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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| Karen Hao / Quartz: |
JD.com plans to open hundreds of unmanned convenience stores across China, has tested stores at its Beijing HQ using RFID, facial and image recognition — A little more than a year ago, Amazon announced a new grocery store concept that promised customers a human-less shopping experience.
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| 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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Tweets: @carnage4life, @danielrowles, and @jamesrbuk
| 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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| 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 … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC holdings, says he wants to avoid the conflict of interest that comes with his influence and position — Charlie Lee, the former director of engineering at Coinbase, is selling almost all of his holdings in Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency that he founded in 2011.
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