — A Wall Street Journal analysis of 1,450 cryptocurrency offerings reveals rampant plagiarism, identity theft and promises of improbable returns
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Google declines to provide the names of hair salon and restaurant used in controversial Google Duplex demo, or say whether the calls were edited — Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations, without betraying that it isn't human.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
A bug in the website of LocationSmart, which sells real-time phone location data, let anyone track people's locations across North America without consent — The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. — A company that collects the real …
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| Apple: |
Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum for Swift is expanding to schools serving blind and deaf students in the US — Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
YouTube launching a paid version of YouTube Music next week at $10/month; YouTube Red being replaced by YouTube Premium at $12/month — YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Instagram will now let users share posts from their own and public accounts to Stories as a sticker on Android; coming to iOS next week — The line between posts and stories is getting even thinner — The line between Instagram posts and stories is getting even thinner today.
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| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Intel's Mobileye has signed a deal to supply 8M cars with its self-driving chip tech, set to launch in 2021, to an undisclosed European automaker — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mobileye, Intel Corp's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars …
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the $99.99 Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for long-neglected video game players with disabilities, on sale later this year — Microsoft stumbled into the accessibility market about three years ago, with the launch of the Xbox One Elite controller.
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Microsoft, MIT Technology Review, ExtremeTech, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, CNET, Ars Technica, PC Gamer, POPSUGAR Culture, Tom's Guide, GeekWire, Neowin, PCWorld, Boing Boing, On MSFT, BleepingComputer.com, Thurrott.com, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Hackaday, CNET, The Verge, destructoid, Gizmodo, CNET, Gamasutra, Vendorprisey, VG247, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, VentureBeat, Seeking Alpha, Inquirer, bit-tech.net, CNBC, Digital Trends, The Guardian, The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, Polygon, Windows Central, The Next Web, Windows Blog, Kotaku, Mashable, and Digital Trends
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google plans to remove the green “Secure” text for HTTPS in September in Chrome and add a red “Not secure” label to sites without HTTPS starting in October — Google today announced its next steps for how Chrome labels HTTP and HTTPS sites.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q1, Amazon shipped 4M Echos globally, taking 43.6% of the market, as Google shipped 2.4M Home speakers, and Apple shipped 600K HomePods — Apple sold an estimated 600,000 HomePod speakers during the first quarter of 2018, according to new estimates shared this morning by Strategy Analytics.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal confirms it is acquiring Swedish payments company iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal, making it PayPal's biggest-ever transaction — PayPal is taking its biggest bet yet on point-of-sale transactions, small businesses, and markets outside of the US, as it looks to raise its game against Square …
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Sky News, Reuters, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, Axios, PYMNTS.com, and Reuters. Tweets: @annairrera. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook announces partnership with US-based think tank Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world — Facebook today will announce a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world.
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Engadget, Facebook, The Hill, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Adweek, CNET, Seeking Alpha, The Outline, and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @facebook
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to start testing ads in Stories today in the US, Mexico, and Brazil, says Stories has 150M daily users, defines a user as anyone who watches one story — After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone.| Yasmin Gagne / Fast Company: |
eBay launches Interests, personalized product recommendations that cut across shopping categories, using big data and a questionnaire — eBay, says Bradford Shellhamer, the company's head of engagement, wants to be the “heavy metal-loving, yogi, OSU fan's favorite store.” It also wants to be yours.
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