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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase temporarily disables Bitcoin Cash trading on its subsidiary GDAX exchange after $BCH prices topped $8.5K compared to ~$3K on other exchanges — Update : We're still waiting to hear directly from Coinbase on exactly what went wrong, but the company put out a series of tweets confirming …
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Tweets: @coinbase, @gdax, @gdax, @bryceweiner, @fntsyaddict, @tuurdemeester, and @agurevich23
| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase CEO says Bitcoin Cash price increase before the announcement warrants internal investigation into whether someone at Coinbase profited from inside info — Today we announced support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH). It appears the price of Bitcoin Cash on other exchanges increased in the hours before our announcement.
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TechCrunch, Quartz, CNBC, and Business Insider
Tweets: @bryceweiner, @bitfurygeorge, @bryceweiner, and @gauravshukla
| Rick D. / NEWSBTC: |
Coinbase enables trading of Bitcoin Cash on its platform today; users who had Bitcoin at the time of fork on Aug. 1 will have equal balance in Bitcoin Cash — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinBase announced today that they will allow full support for Bitcoin Cash.
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Tweets: @iamnomad, @satoshilite, @matthew_d_green, @cnbc, @ofnumbers, @gdax, @bryceweiner, @agurevich23, @francispouliot_, and @aridavidpaul
| CNBC: |
European Court of Justice rules that Uber is a transport service, not an information service; decision means EU states can use national laws to regulate Uber — Uber is a taxi company, according to a landmark ruling from Europe's highest court. — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) …
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google Play Store to require apps to target SDK no more than one year older than current release starting late 2018; new, native apps must offer 64-bit in 2019 — The Play Store created some controversy last month after announcing plans to remove apps that used Accessibility Services …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out latest Windows 10 test build with Timeline feature and begins work on enabling Progressive Web Apps on Windows 10 with Edge — Microsoft's latest ‘Redstone 4’ test build, 17063, includes includes its promised Timeline feature, the start of Edge support for Progressive Web Apps …
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Tweets: @kronoss, @dwizzzlemsft, @virtualscooley, @arekfurt, @taylorb_msft, @windowsinsider, and @maryjofoley
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Chrome will start natively blocking ads that do not comply with Coalition for Better Ads guidelines on February 15 — In June, Google revealed that Chrome will stop showing all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that display non-compliant ads “starting in early 2018.”
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert says Facebook and Microsoft helped stop North Korean hacking operations last week — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp disabled a number of North Korean cyber threats last week, a White House official said on Tuesday …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Facebook adds HTC Vive, SteamVR, and Windows desktop support to beta of Spaces, its first VR chat app — In a major about-face for the virtual reality teams at Facebook, the company announced a surprise Tuesday update to its VR “Spaces” app. The social media service's first VR chat app …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Researcher finds analytics firm Alteryx left data like addresses, phones, mortgages of 123M US households unsecured on AWS; Alteryx says database now secured — Information on more than 120 million American households was sitting in a massive database found left exposed on the web earlier this month, Forbes has been told.
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UpGuard, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, CNET, Infosecurity Magazine, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @gmillard and @daveleebbc
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Rep. Marsha Blackburn proposes bill to ban site blocking and throttling but allow fast lanes and bar FCC from regulating ISPs as common carriers under Title II — FCC would be permanently barred from using Title II authority over broadband. — A Republican lawmaker is proposing …
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Internet Association, DSLreports, Free Press, Gizmodo, The Hill, The Verge, Axios, Washington Post, Neowin, Fight for the Future, Mashable, and Fox News. Tweets: @marshablackburn
| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix, in first earnings since IPO, reports $296M Q1 revenue, beating analyst estimates, but says gross margin declined ~3%; stock down 10%+ after hours — - Just last month, San Francisco-based Stitch Fix raised $120 million in a downsized IPO that priced below its indicated range of $18 to $20.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says he expects AirPods shipments to grow 100% YoY to 26-28M in 2018, with a new model coming out in mid- to late-2018 — Apple will release an upgraded version of AirPods in the second half of 2018, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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Quartz, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac Happy Hour, Firstpost, Mashable, BGR India, The Next Web, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace, Ubergizmo, ValueWalk, International Business Times, AppAdvice.com, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, CNBC, Mashable, and TechCrunch
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Store removes Google Chrome Installer app, which only directed users to a download link, citing violation of Store policies — Google published a Chrome app in the Windows Store earlier today, which just directed users to a download link to install the browser.
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Softpedia News, The Verge, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Mehedi Hassan, Ars Technica, Microsoft Store, Windows Central, Windows, Neowin, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Microsoft Store, BetaNews, SlashGear, Windows, and On MSFT
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