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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 … | 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.| 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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 … | Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Security firm finds some Arris modems, distributed via AT&T U-verse, have firmware vulnerabilities — Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T's U-verse service.| 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| Ben Arnold / NPD Group: |
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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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Geometric Grand Unification — Solving the Hubble Tension & Proton Mass — Physics solved? AI verifies model unifying gravity & particles by deriving constants from vacuum geometry. Identifies void-driven topology.
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