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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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Krebs on Security, Robert Xiao, CNET, ABC News, Ars Technica, BGR, Engadget, Inquirer, Infosecurity.US, SiliconANGLE, and Motherboard. Thanks:@cauchon
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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, Axios, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, and PYMNTS.com. 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, and The Outline. 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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MacRumors, eBay Newsroom, Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge, Digital Trends, and Axios
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics — Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.
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