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West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting in the midterm elections via Voatz's blockchain-based platform, mainly for 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 a smartphone app …
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Following bans of Infowars' content, its mobile app has shot up iOS App Store and Google Play Store charts, going from 47th to 4th in US news category on iOS — ‘Infowars WILL NOT be silenced’ — Infowars Official, the app named after Alex Jones' controversial radio talk show …
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MailChimp says it has terminated accounts of Alex Jones and Infowars for violating its policies, which prohibit the dissemination of “hateful content” — Update: In a statement to Media Matters, MailChimp confirmed it has removed the accounts for Infowars, citing “hateful content”:
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Video streaming startup NewTV, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, raises $1B round with Disney, Alibaba, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and others participating — Backers include Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCU, Viacom, WarnerMedia, Alibaba, Liberty Global, Madrone Capital
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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.| Mozilla Press Center: |
Mozilla unveils Advance, an experimental machine learning-driven Firefox extension that recommends pages to read next based on browsing habits and user input — The internet today is often like being on a guided tour bus in an unfamiliar city. You end up getting off at the same places that everyone else does.
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Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunches Instapaper Premium subscription for $2.99/month — This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we've been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.| 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 …
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| 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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Profile of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on how his character has been central to the company's evolution and his plan to get the music industry dependent on Spotify — Daniel Ek [Photo: Tim Richardson; Set designer: Lauren Bahr at Kate Ryan Inc,; groomer: Alex LaMarsh]| 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.| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics, co-founded by Otto co-founder Don Burnette, raises $40M Series A led by Battery Ventures — - One of the co-founders of Otto, the ill-fated autonomous trucking startup that Uber acquired in 2016, has launched a new startup in the same space.
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More than 1,000 US news sites and about a third of the 100 largest newspapers are still unavailable online in Europe, two months after GDPR took effect — Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen … | David McCabe / Axios: |
Sources: White House officials held a meeting last week with representatives of big tech companies to soothe worries over Trump-led US-China trade war — White House officials sought to reassure tech industry representatives at a private meeting last week that the Trump administration's … Sponsor Posts
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