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West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting in the midterm elections via blockchain-based Voatz platform, will limit use largely to troops serving abroad — Why voting in the US is so hard — West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using …
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| Priya Anand / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon's sold ~50M Alexa devices, and only 2% of those owners have used Alexa to make a purchase in 2018; source: 90% of those haven't tried again — Amazon and Google both tout voice shopping—the ability to make purchases and check on the status of orders with verbal commands …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android 9, called Pie, is coming to Google Pixel phones today, but some key features won't officially ship until fall, like “slices” app search functionality — Google today revealed Android P stands for Android Pie, succeeding Android Oreo, and pushed the latest source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Ahead of OIG report expected to reveal no evidence of a DDoS attack on FCC comment system in May 2017, Ajit Pai says former CIO gave him inaccurate information — The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund plans to lead an investment of $3B-$5B in Alibaba's food delivery service Ele.me — - Masayoshi Son's fund is said to be heading up investor talks — The round marks a much-needed boost in a costly subsidies war — SoftBank Group Corp.'s monster Vision Fund plans …
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Twitter says accounts for Alex Jones and Infowars do not violate its policy and it will leave them live for now — - Apple, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube removed videos, pages and podcasts posted by the controversial radio host. — Jones took to Twitter and its wholly owned streaming … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
As young Chinese grow up without access to free speech platforms, many seem uninterested in spotting online censorship, accepting Beijing's narrative — HONG KONG — Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Airbnb for Work says 700,000 companies are now using the program, up from 250,000 it reported in April of last year — Business travelers are increasingly ditching hotels and flocking to Airbnb, according to data revealed today by the home-sharing platform.
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| Ryan Browne / CNN: |
Pentagon updates policy, says DoD personnel must disable geolocation features on devices and in apps when deployed in locations designated as operational areas — Washington (CNN)The Pentagon is banning deployed personnel from using fitness trackers, smartphones and potentially even dating apps …
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| Varsha Bansal / The Economic Times: |
Indian ride-hailing service Ola plans to launch in the UK, beginning with South Wales in the next month, and expanding across the country by end of 2018 — Months after launching operations in Australia, homegrown cab-hailing platform Ola is now eyeing the UK market.| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
After pushback from users, Microsoft says it will not end support for “classic” Skype 7.0 in Sept. but does not provide a new timeline for phasing it out — Earlier this summer, Microsoft announced that they would be ending support for version 7.0 of classic Skype in September.
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| Robert Safian / Fast Company: |
Profile of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek: how his character has been central to the company's evolution and his plan to get the music industry dependent on its service — Daniel Ek [Photo: Tim Richardson; Set designer: Lauren Bahr at Kate Ryan Inc,; groomer: Alex LaMarsh]| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon is rolling out an Alexa feature called Answer Update that will notify users when Alexa learns the answer to a question it didn't know when first asked — Amazon confirmed it's rolling out a new feature called “Answer Update” to Alexa device users over the next week …
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